Work - Life - Hobby balance

So this has completely fallen apart with a total lack of hobby in the last few months apart from buying 1 librarian for my Astral Sons space marine chapter.
Works been crazy with my job as an engineer on a ship being at risk with the company deciding to rent the ship to another company and the renting company deciding that the people who have worked there for more than three years each, are too expensive to hire so better get some people who will work for a lot less and care a whole lot less about what was a truly cool ship to work on.
But I was lucky enough to jump quickly across to another one, similar in size but the new one is so much more complex and mentally taxing.

But with Christmas and New year at home this year, In our new apartment - another drain on the hobby budget, should be able to get lots of work done as my planning for 2018 is fully painted collection, which is looking tough already as I have over 300 models now in the Genestealer cults force and constantly coming up with new 30k list ideas for Zone Mortalis armies.
Will see what happens but the next post isnt too far off

thanks for checking this blog out

Hobby mojo

So slightly lost my hobby mojo at the moment because changing jobs and moving apartments and all the fun that can bring
So will endeavour to get back on it with some genestealer cult painting this week

Progress Astral Sons - October 2017

Progress has been slightly slow with this army but I believe I'm working in the right movement, forward and to fully painted to about 3,000 points where I've taken my time with them

HQ

Captain Gravis Armour - Painting

Lieutenant 1 - Painting

Lieutenant 2 - Painting

Primaris Librarian – To Buy

Troops

5x Intercessor Squad - Painting

5x Intercessor Squad - Painting

5x Scout Squad - Painting

Elites

Aggressor Squad – To build

Redemptor Dreadnought - Painting

Vanguard Squad – To build

Sternguard – To build

Fast Attack

Attack Bike - Painting

Inceptor Squad – To build

Heavy Support

Hellblaster Squad – To build

Flyer

Stormraven Gunship – To build

Dedicated Transport

Repulsor - Painting

Completed Units

Scout Bike Squad 1

Scout Bike Squad 2

Ironclad Dreadnought

Hoping to get one of these type of updated done for each army every two months so i know where im standing as i really need to start getting organised, for this I have found that using a Kanban board really helps, setting up each unit as a task

looks something like this when finished, the board, not the army. That is going to take a little longer

Blog update July 2017

Well 8th is finally here and I must say I'm really enjoying and I find my self constantly going between battle scribe and the books checking things out and wondering how they would combo up
Currently found my self looking more and more at nids which is quite strange as it's one of those armies that's nearly really appealed to me, mainly because they used to die really quickly and take a million years to paint a squad

There's going to be no updates for a while as I'm away at work until the first week in august, after this I plan to at least get 5 posts a week up and running
Happy gaming and painting everyone

8th thinking 💭 🤔

So GW dropped the video and the FAQ about 8th ed today and the internet went crazy as the internet normally does with change when they don't have the whole piece of the picture to look at and judge from an unbalanced look


I'm looking forward to seeing what it's all about and then losing my shit and writing crap on the internet.
It was good that they brought out the FAQ and said to everyone stop buying the army books 📚
Because the last thing you want to do is what I did when it went from 5th - 6th is buy the book a week before the edition change and be left with basically a good amount of paper to start a fire with.

Also saying all forge world units will be covered is good as I have a slight resin addiction and a secret project in the working

30K, now that was another big one. How will this new edition effect the more gentlemen game that I'm starting to really love
They said basically, they aren't touching it and we can carry on using 7th ed rules
With a few minor tweaks by the community such as multi bombing then we are all good and can stop proclaiming the sky is falling

Hobby progress 10th March 2017

No progress at the moment as we have escaped a cold Kyiv and headed to the beautiful island of Sal, Cape Verde for ten days  Thanks for all the new views and hello to the people coming over from Table Top tactics