I'm noticing that my blog entries are a late night affair for me.  I have now consistently began after midnight, but luckily the online clock is being lenient.  It still thinks it's the 19th so I'm not going to correct it.

The goal is to keep up posting everyday.  I think that's definitely the best goal for my writing to improve and most certainly my audience.  But today, we're getting to the point a bit earlier.

I spend a lot of time on the Warmaster forum lately, and I'm chatting with some great gamers and hobbyists.  The current buzz on that site is the Warmaster Painting Challenge.  It seems like it might be in a growth period and the contest is gaining momentum.  I like it.  Not sure I'm entering though.  Painting contests can be hit or miss with me even though, or perhaps because of the fact that I'm competitive by nature.  But the Warmaster itself has been a great forum so far.  I've stuck with it much more easily than some of the larger, well known forums like The Bolter and Chainsword, or The Farseer.  I recommend checking it out to any 40k fan.

Going to keep this one a bit shorter today as I'm near the end of my energy and the night has continued to pass me by.  I do want to share a bit of hobby in the blog today though.  A while back I entered a painting contest as part of  a gaming community for a video game strangely enough.  The game was for 40k though.  It was called Space Marine and is actually very fun.  I had purchased it on release for my PS3 and was instantly hooked.  The campaign was really great and then I turned my attention to the multiplayer mode and found a whole new realm.  I won't go into great detail here, not yet anyway, but it's a fact that with others I joined up into a competition association and fought in a Chapter of sorts, kind of like a clan in Call of Duty or Battlefield.

I met a great group of friends and we were the Dark Angels in the association for several years.  Eventually the community there had many types of activites and not even that long ago one was the contest I mentioned.  The leader of my group at the time was a good friend I had made who went by the name Dr-Pepper81.  For the contest we were asked to build and paint a mini of one player in the community, so  I chose my good friend.  Using the in-game graphics I copied his armor pattern and motif and the result I will share with you now.  Totally inspired by the game this model is one of my favorites and marks an advancement in my ability to sculpt on the figures.  See what you think.

I'll add in another setup for it as well because his weapon is magnetized with three options.  I believe the Plasma Gun didn't make it into a photo however.

This image includes photos of the actual in-game armor.

Well, I hope that you like my model and if there are any questions or comments I always welcome them.  

To be continued...