Update and Rebranding!

Hello readers,

Just a quick heads-up to inform everyone of a slight change - Magnet Addict is now Stormcrow Hobbies. I'm still writing, converting and painting all of the stuff on here, the only thing that's changed is the name and URL.

In future news, I've decided to halt purchases (except of paint and hobby supplies) in the short term and tackle the mountain of unpainted additions to my Space Marine army over the summer, once I'm done with my second year of uni. Slated projects include another Tactical Squad, filling out my five-man Assault Squad, two more Drop Pods and a variety of First Company Veterans.

I'm excited to try out the new Citadel paints, and am going to attempt to post weekly updates/thoughts once I'm back in the swing of things.

The Return

Coming back to this blog after over a year away... mainly due to spending the fall, winter, and spring in Europe for my first year of uni.

Anyway, I find myself back at home in Canada for the foreseeable future, and getting right back into the hobby swing of things.

A bit of thinking and looking at my collection have prompted the following thoughts:

• I'm through with building armies around army lists. I want to collect and paint models I want to collect and paint and maybe even play with.


• My Space Marines will be my main gaming army. That means my other armies (Imperial Guard, Necrons, Eldar) are more free to focus on theme and showiness, and less on game legality.

Currently I am about to dive into a wave of plastic power armour, utilising the new Grey Knight plastics to bolster the Revilers' Librarium and First Company, as well as assembling the MkIII Marines I bought in England at Warhammer World. Also two more drop pods!

My other main hobby project at the moment is a set of Inquisitorial Henchmen, attached Inquisitor, and Rhino transport for my friend Jeff who recently started Grey Knights.

In the further future (all the grim darkness of it) I plan to pick up some Dark Eldar models because they're bloody amazing. But that will wait until a little while later, probably.

Watch this space for imminent pics of my current works in progress, taken with my slick (and thoroughly field tested) DSLR camera.

And trust me, there will be magnets. Oh, there will be.

The Sound Of Booted Feet

Well, I'm still here.

An excellent ski season and a particularly hectic period at school are drawing to a close, and the men and women of the 157th Aeshaettar Light Infantry are beginning to line up on my workbench. With excess Guardsmen drafted from my Vigilanti army, as well as more OOP Guardsmen bought on eBay, I've got a good foundation going - now I can lay into the massive pile of sprues and Forge World bitz bags I've assembled for the sole purpose of constructing my 1500 point all-infantry Imperial Guard army.

So, once I've settled back into a routine of free weekends... time to crack open a fresh bottle of plastic glue.

Magnetizing Space Hulk Termies - and some changes...

Howdy, folks, I'm back... in the midst of a busy grade 12 year, I've once again found time to devote to my beloved hobby. First off - a few changes 'round the blog. Having noticed that my hobby adventures have a tendency to turn magnetic, I've renamed the blog Magnet Addict - because I do love me some magnets. Preferably the rare-earth kind. I've also gotten bored of the rather plain "The Workbench". The blog can now be reached at http://magnetaddict.blogspot.com. And now, to the post! More fun with magnets - and Space Hulk Terminators!

So, a friend of mine and I split the Space Hulk box back in September when it was released - I got the Termies, and am currently holding on to the floor tiles and counters, he got the Genestealers. Now, I was just as excited at the prospect of including these beautiful Terminators in my Revilers army - so I promptly filed off all the obvious Blood Angels insignia. This, however, left me with the problem of basing. Simply gluing them to 40mm bases wouldn't do, because then they wouldn't fit next to each other on the Space Hulk board. My solution was to take two small rare earth magnets and put one in the terminator, and one in a blank 40mm base - like so.



This allows me to have them legally based for 40k, as well as maintaining the ease of movement for Space Hulk. The magnets fit flush to each other, and hold on well enough to stand up to the rigours of tabletop play.



That's one down - now I have the other eleven to base, and paint. They'll join the rest of my Revilers on the painting table. I hope to get most (if not all!) of them finished for the 28-29 of November, when my local(ish) GW is running a 500+ point escalation tournament, and a 1250 pt Planetstrike tourney - with a Fortress of Redemption up for grabs! So, back to painting - Tactical marines, Devastators, and a Termie Librarian... or two...

Until next time.

The Lights Are On...

...literally and figuratively, haha. On the one hand, I am still pluggin' away at my Revilers 3rd Company (however slowly), plus my dad's plugged some trippy new Christmas lights in in the living room!

There is a dearth of new pics at the mo, mostly cos my camera needs new batteries and I haven't charged any. :P

But, as a general "preview" of what to expect from the Workbench in the next little while....

• Work In Progress and Painting In Progress pics of my Revilers Librarian, Brother-Epistolary Lucius Orzora (affectionately known as the Kingslayer)
• More PIP Revilers of various denominations. I hearts me some Shadow Grey.
• My first attempt at scratchbuilt Drop Pods! Hopefully I can get out to Rona on the morrow to pick up the pop-up-sprinkler thingummies that I plan to base the scratches on... Unfortunately, they won't have opening doors, but they should be slick looking and cost effective!
• Lastly, my buddy (and fellow blogger) Big Boss is getting together an order from awesome online hobby store Bit Kingdom. I'm going to be ordering an arseload of Imperial Guard bitz... so the raising of the 124th Aeshaettar is nigh!

So, that's what to expect in the next little while. I'm off to go plug in my battery charger and drool over the online bit catalogues. Cheers!

Welcome

Hello, all, and welcome to my Workbench.

I plan to use this blog to show off minis & other projects from my Warhammer 40k armies. I've been playing/collecting for three years, and have so far managed to collect an army per year.

So, soon to grace the pixels of this blog will be pictures and info about my Lost Kestrel Tomb Fleet of Necrons, my Eldar of the A'rynnal Shardfleets, as well as WIP and PIP pics of my Revilers 3rd Company Space Marines (my newest army). Plus any other hobbyish goodness I come across.

Cheers, and enjoy the blog!