Venturing into the Webway!

Welcome back to Something Wicked. After my last post on Friday detailing the list that I plan on working on I though I would now show you some of my WIP shots so far;

First or all lets have a look at the Jetbikes that I am working on. This is my first unit of 6 Windriders and includes 2 of the GW finecast Shuriken Cannon upgrade kits. Now I am going to go off on a tangent here because I frequently hear people harping on about finecast and complaining that it is terrible. This has not been my experience. These Shuriken Cannnons are, at first glance, flawless. Yes there is some flash that needs cleaning up, and mould lines will have to be removed but apart from the norm there are no actual failures of note. Here's a shot of some of my prepped pieces (some pieces get undercoated black, others get undercoated grey)- 

Once I got them built it was very easy to get them sprayed up and start airbrushing my basecoats on to them. I must say that even though these kits are quite old and dated they are still an absolute pleasure and definitely do not look out of place in the Eldar army also the fact that GW have just released the Shuriken Cannon upgrade pack in Finecast does not fill me with hope for new Jetbikes in the near future.

Unfortunately I ran out of time this weekend to sort everything out for this Blog entry and as such it is a little light. I will aim to get some better pictures up of everything I have achieved so far at some point to balance out the lack of pretty pictures in this entry.


I will leave you with this parting shot of some parts basecoated red!

That is all for now, I want to get this posted while I can!

Remember to check back in later in the week for another article.

I'm Back Baby!!!

Ok so I am finally trying to get things sorted and thought that immersing myself in the blogosphere might be the way to go.... So bear with me while I get this blog back up off the ground. So, to quote Bender Bending Rodriguez,

To start with what has changed... The answer to that is "pretty much everything" . The last few months have been hell for me and I have abandoned practically everything that I was working on before (most of everything is now packed away in boxes in storage). That being said I have recently found that my hobby has been a great outlet and a great way for me to deal with everything. With this in mind, the primary focus of upcoming posts will be the building of my brand new Eldar army. New Start = New Army. 

So where do I start? Well after my complete failure to make it to Blog Wars 5 (sorry guys, I was truly gutted by that!) let's start with my 500 point army list that I intend to start with as this will form the basis for my army that I will be taking to Blog Wars 6 in November. Oh yeah, important note, this army is for a tournament on the 2nd of November. So I have a few days over 4 months to get the army done. 1850 points in 4 months. That's only just over 450 points a month! Easy (if I later recant this I will buy the first person to mention it at Blog Wars 6 a pint!) so my 500 points for the coming month are;

Spiritseer (Plain and Basic)

5 Wraithguard (Wraithcannons)

Wave Serpent (Twin Scatter Laser, Shuriken Cannon & Holo Fields)

6 Windrider Jetbikes (2 Shuriken Cannons)

That all comes to just shy of 500 and is a legal army so I can start getting games under my belt. Stay tuned for more updates and to see how I get on!!! I will leave you with a picture of what I am working on at the minute.... 

First Squadron of Windrider Jetbikes, awaiting arrival of some Shuriken Cannon Kits

PS I also want to say thanks to all who have been so supportive recently, it truly has made such a difference for me. Cheers guys!