#WorkInProgress Painting up the Greater Good - Flamesword Battle General model kindly sent to me by Wargame Exclusive. I've had a lot of fun painting her so far, and I normally don't like painting Tau.
I can see why everyone recommended The Infinite And The Divine. Simultaneously poignant and funny and basically a buddy cop adventure starring two ancient ex-organic robots who hate each other.
The dynamic between Trazyn and Orikan is genuinely funny, especially when you have two unfathomably ancient figures like them fighting like children.
It's been so long since we Emperor's Children-fans got any good novels. Since I loved his short story, I am looking forward to "Lord of Excess" very much.
Let's hope it's not a total letdown (read: absolute shitshow) like "Genefather" was last year.
Fingers crossed! Short story was great. I am optimistic. Yes I am!
https://youtu.be/G1MZPJ_RnwQ?si=iRVDftACkoTZeXmc New video is up on YouTube. This week I have some fun with painting up an Imperial Guard Commissar inspired by Carl from Starship Troopers, with some How I Met Your Mother thrown in for good measure.
The titan's torso is assembled enough to get a glimpse at the final product and he's HUGE! For reference, the can of Zandri Dust spray primer is 7.75" tall and that chainsword is 14.75" long from tip of blade to bottom of powercell. This guy is a towering 22.5" tall and he doesn't even have his carapace armor, guns, or void shields on yet!
I was challenged to paint up a Tyranid inspired by the Xenomorph from Alien, I felt it needed something a bit more than just painting black and some drybrushing.
Irgendwie habe ich heute erstaunlich gute Laune und dachte mir, dass ich doch einfach mal die Skizze umsetzen kann, die ich vor zwei Tagen wiedergefunden habe.
Hier also der kleine DreadDog und mir fällt auch wieder ein, wieso ich den damals überhaupt gezeichnet habe! Und zwar war das, weil mir aufgefallen ist, wie süß die Dreadnoughts in Dawn of War 2 aussehen (so klein und rund) 😶 Deswegen auch die Farbgebung.
2024 Book 1: Utopia for Realists by Rutger Bregman.
Insightful but ultimately depressing because, despite #UBI seeming particularly realistic, it feels like we're even farther away from it ever happening at scale than when this first published in 2014. ☹️
2024 Book 10: Xenos (Eisenhorn: The Omnibus) by Dan Abnett
A brisk, surprisingly accessible read. It surely helped that I spent a few months exploring the setting before starting to read this, but Abnett deserves props for his storytelling skills. I'm looking forward to the rest of this brick, but will read something else between each novel.
The power fist was cast from the left hand with a repositioned thumb. You can swap the chaos star symbol with a heavy flamer or combi-bolter attachement.
I'm not one for "New Year's resolutions", but I am one for overly ambitious projects.
For 2023, Project365 is "One New Game Per Day".
Given that I have 634 unplayed games in my Steam account and {mumble} unredeemed bundle Steam keys, there's a reason my unplayed collection is tagged "Pile of Shame".
I'll pin this to my profile, and give a brief summary here each day (or x, if I miss x days due to work or stuff).
I'll play 15-30 minutes of (at least) one new game I've never played before (or played less than 15 minutes of). I'll give every game at least 15 minutes, even if I hate every minute of it.
I'm also open to suggestions; if you reply to this thread with a game, I'll schedule it, or tell you what I thought of it.
One of the things that's come up is that I have a bunch of games that I've played once, and not touched again.
March 6, 2024 - Day 431 - NewPlay Review
Total NewPlays: 466
Game: Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun
Platform: Xbox Game Pass PC
Released: May 23, 2023
Installed: Mar 6, 2024
Unplayed: 0d
Playtime: 33m
Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun is a retro FPS set in the Warhammer 40k universe. It feels like Doom-meets-Warhammer-with-mouseaim. It was added to XBGP this month, and so I decided to give it a shot.
Pun intended.
I think for someone who loves Warhammer, it would be awesome. However, I'm not a Warhammer girl, so clanking around in the armor, and killing everyone for Warhammer reasons just doesn't resonate with me.
In terms of gameplay, it's an OK retro FPS. The titular boltgun IS kind of fun, dealing high-speed accurate death to mobs half a map away, but it doesn't feel like enough to carry me through the whole game.