In Service of the Imperium- W.A.Rorie's Blog

2025 is upon us, Happy New Year.

I hope everyone is having a safe and Happy New Year! Time for the annual, "What do I have planned for the hobby," as I previous posted (here), one of the big plans was to return to @Grotsmasha's 12 Months of Hobby XXXX (2025 here). As promised I have my January 2025 vow submitted. I have a bunch of Kill Teams to build and paint and well a lot of armies. Kill Teams Angels of Death- Deathwatch and Exorcists are currently WIP Phobos Strike

January 1

Deathwatch

Back in to the Trenches!

Well Happy New Years all and well the first post of the New Year will be #125. Well as I proceed down the path of the Long Vigil, I keep thinking of the basing scheme I want to do for my Deathwatch. I could continue with my base schemes: Urbans: Shown on my Grey Knights On My Skitarii Marshall (WIP) Exorcists Scout Squad Shu'kar 54th Psian Jakals My Horus Heresy Ravenguard Temple

W.A.Rorie in Deathwatch

December 31, 2024

Did that just happen............

Ok this was not planned... I swear. So I have been focused on my switching my paints to Army Painter Warpaints Fanatic series and Friday after work I went to 2 of my LGS. First Store I did not get paint but walked out with Watch Captain Artemis and a box of Deathwatch Veterans. Then I went to next store to pick up my online order for paints and picked up more paints. Friday night, I built the sub assemblies for the veterans and converted Artemis due to the cable was short and slappe

December 23, 2024

Paint

Am I really switching to Army Painter Warpaints Fanatic?

Since buying the following army painter bundles on Black Friday at mt LGS Fantatic mega set Fantatic Metallics I purchased a few more sets online Fanatic Washes Fanatic Most Wanted then while dealing with a slight depression due to a family issue and at LGS I purchased these Wargames Mega Brush Set IMHO I think the fanatic line is great. Dropper bottle, shaker bottle

W.A.Rorie in Paint

December 18, 2024

Paint

Curse you, Black Friday, Curse you!

So my FLGS had a huge Black Friday Sale online and in store too. Well I picked up the Martian Civil War HH Campaign book, some Citadel Spray cans from the online sale. Then on Friday I went in store to pick up some more items like Ad Mech Onager Dunecrawler, some glue and accelerant, and some Army Painter paints which is the point of today's blog. So as I slowly have been working on my Forgeworld Deimos Ad Mech forces, I have been using Army Painter Warpaints Fanatic pa

W.A.Rorie in Paint

December 2, 2024

The Instrument of His will!

Well what a month is has been. Little hobby time, long vacation from work, massive 12,000 pt Horus Heresy game, and got Married! But work vacation time is over so back to work at my real job.... So I have been thinking about updating my Grandmaster De Sonnac and well I do have another Voldus... Psycannon Grandmaster Well then since I was building him I figured I would build some the Inquisitors I have laying around. I built

November 25, 2024

Life

Time for small break from the hobby.

Well I am getting married in just over 3 weeks (24 days and 7 hours), so I have to take a pause from the hobby for the next few weeks. And by hobby, I mean building and painting. I need my hobby space for some wedding projects. I have to paint all the wood flowers for the wedding, work on some of the decorations, and then it is all wedding prep with some exceptions along the way. So in about a month I will return to this Blog with more Exorcist, Psian Jakals, and Inquistion/ Imperia

W.A.Rorie in Life

October 24, 2024

More Kill Team

Well I was able to order Data Sheets and tokens for my Scouts for Kill Team off of eBay. And while watching my kids this weekend we built the contents of the Space Marine Board game ....well they built the Ripper swarm and Termagants, I built (Not) LT. Titus (no photos but here is the stock photo) And I also built Space Marine Adventures: Tyranid Attack Board Game and the 5 reprinted Space Marine Her

October 16, 2024

Dice Trays

So one of things l like to do in the hobby is have custom dice trays, dice bags and dice for each of my armies.....weird I know it but something easy for me to grab when I am going out to play. Well one of the my custom items arrived yesterday and so amazing. It is from one of my favorite sellers of Etsy, OwlKindofDesign. I have ordered 3 Dice trays from her and the quality and communication has been great. On average it is about a week from ordering to having product i

October 16, 2024

Kill Team: Hivestrom pt 5

Well it is Sunday morning and I almost made it.....Hobby last week was rough and only had time on Friday and limited time Saturday. I was able to knock out a huge chunk of base colors on Friday afternoon/ night: I stopped as I was tired and was at the decal stage. Saturday morning I was able to decal them and Saturday night I was able to hit them with the Agrax Earthshade Just some highlights, weathering, and basing, Betwee

October 6, 2024

Kill Team: Hivestorm pt 4

Weekend Update.....ok I have not touched my hobby stuff since Friday night. But I spent all day Saturday with my Future (step)son who is 8 going on 9 this week, and had my Fantasy hockey Draft and Sunday we were doing family stuff. This is going to be a rough week of Hobby, the youngest (step)son is turning 6 today and Thursday is the other (step)son's birthday, so I am losing a few days of hobby this week so hopefully I can get a lot done Friday night after bed time to make my Saturday deadline

September 30, 2024

Kill Team: Hivestorm pt 3

Well time for Part 3 of Kill Team: Hivestorm Kill Team prep, which is also Exorcists Scout painting log. Well right now they look very Blood Angel/ Blood Ravens scouts... From the front (clockwise); Tracker/ Team Leader, Sniper, Warrior, Warrior, Heavy, and Heavy Still more work to due but hopefully these 6 will be done this weekend and I can focus on the other 5.

September 27, 2024

Kill Team: Hivestorm pt 2

So all the new KT boxes comes with tokens.... I wonder who will have good acrylic ones? So 12 days to go and here is last nights progress Scouts primed and one model I was able to get the Silver Rub and Buff on the Armor. Only 11 more to go. Also when I was at the LGS one of the paints I need was Bugman's Glow.....and did not get it.

September 24, 2024

Kill Team: Hivestorm

I was able to order my Kill Team: Hivestorm box via my LGS along with KT: Scout Cards. I really excited about the Aquilons and I need to resume working my Psian Jackals. But I also have my Scouts to work on Looking at having a team ready for drop day. I guess it will be the scouts. So by October 5th, I am hoping to have my 11 Exorcists Scouts ready for Kill Team.

September 23, 2024

100th Blog Post!

100 Blog Posts..... On January 20th, 2023, I started this blog discussing my armies....well for my 100th posts I want to update my armies and discuss them. Grey Knights are by far the closest to being completed army I own. I still some stuff to build, more to paint, and need to update the weapon glows. Grey Knights is an army I enjoy painting and playing even when I lose. Grey Knights are my 2nd favorite army. My Original Raptors/ Raven Guard wa

September 11, 2024

My Wallet is crying......or will be

Sunday 08/04 WarComm Preview So most Sundays Previews, I laugh at my gaming group cause very little do I have anything I have to buy......not this week. Well since I have a huge Inquisitorial army already this is no brainer along with this Plus I want this for discounted price of the models and Coteaz is ok..... Well because I love the thought of Space Hulks (cough cough Terminators)

August 5, 2024

New miniature case!

So I finally upgraded to another miniature case. My battlefoam 352 case is still in good condition but I did not want to drop the extra money on sliders magna racks when it was too small already. The Battlefoam case is super nice and the slider is the way to go but the price point is super high. My Large old GW case is great for pewter models but plastic not so much. The new case: jucoci

July 8, 2024

Work in Progress!

So the new furniture arrived from Ikea yesterday. Between work and taking care of the kids, the Fiancé and me have the task of building all the furniture and rearraigning the office. Which may included painting and changing out the lights. Last night we moved the items bins full of hobby stuff, books, etc. out of the office. Then we moved the old furniture we were getting rid of out on to the downstairs patio. After dinner and cleaning up after dinner, we moved a cab

April 23, 2024

Upcoming Work in Progress!

So last night my Fiancé and I were discussing the lack of work space in our shared Office/ Hobby Room. I have a decent amount of workspace but lack display space. She has decent storage space but not enough counter space to work. We have been redoing all the rooms lately so we are no stranger to Ikea visits and deliveries. So after a few minutes of discussion and measurements, and looking at different cabinets, we purchased new Furniture and agreed to repaint the room in to a lighter color. M

April 18, 2024

Khymara Sector

The War for Khyama Sub-Sector- A Metal Head Armory Campaign PT 1

As one of the founding members of Metal Head Armory here in Arizona, we have always wanted to have our battles in the same system. For the longest time it was a no name system. Until 2015, when I picked a 40k Planet at random, so we fought for control for Khymara. As the group has advanced into other games, Necromunda and 30k, we never really left that system. And it is time to update the Metal Head Armory fluff. Pre-Heresy 41st Millennium

W.A.Rorie in Khymara Sector

April 17, 2024

"Too the righteous, we bring hope. To the tainted, we bring fire!"

Well we had a surprise leak today in the form of Imperial Agents Codex pages. And well I am happy to see that, as it justifies me continuing down the path I am headed. My tenure as an Adeptus Astartes' player has ended. It's been coming down the line for a while. It started when Scouts were removed as Troops so I was forced to replace them with Phobos. And then the rule of 3 came into effect so I lost scout squads. Now that Phobos are not troops, I see no reason to play Adeptus Asta