Happy Hump Day Everyone!
This week in the Hobby I.... Well, I worked on some Horus Heresy Stuff.
I have been thinking for a while now that I just want to get some play time in, I want to just play the games I have been working on. The problem is, the model counts are really high, and I was hoping to avoid proxying. I am not saying I will not, I just don’t like doing it. As a result of that, I decided I wanted to build and base the models to actually play a game. I can always get around to painting them a bit later, once I have played some.
I sat down and decided that I was going to pre-build two 1500 point army lists, one Imperial Fist, and the other Emperor's Children. Happily, I recently purchased two Betrayal at Calth box sets, so I have plenty of marines. I wanted to experiment a bit with the armies, do a bit of min/maxing, and build something that was fun to play and fun to play against. I will go over the army lists once I have the models build and primed. For now... just imagine 5 plasma guns, and 5 missile launchers.
So.... to put it in perspective, I had to build 57 bases. Woo...
When building bases, what I like to do is to take a small piece of cork, maybe 5mm, and rip it into small pieces for the models to stand on. I glue that down using PVA glue, then wait a few minutes to dry. I then brush PVA glue all around the base there the cork is not covering, as well as some small spots on to the cork itself. I pour 
a mixture of different sized sand/pebbles onto the base to give it a more natural feel. Once I get the models pinned to the base, I will prime the whole thing!
Also, my modeling time may be very very limited in the next few weeks... I broke down and pre-ordered X-COM 2. So I will be playing the heck out of that.
Thank you all!
Have a great rest of the week, and weekend!
-Rob-
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