To Special Character or Not To, that's the question!

Let's drum up some conversation from our readers and discuss something near and dear to everyone:  Special Characters.

Some of us hate them, some of us can't do without them.   Why is that?  What sways you either way?   Tonight, on Election Night, make your voice count!

(If it's not actually election night when you read this, pretend it is)

Myself... it's a toss up.  I don't like that they are so preposterously common as to not be special anymore.  But, at the same time, I do always espouse having fun over anything in the game.  Some people find these fun.  If they are playing people who don't mind special characters, then is it actually a problem?   After all, no one forces us to play against them.  We choose to, whether we like to or not.  

So yay or nay and why?

Noveldar, Day 5

He said let there be progress, and there was progress, and it was good.

Got a lot done today.  How much, you ask?  Two whole squads, that's how much!  Plus I sorted out my next several tasks and laid down some green on the vehicle hulls.

So here is the first squad I finished.  They had quite a bit done on them from Yesterday, but still took a few hours to finish up.

More after the break:

One Birdie done!

One is finished.  Obviously I still need to do the rider, but here's the bird-cat thing.

And yes, I do have the messiest painting table ever.

Noveldar, Day 4

Yeah, so much for daily postings, but I haven't been getting work done daily.  But I have gotten work done, so here I am a'postin'!

I started by trying to assembly line paint to catch up on the couple of days I lost, but I got tired of doing it halfway through.  Still it's a decent dent on the last two squads.

Then I went back to the fourth squad, which I'd actually started on Friday.  They are nearly done.  I'm halfway through the last highlight of grey on the blacks, then it's a general clean up on the blacks and a clean up of the whites, then gems and eye lenses and finished!

I'm very confident I'll have the 4th squad finished by tomorrow night, and then I'll probably go back to finishing the base blacks on the last two squads.

I still have 2 Warp Spiders, that second Wraithlord, 3 War Walkers, 4 Jetbikes, 2 Vypers, around 15 Harlequins, 5 Forgeworld Wave Serpents and 3 Night Spinners to go yet, so I'm not out of the woods yet.  But the infantry is largely done.

Demigryph Update!

Just a quick update before I head out for D&D for the evening.  Green Feevah is running a Pathfinder campaign.  Us, our wives and another fella.  We're currently going through the Rise of the Runelords campaign.  If you're into RPG's, I highly suggest Pathfinder.  Such a cool world.

ANYHOW... pictures!

This one is nearing completion.  I have to finish the base and we'll see if the actual gryph itself needs touch ups.   I need to blend the beak a bit more it looks like.   It's a really fun model to paint, I must say.

And proof the other two are in progress!

I've been painting too!

The title says it all.   Little me has been painting, though apparently not nearly as much as Green Feevah has been.   I started these lil fellas last night while watching Firefly...

And that's not all on my list of current WIP!   I happened to pick up something else today for a special project.   What you ask?    Check inside for spoilers!

Noveldar, Day one!

I'm off to a running start!  Okay, I cheated a little bit and have been working on it for the last day and a half, but I wanted to have some stuff to show on the first day.

So, without further ado, the pictures... after the break: