Happy New Year everyone and welcome to my first post of 2017. So what is new I hear you cry? Well dear reader, make a hot beverage,, sit back, make yourself comfortable and allow me take a short period of your time to bring you up to speed...
It has frequently been stated by my friends and family how good I am with my money and how restrained I am when purchasing my miniatures. Case in point is my PanOceania where I collected one moderately-sized force in the time it took Ben to buy four, or my sensible sticking at Malifaux whilst Stephen branched out into Infinity and multiple Warhammer 40,000 armies. As a result this year I felt I had some catching up to do.
As you all know I am not impulsive at all, and it took me a great deal of time to decide on what to collect/clutter up the house with next. Thus I was as surprised as the next man when Ben announced he wanted to collect pre-heresy Ultrama-
Ok, so.... the hobby bug hit me, I had Christmas money and saw the new shiny Thousand Sons models. I bought them, convinced Ben to get some marines and then went crazy from there.... fuck me, the truth hurts!
In 7 weeks I've amassed about 4000 points of Prospero's finest, with most of the non-tank options covered. Despite the naysayers casting doubt (looking at you Bowden) I've thoroughly enjoyed building and painting them and every model apart from my vindicator is converted in some way. I've ordered Wargamesexclusive's limited edition Chaos the Red (*honestly* not Magnus) to stand in until May when Forgeworld unleash him, he arrived today so I am chomping at the bit to get home and build him. I was bitten by the bug so hard I even named my new Guinea Pig Magnus (he has a red mane...)!
So, why the return to GW models? Well, it's a combination of factors. Firstly I've always loved converting my models. However I'm only a red belt at greenstuffing (karate not judo) so resculpting/scratch-building has always been out of my league. As a result kit-bashing is my preferred method of conversion and (regardless of opinion) no company has a range that is as complete as GW's Space Marines. Then there's ease of painting. There's a lot you can do with Marines without needing a black belt (karate or judo) in airbrushing or having to spend hours on them. I love that Horus Heresy-era Marines properly look like knights with guns. On top of that I want to go to tournaments this year; the more the merrier, and there are a lot of GW-based tournaments. I'll admit I'm a little apprehensive as to whether it's a case of he with the biggest pseudo-titan will win/shield generator equals victory but I will only find out by trying.
It was always going to be Thousand Sons when it came to marines. I've always loved their story with the tragic fall from grace, their obsession with knowledge and the fact they *still* aren't true villains, rather misunderstood, embittered individuals in a system that rejects them. The colour scheme is snappy, the look is unique and the rules are brutal. In 40k I'll use them as loyalists (of course) as I've got the options to change the squad content to make them legal. I like the option of having the codexes on my phone, it makes reading on the go so much easier (and crossing busy roads so much more exciting). I must put a shout out to the 30k Thousand Sons Players (the original) who've been very helpful and informative as well as being possessed of a level of patience worthy of Magnus himself in handling my rules/modelling queries.
Below are some photos of my Force. In unrelated news I recorded the aforementioned (in another post) Ghosts of Mars from the Movies4men channel (yeah...) so that's tonight's viewing sorted!
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