Progress is progress

So first off, I sold off my Romans. So that adds an extra $140. Then again I also went and spent more money, but what you gona do, so that's -$54.70. Mainly I picked up the sci-fi crazy box by mantic and the acrylic token set for deadzone. I love the mantic idea of crazy box mainly due to price and its sci-fi focus this year. Great for all kinds of interesting little bits.

Then we have what I meant to post on Monday but was too sick to do so.

So I pretty much wraped up the priming of my scratch built earth shaker on carriage. Primed the manta, finished off the last of the epic detachments and started working on the 28mm marines again.

Soo that is not only my epic goal more then complete that is all of my current epic stuff complete. I think I may have a rouge warhound somewhere to paint but everything else I have is extra marine stuff.

Points wise that's another 9.75 points and 22 more models done.

More as I get it done. 

Aruki

Painting Table Saturday #29

First off, Hudson you have until next Friday to contact me to claim your prize. Otherwise the prize gets rolled into next months give away.

Still working on the last set of detachments for the 2nd company, will probably finish them off this weekend. My son also started working on his raptor from manic games. Overall it went well. I will also have more announcements this coming up week. So stay tune.
aruki

Painting table Saturday # 28 and contest result

First off the winner is Hudson. So congratz and drop me a line so I can get your package out to you. If you missed this  contest don't worry I will be doing another at around the 300th post count which should be in a month or so. That will be a larger contest.

As for the painting table nothing has really changed, the 2nd company is still sitting there. Most of my hobby time this week I spent teaching my oldest how to prep his models for building and talking about how to clean them and why.

Hopefully I can finish off the 2nd company this coming up week and then spend the rest of the month preparing for the new year.

Anyway more as it happens.

Aruki

So close I can taste it

I have finished off the detachments for the 1st and 8th companies but first a reminder. My free models give away ends this Friday.  All you have to do to have a chance is go to this post and say you want in on the contest.

So that is 48 more models painted. That is also another 17.75 points.

Next on the table is the very last set of detachments I have at the moment. The detachments for the 2nd company. That's a whirlwind battery, a bike detachment, a landraider squadron, and a command stand and rhino.

More as I get it done and remember to sign up for the contest. At the time of the writing of this post there is only 1 entrant. 

aruki 

Painting Table Saturday #27

Today on my table are the detachments for the 1st and 8th company. That is a dreadnaught, land raider, terminator detachments and a chapter master with rhino. They are all for the 1st company. The 8th companies detachments are a land speeder and bike detachment.

After I finish these off there will only be 1 more group of detachments left.

Now remember I have a contest that ends on the 5th. Details can be found on this post, just remember to say you want in on your comment. Best of all it is free guys. Don't forget to grab deals to guys. This year is better in my opinion for mini deals comparied to any in the past 3 or 4 years.

Till next time.

Aruki

Ouch goes the wallet

So as many might have noticed I have been checking out a lot of the sales that are going on. Well I bit the bullet and ordered some stuff. Unfortunately it has destroyed my spending goal but the deals are too good to pass up. So here is what I got.

Mercs- I got the winter bundle. Which is a rule book and 2 starters. I picked texico and ISS. They seem like fun and the price is crazy low. I encourage you too check out this deal if you have wanted to get into the game and just hadn't pulled the trigger.

Then I hit up miniature market. There sale is crazy, I could have easily spent $500 but I restrained myself and picked up things I had wanted for awhile but just hadn't bitten the bullet and bought.
From them I picked up a Mantic Battlezone Urban District and the FSA Aqua dreadnought group. I got both of them for less than the cost of just the dreadnought group normally.


Nov: -$148.02
YTD: -$463.10



So guys now is the time to strike while there is still time for some of the sales. Good luck and you can see the ones I found here.
Also look forward to more new content with these models.

aruki

Painting table #26 and other odd/interesting things

So as you can see the detachments are still there. but I have finished them off. So that is 22 more models and a total of 9.75 points.  I have also added a bunch more draws to the desk and sorted and filled them. They are mainly full of things for current or my next projects. 

Odd things 

Now for the odd things and this comes with the normal clause of my Korean is no where near perfect but what I have gathered. From what I have figured out the only store in Korea has been banned by the government the ability to sell any metal or resin blisters basically of less than 30 pieces. Due to not being safe for children of the age of 12. There are some exceptions to this but even with those this is an interesting and devastating for the shop itself. From what I was able to gather one of the main problems is the government doesn't consider the actual recommended ages by the manufactures but goes off their own age brackets, also that the reason this matters is because these models are all classified as toys in South Korea. The main things this really effect it seems are GW blisters, Spartan games blisters infinity blisters etc and etc. The only way this really effects me personally is it means I have no chance of buying a number of things in South Korea and will never see a large number of games ever enter the Korean market.

Interesting things

The merger for FFG is one fore me. I know nothing of the french company but I hope it means great things in the future. 

KOW2 kickstarter is doing well but after backing the original one I really don't think it is worth it, especially after the lack luster support post KS for KOW last time.

I am still eyeballing the anarchy model stencils but also still very undecided. 

There have been many interesting realeses recently though from many different companies and I look forward to buying more stuff.

More next time and WAHOOO thats 350.25 points. Also tomorrow there will be some an announcement so tune in.

Aruki

On a roll

Got another update today. I finished my second devilfish. Here is a pic of the two side by side.

thats 5 more points and 1 more model.
Nov: 46 points
YTD: 345.50 points
Models painted: 1052

I am now working on more detachments for the epic space marines.
More as I get it done.
aruki

Another quick update.

I managed to finish off the detachments for the 9th and 4th companies. That's 2 whirlwind batteries, 1 landraider squadron and a librarian and rhino. That's 15 more models and 6.25 points more to the total.

Dont have a picture at the moment but I also made a lot of progress on the other Devilfish, it is a bit more then halfway done. Which means I should polish it off this week. After that I am not sure what I will work on next. I also update total points as best as I could, It is still missing a few tau models.

Nov: 41 points

YTD: 340.50points

Models painted: 1051

More as it is finished.

Aruki

Painting table Saturday #25

This week is a big milestone for the year. I managed to finish off the 9th company. Which was the last company for the epic space marines. The models I have left to paint are all detachments now. Which means I have completed another goal for the year.

I am really happy now that I finished off the main parts of this project. The last few detachments should be easy to finish off. I even think I found a source for non legit but model accurate reaver titans. Points for actual points painted I still need to sit down and figure out again for the past few projects.
Other things are easy to figure out. It's 105 more models painted and 28.75 points.

In total I am now at:
Nov: 34.75 points
Ytd: 334.25

models painted: 1036

The current plan is to continue working on tau and epic models and maybe a few other odd models here and there. More as I get it done.
Aruki

Wahoo progress

So I finished off the devilfish and shadowsun.

That's:
2 more models painted
6 more points painted

and I have to figure out what actual points I painted.

So:
Nov: 6 points
YTD: 305.50 points
models painted:   931 models

More as I get it done.
aruki

Update and my bday

So been a while but here is some of whats been going on. First off I cleaned and organized all my hobby stuff which is the picture above. Next is a bunch of models I got for my bday this week. I got a xv107, 2 xv9 with fusion cascades that brings me to a full squad of 3 and of course commander Shaso ralai. This together will add a great amount of firepower and should be fun to paint as well.  More as I get it painted.
aruki

That's also 2 more models for the year.

Boom goes the 180 marines???

I know strange title, but I honestly couldn't think of anything better. I haven't updated since my last post because I have been working and painting and just not writing about it.

Here are the epic space marines 6th and 7th companies finished off, hence the 180 marines. That is 36 bases between the two companies.

That is a huge 45 points for done ... And getting me soooo close to my points goal,

Points
Oct: 57.50
YTD points: 299.50

Models painted: 929 models
So A nice chunk of stuff done and I am very close to finishing yet  another goal for the year.

Some more epic finished

Managed to finish off the rhinos and the command stands for the 6th and 7th tactical companies.

I am also working on the 36 stands of guys to go with them. This will leave me I believe with only 1 company left to paint. And then detachments. Anyway that is 30 more models finished.

Oct : 12.50 points

Ytd: 254.50points

Models painted: 749

Picture of the desk tomorrow with everything I am working on.

Aruki

Painting table Saturday #23

I didn't finish much up the past couple of weeks model wise besides striping the new marines and the dreadnoughts. I did get a little more paint on one of the devil fish though.

You can expect the last biostrip review on Monday and a review of what I received from one of my kickstarters later this coming up week. I also plan on reviewing a rule set in the next couple of weeks. Other than that I am looking at picking up a few arms for my dreadnoughts and exploring options for shields so I can really start cracking on the SM project around the end of the year.

Aruki

Update and August round up

The update is short and sweet. I have done nothing. This last few days have been rather busy and so will this weekend into next week. Here is South Korea it is a major 3 day holiday called Chuseok. Suffice to say lots of cooking, cleaning, people etc, to deal with. I did receive my marines that I got dirt cheap and hope to take a crack at testing the paint stripper properly now that I have painted models that need to be stripped. So look forward to the final review of Biostrip 20.

As for August it was a pretty good month for painting. For epic I completed the 3 detachments for the 5th company, the 8th company and the 10th company. I also completed 6 stealth suits for the tau. Now this month was good compared to past months but still not as good as I want, especially on the 28mm side. Unfortunately life just hasn't been co-operating enough and I really want to succeed in my goal of finishing off the epic SM chapter. Which honestly there isn't much left of.

Now a quick look at all the points and such.

Points:
Aug: 58.50
YTD: 236

Models painted:
Aug: 209 models
YTD; 713 models

Spending:
Aug: -$30.00
Ytd: -$285.08

I have also bought a few new things this past week, namely two dreadnaughts, which will go into the siege list once stripped painted and properly armed. Though I still need 1 more cheap one to fill out the unit.  Which will be added to Septembers spending.
So:
Sep: -$30.00
YTD: -$315.08

I finally also sat down and figured out actual painted points for most of the models, the heavy gun drones I need to look up again and the titans for epic don't include their weapon load outs and that doesn't include the huge ass titan I got..

Points painted:
DWs: 365points

40K: 659+points

Ancients: points

DZC: points

FSA: 650 points

Epic: 8075+points

Total: 9749+points

Suffice to say though that I smashed my actual points goal for the year.

Anyway more as I can get it done.

Aruki

Just in time

No picture today mainly due to time constraints, actually typing this while making dinner. Just a short time ago I managed to put the last touches on the 8th company and finish them off.


So 95 more models for a total of  713 models painted, 23.75 points for a monthly total of 58.50 and a YTD of 236.


Wrap up in next few days and progress on more tau stuff hopefully. Though there are only 3 more companies to go to finish off the epic marines.

 Aruki

More completed epic

I completed the 5th company detachments. In the picture below you can also see that I have started on the 8th company.

The 5ths detachments are a landraider detachment, whirlwind battery and a command stand that has all the character options and a rhino transport for them. The 8th company just needs all those assault stands finished off in order to be done.

So that is 12 more models and 4.75 points for the painting tally.

That brings this month up to

34.75 points for a YTD of  212.25 points, and a total of  618 models for the year painted.

Will try and get actual points figured out in next day or so and I hope to finish off the 8th before the end of the month. Wish me luck.

aruki

The past week and why no follow up post on Mantic

Let's get the first part which is most negative out of the way. I have written a post 3 times on the whole Mantic kickstarter thing. But it basically just turns out as a long hate rant. I don't hate Mantic but I do strongly disagree with the current business model I see them employing with kickstarter. This combined with there refusal to answer certain key questions makes me not want to support there kickstarter. Especially when I can order good similar games for a lot less now and not have to wait a year. So to sum it up I wont support it and I am a bit disappointed in Mantic for taking this road.
Next up, OMG so much star wars stuff. That is about the max on that. The idea of Imperial assault being able to be used as a skirmish game is interesting. The idea of a Capital ship version of x-wing sounds interesting as well, though the price point seems a little crazy for this one.
However, on that front I also picked up a Korean version of the X-wing starter for a little less than $20 so I will just round it up. Though this also means I really need to figure out the Korean before I can play. For anyone in Korea that may be interested I go to the store in Hongdae called Rolling dice e for these minis and for MTG and other CCG's and board games. Check them out they do regular MTG tournaments and have reasonable if not great prices on most of there stuff and an occasional hidden gem on there shelves. Warning the website is Korean only: Rolling dice/ Dive dice.

Now lets move on to what I have been up to. First up assembling/painting etc etc. I didn't actually finish painting anything but did a lot of base coating and priming. I started by priming the first earth shaker cannon, in the future I really need to not do these by hand or not put the cannons on. I base coated the 10th company of my epic marines and started working on a land raider and whirlwind detachment as well.

So to sum up the post, Mantic kickstarter bad, Star wars good, priming and base coating. More later as I get it done.

Aruki

A late update but for a good reason.

Why is it late, well a few reasons. I have been busy doing actual modeling stuff and I have been doing a lot of research for further posts on the whole Mantic thing. So first up the 6 finished stealth suits.

So that's 6 points to august etc etc. I also spent $10 and picked up a Manta battle carrier for FSA. So that's minus $10 on that.

I also finished assembling the first counts as earth shaker on heavy carriage. It's not perfect but I learned a lot about using green stuff and assembling in general. Not bad for my first scratch built model I think.

Front

Side 1

Rear

Side 2

Top view

 Following that I started assembly of the next two Heavy carriage Earth shakers.

Finally I started to teach the oldest how to paint, specifically base coating. Tomorrow he will prime his own orc and then we will move on to the next step. He is now 4 1/2, I have also started working on remembering and writing ABCs and such using his Battle tech manuals.

More as I can and hopefully another comparison post on Wednesday.

Aruki