Let’s try to complete an Army this time - Project Log
by CarbonCopy
Let’s see, where do I begin. I guess the usual questions should be answered first. You know, like:
- Who the heck is this guy?
- Why should you care?
- Can he paint/model/convert worth a darn?
Well, I’ve been into modeling and painting sci-fi & fantasy miniatures since I was 14. I discovered Warhammer 40K when I was 16 or so, back in the RT era. That was 17 years ago. To this day, I’ve never completed a single planned army…
Now, I almost had a completed army. It was my Mjolnir Recon Space Marine Chapter, themed heavily on Bungie Software’s Marathon trilogy of Mac computer games. It used the game’s logo as the chapter symbol. Then Games Workshop intorduced the Tau, which has a nearly identical icon to the Marathon logo. I traded the army to a friend in 2002 for many reasons, but mainly frustration.
Since then, I’ve only painted up a couple models here & there.
Armies I have planned at one point or another:
- Mjolnir Recon, a Codex Space Marine chapter
- Chrimson Fists
- Iron Hands
- Grey Knights/Daemonhunters
- Eldar, one craftworld after the other.
- Dark Eldar
- Orks
- Imperial Guard
What I will be covering here is the three armies that I am going to settle on, simple so I can actually finish a playable force with the current 4th edition of 40K. That will be Iron Hands, an expiditionary force from my own Eldar Craftworld Shau-Nai and a Daemonhunters/Grey Knight add-on force for my Iron Hands.
Out of a collection of nearly 2000+ (unpainted) models, I’ve stripped and ebayed the vast majority of the stuff that is not included in those three planned armies. The only other things I kept are intended for use in the average D&D game. Everything else has gone to minimize distraction.
Over the years I’ve painted the odball fantasy miniature from one maker or another. I might cover those here when I get board of painting the above mentioned 40K armies.
Did my Wife make me do this? No. I wanted to do this because I want to actually finnish something for a change. I’ve lost count of how many miniatures I had started, stripped, restarted and stripped again. I have unfinnished miniatures from when I was a teen (and I’m going to be 34 this summer).
Ultimate Objectives: Paint everything in my bits boxes.
Intermediate Goal: 2500pt Eldar and Iron Hands armies by February of 2008.
The reason for the intermediate goal is that my Wife may very well be pregnant with our second child. I’ll need to be able to provide as much help and support as I can, if that is the case, in nine months time.
Anyway, the obligitory workspace photos.