Stuck at Home; Keeping myself sane

I have several projects on the go currently and a couple that have stagnated whilst I try and finish up some of the smaller ones.

I’m one of those people that can’t have just one project running, I prefer to have several on the go at any one time. This is because I can get bored easily, so have the ability to switch it up every now and again is beneficial. This does mean that projects take longer to complete than they should do. The man benefit to this is I don’t generally get hobby burn out or hobby block, as soon as I feel a project is becoming a chore I’ll switch to another. In the last 18 months this has been really helpful with being stuck at home in lockdown. So what projects do I currently have on the go?

Lord of the Rings

LotR has always been one of my favorite Games Workshop rules systems, and I really like the miniatures as well. A couple of years back a friend decided to sell his collection and he offered it all to me for £40. There was far more than £40 worth of items. In fact there were several duplicates of miniatures in the collection, which I sold and recouped my money back. Since then I’ve been slowly painting up the collection of plastic, metal and Finecast minis. I’ve managed to paint a good chunk of the collection but I still have a sizeable amount unpainted to get through, so this is one of those on going projects.

Bolt Action

I started Bolt Action a couple of years ago, firstly with a small German force and slowly over the years this has grown from one tank to 4, plus now I’ve started a British 8th Army force which mainly consists of infantry, SAS and a Bren Gun Carrier. I still have infantry to finish for both, and I need a couple more vehicles for the British to purchase, but the Germans are pretty much nearly finished. My next plan for Bolt Action is a Chinese force which will be a mixture of Communist and Nationalist forces. I’ve started this already with a unit of Communists and a T-26 tank. Moving forward I’ll need to convert Wargames Atlantic WW1 Germans in to Chinese Nationalists

Asian Town

Last year I decided to create a modular gaming board using Sarissa tiles. The aim is to make it quite generic so that it could double as pretty much anywhere in China, Korea or Japan. The reason for this is because I plan to play WW2 and Korean War alongside Edo period Samurai and maybe Interwar China. So far to date I’ve completed two tiles, and have nearly finished 3 more which contain buildings.

SPQR & Mortal Gods

I received these as Xmas presents in 2019, and I’m embarrassed to say they’re pretty much still unpainted. I think the reason why both of these ended up on the back burner was because of 2020 and the pandemic. The plan with both of these was to start playing them at the club in 2020. So I did start painting units prior to the first lockdown, but due to the fact we couldn’t meet up to play then it was placed on the back burn and I decided to finish other projects. I’ve even purchased some elements to make terrain as well. This is going to be one of the projects placed back onto the paint desk.

Test of Honor

I managed to grab a load of the Test of Honor miniatures just before Warlord handed it back to Grey for Now. I’ve been slowly painting this up, and building the Asian gaming board was partly for this project. To date I’ve painted up several samurai and some old Citadel Ninjas I had in a box gathering dust for years. My aim is to continue painting up the miniatures on a regular basis. I’ve been focusing on the metal miniatures that I have, and only painted a few of the plastics from the original starter box that Warlord produced. The reason for this is because I really dislike the plastics, they’re fiddly and frustrating to build