Welcome to Nocturne Forgeworks!

Why start a blog?
Hell, why not. Everyone and their dog apparently is doing one, so why not me?

For those of you who don't know me, and I hope that eventually there will be a lot, My name is Brandon Wright. I have been an avid collector, reader, and player of most of the Games Workshop games. Most specifically, Warhammer 40,000. Not to say that I don't, or haven't played other games, but 40K is my favorite.

I can still remember a friend of mine telling me all about the superhuman, genetically altered space marines while we were running in middle school gym class. Especially about critically wounded marines be spinal tapped into walking sarcophagi called dreadnaughts! I had to check these guys out!

Now, that was waaaaay back at the end of the 80's! And I've been hooked ever since! In case you couldn't tell, I am a Salamanders chapter/legion fan. Ever since I first laid eyes on them back in White Dwarf 123. Maybe it was the black skin making them look not quite human, or more than likely, it was the flames catching the attention of a young pyromaniac! Whatever it was, I've been a strong fan and supporter of the 18th legion.

My first picture of the Salamanders!

This blog is, hopefully, going to help keep me motivated to paint and keep up with the hobby aspect of my 40K addiction. I will be posting up what I am painting and what army lists I am using. I am one of those that has many things I would like to do, yet very few that I actually do. Least of which is the main inspiring reason for this blog:

Amongst other things.... I BOUGHT A THUNDERHAWK!!!!

But before I can build and paint it, I have to get this cleaned so I can have somewhere I can work on it and not have it spread all over anywhere else in the house:

Every time I get it cleaned, it just seems to end up worse!

But, before I can even get the Thunderhawk started, I have another project I need to finish first. i started working on some of the new Centurions and ran out of magnets to get them finished. I will need to get these built before I can let myself start on the big project. So, hopefully, by mid November I will be able to dedicate myself to getting the behemoth started!

May this blog help me stay focused, vent my little rages in building such a mammoth model and inspire me to keep up on the hobby aspect of the game! Trust me, the acquiring part of the hobby is well under control....er, out of control?