The Scions of Titan

Warhammer 40k. The bane of my bank account. I've played 40k since back in high school some time with the second edition boxed set. Currently I have sizable amounts of Tyranids and Chaos Space Marines that see table time. A couple years back I wanted to start a loyalist Space Marine army and was looking through the Codices available and thought the Grey Knights, the elite of the elite looked pretty sweet. After realizing that pretty much their entire range was metal (aka expensive) and that if I wanted to play a pure Grey Knight army without allied assistance it wouldn't work out too well on the tabletop the desire passed. Well, with the impending release of the new 5th edition Grey Knight Codex (and my preorder in the queue) I've revisited the chapter of psykers.

I picked up a Stormraven Gunship to work on in before the release, in some hope of some kind of head start. Also, you should know that I have a severe problem with devoting the time to getting my minis painted. I love love love doing various conversions and embellishments on my models, but they always seem to hit the table before I devote the time to paint them. And then I see something else the army needs ... well you can see where that cycle is headed. With Grey Knights I want to make a conscious effort to get the models, assemble AND paint them before expanding the force.

So yes, the Stormraven. This is an interesting project for me as well as I've never actually painted a vehicle before (surprise!). I've assembled a few, inherited a great many Chaos vehicles (some painted, some just primed) when I bought an army off a friend who stopped playing - but never the whole journey. And since I just started the blog, I figure I'll do a couple updates on this experience.

This last weekend I did some assembly and decided that since the hatch which pours the Emperor's Angels of Death out of the gunships innards onto some forsaken planet was hinged, that I'd try to paint up the inside at least a little bit so it wasn't drab plastic gray if someone peeked inside. 

So, as you can see I didn't expend too much effort on the inside details. Mainly a single coat of a mixture of painting and drybrushing Boltgun Metal over the interior. Than punching up a couple of the inner details with some color. I also didn't do myself any favors by constructing it as much as I did. If I did it again, I'd leave one side off so I could better access the interior details. If I'd done that, I'd probably spent some more time on this, but you live you learn.

Anyways, now to close her up!

A Blog?!?!?

Yes, a blog. I've long toyed with the idea of starting a blog, but never actually followed through with it. What will this blog be about? Pretty much gaming, and other nerdly arts. Here you will find ruminations, rants and the crazed thoughts that go flying through my brain at pretty much any spare moment. They will likely range from game design thoughts and theories, campaign ideas (or discussions of current ones), maybe the occasional product review and probably some Warhammer 40k modeling and painting.

As far as the name goes, yeah when I look at it does sound a little pretentious. But it also has history for me, it was the name of the first website I hard coded (HTML by hand) on a crazed sleep deprived coding bender that either approached or surpassed 24 hours. It was a community site for my friends who had no web design knowledge to post stuff about themselves and a home page for a weekly trivia email contest I used to run, a nascent MySpace I guess now that I look at it. Anyhoo, I got tagged as "The Greater Biznich of Tzeentch" for no good reason by a friend late in high school.

It stuck.

Over time its shortened to mainly The Biznich, and that's what I've used as my internet handle for pretty much all time. In common gatherings I'll get referred to as Biz by friends on occasion and often on my website which has now just focused down to a phpbb forum for discussion among friends and some play by post rpgs.

So here's to hoping you, whoever you may be, take something of interest from reading the blog of a guy who's gaming brain hamster will just never get off its wheel.

Oh also, I'd appreciate any feedback on the site layout its kinda the default right now except for the background which is something I whipped up in Photoshop like a decade a go.