"I've had enough!"... My desk was a complete mess. So much junk I barely had room to work. And with junk I mainly mean all sort of unfinished scratch built projects and pieces for them. So I sent my wife to IKEA with a shopping-list of a few items to help me organize my desk. The result:


It feels so much better with a clean desk! The shelves on the right side of the desk holds all the junk now sorted in big red plastic boxes. One for the stompa, one for the warhound etc.

And as you can see on my desk, Ive started yet another project. A while back I found this soda can sci-fi building tutorial over at Terrainthralls and it's been rattling around in my head. I wanted to start a small project I knew Id finish fairly quick just to get that "I finished a project" feeling. I'll most likely do more of these small "generic sci-fi building" type projects since it's quick, easy and fun.

I didn't feel like working on the figs last night. Too tired. Instead I pulled out some stuff to make another game table piece. Ive got 6 or 8 pieces of plywood each some 60x60cm that I intend to use as game table. I dont want to just cover em all with sand, but want to do something ... more. My goal is a sorta post-apocalyptic industrial rusty desert thing.

Now to rewind. I watched all the StarCraft 2 movie clips on their website this weekend with my 8 year old son who loved it all. So do I :) Have you seen the Protoss game play video? Its the first video they released way back. Check out the terrain. Its like a sci-fi city built into asteroids floating in space. Beautiful! Sci-fi technical stuff sticking out of the rock. Inspiration!

So with that SC2 map in mind I set to work last night wanting to build a piece for my table. Didnt finish it but Im happy with the progress. Photos will come once its assembled.

Then on a swedish 40k message board I noticed a discussion about Chapterhouse Studois which is a business that sells bits of their own design for 40k. Really cool stuff. Check em out. Anyway. On that board I found out that one of the sculptors is a guy from my neck of the woods! Even cooler. And he said that he was looking for concept art for new stuff to sculpt. So I PMed him and now Im all fired up to draw some sweet concept art that might end up being built and sold world wide. Coolest! :D

One piece Im working on goes by the working name "steampunk feral mecha". Itll be my new version of the ork deff dread which Im sorry to say isnt the best model GW has made. IMHO. Oh well. Hopefully Ill have som sketches to show by the end of the week :)

You too? Hang around message boards too much instead of actually working on your own figs? My excuse is my kids and all the other things that fill up the everyday. It's easier to sit and surf around Warseer with a one year old in the lap, than sit and paint my figs with the same son on the lap :P

If you haven't been to Warseer, go there. Find their Science Fiction Project Log section and you'll be set for a while with WH40K logs of varying degree of awesomeness.

One of my favourites atm is of course a slaaneshi army by tortoise. It is awesome. And several pages long by now so if you haven't seen it before you are in for a nice treat :D

Hopefully I'll get to paint a little tonight. And this time I'll photo my progress so I can share here too, promise :)

I haven't touched my figs for months. Not from lack of inspiration or anything. Mainly lack of time and energy. I sometimes just don't know where to start. There is so much I want to do!

Here is a list of my current projects:

1 demon prince with wings. Its "only" painting left. Mainly.
2x6 noise marines. Six of them are supposed to be female and Ive only done the conversion work done on two of those. Six will be male and again two are converted. None finished paintingwise.
3 obliterators. Working on the conversions.
10 terminators. Magnetizing the arms.

Then there are a few more things like a warhound, wraithlord and ork trukk...... :P

But tonight I sat down and built ten bases for my termies. All done and ready to be painted. At least something, heh? ;)

I haven't updated in ages and will have to remedy that. With photos. Another day :)

Now I thought I'd just wish you all a merry new one, all you out there in the Void.

2008 has been an interesting year. It's the year I started with 40k. I thought I'd play more but I've been starting so many projects so nothings finished. Not even my first commission is done yet! Shame on me.

So here I'm hoping that 2009 will be the year I finish my first army. And my first commission. And my first warhound :D And much more *grins*

I'll most likely be starting a ton of new projects and I will work at being better at blogging them. Because I know you want a better view into the twisted mind of xedric....

So this is my blog. Im Niklas Mårdby aka xedric on several forums across the cyber galaxy. This blog will be on games, mainly Warhammer 40.000 and boardgames. Some other games might sneak in here.

When it comes to 40k, I will be showing off my conversions and commissions as well as other fun things I put together. I enjoy converting and building for the fun of it but also to be able to field figs that are unique and fluffy cool.

So subscribe and return soon. The Dome will wrack your thoughts with inspiration beyond your mere mortal mind.