Last day of the year...

and the new Decade starts tomorrow...or would that actually be 2011 that the decade would start...ehhh no worries either way...

I feel as though I have painted a good bit of my marines up this year...meet my goal of 1500 points worth of Ultra Templar painted and ready to go...3 tact squads of Soul Drinkers were painted up and more marines then you could shake a stick at were assembled...haha

So for 2010 I am going to be trying to jump on the point system of painting as well...

my goal will be 120 points for the year...or rougly 10 points a month...which is a tact squad a month or a rhino...haha

The formula
I obviously won't be painting exactly the same proportion number of infantry, cavalry, monster and vehicle models so I need a way to compare one set of models to another. Here is the formula I came up with.

•Infantry = 1 point
•Cavalry or bikes = 2 points
•Monster or Dreadnought = 5 points
•Vehicle = 10 points
•Superheavy vehicle = 20 points
My aim for 2009 is to score 100 points or more.

so yeah this is a quote from the Lone Pilgram painting blog...soo my goal as of 2010 is going to be 120 points...and when the blood angels come out the Infantry count should go up 20+ points right there from my assault marines...haha...man my assault marines better be troop choices or I will be pissed...haha

Life is a busy thing...

Always doing something and every chance I get to escape the house to get down to the FLGS I get stopped at the last minute with something that can clearly wait another day to do...

so in other words I have not played a game in almost a month now...but I should be able to get a game or two in tomorrow with one of my friends at his house...

My Space Marine Ultra Templar army is painted up to a 1500 point army...but I dont plan on stopping there...my plan is to have a whole battle company...or atleast a few tact squads and one assault squad...and powerfist galor in this army...Both Tact squads painted up have a powerfist sarge...on top of the Sternguards sarge having on and then the Terminators having one base price...always enjoyable...but think about it a powerfist is what 25 points right...a terminator is 40 points...you are paying 15 points for a veteran in a 2+ armour...sternguard I think go out at 20-25 points I dont have the codex right here but I am somewhat sure it is 25 points a piece...haha

But none the less I have two drop pods painted up for the army...plus the crusader...all ready to go but tomorrow I am playing at 2000 points so I am going to be short 500 points...maybe I will use another Crusader and an assault termie squad...eat up those orks...silly orks...haha

Not to mention my Soul Drinkers I am sitting on 3 tact squads painted up and ready to go...on top of Cassius painted up like Chaplain Iktinos I may paint over his face and paint it all white like a skull instead of the half-metal/half-flesh tone it is right now...as Iktinos never takes his helmet off...

Also the Sarpdon conversion is going along decently...not one of the best ones out there but if you know the chapter then you would know who he is by taking one quick look...but like I have said I need to figure out how to make The Hell work in game terms...I think the necrons decievers power would work the best I just need to upgrade it a bit to make it even better...

But hopefully around the end of next month I can be back up and playing more 40k as well as back at the job full-time...haha

Later all

Gawd...I love Christmas on Friday...

HAHA...awesome I know right...it is a two-for-one type deal including me having my daughter this entire weekend...the only major catch was she was with her mom from 4pm on the 24th till 2pm today...

so I slept in till 1 so I would not be down and bummed out that I was not with my daughter...it kinda helped that I played Assassins Creed 2 (early present from my little sister) till 5 am...I dozed off for a second and woke up to a bunch of dead guards laying around my characters body...hahah

...At that point I knew it was time for bed...haha

Nine days later...

Ok I am still here I promise and yes I know I missed last fridays update as well...so we will just skip that...power was out anyway from a very nice little snow storm we had...but hey my daughter had a blast the entire time she was with me...

awesome I know right...

but I am still here but Christmas time is coming up...sooo I do not think getting a game is going to happen until after christmas...maybe not till 2010...NOOOOO...

also I figured out a bit more of the Ultra Templar Fluff...more to come on that...lets just say I have more reason to buy Green...and Robed marines...hehe...ok I will keep them black and blue but you see where I am going with this...

Also this was just posted to the Bell of Lost Souls...and I loved the old school Movie Marines...this one seems like a lot of fun...and a heck of a lot more sense for a marines stat lines...haha

MOVIE MARINES ARE AWESOME I KNOW RIGHT

Gawd...I Love Saturdays...?...Huh...

Yeah I forgot...haha...

spent the morning finishing up the Sternguard for the Ultra Templar...white helmets is a hard thing to do over black primer...also I primed up my Drop Pod...then I picked up my daughter from Preschool...and I just now stopped...at 1am...she went to bed at 9pm friday night...so no one jump my case...haha

Just stuff to do around the house and help out my family...

A lot...

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No I mean it really...a lot of stuff...and more to do tomorrow...wow...thanks for not giving me a list earlier in the week to do while no one was home and everyone was out of my way...haha

But none the less I feel like I owe the few dozen or so people that check up on me atleast a quick picture...haha

Update TIME...

Well The Ultra Templar Chapter is coming along...I thought I would put some time into them as the Soul Drinkers have been getting all my attention as of late...sooo

UPDATE TIME...

Ultra Templar have a Chapter Master now...haha...Storm Bolter, Relic Blade...pic later

They also have a 10 Man Tactical Squad finished...Serge has Plasma Pistol, Powerfist, the Squad gets a melta and a Missile Launcher...

Also an old school Crusader with the metal guns has been repainted into the Ultra Templar colors...Black and Blue...



And the Sternguard are coming along nicely...

The Sarge I think came out pretty darn good actually...haha...


The Rest of the Squad is being finished up right now so their pics will come later with the Chapter Master...

Wow...I mean wow...

I just dropped down the box to the right side with all the 40k blogs that I enjoy to read every now and then or something to give me an idea of whats going on out there...and I mean just wow

I got a lot...probably about half as many as FTW or Bell of Lost Souls...

That means only one thing...

...

I should probably stop drinking...

haha

Gawd...I love Fridays...

No really I do...I dropped my daughter off at school around 8ish this morning came back home and threw on a quick paint job on a 10 man squad of Ultra Templar...they were from when I first started back in the begining of 4th edition...haha...10 guys includes a meltagun, ML, Sarge w/PF and Plasma Pistol...not half bad...but the Missile Launcher guy needs a lot of love...and new torso...and new Missile Launcher...luckly I have a few around in my bits container...I just need him for his legs really..haha

Well I am posting this and going back to bed...I have not been sleeping well and the house is actually quite so I am going to take full advantage of this...

haha

Sarpdon just need a new coat...

HAHA...well as I was up till 530 this morning...and could not sleep I finished up Sarpdon's Conversion...only a 7 legged freak...but his bionic leg is the only thing missing...Gave him an Axe and a Bolter...Bolt Pistol on his side if needed..Helmet on the other side under his bolter arm...

Well none the less two quick shots from my Camera Phone...one from the Front and another from the top side to see the base underneath him...and no he is not glued on yet...

Sarpdon Conversion

Ok I had the idea when the Soul Drinkers first Omnibus came out and ripped through it like a hot knife threw butter...but at the time I was happy camper and newly married and had no time for conversions...much less paint any of the models I had glued together at 2am in the morning as my 1 yr old daughter slept...

Fast forward to a few months ago I was reading a blog I go to every now and then and low and behold the man was making a Sarpdon conversion...similar to what I was thinking...only better...haha...

But hey that does not mean no one else can make a conversion of their own...using a similar technique as the other guy I went about doing my own...

Using a Nids body...one of the smaller gaunts I think I cut off some arms from another two and glued them to the body...cut off the head and neck...For the Torso I used a Company Champions Body as well as a helmet less head...as Sarpdon throughout the books would always lead without his helmet on unless the situation demanded it. So I glued on a helmet that I will paint up for if he needs to use it...haha

Quick updates and what not...

First off...what is it...23 days till Christmas...thankfully I had started Christmas shopping for my daughter in August...so I have about half a dozen presents for her...which is a good thing as I have not been able to go back to the office...which sucks as a giant paycheck would be perfect...le sigh on the lack of job...But thankfully I have unemployement which helps pay the bills...

But I have gotten back my Land Raider Crusader...and man am I loving that thing...move 12 inches...fire both Hurrican Bolters and either the multi-melta or assault cannon...but not both of them...or move 6 inches and fire every weapon I have on that thing at two targets...it is great...throw in some assault terminators with a Chaplain and let the power weapons roll...haha

Also on a side note...Some of you may have relized I have a truck load of other 40k Blogs on the right side of my own blog here...if you have one that is not on this list...email me at jokerjr101@yahoo.com with some sort of title in the message about this blog so I won't mark it as spam...and I will be more then happy to add you to the ever growing list...I may be a small blog but every window helps...haha

Last thing

Got in two games last night...both 2k games each...

First one was my Soul Drinkers vs Black Templar...halfway through turn one I relized...holy shit this is a battle of two second foundings of the Imperial Fist right here...I then pointed that out and Steven said...well heck man I am going to be doing a Crimson Fist army soon and the other guy is going to be doing an Imperial Fist army...I said heck yeah...and we got back to the game...

ended up being a tie...would have lost a lot more had the Heibrich and his 10-14 man squad gotten out of their Crusader and ripped into my Soul Drinkers...haha

Second one was against the same guy but we switched armies...He went with his orks and I went with Space Wolves...lets just say the Wolf Scouts with Sniper Rifles paid for themselves as well as Bjorn and the other Venerable Dreadnought...but there was one Mad Doc...and that SOB would not die...his entire squad died...but then would not die himself...then to add insult to injury he joined another squad...luckly he ran out of turns and KP I won 12-6...silly orks thinking they could kill Wolves...haha

I will try to get some pictures of the Crusader later this week and the four rhinos for my Soul Drinkers but now that I have them painted I have a reason to paint up the rest of Soul Drinker army and start on that conversion of the Spider Commander Man guy...thingy...haha...Sharpdon that is it...haha