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!
Game 3 of Necromunda, and this one was quite fun! My wife played Squats again, while I rolled out my Orlocks once more. Our gracious host set up a very impressive board, while playing GSC.
The goal this time was to grab some boxes from the center of the board, and then make a mad dash to the edge. I tried to keep a bit more focused on that goal this time, and it paid off, for the most part. There was a fun moment where my two gangers carrying two cases managed to both get hit by a grenade blast, which was fun. We had to wrap things up before the official end, and I was in the lead, but it could have easily swung the other way.
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!
A new year! And I've got the chance to play a couple of games of Necromunda with some friends. Two casual games, one where I played as Squats, the other where I played as Orlocks. I'm pretty sure I lost both, but the experience itself was fun, and that's the important part.
The first game (board pictured above) mainly involved my Squats repeatedly being hit in the head by falling debris, and then falling off of ledges.
The second involved my wife taking charge of the Squats and proceeding to slaughter everyone who came within gun range. Good times for all!
It's beem quite the year. And mostly in... not so good ways, at least for me. But there have been positive things, among them getting to play some fun games with my family and friends, which is a little thing, but still worthwhile.
And I get to have one more game, tomorrow, for the end of the year, because it turns out a friend of mine also plays some Necromunda, and they're interested in a casual game or two. So here's my new team, a little squad of space dwarf miners (or ironhead squats, as GW likes to call them.
Some other random things that I've managed to put some paint on during this winter break, featuring Hero Quest, Shield Maidens, and an overuse of shade paints.
First up is four of the slingers I got back in October. I had one painted for over a month, but yesterday I was at last able to finish up the other three.
I also painted some elves from the Hero Quest Elf expansion. We've still got to finish getting through the Frozen Horror, and I'm hoping to get this whole expansion painted before we do. Including the furniture! Maybe. Unfortunately, my dad is sick with covid right now, and while it seems very mild, we're waiting on a negative test before we play again.
Like the title says, the holidays! Busy times. Also for my family, times of illness. It seems like everyone's getting a one of the various respiratory sicknesses that are going around, myself included.
But my wife and I still found some time for a fun project to do together. One of our favorite board games is Grimm Forest, a competitive game where the... four little pigs try to race to build three houses before the others can. My wife is the master at it, and wins almost every time.
But more on topic, the game came with some surprisingly solid miniatures, and this winter we finally found the time to paint them together.
What will the new year bring? Hopefully better health, for everyone.
Interesting fact: I was in a Games Workshop store recently. Haven't been in one of those for a while. Mainly the goal was to get my nephew a few orks, he really likes them and has been getting more and more into painting on his own, which is neat! The other neat thing is that both of us got free minis out of the deal.
So here's my little steelhelm, painted using a mix of craft and gw paints, because why not?
They can join up with the shieldmaidens for some adventures, I think.
I meant to post this last month but oh well! I've had these necromunda figures sitting around for a few years, but thanks to a bit of inspiration from the mantic fan discord, I got them painted!
(The inspiration was to paint things pink)
I like them, but they're not the most fun to paint, as is often the case for GW minis. Just a little too busy for my tastes, and for my complete lack of skill.
A new little project has arrived!
Four slingers, four axe wielders, Freyja, and a bonus little zombie guy. Should be fun to paint!
That's all for now. I've had covid, so even typing is a bit tiring.
The other day I posted about getting some shieldmaidens from Bad Squiddo games, and then I remembered that I had a few! Specifically, four archers. So I have painted them, though I still want to do a little more.
Quite fun to paint and with a lot of personality. For a while there I wasn't really into painting metal but these past few months have brought me back around.
I've been busy, busy, busy with work and with community theater, but I've managed to paint more of the Bad Squiddo Horror minis! Again! Quite a few more, I think that I'm only missing the ghouls at this point. Still trying my best to figure out how I want to paint those ones.
These minis are such a blast to paint. I've decided to pick up some of the shieldmaidens, too.
Remember the days of livejournal, when you'd just share the song you were listening to for no reason, because why would anyone need to know that? Well, no one needs to know anything I post here, so I'm going to tell you that I'm listening to Basia Bulat's Tall Tall Shadow. Such a good song.
I've been working on the orc horde on and off for the last few months. It's the kind of project that feels pretty overwhelming looked at all at once, but I found if I just set myself the goal of painting one or so of them a day, it's not so bad. I'm not in a hurry.
But I reached a goal that I've been working towards, I got all of the orcs of one type mostly painted! Still not sure about the bases, but ah well. The swords are done! That's 50 orcs there alone, plus another 60 or so of the spears and bows. Progress!
