A quick trip to the shops…

Picked up a few items today at Good Games Gosford courtesy of Fro: some GW dice in black and bone (for the Tyranids); some OOP Citadel paints (Tanned Flesh x 2, Bronzed Flesh, Flesh wash and Red ink) for the Better Half’s Sisters of Battle and  Flames of War standard artillery template, and from Spotlight, some dress-making shears and a good circle cutter for my tree bases, rounded out with a few craftwood rectangular placemats and 90mm coasters for scenery pieces and basing samplers.

A pretty moderate haul in terms of expenditure but necessary (well apart from the dice cubes which were a partial extravagance). While I was at Good Games iIwatched a couple of 40K games – Black Templars versus bog-standard Marines, and the Black Templars once more against a very firepower driven Tau force (a “ninja” tau force I’d run up against before with my ‘nids) that wiped the BTs off the table to the last marine.

So while my Tyranids are definitely the only full army I will build  for 40K, I do have a reasonable selection of Marines and Orks courtesy of the Macragge and Black Reach boxed sets – these I intend to use to hone my skills at painting and basing larger figures. I’ll probably do a variation of the Black Templars scheme based on that of the historical Knights Templar and the Teutonic Knights just for something fun. I can’t see myself ever getting back into early medieval again, unless there are some really good value later crusades models around that I like the look of in 28mm.

Tomorrow I’m going to take some photos of my basic painting set up and the accumulated 15mm Fallschirmjäger that I’ve been promising to finish for the past 5 years. I managed to pick up a couple of boxed sets of the FJ company set recently along with a bunch of 7.5 cm GebG36 to provide artillery support. Between those recent additions and my already sizable FJ collection, I’m pretty much set for FJs apart from a fair amount of artillery crews that are still needed.

Pete