End Of A Bumper Week (79)

I'm terms of a total count, a depending on my self imposed and highly subjective rules, this is my best ever week. Highly detailed and larger minis count as double and I have finished a lot of stuff over the last seven days. So...Go Me.

It is of course on the back of months not really finishing anything off. Not great. I am not even sure if I have my mojo back yet either. But it doesn't feel bad at all.

If I think about it I have got a lot of stuff done over the last fortnight. At least for me. 

I've posted most of the stuff I have finished already. These are the Carnevale miniatures. I like them but would love them if I hadn't lost one of them and another one one hadn't broken off at the ankles when I picked it up by the head. 

Then there are my mystery men. These are minis from The Damned. Love them but don't have much use for them now. So they have become a team of baddies for sUnderDground, a background that can always use more chaos. There are a few conversions here to fit the background which is kind of a cobble together of anything WW2 to the 1980. It seems to work. 

Not sure what to do next. It was going to be some aTrench Crusade stuff but I appear to have missed the window for that. I have a big stash of WW2 Soviets to paint. Not really feeling that at the moment. There are peasants and such for Traitor's Toll which seems to be up there. I'd like to do some more sUnderDground stuff. Right now I can't imagine why anyone would want to nuke London but I might be in the minority.

That leaves me with a whole load of Quar Crusaders. The artwork gives them a very Vietnam War American vibe. The lore makes them sound more like communists. Given that I have Soviets to paint and the paint to do it..... Well you get the idea.

I have one more order in. No idea when that is due to arrive. My guess is that will be the last for a while. Partly this down 

Not A Good Week

Nothing much is going right this week. Car stuff mainly. Still that's good news for the painting queue. This is a good chunk of the Fallout Wasteland Warfare box set that I got for something less than half price.

Still got some more to do. Think there are four left but not sure I will ever need a Reticulun. The power armour and a couple of settlers should be good fun though.

In terms of numbers it is looking like a good week. There are a few more details to do on the Carnevale stuff but they should be finished later today.

I am getting an Atomfallish and sUnderDground urge. There are some of The Damned prepped and primed and ready to go. These should be a quick win.

Job Done

For a while there has been a lot of minis on the bench gathering dust. There has been at least three projects on the go and I guess there are five, ISH at the moment. So it feels good to finish one.

These are mostly Traitor's Toll Guards from Wargames Atlantic. My new favourite miniatures company. I appear to have lost a couple of them on the way and there are another four someway down the pipe.

On to finishing the next project.

Start Of The Week - Mixed Bag

It's looking like a busy week again. All good fun. There is plenty to do. Having cleaned the desk I have already crowded it out with three plus projects that three plus projects on the bench. That might actually be five. Plus some randoms. I get confused. 🤔 

The current front runner are the guards. I was thinking Traitor's Toll but I have after some for ages. They don't fit in with any of the RPG stuff I have planned but, you know, they are just so shiny. Hopefully they will be complete tomorrow.

I have some Fallout stuff and Carnevale minis that are all but done. Both of these projects have vexed me. The Carnevale stuff has been a pain. The Fallout minis are all from the box set and unlike everything else, they are soft plastic. With soft detail. Although they are shaping up all of my projects seem to have stayed in the blobby stage for far to long.

It's good to be posting again. It's even better to see some progress.

The Quiet

I went to take the rubbish out earlier. Busy week ahead and I am just trying to get ahead. I live relatively close to a motorway. Close enough to be able to hear it, far enough away that it fades into the background if you are not specifically listening. It's always there when I tune in.

When I was outside putting the bin lid down I noticed something or rather the absence of it. There was some noticeable peace. Not a car to be heard, not even in the distance. Maybe it's the weather causing the sound not to carry from the motorway. Maybe not.

When I was doing my shopping earlier I saw my first queue at a petrol station. Not just any one, the one that is always empty. It's empty because it's always at least ten pence more expensive than every other one in the area. It's not like it was peak time, it was about three PM. 

Today feels like it was the calm before the storm. 

Start Of The Week

Mondays are always days full of possibilities. There is a whole new week. This is looking like a week with extra time built in. This is good for gaming but not so good for me and the real world. 

There has been a real attempt to slay the grey. Mainly by turning stuff into another shade of grey or in some cases beige. I am reminded of the time that I had enough primed and based minis to fill two long window sills. I currently feel the urge to prep the Guards of Traitor's Toll stuff I have, which currently looks like another sixty minis and the two sets of Fallout stuff I have. 

So I have made some progress. Tired but happy. There is a solid footing for some future progress. Easter is upon me. The next few weeks look like I might not have a large amount of free time. I think I will get some time and make some progress.

The Damned And Matters Arising

I rarely back Kickstarters or anything like them. I've had enough bad experiences to convince me that whatever I might gain I lose in the ones that don't show up. 

Despite this, when I saw The Damned campaign I backed it anyway. I mean it's Wargames Atlantic, what could go wrong? And the offer was really good. So many plastic frames. I think I was looking at over twenty extra frames. A kitbasher's dream.

If I look at my purchases of plastic kits, well over half on them are from WA. I like their stuff. I have a lot of Quar, Traitors Toll, their modern stuff, Trench Crusade, WW2 stuff and a few dozen separate frames of their stuff currently in queue.

So I got this box.

Not much packaging so it is almost full of frames. Lots and lots of goodies. I am really happy with the quantity and the quality is top notch. But...

It's three years later. I don't have a project for them now. I can shoehorn some of these into other projects. The only major project is sUnderDground. At most this is going used up about a third of the kits. If I push it. There is a little bit of buyer's remorse. I can bitch and moan about WA. The reality is I am unhappy enough to give them a Paddington Bear stare. The minis are nice, I just need to find a project. Given the size of the box, I guess I will have to trim them from the frame and put them in the bits box. I have another box of figures coming, again mostly WA, so I will need to get them in the bits box as soon as possible.

When I looked at their release schedule I can see me buying another fifteen to twenty boxes. So other than the Paddington Bear stare, I am still looking at being a good customer.