Exploring The Surrounds

While I didn't do any actual modelling yesterday, I did make good headway on the project of turning the garage into a useable storage and workshop area; mostly by reassembling the second of two large IKEA bookshelves and starting the process of shoving about 2,000 books into them, freeing up floor space from many (many) banana boxes that had contained them previously. This will allow me - with a bit of reorganising - to not only make space for the 3D printer setup, but to store my various figures either in their long-term homes of Really Useful Boxes, or shorter term homes such as carboard boxes. 

Today, P, T (my son), and I went to Bangor to have a nose around before T had to get the train back to the Midlands. After a bit of excitement where we discovered that what seemed to be a road was, in fact, a dead end at the bottom of an extremely steep hill, involving a badly overheated clutch and a quick call to the fire brigade, we found the nearby Hobby Shop. No, that's actually what it's called - The Hobby Shop. It's currently most active on Facebook, but having had a look around it's not a bad little place at all. A good selection of paints, some board games, some Airfix, Tamiya, and the like, a bunch of Games Workshop stuff (Blood Bowl, Necromunda, Age of Sigmar, 40K, a little The Old World, a reasonable selection of Black Library), some Warlord Games stuff (almost all Bolt Action), Star Wars Legion, a range of CCGs and some various other things as well. I got some paints to replace some of the 30-odd that had been killed off by the summer heat earlier this year, and a bottle of Mig Ammo Extra Thin poly cement.

That poly cement came in handy for what I got up to when I got home, which was to put together a couple of Chaos Knight War Hounds. These are essentially the exact opposite of my loyalist Armiger Warglaives, but with a more aggressive loadout. While my Warglaives have nothing but autocannons, these Chaos machines have a mix of close combat weapons and chunky guns. I suspect these will, eventually, form a small allied contingent to go with a vaguely thought out Word Bearers force I want to get to oppose my Raptors/Argent Shroud/Paradisan Guard Imperial forces that are, by and large, intended for games of [current edition] 40K.

Here they are:

As I understand it these are (L) a Huntsman and (R) a Stalker. The Huntsman has a melta-cannon and a massive chainsword, with either a Havoc launcher or heavy stubber, while the Stalker has an avenger chain cannon and a huge power claw - again with either a Havoc launcher or a heavy stubber. I couldn't resist giving the bird faced Huntsman the little chaos bird-thing on its shoulder armour plate.

 For comparison's sake, here's the loyalist ones:

These are both Armiger Helverins, with autocannons and either heavy stubbers or meltas on their carapaces. Notably the pilot's cockpit isn't chained shut...

Also, if you go back a post, you'll also see the photo I took of my 3D printer workstation area. Currently it doesn't look like that at all, but hopefully within the month I'll be producing all sorts of silliness. Tomorrow I hope to do some painting after work, maybe get to use some of my new paints, that sort of thing.