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First up is the kill team's fighter, Veteran Brother Karjalas Martäinen of the Emperor's Hounds Chapter. The power maul and both shoulder pads are from the Deathwatch kit; the grav-pistol is from the Sternguard Veteran Squad kit (I think), I forget where the helmet came from (it came out of my expansive bits box), the running legs come from the Assault squad kit, and the torso and backpack come from either the Tactical or Devastator squad kits. The Emperor's Hounds are the modern update of the first Chapter for which I ever collected a full army, the Iron Hounds. I painted this army up for the Third War for Armageddon campaign. Prior to this, I had only painted individual models, so I didn't realize the work I was creating for myself in promising to play a 2,000 point game with an army that I hadn't even painted in only a few weeks. It was my first time really playing the game. Prior to that, I had only followed the lore and painted individual models for fun. Once I realized what I dummy I was, I settled on a fairly quick scheme - primer black with red fists (I've always been a fan of the Crimson Fists Chapter), red chest decorations, and red right kneepads. The Chapter badge was intended to be a black hound's head (akin to the badge for the Space Wolves) on a crimson diamond. Since the Space Wolves upgrade sprue wasn't yet available and I sucked at applying decals, I settled for the crimson diamond and imagined the hound's head. You can see an example of the paint scheme below, showing an Assault squad veteran sergeant equipped with a bolt pistol and single lightning claw. Yes, I screwed up the priming big time, and my experiment with the red highlighting was a pretty big failure. I used several layers of inks to get the glossy effect on the red. If I had a time machine, I would go back and reduce the army size to about 1,200 points and take more time painting the models. Alas, that's not possible. Later, when the Eye of Terror campaign gave us the Marines Exemplar and an Index Astartes article showed us that Chapter's color scheme, I turned the surviving Iron Hounds models into Marines Exemplar. In my mind, I was dropping the Iron Hounds, developing the in-universe explanation that the Chapter had fallen to a Tyranid fleet. I liked the pathos of the Marines Exemplar and really liked the "sleeved" color scheme. I even turned an old 2nd edition Veteran Sergeant model into a Captain equipped with a bolt pistol, power axe, combat shield, and jump pack. I never finished painting this guy (obviously), but I think he's stored in a box somewhere. The Captain's terminator honours are indicated by the crux on his right shoulder pad, though he incorporates decidedly non-Codex litanies upon the rest of that shoulder pad. The decoration upon the right kneepad is intended to indicate that he served in the Deathwatch. The marking upon his left kneepad indicates that he leads the 3rd Company (Battle), and the white laurel upon the left greave was just a design to fill some space (it was an experiment that failed). The red highlighting is slightly better, but slightly better than really sucky is still sucky. Anyhoo, Games Workshop has given us an official Iron Hounds Chapter, forever ending any fantasy I might have to resurrect the Chapter via the Ultima Founding. Instead, I've taken the color scheme and modified it to create the Emperor's Hounds. I haven't developed any lore for the Chapter yet, but it's somewhere on my list of things to do. I've simplified things a bit by removing the crimson diamond, allowing the hound's head to be larger (coincidentally, as large as the standard Space Wolves wolf head badge ). Where the original Iron Hounds badge was envisioned as black, I've changed the hound's head to a metallic silver on a crimson field. I haven't thought about the Chapter's color scheme beyond that. One of the downsides of getting old is that my eyesight has gotten weaker. To compensate, I've found that taking pictures of my models helps me to see the areas that need to be filed and cleaned up before any priming takes place. As you can see from the images at the top of this entry, there is a little work to be done before the airbrush comes out.

The fifth operative is actually my sixth in the kill team. The Compendium originally provided for a Deathwatch kill team to consist of five operatives, but later dataslates increased that to six. As I mentioned in the introductory entry for this project (here), this isn't going to be a "real" game. Instead, we're playing a mini-tutorial, applying concepts of the Joint Ops rules from the current edition of the game in the 2021 edition of the game, with four players divided into two teams. We might not even have time for a full game. Two of the players have kill teams consisting of two fire teams while two of the players (including me) have kill teams consisting of a single fire team, so both of us Adeptus Astartes players might take five-operative teams (each one short of the post-dataslate kill team size) just to keep the time manageable. Since I'm not playing with the intent of crushing my adversaries, I've deliberately sub-optimized. On the off chance that we go with the full six-operative teams, though, I needed to add the sixth model. Truth be told, I love storm bolters and I love volume of fire. And since the Warrior operative has an option for a storm bolter, I went with that. The metal shoulder pad on the right shoulder should catch your attention right away. That's one of the old Assault squad shoulder pads. I bought a bunch of those for a project way back when (during the time of 3rd/4th edition - I think I planned on doing an Emperor's Warbringers army). He's pointing because I needed the left arm/hand to be doing something. I maintained the pattern of using basic Tactical/Devastator squad legs/bodies for the heavy gunner and warriors. That pointing arm/hand came from the Sternguard kit (I think). Since I already have two official Chapters (the Griffon Lords and the Sons of Medusa) I ruled out my original option, the Guardians of the Covenant. Also, the Guardians of the Covenant feature their Chapter badge - crossed white swords - on a black field, and I wanted each of the operatives to have a color other than black or white on that shoulder pad (though my extended roster might include those colors). The only color I had left was orange, so that's what this guy got. So I opted to make this another new DIY, the Paragon Knights (after double-checking that there are no official Chapters using this name, and no unofficial ones, either, as far as I know). Now some of you might point out that the Grey Knights already have "Paragons" within their ranks and this might be confusing. To that I'll respond that the Grey Knights are a secret and they might be unknown to some other Chapters of the Adeptus Astartes. So when this Chapter chose its name way back when, they were unaware of the Knights of Titan and their ranks. Or maybe they just didn't care. After all, each Chapter of the Adeptus Astartes is fully autonomous. This will be another DIY that I plan to develop to the two- or three-paragraph level. This guy wasn't quite as bad as the others in terms of mould lines, but you can see some places where I got a bit sloppy with the glue. And the join of the right hand and the arm is a bit off . So a little cleanup is definitely in order (I doubt I'll re-attach that hand, however).

The third operative is the heavy gunner, bearing a heavy bolter. Veteran Brother Kao Luang is from the Storm Angels Chapter. Yes, I see all the stuff that needs to be cleaned up. Who are the Storm Angels? Idunno. I made them up. The name itself is based on words that are commonly used in Chapter names, as described in the "It's All the Name" article that appeared in the 2002 edition of Chapter Approved (3rd edition!). My goal was to use a Chapter name that might evoke some things without necessarily being accurate. In this case, "storm" might evoke the White Scars, or maybe the Space Wolves, while "angels" evokes both the Blood Angels and Dark Angels. Meanwhile, the Maltese cross isn't really associated with any of those Chapters or their Successors, being more commonly associated with the Black Templars (and a few other Imperial Fists Legion Successors) as well as a few Chapters whose lineage are unknown (though I suspect that most are either descended from Rogal Dorn or Roboute Guilliman). When one sees the black Maltese cross, the Black Templars and their ZEAL for close combat comes to mind. Yet I've put that shoulder pad on the heavy gunner - a deliberate subversion. Who are the Storm Angels descended from? Again, Idunno. I plan to develop this Chapter a little - only as much as the paragraph or two that the WD/GW employees provided for their DIY Chapters in WD 515. Both shoulder pads, both arms, and the heavy bolter (including the backpack) come from the Deathwatch kit. The rest of the bits are bog-standard Tactical/Devastator bits.

Next up is another warrior equipped with a Stalker pattern boltgun. Back in 2022 we had a discussion about the percentage of successor Chapters and their lineage. I was a fairly active participant in that discussion since it's something about which I am relatively interested, and I conducted my own analysis based on the data available to me. The final conclusion that I presented can be seen here. I gave two opinions, each depending upon (a) the number of Chapters prior to the Ultima Founding, and (b) the number of Chapters after the Ultima Founding based on 108 Ultima Founding Successors (which is a few higher than the official number, admittedly). Averaging the post-Ultima Founding numbers for each lineage gives us the following: Blood Angels: 5.25% Dark Angels: 3.91% Imperial Fists: 10.78% Iron Hands: 2.38% Raven Guard: 3.57% Salamanders: 1.53% Space Wolves: 1.17% Ultramarines: 61.63% White Scars: 9.25% Unknown (Special): 0.54% So in a group of 100 Adeptus Astartes, if we assume that the distribution aligns with those percentages, we'll have about: Blood Angels: 5 Dark Angels: 4 Imperial Fists: 10 or 11 Iron Hands: 2 Raven Guard: 5 or 6 Salamanders: 1 or 2 Space Wolves: 1 Ultramarines: 61 or 62 White Scars: 9 Unknown: 0 or 1 And any group of 10 Adeptus Astartes will have: Ultramarines: 6 Imperial Fists: 1 White Scars: 1 And the remaining 2 would each come from a Chapter descended from one of the other Legions (different Legions) or Unknown. Statistics only give probabilities, however, and actual outcomes might vary wildly. And you can add on to that the fact that I suspect that I need to go back and re-do my math on those charts (I'm confident that my math isn't that far off, though). Anyhoo, it always struck me as ludicrous that, given what we know about the relative number of Chapters descended from each of the Legions (my numbers are mostly accurate in those estimates), Deathwatch squads will often be portrayed as having equal representation across Legion lineage (9 loyalist Legions), with the tenth member coming from either the Ultramarines or Imperial Fists Legions (the latter especially so they could get a Black Templar in addition to an Imperial Fist or Crimson Fist or whatever). That equal representation simply isn't likely. So I'm applying these likelihoods to my kill team. In addition, I'm only using two official Chapters (in the first six members), and none can be from the 1st or 2nd Foundings. And since Veteran Brother Hywel Kaedor is from the Griffon Lords, an official Chapter, that leaves only one other member from an official Chapter. Veteran Brother Artol Kuron gets that slot. The shoulder pad I chose for that model is actually for the Novamarines, but that's a 2nd Founding Chapter so I ruled them out. Since the badge is close to that of the Sons of Medusa, that's what I opted for (forgive me for having a badge that's close, but not exactly right). And the Sons of Medusa are an Iron Hands Successor, taking one of those valuable non-Ultramarines/Imperial Fists/White Scars Successor slots. Do you see those mold lines? I really need to fix those. Also, I made a rookie error when putting him together. In the past, my Space Marines with bolters used the separate bolters and the arms from the Tactical/Devastator kits. In those cases, I glued the arms on with the hands in roughly the right positions, dropping the prepared bolters into place to test them before I glued the bolters down. This was the first time that I used the integrated right arm/bolter bits, though, and gluing both arms on at the same time was proving to be a PITA (I really don't know why - maybe I was just being crotchety that night). I don't recall exactly what I did wrong, but I ended up getting the bolter a bit higher than I wanted, especially since this guy has one of the cool helmets (I think it came from the old Black Templars sprue). Anyways, not my finest hour. It's not terribad, but it's going to be a PITA to paint the helmet (at least the bolter is red, too).

The second operative in my kill team is Veteran Brother Hywel Kaedor of the Griffon Lords Chapter. Both shoulder pads, both arms, and the Stalker pattern boltgun come from the Deathwatch kit. The rest of the bits are bog-standard Tactical/Devastator squad bits. The Griffon Lords Chapter is one of the three Chapters I know of that use the rampant griffon badge, the other two being the Howling Griffons (a favorite of mine) and the Knights of Gryphonne. Both of the other Chapters have some history, with the Howling Griffons having been developed further in the Badab War. Since the Griffon Lords have nothing more than a name and official livery, I chose them. This gives me my "blue" guy. I see a few areas on this model that need to be cleaned up and filed before priming.

Lastly, we have the kill team's leader, Veteran Sergeant Talaon Hereus of the Khalkotauroi Chapter. Yes, I see the mould lines and file marks, too. The helmet and both shoulder pads come from the Deathwatch kit; the thunder hammer arm comes from the Assault squad kit; the backpack, legs, and torso come from the Tactical/Devastator squad kits; and I don't recall where the bolt pistol arm came from (perhaps the Tactical/Devastator or Assault squad kits). I filed the grill on the Mk VIII chestpiece down - I plan to paint a design on the space instead. You may be asking "What's a Khalkotauroi?" Actually, that word is plural, so the question should be "what are Khalkotauroi?" The Khalkotauroi are the Greek name for the bronze-hooved fire-breathing bulls from the Argonautica, crafted by Hephaestus and given to King Aeetes of Colchis. They were also known as the "Colchis Bulls." I was using the bull-headed shoulder pad from the Deathwatch kit, but I wanted to use a DIY Chapter. I wanted to avoid the color combinations that are used by the official known bull/minotaur Chapters. I also wanted to avoid using the words "minotaurs," "taurans," and "bulls" in the Chapter name, so I had to do a little bit of research. While I haven't read the story of Jason and the Argonauts since the '80s, Google is my friend and there was no hesitation when I found the Greek name for these mythical bulls after searching for "mythical bull monsters" or something similar. The Khalkotauroi name might be considered the Chapter's true name, given in the tongue of whatever world it is that they hail from. This is much like Vlka Fenryka being the "true" name of the Space Wolves or Carcharodons Astra being the "true" name of the Space Sharks (though that one is in High Gothic rather than the Chapter's parent tongue). In this, I imagine that the Khalkotauroi might have a proper Gothic name by which they are more well known. I haven't decided upon that yet, however, so I'll continue to refer to them by their native name. The name also informed the color of the bull head - bronze, so I had to choose a darker color for the shoulder pad to give the proper contrast. Since my original selection of operatives included one of my Fists of Purity, blue was taken. I also wanted to avoid black. This left dark green or dark purple, and I chose the latter (which left the green for the Sons of Medusa). Unlike the other DIY Chapters that I've created for this kill team, I plan to develop the Khalkotauroi in more depth. Normally, I prefer power swords or axes on my leaders, so I figured I'd do something a little different this time around. And while the mythical Khalkotauroi were known for breathing fire, I might not incorporate that into my WH40K Khalkotauroi. Or maybe I will. We'll see. Regardless, I didn't want to paint myself into a corner with anything, so Veteran Sergeant Hereus' wargear isn't necessarily representative of his Chapter's preferences. Also, despite the Ancient Greek origins of the name, I didn't include the transverse crest on the helm, though I was sorely tempted to do so. Again, I didn't want to paint myself into a corner by making this Chapter too derivative of its namesake. By not incorporating those elements into the mini, I've allowed myself a bit of freedom when I get around to actually developing the Khalkotauroi Chapter.

This kill team will consist of two Deathwatch fire teams. I'm going to limit the number of official Chapters that are represented, however, focusing on more obscure official Chapters and DIY Chapters of my own creation. In all likelihood, I'm going to revert to the original color scheme that we used for the Legio, as seen on this model painted by @Chronophague in 2003: That version of the color scheme featured the black armour, red helmet (you can see it hung on his belt behind the grenades), and red weapons casings that we are familiar with. The left kneepad is white, indicating that this battle-brother belonged to the Light of the Emperor Great Company. At that time, the left shoulder pad field and chest decoration were bone in color. I don't recall exactly why we formally switched the chest decoration to white and the shoulder pad field to red. If you look carefully, you can see that the =][= on the Deathwatch shoulder pad is red. Most of the entries to this contest followed the "bone" theme, though not a few used different colors for the chest decoration and/or left shoulder pad field (typically white, silver, red, or black). A good example of a variant color scheme used in that contest can be seen in the model painted by @disinfect. While the left shoulder pad uses the bone coloring, the chest eagle is painted white; and the model incorporates the black and white checkerboard pattern on the right boot to indicate veteran status. As you can see, we allowed a bit of creativity in color scheme when we first created the Legio; and I think we need to return to that to better support the varying preferences of players. You can see the other images from that contest here (we distinguished between the mod entries and the Frater Domus entries, but all are collected together in that album). So the scheme I'm going to use is: Black armour (duh) Red helmet (duh) with green eyes Red weapons casings (duh) Red left kneepad or decoration upon that left kneepad (for the Blood of the Emperor Great Company) Bone chest decoration Bone left shoulder pad (Legio) field Red =][= on the left shoulder pad (I'm using the Deathwatch pads and the inclusion of the =][= indicates that these Legio members have served with the Inquisition) Silver skull on the left shoulder pad Right shoulder pads (parent Chapters) in a variety of colors, see below Why am I reverting to the "bone" theme? In short, since I'm building this kill team to introduce a group of players who are relatively new to the hobby, I'm not sure if they're familiar with the various Chapters of the Adeptus Astartes. So I want them to be able to describe the models based on the color of their parent Chapter badge. By switching to the "bone" theme, I can include Chapters whose shoulder pads are red. Assuming each member of the squad has a different color for their right shoulder pad, I have blue, red, yellow, orange, purple, green, black, white, silver, and gold. And since my freehand painting skills suck, I'm only using sculpted shoulder pads. At this point, I have identified the colors, icons, and parent Chapters of the first fire team (of the first squad), the icon and shoulder pad color of the rest of the first squad, and icon of the entire second squad. Most are DIY Chapters of my own creation, with only one member of an [obscure] official Chapter in each squad. The planned fire team of the first squad consists of: White fist on blue disc, possibly surrounded by a sunburst (Fists of Purity Chapter, DIY) - Sergeant White hawk head on orange (Nova Hawks Chapter, DIY) - Fighter Bronze bull head on purple (Khalkotauri Chapter, DIY*) - Warrior Black griffon on yellow (Emperor's Knights Chapter, DIY*) - Warrior Gunmetal crossed swords on black (Guardians of the Covenant Chapter, GW) - Warrior White Maltese cross on green (Storm Angels Chapter, DIY*) - Heavy Gunner This leaves me with white, red, gold, and silver for the fields of the remaining members (with icons given contrasting colors). It will be important to distinguish these four shoulder pads from the Chapters that I named for each. The rest of the first squad and the entire second squad consist of: skull (this is the Silver Skulls shoulder pad from the Deathwatch kit) talon (the Brazen Claws shoulder pad from the Deathwatch kit) skull and halo (the Novamarines shoulder pad from the Deathwatch kit) gauntlet (this is one of the original metal Iron Hands shoulder pads) wolf/hound head (the Ragnar Blackmane's Great Company shoulder pad from the Deathwatch kit) starburst (this is one of the original metal veteran shoulder pads) skull and crossbones (this is one of the original metal Death Company shoulder pads) dragon head (this is the Salamanders shoulder pad from the Deathwatch kit) raven/bird (this is the Raven Guard shoulder pad from the Deathwatch kit) lambda (this is one of the original metal devastator squad shoulder pads) fist (this is one of the original Imperial Fists shoulder pads) flames (this is one of the original Legion of the Damned shoulder pads) skull on a Maltese cross (this is one of the plastic Black Templars shoulder pads from the old upgrade sprue) freehand! (I figured I should challenge myself with one of these models) I may decide that some of the second squad members are from obscure official Chapters. Options include: Angels of Fire (flames) - yellow/orange on red Angels Redeemed (I'd have to use the Dark Angels shoulder pad from the Deathwatch kit) - white on red Contenders (fist) - red on silver/light grey Crimson Talons (talon) - red on white Dark Brotherhood (skull on Maltese cross) - red skull and white cross on grey Hawk Lords (raven/bird) - yellow on purple Iron Fists (fist) - gold on blue-silver Knights of the Raven (raven/bird) - black on silver Red Wolves (wolf/hound head) - red on black Shadow Wolves (wolf/hound head) - white on black Subjugators (fist) - black on green Imperial Paladins (skull on a Maltese cross) - white skull on yellow cross on blue If I decide to do this, I'll be limited by the self-imposed requirement for different colors on the shoulder pad fields. I could make the freehand shoulder pad an obscure official Chapter, doing something that I might reasonably hope to render such as: Crimson Guard (crossed red axes on yellow/gold) Dark Hunters (white axe on blue) Emperor's Hawks (white wing on red) Masters of Protelus (blue axe on white) Storm Callers (yellow lightning bolt on black) Storm Giants (red lightning bolt on bone) War bearers (crossed black axes on green) Note that I've ruled out Second Founding Chapters such as the so-called "First Founding" Chapters, Black Templars, Brazen Claws, Crimson Fists, Mortifactors, Nemesis, and Silver Skulls, as well as more well-known Chapters such as the Howling Griffons, Novamarines, and Sons of Medusa. I've also ruled out those Chapters known to have participated in the Abyssal Crusade. There are probably other official Chapters I could choose from, but those named above were found in the Insignium Astartes, Successor Chapters (booklet in the limited edition version of the 7th edition Codex: Space Marines), and How to Paint Space Marines books as well as the Index Astartes article about the Chapters that participated in the Third War for Armageddon. My focus is the first six models (colors and Chapters already decided upon), so the rest of the decisions are academic for now. If/when the time comes, however, I'll consult other sources to find the full array of official Chapters. I'm pretty sure that both Sergeants will end up having a blue shoulder pad, both fighters will end up having an orange shoulder pad, both heavy gunners will end up having a green shoulder pad, etc. I'll probably differentiate by having different shades of the colors - so one of the Sergeants will use a dark blue and the other will use a light blue. Since a single Deathwatch fire team composes a full Space Marine kill team, and since each operative type other than Warrior can only be included once in the kill team (remember - I'm using the 2021 version), this means that I'll effectively have two options for each operative type. Since my Fists of Purity Sergeant has a thunder hammer and bolt pistol, the other Sergeant will have a different weapon combination. Likewise, my Storm Angels Heavy Gunner has an Infernus heavy bolter, so the other Heavy Gunner will have one of the other heavy weapon options. Decisions, decisions... And just to manage expectations, don't expect my finished minis to match the quality of painting seen in either of the Legio mini-me's that are shown at the top of this entry. * It has been a while since I created any DIY Chapter articles, so I hope to develop these three Chapters (Emperor's Knights, Khalkatauri, and Storm Angels) to exercise some creativity. I also plan to update and revise the Fists of Purity article, removing the more egregious of my errors and [hopefully] improving the quality of the article. Each of these will be conducted as separate blogs, though I'll cross-link to them in this blog.

I'm currently building a Legio fire team for the 2021 edition of Kill Team, using the Deathwatch fire team rules. I expect to adapt that kill team (and the full roster) to the Deathwatch rules that will be released in the upcoming boxed set. One of the interesting things about the Legio (and the Deathwatch) is the choices that hobbyists make about the Chapters from which each member originated. You can see my current plans and ramblings regarding this kill team (and the eventual full roster) at...

Long story short, I'm preparing to play a game of the 2021 edition of Kill Team with three players who have never played any edition of Kill Team. We're going to adapt the Joint Ops rules from the current edition of Kill Team, sort of. The Joint Ops rules allow each player to take half of their normal kill team. This works fine with most of the factions since they use two fire teams - each such player would only use one fire team. Each of the Space Marine kill teams, however, consists of a single fire team, and most such Space Marine fire teams consist of roughly the same number of models as most of the other factions' fire teams. Two of the other players will be taking factions whose kill teams consist of two fire teams. One of the players, however, will be taking an Intercessor fire team. While I had bits collected to create a Grey Knights kill team during the 2021 edition, I didn't want to complicate things with psyker powers. Since this is an introductory game and not one that will be played with the intent to "win," I figured I would take a Deathwatch fire team and then the Intercessor player and I would be on opposing sides, with the other players (Adepta Sororitas and Necrons) siding with either my Deathwatch or the other player's Intercessors. This will give each player 5 or so models to control* and each side will be relatively even. * We're limiting things to the Core Book and the Compendium, ignoring the balance dataslates that gave most of the Adeptus Astartes fire teams an additional model. So I'll be fielding "Deathwatch" (they'll be painted as the Legio, but will follow the Deathwatch fire team rules). A Legio battle-brother from the Griffon Lords Chapter I figured I'd capitalize on the Deathwatchness of the fire team - focusing on weapons that distinguish the Deathwatch from the other Space Marine fire teams, not to mention the other factions of the Imperium. Here's the kill team I'm currently planning to take: Deathwatch Veteran Watch Sergeant with bolt pistol and thunder hammer Deathwatch Veteran (Fighter) with grav-pistol and power maul Deathwatch Veteran (Warrior) with Deathwatch shotgun Deathwatch Veteran (Warrior) with Deathwatch shotgun Deathwatch Veteran (Heavy Gunner) with Infernus heavy bolter And just in case we use the balance dataslate and I get the additional model: Deathwatch Veteran (Warrior) with storm bolter I just realized as I'm typing this that Scouts can take shotguns, so perhaps I need to swap those out for Deathwatch boltguns or Stalker pattern boltguns. If I do that, I'm more likely to take the Stalker pattern boltguns since the Deathwatch boltguns come with power weapons. What I don't want to do is look like I've shown up with the intent to curb-stomp these players. The goal is to introduce them to Kill Team and, maybe, get them interested in picking the game up themselves (I'll have to be very clear that we're playing the previous edition and that the current edition is slightly different). If my own guys get shellacked, that's okay. For anyone with experience playing the 2021 edition of Kill Team, does my planned list look like it's not optimized? While I've assembled the bits, I haven't assembled any models yet and there's still time to change things. (The next blog entry will be about the color schemes and Chapters I've selected.)