What men REALLY think
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May 12, 2008
May 6, 2008
Personal Update
I know I haven't posted anything lately, but I've kind of busy. I'm preparing for a 3 day extravaganza called The Big Waaagh!.
I will be playing not one, not two but in three different tournaments over the three days. Friday will see me playing doubles with a friend, Saturday will be part one of a 5 battle Grand Tournament, Saturday night I will participate in a Battlefleet Gothic tournament as well. Sunday will finish off the last two battles of the Grand Tournament. Needless to say, come Sunday evening, I will be one tired and gamed out puppy.
What I am concentrating on right now is my Battlefleet Gothic space fleet. You see, BFG is a spaceship fleet kind of game, within the Warhammer 40k universe. It's how the different races move between the stars.
Anyhow, I thought I would share with you what I've been painting.
This first picture is of Thunderhawk assault bombers. In 40K, they carry 30 Space Marines, and are about three feet long in the regular 40k game. They are designed to be dropped from orbit to drop Space Marines on target. In BFG, they are used to carry Marines to enemy ships for Hit and Run attacks that cause critical damage.
Anyhow, here they are. Click on the picture for the full picture of detail:
Now, if you clicked on the picture to see the detail, you think, no biggie, I've painted on that level for years. Wrong. Here's the same ships, with my finger next to them for scale.
Now what do you think? And I did it without any magnifying glasses of any kind. Just my bare eyeballs. Did I mention that I have ten stands of those little buggers? That's right, thirty Thunderhawks. And I had to drill into each one and glue a section of a paper clip in the bottom of the Thunderhawk and then glue it to the base. Just about drove me over the edge.
Now to show you the ships that they will be coming from. This is a Strike Cruiser, which carries a company of Space Marines. Again, just to show you the scale, the second picture has my finger.
The Strike Crusier(s) (there are five of them in my fleet) still need work. This is the one that is the most complete, and as you can see there is no highlighting or anything to bring out the detail of the ship. That is what is delaying most of the production. Once I can come to a color scheme, the rest will go quickly.
It is most unlikely that I will walk away with any awards from the 40k tournament. I will be happy to finish in the top half, considering that there will be 70-90+ people playing in the 40K GT. Getting an award in the doubles is a maybe, considering what my partner has, and the fact that there won't be as many people/teams playing in the doubles. I am going for the best painted BFG fleet, if I don't win the whole shebang, like I hope for. I won the last BFG tournament I was in, but considering there were only four guys in the tournament, it wasn't all that it was cracked up to be. So like I said, I'm planning on winning the tournament, but as we all know no plan survives contact with the enemy.
T-Minus 79 days to The Big Waaagh!
The Empire Strikes Barack
Just found this perusing the Internet. Enjoy!