Truth is not very much hobby-related stuff has happened in the past 7 months. It's not that I haven't had the time to assemble some models and put a layer or two of paint on them. I just hadn't had enough motivation to start working on my Corsair force. I would blame me being fickle, the horror of owing too many skimmer models that scream for tender airbrush love and DE starting off with only 2/3 of the model range being available.
Okay, let's keep it fair. GW has managed to launch most of the remaining models and most of them look great, except for maybe the tunak-tunak style grotesques and the yeti-love warpbeasts. So right now DE are the single race in 40k that doesn't suffer from a bunch of "back from the 80/90ties" models and I think they beat everyone else hands down for having the best looking plastic models in the game. And I do own a brand new razorwing and 4 venom kits. So why am I not painting them?
I don't want to put all the blame on GW or turn this posting into a huge rant, but both the Finecast disaster and the increased amount of stupid background-raping and blatant rules&price-performance ratio didn't do much good for my 40k motivation. I'm not saying that GW killed it, but I can't say they did their best to make me wish breaking the "too much stuff to paint" wall that keeps me from getting my DE done.
First we had that funky "Blood Angels and Necrons are totally Super Secret Pony Princess Unicorn Best Friends Forever" article in the BA codex, which was way beyond silliness. And then GW launched GK. I really have no words for the "fluff"-part of that codex (not even starting with some of the rule choices M.Ward has made..I6 weapons for marines?). That is just bad quality management. The same kind of quality management we have seen with Finecast.
Yes, those new wracks look really nice. If you manage to get a undamaged blister. It's not that I couldn't afford buying them locally even with my limited students budget. Paying a premium price for a surely inferior product is a bad joke, esp. with all that crazy marketing line they tried to feed us. The next best thing after people landed on the moon? Sure, the moon has a lot of craters and so does the wrack pictures I have seen on the net. Not to mention that my small FLGS doesn't store them and I'm not willing to walk into a regular GW store and pay 26€ for a box of wracks. The boss of my gaming club ordered 3 kits of wracks from his local independent store and 13 out of 15 models were faulty. Imagine a high class restaurant serving a 4 course dinner with a 66% ratio of badly cooked dishes. Like the soup being way to salty or the fish being still raw inside.
But let's stop snowmobiling Games Workshop:
I'm not saying that I won't spend time working on my Dark Eldar army this year or even quit them. All I'm saying is that right now 40k stuff is taking the back-spot on my gluing&painting schedule. On top of that I decided to sell most of my Eldar models. The reason for that is quite simple:
1.) I don't see a reason to spend my free time playing with models that are not fun to use. The codex hasn't aged well. I'm not saying I can't win with them anymore, just saying that betting on my reserve rolls (or armor to hold) and then floating the objectives with skimmer hulls isn't my cup of tea anymore.
2.) I don't think that GW will release a new Eldar codex in the near future. Surely not this year, most likely not before ed6 hits the market. And nobody knows how ed6 will change the game. Could be that we see a new rise of footslogging armies, could be that skimmers get a huge boost. So I rather sell them now in a time where I live on a tight budget and risk that I may end up buying some of the stuff again somewhere in the distant future.
I already managed to get rid of nearly every eldar metal model except for the ugly ed2 avatar and Jain Zar. The big "Finecast" ruckus helped a lot. Sold ~60 metal models in less than 14 days w/o even making a loss. I intend to replace most of them with "count as" plastic conversions somewhere in the future, as long as they also fill a slot in my DE army. The emphasis is on the DE-aspect of the corsair theme, see no reason to spend time on converting and painting plastic Warp spiders until GW redoes the Eldar codex. Rather use that time on other tabletop games.
For example Warmachine: That's where I spend the money from the eldar sales on. Got myself a Cryx army and if I end up liking that system a lot, I can even imagine to build up a small Hordes army this fall/winter.
So in the near future this blog will evolve from a 40k centered one into one that features 3 different tabletop games. 40k, Dystopian Wars and Warma/Hordes. I plan to paint amy two DW starter fleets next month, which should be doable given the small size of the models and the fact that this is a pure gaming army, not to mention that I don't own a display cabinet anyway. The real focus is on Warmachine right now, but I keep that for another posting this week, showing you what I own so far and how I intend to base and paint those models.
Cheers, Karnstein
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