40K Friday - Continuing Distractions with Grey Knights

 

Not a lot of progress on the Tyranids or Praetorians these past two weeks as I've really been pulled towards finishing/updating some already substantial and mostly finished armies.

For the Grey Knights I've moved 20-odd figures into the "done" cabinet with more coming close behind - hopefully this weekend. All of these are already painted to some level. It's mainly sorting them back into squads, fixing any broken parts, a final clear coat and then re-doing the bases. This includes a few more marine squads and the dreadnoughts and dread knights . I also have to finish up my Rhinos/Razorbacks that I started a few years ago and a Stormraven & Land Raider  as well. This may all happen in stages as I jump around to different projects. The pull here is that this army is this close to being done-done, which is a good - if rare -  place for me to be on an army. 

Please ignore the Chaos Knights lurking below ...

Once I am  through these I will have some "from scratch" work to do as I need a big squad of Purifiers which I lack right now. I do have the newer Crowe model to go with them so that will be one effort. Then I also want to do a big squad of Paladins with all of the bling. 

The only new acquisition recently was the new upgrade sprue for one of the Dreadknights. I do want to finish up building and painting what I have but the only thing I might want more of would be the full-kit Dreadknights as everything else I've mentioned I already have. I think I'm OK with 1 grand master and the 3 regular DKs as I do have the Land Raider and Stormraven to bring big guns and take up a lot of points if I want to go that direction. 

I also expect much of this army, the infantry at least and probably the dreadnoughts, to be replaced in the next 3 years so I am not really feeling a need to spend more money on expanding it right now. One more new Dreadknight (to be able to field all of the cool new stuff) is about the only temptation and despite the new upgrade sprue those could get replaced as well so who knows? It's already more points than I could ever really field outside of an apocalypse game so it's not like I need more of anything.

So yes, the goal is to finish up the easily-finished stuff, take a look at the rest and maybe advance one chunk of that and then switch to one of this year's other efforts.