Arrgghhh!

Me again. Yet another day off in an attempt to get things finished and what happens? I spent most of today going back and forth between the Accident Repair Centre. Most of the morning was spent with them going through the details of what happened (some numpty drove into my car then drove off), and then I find out they've given me the wrong courtesy car! All sorted now but I've got to pop off again to sort out some other odd jobs. So out of the 8 hours or so I wanted to do today, I've probably done 30 minutes undercoating. Plus pointis that I'm quite impressed with using Halford Car Primer as my undercoat spray. Costs about the same as GW but you get 700ml rather than 400ml and it seems to spray better than the GW one. I wasn't expecting to be able to do much as it's quite cold and damp outside but the Halford Spray did the job!

Random Rant!

Just venting here folks, so please bear with me. Went to take my car to the garage and found out that the dozy woman at the call centre hadn't booked me in so now I've got to take it on Monday. Then the British weather returned to normal (rain with a chance of more rain), so no spray painting for me, and to top it off I went to my local GW which doesn't seem to stock anything but Battalion Boxes!

Not the worst day ever but mildly annoying when I had taken the day off to paint skaven up. I've vented the frustration on my PS3 and been watching videos about Red Dead Redemption (cowboy version of GTA) which I'm quite excited about. I've also got on my to do list, to find time to read Salamander by Nick Kyme. I've got a soft spot for the Black Skinned, Red Eyed, Nice Marines and I quite enjoyed the short story in the Heros of Space Marines book which came out last year. I nearly picked up James Swallows Blood Angel Series but I've heard lots of bad things about it and I don't really want to ruin anything for when I get my hands on the Codex (which I'm looking forwards to how they are fleshing out the background). I've also discovered that I can't seem to finish a WFB book while I can read the 40k ones over and over again. No idea why.

Anyway, I'll get back to moaning about the weather and call centres! :(

It's oh so quiet or something like that

So a fair few days since my last update as real life has been butting in. Work is starting to get busy, which is interesting when the team I'm in has shrunk and now has more inexperianced members than experianced members. Well it's interesting in a watching Mr Bean kind of way - Mildly amusing the first time and then quite dull and annoying afterwards. I've also had somebody done a hit and run on my car during the 'big freeze' (for those Johnny Foreigner folks, the UK was hit by lots of cold white stuff that we don't see very often and the whole country went silly). Thankfully me and my wife were okay but it made me say a few choice words about the person who did it. My car is going to the garage tomorrow and I'll be having some random car in exchange while mine is being tinkered with. Funny thing is that I can see me having a Smart Car (ickle car) to drive up to Sheffield in next weekend.

Speaking of next weekend, Sheffield is almost upon me! Painting wise I've been slacking and got a lot of grey models looking back at me while I type this. Cunning plan is to have a couple of last minute days off, starting with tomorrow to start the monsterous task of painting 160 off models in a week. Then I need to sort out some terrain! Even though the panic of not having things finished is starting to set in, I think I must really like it as I seem to do it a lot.

Meanwhile during all this real life stuff and none painting, I've signed myself up to another couple of events. First one is the Dragon Slayer Bash being run at Maelstrom Games, and this is a one day event to be a warm up for the South Coast GT which I missed out on. Tickets have sold out now but I'm looking forwards to this as Maelstrom Games is not too far away and the guys who run it really like gaming. Second event is a local affair known as The Midlands Open. It's being run by one of my regular opponents Luke and it should be fun as well as local! There's still tickets left which you can find HERE.

I think that's it for the moment apart from waiting for my Tyranid Codex. Due to the delays with the weather, Maelstrom Games couldn't send any out for the Codex release date (last Saturday) but I should have mine for the weekend. I had a peek at it last week when I popped into my local GW for a nose and it looks nice. Not ground breaking (or even game breaking) but should keep fans happy.

2010 is going to be a good year....

Wow, it's 2010 now and I thought it would be a good time to post something on my blog, especially seeing how lazy I've become.

When I was a little boy, 2010 seemed such a long way away and here it is! It's quite a big year for me and my family as there are quite a few big birthdays (I'm 30, my mom is 60, my sister-in-law is 18, and my Grandfather-in-law is 80, plus there are quite a few other big birthdays as well!!!). I also looks like 2010 is going to be a good year for GW as we seem to be having some really cool releases coming up soon.

Firtsly we have the new Tyranids next week and they sound quite cool (plus the Trygon looks a cool model) and then we have Beastmen coming out in Feb. I got to see the army book today and it looks like it's going to be a sneaky top tier list as a lot of people have been poo-pooing them (mainly due to the models) as they have lost a lot of the things in the 'current' book. Personally I like all the new models as well as some of the new rules (Core Chariots, Big Monsters, Hatred if you pass a Ld Test, Bestigor who can nick standards) but I can see some players being annoyed due to Ungor now being on 20mm bases. I think I would be annoyed but move on six months and I can see people not even worrying about it.

Also I had a email this morning off GW, stating that we will be seeing Blood Angels in April. I'm quite excited about this as ever since the 2nd editon of 40K, I've always wanted to collect a company of Blood Angels and seeing how I'm thinking I want to go to a 40K heat this year (as well as a WFB one!), I'm taking that as a sign. Add into the mix that we should be seeing the Relic/GW Space Marine game at some point this year as well as more info about the Ultramarine Movie, (and rumours about 8th editon of WFB and new plastic technology where you have models with no moldlines!) you can see why I'm thinking 2010 is going to be good year!