Pledge – I have a nurgle thing I want to finish, plus I’m starting prepping some 10mm cavalry, so would like to get them done this week as well.

1. The usual for me… get 3 or 4 hours solid sleep, wake, then toss and turn for the rest of the night.

2. 8th February – Kings of War International Campaign Day.

3. Don’t think I am overly excited about anything… A few things I’m interested in… I’m still undecided on whether to get the new 40k box – I think the new Space Marines are awesome and would look great painted up as Dark Angels but if I don’t buy it, I’ll not cry myself to sleep at night.  I’m curious to see what PSC do with the Corvus Belli 15mm Celts in their new material… if it is good, that will be a lot more Celts to paint… Agema are sitting on a lot of Etruscan sculpts, which I think they are going to kickstart, they look great so far and that would be another force for Clash of Spears.  Wargames Atlantic have some nice new releases coming up, I’ve a couple of ideas for armies but don’t want to go balls deep yet, until I see how they flesh out their ranges.  The new starter box for Flames of War WW3 looks to be stupid value for money, but only really I want to dip into that as I love Harriers.

Pledge: Finish off the Amazons. Little bits of detailing and basing are all that’s left. I’ve already got some skirmish bases from Litko coming in the mail that I’ll put them into.

Sleeping as of late has been getting better since the fireworks have stopped.
The last time I was playing with miniatures was a few days ago. I’m running a game of Hero Kids with my boss’ kids. It keeps them out of trouble as they focus on the game and our of their parents’ hair. Yes they are only paper standees but after losing the material after the first game its good to be able to reprint everything.

A hobby related release that’s coming up? I’ve been in my hidey hole of doing stuff and not paying much attention. Getting to minis in my Hoard of Shame has been a priority so I’m doing my best to not look at too much shiny and new temptations. That and saving money for the inital deposit and fees for an apartment in my area is a bit difficult so collected figures I will get painted.

Once I’m done with the current batch of minis I have a sprue of Arab Archers and Spearmen from Gripping Beast that need to be done. I have no game that requires them so I’ll set them aside for something. I’m sacrificing one of the heads for a separate project and the rest of them would be pretty useless without paint. Doing these small squads really helps the sense of accomplishment in painting. Why did I avoid painting armies before? Oh yeah, because it looked really damn daunting en masse with all the collected figures and the overall cost for a single purchase.

Here’s some relaxing music while not on Discord

Pledge: Just getting started on a batch of Black Watch Highlanders. I’d like to at least get the base colours blocked in this week.

1. Sleep has been intermittently terrible. The odd good night interspaced by lots of unsettled nights.

2. I honestly can’t remember the last time I sat down to play a game. Before the new year for sure.

3. I don’t think there’s much upcoming stuff that’s really exciting for me. I’m only really just getting going on Napoleonics, so there’s a quite a lot of existing ranges that I’m enjoying exploring.

Having said all that, I’ve just remembered that the Mortal Gods Mythic range will soon be coming out from Footsore. I missed the Kickstarter, so it will be good to get a chance to grab some of those minis.

I’ve had a good day and evening. Now after some good beer its time for sludge and metal….BRAAAAHHHR!!!! More muuuzik!!!!

This week’s pledge is to finish the current batch of nymphs I’m working on (project here: https://www.beastsofwar.com/project/1467945/#snav) and to then open up one of the Kingdom Death Monster expansions that I have and start assembling the models.

1. How are you sleeping recently? – I’m very lucky in that I tend to sleep without problems. I only don’t get enough if I choose to stay up too late.
2. When was your last round of playing miniatures in the real world with other people then your family? – About a month before lock down started here in the UK. Was that February? So long ago now I can’t remember.
3. What hobby related upcoming release are you most excited for? I don’t really pay attention to upcoming releases. Kickstarter-wise Horizon Zero Dawn and Aeon Trespass: Odyssey should get to me in the next six months which I am hoping will be good.

Happy Weekend everyone! Doing this 1st post quickly. Pledge, get some progress, at least the airbrushing done on a few Panzer IV.

Questions:

1. Not well, I never do. Got myself good at making coffee, I’m sure that balances out.
2. Uhh, February I think. I’ve been having a few hours on the Xbox with brothers each week since.
3. Probably getting my bits from the Scale75 insant colour (contrast paint) and Squidmar brushes kickstarters.