NZ40Kabal- the Doom Legion

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...

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 flo...

Hi everyone  Welcome back!  It's been a quieter couple of weeks on the painting front, but before I get to that some quick admin. Those of you who have been following from the start (thank you so much!) Would have seen that I came over from our old website which unfortunately lapsed and I lost all the content.  I have now uploaded the draft versions I had of that content and added what I think are most of the right photos. If you have recently started following along and want to catch up of the start of this journey you can now find them in the main blog with "repost" in the title.  My monthly budget has come in and has gone a couple of ways. First up I'm heading to a teams event next week. One of our team has Dark Angels, so I'll be using my harlequins. Quick update on how I go next time. Next up I went back to Aliexpress and picked up 200 32mm bases, enough to do a couple of companies worth of marines, I expect about a month for them to arrive. I have some budge...

Bikes and Bases -Episode 8 Hi everyone and welcome back It’s been a couple of weeks, and some progress has definitely happened! Bases One thing that had me a little nervous, was that as the chapter has been built, sprayed, and started to come together on the desk, is that the silver is very bright when en mass. Not a total surprise at all, and there are a couple of factors, one being that there is very little other colour, with most of the models unfinished, but the bases are also sprayed silver, adding to the mass of colour. Since my first 100 bases arrived, I decided to base up one of my tactical squads, to get an impression of what a finished squad will look like.  I believe that basing should compliment the model, it provides a frame, and is one of the main things that is seen when viewing the army. As always, I needed the bases to be mass produced easily, but it needed to balance out the silver. Silver, and black, two of the main army colours are very cold and harsh, so I want...

Enter the battlefield -episode 7 Hi everyone, welcome back! This is a small update from a marine perspective. Jan budget was already spent on the marines from Doug, so nothing much to report on that front. Some bases did show up, quick note on those, I'm going to be avoiding China forge for this army, but I did need something in the region of 500 bases. Turns out you can get those for 100 for $12nzd delivered from aliexpress. I got in a bag of 100 to test them out, and they are the same as GW ones. I will use these to upgrade the others in the next month or so. The alternative was $70 for 100. This month was pretty hard to resist buying. I had found a good number of deals I would like to buy, but as I need to wait until at least Feb for more budget I resisted.  For my hobby time there was a distraction from the marines. My mate Ben and I had been putting some time in over a few months pretty Xmas on some terrain. These couple of weeks we picked the project back up. We sprayed all t...

Lighting claws are coming to town -episode 5 Well Xmas has been and gone, I hope you all got to spend time with family and got time to relax. My general gift guide when I'm in the midst of a project (almost always), is to receive money from family, it becomes easier for everyone as it means they don't have to work out the GW catalog, and I get what I need.  Santa Ben  With some money in my hot little hand I went off to see my mate Ben again. This time we had decided to sort through his remaining marines, Ben would take what he wanted and I would take the rest. After a fun evening digging through piles of 40k stuff we had sorted into a 'Ben' and 'Mark' pile. At this point it became clear that Ben would have been a good way towards his own chapter if he hadn't decided to sell off his back log!  In the Mark pile was another 70 odd marines of various first born varieties including a collection of characters, a few tanks including a land raider and drop pods, and...

Chapter review- 2021 Happy new year everyone, and thanks everyone for reading so far. Its been exciting to see that there has been different readers from all over the world, I hope you're all enjoying the project and blog, feel free to leave a comment down the bottom and let me know your thoughts.  Review so far I thought I would kick off the year with an update on exactly where the project has got to. I have been slightly ahead than the blog, so this will get me right up to date for 2021: Purchases The cost so far has been $880 NZD. This has been my budget up to and including Jan 2021. This has got me 547 marines, and 5 vehicles taking the chapter to 51% complete. I am $420 ahead of my budget I had set for myself so far, which is about 4 months which is great. Here is the summary update by company: 4th, 5th and 7th companies all but done, and starting to get some progress on all of the others, with a long way to go on 1st, 2nd and 3rd in particular.  Assembly and painting...