Check this out...

Not sure if anyone has seen this before, in fact I found it by accident through TSOLR.  Geek Nation Tours
This appears to be a Tour/Travel agency for all of us "Table Top Geeks" regardless of genre.  They have some pretty neat upcoming tours to include Comic Con, a trip to the UK, and one to Germany.  Hell, it even looks like they're trying to put together a Cruise!

Now for me the best of them, is the trip to Germany as I live in Germany and could bum out and just do the ground portion.  Of course this also works for the UK tour so maybe I'll have to keep an eye on that as well.  I can say if I lived in North America (I miss Wisconsin in the winter) I'd be broke in a year trying to get on as many of these as I can. 

Anywho, that's enough of the plug.  I'm in no way affiliated with those guys, I just thought it was something that more gamers should see.

Crimson Fists

Yup, your read that correctly.  As part of the new year I plan on doing up a few Crimson Fists to go along with my ever aging Black Templars army.  The idea is that a small detachment (around 20 Fists or so) are on crusade with my Templars, and occasionally come in support of my IG army.  In game terms the only time they ever make an appearance with my IG is during Apoc.

My master plan is that I'll play these side by side with my BT's using the BT codex so they're still game legal.  Future fists include a 10 Fists as a troops choice a second attack bike, and a commander where I'll be using the old Captain Cortez model. 

As I mentioned earlier I also have a Black Templars army, one that I plan on show casing here over the year as I integrate them into my blog.

Oh, and this is my first 2 painting points for the year.

Painting points system

Well as I mentioned in my last post I plan on using the "Painting for Points" system that so many others used last year.  AFAIK "Lone Pilgrim" came up with this so all credit goes to him.  The idea behind this is that you "earn" points for every model that you paint completely.

Now I'm not sure where I saw this next part but my plan is that at the end of the year I will convert these points into cold hard cash.  In other words the models I paint, the more points I get, the more money I can spend on 40k in the next year.

And here's the Painting System I plan on using.

1. Infantry = 1 Point
2. Bikes/Cavalry = 2 points
3. Dreadnaught/Walker = 5 points
4. Tank = 10 points
5. Superheavy Vehicle = 20 point

Now some of you may have already noticed but I've added a new text area on the right side to display the number of points painted so far.   As you can see so far I haven't completed any, but I'm hoping that with a winter storm setting in over Germany this weekend I'll have the chance to change that.

What's in store for 2010

So just to be different I thought I would do it in pictures, and then just to be a pain why do full pictures when I could do chips and make everyone think about it.  So in no particular order....

 

 

In addition to all that, I'd like to work on my writing a little bit to.  I've written a little bit of fluff for my Armies in the past but it's not been very good.  Unfortunately there's no picture that really conveys "fluff"...  So, I hope you all were able to figure out what my plans are for the next year.   They're all pretty easy so it shouldn't be that hard to figure out.

Additionally I'm going to try out the "Painting Point" system that so many of you did last year.  Maybe it'll help me get some of the projects I have planned for the year done.  More on that to come in a later post.