I lied about the momentum, apparently, because oh boy has it been hard to paint for the last few weeks! My enthusiasm for the Word Bearers waned almost immediately after I ran out of models that were already base coated.
I have been doing a lot of staring at lists and rotating things on and off my desk in the hope of finding something that inspires me to put brush on model, with not much success - the oncoming release of Horus Heresy 3rd edition means I don’t want to get too deep into painting models that might not be valid in the new edition (like… all of my Militia), the weather has been hostile to any big building sessions (it’s too cold to open a window to let poly cement fumes out) and I just wasn’t feeling super inspired to paint models for any of the systems I don’t actually play.
Until… I saw that there’s a Badab War event coming up.
I did get a little excited about Badab earlier this year and put together a little collection of Carcharodons but I’ve realised there’s an appendix in the Liber Badab that adapts 5th edition Imperial Guard to the Badab/Horus Heresy ruleset quite nicely.
And if you’ve been following my battle against the grey much at all, you’ll know that Imperial Guard is one range I have no shortage of models for!
With that little burst of motivation, I’ve pulled up a spreadsheet and put together a 1500 point list that will help me get a few things painted.
First on the list is this pair of Sentinels:
And I’ll just pause here to say HELL YEAH I got a new light booth! Very happy to have it back and hopefully it’ll help with motivation going forward.
The sentinels have both been awaiting paint for quite some time: I bought one of them in the late 2000s when I was still playing 40k semi-regularly, while the other one I bought secondhand late last year and has clearly been well-used.
I didn’t do anything special for them, just a solid basecoat of metal on the legs and grey on the body, with a few washes and highlights.
That’s two off the pile.
Also, in the hope of finding some motivation I did add a little to my collection last week.
You can’t see it through the baggies but it’s five robed space marine bodies to add heavy weapons to my Word Bearers, and a Genestealer Cult Primus that I’m planning to convert into an officer for my Militia.
That’s six on the pile, for a net gain of four onto the pile.
BATG Score: +78
