Being in a small rush and on a timetable to finish my Hordes force for June, I just spent about 6 hours painting my first 40k figure in a few months. Contrary, I know.This is the classic 90s model of Marneus Calgar, Chapter Master of the Ultramarines and "Lord Macragge". I got him cheap off Ebay and lavished him with some care and attention. The photos dont really do him justice as I think this is about as well as I can paint a model with my skills.
My main 40k army is Ultramarines so the model will get used, but if I was being super logical I wouldn't have painted him for a while. I guess that is one of the contradictions inherent in this hobby. To quote Omar in The Wire, "Do what you feel". In some ways, this goes to the core of the hobby for a lot of people.
All my armies were chosen on gut feeling; a combination of aesthetics, playstyle and power level coming into it. You chose what you want to model, paint and play but what informs these choices? Some days I can look on the web/white dwarf/ hobby shop and get the urge to want to collect a whole new army. This is despite already having a ton of models to build and paint and play with. Is it just greed that makes us do this? Or is it the manufacturers nefarious marketing? Damn them for making such fine models!
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