Back in town

I know that it has been a long while since I posted here and thanks to those of you who were coming by to visit whilst I have been elsewhere. A lot has happened since my last post so I’ll sum it up very quickly:
1) Got married to Kim (the love of my life!)
2) Went on honeymoon to South Africe (thanks John for spoiling that surprise!)
3) My Uncle John passed away the day after I got back from honeymoon and so went to the West Midlands via Portsmouth for the funeral.
4) We decided to re-decorate the lounge, which involved three 1.5 tonne Hippobags to take away the rubble we removed.
5) Well that’s all really – hopefully my retribution figures arrive soon!

Wedding again

Well my last night being single in Kent!

Soon I will be married and sharing my life with the lovely Kim.  She gets half of everything I have – so that is half of the house, half of the lounge, the whole of the kitchen, half (maybe three quarters) of the bed and duvet.  For some reason though she doesn’t want half of the lead collection – I don’t understand why that is…

I need to spend some time tomorrow working on my speech – otherwise it is going to be really short, I’m sure that some people wouldn’t complain about a short speech.

Wedding

Well its only one week away now!  Wow! I have mixed feelings at the moment on the one hand I can’t believe that I’m getting married – still seems like it’s happening to someone else, and secondly I want to get it over with.  I really am looking forward to spending the rest of my life with Kim, so much is going to change.

I’m finishing off printing the order of service at the moment, I think I’ve printed way too many covers but at the moment I don’t care.  Still I better get back to work otherwise I won’t have finished in time to go out with Kim and bring her home for the last time from Croydon!

Weekend in Holland

So I’m currently sitting at my soon to be in-laws surfing on the computer -great fun!

Came over to Holland with my fiancee to attend her Brother’s wedding.  It was an interesting affair even though most of it was in Dutch.  It was a long day with the Bride and Groom leaving the party at about 1am!

Top 25 Women in Sci-Fi

I was just surfing the net when I came across this list of the top 25 women who shook Sci-Fi, http://totalscifionline.com/features/3566-the-25-women-who-shook-sci-fi

Most of them make sense and I’ve seen most of them in action even, although there are a few that I films that I haven’t seen, I know it’s terrible isn’t it.  Oh well when my moderation work is finised perhaps I can get round to watching some of the backlog of TV and DVDs.

Armageddon

Well the massive 2250 point Armageddon tournament has been and gone and I didn’t even get to play.  Operation Orboros was a failure in terms of it’s deadline, but I could at least fall back on my massive bag of Khadoran figures and build my choice of army.  Unfortunately only 4 people bothered to turn up, even with a number of armies on offer.  Still the two big battle were fought hard and in the end the Cryxian army of Lichlord Darryl won the day having killed one ‘caster and one ‘lock from the Skorne army led by Tyrant Martyn.  The other battle saw the Exemplar Richard with his Menoth horde just about edge out Fellcaller Paul and his mass of Trolls.  After almost six hours of play only 4 turns were duelled out.

I’d like to thank everyone for coming up and playing and hope that more people will get enough figures painted in order for them to turn up again, or at least take up the offer of a spare army!  Paul did ask if their was an award for the best painted, but on the ground that 90+% of the figures were painted by Paul I declined to award it.

So now on to Armageddon 2010, I promise to have at least one new army to play with I just hope that someone shows up to play against!

Failure

Ok so I shall admit defeat, there is no way that I will get the Circle army finished for June 6th. I well on to next year!

Buying Paints.

Normally I avoid going into Games Workshop to purchase paints, however I knew I was short on Dwarf Bronze and some of my greys have started to dry up (really need to use them more often).  So I went in on Saturday to GW in Canterbury and as we went in I said to Kim “I’ll ask what I’m painting at the moment.”  I pick up the paints go to the counter and the first words out of his mouth is “So what are you painting at the moment?”  Well the answer Wolves of Orboros leave the guy stumped and the responce “Never heard of them.”  I state that they are for “Hordes” gives the responce “So do you play any of our games.”  To which I state “I’ve moved on.”  The look on his face was priceless and well worth the pain of going in there.  Still on with the painting!

Some figures finished

Well at last I can say that I have some more figures painted, well all but their bases anyhow.  I have got the Sentry Stone, 2 Woldwatchers and the War Wolf finished off apart from painting the bases green, flocking and then black ringing them.  Progress is being made!

I have also decided to swing to GW’s Dwarven Bronze for the armour of the Wolves of Orboros it goes on the figure better, covers just as well and looks good.  So the paint table currently has the 12 Wolves still looking at me, the 2 Blackclad Wayfarers and a Woldwryd awaiting a little green wash on the eye!

I will get there I will.

Pictures to follow.

Painting ARGH!

I got fed up last night painting the trim on the armour of the Wolves of Orboros. The Molten Bronze that I have runs as well as jelly you shake the pot of paint and get none caught in the top, conversely of course it covers wonderfully.  So I have decided to get some other figures on the painting table that are a little different.  Hopefully I can get this lot finished on time – I still need to assemle the Lord of the Fest though.