What's going on?

Back on October 15, I put together a "state of the Warp" address. I went over various things involving the website and my various armies and projects. There have been some significant changes recently, so I'll update the previous list.

First, the projects for improving this website
The hosting at Warhammer40k.com will be going away shortly. I expect I'll be going to Geocities, but if you have any favorites of the free or inexpensive hosting sites, please let me know.
I'm still working on the background issue. I'd like to keep the brushed steel look, but it blinds some people. The neutral grey I've been using as a substitute on the newer pages works well, but it's boring. Kenton Kilgore (as usual, he's a pretty bright guy) came up with a solution that he uses in his website, The Jungle, and I like it. He uses a background picture, then overlays a table over it, giving the table a neutral background and putting all his writing there. That would give me a brushed steel border and let me use the neutral grey I've been using as a background for my text. A great solution, except I'm having trouble with the html. If one of you bright sparks wants to help me with this, I'd appreciate it, since muddling through on my own will take some time, and, as you'll see later, I haven't got much of that for the near future.
I'm also still planning on doing a gallery, but that's not really a major project with me. Perhaps once I get some of these newer, better painted models in large groups, that will give me more motivation.

Deathwing
This army I had basically put on the back burner. I have been procrastinating on the conversions I had planned and I may scrap that idea altogether. On the other hand, I will be playing the Deathwing SAFH (Shooty Army From Hades, or as close as Deathwing can come to it) at the Vancouver GT as the Ringer army. Since that is happening, I have a bunch of new Terminators with Cyclone Missile Launchers to paint up, and I really need to get cracking on that. I'm using the Doom Eagles Paint Scheme (Boltgun Metal Base with Blood Red details, plus some minor details in Snot Green and Bleached Bone) and I think they look pretty sharp. It'll be weird having only 30 models on the board, but I think it'll be fun.

Dark Eldar
This army still needs paint scheme updating, and it's still on the back burner. It's in playable condition and I have enough variety of models to be flexible with how I use it. This will be, for now, my back up or fun army. When I do play around with it, I'll probably be trying out some new configurations using either a shooting focus or a webway portal focus.

Fantasy Orcs
Although I had planned to do another 150pts of Orcs this month, and even went so far as scratchbuilding a Goblin Wolf Chariot, this army is going onto, well, at least a side burner for now. More details in a moment, but I know I won't have time for the next couple of months to even do a little bit on our funny, funky, fungoid friends. Starting in March or so, I'm hoping to go back to adding 100-150pts per month onto my greenskins, eventually even getting a Giant and some Trolls, then sculpting them to look like Orcs.

Tyranids
This is the army that is going to see the biggest change. The Northwest Gaming Geeks (cool name or what?) are planning a Tyranid invasion of the Seattle GT. When I first joined the Geeks, they had already made their plans for it, so I was left out. Recently, one of the Geeks realized he couldn't do the army, so I'm stepping in to his slot. Since my Tyranids are rather heavily battle damaged (and I'd really like to play with a new style of army for this anyway) I'm trading him some of the reward I earn for being an Outrider and getting his army in return. The models are all assembled and primed, I just have to paint all 114 of them and do a few other things.
The army is rather different than my previous Tyranid armies in some ways. For starters, there are no Monstrous Creatures. None. Warriors are the Elites and HQ of this swarm. In addition, there are no Genestealers or Heavy Support or Fast Attack of any kind. That leaves gaunts. 108 of them, if I'm counting right. All Leapers, many with bioplasma, with Rending Claw mutants. As I say, this is a pretty different army, but it's certainly got the element of speed I like. While my old Tyranid army was fairly fast, it still hit in a couple of waves, with the Gaunts trying to tie up the enemy until the Genestealers and other heavy hitters arrived. In this list, everything should be in combat by about the second turn. Hopefully I can use numbers and those RCs and Bioplasma shots to make up for the fact that I have so few heavy hitters. Anyway, I need to get them all painted up and everything for the Seattle GT, which is coming early this year. This is the project that is pushing everything else back out of the way. I'm trying to hurry my Deathwing up (I hope to finish painting them all this week!) so that I can start on the new Tyranids.
Along with the new models and the new style of army, I'm also considering some new paint schemes. I've known for a while that my Tyranids need to be updated and are, like my Dark Eldar, painted to a gaming standard rather than painted well. The Geek that is trading them to me had a cool sounding paint scheme and has a few of them done that way, but I'll have to see what it looks like. Unless it really grabs me, though, I'm leaning toward a semi-traditional red and black. Blood Red body and bits, with Black for the chitinous areas. Green eyes and Black or White teeth would round it out. Then, for that glossy, just hatched look, I'm going to use a wash of some kind, either with appropriate ink colors and Future Floor Wax, or with some of the Minwax Polyshades stuff that I got. Either way, it should give me a hard, protective coating, some shading, and lots of gloss effect, which should make them look slimy.

Okay, now you know what I'm doing, tell me what you are doing.

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