End Of The Week

Having started well I hit a mix fntiredness, family stuff and the usual random. I've had two goodish days which has allowed me to finish. 

For the most part it's been all about the halberders. So that's fifteen of them done. There are some more to do.

Then there were another ten for the same project. I think there is another one somewhere.

About eighteen months ago I got some alien terrain. An impulse buy really. These were the three smallest items. It might spur me to start the alien terrain hexes 

Start Of The Bleak

It's time to start the week again. Even though it's a Tuesday. I've got more Empire stuff planned. I say Empire but I have at least three plans for them. There are tenish more free company, fifteen halberds (which are probably Bretonian and the odd free company member) and a couple more hangers on. I should probably bite the bullet and buy the Empire Army starter set. The plan is to do some chopping and changing. Some of the heads are quite distinctive (which means a male head with a vaguely pirate hat and an eye patch or an older guy with mad hair) which I don't want to many of. Greater arm and weapons variety would be nice too. So ideally I want all the bits in the same place. As with many eBay finds, the posing may not be great. Such as a mini with two outstretched arms, one holding a club the other with a bow. So I am waiting on some more stuff to arrive.

Somewhere in the near future I have yet more stuff for Atomfallish. More default Brits but plenty of late war winter Germans. These will be my British Union of Fascists. I need more bad guys so I think these will get done pretty quickly. There are twenty four coming so if I add something random, I'll have a weekly target. These have been on order for ten days.

I got hold of fifty ish WW 2 Russians and a T34. The plan had been to use them for Atomfallish. I have some very nice Neo Sovs from Copplestone that I will stick with. So I have a soviet army to paint. There is no way I am using a brush to paint that much green. This should be the excuse I need to get the airbrush out but I am going rattle can it. Assuming I can find the paint at the right price and they will deliver before Christmas. I even looked for a wargamming show. The next one I can fit in is February.

On top.of that are just over twenty future warriors. Some street punks, which will do duty for cyberpunk and some wasteland types. I am toying with the idea of buying some more of the robots I already have. Along with some Copplestone stuff and maybe a few more robots. I have a project in mind.

Somewhere deep inside is the nagging urge to paint a Turnip 28 army. I have some minis ready to go. There are plenty of bits to make this happen.

End of the Meek - Getting Tough with Myself +29 ,(27) And Some Zomtober Stuff

I made target. Whoop whoop. If I want to hit all those targets I set myself, I need to get a wiggle on. There are miniatures to daub and posts to butcher. 

 I finished my planned project for the week which were my Zomtober "Last Night On Earth" minis. Twelve more zombies and the eight characters. Having been disturbingly affect by George A Romero as a child (well 16, they have age restrictions for a reason) I am now somewhat obsessed with the zombie apocalypse. If we are in the early stages of World War III, the zombie apocalypse has been going on for a few decades now. Take a trip to Rochdale or Winsford if you don't believe me.

These minis are not my best ever work. I put as much work in as I could as there is very little detail to work with. You cafe polish a 💩. I still want a video store clerk although that archetype might be a little dated.

I put all the zombies in the picture even though I finished two of them last week. I did paint the bases this week. It was fun not having to glue the buggers together.

I got hold of some dark age stuff last weekend. These were already painted. Mostly. To get them to a minimum standard, I've done some touching up. The horses now look less brown. I don't have too many crossbowmen. I guess these are vaguely Norman. For the sake of an argument, I am calling this five minis. Which gets me to my weekly total. 

With the above finished by Friday I had a bit of time. So I had some time to fool around. My unplanned Warhammer Empire army got a few additions. So some got bundled into the queue.

There are three Coftyran Quar done. I like these, which is good because these were a trial run to see if it was a project I wanted to folliup.I've ordered some more. Really I should have a plan for them.  These haven't arrived yet or they would probably be at the front of the queue.

Eyes Down

After yesterday I started to think about the progress I am making. At the start of the year I thought I would try my luck at a gamers bingo card. I decided it was time to revisit it. I guess it was supposed to motivate me. Even though I haven't really used it, my motivation has returned a little.

As far as blogging goes, I have posted as much so far this year as I have in the last six years. If I'm I continue being a good boy, I might even have posted as much as the last seven years. This is a bigger ask as I was still blogging a fair bit then. This will mean doing a bit more posting than I have of late. 

My view on blogger is starting to change. Last month I managed to get five percent of my total hits. I am not sure if I know how things actually work online anymore. My suspicion is that my blog is very popular. In all honesty it's probably very popular with Google's AI. I'm still blogging for me. Maybe some day my daughter will read it. At least I hope. T-Dog, if you are reading this I hope it puts a smile on your face.❤️

I was hoping to do a bit more 3d printing. As the printer is in my bedroom, I have been promising myself that I would build some sort of booth to manage the fumes. It probably won't be sir tight, but that's what gaffer tape is for. 

As for the bingo. It's what this post is all about. I am getting close to filling out the central box. This was the gaming gold for the year. The two outer rings were supposed to be fun stuff. In hindsight, I should probably have left the outer rings off. Reading in particular is proving to be something that gives me a migraine. I can just about read on the toilet but more than that gives me a headache. I mean migraine. My first novel of the year took me five months to finish. So no chance of one a month. The bonus square is now full. Bonuses are awarded for doubling a target.

If I can get Disney to work on my TV I am off to watch all three Star Wars trilogies and tick off one more box. This may be my last post. I am not sure I will survive watching episode VIII again.😱

Targets

So I kinda started the year with a plan. Which was strictly speaking two plans. The bingo being the official one with painting a thousand minis by year end. It's been a bit of a rollercoaster. I've had a summer where things were rather busier than expected. So I didn't get much done and even less finished.

It occurred to me last night that I was going to miss the latter target.  Having set my mind to it, I might just make it. If I do twenty five minis (well twenty four and a bit) per week I can still get there. So the plan is finish at least that many in each week.

Zomtober - Still Shiny

Zomtober is still running. This phase is just about over. I'd kinda planned to keep the current project running a bit longer. The minis, being a bit soft on detail, haven't taken to long. I found the one missing character which took about twenty minutes to paint. It's about par for the course. I have another set somewhere. It cost me a pound on a car boot sale. It occurs to me that it might be worth painting the remaining zombies.

The paint isn't dry yet. I still need to paint the bases. Happy with the progress. I might go and carve out a few more hexes and maybe go and buy a box to put them in. And a house to put the boxes in.🤔

Getting Distracted

I know it's normal for tabletop gamers to get distracted. Perhaps I am a little more distractible than most. If you can stick with a project, please accept my apologies for the generalisation. 

My plan for the week got dropped briefly. So I have had two sheets of foam with hex bases leaning against a wall for about a year. Long enough for dust to settle. It's been causing me a problem every time I see it. I've been putting it off because I realised how much effort it was going to cut it. I lost an evening to the first sheet and now my hands hurt. 

I now need to figure out where to put them.🙄