88% and the quest for WYSIWYG

So, I have now decided that the ironclad dreadnought is probably the way to go. This seems odd given my last game with him, in which he didn't exactly suck, but didn't exactly contribute, and may appear on the surface to be driven by a laziness in regards to painting a whole bunch of whirlwinds (and also an incredible difficulty to source the parts for said whirlwinds without a ludicrous expenditure). But there is a deeper reason, namely that mission one of the LGT will be big guns never tire. - I think having three whirlwinds just sitting in the back field (plus the two devastator squads) is just handing a savvy opponent that first game on a silver platter. - If anything my last game taught me that every point matters and I should not think lightly about dangling that many primary mission points in my opponents face. 

I am however a capricious painter / gamer, and this may of course have changed by as soon as tomorrow. For now though I'm excited about my pending dreadnought purchase. - Especially as I finished the scouts tonight as well! 

This, plus the change to the dreadnought from the whirlwinds, means I'm at 88% complete, so looking strong! Although I have a terrible feeling that I may need to work in some combi meltas which will just, yet again, nuke my attempt at stats. 

I've now begun the bizarrely entertaining process of making sure every mini in my army is WYSIWYG. - Although in another utter noob 40k moment, I realised that all space marines have bolt pistols, which I did not know. I have not, and have no intention of /modelling this. But I don't think I have ever, in the history of time, seen an army where this has been fully done. 

On to slightly more achievable WYSIWYG goals, my painting desk now contains 5 bolters. Super exciting and totally worth a pic.