W.I.P. Wednesday - The Big Mek is busy looting my Imperial Knights! I'm pleased with how everything is coming along. The Deff Dread was a tight fit... the other Knights might just get face plates. #Warhammer40k #waaagh #orks40k #orktober 

A couple of weeks ago, my buddy Kyle and I traveled to Wichita for the the 2025 Flying Monkey GT. I hurriedly painted my retro Blod Angels to the tournament minimum. I haven't done that in ages and, frankly, I was really disappointed in my presentation. I know a lot of gamers don't care for the crafting side of the hobby, but I take a lot of pride in my army, even if I'm not a great painter.  For the tournament, I didn't have a lot of practice games with the BAngels beforehand. I thought my experience with other Space Marines would carry me through, but I constantly forgot my rules, strats, etc and I was a little embarrassed and kept apologizing to my opponents. I won my first two games against Genestealer Cults and Dark Angels, but lost to Black Templars in the third round. In the fourth round, I ran into a World Eaters army and I didn't stand a chance against that list. I really don't know how a regular marine army can beat them... Then I lost to Chaos Knights...

I haven't played with my Imperial Knights in ages and I'm tempted to convert them into a looted Ork knight (use'n those 'ummie Knight rules.) I think they might look good in blue and rust... #Warhammer40k #imperialknights40k #imperialknights

This is my newly painted Callidus assassin, Mary Poppin-yourbackfield. She scores points. I hate that I have to play one of these to stay competitive. Yar.

The second model of my second company of 2nd Edition style Blood Angels is complete. Work has kept me from enjoying  hobby time lately but I was able to finish this Intercessor in my spare time. After posting this picture, I noticed how chunky the highlights on my chest aquila are and the other highlights don't pop very much.  #Warhammer40k #miniaturepainting #spacemarines40k #bloodangels #astartes 

I took the Ultramarines version of my homebrew chapter of Space Marines, the Rampant Lions, to an RTT this past weekend. I've been playing my orks a lot lately, and whilst I was a little rusty, I felt like it was my most competitive army to beat the, 'meta.' You can't go wrong with Guilliman and Marneus, right? My first game was against an Imperial Knights player who brought the net-list Knights army. I fared pretty well until turn 4 when the wheels fell off but I felt like I had played decently.. except that I was playing all of my lascannons as strength 9, not strength 12. I should of been wounding on 2s most of the time and I didn't realize that until the next game. I've been playing so long that lascannon strength was ingrained at the lower level and I felt like a fool. Oy. Also, I wished my opponent good luck before the game and he didn't say anything back. I thought that was weird and for some reason, that really chapped my hide. What kind of try-hard ...