GoB: Skeleton Hordes, Phase 2: Basing and Repairs

Sat down this morning and put some filler on the bases of these (yes, I still have not gotten my act together and made some gloop).

Next up is repairing three models at the foremost front, then cleaning up one or more of the metal command models. Well, back to work...

Family Time: Lea Painting Post-Apoc

While I was busy conjuring up the restless dead, Lea set about putting some colour on one of the Ramshackle Dungers kindly sent to me by Curtis Fell some years ago when Anna requested her own Dungers (I got them prepped and primed, and then life took some turn, and they disappeared into a box for years).

This particular Dunger is going to have light green fur, and probably blue skin, so she started giving it a basecoat of Goblin Green.

I had hoped she would get the time to drybrush the fur, but that will have to wait until tomorrow!

The first drybrush will be with Warzone Venusian Green, and then we shall see from there...

GoB: Raising Hell!

As announced, I am going all-in on getting another two Skeleton Hordes ready for the table as soon as possible.

So, today I pulled out my trusty Dremel, and set about killing slotta-bases by the dozens.

Here is a unit of spear-armed levy, most of them fully ready for the first helping of filler to the base.

And the second unit, peasant rabble, bound to do the biddings of their new liege. The incantations clearly were too weak, and the Necronomicon will be consulted once more.

Some might say, I just poured a lot of money into the drain, but I did not buy these to make collector's money on them. NIB for over 20 years, until this afternoon where the seals of protection were broken, and these long dead warriors brought into the world of the living once more.

The Wight/Commander of this command group.

He is not going to be used with any of these units, instead I may paint him up to become part of a Guardians of Midnight unit.

Anyway, I am going to get him cleaned up and based, and when I have five more done that way, They even may get painted...

Africa: Something to Raid

The last set from my recently arrived Caliver order was three North Star African Cattle (AA20). They are of course destined to be objectives to be stolen/defended, or just to provide some nice atmosphere.

Tomorrow I am going to begin work on my two planned God of Battles Skeleton Horde units, and I expect that project to take up at least half of January. After finishing those, I expect to resume work on my In Her Majesty's Name Zulu Impi. Plenty of work to do for now, before I go back to the Dark Ages (although I expect to do some work with Anna on the longhouse in between).

Africa: A Couple of Cheetahs

I actually may have this set already - I have to go check the box in which I store past HLBSC animal purchases (these are former products of said company, if my memory serves me right).

Nice, slender cats, need some cleaning up, but will look great on the table, I think.

All in all, with the wildlife I have in store, the somewhat recent purchase of a big Zulu War job lot, and the November orders from North Star and Caliver Books, I now have quite a collection for games set in the Dark Continent - I just have to get more of it painted up!

With my New Year's vow to reduce my hobby budget substantially for at least the first half of 2017, it should be doable, but I do have other projects to tend to, too...

Congo: Copplestone Ngoni Chiefs/Wichdoctors

Another pack from my November order with Caliver.

Because, you can always use some characters.

As that particular order is also the last minis I am going to purchase for a while, there actually is a chance that some of them will get painted within an overseeable future - which is always nice to know 😉

2017: Hobby Restrictions.

I have decided that I need to make a substantial indent in the Lead/Plastic Alps, and that I have to reduce my Hobby Budget, at least for the next 6 months.

We recently had to pay a rather large mechanics bill for having the car transmission fixed/exchanged, my eldest daughter is getting her 'confirmation' this spring, and we would like to be able to go somewhere during our summer holidays.

I have not yet fully decided how I am going to do this, but it may involve a strict painting-to-buying ratio of at least 10:1, or something like that.

This will not in any way impede my blogging, as I have plenty of miniatures to last me for several years of endless painting - what it should mean, though, is fewer new projects, and more progress on existing ones.

The coming months will show how well I fare...