Things I am getting involved in and stoping

I am taking part in cool mini or not's  ME35, that's model exchange 35. I think this is a great idea and wish I had heard about it sooner. So check it out here if your interested in signing up. I'm looking forward to a surprise.

I have also decided to do what Sofie is doing here. The painting table Saturday. The idea is plain and simple a pick of whats on my workbench and what I'm up to. I think it is a great way to get a better snap shot of what I am doing every week then my normal, OO look what I did posts.

I have also decided to stop using Kabanize. It just doesn't have the features needed to manage my epic project easily. My standard excel doc works much better in this case. To be specific when you get to 10+ cards each with sub tasks that you cant have at different stages in the swim lane, it just makes it to tricky to remember what needs to be done. Supposedly this can be done when you have a premium account but I am not convinced it is worth it.


Anyway painting table on Saturday and don't forget the contest closes on saturday night my time as well.

aruki

Dark side part 2

Well after messing around with the gun drones I decided to just assemble them because they wouldn't work for the conversion I wanted to do so here are before and after pics.

Here is also a pic of the warhounds assembled.

anyway enjoy and remember to check out the contest.

aruki

The contest

I know its early to celebrate the 200th post but I figured now was a great time to do it. There will be two winners. They will both get a random models from my KOW KS stuff. There is also one thing besides the rules. If we get over 20 entrants I will increase the winnings to three prizes and first place will automatically get a sprue of guys instead of just a single model.

The rules are simple:
1. You need to or must already follow the blog.
2.leave a comment on the post and say if you want in on the contest.
3. If you plug the contest somewhere provide a link, this will get you an extra entry into the contest.
   Forum, blog , facebook etc. (I am always looking for new interesting blogs)
4. Comment on a post done in January to get another bonus entry into the contest. (please no just comment comments :(  )

That is all people except for the end date. The contest will end at the end of the lunar new year holiday. That is February 1st 11:59pm my time. Which will also be done by the time in Seoul Korea since I live here.


Best of luck.

Gone to the dark side in the quest for epic 40k

So I went to the dark side on this order about a month ago and ordered from a Chinese company. Let me start off by saying there are two reasons why I did this. First, GW and forgeworld no longer make the models and I am not going to pay $20+ dollars a model when I need them from ebay even more for the Forge world versions. The second thing I picked up was for a conversion idea and it fit into my budget for this experiment. The second point is that this really was an experiment. I wanted to see what sort of quality and such could be gotten from these Chinese companies.  I decided to try the one that people probably most see advertised  yoymart.

Lets us start with talking about cost which will be added to my total at the end of the post. The two epic 40k warhound titans and the heavygun drones set me back a total of   $23.18 , this includes free shipping and I splurged on the insurance.

Next up let me address the overall time from order to my door. I ordered on December    29th . They shipped it on January  13th   and I received it on January 23rd. So in total you are looking at  a little less then a month from order to door. Which considering the fact that the shipping is free and the epic models are stated as needing 1-4 weeks before they ship I think is pretty good turn around. But do be warned I live really close to China so shipping time will be faster for me via China post than for many of you readers. Given, I could have gotten them faster but I wanted to see how bad the shipping time was going to be.

Now for the packaging and models themselves.

As you can see the box showed up well protected and the models inside were all individually bagged.

The warhounds themselves are in pretty good shape, there is no real residue and very little in the way of flash and mold lines. I will post pics of them assembled later in a few days. For the price of $12.60 an important note is at the time of this post the price has increased by about one dollar.

 

The heavy gun drones are in the same boat very little flash and details were fine. I want to use them to do a special shield for my commander I think. These were also a steal at just under $10.

I will be ordering more epic warhounds (probably 4 more in total) and probably epic thunderhawks from this site in the future mainly because it’s the only place to get them besides feebay and  at an acceptable price. I may also use it for ordering more bitz I need in the future.

Also to bring my spending up to date.
Jan: -$27.18
YTD: -$27.18

Special announcement on Monday.

Aruki