"Ladies, I'd like to introduce you to your CO, Lieutenant Ranma Saotome. She's the best pilot in Skull and I'm sorry to be losing her, but I wanted to give her a chance to maximize her potential. She's a shit-hot pilot with more brass than an ammo factory and flew combat in F/A-18E's for sixteen months before coming here. She has six air-to-air ( Read more... )

"We came as a surprise to the Zentraedi, even more than they did to us. After all, we'd found Zentraedi bodies and mecha in the SDF-1 when it first arrived. But the Zennies, whoever they'd fought before, obviously never encountered anything like a Tomahawk or a Spartan. And those tri-fighters were no less surprised than anti-uni MiG pilots when ( Read more... )

"I was close enough to Lang in those days to be certain that he had no confidential knowledge of the hidden Protoculture source to which Exedore was referring. Had he but known the secret of those great, sealed Reflex furnaces, he might have formulated an immortal update to Einstein's remark: Protoculture doesn't play dice with the universe, but it ( Read more... )

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I haven't been posting much, because my new job is often exhausting, but today is my day off, and I did my best to make up for lost time.

I finished up the Dark Angels assault squad first. They all have their decals, and I finished up their bases using the same colors and techniques as the sergeant. They all needed some touch-up painting as well ( Read more... )

The Dark Angels revamp continues! And I was right, the game'll be this weekend―albeit on Sunday―which doesn't give me much time.

But I've been very productive.

I've gotten the assault squad re-based. These guys predate my penchant for filling bases in with Excalibur and were a little unbalanced, standing as they are on one foot. So I put them on ( Read more... )

Updating my Dark Angels to 6th Edition freed up a lot of points. One of the things I spent them on was a defense line with an Icarus-pattern lascannon to give me some anti-aircraft capability. Last December I lucked out and found one of the old discontinued Imperial Strongpoint box sets at the Guardtower, but up until this point I'd only assembled ( Read more... )

John's invited me to dust off my Dark Angels and get in a game of Warhammer 40K soon. Not sure when but it's possibly this Saturday. Which means I need to do some emergency repair work on some of my DA miniatures, to get them gameworthy ( Read more... )

I'm having trouble deciding how to paint the Heldrake. I don't want to paint it in Word Bearer colors, because 1) it's not a member of the Legion, just an accompanying daemon, and 2) an entire army of red guys with silver trim would look boring ( Read more... )

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