So what next?

Well after thinking about writing articles every week or so, like I originally planned with this blog, I have given up on that and have thought to keep going with sporatic updates of whatever model I have worked on recently. Frankly, the Warmachine posts I've made so far are so bloody long winded and I'm starting to lose traction with them.

Recently with a friend we've started playing a Deathwatch Campaign, a WH40k RPG, and to go with the flow I'm going to be painting up a character. Our friend Humphrey is making up a model for me of a Tactical Marine with 2 Bolters in hand. Because we're not playing very seriously we all have funny accents, and because the easiest description of a Blood Angel is a Vampire, I've gone with Count Von Count (From Sesame Street, Ah Ah Ahhh).

I'll laugh if Humph moulds Count von Counts head onto the model.

I also want to paint up some other models to match up with him, like Vehicles, and a Dreadnaught, a War bike... Stuff like that, ya know?

Otherwise, other 40k model projects pretty much come down to Bupkiss as I'm going to be painting the Deathwatch Model and the Squiggoth. Ideas however expand on the Squiggoth Howdah by adding a platform to add a Helipad for a Deffkopta. Or a Chinork. Heck, take off the two balconies on the side, extend them down and have a pair of side trays to hold War bikes or Deff koptas.

I best stop this before I start spending money I don't have. On an upside, if I want an Ork Warboss on a Warbike, I can just go out and get a Halo Brute Chopper and convert that up. Apparently they're not too bad to scale. Though it would need a bigger rear engine. And it's cheap and easy to get!

Anyway. I should start painting up my other figures, like my Winterguard. I've wanted to paint them for ages, and I mean paint them properly. I don't have a properly painted unit of Winterguard, they're all in a shambles really. And they require a Kommander, so I should paint up Sorscha as well. I have a plastic battlebox model so even more reason.

Easier still are the two Destroyers I want to paint up. I discovered the other week a photo of a guy who painted a greyscale Wroughthammer Rockram. I want to use that as a reference to paint up a Destroyer in the same style (though certainly nowhere near as good).

There's also the Diorama I want to do based on Gudrun the Wanderer. I don't have any of the bits or pieces of terrain, but the idea basically Gudrun goes out to challenge what/whoever to kill him. Because... well that's his fluff. There's a good series of challenges too.

The first of which should be Gudrun scaring a little girl (The little girl from the Nightmare Model). That one would be a focus on Gudrun himself, really. I want to paint him up much like the Andrea Uderzo illustration in his first appearance (I think it was Evolution?). And then any further dioramas will use the same model (I'll magnetise his feet) but have different 'challenges'.

There's some good Warjack and Warbeast ones that I want to chuck him up against, like scrapping several Warjacks in an Arena, or facing up against 3 Titans in the middle of a desert (This one would include my Gladiator Extreme, a normal Gladiator and a Bronzeback – I reckon that'd be an epic diorama).

We'll see how I go getting that off the ground.