Nerding out about boxes

 First off, I got the Deathwatch out yesterday for their first game and before I did, I managed to get this collection of lunatics painted:

They rewarded my hard work by refusing to make a charge, with a reroll, for three turns. It was infuriating. And the whole time, Blogger Pel's firebase was giving the rest of my force no end of grief because these idiots, and their angry priest, couldn't roll a decent charge. With a reroll.

Blogger Pel's murder marines, in particular his insane Death Company of flying murder, gave my Deathwatch something to think about. That many chainswords will cut up Terminators just so well. I have a lot to learn about how to really make this army work but it was a great lesson.

Also, I had a test game for our upcoming club competition in April and got my butt thoroughly handed to me by Blogger Tank. I knew Clausewitz lists can be brittle but ho boy. Being very reluctant got me very dead - a bunch of bailed out results and the army just stopped dead. And then ran away.

Finally, nerding out about boxes. I moved to a much smaller house a couple of years back and copious storage was not part of that puzzle so I've been looking for cunning plans to make storage of my models a somewhat simpler proposition. Some of it has been aggressive downsizing of the model collection (which is definitely a work in progress!)  but the rest has been working with clubmate Ryan and his laser cutter and we've reached peak storage genius:

 This fits in an off the shelf plastic box and holds my entire Flames of War collection. It's half and half Germans and Italians with a random little diversion into MW Pacific War Australians. It's awesome and I'm super happy to have all my toys so well stored! 

Next Time

Getting this storage sorted out has made me get a few things out of the box that still need to be done so I'm going to get off my butt and finish them. Especially with some cunning plans coming down the line for new toys....