Lifesign

Ten days without a blog post? Yeah, sucks. It was a bunch of busy days, as I not only devoted lots of time to my usual life shenenigans (like University, work, birthday business, my GF working full-time at the moment leaving the household to me) but also supported (and keep supporting) the great Custodes Forums with some moderator work and technical/design-fu, plus general contributions. More on that in an upcoming post, as it definitely deserves its own entry over here. But drop by and register if you are curious what this cool new community of really great people is all about, besides being the meeting place for Deepstrike Radio's fanbase.

So, I'm basically dropping by to let the internets know that I had a hard time finding some air to breathe for the last week or so, but I'm still on it, and have big plans for a bright, shiny future or something.

In the meantime, here's a pic of one of the few things I actually have gotten done, and a harbinger of the things to come.

So, stay tuned, and enjoy your Thanksgiving holiday, if you celebrate such a thing.

"Pics or it didn't happen"

Doing nice, slow and easy progress. Master plan post yet to come. So, as a filler, I figured that a gallery of clean shots of the army about to be expanded would be fitting... just for completism's sake. Blogging is serious business, you know.

Ithmaril's Star Phantoms, in no particular order:

That would be all. Ithmaril, out.

Quick Newsflash

Just some quick notes today, as I'm really f'-in tired.

• Yay. I'm on BoLS. No, I'm not a fan on their comp articles and metagame approach, and I do see their influence on the internet scene in a critical light. But it's still my 40k morning newspaper and part of my coffee-smoking-reading-routine. So I am honored.Think about that what you want.
• Deepstrike Radio have released their third Episode. Listen to it. It's amazing. Can't kiss their ass enough. Drop the guys some comments, they really deserve even more attention for their hard work. More coverage on them will follow one of those days.
• I actually got in some hobby time today. There are results. Retro metal, newschool plastic, green stuff and magnets are involved. Those will be captured in pictures. Soon. Right now I'm just happy. Stay tuned.

That's it for today. See ya around.

Shameless Faltering and Plugging.

Yeah, so the fact that the whole internet besides me seems to have preview copies of IA9: The Badab War, part 1 got me nervous. Despite being not enthusiastic at all. Shut up, will ya? I is seriouz internets journalist! With a journal, and stuff! How dare they!

Joking aside, yeah, I commited to browsing the webs a little in search for some information on the Phantom's FW fluff, colors and chapter symbol. No luck so far. What I did instead was something that is incredibly rare for me these days. I downloaded a whole episode of a Podcast I haven't ever checked out yet, promising an extensive review of the book. Why that's special? It's special because since the departure of the original 40k Radio cast broke my heart, I didn't even catch up on the new one. Nope. I did check out Deepstrike Radio because I love the guys who do it. Listen to it, it's awesome, more on that in a seperate post. But they only have released 2 episodes as of yet, so it was easy to get into. But here I committed to 2 hours of listening of a podcast I've never tried yet, for the sake of possible information on my pet chapter of choice and how FW would ruin them for me. It was The Independent Characters, Episode 16.

click me, biatch.

At first, I though I'd skip around the file, looking for the info I wanted, and be done with it. But then, I ended up actually enjoying Carl's and Geoff's ramblings a lot- very sympathetic guys. Also, their coverage on the book was excellent in an unforseen way: After what they told me about the contents of the book, the nature of the fluff included, some spoilers concerning the story, and how FW generally approaches the whole conflict ... I feel hooked. I'm not too interested in the campaign rules section, but man, the story itself sounds awesome. It swept most of my "bwah, bwah, my scheme will be invalid"-butthurt right away when they explained how the Badab War unfolds in FWs version. And, being the visual person (/design whore) I am, I now really want to take a look. My scheme be damned, I want to read it now. Bad. Badab.

Dammit, they've gotten me so far that I'm actually already planning what to do about my army to fit in closer into the upcoming Badab War canon. Considering different approaches and stuff, depending on how far off I am. And I seriously consider buying the book now. I guess this means selling stuff on ebay again, but oh well. More on that in another post.

Forge World. Do you hear me? Pay those guys money. Hire them. I think they just sold me something I hated when I first heard about it.

Ithmaril, signing out.