Dang...

Another load of ebay goodies arrived today bringing the total of acquired foot up to 418...!? ...and there's even more on the way... (Good week on ebay - or "bad", depending on how you look at it).

I had kind of quietly resolved to myself to paint twice as much as I buy this year, but that would mean I'd have to paint over 800 figures this year... which I totally DID do last year... but I spent an absurd number of nights staying up WAAAAAAAAAAY past a sensible bed time to crank that many out... I may have to just resolve to paint more than I acquire... acquisitions x1.5 might still be possible...?

doh...

More Marauders

A couple more mercenary recruits for Morgan’s Marauders.

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The dude with the heavy flamer is a Imperial Guard Catachan sniper from Games Workshop (pictured here entirely without their permission!). The other five are are Viridian Commandos from I-Kore’s Void game, currently available from Scotia Grendel.

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Silence...

Well not really... I am probably going to take a break from painting for a week to work on some other projects; some long overdue bike maintenance, building some easels for me and the kids to paint at, updating the other blogs, sorting, tidying... that sort of stuff.

Colours

Last week or so neldoreth made a comment about how he took a while to figure out a paint scheme for even a simple scheme like on Tommy the LHAC I had a good chuckle as I'm totally the same way; AGONIZING over the stupidest little things!?

Right now it's all these sci-fi things I'm working on. I finally sorted out the two main forces... K’s Kommandos in Greyish camo, Morgan’s Marauders in greenish camo... and I think I've settled on burnt orange for some Imperial Marines (I figure they don't care if you can see them and they want you to KNOW that they don't care if you can see them, because they are the Big Stick and they are there to settle things once and for all and you are in for a world of hurt and you deserve it if you've let your conflict grow to the point where it's attracted the attention of Imperial Authorities...!)

But I have a bunch of others I'm not quite sure what to do with... I just picked up a couple Starship Troopers figures, I have a pile of Eldar, more assorted VOID stuff, some Kryomek Nexus Marines, a couple old Copplestone/grenadier "Troopers", and some other stuff... disparate groups that I'd like to paint in recognizably different schemes...

The Starship Troopers I agonize about the most at the moment.. probably because I just got them and I'm fired up to paint a couple. Do I paint them in grey and black like the movie...? or in green and black like the animated series...? Something completely different...? if so, WHAT!? URRRRRR!!!

The Eldar I’m also really torn about – flashy and colourful or drab..? Solid colours or patterned…? I did a sample one ages ago, but I’m not totally excited about it…

I’d like to do some 28mm figures up as 28mm Timashek Legionaires, in that crazy orange/black/yellow camo scheme, but I’m not sure which figures to use…

I also have megalomaniac visions of doing some as Hammer’s Slammers… didn’t they wear khaki…?

I’m getting beyond colour, here… now getting into the question of what figures to use as what…

Back to colour, I have a small handful of Imperial Guard Tallarn and I’m not sure if I should do them in some sort of desert camouflage or paint them in more traditional middle eastern colours – like something that might jive with the Afghans that I already have…? I’d kind of like to go with the desert cam, but I may go with the other option simply because I just don’t have that many Tallarn – not enough to make much of a force – and they aren’t exactly cheap and easy to find these days…

…and this is just the Sci-fi stuff I’m currently agonizing about… don’t even get me started about the historical and fantasy stuff…

I should just go paint some stuff that I know how I want to paint, and worry about the rest later...

One Shot, One Kill (or Two… )

“If you run, you’ll only die tired”

Sgt. Winchester does sniping for Colonel Morgan. You’ll only even know he’s in the neighborhood when your buddy’s head explodes in fine reddish–pick mist…


The figure is a Imperial Guard Catachan sniper from Games Workshop (pictured here entirely without their permission!)

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There’s a couple more or Morgan’s Marauders on the workbench... some civvies… an Imperial Marine…

Morgan’s Maruauders

Seven new recruit’s for Morgan’s Marauders. This is the mercenary unit I’m using all these Viridian Commando’s and Imperial Guard Catachans in (like the sentinel and these guys)

Morgan's Marauders are a rival mercenary unit operating in the same sector as K's Kommandos. "Rival" because they just always seem to be operating on the other side. Also Colonel Morgan (and his crew) have a special hatred of K's Kommandos and Commander K in particular (Commander Karla "K" Reynolds has a "Major Enemy: Colonel Morgan" hindrance). This is because Colonel Morgan believes Commander K ordered the execution of some of his boys that were taken prisoner waaaaay back on Darkton X.... What really happened...? Who knows... But the Marauders will take no prisoners when they're fighting K's Kommandos!!

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The figures are Viridian Commandos (not to be confused with Viridian STRIKE Commando’s – which I’m using for another unit…) from I-Kore’s Void game. They are apparently still available from Scotia Grendel.

Coming soon on Tim’s Miniature Wargaming Blog:

I think I’ll go back and finish up the rest of the Strike Commandos… then maybe some more of these… Or maybe some Pulp adventure or Victorian Horror…. Or maybe some ECW cavalry….

I did win another batch of Kryomek Aliens on ebay yesterday – which will bring me to 25 of the little guys, six of the bigger baddies, and two HUGE baddies… so as soon as those arrive I’ll be painting them up… then I’ll be all set for a big ol’ bug hunt!!

Actually I have quite a haul of ebay goddies arriving soon… mostly sci-fi stuff, but also a couple packs of West Wind’s Vampire Wars stuff. After that I’m going to have to lay off the toy purchases for some time…

I’ve also been doing a bit of re-basing… bringing older stuff up to current standards and sizes…

It’s a Bug Hunt…

“Just what exactly are we dealing with here…”

Quick, nasty, colourless… but DONE!!

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These are Kryomek aliens from Scotia Grendel.

I have five others already done, for a total of 15 of the little guys, 4 of the bigger guys and one big bad nasty… and I may have another batch of them on the way shortly… (MWA-HA-HA-Ha-Ha-ha-ha…. ha… ha… heh…).

I may have to send the space-faring savages in to do a "discrete third-party investigation" of a ultrasecret Wayland-Yutani bio-weapons research facility that's stopped sending messages... It may just be a downed transmitter...?

So… Now What?!

I don’t know…. Usually the week after a big gaming event I start thinking about what’s next. But right now I feel like I’m at a bit of a loss.

For the moment I’ve actually cancelled my weekly Wednesday gaming night… I’ll probably do the same for Savage Saturday shortly… and I’m officially canceling the gaming weekend originally planned for the end of May… and not making any promises about holding any future gaming weekends…

Oh, I’m not saying that I’m not playing games anymore. I’m just not having regularly scheduled weekly games. I need some time to recharge and get some painting done. Work on some projects… and rethink the format of larger (weekend) events.

I also want to get out on the bike some more.

So what AM I going to be working on… I don’t know… I don’t really feel like working on any big projects at the moment. Though I do like focusing on one thing and getting stuff done – because it’s the way to GET STUFF DONE - I feel totally scattered at the moment and trying to launch into one thing right now would be setting myself up for failure. There’s a half dozen or so projects I’d LIKE to be working RIGHT NOW! These include the Seven Years War British and French (and possibly some “imagi-nations”), Dark Ages DBA armies (Scots, Irish, Welsh, More English, and More Vikings), English Civil War, various Generic HOTT armies (Elves, Orcs, Dwarves, etc…), Lord of the Rings HOTT armies (Rohan, Gondor, Mordor, etc), Samurai DBA/HOTT armies, Sci-fi/Modern/Pulp/Horror skirmish… I’ve even occasionally had a hankering to bust out the 20mm Modern stuff…!? But obviously I just don’t have the time to do it ALL right now.

What I DO seem to have a lot of on the workbench lately is Sci-Fi Skirmish things (should have some pics of the latest stuff posted tomorrow).

We shall see.