Basing theme

My basing theme.

California redwood forest.

After a very long look at a large variety of different basing themes, which there are a lot of out there, so many. The basing theme or style that I landed on was a combination of my two most favorite themes and scenescapes. First one being a woodland, overgrown, redwood forest style. And the second being ruined rubble urban city terrain. I like the dampness, the darkness, and green of the forest, I'll be combining that to the rubble and concrete nature of the urban theme, to get an overgrown modern ruined cityscape.

Kind of overgrown, with the urban theme.

 I'll be adding moss, leaves, small branches, static grass, and grass tuffs, to broken and chipped plaster tiles. I'll have tiles coming up, broken, smashed and cracked. Rocks and rubble scattered about. I'll also have fallen tree branches with leaves and moss, maybe some smaller plants to really give it that overgrown feeling.

Overgrown and Gothic.

Close to what I'm going for.

The idea is that my marines have landed on a long deserted Imperial planet, rich with minerals and other resources, as well as being a fairly "safe" planet (well at one point), not to many monsters or giant beasts. Then it was heavily contested over by a smaller Tau sept called the No'va. The planet was then ripped into the warp where it sat letting nature take over and running its corse. Most if not all of the human population managed to evacuate off the planet to safety, the Tau were not as fortunate... 

Checklist for the Las Vegas Open 2015

Las Vegas checklist:

-Army 

-Army list, 5 typed copies

-Dice

-Tape measure

-Objective cards

-psychic powers cards

-Objective markers

-Rulebooks and Codices 

-"A slick Fanny Pack, to impress the ladies." 

So far most of the smaller things can be checked off, what I really need to get finished off that list is my army, which ya know I'ed need to actually play in the tournament, so that's my big focus for the next couple of weeks build, base, and paint an army.

Going to Vegas, plans for the blog.

Las Vegas Open 2015

So my hope/plan for the rest of this year and the coming year is to make it to the Las Vegas Open in 2015 and play in their 40K friendly event. This does a couple of things for me for me 1. it gives me a clear and very solid deadline in which to get my army completed and fielded in battle before the event in February, and 2. I've never been to Vegas or any type of Wargaming convention, or have yet to even play a game (yeah I know that will soon change), so the idea of all this is very exciting to me

This definitely gives me a boost of motivation and inspiration, so on to my plan. My plan is to try and post to the blog everyday, they may be WIP post, studio updates, tutorials, Terrain and basing ideas, or anything else Warhammer 40,000 related.

Found on deviantART

I also plan to write some fluff for my 2nd company Ultramarines, so far I plan to name each battle brother and give them a little backstory (fluff) on how and maybe why they joined the Ultramarines. So that's what I've been doing the last couple of weeks, reading and watching warhammer 40k history (fluff) then writing some of my own to give my army more of a theme.

Found on Pintrest.

Pintrest. I recently stared a Pintrest account for all the Warhammer 40k material and related material I find on the web, it's a way for me to keep a public idea folder of all the amazing tutorials and post from other blogs out there. I started it mainly because of wanting to find more terrain building ideas, which Pintrest is great for. I've already found more source material than I can even have time for! 

Well that's all I have for now, keep checking back for updates, inspiration, tutorials and more!