Sometimes I just need to update this darn journal

I seem to set a trend with long absence now. It's been close to 6 months before I put up a new journal here. But then again, I don't want it to feel forced either. It's probably why I could never manage to do something that involves active social media. Sometimes I receive updates from people (either privately or professionally active) and it just makes me cringe and wonder "is this all you have to say?" I rather update my journal or state of being once in a while when it could easily double as an essay, but that's probably me. There's more that's "probably just me" bickering about how people and society is. But... this is DeviantArt and not market square and a soapbox.

So anyway; I haven't posted a lot of figures in the past few months. Last week actually was a change from that routine. I decided to take a small break from painting lots. At the end of last year I painted a few daemons, a 40k character, some Hordes mini's and that was it. Then, January came and I decided to take a break. I had other plans, which... of course didn't really come to fruition either. Sometimes life gets in the way, sometimes I just lack some serious motivation or inspiration to get kickstarted. 

Some ideas are still floating around... I guess I'm just brooding over them and waiting for them to hatch.

As posted in my previous journal; miniatures, armies, selling them... by now I've shrunken down my collection a bit by selling my Tau. Perhaps I should take armies for a test-drive before I buy them. Sure seems like that. I guess I'm not that fond of tech, and just tech and gunlines, and more gunlines. Daemons however, do stick around for some odd reason. Perhaps it's the variety the codex offers. Chaos space marines is similar I suppose, even though assault armies aren't that viable and shooting tends to be the way to go in 6th. I'll calmly await the new Orks book this year somewhere. And I hope they fix a few things... though on the other hand, I wouldn't hold my breath, since the new Nids book told us that GW doesn't always care to fix thing *cough*Genestealers*cough*.

So currently I have 2.5 armies. Orks and Chaos.. and more Chaos. My chaos forces tend to count as 1.5 rather than 1 force, since for fluff reasons they're somewhat interchangeable. Besides; Daemon princes are a viable thing for both armies anyway.

My Orks are about 3100 points. No new additions there.
My Chaos forces grew a bit in size though. Those add up to about 4900 points at the moment. And I still need a few things for my nurgle themed Chaos marine list and some other things for my Tzeentch themed daemon list. Perhaps I'll do some Nurgle themed daemons (aside from that handful of plaguebearers) or some Tzeentch themed marines down the line. Ahriman does look pretty tasty in the codex as a character HQ; Thousand sons marines... well, for fluff sake, I might try them out.

Despite the fact that I don't actively play (well, currently I just collect) Warmachine/hordes, I have 4 factions around. Though I like them for the aesthetic. Both my Khador and Cygnar are about 50 points. My Menoth and Skorne armies are just a bit beyond the battlebox contents.

Well, ok.. not really the length of an essay... but at least there's a sign of life. I'm still alive!

Peace out,

M.