The blog

Hi to all readers. 

I am starting this blog to document my 40k related activities, mainly painting and modelling. I started collecting games workshop figures about 15 years ago, but I never really spent much time with the models and as a result the figures were all half finished and very poor quality. I gave it all up when I started college and sold all the models, but I picked up Dawn of War II a few years back on a steam sale and started hankering for some 40k action. After a bit of deliberation I settled on the Space Wolves, bought AOBR and set about creating a small force. 

Three years later, I am half way through my Ph.D and have just about finished 1500-2000 points of my Wolves. I am a pretty slow painter, hence the three years to get to 2000 points, and tend to stop for months at a time. However within the last few months I have made quite a bit of progress and have decided to add some Blood Angels as an allies force, although this "small" force keeps growing by the day. 

My painting skills are not exactly brilliant by any stretch but I enjoy it and keep trying to improve, one of my favourite parts of the hobby is modelling and I have nearly finished a custom Ragnar which was a fun build (and my first attempt at using green stuff). I also enjoy free hand painting, and am about 70% through a land raider with free hand murals. Once I have finished one more squad of Grey Hunters I will be stopping Space Wolves to concentrate on the Blood Angels, but I will probably add some more figures once the first cohort of Angels is sorted. 

I will be putting up some pictures and articles soon, so this is just a taster.