Birthday goodies for me today :D

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So, I actually gotten some awesome presents. The awesome album that I waited for so long even before it was officially release: Breaking Benjamin: Dark before Dawn.

I too got this 3 cute little clone figures. It was just sad that it was originally 5 but 2 were already sold out, the blue one and the plain one.

I too got this scout trooper with speeder bike. Totally awesome set. I would build this up once I finally finish packing my room.

I got this 5 men devastators with all missile launchers. Totally awesome. This 5 men was second hand, and I bought this specially for myself. :D

I too got 2 awesome books, D&D Legend of Drizzt series Homeland and the Crystal Shard, because I already have the 2 books in between.

Today's project was also a great success. We did like 3 failed attempts came up with over 10 ideas and finally got this done. It was not as awesome as we wanted it to be, but it still works, totally awesome still.

So that's all for my birthday today :D Its almost exams but that means holidays are coming and that means I can finally finish up my fire hawks. Look out for them, woohoo!!!!!

Winters

Edit: I forgot to add the title for this post xD

So its been a while since I last posted on my blog. So I thought that I would just post about this. 

I managed to find this battlefleet gothic ship papercraft through papercraftsquare. You should be able to find this if you look through the pages one by one after you search the keyword Warhammer 40k in the website. This is totally awesome as these ships are all expensive and I do not have any intention yet to throw my all into getting one of these ships.

Another thing I got was this 3 Despicable Me tiny little minions that I found was really cute. These minions are one of the last, so I had to make a quick decision and buy it. It was really a good buy and I have no regrets.

So that's about it in this post. A new term, a new beginning, a new fight. See you all soon!

Winters

I'm back with more!!!!!!!!!

Hey all, been a long long LONG time since I last posted on this blog, Sorry about that. My new semester term have just started and have been busy catching up with work. But now I'm sick, down with a flu, giving me ample time to consolidate my hobby :D

At a very perfect timing, two of my online orders came together, the first being from Games Workshop and the other from Amazon.

This is what I had bought from Games Workshop. I am starting to build up my Vostroyan Firstborn, the guard army that have dragged me into this hobby in almost 2-3 years ago. How time flies.

Besides ordering these stuff, Games Workshop too gave me a Mechanicum poster and also a Mechanicum cog wheel pin. Thank you Games Workshop. Sadly during my opening of the box, my knife was too sharp and now both the poster and the order sheet above it cut from top to bottom. But no worries, as a Warhammer 40k big fan, I would do my best to  restore it to its former glory.

The order from Amazon is a out of production book that I have been unable to find from anywhere near me. It is the omnibus for the Bretonnian knights. What took me to liking Bretonnians was actually just an accidental idea on trying to make rough riders for my Guard. Furthermore, I got myself the Bretonnian book Knight of the Realm at a great sale. Hence the story and miniatures got me into liking them. Since I did not like e-books, I got it on Amazon. It is pretty worn down but still readable and a condition that I can accept. It too has the old book smell, the smell of a book that has been on the shelf for ages ( trust me, I know how a book smell ).

So that's all for this post, just a really small update on what I would be working on until my next blog post is up. See you guys later! :D

Winters

Blog Update #1

So in the midst of all my examinations and have some free time up that I could not dedicate too fully to any projects I am on, I thought I'd use the time for some blog update. If you have been following my blog, you would have seen that I have been changing some stuff from the blog here and there.

Today, I announce that my first blog update is finally completed and it allows you to navigate the pages much easier. There are links to pages at the top of the blog homepage to allow you to navigate my whole range of post based on their main label, such as conversions, painting, Star Wars, and a few more. This would allow you to visit the page which you are interested in and view for updates, rather than having a need to read through all the post at the homepage.

So that's all for my very first blog update, hope you guys like it. Do give me some comments on how I could further improve it to better suit your you guys viewing my blog. Thank you and I would see you soon.


Winters

For far too long

Sorry guys, have been too caught up of late through the few months with all the examinations rolling in and also all the festival preparation all that.

Probably one of the thing I spent my time mostly on would actually be a game that downloaded under pressure from my friend. This game is called League of Legends. Guess many of you would have heard of it. I wasn't really addicted to the game, rather I was playing with my friends most of my time.

I have this friend that always said I wouldn't play well and always wanted me to do better. So I played many different champions. Right now after quite a lot of hard work on that game, I have beaten him in the game and he could no longer blame me for losing that game. Therefore here I am back to writing posts for you guys.

So I thought I wanted to update you on the upcoming stuff that I would be posting, though my finals are coming. I finished one mortar team and wanted you guys to check it out, give me some comments and criticism, right after I get home.

I am also re-working on my Imperial Fists as I couldn't get a nice yellow and have been striping the paint over and over again. But I think I finally got the color that I like, not too dark and not too bright. The paints on it might be edgy when I show you guys the picture but it is mostly due to stripping of the paint far too many times and also the drying up of my yellow.

I guess that's about all I have for now. Once again, I apologize for being missing for well over 3 months. But I am back, so have no worries!


Winters

eBay buy arrived!

My eBay order came in a few days ago, but I wasn't home to collect, so I have to make a trip down to the post office. Thankfully my dad helped me get it and thus here I am showing what I have gotten.

The package came as a small cardboard box. The miniatures were bubble wrapped and placed in the middle of some kind of soft cotton.

As follows, at the right is Captain Romero. From the left top to bottom is Catachan Jungle fighter with meltagun, trooper black and eversor assassin respectively.

These were great buys and it was in my deep regret that I have not gotten more of these miniatures. All I have to do is hope for the best till my next birthday, or hopefully get some by Christmas. 

See you all soon!

Winters

Back after so long!

Sorry all for not posting for so long, have been quite busy through the month. So hopefully you guys are still with me.

Cutting to the chase, here's the Imperial Fists Terminator with his base almost complete. Yes, I found a suitable flooring for my terminator base. So all that's left for this guy is some touch up on the yellow and also painting up the base. Hopefully I could finish it this week or once my exams finish after August.

Though busy I may be, I still managed to find time to go down to my local hobby store to pick up this cool box! STORMCLAW! I had it reserved a week before it's release and about 2 - 3 days ago I picked it up the day it was released. Hope to open it up soon but I guess as always, exams are more important.

I had finally decided to strip the paint off my Imperial Fist space marine, 3 of them, one fully painted, one partially painted and one only primed. As you can see the fully painted one did not really come off much, though I am quite happy with the results. As a second time, I guess it is already pretty good. All I did was to soak it in dettol for an entire week and begin scrubbing it off for half a day. Tiring work I must say. The partially painted one fared better, since there was no varnish over it, unlike the other marine. The primed one seems to be the one that have not been affected at all, being same as before it went into the dettol. That's one strong primer I got there!

I plan to apint these guys blood ravens now, so we will see how that goes!

That's all for today, hope you guys enjoy this post. nothing much but there will be a great amount of time spent on my hobby seen. See you all later!

Winters

A lucky drop to the shop

So school have started and test dates are already beginning to surface and show themselves. But I still managed to find time to get What I want.

I managed to get my hands on the last novel for The Macharian Crusade trilogy. Now I can officially start reading the trilogy. And if you are wondering, well I usually prefer to start at the first novel and go all the way throughout the series without stopping unless the stories are able to be read alone such as some of the Horus Heresy novels. This was the last book, luckily I managed to get it or it would be a big trouble to get my hands on it.

The second thing I got was a pack of 4 boyz. Now I only need 3 more boxes of these to make myself 20 boyz. A slow collection but worthwhile, since I am planning to paint slowly for this one and stop myself from buying too much at a go. I also got Biel-tan green to prepare the painting schedules, which starts off once the holiday starts!!

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So what have you guys been doing these days. Share your hobby stories!!!!!

Winters

More goodiness added!

Too long away from the hobby does not stop me from it. So here's a list of what I have been doing for the past few days.

I bought the Warhammer Visions at a low cost at a hardware store. I at first did not wanted to buy it because of the price, but I looked at the price and man the price was too good to miss. Though they are about a month late, but the price is worth.

I am starting to like this book, especially the Golden Demon Award pictures. Those miniatures are painted so well that my army looks like a part od it's shadow only.

Next, I have been working on the Prospero Burns novel of the Horus Heresy series. It has a very cool story line and the more I read it, the more I start to like the wolves.

I finished my Imperial Fists terminator a while back but what caught my attention was the colour difference between the normal marine and the terminator. The colours are obviously way apart although I used the same yellow. I am going to figure that part out. In the mean time, The pictures of the terminator. Time to think of an awesome base for it!

(front)

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(back)

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See y'all soon!

Winters

Finally back after so long!

Sorry guys, was kind of busy of the past few days (or weeks, I can't remember). Was caught in examinations and camps. But fear not, for Winters is finally back with awesome new awesome posts!

First up, I am working on the terminators with the thunderhammer and storm shield. These guys are sort of like the test specimens for my colour scheme to the ultimate final terminator, Darnath Lysander himself. Which in other words, these are going to be Imperial Fists termies and I am going to work on them soon.

Forgive my poor priming. I was working on a new way of spraying the primer on and failed badly. These are already considered the best of the group. (Looks at the marines and sighs)

As you can see, I have some chaos terminators too. Those guys are for the later parts of an upcoming project right after I finish Lysander and his team.

Coming back to the Guards, I have also primed my Officio Perfectus Commissar, not too bad a priming, but still a little damaged. Sigh. Ah well, I will see what I can do about it. I have also done an unboxing video for it. I hope I can get it up to youtube soon once I am done looking through it again. Yes, again. Hearing it makes me laugh, I was so nervous when I did the unboxing. So when the video is up on youtube, try not to laugh.

That's all in today's news. I have already done my shopping for paints, so I should be able to finish up my Imperial Fists in the coming days. See you all later!

Winters

Astra Militarum Updates #3

Remember from this post: http://the-last-season.blogspot.sg/2014/05/astra-militarum-updates-2.html that I have said that I would probably regret not getting the 2/2 web exclusive miniature? (Or was it the next post) Sidetrack a bit, check out that post to view what I got with the 1/2 web exclusive miniature.

Back to topic, I finally got my hands on this 2/2 web exclusive miniature. As a collector, I could not hold myself back from buying this miniature. The parcel juts arrived yesterday and I was pretty happy. Though tired, I still managed to open and have a look at it. Adrenaline from excitement gave me fresh strength.

Why would I just specially ship this exclusive miniature when I can still order other things. Hence, the first thing that came to my mind was this Commissar (Yes, it is another Commissar). For loyal follwers who have read my previous posts, I have been getting quite some Commissars. But this was one of my favourite. Unlike all those Commissars fighting in the thick of the battle, this one reads from a book, giving the men fresh strength to smash the foes of the Emperor. The raised powerfist looks like is is about to crush the enemy's head but yet never faltering in reading on, boosting moral.

Last thing that came with the parcel is Captain Darnath Lysander. I am currently also working on my Imperial Fists 3rd Company. So this is a great boost to my armour. Plus I had my eye on this model for quite some time but never got down to buy it as it was now in finecast. Knowing my chances for buying a metal one is slim and probably way over budget, I decided to just settle in for the finecast one. The first thing that came to my mind when I say it was "Look at those details". Which is a fact. There are so many small details that I am really glad I got it.

In other news, I finally put myself down to work on this chaos cultist from the 5 men box set. I painted him as I needed a techpriest for my armour unit and he is the most suitable choice. I wonder why I always never bought the actual model from the Games Workshop site, but that is probably because I always missed him when looking through what I want. Time to mark the techpriest on the to buy list!

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(Rear)

In some more exciting news, I made a Leman Russ Vanquisher out of unwanted sprues.

Why you ask? Well, two reasons. First being that I have too many unwanted sprues lying around that I really want to get rid off. Though they make good bases for the miniatures, but do I really need that mush sprues?

Secondly, My army lacks a vanquisher and with the new release Astra Militarum with the tank commander as a HQ, I find a vanquisher a suitable fir for him. Hence I got down to build it.

The turret is rotatable but only till about 150 degrees facing the front, since the sprues are all uneven and it is really a miracle it can turn. 

I had a heavy bolter mounted front sponson made from unwanted sprues too. No side sponsons as I don't want too much points on one Russ, but with the improvement of the points cost for every Russ, sponsons may be one of the things I want to add in my army when I have point to spare. I don't want to have too many big points vehicle lumbering around and drawing attention too much.

I left the sides and part of the rear empty so that when there is a need for me to add more things or to support the structure (which is unlikely), I would be able to do so with ease. Better than me cutting the entire thing apart just to add more sprues to it.

That's all for today's post. Do let me know your views on this Leman Russ that I did. Leave any suggestion if you have. Also let me know what kind of things you hope to see in this blog more often (Videos is something to look forward to at maybe around June).

Winters

A buy from the past!

Got all this from an awesome guy named Steven. He got all these out of production stuff that I actually wanted to collect and paint them up. Sadly I missed some pretty awesome stuff like the all metal landspeeders and the chaplain on bike. But I managed to get my hand on some items:

This is an overview of what I got from him. The ultramaines and death company(red one) box set is from 1993 and the honour guards and the other death company box from 1998. Look at those dates!

Within the ultramarine squad is 10 metal bodies of the marines and metal space marines. Though the arms are missing, I should be able to get my hands on some of them soon. Not a bad buy, since I love metal models and this is a pretty awesome collectible item that is already OOP for a long time.

The blood angels honour guard is actually just plastic assault marines. But what is so special about them is that it contains metal parts for you to build an assault marine that is an apothecary, a veteran sergeant with power sword, a techmarine (Yes, it includes and axe with the mechanicum sign too), a standard bearer and also a plasma gun guy.

These death company guys are the awesome ones. They are mostly metal with cool poses, plus two chaplains. The best part is one of the chaplain is Lemartes, an awesome guy. The poses of some of these guys are very nice and have the combat feel in it.

Last but not least is the Mephiston and Iron Priest (It is the Iron Priest as it is what is said at it's base tab. Plus the date printed behind was 'C GW1992') A great buy along with two awesome bits. Mephiston actually comes with the sword but I somehow missed it from this picture.

All in all, for the cost of $140, I think this is an awesome buy. I don't know why Games Workshop stop production of these awesome kits now. They should bring them back. I had some friends giving up this hobby because the models and rules are now worse than what they used to be. But I guess I have no say in this except to give my humble opinion: Bring back those kits that are really cool from the past.

That's all for today. Hopefully I can finish building them up and start painting them. But I guess the majority of this project will most likely be done during the term break, since my examination is already nearing and I have to start my revision.

See you all in the next post! 

Winters

Loads more goodiness!

So I took the time today afternoon to head down to my local gamestore to collect back my Valhallan Ice Warrior that I have submitted for the painting competition. But after seeing some cool stuff there, I could not help but started picking up things to buy.

I bought the packet of round bases, since I am working on scratch building and I have a shortage of bases. Guess what! What I also bought was the Commissar book which I could not hold back to buy. Also got myself the Gehenna's Gold paint to slowly stock up the colour for my Custodes that I am working on if you have looked at the previous few posts. This puts my paint count for the armour to become 2 of 6.

I also met up if a guy to buy some second hand stuff from him: I bought 11 plague marines with a mix of metal, plastic and forgeworld resin pieces. One of which have both his arms gone but I believe it can be glued back, one is also a Plasma Gun. Love what he did with the marine backpacks, replacing it with skulls.

Look at those details!

I also got a Grey Knight Terminator from him which was pretty cool. I was actually thinking of converting a Kaldar Draigo but decided this guy is just too nice to be converted, so I shall just leave him as it is.

Last but not least my Valhallan Ice Warrior. I was super proud of him. Though I did not win any prize with him, I still felt that he have already did his best.

To mark off the end of this post, a look on a pre-glueing step where I fit the model together to see how it would look like first so I will not make any mistakes while glueing him together.

Winters

Astra Militarum Updates #2

After a long day of school an dhaving dinner at around 8 pm, I was pretty tired. I was planning to turn in tonight early but guess what I saw when I got home!?

The package that I have ordered approximately almost two weeks ago have arrived! Yay!

Now this have got me pretty high now and I don't think I would be able to sleep from the adrenaline rush I got when I saw this package left at my doorstep.

First off, I bought myself the new plastic ogryns, which I am pretty excited about opening very very soon. Also I got the book about Yarrick. The new one which features him young. I sort of start liking commissars and their story after the Ciaphas Cain novels.

Speaking of Commissars, I have also bought myself this awesome guy to add into my collection!

I also got myself this Audio Drama about Ciaphas Cain too! So much Commissar goodness! Love it!

Last but not least, also one of the reason I ordered online was for this web exclusive miniature space marine captain. It comes with a classified envelope that I have yet to open as I was afraid of damaging. The first thing that really caught my attention for this miniature was the details on it. The more I see it, the more I like it. Hopefully I get to paint it soon!

So that's all for today, get ready for some unboxing goodness that will come to you soon at this blog!

Winters