Hi Folks,

While the countdown to CtA25 launch date is slowly but surely reducing, it has been time to revisit my list of stuff available for being enlisted.

As I am still in the queue for some bases ordered, stuff I need in order to progress on my Corsairs kitbashes (a contribution likely to reach 30/35 pts easily within a more global 70 pts and something of Aeldarii) I have decided to phase my vows in a different order.

The first key decision is to go Drukhari. And all my other Xenos vows will compute there too. My first vow will be based on the material accumulated and some recent additions (A Succubus and a Venom). Let’s see:

-          10 Wytches

-          10 Kabalites (Hand of the archon KT box)

-          The kit bashed Archon I showed previously here: Ynnari Priestess - a quick kitbash - Pointy and Spiky - The Bolter and Chainsword

-          The Succubus forementioned

-          1 Raider

-          2 Venoms out of which the one recently bought.

Grand total: 44 Pts. Or something like that, as I have to check out how much points are loaded on the various vehicles.

NB: 2 Kabalites are in the plastic bags

I could wait for the delivery man, but I am not willing to postpone my June paintjob too much. Indeed, summertime is somehow susceptible to be quite busy and leave me with less hobby time than expected. Said otherwise, there are good chances that what has not been painted in June will not be painted this season at all. Just with that list I may have something like 1 month busy on the workbench, knowing that I usually complete approx. 1 unit a week on average. Should the production rate be that one, it is rather a 7 weeks load, i.e. up to end of July. There are anyway shortcut and time saving approaches: I have already painted Kabalites and built a Raider, so I can save time as I do not have top test schemes and as I am aware of the best strategies for the vehicle building. Even if in the latter case it might be a tad different as I plan to use the crew of the Venoms to get a Wytches’ operated boarding boat, while the Kabalites will take place in the Venoms jetbikes. And if I go Wytches for the raider, I might affect the paint scheme of the vehicle to, in order to get something more edge cutting.

May be a bicolor scheme with a reddish (something like the scheme of iamluketaylor but may be reversed) or bonish prow instead of a full Incubi Darkness hull?

 Unless I play on panel lining only going to the quite usual red used on GW schemes? Or I go to a simple chevron band and a red sail… I still have to give it a though. Or two.

I will then shift to Corsairs/Aeldarii reinforcements or GSC once the first bunch of miniatures will have been done. The latter just grew up of 2 pts thanks to 2 additional spore mines found back. I have also gathered enough bits and crates to build up a new pile of scrap/Scenery worth a few points.

And what about the rest of the Pile of Shame? Well, my not-GSC/Astra Militarum home made Regiment has not bee kitbashed yet. And my AdMechs are primed but I am still not in the mood to paint them: I will bring me too close of completion of a force I invested a lot of myself into, so I prefer postponing this moment just a little bit. After all, I have just finished painting my OldWorld dwarf army accumulated over 20 years this weekend and the milestone is a little bit bitter: “what’s next?” is what prevails. Such a feeling I am not willing to experience again too soon. Even if it is only a matter of postponing for a few months…

 See you in a few days when I will have started working on this pledge.