Happy New Year - Or 2026 The Plan

2025 has been a good year. It's been the first year that every day hasn't felt like Salmon Day since my dad died. So it's nice to feel a bit of joy again. Most of the year has gone to plan. I have had a sense of balance again, even if I have been a bit slow. 

If last year was the year of bargains, this year has been iyear of freebies. I am very grateful to the people I game with. Some has come from a well loved member of my club who I think I remember from decades ago in another club. Cheers Dave.

The blog has done well this year. I've had about 100,000 hits in 2025. Not a single new follower though. Much as I like the numbers, I suspect it's all down to AI. From the start I felt this was going to be a good year. Some health and family didn't really agree. I did however manage.to publish as many posts this year since life changed in 2018. In fact I am close to posting as many times in all the years since.

My original plan had called for a picture of everything I had painted this year. When I looked at it my guess was that it was going to take about an hour to set up and take down. I just haven't got the energy for that. From one perspective, this is a good thing.

I kinda had a sub plan to paint a thousand minis this year. This was an attempt to push myself. Two hundred and fifty and five hundred seemed more realistic. Stuff happened in the background so this kinda petered out despite being on track until about November. The final number was XXXX. So I am realistically quietly happy.

Sludge, the wargames rules, really hit me hard. I've finally got round to building and painting an armi. Which is just about enough for two armies as I don't expect anyone else to get involved. I have yet to decide on a finish line but I am past where I wanted to be. I can feel a few more units in the offing. I can see at least a unit of heavy cavalry (twelve knights with pistol and modern helmets. Another unit or two of infantry and some specialiss might also make it into the plan for 2026. The minis are there waiting to be built. I can also see a light and heavy tank coming to a workbench near me mainly because I have one ready to go and probably some light tanks that are waiting for purchase. These come from the Quar range.

Quar, A Clash of Rhyfles seems like another shoe in. There is the tank I have already mentioned and some more Coftyran minis to go. This would complete the original plan. I could see some more infantry and even another tank But I think a second army might be a better choice. This is another system that I don't see anyone buying into so if I want to play I might need to buy the Crusader army. I am also looking at the Fidwogs who are coming in force this year. I have priced them up and looking for a seat (as soon as I recover from Christmas). These should be able to share scenary with Sludge.

About ten years ago I ran a Fallout based TTRPG which I loved. It was all done in 15mm and very much involved a lot of fudging. So I have ordered some Fallout Wasteland Warfare / Factions stuff, which is mostly yet to arrive. Bigger chunkier minis and lots of them. If I can get some good deals I will be ordering more. I have raiders coming and expect to move towards the New Vegas stuff the next time a sale comes along.

Blood Bowl is an ever present feature on my blog. I managed to paint my Skaven team and kit bash a few mutant types. Then I painted some goblins to round out my ork team. Some star players are still on the bench. The Skaven were a stumbling block for me. There was about four times as much work gone into them as the typical minis I paint. This almost caused a painting wobble. . I can't see any major purchases this year but I have seven teams to paint. I should probably paint two teams this year. So I guess I am on a few more star players at some point.

I have amassed a truly inspiring amount of bits this year with a plan to kit bash stuff. A good chunk has been used to build the Sludge army but also my Atomfallish/ sUNDERdGROUND game. I've really enjoyed this project and have some more ideas for it. So I strongly expect to do more in 2026. 

So this brings up the issue of storage. I am close if not actually at the point where I have run out of space. I need in the region of twenty foam trays and the boxes to put them in. The above illustrates the need for another 35l RU box and realistically I need two ( the other being for hexes).The smaller box will hold some of my daughters stuff. This will require space I haven't readily got.  There needs to be some thoughts on throwing stuff out, reorganising the attic and the shed. The attic is where stuff goes to die whilst the shed means it's dead until it gets warm. A bigger house would be nice.

I was planning on buying some Soviet bits for the above. It seemed like a good idea despite having this bit of the plan covered by my Irregular Minis Neo-Sovs (please make some more). I was talking it through with a guy I know who produced a Soviet army box at half price. I've acquired a few more sprues and been given plenty of bits. Whilst the plan was for sUNDERdGROUND, I now have a WW2 Soviet army for 28mm. About £50 would round it out and about £60 would buy everything I could want.

2025 started with a lot of Star Wars Legion stuff to paint. This has kinda got lost in the weeds. There seems to be a lot of stuff coming out in the next year or so. Some stuff I would like and some that would give me a wider range of poses. The initial purchase was seen as more of an idea for a role playing game, which has more meat on the bone. Not feeling it right this minute but I am sure that will change.

Carnevale is a game I hadn't really considered until this year. As I might actually get a game in, it seemed more like a going concern. So there are some minis on the bench right now. I can conceive I will buy some more but I will wait until I have painted what I have and played a few games. 

Paint is the one thing I say I will never buy. I have even given some away this year. I think I have only bought about twenty bottles this. One of the Grim dark sets and some Speed / Contrast / Express paints. I have acquired, mostly free or stupidly cheap about twenty paints in Vallejo type bottles (about £3 for the lot) and about 100 Foundation paint system paints (can't remember paying for them so they must have been cheap if I did). There is the possibility that I might get some more Speed / Contrast / Express paints as I am short of a few colours and maybe the other Grimdark box. I am running out of practical storage solutions so I probably shouldn't. 

I did buy some acrylic paint pens too. Not the £3 each kind, the £10 for forty kind, found on the market. I have had a play about with them. Not bad but not good enough to get me to buy a complete set of the good ones. I could see me buying some earth tones, greens and browns. I would sooner wait until I find some cheaper ones in the right colours.

BattleTech is something I have spent money on this year. I have even made progress with some of it. I am not sure I have finished a mini this year. I got a good deal on one box and an ok deal on the mercenary box. My plan sort of calls to buy the BattleTech amAces set, purely for the minis. If I find something cheap, I might spring for it. I can see me painting some mechs in 2026 and my intention is not to buy any more until I have made a good effort at painting what I have. 

Fantasy and dark age (there isnt much of a difference for me) are still in the mix although haven't played a big part of the year. I still have a hankering for some more hobbits even though they aren't part of the vision. There is a plan for some more stuff but this is quite vague at the moment. The thought occurs that this will involve monsters and bad guys.

I was given a set of Empire Free Company minis. This worked for me. This got some attention and ended with me getting some Empire stuff. I still have some stuff to paint and it's in the queue. It would be a big ask to get me to push this idea further. This was going to move into something else probably along the lines of nature/body horror, something like Verritwood or more likely The Weald. Thanks to some freebies, I can see a Turnip 28 army hitting the table. Some are ready to go. It would cost me roughly nothing in terms of money at least (and I should probably say nothing more), to make and paint two armies. 

Some fantasy stuff that I have a firmer plan for is the Guards of Traitor's Toll. The Wargames Atlantic miniatures more than the game. I have the minis and can see them in the queue soon. Not sold on the game yet but it is growing on me. If nothing else it's a jumping off point. There is some newer stuff out and I expect there to be more coming.

Speaking of Wargames Atlantic 🙄 I am still waiting for my Traitor Guardsmen. Think it's three years now. The plan I had for them is all gone now. So a kit bashing plan needs to be found. sUNDERdGROUND seems like an obvious choice but probably something vaguely generic. There are firmer plans for some of the kits (beast men and big guns) but I am more interested in all the bonus frames. If they don't appear soon I will be very unhappy.

Terrain was expected to be a big part of the year for me. Somewhere along the line I got some stuff done. I got about 100 hexes done. This was quite a lot of work as every thing was either hand built or designed and cut by me. These is still a plan for yet more but I could call the green and ruined set done (ish, maybe). I had planned to move on to some trench type hexes. With Sludge and Quar being the obvious beneficiaries. Whilst I have plenty of blanks ready the main issue for a lack of progress has been storage.

So next year the plan is to turn the 120 ish deep hexes into something interesting. There are plenty of other hexes to do. I am still thinking about alien tunnels, some deep urban ruins, desert or even an alien surface set. I could move into a winter sector a more fantasy city set.

I did manage to get some scatter terrain painted. I wanted to get something bigger done but it wasn't on the cards.

The big thing for me was the time I have spent gaming with others. Not going to name names but if you read this, thanks for the fun. It's been a long time since I enjoyed tabletop gaming this much. 

I got the laser working this year. It's seen some use but I am not up to business at the moment. There was an opportunity to learn a little too. There are some projects I would like to do too.

3d printing was supposed to be a thing this year. It wasn't. I just haven't had the head space. I almost got a Bambu Labs printer.  There is a good bet I. Will get one in 2026.

Happy Post Christmas Apocalypse

Now with bonus gingerbread men.

I like Christmas. I like it more as a parent. Then there is also a birthday to sort out. So two lots of presents. And two lots of joy. Now after four days of fun I am trying to do all the stuff I wanted to do before Christmas and need to do now.

Time for a sit down and a brew. The spirit of Christmas continues but is slightly abated. I need the tea. Plus the tablets. So as I haven't got to the posting for a couple of weeks it was probably time I did.

I got swept up in the Fallout sale. I was after the core set since it came out. Somehow I never got round to it. Until there was a fifty percent off sale. The main box wasn't on sale. I did find it somewhere with a massive discount. I'm still waiting to hear from Zatu about it. It's definitely a Royal Mail thing. 

I should be thinking about my end of the year post.  But a new toilet seat, replacing a vacuum filter and a desire to be able to get to sleep in my bed (my bedroom is the dumping area of choice). So I am hoping to get to the table in the next few days.

End Of The Week - Brush In Hand

It's been a while since I finished anything. This week was not a week that this was going to change. I have managed to pick up a brush and spray can though. Somewhere over the last couple of weeks I've acquired a number of freebies that have managed to make it onto the table. Then there are some Fallout minis that arrived this week (with more to come) all at Black Friday or better prices. At some point I got talked into Carnevale that are now in the queue. A few months before all this I got some more post-apocalypse terrain I wanted to finish a set.

Perhaps I can say I am hopeful about the near future. I have cleaned the workbench. This is often a prelude to getting stuff done. As Christmas is Coming I suspect progress will be made but I am not expecting leaps and bounds. Right now there is too much blood in my caffeine stream so it's time to go.

Christmas Is Coming

If you have watched or read A Game Of Thrones I am sure you will be familiar with the phrase "winter is coming". Dark times are ahead which will end in a battle for survival. This is why I use the phrase "Christmas is coming". This week seems to be the start of the Christmas season. Everything is late this year. Decorations seem to be up two weeks later than usual and I am seeing far fewer lights. I am not hearing good things about Black Friday. Dark days indeed.

With all the stuff going on with me at the moment, I am just about ready to wave the white flag, until January at least. There is no way I am going to hit the 1000 goal. It was a bit of a reach. It's still going to be my most productive year ever. 

I've acquired a load more free stuff this week. Some of which has already made it onto the bench. There were some terrible ideas about painting in the 1980s. Hopefully I can turn them around.

I got some more loose sprues coming. This should be enough to finish my first Quar army. There is also a plan for a load of Fallout Factions stuff that should arrive soon. A project for the New Year. I am thinking about Nuka Land. A family friendly resort just outside the sprawl of New Vegas. It will be fun.

Blackest Friday

Anyone who knows me will tell you that I quietly have a thing about zombies. Yes there are multiple zombie plans. I also like Christmas. I mean more than is normal for most blokes. Then there is playing video games. Now imagine something that combined all three.

Dead Rising 4 came along at a very difficult time for me. My dad had recently died and my mum was dying. I badly needed a distraction. Dead Rising 4 was the perfect fit. I think I have played it all.the way through every Christmas season ever since. Despite what some will tell you it's an amazing game. If it has a fault it's that it's not long enough. The zompocolypse starts on Black Friday. A time of year that was until recently hell on Earth for me. The hard mode in the game is called Blackest Friday. 

According to the kill counter I have ended a third of a million zombies already. It's only taken nine years. 

The plan for the week was to paint some Carnevale minis. I may even have multiple opponents and opportunities to play. This week seems to have drowned me. The first time I picked up a brush this week was Black Friday and that was to paint my little banner. So I guess I am another week behind. My target for the 1000 minis in a year is looking a little unlikely now.

This was supposed to be an easy week. I've put rather too much effort into the bases. I need to plan my time better. They also took more time to put together than I was expecting. I couldn't find the right sized drill bit. This cost me a day. More than at any time I can think of, it has felt like filling in time until I can see my daughter again.

End Of The Week (Well Fortnight) (26)

I have managed to cram seven days of work and cram it into fourteen days. This does not make me proud. Part of me accepts this. A bigger part of me is screaming that this is the first year I have painted more plastic minis than metal ones and have done so to a lower standard and I still habit my target. I've spent some quality time with my daughter so it's all good.

Coftyran Quar has been the biggest part of my week. There are a lot of uniform details which takes up time.

Some Progress

I still haven't found my mojo this week. Today I have found some time to paint. Not as much time as I probably would have liked. But, you it, distractions. That said, I am getting close to finishing the first coat. Things may go my way and with a bit of luck I will get last week's work done by the end of the week.

Gaming And International Men's Day

Today has been a good day for me. Some daddy daughter time always helps my mood. It was really good today for some reason. Then I got some time with mates playing Ths Is Not A Test. This is probably my favourite skirmish wargame of all time.

I am really behind on my painting plan. I am probably not going to get to my target for a thousand figures for the year now. I'm not overjoyed with this but it is what it is. I am not going to beat myself up over it.

Yesterday I found it watfws international Men's Day today. I only found this out because I know someone who is going through some stuff. Us blokes are not good at talking about stuff. We forget about our health or the stuff that is importaEnt to us. It's not just about health. There are so many things that we are falling behind on. 

Never be afraid to look out for yourself and check in if you even think you might have a health problem. If you can help someone else don't be afraid to help another.

End Of The Week - Missed Possibilities

This was supposed to be an easy week. Everything was prepped and primed with very little in the calendar. Things didn't really go my way. It's getting close to the end of the year and I can feel my plans starting to crumble.

I did get some gaming done. No wargames this week. Nothing I have heard of before but think Wingspan for mushrooms. An enjoyable evening with friends and a headache 😊. The role playing was also fun mainly because the GM has led us down a rabbit hole full of red herrings.

Anyway, the painting. Made some progress but no where near finished.

End Of The Week - A Day Of Remembrance (24)

I guess it might seem odd to be posting pictures of Germans on Remembrance Sunday. In my defence they are more of an alternate history thing. British fascist forces. 

Something got me thinking. Our fate may be tied to the Germans more than we think. Not to mention the Poles and the French. Or the rest of Europe for that matter. 

These minis are done for a post-apocalypse game. An apocalypse that has been stuck in my head since my youth. There were a lot of sleepless nights in the eighties. A childhood trauma that was firmly in the past. Until Russia entered Ukraine. It now seems like a possibility again.

Right here and now we depend on our military to keep us safe. We are definitely stronger with our allies in Europe. But today I think as much about our men and women who are serving today as those that have fallen or been injured in the past.

Getting &£#@ Done

Despite another late start, things are looking good. Not quite everything has a base coat. I am feeling positive. Batch painting troops in uniform is relatively fast. Even if I opted for a cammo pattern on some of them.

Before anyone tells me that they don't look like Germans it's because they are not meant to be Germans. More like 1970s/80s British fascist forces for a post apocalyptic game set in London.

Start Of The Week - Happy Burn A Catholic Day

It's bonfire night here. It's 11pm.and the noise has more or less died down. Lots of pretty lights in the sky. It's been a good day. Some time with my daughter which is always the best timing. Then some gaming. 

I played Arsenal tonight, the wargame, not the football team.S fun if simple game. Through a mix of tactics and fortuitous dice I managed to destroy one enemy mech, cripple another and wipe out all of one of my opponents spods. This was after my teammate's mech died in the first shot of the game. It was a Conan moment...."What is best in life? To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of their women, I mean middle aged men."

It is the start of the week, painting wise at least. I have some fascists for Atomfallish. Whilst it's a busy week, the fact that most of them are wearing the same uniform and so common colours should make this an easy batch paint. So even if I a looking at the rest of the week being busy, I might get there. There are some alternatives if I get them done. Alien terrain for a start.. I have a plan for next week too. Almost all of which is already primed and ready to go.

Picked up some more freebies. I'm not sure of their provenance but they look like twenty five year old G-Dub fantasy orcs. They are huge. Compared to most of my minis they are maybe four or five times as big. Maybe a project for the near future.

End Of The (Two) Week(s) (50)

It's been a while. I kinda lost my way a bit. Half Term was fun. Daddy daughter time always is. Maybe not as condusive to mini painting as some would like but it was fun.

Last week it was difficult to get going but I did manage to finish some stuff on the Monday. Weather has been a problem getting stuff primed. So that makes more delays.

As I count the weeks by how many minis I finish in a week, this week has been an especially good one. With more than fifty figures finished, I think that's a personal best. Which is total BS but it makes me feel good.

I got given a big pile of stuff. Mostly the last remaining bits of a late gamer. Some random stuff to be honest. Almost enough lead to put my back out picking it up. In it we're some WW2 tankers of various nations. Not outstanding sculptures but good enough for a game that's not going to get that much play which would be Atomfallish.

Then there are a few super hero minis. I got these for a game I planned that didn't happen. Still they are done now. Will have to find the others. Maybe I will run the game now.

Over the years I think I have talked about my love of the minis designed by Mark Copplestone. I found some of his old Grenadier stuff on eBay. The first bunch are some bikers. They will fit with the Copplestone Castings.

Then there are some techo-fuedals. Propper post-apocalypse minis. 

Last week was a harder sell for me. There was other stuff going on. This was coupled with a bit of a barrier. I had a lot of fun painting some G-Dub stuff so I got some more. Way too much extra detail. I am trying to figure out why half the swordsmen would be carrying an hour glass each. Then I had problems with the colour. I really didn't like what I had done. It kinda worked out. Meh. These were done at the same time as some more random G-Dub stuff or at least some stuff I could use with it.

Then there was more Copplestone. I think these were street punks. I seem to recall some of them were urban guerillas. Finally there was one more Atomfallish mini. I must have missed it a few weeks ago. It was primed and ready to go. An easy choice.

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.🙄

Start Of The Week - Zomtober

I painted a few zombies last week. They look unhealthy but need a bit of grebbing up. These are from the game The Last Night On Earth. To be honest they are not the best figures either. The game is fun though. Being a bit light on detail, they should be easy to paint. Which is good as it looks like a busy week. There are twelve left in the queue.

There are some characters too. These have a bit more detail, but are still fairly soft on it. A quarter of the volume and a fraction of the details than the Skaven I did recently. Not quite as quick but this should another easy win for the eighth of them. 

When I get these finished I got some part painted stuff to finish off. Some more Northmen. Due to my aversion to painting horses, it seems a no brainer. I don't have any Normanish cavalry There were also some crossbowmen, also Normanish. The metal does have a really blue hue. I like it and may buy some. On these minis, they really stand out.