Wednesday, December 26, 2012

Hobby pledge 2013 - The Goodwin Project!

Ok, well I made a hobby pledge back at the end of 2011 for the year 2012 to paint and make some miniatures. Expanding my tau, entering golden daemon etc etc. And well, I didn't achieve any of them! So this year I'm going to keep it simple, veeery simple!

My hobby pledge for 2013 is to reproduce my first 40k army from when I was 13. It was an eldar aspect warrior army of the biel-tan craft world! Now as i will be away for 8 months of the year this pledge is to start the army in 2013 and finish sometime 2014!

I will call it the Goodwin project! (All being Jes Goodwin sculpts of course)

Now this isn't simply just popping into my local hobby centre or retailer and buying the latest models available. Nope! I'm literally using the same models that I used when I was 13! All classic 1980-1990's full metal eldar miniatures! Stripped down to the bare metal and repainted, not just any paint job though. Each with a paint job worthy of display standard within the current style of 2012/13.
Though not all of models are there, it has been 14 years and I may have mislaid some or sold them on for one reason or another! So I've got to track down a few on eBay or asking about the gaming community.


I managed to locate some dire avengers, the classic pointing farseer, eldrad was available and i owned them both but theres a guilty pleasure in me that really loves the pointing farseer over eldrad. A squad of howling banshees, rangers and 2 wraithlords from my original army.
And I've managed to acquire on eBay a few fire dragons, some dark reapers and some striking scorpions, donations from an old friend in the form of some swooping hawks.
So in a matter of 3/4 days I've pretty much accumulated all I need. Not bad going I think!

Now this isn't going to be a tournament winning host but a display piece project, nothing saying that I wouldn't take it to a Throne or Skulls or 2. So you may notice the list may not actually work well, in some people's eyes anyway!

But the list will be as follows...

Farseer with all the works
Karandras

2 x 5 strong Dire Avanger squads
5 strong Pathfinder squad

5 strong Banshee squad
5 strong Scorpion squad
5 strong fire dragon squad
5 strong swooping hawk squad

1x wraithlord (I didn't fancy 2 as its a bit cheesy and I didn't  want a duplicate model running around. Dire avengers are ok as they aren't one large centre piece model that's the same as the other, plus I can do something special with just one wraithlord!)
4 strong dark reaper squad ( couldn't quite scrape together the points for 5)

This makes a tidied 1500 pts, ill do a detailed army list at another date for those that want.

A bit of everything to keep it looking fresh and unique, rather than a large monotone bore as you repeat the colours over and over. Plus it keeps me entertained painting a new unit each time!


Photos to follow as I make more progress...






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