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Lockdown blues -episode 19

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Welcome back everyone.  Well here we are. For those who don't know, I live in New Zealand, when it comes to COVID, we don't fuck around. So when we found an unexplained community case we locked down hard. 2 weeks later we are up to 400+ cases and looking like another couple of  weeks of lockdown to go. This came at about the worst time for me personally (not that there is ever a good time), and I missed the last week in the office at my old job, my birthday, my holiday and looking like the first weeks at my new job will all be locked down. The pay off will hopefully be life back to normal in a few weeks, so it's worth it, but still sucks.  In this time I have had to work from home and have 2 small kids to look after, so haven't had a massive extra amount of extra hobby time, but that said I have been busy, let's take a look. From a purchase perspective, I went halves in a couple of lots with Phil, but it is all waiting for lockdown to be over to arrive. So I'll

800 club -episode 18

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Welcome back everyone!  It's been a busy few weeks in my personal life, I am changing jobs in a few weeks which is pretty exciting. The direct hobby impact is going to be an increase in my hobby budget. That's going to help move the last of the chapter purchases along. That's all happening in a few weeks time, let's take a look at the last two weeks! First up I picked up some primaris marines from my mate Phil. This consisted of: 15 hellblasters  5 assault intercessors  10 intercessors  3 outriders 10 infiltrators 4 eradicators  3 bladeguard This haul took me over the 800 marine count! I didn't get a proper group photo, but here are some individual shots: As a celebration for getting a new job, my wife let me spend a bit on the credit card, which took the form of a vanguard box: It's nice to make some progress into 10th company at last, and the models from Phil will mostly be converted to in