Supplies.....

Well, I have been looking all over the internet trying to find the best brushes to use for painting.  The Citadel ones, while are great to use, as Joey can atest to, are a bit expensive it seems?  However, I am one who believes that you must pay for quality, and when it comes to this hobby I wan't to make sure I get my moneys worth!

So, in my quest to find the best price and best brushes I cam across the following website:

www.aswexpress.com

This website was recommended on a Warhmmer 40k board I was reading, they have LOTS of paint supplies, for good prices, including some excellent looking brushes.  I would recommend others to check this out and hopefully it will help you save money and get quality supplies for your Warhammer 40k hobby.

So much to build....

Well, the starter set I ordered finally came in!  I can't believe how many pieces are in it!  While Joey and his wife were busy painting I was busy trying to put my armies together to get a good look at them.  I was able to get most of the Ork army completed.  I still have two more Ork Choppas to complete, but then the entire Ork army will be done.  I also completed the 5 space marines that came in the Assault on Black Reach starter paint set.

This week I should be completeing the rest of the Ork army as well as all of the Space Marines.  Peraps we will be able to get a game in?  The problem we have right now is that it is so much fun just building and painting and planning the battle fields that actually playing the game is on the back burner!  We will get to it though, and when we do we will post the outcome on here.

Much better...

My wife and I decided to have another go at the painting. We did so much better this time around. She decided to do one of the Warhammer fantasy dwarfs and I still did one of my Heroquest models. This time, the barbarian.

These turned out so much better and my wife really did awesome with the dwarf despite the questionable paint job it had on earlier from the previous owner.

All this taught us one thing, paint everything before assembly, makes it much easier to get to those hard to reach pieces, sometimes impossible if already glued together! Of course, mine was one whole piece.

Practice makes...

I finally got to start painting while Ethan got to put together his Black Reach set. He will post pics on that soon.

Well, I first put primer on the models with black spray paint. I am still working on my technique. Will practice more on that later. Didn't take pics on that... drat, should of.

I got my painting done and even my wonderful Wife wanted to paint one so I gave her the Dwarf to do. It turned out really good. I really like the detail on the Ax and the belt buckle.

Awesome job!

Mine came out good. The zombie could use more work, I am more about the details but it is just practice and we are learning real quick.

Not too bad!

All those paints I got came in real handy.

It's finally here...

Ethan and I ordered some necessities! He got the Black Reach starter and Paint sets and I got the current rulebooks for Fantasy and 40K. It finally got to the house.

Lets get this going!

The motherload...

There is a reason to like today.

In my search for more Warhammer swag, I came across a Citadel case. I wanted one so I could store my paints and Macragge models as i work on them. Come to find out, the case came with a few extras! There is so much to list, you will have to see the photo to see. Paints, brushes, files, glues, WH elves and dwarfs still on the sprue, metal elves, extra clippers, extra books. you get the idea. Man, I even got it all cheap. Now I am not one for used paints, but that small detail is overlooked for this awesome find.

There is nothing stopping me from starting my painting now!!!

...and all I wanted was a case!

Run to the store...

I wanted to get the last color so I will have every paint I need to get started for what i actually have. While I was at the "nerd" store as my wife would call it, to get this paint, I found a few other helpful items. A vise to hold my models so my grubby hands wont get in the way, and a water pot. You might ask, why not use a cup? Well, this pot has groves to hold the different brush sizes into the water without it damaging the bristles.

Five dollars well spent? We will see.