Sunday Night Musings: Hobby Time

Being productive in this hobby is tough.

I have found that I spend most of my hobby time reading other hobbyists' blogs or browsing forums (or writing posts like this one on my lack of motivation). I get great ideas from these sources, but they typically stay plain 'ol ideas--they do not evolve into an actual product.

For instance, I started a Daemons of Chaos army because my fiance bought the Masque of Slaanesh for me as a gift. I decided that I should use that model as a springboard for an entire army. I spent some time developing possible lists, and even joined the Tale of Even More Painters as motivation to work toward a completed DoC army.

The motivation lasted a few weeks, but has since dwindled. During that "motivated" time, I was able to assemble and paint a Beast of Chaos and convert a Herald of Nurgle.

After that?

Pfffffttttt....

I have ideas on what I want to do next. I have developed an armylist that I am working toward building, and I have even listed what models I need for what unit and where I am progress-wise. I have the models necessary to complete a few of these units, but I find myself unwilling to take the next step and actually work on them. It's as if structuring the hobby makes it seem too much like a job. Yet if I don't add some structure to it, I never get anything done.

I need to restrict the amount of time I spend developing ideas, and use the time gained to actually grow my physical army.

Sunday Musings: One Day Early

I haven't done much physical hobby work recently--a few magnetized movement trays is all--but I have done quite a bit of reading. That's one of the great things about this hobby: there are many different facets of Warhammer, so when you lose interest in one or it becomes tedious, you can just focus on another.

I have just recently motored through the entire Malus Darkblade series--assuming it hasn't continued beyond the 5th book. I borrowed these books from a friend after deciding to start a Dark Elf army (eventually). My reasoning behind starting the Delf army is due to my fascination with assassins. That's it. I didn't know much about Dark Elves, aside from the whole being evil thing. Therefore, I figured that reading the Darkblade series would lead to a decent understanding of the Dark Elf race.

What a great series! I won't give a detailed review or anything, but I do recommend these novels to anyone who enjoys reading about the Warhammer world.

The best part of these books was the inspiration it gave me regarding possible army themes. The first idea refers to Malekith's personal guard, known as the Endless. These ladies and gentlemen all wear masks--to take away their personal identity and show that they're only importance is to obey Malekith--and are pretty wicked. In the books, the ones that interact with Malus are a version of Dark Riders, so I see these being mainly core units--Spearmen and Dark Riders--with a unit of Black Guard thrown in and some Cold One Knights and Chariots. I'd use Dark Riders with shield and spears as well as Riders with repeater crossbows. This army would be lead by Malekith's Champion (represented by a Dreadlord).

The second idea is one that I had thought a little about before, but after reading the books, the basic premise was expanded upon: Khainite. There is an entire book dedicated to Har Ganeth--the City of Executioners. There are True Believers who are insanely talented individuals who fight without armor because they don't need it. They never get touched in combat. The executioners are fantastically portrayed, and the Witch Elves are mystical death-dealers that even frighten other Dark Elves. I can envision an army of Khaine dressed completely in white and covered in blood splatter. This would allow for me to load up on Assassins and Executioners--two of my favorite models/units in the Dark Elf list. Magic could come in the form of Khainite priests (in the books, there were male priests who used magic). Cauldron of Blood? Yes please. Witch Elves? You betcha! I think this would be a beautiful and fun army.

So there's what I have been doing with most of my time recently. Throw in a little Skaven rumor-reading (can't wait until November!!!) and some more lusting after a Beasts of Chaos army, and you have my explanation for why I have nothing new painted.

Sunday Night Musings: Oops! Where'd I go?

So I've been posting more "Gee, I haven't done anything lately" posts than I'd like. This--appropriately--is another one. I've been struck by the boardgame bug, and I've been buying games left and right (you can see my profile on Board Game Geek here). I think the appeal is in the diversity and ease of playing. Warhammer, on the other hand, requires countless hours of preparation before games can even be played. Right now, I have one army almost completely painted, and it happens to be an army that will not be legal by the end of the year. Additionally, it is a "trick" army, so if my pony doesn't happen to show up for the game, I have no chance of winning. I'd love to get my Dark Elf or Daemon army on the table, but they are both just little pieces of plastic and metal right now. I could sit down and scrape mould lines for a couple hours, or I could play a game of La Citta. I could glue a unit of Bloodletters together, or I could play a couple games of The Downfall of Pompeii. See what I'm getting at?

• One of the main roadblocks in the progression of my Daemon army is the bases. I know that I want to use round bases so that I can play both Fantasy and 40k with them. But I'm not certain as to how I'm going to go about making the trays to modify the round bases to a square base Fantasy game. I could drop a lot of cash and have them specially made, but I did that already for my Eldar army, and I really regret the purchase--mostly because I can't ever decide on whether or not I really want to play Eldar. Also, the resin bases don't have an area for easy magnet-attaching.
• Now that I'm thinking about it, I might just try and make my own movement trays. As long as the bottom of the tray has metal on it, I could just have the bases be raised instead of sunk-in like I was initially visualizing in my head.
  
• I finished painting my 2nd Eshin Sorcerer. I think it looks pretty cool, and it definitely fits in with the rest of the rats. Now only two Assassins remain until the army is complete. Well, if I'm going to rebase them, then there's that still to do, but...
  
• What happens when you combine an ebay-purchased Skaven Assassin, a Warhammer Quest Wardancer, two Dark Elf Charioteers, a Avatars of War Dark Elf Lord, and a bottle of acetone? You get glue-globs removed from the Lord, and paint removed from everything else. You also get one vanashing base--I'm assuming it was completely melted by the acetone.
• The new White Dwarf with all the Empire models makes me want to start an Empire army. Hahahhahaha! That's exactly what I need right now: another army! Ugh... GW sure does have us by the man-parts, don't they?
  

I'm sure that my binge-buying and playing of boardgames will slow down a bit in the future, thus allowing me to put the focus back on Warhammer. For now, however, I'm just going to have to try and find a little time here and there to put some work into the hobby--especially if I plan on reaching my goals for the year.

Sunday Night Musings: Diversions

Things have been pretty slow lately because I've been putting a lot of thought into a big event that finally happened: I got engaged a few days ago. So my brain was on things other than little plastic men and women.

But back to the hobby!

• I made the last purchase for my Skaven Clan Eshin army: a lone Marauder Assassin. This guy will complete the Triad, because he is the same mold as the other two Assassins. The third Assassin that had previous been in the Triad was one of the newer models, and he just didn't fit in with the other two. Bonus: the new guy is going to be easy to paint! I've already painted the same mold three other times (two Assassins plus the converted Sorcerer) so I know what I'm doing.
• Need to finish painting one more Sorcerer, that one Assassin, and another Assassin--the mini converted-from-a-slave Assassin. When those three models are completed, the Eshin army will be finished!
• I'm wondering if I'm going to spend the effort to rebase the army. I will need to drybrush a little more bluish greys and then add a lot and lot of snow mixture. Oh yeah, and maybe some dead grass (yellowish color).
  
• After the Eshin are complete, it'll be on to the Daemons!
  

Sunday Night Musings: OFCC

• The Ordo Fanaticus Club Challenge is coming up, and while I won't be playing this year, I'm hoping to get down and watch some games and take in the event. Maybe I'll convince Brockshow to come over for the weekend so that we could check out the event together.
• I would like to participate in the OFCC next year, but I'm going to have to take something other than my Clan Eshin list, because it is going to go the way of the dodo once the new Skaven armybook comes out. This means I'll need to paint and assemble another army by this time next year. Ouch.
• A new army would mean Dark Elves or Beasts of Chaos. I'm kinda hesitating going ahead with the Dark Elves because there are so many people out there with the army right now--at least it seems that way. But if I wanted to go Beasts of Chaos, I'd have to buy a whole new army, assemble it, and have it painted in less than 6 months. I don't think I have the skillz to achieve that. That means I'll be rolling with my Dark Elves.
• Of course, if the Skaven book allows for an army simliar to what I have now, I could always go with that. Yeah, don't think that's gonna happen...
• I'm not going to achieve the goal of having my Ratling Gun painted up by tomorrow for the Under-Empire painting competition. I'm going to enter my sole fully-painted Globadier instead. I like the model a lot.
  

Tuesday (?) Night Musings

So I'm a little late on getting this posted. I'm blaming the Blazers.

• Found a cool list for Warriors of Chaos that I might someday want: 4xMarauder Horsemen w/Flails, 2xForsaken, 2xChosen w/GW, 2xWarShrines, whatever else can fit. This was found on Stelek's blog, Yes The Truth Hurts. I like the idea of this list. I'm also a fan of small model number armies, and this would definitely be one.
• I'm reading the Lord of the Rings for the first time, and even though I really enjoy the story, I have no inkling to play GW's Lord of the Rings game. *whew*
• I achieved one of my Short Term Goals tonight. Sure, it was only painting my double-based Jezzail to wash, but it was still something. I also got the two Gutter Runners and the converted Ratling Gun painted to wash. That means I'm that much closer to completing those goals, as well. Now the only Skaven models in my army that have no paint on them are the Clanrats and two Assassins.
• Still need to work hard to get the Ratling Gun painted by the 20th. This week is going to be busy for me because of Blazers Basketball and other commitments, but I need to find the time to get it done.
  

Sunday Night Musings

• Focus. My last three posts were about staying focused in the hobby. Now let's see if any of it sticks.
• I'm thinking about setting up an incentive for myself, where if I get my 500 points of Dark Elves and 500 points of Daemons painted, I'll let myself start a Beasts of Chaos army. It seems fair--and feasible.
• I have constructed a 1,000 point Eldar list that I threw up on Ordo for C&C. People seem to think it interesting, so I might go on ahead and roll with it. Now I just need to break it in half so that I can focus on a 500 point army to start out with. *Edit* Just did that!
• Game night tomorrow at WOW. I think I've had a chance to play everyone, so I'm not sure who I'll end up facing. Maybe I'll have the luxury of getting steam-rolled by Eric...
• I'd like to start writing more fluff for my armies, and more specifically, the characters in my armies. I really enjoy playing with Queetik because he has a story (and he's a super-badass). I enjoyed writing his background during the Nemesis Crown campaign. Maybe I should start working on some of the characters that will be in my upcoming armies--as motivation, of course.
• This just made me think that if there is a global campaign for Warhammer this summer, I want to get Ordo people involved. I think it would be really fun to do something like that as a group.
  

Sunday Night Musings: Beastmen

• Read a rumor that the Beasts of Chaos are going to be updated at the end of the year. This is an army that I've always been interested in, ever since reading about Fat Bloke's participation in the original Tale of Four Gamers. If the rumors are true, GW will not be redoing the current basic beastmen models, so maybe I'll pick up a box and mess around with them. I find it funny that I really want to do another army of hairy brown models. Lots of 'em, too...
• Spent some time talking with Brockshow about hobby motivation. I need to come up with some sort of competition for us to participate in that results in lots of models getting assembled and painted. Time to put my thinking cap on.
• I need to go to town painting my Eshin. I had told myself that I'd be further along than I am currently, but I still lack the drive to start. I don't have much more to do, and a couple hours here and there would see it done this week.
• The more I think about it, the more I'm probably not even going to try to run my Daemons as a WFB army. Everyone talks about them being point-and-click, and that's not really what I want. I'm not a good player yet, but I want to learn, not win without trying.
• Game tomorrow against S0-Crates and his blue Ogres. I hate fear-causers. Will the streak of first-turn Skitterleaps continue?
  

Sunday Night Musings: Monday Edition

• It was a bad idea to buy the GW catalog. Now I keep finding little things that I want to get, which then turn in to these grandiose ideas. For instance, there is a wicked little Night Goblin Boss model that looks amazing. I want it. Naturally, this then turned into, "Why don't I start a Night Goblin warband?" 500 points, nothing big. I could get some squigs, wolf riders, etc... All of a sudden, me liking the looks of a model has turned into me thinking about blowing $100+ on some crazy idea. Go figure. GW must love people like me.
• I am one ratling gun away from having my entire Eshin army assembled. Once the weather gets better, I will then have everything undercoated. I spent a little time this weekend throwing some brown paint on my Jezzails and two Gutter Runners.
  
• The Under-Empire is having a painting contest on Skryre weaponry. This would be a great opportunity for me to paint and submit my converted Ratling Gun--or guns, if I manage to get the other one completed, too.
• I'm really on the fence about buying a different Assassin model as a replacement for my Traid. Currently, I have two identical older models and a newer Assassin. I'd love to get rid of the newer model and get a third older model. Bartertown, here I come!
• I spent some time fiddling with an 1850 Eldar list--even though I really don't know what point size people tend to play with around here. I want to use a Seer Council on Foot, but I think I need to throw them in a souped up Falcon or Wave Serpent. In fact, from the looks of things, I want about 3 Wave Serpents for my army. So much for not using tanks in my list...
• Of course, I'm still contemplating getting rid of my Eldar altogether. The main thing keeping them in my possession is the though of a Seer Council. Some of my favorite models, hands down. Combining that and some Harlequins is just too cool to pass up, especially since I already own the models.
  
• Game Night is tonight. I've missed a week, and am really looking forward to getting a game in. Hopefully I'll be able to play someone new this week.
• Going to visit my parents this week. This means I'm gonna get some Warhammer Quest in, which should be lots of fun. I wish I had time to paint the Wardancer. I probably do, but that would mean I would have to stop procrastinating on the internet. No thanks! I know what my priorities are!
  

Sunday Night Musings: The Never-Ending Eshin Quest

• Did some more work on the Eshin. Drybrushed all of the primered Clanrats and Jezzails that I had previously assembled. Also stuck my bits-constructed Ratling Gun to a base. I converted (super-easy-conversion style) a third Eshin Sorcerer. Started building 10 more Clanrats, as I decided not to use my Rat Swarms as unit fillers.
• I've been having a lot of hot/cold feelings about collecting my Eldar army. Some days I just feel like selling them all, whereas there are other days that I really like the idea of the army. I think my desire for a Chaos Marine army that would be able to mix with my Daemons is still appealing to me...
• I purchased and assembled a guillotine model for the card game "Guillotine." The game comes with a crap-tastic paper guillotine, but I needed something cooler. Now I need to paint it, which shouldn't be too difficult.
• I'm on pause regarding painting Daemons. I think that once I get to a place where I'm not interested in painting any more Eshin for a while, I'll assemble and paint some of the other Plaguebearers, because I really enjoyed the first five I did. Maybe I'll do the Herald, as well. I think the Pestigor models are some of the coolest models out there, so painting them should be fun!
• I found rules for a Beastman for the Warhammer Quest game. There are quite a few Beastmen models that I really like, so now I have an excuse to buy one! Then I'll be forced to invite Brockshow over so that we can get some Questing in!
• I have to baby-proof our hobby area, because my best friend and his family are staying with us this weekend. Talk about a difficult task! Maybe I'll just make them stay on the couch instead of giving them the spare room...
• I kinda wanna fit my Rat Swarms into my Eshin army, somehow. Even though the unit is expensive, it can take a charge from pretty much anything and hold for one round, which would allow me to set up flank charges. Plus, they are the only unit I have access to that is immune to psychology.
  

Sunday Night Musings: 100th Post

• Haven't really put a dent in my Eshin like I was hoping to do these past few weeks. I'd love to get the base Eshin army (before I added the Clanrats) finished soon. That shouldn't be too hard. Shouldn't be...
• Don't get to play Warhammer tomorrow, as I'll be watching the Blazers take on the L*kers at the Rose Garden. Luckily, I'm going to get a game in against Brick on Tuesday.
• There's really not much else I have going on with Warhammer right now. Nothing on the Daemon front or on the Dark Elf front. Trying to focus on the Eshin.

What a waste of my 100th post...

Sunday Night Musings: Warhammer Quest

So I played some Warhammer Quest with the Brockshow this weekend, and had a good time. There's not a whole lot of strategy involved, but it was still kinda fun running through a dungeon killing things and collecting gold. Maybe by adding some role-playing elements to the mix, it would be even more enjoyable.

Of course, just the idea of playing the game again made me want to do some additional things, like come up with my own character and have him/her modeled and painted for the next playing session, etc. I just can't enjoy the game for what it is; instead, I must try and expand it beyond my means.

• I am currently attempting to model a couple ratling guns for various bits I have in my collection. This is not easy, and I don't know why I don't just buy a couple of the models themselves. However, knowing me, I'm going to try and finish this even if it doesn't turn out well, just because I'm stubborn like that.
• I still need to model up a full command for my second Clanrat unit.
  
• When the weather gets a little warmer, I'm planning on priming the two clanrat blocks--and whatever random metallic figure left in the Eshin army--so that I will only have a bunch of painting to go.
  
• Remember when I said I wasn't going to add anything to the army, and just finish it so that I could say I finished an army? Yeah, that was a good idea. I wonder what happened to it...
• I'm not very motivated to work on my Daemons right now. I don't know what happened, but I haven't really though about putting a brush to one this week.
• I have a lot of ideas on what to do modeling wise for my Dark Elves, but I never seem to have the right pieces and parts to make it happen. The army will never get up and running unless I just sit down and start assembling things with the items I already have instead of always thinking up ways to make them better.
• I really want to paint the Warhammer Quest Wardancer model that Brock left at my place. I remember putting some warpaint on it waaaaaaaaaay back in the day, and I'd love to give it a fresh paint job. I think I could do it justice.
  

Sunday Night Musings: Much Ado About Nothing

• This past week was quite a disappointment. I had the week off of work, and instead of using that time to make a big dent in my hobby chores, I instead rested and relaxed. All I managed to paint was a single Screamer--discounting the Eldar jetbikes I played around with.
• I need to buy a couple Skaven weapon teams. I can't keep using those terrible proxies...
• I really, really, REALLY don't want to paint 50 Clanrats. That is going to suck so hard. But when the weather clears up a bit, I'm going to undercoat the suckers and then think about getting started on them. Part of me wants to see how fast I paint them up, now that I have my process down. It wouldn't be too hard, it would just be a pain in the butt. If I just sucked it up, I bet I could finish them in one week.
  
• I think I'm going to push pause on my Daemons and focus on finishing up the Skaven army. It is the army I'm using for Game Nights, so I should really finish it as soon as possible. All I need to finish are Clanrats, Weapon Teams, Jezzails, two Assassins, and one Sorcerat... I think. Nope. I need to paint two Gutter Runners, too. Of course, after I finish all that, I'll need to rebase everything...

Sunday Night Musings: Distractions

• Set a goal of painting two Screamers and a test Horror, and only ended up painting one Screamer. I did assemble the 8 clanrats like I set out to do, though.
• Painting the color yellow is not fun at all. Maybe it's just the GW paints, but it is not an even, smooth color IN ANY WAY, SHAPE, OR FORM!
• When I first started painting the Screamer, it reminded me of a McDonalds for some reason.
• I'm playing another 2250 point game tomorrow with my Clan Eshin Skaven. It'll be the second time using blocks of clanrats with ratling guns attached. I'm going up against an Ogre player, so it should be a fun match.
• I'm still using two Eldar Shadowweaver guns as proxied ratling guns. So sad...
• I'm running a game night on Thursday, and I'm trying to figure out what new board game to break out on a bunch of unsuspecting victims. Sadly, it can't be anything fun like Arkham Horror, as this is an extremely casual crowd. Probably gonna end up looking for Ticket to Ride or something like that.
• Attempted to paint while watching the All-Star game. Doesn't work out so well. Not when I'm trying to keep my eye on B-Roy and a Daemons of Chaos Screamer of Tzeentch at the same time. Hahahha... I just fit Brandon Roy and Warhammer into one thought. I kick ass!
• I'm thinking about basing the Daemons on cobblestones, as that could represent a village in the Warhammer Fantasy setting, as well as a low-tech city in the "dark future." I looked at some sweet bases from Foundations of War--where I purchased the bases for my Eldar--but don't know how I would combine those bases with the Gale Force 9 movement trays.
• Shaq + Jabbawockee = Awesome.
  

Sunday Night Musings: The Daemons Start Gathering...

• I started painting my Tzeentch Horrors on Saturday. I'm painting them a myriad of colors to represent the sporadic nature of Tzeentch--an idea copped from here. All I did was basecoat them purple, green, yellow, red, and blue. Simple enough, but getting some paint slapped on 'em is good for now. I'm not a fan of putting the figures together, because the little metal arms kept falling off. I'm not about to start pinning everything, because they are too small and too numerous. Additionally, I want to get the Horrors that have other Horrors coming out of them, but it appears these figures are only available in the old, 10 Horror boxes that are no longer distributed. I'm watching an ebay auction for two unopened boxes of these, thinking that if I do go ahead and bid, I'll do so with the intent of selling one of the boxes back on ebay.
  
• The Ordo Fanaticus Warhammer Fantasy league starts tomorrow, and I'm still not sure what I'm going to do. The only full army I have is the Eshin army, but I really don't feel like it gives each player a fun game when played. But, like I said, it is my only full army, so I'm kinda stuck... Maybe I show up with it and try out the single Clanrat block I assembled, and proxy a Ratling Gun just to see how they work out. The thing is, I wouldn't mind doing this if I was going to play Raindog or someone else who would know that I'm new to the whole ranked unit thing, but I would feel bad playing against someone I don't know because I more than likely won't know what the hell I'm doing. This is so frustrating. I need to finish my Daemons or Dark Elves so this isn't an issue.
• Speaking again of my Daemons, I ordered 10 Daemonettes and 10 Bloodletters. This means I'll be about halfway--if not over halfway--from having the 2250 point army that I've designed. The issue I'm now facing is whether or not to just order all the figures so that I can start playing another army, or stick to my guns and finish painting what I have before I end up playing with an unpainted army again. Hell, I still have to finish my freakin' Eshin...
• Ultraforge miniatures rock! I want all the Greater Daemon models... just for the fun of it!

Sunday Night Musings: Stupid Whims

• So I made an eBay purchase... a purchase that I really shouldn't have made. I bought an assortment of OOP Skaven models for $12.99, including shipping. Not bad, but the purchase was totally unnecessary. I'm not supposed to even be working on my Skaven, because I'm just supposed to finish up the Eshin army and then move on to my Daemons and Dark Elves. Stupid me!
• I assembled a unit of Clanrats for use in my Eshin army. Why? Becuase the Eshin army as it is SUCKS--and because I had the bits to make it happen without having to buy any additional items. Now I'm going to cry myself to sleep, because that means that I have 25 more freakin' Skaven to paint than before. This isn't counting the other unit that I plan on assembling. *Sigh*
• My motivation to paint is in full-on "ebb" mode right now. I wish it would turn to "flow"...
• I really want to start painting The Masque, but I feel like I should test out how to paint a Daemonette first. The only problem with this is that I have to buy a unit of Daemonettes so that I can test out the painting. That type of purchase would put me over the limit in my painting pledge, so I need to get crackin' on painting models I already have in order to give myself permission to make another purchase.
• I'm trying to think of a way to make a Night Runner "Death Star"--stealing the idea from the Druchii who use a giant unit of Shades loaded with Characters. The only problem is that I don't think there are enough character abilities and items that would make the unit as potent as the Dark Elf version. But I'm still going to look into it...
• I'm thinking about buying an Eldar fleet for Battlefleet Gothic. The game has a nice appeal, and there is a fellow Ordo who is looking to offload. If the deal is right, I might have some different looking paper weights coming to me.
• If I replace some of the arms of my Eshin Nightrunners with shield arms, I might just use them as Clanrats. This would make a transition to a standard Skaven army a lot easier and cost effective. Of course, it would also mean that the unit of Clanrats I have already assembled would be entirely out of place...
  

Sunday Night Musings

In an attempt to post more consistently, I'm going try and start up a weekly collection of hobby-related thoughts that have been floating around inside my head throughout the week.

* The Brides of Burning Blood

There is a nice little box o' fluff in the Dark Elves Armybook that describes a Witch Elf cult that has no place of worship aside from the battlefield. I like this idea, as I see my Dark Elf army being a force that has invaded Ulthuan and remains on the High Elf land--not a raiding party, but an invasive species, so-to-speak. An idea that came to mind for a Cauldron of Blood was a modified corpse cart. I'd have to think of what would be used to pull the cart, but I don't really like the idea of the Witches lugging around a giant cauldron, and a collection of sacrifices for Khaine seems more fitting.

* Anath Raema

This is the sister of Khaine and the goddess of the savage hunt (found in another cool fluff box). I like the idea of this being the god that my Dark Elf warband follows, as it is fitting for a force that lives on Ulthuan and hunts High Elves. The goddess wears a belt of heads and hands, and I'd like to use this imagery throughout my warband to show the connection.

* Daemons Are Fun To Paint

I really enjoyed painting up my Plaguebearers. Maybe it's just the washes and layering of fleshy grossness, but the painting wasn't tedious or tiring. Maybe that will change after I continue painting up the army--or when I paint something "neater," like a Daemonette.

* Round or Square

I'm going to attempt to mount the Daemons I have on round bases, but purchase those nifty Gale Force 9 movement trays that will allow me to rank them up for games of Warhammer Fantasy. This way, I'll be able to use the models for both WFB and WH40K. More bang for my buck, and I like the idea of an all deep-striking army in 40K.

* The Eshin Fade Into the Shadows

I'm not really thrilled with the idea of playing my Eshin anymore. After my last game a couple weeks ago, I was talking with Raindog and he suggested that I add some ranked Clanrats so that I could have some decent combat resolutions as well as being able to add a couple Ratling Guns for added firepower. I toyed with the idea of this, but I'm really not wanting to put any more work into the army than I already have. I think I'll just finish up what I've started, and then be done with it. As easy as it would be to just stop altogether, I really want to finish this army just to say I did.

* Show Me What You're Working With

I am currently collecting three different Fantasy armies--Eshin, Daemons, and Dark Elves. On the futuristic side of things, I have two armies--Eldar and Daemons. I would like to eventually add Chaos to my 40K collection, because I could use the Daemons I already have, and I'd be able to buy the sweet Forge World Death Guard stuff. Right now I'm resisting ordering the Terminator and Chaos Marine upgrades. I really want them, and the conversion rate is great right now, but I need to stop buying and keep painting what I have.