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This community is awesome - Episode 15

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Welcome back everyone  One thing that has always kept me in this game over the years is the awesome people that make up our community. I've made lifelong friends through this game, had hours of fun and helped support charity through organized events. The podcast and blog has given me opportunity to meet and interact with more awesome people, so thanks everyone who listens to us on NZ40Kabal, and for reading along.  This last two weeks has given me another couple of good examples of this. I've had a couple people reach out with offers of marines, Ben found some more (see below), and another mate is getting me a list and price for some more (will see what happens here). By far the highlight was the marines that turned up out of the blue in my mailbox.  Turns out, "southern correspondent" Gary had needed a break from his project, and decided to paint up some Doom legion. He then sent these down to me. He had done the main colors to match my scheme, and left the small det

Doug 3 -Return of the Doug - Episode 14

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Welcome back! Slight episode delay this week, as between a tournament and visit from my parents I didn't really achieve that much! I only really made progress in this last week and finished up with a mad rush yesterday. Let's dive in: Spending in advance   Before I dived into the Doug buy, I picked up a cheap buy of some hellblasters and intercessors from Trademe: Good old Doug reached out to me to let me know he was clearing out the last of his marines. Did I want any? Yes. Yes I did. I had a little left in my May budget, so this became a down payment, and I'll use June and a bit of July budget to pay the rest. Unfortunately this means no other purchases for a month or so, unless I can finish off the chaos and sell them. For my money I picked up: Chaplain on bike ATV 3 outriders Ravenwing command squad 20 intercessors  10 assault intercessors  5 terminators  2 dreadnoughts  On pick up Doug threw in a couple of first born and a rune priest he had floating around