the choices...............................

so I've weighed up the pros and cons, and i have decided that I'm going to complete my dark eldar army. And then call it a day with GW`s products, i may pick up the odd model here and their but that will be about it.

Now the past few days I've been looking on the internet at different ranges and their are several ranges that i like the look off.
Some i've had my eye on for sometime and some i own already lets start off with the ones with the most appeal at the moment.

Judge Dredd by Mongoose publishing: The rules are free and the newer models look fantastic. For the basic gangs you can use what ever you want. At the moment this is i the lead with me.

Along with

Dr Who by Crooked Dice: Another free set of rules and as i have a soft spot for Dr Who, and loads of models from Harlequin models. This too is a winner at the moment.

Incursion by Grind House Games: I picked the boxed set up for this last year (2010) as its a niffty little board game as opposed to a war game. I'm waiting on the new supplement which is due any time.

last on the list is.......
7TV by Crooked Dice: based on the Dr Who game above, this is the 3rd edition and is set in the world of cult tv think the avengers, the saint, etc. Now cult TV is something close to my heart (i was brought up on 60's and 70's TV.

As most of these are skirmish games I will probably end up doing 2 or 3 of them.

A dark dark time..............................

Well April and may have been strange months for me. Not quite sure why but i've had no get up and go as far as my dark eldar, blood angels go. it may have something to do with the fact that my now ex wife kicked me out this time last year. Or it may be the fact that GW has announced citadel finecast as the replacement for metal. Now i don`t want to get into a rant about price increases quality control etc.......
But i`m fast becoming little bit annoyed with GW i know their models are great but i cannot justify the price of them any more.
And so i have to make a choice.....
Do i carry on collecting as i used to......or
Do i give up and head to other companies?

I have all the blood angels in metal so i`m not going to need any of them in finecast, and the dark eldar i only need the new releases that are out the end of the month.

my choice at the moment is to buy what i need at call it a day, but only time will tell.........................

A dark city part 3..............................

I've been think about my dark eldar army and what i want in it, looking at the internet i found some really good ideas for conversions ranging from wracks to venoms.
And their are a number of conversions that i would like to try out one of which is the venom. i found a good guide on another blog which used a raider (not a problem one of the ones i have has been put together badly)
and a craft world vyper jet bike (was a problem).
After much soul searching (and a game of tenpin bowling) i remembered that many moons ago i got hold of some  craft world eldar with the intention of making an army of them.
Now i had to find them.................................

going through my boxes of stuff i found them............

Now i know i got them years ago but i did not realise what i had
2 vypers, 5 jetbikes, 1 plastic dreadnought, 1 metal dreadnought, 3 plastic war walkers, 1 metal war walker, 20 guardians, 5 striking scorpions, 4 dark reapers, 6 swooping hawks, 6 howling banshees, warlocks, farseers, weapons platforms.

Now the vypers will get used as venoms, the metal dreadnought will become a talos (with the help of some green stuff).

the rest we will have to see...............................

A dark city part 2..............................

well i've managed to get hold of some of the plastic dark eldar via a trade and two eBay auctions. 
i`m now the proud owner off
50 kabalite warriors.
35 wyches.
10 incubi.
5 harlequins.
4 archons.
15 hellions.
3 reavers.
3 ravagers.
5 raiders.
drazhar master of blades.
lelith hesperax.
urien rakarth.
1 OOP web way portal.


Add to that the stuff i got at salute
5 incubi.
5 mandrakes.
1 archon.
1 succubus.
1 beastmaster.
1 khymera.

lelith hesperax.

urien rakarth.

And i have quite a large force now i just need to sort out a colour scheme......................................................

Stormraven………

Well I've been working on and off the stormraven this week doing bits and pieces here and their. I wanted to paint the inside of it so I've made the model up in sections. To save me some painting time I sprayed the engines, thrusters, landing gear and guns in silver. Inside the cabin cream and the rest of the model red. Once all these bits were done the model was stuck together. This has saved me loads of time which I can now spend on weathering the model.
My only problem with the model was the rear ramp which when opened would fall off. After some head scratching I came up with a solution………
Taking a piece of plastic tube I cut of the two outer clips that hold the ramp in place and replaced them with two pieces of tube, they needed to be filed down slightly for a perfect fit. But now the ramp can be opened and closed with out it falling off.

A dark city..............................

I've resisted the temptation to start a new army for sometime now, but last week i decided it was time to start a small project. Since December last year GW have released two new army books Dark eldar and the Grey knights. Now i've done both of these before, i still have the grey knights boxed up somewhere but the dark eldar are long gone. So with both army books in hand i had to make a decision Dark eldar or Grey knights hmmmmm.

after much soul searching the Dark eldar won (it also had something to do with my partner sarah, she liked the look of them). And that was good enough for me.

so at the weekend i went to salute 2011 and picked up most of the now OOP metal Dark eldar models at 20% off the RRP. i was going to pick up some plastic models but i needed to stock up on red sprays and a few books  7TV from Crooked Dice and Cutlass from Black Scorpion Miniatures and some of their tombstone models.
Their was plenty of over bits that i would like to have got but they will have to wait.

Hopefully by the end off the month i will be able to pick up some plastics from the proceeds of some stuff i sold of last month.
I will be painting the Dark eldar in between finishing of the blood angels...............

Tanks, tanks a stormraven and a dreadnougt or three…….…

Well it's now April and I been hard at work on my blood angels. I've got most of what o started last month finished with the exception of the vanguard as the keep falling over (they need some weighing down)

I've added to my growing horde of blood angels some much needed armoured support in the form of some tanks. I've finished of the land raider that I started some time ago along with 2 predators. The razor backs are on hold at the moment untill I make up my mind as to weather the are going to be used for an assault squad on foot oa deverstator squad.
I've also added
2 rhinos
1 whirlwind
3 land speeders
3 dreadnoughts
Oh and a storm raven

I've also got a forgeworld land raider that needs TLC that I'm working on.
The 3 dreadnoughts are 1 standard dread with assault cannon and power fist, 1libarian with force weapon and power fist and 1 venerable dread with power fist and plasma cannon.