Posted

Mar 4th 2007

Music

Dethklok - Thunderhorse

So, results. For those of you who didn't know, I attended the Grand Tournament at the Adventurer's Guild back in January. I was about middle of the pack with everything except painting. I took second place for army presentation with my Star Foxes. Normally I'd be pretty pleased with this, except the guy who beat me only had about a dozen foot models, compared to my about sixty. Most of his army were vehicles, and while yes, they looked good, they really couldn't compare with my guys. I have a sneaking suspition that the judges didn't actually get down and look at the details. If you were to put his Chaplain and mine side by side, mine blows his out of the water. But that's all water under the bridge now, and I'm already looking to next year's Grand Tournament. Since my Foxes weren't enough to carry the day, I'm going to have to do something totally over the top and ridiculous even for me, if I want to win first place for army presentation. So in order to win the painting competition, I am going to construct a pre-heresy Emperor's Children army. I've already started experimenting with various armor types; I have a Mk. I and Mk. II constructed. I also want to do Terminators as they were in the Great Crusade, and a squad of jetbikes. Yes, back in those days, Space Marines had jetbikes. Fortunately, GW manufactures a plastic Marine jetbike kit now, so I won't have to spend days converting the squad. I might even take a crack at Fulgrim himself. This is going to be so awesome.