1. Actually play some games of 40k (the recent news that Firestorm Games will be opening their 3rd store in Swindon, with 20 gaming tables, should help makes this a lot easier…)
2. Can’t beat an ice-cold Coke. If it’s nippy  might swap out for a hot chocolate 😉
3. Oh, so much stuff:

• Books, comics & gaming fiction – The ongoing Vigilus narrative for 40k; Gaunt’s Ghosts: The Anarch; the Horus Heresy moving into The Solar War; Alistair Reynolds sequel to Revenger, Shadow Captain (arrived yesterday, will be reading today); the next Infinity lore book; Codex Primaris / Space Marines redux; Ann Leckie’s (author of the multiple award-winning Imperial Radch sequence) first fantasy novel,  The Raven Tower; more Battle Angel Alita: Mars Chronicle; DC’s The Wildstorm series by Warren Ellis & friends entering it’s back end; the return of Young Justice (1st issue hit Wednesday – it was great); I am oddly intrigued by Marvel’s Age of X-Man event, a neat-looking take on Age of Apocalypse (and yes, for at least a couple of months all of the X-books are getting re-titled just like back in AoA); Star Wars – the ongoing book is heading towards Empire Strikes Back, and the encroaching atmosphere of menace is just sublime.
• Films – well there’s a little  crop of films due in  the next few months by a small indie studio: Captain Marvel, Avengers Endgame, Spider-Man Far from Home & X-Men: Dark Phoenix; Alita Battle Angel; Star Wars Episode IX; Wonder Woman 1984;
• TV  – don’t tend to watch so much tv, but new seasons are incoming for My Hero Academia, Attack on Titan; The Mandalorian….

and my paint-stripping endeavors finally dried out so began rebuilding the Guard elements, and they came out pretty good:

And it suddenly occured to me just how comically OTT the Catachan Jungle Fighter plastics really are (not a complaint, I ****ing love this kit as it scratches my inner nerd need to have an excuse to quote 80’s action movie one-liners when gaming, and I’ve another 70+ to strip from my old army), especially compared to Space Marines.

Here, alongside a Space Marine Scout;

A MkIII Space Marine;

And, most epicly, one of these is the pinnacle of humanity, the most fearless defenders of The Imperium of Man, equipped with the finest arms & armour, the other is a Primaris Space Marine 😀