The road to Fall In "Tau" part V

Wheels up for the states in 7 days. Crunch time.

A lot of eye strain going on here. Either I will go blind in the near future or my light totally sucks surf balls.

Also I must have used a different wash from last Feb?????? Maybe even a different blue. That is what you get for not writing shit down.

HMGS' Fall In registration is open

Sign up don't be left out!

NetEA tourney is saturday. There are limited spots. 

Update; just finished signing up. The epic tourney is not listed as an event. You should contact Kal.

Warmaster Weekends "miniature sources"

         Where to get the 10mm little bastards? Before creeping your way through each, it would be best to get an idea or list of what your planning. Me? hell no! I went straight to eBay. There was next to nothing on eBay for 10mm ancients. Next up was,

Old glory. 

         They were a staple for ACW 15s. I have been a member of their club as the need a raised. The deal there is 40% off for a year if you pay 50 beans. Depending on how much you order or how big your dreams are, it will work out. You need to order 7 packs to break even. Normally 100 dudes are 17 beans, membership get you 100 dudes at 10.20. 

Warstore    &     Pendraken

           You can get your Pendraken thru the Warstore and save on shipping. The Warstore has some issues getting Pendraken to full kit out orders. They also order once a month or so. You get 30 dudes for 7.30ish. They do have some interesting command options.
          Ordering directing from Pendraken is easier and comes in less than 2 weeks!

Magister Militum

          Here you are stuck ordering from England. Shipping will be high, as are the cost per dude. Yet they have the best line up of ancients with characters. You get 30 dudes for 5.8 pounds sterling whatever that is in dollars.

Eureka minis

They have dudes at 0.75 Aussie dollars each???

Steve Barber

Their dudes are 20 for 3.50 pounds. The line is limited in time scale.

NewLine Designs

         Their dudes are 30 for 4 pounds. Newline has sales from time to time. Some of my 20mm colonials come from them. They don't screw you with shipping and it is fast, less than a week from England.

Old Glory being the cheapest option. I will bulk out my armies with Old Glory. Then sprinkle in a few Pendraken and Magister and Newline Designs to break up the clone army look.

Basing options. 

ebay has plastic and plywood at 48 40x20 & 4 20mm circles for 5.99 pounds

Magister Militum has plastic at 50 for 5 pounds

Shogun Miniatures has 50 magnetic bases for 10 dollars. Metal bases are a little less and shipping is USPS flat rate.

I went with shogun minis for magnetic bases.

The road to Fall In part IV "Tau and IF"

Fall In is really two months away. Yet I am wheels up for the states in 11 days. I need to push painting whatever I can here. I don't want to bring too much back stateside with me. So If I can get away with 4-7 paints flying back and worth, thats ok.

Then there is our connecting flight. It goes thru Houston. Houston's airport is currently a lake. Earliest it opens for business is Saturday the 2nd? Maybe? Surely we won't be flying thru Houston, but United says "of course you will." No rescheduling yet.

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Some china forge termies. The Lysander dude is custom from the Italian. He will be getting a few old school termies to join him. The guys with him will get the black suits. The rest the yellow.

A detachment of Boarding marines. They also will get the blacker armor.

If I can not for some reason locate the Imperial Fists or is not ready to go, I will need a back up.

Tau units needed to completed the army. Plus a few more. One army is never ever truly finished.

Kroot.......well this idea is Dead in the Water. I have nearly enough Kroot for one Ocra. I want to fill up 3 Ocras.

6 More pump jacks from Wasteland Game Studio are in the works.

Road to Fall In "Objectives" part III

MIG weathering pigments and flock.

Little trees standing and damaged will be added once state side.

Sudan project "Highlanders" part VI

 Highlander group shot. Leaders, wounded, rally markers needed.

Yearly goal 700 painted for the Sudan project. 380 done. 23 more down. Another 320 required to reach the goal. The project goes on hold until I return from the states in November!

World Cup Volleyball

Well its over. The girls last game was against Argentina. Argentina took them 2-1. The last set was 33-31. I think they placed 8 over all with Italy taking the Cup.

       Sad to see everyone go. We were far too lucky to meet and host the families. Great people! The number of beers smacked down and asado eaten made more than one place's month.

After the last game we had one last meal with the families and players. Ice cream with the girls.