Another Package! (Life is Good)

Surprisingly, this is the first time I'm going to admit it, (it won't be the last) I seem to have a problem. A big problem. This problem comes in the form of buying extremely well-priced lots of miniatures! Now, I realize this problem isn't as bad as some issues I could have, but it certainly hurts me (in a good way) to have too many miniatures and not enough time to paint!

                            

Anyway, here is the lot of 12 Warhammer 40,000 Chaos Space Marines that I bought on Tuesday and teceived today (Friday).

Not Exactly a Battle Report...

I got a great little game of 40K in yesterday! My friend and I decided to play a "Casual Kill Teams" game, where we just tried to kill more of our opponent's models. The game pitted his Chaos Daemons against my Space Wolves. I ended up winning, mainly because I destroyed enough models that he wasn't able to take out my Dreadnought. Anyway, it was a great way for me to use my few models in a friendly game! (He would have won had we not dropped a very important rule!)

                 

New Phone

This weekend, I received my new phone. This means I'll be able to post pictures much more quickly and easily! So, you can expect plenty of pictures from now on and even more detailed pictures in battle reports. (I think it's about time for another battle report!)

Sponsor Updates

Hello, I hope you all remember Blue Table Painting, my latest sponsor. Anyway, after the two weeks of "testing out" a banner on Creative Wargaming, they've decided to extend the period of the banner on here to two months! This I'm grateful for, and I'm really happy with their customer service, so I'd like to give them an official welcome to the blog!

                                 Welcome Blue Table Painting!

Mail!

Hi everyone! Two days ago, (09/19/13) I received some sweet wargaming items in the mail! To add to my Warhammer 40,000 collection I got:

One metal Tyranid Hive Tyrant and 3 metal Tyrant Guard.

                  

Two random bags of bits, one containing Dark Angels Ravenwing bits and the other containing Tyranids bits,

                      

And two codexes, the Tyranids Codex and the Space Wolves Codex.

                  

Another Sponsor!

As you may have noticed, another picture has been added to the side of this blog. Well, that's because Blue Table Painting has joined my list of sponsors. Although they are currently "trying out" a banner here, we give them a warm welcome and hope that they will stay for a while. Anyway, make sure you check out bluetablepainting.com and bluetablepaintingstore.com for their amazing painting service and fantastic store!

New Blog!

Well, I've decided that, because of the overwhelming amount of fun that modeling and playing Warhammer 40,000 has been, I'm going to start a new blog, mainly so that I don't steer away from the main concept of this blog, which is supposed to be about finding, buying and playing wargames. Now, yes, this blog will still contain updates from my 40K life, (battle reports, unboxings, mail) but it won't turn into my personal 40K page, like it was about to. This blog should launch in the next week or two, so don't go looking for it just yet! Also, it's bound to happen that this blog and my new blog will have some curiously similar posts, but that's hard to avoid. Anyway, my goal is to not stop posting on this blog, but you must understand how hard it can be to maintain both blogs. Thank you to all of my viewers! (and my sponsor, Noble Knight Games)

MORE 40K!!!

Okay, as the name suggests, I'm loving Warhammer 40,000! It's a great game, plus, I have some friends who play it. I have done quite a bit of painting in the past week or two and have played a countless amount of games. So, now that I'm into the game, I need some more figures! To be continued...

Progress On 40K

Well, 30 miniatures and one bottle of super glue later, I've completed the Troop choices from the starter set and actually managed to try a few games! My goal for today is to begin painting one of the twenty Ork Boyz included in the set! If it goes well, I should be posting about it in the next couple days.

Warhammer 40K Starter Set Unboxing+Extras!

Wow! The starter set came a little sooner than expected! Anyway, I'd say it's time for an unboxing!

The starter set has an impressive box, with an epic battle going on between the Space Marines and the Orks. The back of the box features the two well-painted armies, along with the contents of the kit. Besides it not being the most recent starter set, I would say that the box is able, if not sturdy, enough to hold this kit, although there was some warping in the cardboard even though the pack was factory sealed.                      

                

The box contained plenty of awesome-looking miniatures, with both sides having sizable forces. The Space Marine army included: 1 Captain, 9 Tactical Marines and 1 Tactical Sergeant, 4 Terminators and 1 Terminator Sergeant and 1 Dreadnought.

                

The Ork army included: 1 Warboss, 5 Nobz, 20 Ork Boyz and 3 Deffkoptas.

                

There were several accessories, perfect for new players. Templates and bases were ideal and there were added measuring sticks.

                

The "Read This First" guide and the old 5th Edition rules came in the kit. A lot of transfers were included for unit customizing the miniatures. 

               

All things considered, this starter set is a great way to get into the Warhammer 40K universe, even though it's not most recent starter set. I think that it could easily be used to expand a collection, or simply supply some great, easy-to-build miniatures.

 Also, the extra that I got this week, was a set of 100 tiny Rare-Earth Magnets from China! I got these for $3, with free shipping! Can't wait to find a use for these! (Being that the starter set is snap-together, magnetizing would take cutting, which I don't feel ready for, at this time.)