To further row the failboat along, they then closed event signups three days after they opened them.  Further evidence comes from the fact that the game store just received the fliers for the convention today.  Yes, you heard me right. They sent out the advertisement material and it was delivered the day of the convention.  I could go into more details, such as the fact that there was hardly anyone at the convention today, the bullshit stuff that they did regarding comps that they said they were going to give away to last years event organizers, the fact that the convention wasn’t even setup today, or how most of the material for things wasn’t even there (such as the miniatures for the painting competition).  But I won’t.  Let’s just move the hell along.

For those of you who are wondering whatever happened with the orc painting series I was going to do last week it was unfortunately cancelled.  I ended up getting none of my models fully painted, and they still aren’t painted.  Yay for schoolwork and mid-terms interfering. The tournament went well though at least.  The last mission of the day was sort of a load of bullshit, but overall it was a fun event.  My little sister competed for the first time and ended up getting “Best Sportsmanship” which netted her $70.  Not bad for a first showing.

One last piece of news is that the Blood Angels codex is coming out.  I managed to get my hands on a copy of it and I posted a preview of it over on my youtube site. Video is at the bottom.  I am definitely interested in seeing how well the army plays, and seeing some of the new models that are coming out.  Shananana Ben is working on creating a Stormraven gunship and will be running some test games with the new codex so hopefully will be able to get some videos of that up soon.

I will also be doing a report on FailStorm over the course of the weekend, posting pictures, and may do a live broadcast from there several times.  If anyone is in the PDX area and attending, hit me up and lets get a game in or something.  I will probably be either wandering around, or wasting time playing Magic just to have something to do.

Anyway, in a further rash and misguided decision I decided that with a tournament only a few weeks away I was tired of Chaos and I wanted to switch it up.  Give everyone at the tourney a surprise.  They were use to me playing my Sex for the Blood God list.  Lets give them something they aren’t expecting.  Hell, and while I am at it maybe I can push some wins instead of constant draws against all these Space Marine players.  So I decided to sign up for the 1750 Tourney and  at the FLGS, then a 2000 pt tourney the next week at GameStorm 12 and run a Green Tide Army.

This means that for my 1750 list I would have 11 days to paint 132 models.   This means that every day I would need to get 12 models fully painted, washed, sealed, and based.  And to make it even more difficult my display board painted, converted, and finished.  All of this I would need to have done by the 20th, without taking any time off from work.  This would mean I would have approximately 2 – 3 hours every day that I could work on my models as I work 10 hour shifts.  Roughly an hour before work and an hour to two after work.   I can do it.  Suuuuure.

I will be posting pictures and progress as things go on.  No matter what I will play these damned green skinned bastards at the next tournament.  Whether or not I get full paint points which the tournaments tend to come down to for deciding the winner is another story.  But it should be an interesting experience with lots of me covered in paint and my hands glued to the table.

Also I wanted to let everyone know to check out a couple of videos that Chris the owner over at Knightfall just put up in the last day or two.  The first one is here, this one has the music that he asked me to make for his videos.  For my first time back at creating a track in two or three years I thought it turned out really well.   The second one is here.  This is a video that he made testing out his new camera featuring some of the models from my Chaos army and some really nice stop motion photography.  Definitely check them out.

Thought I would give a sneak peak of some of the things that are to come.  First off, more videos.  As you may have noticed there was a flood of new posts all with battle reports in them.  I was originally going to make a page and just slap them on there but that is to static, doesn’t send out notices to any of you people that actually care to subscribe, and a few other things.  This way you can also leave comments on them either here or on youtube.  Huzzah!

Next up is I plan on starting some videos in several different series.  Things like painting, converting, assembly, playing, explaining the rules, etc. are going to be the biggest ones.  I also plan on doing a question and answer series as well as possibly a series of articles and maybe accompanying videos on tactica. One of the big things that I want to do but I need to work out some of the details with people is videos of unboxing of some of the new swag and goodies that come out either before they are released or as soon as they hit shelves.  Give all you gibbering fanatics a chance to see what is in the box before you buy it, that sort of thing.

So if you guys have any ideas for videos, things you want to see, suggestions you want to make, or questions that you want answered send them in!  All feedback is more than welcome, and I promise not to make fun of anyone for anything they send in (unless you just want me to). Just drop them in the comments, send me a message or email, or use the contact form on here to send in your ideas/suggestions/questions/concerns/tips/tricks/lessons learned on the best way to hide dead hookers/whatever!

With that in mind I have added a gallery where I will be putting the pictures that I take of my miniatures, various other peoples miniatures, you when you are in your room and think no one is watching (oh, I’m watching.  Don’t worry), things like that.  I have also added a section for battle reports .  This is where you will find the gripping video capturing of my games of Warhammer 40K and other peoples down at Knightfall Games (or on the rare occasion I go somewhere else those videos too), and occasionally other peoples battles if they look to be more interesting than me loosing.

I also plan to start posting more as is probably obvious by two whole posts already this year.  I will be doing articles on painting, modeling, and playing what else but Warhammer 40K (and maybe other stuff to if I get bored).  I am still slowly trying to redesign the layout of the site but I suck at making the pretty.  Damn it Jim, I’m a programmer not some mouth breathing mac user in the colored pencil department.

So for those of you I haven’t offended yet, check back again later.  I’m sure at some point I will manage it.  For those of you that I have, it’s okay.  We all knew eventually you would find a dictionary and look up what all those big angry letters mean.  It had to happen sooner or later.