Grad School/ Painting Schedule

Just like the title, my MBA program starts tomorrow- Work on weekdays, and 8 hours of school on Saturdays... freedom all but a memory. Where does this leave my hobby? Hopefully not in the dust, as I've just come back to the painting scene this year. But I'll have a better idea once I get into my studies and see how much time it requires. Aside from my wife and dog, video games and exercise, this is what keeps me stress-free, so even after those grueling Saturdays, I hope that I can get at least a few hours in on free Saturday nights and Sundays. Here's what I have on the chopping block so far-

Updates (Mostly =I= Munda)

-Just recieved my GW Yriel in the mail. This is going to be the basis for my =I= Munda leader, Inq. Desmond Creed. I've sketched out the conversions, and between all of the Eldar symbols I have to file off, and the =I= symbols/accessories that I have to green-stuff on, I suspect this will be an ambitious project. I suspect this guy will be a pretty far cry from the original model, but I'm definitely going to push the envelope on what I can do as far as Green-Fu, painting, and base modelling.

-Just recieved my Warmachine Mage Hunter Assassin Variant (the original was not executed all that well, compared to the original artwork...) This is to represent one of Inquisitor Creed's retinue- green-stuff galore on this model as well...

-Decided to use some parts (either Eversor head or Vampire Counts skeleton head) to create my Psyber Skull accessory for Creed. I have the transparent stand-pins and goods to create one from scratch.

-Just found my treasure trove bitz box from 10+ years ago!! Whoo hoo! I have Space Marine bitz, chopped up Assassins, some Necron and Necromunda bits... I'm definitely going to use a lot on this Inquisitor team.

-Awaiting 3 more miniatures from Warmachine and/or GW to represent my Psyker, Daemonhost, and another Agent (yes, Inquisitor Creed dips DEEP into the Heresy juice)


All of these miniatures will use the larger bases (GW 40mm or Equivalent) and what I hope will be highly-detailed and well-painted. I'm not too concerned with the basing, except that it has to match the battlefield to some degree. Cracked and dilapidated concrete...? Or metal, sludge, rusty crap....? But I won't get ahead of myself for now.

I'm also contracting the work out to make a website to a younger cousin, although I haven't heard back yet. My next big thing is to scan my sketches, document my conversion and painting progress... all for the website. I've also started with the fluff for Desmond Creed, as well as ideas for scenarios for the story-driven campaign... again... all useless without the site to put them on. I may decide to put my initial =I= Munda stuff on the Izanagi Blog and then transfer it over when the dedicated website is up and running, but I haven't decided yet.

But first things first, school. I'll apologize in advance if I'm absent for sometime. Hope to be back soon.

=I= Munda Blog Notification

After an extremely inspiring "chance" click onto Migsula's "Jade Vessel" blog on DakkaDakka (if you haven't been- check it out... sickeningly good stuff), I've decided to take a chance and start a new site dedicated to the Inquisitor-Necromunda fusion. The role-playing and repeatability potential is endless! Between my IG cousin and myself, I would say we have 75% of the Black Library of knowledge between us- heresies, inquisitors, their accessories and bits, lore, etc..

For those of you not in the know, Necromunda was a WH40K spinoff game of dirty gangs of various flavors facing off in the Underhive of the planet called Necromunda. By battling and winning (or losings) gangs would earn injuries, skill advances, territories, and new equipment. Inquisitor was an extremely detailed large-scale mini game that focused on the various shades of the Inquisition- those who used fire to fight fire, and those who stayed strictly with the light of the Emperor. The combination of the two shows the skilled "nobody" Inquisitor and his/her retinue facing off against the PDF(planetary defense forces), Adeptes Arbites, Adeptus Astartes, and other Inquisitors who don't see eye to eye (you say "for the Emperor", I say "Heretical Mutha*#$R&!@!!!") vying to protect,destroy, or keep the target. Deep narrative, and NOT making the most killer team is going to make this an extremely entertaining prospect.

Migsula's blogpost forum-spot has added rules to start from, as well as several amazing warbands from his younger brother and friends- the Sith-Vampire-Lord conversion in particular is damned good. It casts a ginormous, magnetic shadow, but it spurs me to create my own signature Inquistor.

I've decided to create a separate website for this potentially epic awesome- the website is still pending, but after a good night of drinking and Japanese home-cooking, we've come up with our "hook item" (or several, for multiple, continuous campaigns) that each band will sacrifice their all for, "tenative" website title, and website design. The website will include pictures and battle reports written in "fluff" style, the Dramatis Personnae galleries and their respective fluff, WIPs and tutorials on select figures, as well as any additional rules that we come up with for anyone thinking of doing the same. Right now, we've got about 6 people who will participate, but we hope to root out more heretics, er, gamers from our surrounding Chicagoland/Suburbs areas to join us and make this project great.

Once we have this up, I'll post it on here and link it in case anyone is interested. Izanagi will forge forward, but right now, this is probably my best bet with my limited grad-school-work-infested schedule.

I also plan on starting a Vampire Counts/WHQ blog, but for now this is going to be our focus (and sporadic HF Izanagi updates!).