Chaos or not chaos?

I'm thinking of getting the shiny new starter box, with them chaos marines in it. Might be fun to have them fight alongside the orks, give them the three things orks don't have - firepower, manouverability, and survivability. It would also make sense story wise, since they probably coexist on the 'ulk. Or, well... coexist insofar as orks can coexist with anything really...

Da Ulkriderz is da best!!!

So yea, I spontaneously decided to enter The Fang, Sweden's largest GW painting competition according to the blurb. I don't know if it was really the largest, but there were a lot of people there, some of which were dressed up as night goblins.

My competition nerves showed themselves, I was really stressed and nervous the entire time, and the heat didn't make things better. Fortunately I had brought along lots of friends to support me, but that brought on another problem - that of socialising at the same time with three categories of friends!

How'd the competition go? I didn't even place.

I entered my warboss, Fingsnik, in the lone model category, and the Nobz mob in the squad category. Neither of them had much work done on their bases, and I'm sure that counted against me. That's something I'll do better next year.

Hopefully next year I will have finished Da Fing and can enter it into the diorama category.

Everything is better with tentacles!

A koan

Zortgub asked the Master, "Masta, does Gork 'ave enuff dakka?"
The Master replied, "Shut up, ya git."
At that moment, Zortgub was enlightened.

Green Stuff

Did my first job with greenstuff today, it seemed to work pretty much like blu-tac, except apparently it sets and goes hard. Will inspect it tomorrow to see how it turned out.

For next time I'll have to remember to shave off much less at a time and bake it together. It started setting quite fast and I only had time to use about one third of it.

Washes and stuff

The boyz are all washed now, looking great! The paint smoothes out mistakes, enhances shadows, and makes the colours much more alive. Now I need to get to the nobz and bosses...

I am using the Boltgun Metal instead of the Gunmetal for the nobz and bosses. Compared to the Gunmetal it's a dream. Comes on smoothly, doesn't need constant stirring - hardly any stirring at all in fact - makes a nice, even surface full of lustre.

Well, it makes sense for the nobz to have better looking weapons. They're nobz after all!

What's worse than waiting for paint to dry?

What's worse than waiting for paint to dry? Waiting for glue to dry. Especially when you have to sit there and hold the pieces of the model together until it's hard enough to stick. Especially annoying when you're almost guaranteed that the piece will just fall apart again seconds later when the glue sets enough to become brittle.

This is another reason working with the tin models is a pain in the ass. Not only do they not look as good as the plastic ones, you can't get the parts to stick together properly either. I contemplated using a soldering iron to warm the surfaces up a bit and then get them to melt together, but the potential disasters in that plan kept me from it.

Quotes #1

Why purple? It's a question that keeps coming up, so I'm gonna let the orks themselves reply.

Boss Fingsnik:
Why purple? Coz everyone in da warp wears purple ya git! Da pointy 'eads wear purple, an' dem beakies wiv de horns wear purple, an' dose things wiv all da claws...

Runtherd Gobmop:
...An' the gene sneakers dat we make the clothes of is purple too. Dats a good reason.

Ugwask the Kommando:
Because purple is ded sneaky, dats why. Didja ever see a purple kommando? Didn't think so. You don't sees us 'til it's too late.

Mek Kogshok:
Red wunz go fasta, but purple ones are warpier. Even a grot knows 'at.

...and there you have it.