Of Epic Proportions (spring clean challenge 26)

Ian Watson one of the original GW authors died the other day. I’m not going to say his writing was poetic and artful, because if I’m completely honest I bearly remember it. What I do vividly remember it’s the atmosphere they created. The stories of inquistors, hive cities, assassins and homoerotic marines was completely different to the storm rocked Hebrides I was reading them in.

Although Games Workshop retconed his stories to death, the start was there, in my tiny teenage little brain. They started an interest in the 40k and the imperium.

So what has this to do with this project? Sod all really. But I wanted to write about this and this place, this project seemed right. If anything it’s Ians books that started the path I’m on.

Yet I want to do something that links my teenage enthusiasm, to the present day. So in honour of Ian Watson, I’m going to add a little Jaq Draco to this project. Even though they don’t have rules of inquistors in this edition, there will be a little Jaq in honour of these novels  and the effect his work had on my teenage mind.

So why am I rambling on about authors and making more pledges rather than painting the Devestators? It’s because I have an infected cut on my index finger, which is making painting interesting. Not painful but uncomfortable, and this scale doesn’t allow for poor brush control (and it’s not great to start with). But I can do all the prepping and undercoating so it should take less time to get the marines finished and the guard started.