Buteo's Month #1 Hobby Commitment

This will be my first commitment of 6!

As a recap this is a 1500k army that I'm working towards.  I'll be using this challenge to complete the painting and add some additional units to the army (you're never really done an army).  What's here will probably keep me painting for the next 3 months or so, that means I need to buy more so I don't run out of stuff to paint (always a good problem to have).

"LUPERCAL!!!"

Space Viking breaking face!!

This was the picture that did it.......Back when I was 11 or 12 year's old my very good friend Syra-and fellow blogger on this errmmm..blog- lured me in to the sweet embrace of 40K. He ripped me off for a battle force of Dark Eldar and i was over the moon, for a very brief time at least. A box of tactical marines later I took a trip to WH Smith to pick up the monthly White Dwarf (when it was good) and I saw THAT PICTURE on the front cover. 

I am Alpharius. Also, Syra.

                                          A case of split personalities

Peer pressure. That's where my hobby story begins: 

At the tender age of 11 I had just started a secondary school where the kids were playing this crazy game with dice and they simply demanded I join them. I can still hear them saying: "...don't collect Space Marines, everyone does... there's Orks and Eldar and they are way cooler!" 

I had no idea what they were talking about, I didn't even know what an 'ork' was back then... 

The Story of Buteo

Everybody has a vice and mine was for miniature toy soldiers.  I've been a long time Games workshop fan and have been engaged on/off in the hobby for the past 20 years.  I was first introduced by a friend into the hobby when I was 11 during 2nd edition of Warhammer 40k and it had me completely hooked.  Super human soldiers, tanks and walking fighting robots?  What's not to love.  I started off with a blood angels army and absolutely loved it.  I spent many Sundays going to my local GW to play in their mega battles and being a general pest to their staff.

Welcome!

This blog is a place for a few of us to release our inner greek and show our love for the Warhammer 30k universe or more specifically the Horus Heresy.

There'll be three of us and we'll introduce ourselves in a separate post but I will say we're all long time fans of Games Workshop.

As with any fan of this hobby we've got a lot of models to assemble and paint (an endless supply really).  To help us achieve that we're going to do a Hobby Challenge.

Hobby Challenge Guidelines:

Goal: 1500 point painted force

Deadline: 6 Months

Monthly Commitment: ~250 points

    - Doesn't have to be exactly 250 points a month, but in the end we will have a 1500 point force complete.

Post Guidelines:

    - commitment post

        - pics of commitment

        - points pledged

    - completed post

        - pics of completed minis

        - group shot so far (optional)

        - points completed so far

        - high/low points during month (optional)

We're going to start July 1st and end December 31st.  Stay tuned for more update!