July Motivational.

 

It really is.

Until next time, have nice day...

Hobby Spending - July 2024.

 

With the rainy July now behind us and heading into August, hopefully summertime will arrive in Britain soon, it's time to catalogue what was spent on the hobby this month.

So halfway through the month I went over to Stockport to visit a friend and have another game of 10th edition 40k.

Whilst there we took a wobble down to Element Games and having resisted the released of Skaventide/AoS4, I was interested in the Spearhead game mode.

Games Workshop sell "starter collection" boxes for each faction, which have been renamed three of four times at this point and Spearhead is a mode of playing Age of Signal using just one of these boxes.

Having already picked up a couple of units of Fyreslayer Berzerkers when they were first released and not havibg done anything with them, I looked at their spearhead and then picked up the Warcry Vulkyn Flameseekers box for what i needed.

Now these modeks aren't the proper ones, but I can substitute in for the ones i need and i get more models for less money.

The other purchase was just a new set of brushes as I always grab a set to make sure I have several in stock, so they were picked up as well.

In total I purchased just these two items this month, the totals are as follows:

Vulkyn Flameseekers box - £31.45.

Army Painter Brush Set - £13.05.

Total for July: £44.50.

Budget for July: £50.

Over/Under Yearly Budget: under budget by £45.70.

Until next time, have nice day...

The Solar Watch - part 3.

 

Even in his exhaustion from the difficult route, Blade-Champion Pyodoris Hastaurian Desh was stealthily ghosting between the aged stones of the old Monetary, twisted trees clawed at the sky like broken fingers, splitting stone with their root systems. He unslung his Sword as he neared his goal, hearing a soft chanting coming from the ruins up ahead.

He glanced around between the foundations, Cultists wearing lurid emerald green robes swayed in time with the chanting as they stood in concentric circles. However it was the undulating sliver of unholy silver light that blazed in the center of the crowd and the figure which stood before it which drew his attention. The heretic-Astartes Sorcerer Asharr Herath.

Desh searched around and found a suitable gap in the crowd and began creeping towards it. He kept an eye trained on the Sorcerer, standing head and shoulders above the mortals around him. Great baroque spiked armour was crowned with a helmet which sported a pair of horns and four eye slots, all manner of Eldritch symbols glowed a sickly pink colour against his black power armour.

"You can come out, we know you're here oh Hidden One!" The sybilant voice purred as the Sorcerer turned his head and looked directly at Desh hidden behind a crumbling pillar.

Pyodoris Hastaurian Desh gripped his Sword tight and threw the beacon he was holding out into the gap, he then launched himself into the crowd, smashing cultists aside with his bulk and great sweeps of his sword as he ran. Behind his advance a brilliant golden light erupted, mist and steam flowed from the center and stones were torn from their placement as a thunderclap of displaced air reverberated around the ritual area.

Before where there was nothing, now stood three armoured giants. Off-white armour with gold filigree glinting in the candle light, the Allarus Terminators all took a thundering step forwards as one from their teleportation landing and began lashing out with their spears, inbuilt Boltguns blasting at Cultists and the wrist mounted grenade launchers spitting explosive death through the air.

They all knew they would only get one chance at preventing the daemonic summoning, they advanced through the throng, killing as they fought their way to the Sorcerer to stop this madness...

*****

The next unit finished for the Adeptus Custodes army is this unit (and a half) of Allarus Terminators. It's a unit and a half because my friend is going to use these in units of two models for more board coverage overall.

These models follow the established colour palette of off-white, gold and various reds with the blue gems.

I have gone through the army and replaced some helmeted heads with bare heads for some variation throughout, these two are the first ones I have done for this force.

The full selection of painted models so far is pictured below, they are starting to look great all together:

I have started work on another unit of Custodian Guard and a couple of other characters from the force.

The biggest section of work to come will definitely be the Venatari jump packs, I'm thinking i may have to invest in soke super glue accelerant in order to assemble those.

To do:

• Shield-Captain 
• Sword-Champion
• Vexilla 
• 9 Custodian Guard
• 3 Allarus Terminators 
• 6 Venatari

Done:

• Sword-Champion 
• 5 Custodian Guard 
• 3 Allarus Terminators 

Onwards with the project.

Until next time, have nice day...

The Solar Watch - part 2.

The grey sky was dark and threatening, heavy rain falling from the sky and lightning cracked the bruised clouds. Behind him, Everest stood, a bright white peak stark against the sky, and on the other side of that, stood the center of the Imperium, the Imperial Palace.

The North-West Passage was a challenging route for a mortal man, for one such as Blade-Champion Pyodoris Hastaurian Desh it should have been an easy stroll. However, even with his gene-enhanced physique and near limitless endurance he felt the pull of fatigue as he pushed himself on, time was against him.

He felt his Klaimor Vaultsword banging against his back where he had slung it in order to be able to move quicker. The rumour had to be taken seriously, even in it had reached him via the back channels of information from the Lion's Gate.

There was some truth about this he thought as the air around him gave him a greasy, metallic taste in his mouth, as if he had bitten down on a Copper Credit. The wind buffeted him again against the rocks and loose screen tumbled away under his feet, as if the elements and the world were trying to prevent him from reaching his objective.

The rain was so thick visibility was reduced so much he was relying on the auto-reader HUD in his helmet to tell him where he was. As soon as he saw the first foundations of a ruined wall he knew he was close however. The ancient stones of the Rongbuk Monastery stood in their ageless lines ahead. It was legend that they had been placed sometime in second millennium, well before Old Night and the Madness that entailed.

He was snapped back to the task at hand as the whisperings of a multitude of gibbering voices filled his head, the whisperings of warp creatures pushing at reality. Their mindless thrashings sensing that the barriers between the warp and real space were weakened here.

Pyodoris stopped and blinked realising the gravity of what he had just thought, the grip of reality was weaker here and foul Warpspawn were on the verge of emerging...Here, on Terra!

He would have to hurry, find the source and cut off the head of the corruption.

*****

The next stage of the Solar Watch army is underway and I've finished the next model.

"One one model?" I hear you ask.

"So far", as the next biggest update(s) are well underway and will make a massive dent in painting the force, I just haven't had the time to finish them off yet.

Anyway, the finished miniature is a Blade-Champion of the Custodes.

Once again painted in the Solar Watch Legion scheme I detailed in my last post.

I like on this model how he has layers of cloth and leather, opposed to the regular Custodians who have their power armour and maybe half a toga or cloak as a different texture.

The clothing on this model is either Black Legion or Black Templar contrast paints and the leather boots are Aggaros Dunes and washed with EARTHSHADE.

In battle, a Blade Champion is a living weapon in the Emperor's hand. His role is to identify the greatest battlefield threat -- be that a mighty leader, a host of killers or a deadly war engine -- to ensure their swift and absolute destruction.

To this end they are given leeway to field the incredibly ancient and powerful Vault blade weapons, taken from the depths of the Imperial Palace and wielded with precision and deadliness which puts even the prodigious martial prowess of regular Custodians to shame.

The symbol on the cloak was an interesting painting challenge as it floods over itself and creases with the running motion of the miniature. Normally I dislike using metallic paints on clothing and cloaks as I personally don't think it looks right. However with the gilded nature of the Custodes in general, I figured that they would be mad enough to include actual Aurellian Gold in their cloaks to show their authority.

Finally, below is a photo taken into the magnetised storage box of the army in progress.

There are;

• A Shield Captain.
• Two Blade-Champions.
• A Vexilla.
• Six Allarus Terminators.
• Six Custodian Venatari.
• Fourteen Custodian Guard.

Once they're all fielded together I believe this makes a 2,000 point army for 10th edition 40k.

I'm certainly.enjoying the project thus far and definitely looking forward to them all being finished and fielded together on the table as a cohesive force.

Until next time, have nice day...