2017 a hobby review.

Wow its been a year! And what a year it has been! CSM getting a reboot in the first quarter, and then 8th ed drops for Warhammer 40k!

I was just sorting out my photo album, well primarily trying to find photos to keep or delete and I was surprised what I have painted this year.

List of personal goals accomplished

1.)     Buy something ugly on ebay cheap, repaint it, and resell it!    

The BEFORE photo, bought them off ebay at $0.70 each! #ultramarines #ebay

FINISHED as WHITE SCARS, and sold them off on #ebay and more importantly learnt a few techniques that I put to use on my #Deathguard.

            2.) Complete an iron Painter challenge

IronPainter was a 24 hour painting challenge,  where you have to paint something in 24hours and present it at our local hobby store later on.

I managed to chart my progress on instagram which is also another big thing for me this year, as the lazy blogger in me, just preferred to snap a photo and upload it. Plus all the instant 'likes' can be gratifying.

Search for me! im 'hobbieswithmazz' on IG

and heres my squad of #DeathGuard legionnaires, completed at 2pm the next day.

In hindsight it was really good fun, though the lack of sleep was really painful. and trying to solve a clogged airbrush at 3am was also another memory that I dont wish to repeat.

2017 was also a year for Netflix! My companion through all the long nights huddled infront of my wet pallet.

I think I have watched everything!

One of the few good offshoots from the IronPainter Challenge, was that I was inspired to paint and build faster. I have a habit of painting 40k minis in parts and then assemble them together, which takes just too long. At least for a few months, I was painting the models fully assembled.

I've since gone back to my old ways though =p

My Good Deed for the year!

2 weekends after the ironpainter challenge, Melvin invited me to join him in painting Andrew's Marines. Andrew's a friend of ours who has hoards of unpainted marines and we took it upon ourselves to help him reduce some of his backlog. Probably the most generous thing I have done this year!

Andrew's Dark Angels all painted for him! Really happy with the 24hour paint job too!

My ork collection also received a minor boost this year, again inspired by the Iron Painters Challenge.

 

So I got off my butt and finished another group of orks. Figured in any list combination, I would be covered if i had at least 60+ boyz nicely painted ork boyz.

Boyz ready for the great waaargh of the 8th Edition!

Wierdboy converted from a Warhammer Fantasy Savage Orc, added the trophies to give it a more 40k feel =) and plus to commemorate a great day of gaming, (see Ray's post of DP's 1k tourney)

the Butt Shot. NSFW!!! Sorry couldnt resist this photo =)

and so here rounding off the year is the mandatory family portrait... 

Man! have the Deathguard legion grown! #DeathGuard #legionXIV

 

and the great waaargh just got more awesome too!

CHEERS TO AN AWESOME 2018!

M

Slowburn Batrep: White Scars vs Blood Angels

Got a game in with Zim today. He brought a White Scars list with 2 units of 3 bikes with 2 Gravguns each, Warlord Librarian Level 2 on Bike, 2 Land Speeders with Typhoon Missile Launchers, 1 Land Speeder with Multi Melta. 

I brought the same list I played with Sam last Batrep. I managed to add and complete the Dozer Blades on the tanks (thanks Marshall!). I also added more work on the tanks, improving their details. 

Enjoy the following batrep. 

Mission: DeathLock

First turn to White Scars

Zim kept the Multimelta Landspeeder off the board and deployed the rest of his army in the ruins to benefit from the cover save while his Warlord swung to a corner to capture an objective. Meanwhile, his other bike squad swung south of the following picture to capture another objective.

Turn 1 overview

My Rhino almost gave First Blood away but survived the salvo.

Turn 2

Zim moved his bikes up to try to kill the Tactical Squad from the Drop Pod but failed leaving one man alive! That Marine went on to be a hero and fortunately for me, I managed to take out Landspeeder for Fist Blood!

And then rushing into the terrain to take cover

The Blood Angels move up slowly but surely.

Hugging terrain

Zim played really well keeping his units out of Line of Sight while ensuring he had clear LOS to my tanks. Luck was with me again and my Rhino survived.

Risky move by Zim to try to remove my Sicaran

But failed and in return got destroyed

Zim moved in his bikes to destroy the Rhino

And in the finale, killed off my Sanguinary Priest!

We tallied the points up and it was a draw! 8-8! If the game had ended at Turn 6, I would have won! But this was an excellent game.