Progress?

Ack, half the first month gone already!

Meant to post an update earlier than this, but i've been distracted by other things and awaiting my initial purchases.
I meant to follow in the style of the original White Dwarf articles and limit myself to £25 a month (would also help my wallet out too), but price changes since then put that idea out of the realms of feasibility. That and i got a bit carried away with looking at bitz sites, and ended up spending way more than i really should :(
Anyway, initial purchases went as follows:
-1x box Devastators
-1x box Sniper Scouts
-A buttload of Greenstuff
-£20 worth(!) of random bitz
Think i spent just over £50 in the end O.o
To be fair, i managed to pick up some very useful stuff in with the bitz order that i wouldn't normally have been able to. I want to get a Master of the Forge eventually, and to try and go with a bit of a Mechanicus theme i picked up some of the Ravenwing techmarine helmets and shoulderpads, and i also managed to get the Techmarine from the Thunderfire kit, albeit without the backpack as they were out of stock. Also got some cheap special weapons and a set of the excellent pouches from the Scouts sprues

Ordered these at the end of may, and due to delivery delays the box sets only arrived this morning. Handily enough, i've got the next week off work, so i'm hoping to get plenty of stuff done. Already put together the five scouts and most of a heavy weapons marine (the new plastics are awesome looking but a pain to put together, however i can bet the metals were even worse). Some of them still need some greenstuff work due to a conversion or two, but otherwise i hope to get some paint on them tomorrow.
I've started work on a Captain for the force too, but due to the fact i've still not decided on a final list i'm still unsure of exactly what i'll be taking.

For the moment, the list i'm roughly working towards is as follows:

Captain - bolter and power weapon -115
Tac Squad - 10 marines, meltagun and plasmacannon -180
Tac Squad - 5 marines, just bolters -90
Scout Squad - 5 scouts, sniper rifles -75
Drop Pod (undecided as to which squad to give it to) -35
---Total -495pts ----

Still unsure on a lot of things, the Captains weapons for starters. I really want to try out some of the funky weapons allowed by the new codex, but i don't want to gimp the rest of the force by giving him too much stuff that he won't get the use from. The auxiliary grenade launcher especially keeps drawing my eye, but i dunno if it'll ever get use apart from when i'm charging things, but then i run the risk of killing or breaking whatever i'm wanting to charge.
I could also:
-Change the drop pod for a rhino - means i don't have to convert up the pod and since i already have a rhino i don't need to buy anything. Also a rhino loooks better and i could make it look like a mobile command post. Thinking ahead, i could then use this as a Damocles command rhino in bigger games :)
-Get rid of the drop pod and give the Captain terminator armour and a powerfist. There's no real reason behind this other than me having played around and made a terminator i'm really happy with. Getting rid of the transport would seriously limit my mobility and means to counter-assault threats
-Cut out some of the marines and add some toys. Weapons for the Captain, gear for a sergeant, stealth cloaks for the scouts, there's lots of things i could throw in. I'm a bit reluctant to do this though as i prefer the weight of numbers i have currently, and if i start taking guys out of the 10-man squad i can't use the combat squads rule. i think i'd prefer to use this since it'd give me 2 mobile squads to take ground, and i could leave the scouts and plasmacannon squad to give covering fire

Hopefully gonna be able to get some paint out tomorrow, Moon has also requested we do a step-by-step painting thing showing our process, so i need to do this as soon as i have a suitable marine ready - most of them still need some kind of greenstuff or converting work
Should have some new pictures in a few days so i'll endeavour to update once i do.