Twin Linked 2012 this weekend!

So Twin Linked 2012 is coming up and whilst Im really really excited, I'm not very hopeful. Firstly my partner Tristan is notoriously unreliable, now with his new girlfriend and a new apartment he's moving into in the coming weeks I'm certain he's going to ditch me and not even have the curtsy of telling me. Secondly his attitude is really bad. He has a good mind for the game I call him my apprentice when introducing him to other 40k players but this weekend he's going to "do what I say and roll the dice when I tell him". What a joke, had I known sooner I wouldv'e posted on the WargamerAU forums looking for a random partner.

Originally I asked my rival Chris if he wanted to go, being the best player I know but he has no interest in doubles matches so I asked Wade, even though he cheats every chance he gets he wins often (... wait maybe it's the cheating?). With 3 months warning he didn't even consider it just said "no, working". Now it turns out he's coming to watch. *sigh* So we (mostly I) built Tristan's army from the small Imperial Guard force that belongs to Scott, could just scrape together 1000pts, whilst there is a lot of fire power it's all in squishy heavy weapons teams so I designed my force in mind with having a few offensive elements (Warp Hunter, Dark Reapers)whilst providing big juicy distractions (Avatar and Wraithlord) to hopefully draw fire away from said heavy weapons teams.



Here's what I'll be using as my objective markers.



Some close ups





And because Im in love with them a pic of my Scorpion and Cobra. Still not entirely finished.

New Jain Zar

My original Jain Zar model looked quite dated compared to the Phoenix Lords that followed her and so several months ago I bought a new model off ebay for cheap. I had started painting her up with various Reaper bone paints (6 shades of bone + mixes) and she just wasn't turning out so I gave up and let her sit in my drawer for a while.

Well after reading Void Stalker I just had to get back into painting her and last night I finished her off, ripped the previous model off the base and attached the new one in her place and this is the result.

I'm pretty happy how she turned out, she looks a lot more weathered than any of my other Eldar who are all spotless and a bit cartoon looking.

Here is her previous look.



Now I'll just have to bring Karandras up to the quality of the rest of the Phoenix Lords, but Im not really sure where to start with him.