That's it! I did it!
Oh, I suppose you want to see the painted miniatures too, for proof? Ok, ok, fine. Here they are.
A monk and an... utterly massive dog. Seriously, I ordered that on a whim and had no idea he was that huge. The monk could use the dog as a mighty steed, probably.
Kind of a random couple of minis, but they were fun to paint. And I achieved a bingo! What's next? Whatever I want, I suppose. Feels a bit anti-climactic to be honest!
Short post here, but another square on the bingo sheet, for painting a miniature that's gone unpainted for a year or more!
In this case, it's probably more like ten years, this guy has been sitting around for... a while.
Like the title says, about a week ago I finished painting up the hero quest expansion, The Jungles of Delthrak. Michelle and I actually painted this one together, which was a lot of fun.
A small caveat: we didn't paint the gem or fire, because Michelle really likes them as they are. And so they stay that way.
Either which way, that's two bingo squares!
Life: it gets busy. In mostly good ways, I should say, I've had lots of good times with family, I'm involved in the local production of Into the Woods, my job is going well. But it's busy, and I kept forgetting to update here. But now that changes!
Going to keep it simple for now, though. The main thing for today is another bingo square! In this case, it's the Paint a New Starter Set square. Now, I'll admit that it's not the biggest set of them all:
But it still counts! (It's the new beginner set for Age of Sigmar which I picked up on a bit of a whim)
I ended up going with a bit of a challenge for these guys, I decided to paint using (almost) only the six paints that came with the set. And I'm pretty happy with them! The bases and the wash are the only non set paints.
So that's the update for today. Hopefully there will genuinely be more soon.
I've had these guys painted for a while but I keep forgetting to post them! Stargrave crew!
I love the alien heads, the world needs more alien/non human sci fi miniatures.
And that means another bingo box! Wooo!
Just a brief one here, but I got them all painted!
Four archers, four slings, four axes, and a leader, and just plain fun to paint.
I did try some new paint things for them, so I'm counting this as that space for bingo. Hey, my bingo, my rules.
Rather, my niece and nephews had spring break, which was nice, because it meant that they could come up to visit and hang out and paint with their strange uncle! And thus we did.
We painted some hero quest figures, and my nephew brought up a few miniatures of his own (Tau and Necron guys, I believe) that he's been gifted. The ones pictured he painted, and he even gave them snowy and icy bases of his own design! A good time overall.
A few days later we got in a game of Fireteam, the Kill Team lite that I actually prefer. My second oldest nephew and I played, and the game ended in a tie. (There's a mechanism for settling ties, but we decided to leave it that way)
Fun times for all, and also two bingo squares. Though in this case that's the least important part.
It's been a bit again! Well, I had surgery, and I'm recovering well. Had some time once I was through the worst of post op unpleasantness to do some painting, so here's an example!
He's an ogre, from cursed city, I think, but also he was just a lot of fun to paint! And also he gets to count for a bingo square: paint a hero!
I've picked up... just a few stargrave and frostgrave minis lately. Specifically, I ended up getting the frostgrave demons and the stargrave troopers, for the simple purpose of making some demon troopers. I mean, why not, right?
I ended up using ten of the trooper bodies and ten of the demon bodies, for 20 overall. I like them a lot, the modular nature of the minis allows for a big range of kitbashes, and these ones make me happy. I'm not sure what their deal is yet, background wise. I like the idea of creatures that appear traditionally evil but are more complicated, so probably something along those lines, for whatever I use them in.
In the meantime, though, that's one bingo square!
I like the idea of hobby bingo, it's a nice way to set some goals and have a tangible way of marking off that you've met them. Plus, it's bingo, and bingo is fun. I've been looking around for a decent one to try out this year, and haven't really had much luck in finding one, so I decided to make my own! It's a bit more focused on... well, things that I personally can do, hopefully games with friends and family and such. But here it is:
Keeping on with the bingo trend, here's farmer Maggot!
He showed up in the mail the other day, and I got him painted fairly quickly, quick enough, in fact, to it fit the bingo square for painting a model within 48 hours of receiving it!
Here's the card, since I forgot it last time.
I always liked the Shortcut to Mushrooms chapter in Lord of the Rings. I read the books as a kid, and for some reason I actually liked the slower, more domestic chapters at the beginning. I read and reread Bilbo's party, and the parts where the hobbits are traveling together, before the Barrow Downs. That's still kind of my thing when it comes to reading, I like stories that are small and quiet. Odd for someone basically doing a wargaming blog, I suppose.
Did I forget about the LoTR bingo thing? Maybe! But here's a house!
So, I think that counts as building and painting a scenery piece. Huzzah!
Back after a month! Which is not to say I haven't been busy, it's just been with other things. I was in a musical! It was exhausting. The end.
But here's another ship for the fleet!
In this case we've got Frodo for the forces of good, and a Corsair captain (of course) for evil. He doesn't think he's evil though. Just bit rough around the edges.
Three down! And more to go.
So, good old GW put up one of them hobby bingo things for LoTR recently. And I thought, why not? I've been needing some encouragement to work on my corsairs, why not give it a go?
And so I am.
Of course, with the way things work out, my first checked off bingo square has nothing to do with corsairs. I've had another few LoTR minis sitting around for... a while. So long I forgot I had them. So I got around to getting this happy little haradrim warrior painted.
Which checks off the box entitled "Finish off a model that's been on your to-do pile for more than a year"
But fear not! I have managed some work on the corsairs, including painting bases for a few of them. (The bases are meant to look like the decks of ships, it's ok if you didn't see that)
A step closer!
