Tomorrow is pay day

Well tomorrow is pay day and barring anything extraordinary I should be heading over to my favorite game place after work. I am pretty sure that I am going to be able to afford TSHFT later in the month so this weekend my hobby time is going to be spent painting miniatures. The army that I am currently planning will include 81 standing Ultramarines with no vehicles. I am hoping the sheer mass of marines and their 3+ will be enough to hold objectives and make a play for a winning objective late in the game. I have a strategy mapped out that a GT winner laid out as advice to me awhile back and I am going to attempt to use the strategy at the tournament. I am not a good player. I have a terrible memory for rules and I often forget to do things that others would not when playing the game. I am hoping to overcome that somehow for the tournament.

I painted the insignia on some of the fourth squad I am going to be bringing to the tournament if I go. I am not good with insignia. I never get the U's just right. I am seriously thinking about investing in some of those shoulder pads that GW has out for the Ultramarines so that I don't have to do it anymore. I am also thinking about molding my own so that I can just put them on the pads instead of painting them. They make both the Ultramarine symbol and tactical squad symbols. I hope they make some symbols for fast attack and devastators someday. I really should just sculp some of my own though.

I am still looking for that darn Marneus Calgar sword bit. A guy overseas said he had one but he wanted Eldar Vypers and such for them which I do not own. I started an Eldar army a while back and it just kind of died. I would like to get back to that some day. I think the models are cool. Speaking of other projects as soon as TSHFT is in the books I am going to start painting my orc and goblin army for fantasy. I want to get 500 pts up and done so that I can get some practice games in. I want to paint my Grimgor so bad but I have to have priorities. I really want to bring a fully painted and based army to TSHFT. I might have the ugliest army there but I will be happy if at least it is fully painted. I am counting on 81 fully painted and based minis on the board looking pretty good.

Tomorrow I am going to post some more pics and if I can I am going to try to find some pics of the new Imperial Gaurd if I can find them. Gaurd is an army I have wanted to play for some time but it is a toss up between them and Eldar right now. I am definitely looking forward to the codex as there seems to be a lot of exctiement about it. I want to do a post or to on how I think GW manufactures excitement for their games. It will all be theory but it might be interesting to some of you and good for a laugh to others. Well that's all for today. I will post some pics tomorrow so if you read this regular come back then. Thanks.