2024 Hobby Log

For the last few years, I’ve spent my Sunday evenings through the autumn and winter playing solo board and card games. One night a week completely offline, playing a game – it is delightful. This year I’ve decided to add in miniatures games to the mix; a chance to try some new games and paint up some of the minis from the stash that don’t really have a reason to get painted otherwise.

One of the genres I have a couple of games for is science fiction. Thankfully I also have a bunch of minis that I can paint up but I was lacking some basic cultists. Now I could have bought a box of Stargrave cultists and weapon swapped them but I really don’t like the look of the Northstar plastics and didn’t enjoy painting them for Frostgrave a few years back. Great kits, it is a me problem. Thankfully, the old GW cultists are cheap as chips to pick up on eBay and I got 20 odd of them for £12.50.

They came “fully painted” according to the seller but they are awful. I was going to strip them but the layers that are there aren’t very thick and, at the end of the day, these are just cultists… 

1. a couple of evenings painting over the existing base colours with the Army Painter Fanatics paints, tidying as I went was nice easy work. 
2. Everyone got a dark tone wash – this left them all shiny but other than a pass with skin tones, I’ll only be knocking that back with matte varnish.
3. Basing is going to be done later once there is a bunch of stuff that needs done in one big batch
4. This is sci fi so obviously the rims are black.

And just like that, some of the cultists are done. They won’t win awards but they don’t need to… they need to die in droves while the big bad plots and the good guys go do a do-gooding.  I’ll keep working my way through them but they are really dull to paint so I might mix them into other things for a bit.