@mage glad the night out was a fun one 🙂 Congrats on getting the butcher knocked over – Nice you have a coherent plan for the remainder of the force. Re terrain happy to throw suggestions at you (I may have an unhealthy addiction to terrain…) but can you provide a little more background on what you have in mind (ie game systems, army size, environs, special rules etc) and some details re what you have access to (ie size of game surface, gaming mat or table coverings, available terrain etc)? Also, further to the earlier you were mentioning a potential Mordheim campaign later on in the year – if you are thinking of proceeding with that one can I suggest you have a look at the Sigmarite mausoleum kit form GW? Actually pretty good value and a lot can be done with it if you break it up into smaller component pieces.

@sundancer sounds like good news re ease of painting 😉 And great finished results! I’ve held off on jumping in on this partly as I have so many other projects on the go, but also as the available forces have been pretty same-y or equivalent thus far. Another wave of releases or 2 and there will probably be enough variety and differentiation to make games a little more tactically flexible 🙂 … and also because I couldn’t settle on one ‘theme’ as far as a gaming table was concerned… 😛 I think the imminent release of the Boba Fett mini might be the catalyst I need to dip my toe on the water as it were…

@a27cromwell agree with you there. Ican deal with massed ranks of infantry models with only slight variations in pose but when stuff is just carbon copies of other things it does ruin the sense of disbelief a little. Were you ever witness to the true horror of a Warhammer fantasy 4th edition Skaven army where units of 30+ models consisted entirely of one identically cast metal mini?… Behold, if you dare! 😛

@limburger think I built a few of those in 1:35 too 🙂 But surely you don’t want to go slinging away valuable minis like that? Blood and Plunder looks like great fun, I really do like those mins. yes I’m looking at orcs, imperial guard and space marine kill teams, but pretty much ignoring the points etc. I’m hoping to scale the system up a little to maybe 300 point games – will see how far my ticketing gets me…

@elesar2590 fantastic work! really like the shading on the skintones and the vibrancy of the fabric. Am guessing the plan for bases will be somewhat leading given the environs in which the conflict took place? Yep, just spent over an hour assembling 3 dozen Perry foot knights (and they were certainly by no means bad models…), in the same block of time I could have knocked over double that number of Warlord infantry…

@woldenspoons took me a moment to work out what a Smogre was…  🙂

@tuffyears saw some really nice high quality scale reproductions to day of a Lamborghini countach LP500S and a Lancia Stratos – First thought was how they would look in gaslands before I told myself no – they are both just too pretty as is 🙂

My progress today was kicking off the next batch of French and adding another layer of dry brushing to my Skaven.

Varnish seems to have settled down on the first batch so I will put a matt coat on next weekend and then look to base. I also assembled and primed 36 Perry foot knights (mixing french and English components…) These will be used as a block of heavy foot infantry for Bretonnian forces in 8th edition WHFB. Yes I know they weren’t supposed to have non-mounted knights but this just looks like fun so we will make it up as we go along. Plan is to use the stats of Empire Greatswords, losing the detachment ability and adding knightly vows instead (and possibly making them a point cheaper – will see how they fare…).

Also pushing on with printing road sections – each one is 175mm long and takes a little over 8 hours to print (estimate I will need at least 16 sections so assuming a little over a week assuming no failed print jobs), so it’s not going to be a quick process but will hopefully do the trick once finished.