Heldrake #2 Painted Plus Anima Tactics

The pain is over. The second Heldrake is fully painted. Now that I have both of them, my current army needs only the second Chaos Marine squad and my Chaos Lord in order to be finished. I guess my time off from work was well worth it.

Now, with two finished and ready for the table, the end of the army is in sight.

In gaming news, my fiance' and I played a game of Anima: Tactics. The groups are 200 levels rather than the usual 300 as this was a "remembering how to play" game rather than a full-on game. What we really came away with from this battle is the fact that Samiel is a complete beast. He's a Cuisinart in combat, and once he starts getting Power Tokens he's nearly impossible to kill. If you play Empire, he's pretty much an auto-include. The game was a lot of fun, even though Samiel basically ran roughshod through the Samael party.

Now on to painting those last 11 Chaos Marine miniatures!

Coming Up for Air

Well, since it's been a while since I last posted, I figured I'd give a quick status report. Entirely Anima progress, I'm afraid. Those of you hoping for some 40k goodies will have to wait a bit. I've finished painting another wanderer, Akio Kageshima, and gotten a couple of Samael figures (Fallen Angel Dinah, Fallen Angel Ophiel, Konosuke, Dark Cheshire, and Janiel) painted.
Now, however, I'm in the middle of my final for this class, a research paper on nuclear waste disposal, for which I get to read through 300+ pages of government reports (so far). This has, as one would expect, caused painting (and photographs thereof) to come to a halt. Even this post is being snuck in between reading reports as my eyes were beginning to glaze over.
I'm hoping to get my bibliography and outline done tonight so that I can start putting a dent in painting either Bael or Shinigami Ayl. At this point I can only hope. There will be a two-day gap between my class ending and my next two classes beginning, so here's hoping I can sneak in a game or two then, as right now it's totally out of the question. I'm hoping to go over to my local G.W. or over to one of my friends' places for a game of Warhammer Fantasy, but who knows?

...But for now, back to studying Yucca Mountain.