New Home!

So for a few reasons I have decided to move this blog to a new home.  So please update your feeds and your bookmarks to http://www.meanderingthedunesea.com

I hope you join me on the new site.

RSS Feed Added

I should have done this a while ago, but better late than never.  I now have an RSS feed available for this blog through FeedBurner.  Just click the little icon in the upper right and add it to your favorite RSS reader.  Enjoy!

Painting Update: Wave Serpent

The Wave Serpent body has been completely painted now and is getting a clear coat of matte varnish.  The highlights were added and the gem painted.  Now all that needs to be done is to add the canopy and glue the two sections together.  Next on my agenda is to complete a selection of weapons for the Serpents and start on a custom Autarch.

Painting Update: Wave Serpent

I did some more work on my latest Wave Serpent tonight.  I painted the fins with the yellow, giving a bascoat of Iyanden Darksun and then a couple coats of Sunburst Yellow.  It’s still a lengthy process painting the yellow, but it’s a lot better than going straight from black to yellow.  I also painted the gems with gunmetal silver, and did some of the highlighting on the turret.  Finally, I put some transfers on the side of the tank.  I’ve been meaning to do something similar with my other tanks, but never did.  I’d love to try my hand at more freehand designs, but I think that will wait until the Falcon.

Revenge of the Ultramarines

My friend and I got together again today for some Warhammer 40k.  We were both playing the same lists as last time, my with my Eldar and him with his Ultramarines.

The game started out in my favor with my Pathfinders epically destroying his Rhino with some very lucky 6’s.  My Walkers then took out the squad that popped out of the  Rhino.  My Harlequins were assaulted by his Assault Marines and held their own for a while.  On the next turn, my Dire Avengers jumped out of the Wave Serpent and destroyed another of his tactical squads, and my bikers shot up a few of another squad.  This is where I made a critical mistake.  For some reason I decided to assault the marines with the bikes.  Though they would win the initial assault, they got destroyed the following turn.

Turn three is where things really turned bad.  My bikes got killed in assault, his dreadnought assaulted my Dire Avengers and would tie them up for the rest of the game, and worst of all, his Terminators deepstruck in right between my Pathfinders Walkers and would make the game for him.

At the end of turn four, my Walkers were in combat with his terminators, my Avengers locked in with the Dreadnought and the Wave Serpent driving around aimlessly.  Everything else of mine was dead, so I conceded the game.

Overall, it was a good game.  I made some critical mistakes and my friend made some good moves.  This was his first win against me, so it’s nice to see the improvement.

What I’ve been up to…

It’s been a while.  I’ve had the last week and a half off from work, and I just haven’t made the time to post anything new.  I’ve been doing a lot of painting on my Eldar army.  There’s still a lot of work to do, especially since I just purchased a bunch more stuff.  It has been nice to get back into the swing of things, though I really need some better brushes.  Mine are in terrible condition.  I just posted a few pictures of the army up on my Flickr page, so if you look in the sidebar you can see them there.

I’ve also been playing a lot of Warhammer Online with my new guild.  It has been a lot of fun.  In fact, last night, my wife, some guildies and I went and did a low level dungeon that gave up minimal XP.  We did it just for the prospect of getting a silly title to wear on our characters.  No one in my old guild would have even thought of doing that, and it was a ton of fun.  I’m very glad I switched.  My wife and I are very close to hitting level 40, which will be a huge achievement for me, since I’ve never made it to the top level in any MMO game I’ve played.

As for the holidays, we spent some time with my family and had a great time.  It was great to see them all again, and can’t wait to see them again.

So to all of you, I hope you had a great Christmas and a happy new year.  See you in 2009!

Weekend Update

I did a little of everything this weekend.

I played a lot of Warhammer Online as always and managed to pick up another rank and a renown rank.  The renown rank was nice, as now I can wear the full Devastator set that I have.  I also managed to help my wife get to 30 and started doing some Tier 4 stuff with her.  The bad thing is that her computer lags badly in some of the T4 scenarios, which is weird since she didn’t have much problems in open RvR stuff with lots of players.

The rest of the weekend was spent playing with my son, making some Christmas presents with him and trying to get back into painting my Warhammer 40k figures.  Having a 2.5-year-old around makes that much more difficult as he wants to help.  I did give him a brush and a figure to paint, so now I have a very beautiful green/blue Necron warrior and a pink/black Dark Eldar.  I wasn’t able to get much done, but I was at least able to get some stuff started.

Happy Thanksgiving

I’d just like to wish everyone a happy Thanksgiving.

25 Annoying Things About Non-gamers « MadTix’s MadHouse

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America officially “working as intended” – Ta-Nehisi Coates

I just found this to be humorous, regardless of politics.

http://ta-nehisicoates.theatlantic.com/mt/mt-tb.cgi/37175

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