Hi guys.
Apologies for not engaging with the Weekender thread sooner. Let’s just say my working week took a nosedive into guano-town and it was best for everyone if I just disconnected for a bit to recharge. But hey, feeling if not better then at leas table to engage with the human race on a functional level 😀

To answer @mage @evilstu ‘s questions:
1) I’ll be honest, whilst i skim over the projects I normally don;t have time to go through them properly, and that’s a real shame. likewise I know my Gunpla build thread hasn’t had any updating in a few months and I could post reams of material regarding my Infinity or 40K projects, it’s just finding time as most weeknights I’m struggling to keep up to date on everything else thats going on >_<
2) ’nuff said

3) So long as you are enjoying your hobby, and not causing harm to anyone, other peoples opinions are just that. You do what you do.

And hobby? Well my copy of Codex Space Wolves arrived Saturday, 24 hours after ordering from Goblin Gaming so fair shout there, and whilst there was nothing ground-breaking what was there has given me some ideas:

This chap that I kit-bashed last weekend? Turns out he has the exact wargear for a Company Champion, and I’m oddly enamoured of the idea of having him tag-teamed up with Ragnar Blackmane for character and troop-slaying shenanigans. Maybe hide them in a blob of Blood Claws for extra spiceyness?

Built another 5 Grey Hunters, to bring this pack up to a full 10, and there are parts in here from (I think) 7 different Space Marine kits going right back to the first 3rd Edition plastics…

Gave that lone Heavy Bolter-wielding Long Fang some buddies. I think this takes me to 16 long Fangs in total across three packs? I wonder how mean it would be to drop 8 Multi-Meltas or 8 Heavy Bolters (or some combination)  in a single Drop Pod? Especially using the Stratagem that ignores the -1 penalty for moving for long Fangs….

Oh, and found parts to build 5 more  Sky Claws, so I could now field a full pack of 10 raving lunatics. Debating whether to convert up a Wolf Priest to keep them in line 🙂

I believe that this brings my Space Wolf  Blackmane Great Company to:

• Ragnar Blackmane
• Njall Stormcaller
• Rune Priest
• Wolf Priest
• 2 Wolf Guard Battle Leaders
• 1 Wolf Guard Ancient Standard Bearer
• 1 Company Champion
• 1 Relic Contemptor Dreadnought
• 1 Iron Priest
• 10 Wolf Guard Terminators
• 10 Wolf Guard
• 10 Wolf Scouts
• 20 Blood Claws
• 42 Grey Hunters
• 16 long Fangs
• 10 Sky Claws
• 12 Fenrisian Wolves
• 5 Drop Pods (I wish these had some rule that over rode the “can’t deploy within 9 inches of enemy models” rule. It’s the whole POINT of a drop pod that they do this…)

That’s a good core right?

Otherwise? bit of an odd weekend – had the latest mass  market paperback from the Horus Heresy series arrive Saturday (Garro) and tore through it. I’d listened to the audio-drama versions of the first few stories gathered within, but James Swallow adding some material back in for print versions, and the stories I hadn’t seen or listened to before were superb at showing Nathaniel Garro’s journey. I look forward to the final book of the HH series (The Buried Dagger) where we will  apparently get to Mortarion and the Death Guard’s fall to Nurgle, and Garro’s reckoning with his Primarch & former Legion (then the 50+ Horus Heresy series  gives way to The Siege of Terra… jeebus, I  started reading these over a decade ago and thought it’d be a short series…).

Oh, and finished listening to the Audible version of Carl Sagan’s Cosmos, read by LeVar Burton. A fantastic book, and even 30 years later Sagan’s enthusiasm and talent shines through. I’ve got Pale Blue Dot to listen to at some point and can’t wait, but am sorely tempted to rewatch Neil DeGrasse Tysons take on the tv series this was a companion to from a couple of years ago.