Another Mass Update (I really need to be better about this)

Another mass update as I'm still painting loads but not blogging to save my life. I swear I'll do better, if only for the simple fact of keeping track of stuff. Here we go with a breakdown of what I've done since the beginning of August.

Six 15mm Werewolves for a future "Dog Soldiers" Scenario I have planned.

Two excellent "Foo Dogs" from Fenris Games. These were a lot of fun to paint. I apologize for the terrible photos!

Victorian Lady from the In Her Majesties Name range.

Two Warlord Partisans that will probably see use as either IRA circa 1922 or Israeli's circa 1920-1948.

Bad Squiddo dwarf warrior for any fantasy system!

Wizard and Apprentice for Frostgrave/Mordheim etc. Kitbash of Fireforge and Northstar plastics. I'm pretty pleased with the hand-painted cloaks.

"There's a new Sheriff in town". I believe he's from Great Escape Games.

Another 4 Goblin Town Goblins from GW.

Four Amazons from Mythic Battles: Pantheon. Slowly grinding through the mass of figures for it.

Steampunk figures from the In Her Majesties Name range.

Heroes and Leaders from "The Battle of Five Armies".

Swarms of Bugs for my Necrons.

Destroyers for my Necrons.

Two Regiments of 6mm dismounted CSA Cavalry.

Bad Squiddo Dwarf Wizard/Witch. She may be one of my favorite minis done this year.

French Marines for French Indian War.

Chaos Champion for one of my Mordheim gangs.

Ruga Ruga for some Pulp fun. This was a free figure from Pulp Figures when I placed an order earlier this year.

Bob Olly Victorian Dwarf.

Fenris Game Chaos Cultist. Will be used in Mordheim.

Guildball Farmers Terrain. Obviously can be used for other games as well. 

Crooked Dice Insmouth Folk. Such lovely figures to paint.

Guildball Farmer

Two Gripping Beast Gladiators

Whew. That's a lot. Mainly because even though the US has not managed this pandemic well, the wife and I have basically been doing our own Lockdown except for going to the grocery store and work. I do hope you all have as good a Christmas as possible, and stay safe!

2020 Painted Figures - 220

2020 Finished Terrain - 11

2020 Games Played - 5

 

What I've Been Up to in 2020 So Far

Whew. It's been a long year so far eh guys? And it's only the 900th day of March.  I've been radio silent for awhile mainly due to Covid-19, working, moving house, a knee injury and frankly...just not having the mental capacity to blog. But I'm going to try and turn that around starting now.

So, during this global pandemic, I've taken the plunge and am currently running Call of Cthulhu for a rather large group of people in 5 different groups! It's been fun and incredibly challenging. Planning on doing a full write up in a later post.

I've also been painting, Quite a bit actually, so...let's break it down - 

 

Three Corpse Grinders for Necromunda.

Escher Gang members and a terrain piece for Necromunda

Javelin armed skirmishers for the Dark Ages.

Couple of Dark Age Zombies.

Zombie Kid and Survivor Cheech.

Couple of Victorian Horror Characters

Druid for Ancients or a Cultist for Horror

Katrina Van Helsing

Couple more Corpse Grinders and some Objective Markers for Necromunda.

4 More Victorian Horror Characters

Dead Man's Hand Gang

Weeping Angels

More Dark Age Zombies

A Regiment of Skellie Archers for either 9th Age, KoW, or WFB.

A Platoon of US Airborne for WW2 using Chain of Command

6mm Texas Infantry and Cavalry for ACW.

6mm Farmhouse for ACW

Tree Stumps as 15mm or 28mm Scatter Terrain

15mm Western European/Dutch Water Mill

Starter Skaven Warband for Mordheim.

Beastmen as a part of my Cult of the Possessed Warband for Mordheim.

15mm Western European Shop.

 2x bases of Skirmishers/Archers in 20mm for ancients gaming.

Pretty productive year so far. I'm guessing that'll continue as well since we're still isolating here in my house.

I sincerely hope you all are stay safe and well!

Keeper Dave out.

2020 Painted Figures - 137  

2020 Finished Terrain - 8

2020 Games Played - 4 

2019 - A Very Productive & Successful Year

My hobby goals for 2019 were -

1.  Paint more figures than in 2018.  So, I have to paint more than 121 figures.

Massively succeeded in this with a grand total of 308 figures painted! Ranging in scales from 6mm up to 75mm.

2. Play more miniatures games than in 2018.  So play more than 6 games. This will tie in with another goal further down the list.

Only played 6 miniatures games this year which is somewhat of a bummer but that'll change in 2020 I'm guessing. See more soon.

3. Complete two opposing forces for any period/genre.

I completed THREE forces for Vietnam in 15mm. ANZAC, NVA, and VC companies for Charlie Don't Surf were finished this year!

4. Kickoff my Gothic Horror/Steampunk campaign.

Nope, didn't even complete enough figures to make this viable, so we'll add this to the list for 2020.

5. Start a games club.  We have the interest and the name already, just got to get organized about it.

Kind of a success. We had a couple game nights and we have 13 willing "members" just coordinating and scheduling is still an issue. Another thing to improve in 2020.

6. Concentrate on smaller scales.  I have a ton of 2mm-20mm projects and I'm going to strive to focus on them this year.

Well over 200 of the completed miniatures were 6mm and 15mm so! Success!

7. Complete a metric shed load of terrain.  At LEAST double 2018's 6 pieces.  So goal of 12 pieces.

I finished 40 pieces of terrain in 2019, ranging from scatter terrain all the way to buildings. Success!

8. Finish my core platoon of German infantry for Chain of Command in 15mm.

Base platoon is finished and has been badly bloodied twice by those dastardly Soviets. Success!

9. Support small business.  The likes of Bad Squiddo, Forged in Battle, Peter Pig, Irregular, Baccus etc.

I can't even begin to list all the little companies I ordered from this year, but they've all been great. Special shoutout to Irregular Miniatures and Fenris Games for their stellar service and communication! Success.

10. Play every boardgame and miniatures ruleset in my collection.  That's going to take a lot of work, but should be a fun endeavor!

Hahahahahaahaahahahaha. Yeah, this didn't happen. That being said, 32 Games were played 115 times last year with 22 different players! Here's to 2020 being even better!

Happy New Year All!!!

Mythic Battles Figures, Zombicide & BadSquiddo Dwarves

Finished up a couple more figures - 

First up: Atlanta and the Minotaur from Mythic Battles: Pantheon. I'm...ambivalent with how they turned out.  I could've done a better job but I'm not going back to redo them.  Hearing rumors that Mythic Battles: Ragnarok is coming in June 2020 so better start saving pennies! 

Next up - On the left is the dwarf from the main game of Zombicide - Black Plague. Characterful bugger with a unibrow and an annoying mold line I missed on his hand.

On the right is a Badsquiddo Games female dwarf from the recent kickstarter. Once again, enormous fun to paint. Decided to go with a Shaolin Monk inspired paint scheme on her. Love how she turned out!

2019 Finished Figures - 308
2019 Finished Terrain - 40
2019 Games Played - 6