Finally, some normal temperatures

By now, everyone has probably seen the hottest summer on record bit. Well, it is. Since my last post, I've gotten a Possessed and a couple of Sisters done and it's been a few weeks. It's just been way too hot to do much of anything.

Temperatures have cooled off though, so I'm looking at getting a bit more done now that things are livable.

Gamer Appreciation Day at the Gamer's Lair

We're entering the quiet season for tournaments, at least in this neck of the woods. When summer comes to Canada, folks tend to frolic outside and things to that effect. With that in mind, Doug set up a little get together at the Gamer's Lair for everyone with a few little prizes, medals, cake, that sort of thing. Maybe not a major event in gaming, but certainly a nice thing for a store owner to do.

Back from Big Bay

Not a whole bunch to tell here. I went up to Big Bay with Sparky and it was just a relaxing weekend. We got some stuff figured out for the August game and I got an inventory of what he had in terms of my Inquisitorial stuff to base.

We did some cooking, had a fire and checked out some vintage Transformers cartoons. There was apparently a GI Joe cartoon marathon on a few days ago. I'm pretty sure that one would have broken my brain.

Latest Stuff

The latest Possessed I've done for Sean and my Heavy Flamer Sister.



This guy wound up alright, but like most of this batch, I'm not entirely happy with him. I tried to get them done quickly for Sean for our last Apocalypse game and the models just wound up with too much paint on them. It's a lesson learned for next time. On the other hand, the conversions have worked our fairly well and Sean will have a full unit of unique Word Bearers Possessed based off of the old models.



This one worked out alright, though I definitely need to get better at faces and eyes. I'm also going to have to take a look at the actual fit of the heavy weapon Battle Sisters since things don't seem to be going together entirely right. It doesn't require a tonne of green stuff to fix, but it does take more than I'd like.

My First Witch Hunters List

Since we've more or less figured out that we'll have our next get together in August sometime, I've taken a bit of time to look toward what I'll want to bring as an army. For a change of pace, I'd like to do Witch Hunters. Given what I have and what I have painted, I'm looking at:

HQ:

Inquisitor Lord & Retinue - 190 points
Inquisitor Lord - Stormbolter, Word of the Emperor, Psychic Hood
3 Gun Servitors with Heavy Bolters
2 Sages

Priest - Eviscerator, Rosarius - 95 points

Elite:

6 Arco-Flagellants - 210 points

3 Death Cult Assassins - 120 points

Culexus Assassin - 120 points

Troops:

Battle Sister Squad - 270 points
9 Battle Sisters
Heavy Flamer
Flamer
Imaginifier
Frag Grenades
Sister Superior - Plasma Pistol, CCW, Book of St. Lucius, Brazier of Holy Fire
Rhino with Pintle Mounted Stormbolter and Smoke Launcher

Battle Sister Squad - 270 points
9 Battle Sisters
Heavy Flamer
Flamer
Imaginifier
Frag Grenades
Sister Superior - Plasma Pistol, CCW, Book of St. Lucius, Brazier of Holy Fire
Rhino with Pintle Mounted Stormbolter and Smoke Launcher

Fast Attack:

Dominion Squad - 247 points
4 Dominions
4 Meltaguns
Sister Superior - Combi-Melta, Power Weapon, Book of St. Lucius
Immolator with Smoke Launchers and Multi-Meltas

Heavy Support:

Retributor Squad - 205 points
5 Retrubitors
4 Heavy Bolters
Imaginifier
Sister Superior - Book of St. Lucius

2 Penitent Engines - 160 points

Orbital Strike - Melta Torpedo - 80 points

Probably not the best list possible, but it does have the odd things the I find interesting like Arco-Flagellants, Assassins and Penitent Engines. At only 4 Faith Points, it's a bit light on that end, but I figure it's a descent spot to start and to goof around a bit. It also has the benefit of my having most of the models already. I just need to get some additional Meltagun and Heavy Bolter Sisters, one Heavy Bolter Servitor and the Tanks.

One Should Never Watch The A-Team If One Has Unpainted Orks

Kind of a goofy time right now. First off, it's been hotter than a snake's ass in a wagon rut the past week or so. Not the end of the world, but it doesn't help my getting stuff painted one bit.

Second, I've been playing a fair bit of Borderlands and watched the A-Team with Sean last night. Combine that with my freshly reading Imperial Armour 8 and I'm fairly itching to do some Orks again. Sounds great right? Not when I'm trying to get a second squad of Battle Sisters done!

That aside, project wise, I'm fairly excited. For the short term, I'll probably try to build my Ork Army to the Ork Dread Mob list form Imperial Armour 8. Mostly Dreads, Kans, Lootas and Wagons with crazy weapons on them. The list will blow in terms of claiming objectives, but the model count will be low and it's going to be fun as hell to play. For Chaos, I'm still working on Sean's Possessed, but that's in the home stretch thankfully. Finally, on the Witch Hunters side, I've finished the Heavy Flamer Sister that I plan to include in Battle Sister Squad Primus. After that, it's on to the models in for Battle Sister Squad Secondus. Somewhere in there, I also need to pick up a couple of Immolators/Rhinos to transport the units.

Inquisitor Finished

Yeah, I know he's actually a Daemon Hunters Acolyte, but he just looks more Inquisitorial to me.

I still need to do some inking and detailing and something with hit boots, but he's at least tableworthy at present.