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Tuesday, 30 September 2025
Already Making Progress
Monday, 29 September 2025
Start Of The Week And A New Old Plan
Sunday, 28 September 2025
End Of The Week - And I'm Cheating A Little (25+3)
Another busy week. Two days during the week disappeared and I've had two days of fun with my daughter. I have been doomscrolling a bit too much. The prospect of WW3 is picking at my child of the 80s thing. So what do I do? When the going gets tough, the tough buy a couple of tins of corned beef and make post apocalyptic terrain. And more hexes. Lots more of them.
When I think about most of the games I have run and worked on over the years, the apocalypse features in there somewhere. Even my Viking game is set in the run up to Ragnarok. In most of the sci-fi stuff there is a war of apocalyptic proportions running in the background.
In terms of figure painting, if I look at what has interesting me this year, there has been an end of the world vibe. Sludge has been called Napocolyptic, I've been painting stuff for a 1960s / 1980s apocalypse in the form of Atomfallish) SunderDground, there is some Nurgle stuff on the bench not to mention Frostgrave, Stargrave and Mordheim. Let's call it a coping mechanism.
The primary focus for the week has been more hexes. A project two years in the making. Plenty got done this week. I've managed most, if not all of the non-blank tiles. There are another fortyish blank tiles to do. I think I will need more paint. So I've not started the second round yet. Plus it sounds like a lot of work.I added a few more bits into the mix. Battle mats were kind of the inspiration for the whole hex thing. Deep down I wanted variety. I wanted a corner that could be a different colour. So I was thinking badlands as one of them. Basically desert but with a few bits of junk and perhaps a more varied colour scheme with yellow or orange. So I have done a few pieces. Only one is actually newly done. The rest are stuff that was in progress.Having seen nothing but things with six sides (well technically eight) I decided it was time for a palette cleanse. Painting eighty odd of them will do that to you.. I took a look at what is in the immediate hex queue. It's almost all the basic plain hexes. So about as dull a job as I can imagine especially as it's about fifty of them which will just be white with a wash.I've done a fair bit of a priming, including some scatter terrain. I have a pile of stuff lying around. Whilst I like the infinite variety of individual bits of scatter, I don't like the near infinite task of putting them away. So time for bases of grouped bits. There is one piece that is really just fantasy, a few bits of sci-fi stuff but it's mostly modernish and apocalyptic. Hence my earlier diatribe. These are actually finished, suitably grabbed up with painted bases. I just can't find the picture and can't be bothered to drag them out of the box.
So if next week goes to plan it will be back to the final phase of Atomfallish. I have some more mainstream troops, who will double for most forces. There are also some fascists in there. If the end of the week goes to plan, there might be some commies too. Even more fascists are needed and winter Germans and fallschimjager fit the plan.If not I have no idea what to do next. I have some stuff I can use for an unofficial Empire army/Witcherish (which given the approach of the wild hunt I am also counting as an apocalypse, if pre-apocalypse counts).
I got three Coftyran Quar this week. They were cheap. The plan is to try painting some and see if I like it. Like it enough to buy six boxes and a couple of tanks as I doubt anyone else will be buying the other side. I can see three boxes on my wishlist.
Then there are more hexes to do. If I get the paint, I will finish off the Paradise City set. Well I say finish. I've had some thoughts. Maybe I will look at Paradise City Lost. I have some stuff that might turn into a full badlands/desert set and I have the deep stuff to cut up and I would really like to do the trenches and maybe even the alien tunnels.
I've also made my my first Temu purchase. It's mostly terrain orientated. So that might arrive. Lots of tat and some rollers. I guess I will see how things go. Then there are some second GDub bits won on auction. Probably eBay rescue time.
Monday, 22 September 2025
Start Of The Week - Even Not, Even More Freaking Hexes
Sunday, 21 September 2025
Even More Freakin Hexes
It's getting close to winter so I wanted to make sure that I have all my priming done, any jobs in the shed were complete and the shed itself was secure. Before it starts to get too cold. Instead it got wet. Very wet. Today has been the only day I could even contemplated it and I've been a bit manic.
Terrain projects tend to get done in the shed. The last thing I want is bits of expanded polystyrene in the house. Especially the bobbly stuff. Thus sems to attract static and then get carried everywhere. For some reason everything I need has ended up in the house.
So I have some hexes to finish. Well a whole box of them that are part complete. Maybe two boxes. And a bit. Not to mention I want to use the laser to cut some more.
I have basically been working on three subsets which are modern/modernish/post apocalyptic in nature. It has taken some fettling. Then there is another project, which will split into two sets.
The stuff I have has mostly been sat around for two years. I've just needed to get it all in one place and get some mojo working. The first is the suburban path. Nice simple smooth lines. It's designed to be in good working order but not perfect. The kind of thing you might find in the burbs or a park.The second is the post apocalyptic version the first path. These are designed to look heavily mashed up. I wanted them to fit in with the existing apocalyptic stuff I've done. Sort of a green corridor with a path in the middle.these have taken quite a bit of work to paint and the bashed details took forever. Then there is a test piece.Lastly is something of a rural path. Big flags, mortar and sets running along the edge. I sort of think they are finished. I am also contemplating changing colour of the flag stones.
I have also finished a lot of other stuff. It's part of a bigger project, so not really finished yet. The general idea is to have a near future paved city. The plan was to call it Paradise City. I may have been listening to Guns and Roses in the 90s. This would then segue into a ruined set. This would be called Paradise City Lost. 🧐 Did you see what I did there? Desert hexes was another plan. This would be another 150 tiles. Which is a mission. So I might might start with a transition set. So grass to desert. Or urban ruin to badlands (or a more fun name for desert). Or both. Enough to turn and edge or a corner into something else for visual interest.
There are still a load of tiles to work with. Then there is another hundred, much deeper tiles I need to cut. These are probably going to end up as a trench system. I don't discount the possibility that they will end up as an alien hive.
As I am now knee deep in hexes, I think I might well stick with with the job in hand. I still have the Atomfallish stuff to do. I may have some more in a couple of weeks. I am also thinking about the Witcherish idea. I have some minis that will work. I also got a few Quar, as more of a test. It's probably hexes.