I'm not sure I took pictures of these ones, some are from the Frostgrave Barbarians I'm not sure where I picked up the sprue from, probably from a Nickstarter at some point.
So I got a bunch of models from the last Hasslefree sale at the really discounted prices but some of them were bits of sets so I'll need to pick up some of the others at some point.
Azura Halforc Shaman and Archmage Raisa
So another 28mm Squad of infantry. This time it's the Grymm infantry from Hasslefree.
I like the models, I just wish that now that I've figured out lighting for taking pictures that I hadn't given that it shows up so many errors in my painting that I can't see by normal eyesight.
Either way, they look fine in person.
So got the cloaked halflings from Midlam painted up and based maybe last week. This is unit 1 of my plan to make units for Dragon Rampant with whatever I still have to paint/tidy up.
Next up is a number of adventurers from Hasslefree that are primarily for Thud and Blunder/Mordheim type games but fit the bill nicely. I also have some SciFi and Burrows and Badgers finally nearing completion as well now that I've started getting back into my painting.
So I finished basing the Ikwen a while back but never got round to taking pics, so that's now been done because I have also finished some buildings. Ikwen up first, this is just a small sample as they are the unlimited force for the games but I have about 2 platoons worth in total I think.
I purchased a set of 15mm pre painted buildings from 4Ground and despite them being an utter pita to put together. (I think the instructions would be far better served starting with the smaller buildings and working their way up to the biggest fiddliest building as the last one.
They went together okay in the end, but I did make a couple of mistakes along the way, some of the bits are really small and the labeling on the cutout sheets isn't the easiest to read and I did end up having to pry some pieces apart before the glue dried because I'd misread the label or what it applied to. The example being those little vents/air con units that you can see are 7 pieces and should have been 8, but I didn't successfully get the last piece out of the sheets for any of them.
Regardless these are all for use with Tomorrow's war/ambush alley/Force on Force Asymmetric warfare, played on a 2'x2' board in 15mm. Brigades polish force vs the indigenous Ikwen. I've still got bits to make up scenery wise, but I have forest bits, buildings, and I want to finish off more barricades, fencing, junk piles etc.
So 15mm done for a bit. back to bigger things for a bit.
So this has been very bad year for a large number of reasons, but sticking to painting my focus is normally based on upcoming games which obviously haven't been happening. But weirdly without that shifting focus for upcoming games I've somehow managed to complete several projects over the course of the year.
All things considered that's actually pretty good going I think. This coming year assuming we don't all die in an alien invasion or something I plan on getting the remainder of the terrain for the 15mm board finished. I think I've got most of it together now, it just needs assembled and painted, other than perhaps some more scatter terrain.
Burrows and Badgers is a thing I would like to get everything finished before the next Kickstarter comes along, we'll see how that goes.
Finish off the 6mm epic marines, I need to buy a few things to finish off the Dark Angels and Blood Angels I've started from the remains of my bits box. I think I can get everything else I need from Vanguard and Alternative Armies and hopefully for under £30.
At some point GZG will finally get the new ESU fighters released, it's only been two years since I was told to wait for them, when that happens I'll see about getting an order together to get the fighters and bulk out the UNSC fleet I bought on Ebay.
Other stuff lying around, a small host of 28mm fantasy villagers, wizards, halflings, and adventurers from Hasslefree and Midlam that will need to get finished up and get the campaign (Thud and Blunder) written up properly.
Scifi models as well from Hasslefree, a squad or so of Grymm troopers and some extras for my Rogue Stars squads.
Longer term planning I'm still waiting on Pendrakon releasing the TB-Line Islamic Cavalry to finish off my Warmaster Arabs, and if that happens I'll need to dig through the box of Medievals to expand that army up to match.
It's a lot done and a lot still to do, but I think I'm finally starting to settle on a set of Game systems that I enjoy playing and would be happy to continue playing. The only area I'm still a bit up in the air about is Scifi armies, 28mm or 15mm as I'm still not sure about Grimdark Future and I fell out of 40K because although I have decent sized armies they're not compatible/big enough any more also the feel of the game I used to like seems to have disappeared in recent editions from what I've seen, now whether that's just what I've observed through the eyes of the internet which I agree perhaps isn't the best of example I don't know, there's a lot of good talk about the newer editions of 40K, Gruntz is still something that I need to get round to trying out but again it's one of those that seems to have very mixed reviews.
Anyways enough rambling, time to get back to my beer.
So again, not posted for a while, I've been busy tidying up and magnetizing my epic forces. This has involved a whole lot of painting of bases for vehicles as they never had them before. I'll get round to flocking the bases once I've finished tidying up and finishing the remainder of those additional marines and guard.
Space wolves, they've been done for a while so only needed the vehicles based for magnetizing.
Other marine forces, with some extra bits and pieces I can make both of these forces up to 2,000pt Epic forces without too much effort, but this is the box I'm currently working my way through.
Chaos forces, mostly Nurgle Death Guard with one detachment of Emperors Children. Again this was a pretty much previously finished force with just the bases to be added.
There's still some other stuff on the painting table, some Burrows and Badgers and some Hasslefree fantasy models that I've just struggled to get on with, the epic stuff has been much easier to get my head into.
