Hi Everyone, I'm Chris, a.k.a. Coldwind, and welcome to my BLOG. This will be mainly a place for me to post about my Warhammer 40k hobby activities - painting, modeling and converting, and possibly the odd ramble or rant.
A bit about me - In real life I'm an IT manager at a Telecommunications company in Sunny (some of the time) Wellington, New Zealand. I've been playing Warhammer and Warhammer 40k for quite some time now - since 1989 - so twenty years and counting...
At the moment I collect Orks and Blood Angels, and have started a Dark Elves army for Warhammer. I'm a collector first, as my large cabinet full of not-yet-assembled miniatures would show. The problem is I feel like I'm buried in plastic and white metal, so I have resolved to dig myself out, by painting and assembling everything in the next two years (not in that order of course).
To that end, I joined a new gaming group late last year, run by the manager of my local Games Workshop. This has given me a new driver to get me building and painting more (and buying more - so I'm not sure if I'm digging myself out, or deeper...) and it's been a lot of fun too. The group alternates between normal games and Apocalypse games, which means I often get to field most of my assembled army. I'll put up a list of my Ork horde to date at some point soon, and will do the same for my Blood Angels too. It's fair to say the Orks are getting most of my love at the moment though, with all the great new units and vehicles Games Workshop has released in the last eighteen months.
My current painting project is the biggest I've ever undertaken - I'm painting 2500 points worth of Orks in one go. That's 184 models. It's a bit of an insane undertaking, but if I stay with it, I'll have the majority of my boyz squads painted, along with most of the other foot slogging units in my army. I finish them, and I'll move onto my Trukks, Wagons and Stompas! I'll put up some work in progress pics as soon as I work out how to.
It's probably worth noting that this blog is intended to serve myself first, everyone else second, so while your comments are welcome, I'm not going to be posting for the benefit of the audience. That's a round about way of saying I may not post often, and my posts may be boring, so reader be forewarned.
ColdWind Out.
