Mark: Project Ultramarines - Introductions

With all the excitement around the release of sixth edition 40k I’ve gone and spent my day looking over the new rules, instead of writing the quality post you deserve and well anything else I was supposed to do today if I’m completely honest.

So once my eyes uncross and my word fu returns I’ll give you a more complete run down of what I’m doing with this new project and why, but for now here’s a quick introduction to Project Ultramarines. In short I’m building, converting, sculpting and, painting an Ultramarines army that I will be donating to my local club Kingaroy Wargamers, to give away. I’m hoping that it will be used as part of a recruitment drive that we will be running over the next couple of months.

I’ll be using the AOBR terminators I painted a while ago as a starting point, from here I have only a couple of guide lines to follow;

• The completed force needs to be a game legal force of at least 1000 points, but I’m hoping to get something a little closer to 1500 points completed.
• I can’t purchase any new miniatures for this project; I have to rely on what is donated by the other club members and what I can pull together from my own collection.
• At bear minimum each miniature needs the Ultramarines icon sculpted onto their relevant shoulder pad, I’ll be doing more if time permits.
• I have to have all of this finished by Christmas

I’ll be posting my progress of a Saturday as my first regular feature here on the blog, I hope you enjoy the ride.

Until next time …….

Mark

Mark: Is a Change Really as Good as a Holiday?

No this isn't another post about the impending release of Warhammer 40,000's 6th edition it's about a couple of changes here on the blog.

Firstly, I've noticed a recent up swing in the number of people from non-English speaking nations particularly from Russia, Brazil, and Colombia. So I've added the Google translate gadget to the blog, I know its not the most accurate translation system out there but I'm hoping that you will find it helpful.

Secondly, we've had another of our local gamers join us here in the blogsphere so I would like to welcome Antman to our wonderful little world of blogging, and give his blog Red Scar Gaming a bit of a plug. With Antman joining myself and Travis, Trev over at Triple Helix and Mr JShirlaw at Toy Soldiers, along with a couple of more of our clubs members thinking about starting blog of their own. I've decided add a third blog roll called Kingaroy Warbloggers to showcase and hopefully increase traffic to their blogs.

And lastly, another thing I intend to do myself is to make my posting a little less sporadic and I'll be starting a regular feature that I'll be posting of a weekend, I'm currently working a couple of thing out for this as yet unannounced project, but I will endeavour to get the first post up this coming Saturday.

If there is anything that you would like to see me do here or if you have any tips on how I can improve on anything I am currently doing please leave a comment below, I'm still very much in the learning phase as far as my blogging goes and I value any feedback I receive.

Until next time .......

Mark

Mark: A Little Progress

I haven't done a great deal of work on the hobby front as both time and motivation have been in short supply. I have put some high lights onto the Dark Angles Company Master that I started a while ago, and I've started building/converting another Librarian for the Dark Angles.

Truth be told I was going to use this guy as a Mephison counts as, but it just felt wrong using my Dark Angles as Blood Angles. I'd like a Blood Angles Army but I think I'll wait until I get my head around the 6th edition rules, and build them from the ground up for the new edition.

Until next time .......

Mark