Dwarves Are Done

I have surprised myself and got all ten of the Macrocosm dwarves done. This is despite the week being a bit rubbish and my other half being in bed with a bad back. For some unknown reason I seem to have my mojo back. Maybe it's the weight loss, the death of my auntie or something else.

I think there are some more dwarves to do but none of them are primed or based so I might leave them for a bit. So I will stick with the old plan A which is to do the cultists.

Dwarves In Spaccccceeee

So it's the dwarves again. I keep wandering off. There are now about half a dozen background projects that are floating around the desk which are soaking up any paint that would otherwise get wasted. A bit og priming here and a bit of tidying up there and that has just about been my day. Not including the tax return and having to do just about everything other than cooking lunch as my other half has done her back in despite having done a deal about jobs today.

Even so I have managed to get some painting done. The first coat on the dwarves is almost done and even a little bit of inking and basing is complete. With a bit of luck I will be able to finish them off and ink them tomorrow and may get them close to being finished. This would leave me just behind the curve on what I wanted to do as part of The New Cruelty, 23 figures instead of 25. If I do get them finished then I'll move onto the remaining Cultists/Raiders which would leave me slightly ahead.

In terms of the background projects and what I have planned there are a few ways I can go. Overall I would like to get a couple of projects pretty close to finished this year. These dwarf figures are part of the Titansgrave: Ashes Of Valkana project and they is a way to goes with the project yet. There are still some gaps in terms of figures I just don't have (and may have a problem sourcing) and some stuff yet to be painted. This is probably going to take up a bit of time in the next few months. X-Com is another project I want to do this year. Although I have some stuff for the project already, most of what I want isn't going to be available until September. There is also a fair amount of sci-fi/post-apocalypse crossover with the figures for all of the stuff I have planned so I guess this is what will happen in the near future.

Change Of Plan

The plan yesterday was to finish off what was left of the chaos cultists, I finished prepping them for priming them today. It appears to be a day where the British weather is going to ruin any plans I have (no plan survives contact with the British weather). It just seems to want to rain today.

So I have moved on to plan B. I have plenty of figures that are prepped and primed and ready to go. I made a conscious decision to work with one of the project I want to work on this year. There is a mass of lizardmen to do but they don't really fit in with the plan. So I guess the first but of the year I am going to try and concentrate on either fairly generic figures that can be used in a number of backgrounds. I have had some Macrocosm Dwarves that are ready to go. So this is the new project. These will do for Titansgrave and Shadowrun.

This new plan involves painting ten of these dwarves. If I get this done I will be slightly behind the curve with 23 figures done rather than 25. So the plan for the eight cultists has been pushed back till next week with some old Grenadier Miniatures (now Mirliton) Troopers and lizardmen to follow.

End Of The Week That Wasn't

Last week I thought I was starting to get back into the swing of the new year. I was only a few figures behind my weekly goals and this week I was going to catch up with everything. I had to do eight figures and all would be up to date. This week, for reasons that should be obvious if you look back at the blog, has been a bit of a wash out.

The table is pretty much where it was a week ago but I have managed to glue the last of the cultists together and put some glue on the bases before moving on to. This means that I am now thirteen figures behind the target for the year.

With being in Spain and coming back with a bug exercise has not been at the top of my list. I have missed exercise targets every day apart from today. I would have had to have beaten my all time daily record in order to get close to to an average of 10k steps per day. I have also put a few pounds back on but then I have eaten out every night during the week. Usually when I get to this stage, it is where I give up. Today though I have continued the work without any problems.

So the goal for next week is to get these eight figures done and keep on with the exercise. Pretty much just as it was last week.

Another Slow Day

During the only thing that I have done that is vaguely gaming related today is to order Star Saga. This part of my overall plan for an X-Com game by the end of the year. Some of the figures might not be so useful but some will fit right in with what I have planned. The terrain looks particularly useful.

Other than that it has been a slow day on the gaming front but I have played a couple of boardgames this evening. I managed to win twice and even managed to play one of my fave games. Outside of that however, The New Cruelty will not be happy this week. In fairness I have sent most of the week in Spain and I have come back with a hell of a cold which left me basically deaf in one ear for almost twenty four hours.

My Auntie's RIP

I buried my auntie yesterday. It wasn't a good day but it was a good service despite the vicar mixing up my mum's name with my auntie.

She was an interesting lady with a number opinions about a lot of things. She had a marmite kind of character. I for one she was a great aunt and I will always remember her as the lady who brought me the red elephants from Kenya when I was 4.

The Pyrenees

I'm on my way to Spain for my aunties funeral (well I was, I am here now). A chance to catch up with family and take in a bit of scenery.

I have had cause to do a bit of thinking. Taking a moment to appreciate life.