Painting night... pt3

Well thats the last of the cutting, I finally finished trimming and cleaning the last of the parts of the second drop pod. Its 9pm and time for some food before spraying the second pod and getting on with dry brushing the first.

Painting night... pt2

Well its 7:50, I've got one whole Drop Pod undercoated, the central sections of the second assembled and am moving onto the doors and fins for the second. I've even dry-brushed some silver onto the harness section of the first.

Music listened to: 

A.F.I. - December underground

Green Day - Dookie

Painting night... pt1

Its 6:15pm and I've just done a first spray of black undercoat on my first drop pod parts. Its not entirely assembled, I'll show some pics through the night but I'm hoping to assemble and paint (at least a bit) 2 pods tonight.

I'll post as I go and try and put down some WIP pics.

1000pt list

Its going to be 1000pts tomorrow, here's my list based on what I have available:

• Wolf Lord, 2 x Lightning claws and Belt of Russ (4+ inv)   120pts
• 11 Blood Claws, power fist, power weapon, plasma pistol and flamer, the rest of the slots bolt pistols and close combat weapons   188pts
• Drop Pod   35pts
• Wolf Guard Battle Leader, Terminator armour, power weapon, storm bolter and wolf pelt (3+ hit in CC)   81pts
• 4 Wolf Guard Bodyguards, Terminator armour, power fists, storm bolters and wolf pelts   104pts
• Drop Pod   35pts
• Venerable Dreadnought with multi-melta   165pts
• 6 Grey Hunters with bolters, power fist, power weapon and meltagun   142pts
• 6 Grey Hunters with bolters, power fist, power weapon and flamer   138pts
• Total   1008pts

I think my idea will be to drop the termies in on the first turn using the drop pod assault rule as they will be able to take some pounding during the game. I'll set up the GH in cover along with the dread and work them onto objectives or move them forward through cover if it is kill points. The lord and BCs will drop in later to wreak havoc amongst the Tau lines and they'll then hopefully last long enough to contest/claim and objective in the enemies territory later in the game.

If anyone has some tips or comments I'd love to hear them

At last

... something that might, at least to me, be worth saying.

So after getting back from my big trip (and planning the next for mid July), I boshed through the jet lag and now am resembling a human being again. Last week I trotted into the FLGS on gamer night that was ending early so I didn't get in a game, but lined up one with another lad getting back into the hobby. He plays Tau and the thought of trying to march my whole army across the board into his guns didn't fill me with much confindence so I decided to put together my drop pods.

What have I learned? Well, GW's instructions are rubbish. The order they show putting it together is very counter-intuitive, especially the restraint harnesses which they show you should put in after glueing in the central column. To my horror, I found that to do this you have to cut them up a bit, and then force them in really hard - much better to glue the harnesses to the central collar before glueing it all down to the base. Also, the instructions, including the "completed" picture do not include the second set of harnesses on each of the 5 fixing points, it is down to you to realise that these need attaching.

I've got one pre-assembled, and the other just needs the doors and main fins cleaning then I'm going to be spraying them black, quick dry brush with the silver and pick out a couple of details before final glueing and they'll be ready for Thursday night. WIP and my army list to follow soon.

Back in action, Hoo Raa!