torstai 2. tammikuuta 2014

The first real update: My new army project (one of the many I have started).

So I am getting little bit bored of my BM (thats BLACK MARINES for short) and I've been planning to start new army for some time. However being a lazy and in a hurry most of the time I just haven't had time to do anything about it. Until now.

With the winter being what it is with no snow and some free time from my studies apart from my Master's thesis I have decided to finally finish an army during the spring. My plan is to field fully painted army for the high season of tournaments in Finland with Turku Fanatic, Royal Family Easter tournament etc.

With all the new armies, supplements and so on I had plenty of choices for my new army. With the Eldar and Tau being quite popular and succesful in Finnish tournament scene I decided to skip these as an obvious choices and do something different. Somehow I have never liked Nids, Orks or Necrons too much. There is nothing wrong with these but they just don't excite me enough. Also the previously mentioned marines were out of my list. With monetary reasons the metal range of Sister of Battle didn't feel good choice and their Codex doesn't really feel that special.

So this left me with IG, CSM and Deamons. IG are really cool and they have some nice builds with blobs and armoured lists. They are however recieving a new codex in near future and I don't feel like painting 100+ infantry models anyway. CSM on the other hand have quite limited amount of competive builds and even if there are some nice options for building models the cool models are not really that usable in tournament environment.

So.... Deamons it is! Actually I quite like the current Deamon Codex with multiple ways to build the list: The Flying Circus, Multiple units of fast close combat units suchs as Flesh hounds, Seekers or Screamers with supporting FMC's and troops or just masses of quite cheap troops to swamp enemy etc. And if I feel like doing some CSM or IG stuff in the future I can always ally them with my Deamons. Nice!

I actually have little experience with Deamons as I played couple of tournaments with my friends deamons. I played screamerstar and it was quite entertaining and fun to play with but little too dependent on certain Divination powers and the Grimoire working to really work for me. I admit bit more practice with the list wouldn't have hurted either.

For those tournaments I needed to paint few models(Soul Grinder, 3 Heralds on Discs) so I already have couple of models and paint scheme decided. I am planning to paint most of my deamons with same colours to make the force coherent and as I am using lots of Tzeentch units I decided to paint my models kind of pinkish/reddish/violet with some blue for armor etc. I will add these colours to deamons of other gods also on one way or other to keep up the theme. I also decided to put little bit more effort to the bases of the models as I have always neglected that part of the models. Below are some pictures with some WIP lava bases and finished test base and also some photos of my current models.

The bases: First I added some random line(s) of general-purpose glue(Erikeeper) to represent the lava. After the glue had dried I added some some around the soon-to-be lava. I painted the lava with various reds, oranges and yellows and the sand with black and 50/50 black/grey highlight. Finally I added matt varnish over the lava to give some shiny lava feeling.


My current Deamons! Not very impressive: Soul grinder with some finishing up needed, same with the 3 heralds. Deamon prince is maybe 50% finished and the horrors... well, I have glued them. I also got some vouchers for local GW for Chrismas which helped me with my lacking Troop choices with...

The Reinforcements! Yay! With couple units of Horrors and unit of Deamonettes I think I have quite good foundation for my deamon force. I am planning to build these during next week and hopefully paint them to tabletop level so I can begin gaming with these.

That's all this time. Hopefully I have some more pictures next time. I am also trying to plan some list to play small games with.

PS. Sorry for the picture quality, I took these with my Lumia 800 cell phone and I have even less photography experience than playing with deamons.