A Farewell to Arms...for a while at least.

I have given this a lot of thought and I've told some of my friends this, but this is a more formal announcement.  As of today, I am no longer playing or taking part in any event for Warhammer 40,000.  As far as painting is concerned, I'm not going to say I'm done all together with 40k but finishing my Dark Eldar has been put at the bottom of my project list.  I will still take commissions for 40k of course.  Overall I'm bored with it and I have some major issues with the current rules set.  I don't want to go into to detail on my gripes with the rules set.  The other part of this decision is I don't like to bounce around with my games, I know a lot of people do but I can't keep up with that and truth be told I don't know how a lot of people do.  I'm not saying that I am permanently quitting, but for the near future I am.  I still love the universe, the electronic games, and the Tabletop RPGs, it is really just the miniature game I have an issue with. 

So what will I be doing with all this time on my hands?  I'm devoting all my attention to Warhammer Fantasy.  The irony here is that history repeats itself.  I got real into to 40k around 11 years ago and then I painted my dark elves a year later.  From that point I only played around 8 games of 40k from that point until this past summer for the campaign.  Suffice to say, I think it is pretty obvious which game my heart belongs to.

Part of the reason I came back to 40k was convenience.  There is a larger pool of 40k players in my area and you can usually get a pick up game in at my LGS.  Only problem with that for me is, I don't enjoy pick up games anymore, I would rather email one of my friends and set up a time to play something I really want to play at the LGS or one of our homes. 

So what this all means is that I'm only focusing on playing and painting Warhammer Fantasy for the foreseeable future, regardless of what everyone else is getting into.  All in all, once I have completed my current projects for Fantasy and the other ones I would like to do, I'll look into 40k again, which by that time it will probably be the 7th edition of the game.  Yes I said 7th, I don't see myself giving 6th which is due out next next summer the time of day.

Thanks for reading and I apologize if I have disappointed any of you by this decision, but this is best thing for my own piece of mind at this time.

-Dark Apostle Brian

We'll kill ya then we'll eat ya!

Here is the first unit of Ogres so far.  I am planning on getting the metal parts painted to night and possibly get Devlan Mud on the non-skin parts.

As Promised....The Manticore

Here is the Manticore.  This is probably the best model I painted to date.  Sorry for the delay I had to deliver the day after I finished it and I needed to take the pictures when I was visiting my client.