584th Liumia Pegasii Command

   This isn't going to be the most ground breaking post but the 584th Liumia Pegasii Tempestus Scions are a project I started with fanfare and then lost momentum on, so I need to fix that. With no games having been played for nearly 2 months now there had been no real motivation to force myself to paint anything that I wasn't enjoying and these guys are a touch too fiddly to be fun.

   I had a rule that I was going to buy a box of these guys at a time rather than whole squads, just to make sure I had a conveyor belt of models without going hard into something that might have just been dropped, but the last time I bought a box, I got overly excited and picked up two instead. Then inevitably, didn't paint them up straight after the first.

   However, now with these done and knowing I'm two units away from the combat patrol and over half way in terms of figures, I'm wondering if it is worth picking up the last few models and just getting it done, but I also have other projects to do?

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Eradication Games

   Another unit that is hard to explain. I had a few weeks where I was toying with another big space marine project of, at minimum, Combat Patrol size, which was frankly ridiculous when I already have so many projects on the go. So, to scratch the itch with minimal outlay, effort and disruption, I picked up a box of Eradicator Marines which I do actually have in a list I have hopes of using in late October.

   It has to be said, some projects you struggle with until you are nearly finished and others are just a delight from start to finish. This unit was the latter. I need to give my Aurora Knights a bit more love as I have a fair few of them but nothing that looks like a really usable list - something to think about.

It's only at the point of going to post this that I noticed I haven't painted their left knee pad black like the rest of my marines but that can be fixed.

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Slayers

   There are two units I think my dwarf army is missing, beyond just generally making the army bigger, a war machine - bolt thrower especially and a unit of slayers.

   The Gotrek and Felix series of novels - even with the early ones starting to date badly now* - are a must read for every warhammer fantasy/Age of Sigmar fan and I am slowly working my way through them after giving up on Dragonslayer probably 20 years ago now. These books really got me thinking about the unit of slayers I keep meaning to add to the army.

*controversial?

   Back in 2023 with old world slayers having been discontinued and seriously expensive online I needed a different plan, so I looked for recommendations online, but none of the alternative figures quite did it for me. Then I went back to a half baked plan, the Age of Sigmar Fyreslayers, who are the spiritual descendants of the slayer, so would they work. I bought a sprue online to test the theory.

   The long and the short, they were OK, but a lot of phaff to make and the plan was never going to be cheap. Then along came the rerelease of the Old World and a box of the old metal slayers - in a box of 12 . . . The price made me upset, but eBay prices made me sadder and my initial Fyreslayer plan also wasn't cheap, so I bought a set when they went on preorder.

   I really like these old figures and while my bank account was sad for a month or so, I don't have a lot of regrets beyond why they sat half painted on the shelf behind me for a year or so at this point.

   I especially love the sad expressions on these two's faces. They may be berserkers who are atoning for perceived sins, but they are also sad about those sins.

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Dark Angels? Really?

   This is a post slightly out of time, but I had been on a bit of a Chaos painting fix and was stuck between motivation, so I did the only sensible thing and pick a unit I knew I was going to need to force myself to start and do that instead.

   The unit I picked was my converted unit of Dark Angel Possessed for my Fallen Angel Combat Patrol. These were converted from a mix of the Possessed box and some MKiii marines to keep the period feel. After all the moaning going into painting them, once the skins were based and washed they felt really good, with everything following it just being, mostly, good fun.

   It's only taken me nearly a year to do the last unit of this combat patrol . . .

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2nd Edition Warhammer 40k?

   One of my old 30k podcast mates started playing Warhammer 40k in 2nd edition* and has a real nostalgia for that era that he can't quite shake. He's been talking about doing a 2nd edition project for a few months now, but finally took the plunge a couple of months back, buying up figures he would have used at the time, namely Space Wolves, and painting them in the style of the edition.

*compared to my 3rd edition beginnings 

   I'm someone who is always happy to look at a new project if it won't cost an absolute bomb and there is a decent chance it will get used, so I toyed with looking into doing something similar, settling on probably just building something a bit closer to 3rd edition and calling it quits.

   Until someone who reads this blog - Phil - messaged to say he had a box of old Warhammer to get rid of, did I want it? Looking through some of the photos, I saw 2nd Edition Chaos Space Marines and my creative juices started flowing.

   This post is about the first squad plus Aspiring Champion (separate unit) for this army. I've painted them in, what I think is, 2nd edition colours for the Black Legion - so more yellow and red than you'd see nowadays. I plan to go back over the army if I find any better pictures online, but my googlefu has slightly failed me on this one.

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Undead Wolves

   I always try and stay upbeat and positive about models and the hobby on this blog, as anyone that stumbles upon it isn't here to see me whining, but this unit have been a real disappointment in multiple ways.

   I ordered them back in February from Little Corporal and they arrived in the last couple of days of August. To be fair to the shop, the figures are from a US company and the shop thought they had stock on hand at the time of the order and only found out they didn't when they initially tried to pack them. Add in the order time from the US, the shop itself moved and didn't do any orders for a month and then the owner had a health scare and didn't send anything for a couple more months and its been a long process actually getting them.

   Then the figures turn up and as they are 15mm skeletons with spindly little legs, necks and tails, them being packed in a padded jiffy bag has meant that every single one was squashed flat. I've bent them all back up and had about a third of them being too broken to be able to fix. So, I've downgraded them from two bases and a couple of spares worth to a single horde base.

   Now, the figures. These are skeleton wolves, which I've quietly lusted over for a couple of years now, mostly successfully not ordering until a moment of weakness earlier this year. They were a test order as I wanted to see how they looked alongside other stuff before I took the plunge with a big order.

   They are simply painted up as there isn't much to do with them and I quite like them, now they are based, but they are fragile as anything and it's a unit (like the bats) that I don't think will survive more than a game or two before someone breaks one or more.

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