Two updates in one week? Crikey

As I mentioned, I've taken this week off work. It's fantastic not to have to stress about, well everything.

So what am I actually doing? Well I'm busy playing through the dow1 campaign with Eldar. Trying to decide if I'll like DoW2 or not. I enjoyed company of heroes well enough (and I understand DoW2 has quite a bit in common with it), but just had no longevity for me. I played a few missions, a few skirmishes. I prefer the proper battles, all this sneak in here with two guys and do X then escape crap bores me. But I'll try and keep an open mind.

Great news! For me anyway. Since Tamiya recalled their entire spray lines to the UK (very helpful) I've been struggling to find alternative colours. Humbrol do a few decent ones I can get through one of the local hobby shops, but the dark red tamiya spray was giving me problems. Until now! Halfords red primer to the rescue. It's a perfect colour match near as damnit, and the best bit, since it's primer, they do a 500ml can for 6.99. Bargain.

As such today I've basecoated my baneblade. It's been sat on my shelf gathering dust pretty much since I bought and assembled it. So it'll be good to get it done up and put in a cabinet all proper like.

I've bought a few new things, well I say new, ebay is fun. I picked up a copy of the old Imperial Guard Collectors Guide. Some really cool stuff in there, the army galleries at the back especially. Following on from that though I've decided to paint my old cadians (the metal ones) in one of the mordian colour schemes and use them as an auxillary squad in my praetorians. I think they'll work really well, especially since they didn't have flak armour so share a lot of visual cues with the praets.

Speaking of Praetorians, I bought a Mordian Lieutenant off ebay, who will be getting decapitated when he arrives and be turned into my praet lt. And with a bit of luck phoenix club will start casting Col Gravis' praetorian rough rider torsos, so I'll be able to do my cadian conversions much more easily. Excellent news.

Oh and to add to the eclectic nature of this post, I've also been painting some of my grots. I found a decent tute on, erm, possibly dakkadakka, from someone who had use basecoats and washes and got great results. I don't except the same quality finish, since my brush control leaves something to be desired, but if I can paint a squad in less than the 10hours or so it usually takes me I'll be chuffed.

I'm rambling. I'll get some picks of my baneblade up later, then other stuff as inspiration takes.
Si