SALE : Boardgames

Warrior Knights, New and unplayed, possibly punched - £30 Descent, big box, played once, - £90 Blood bowl team manager, played once - £15 Small world, played once - £30 please add P+P at cost or like for like if trades are being sent More to Stuff to follow as the shelves get tidied. May exchange for unwanted unpainted figures? Offers considered Or if you have PayPal pennies then Perry Miniatures plastics..... Pm me any interest or offers  Shaun

Getting on with it...

Well only 9 figures left on the commission, 4 cheerleaders and 5 MVPs to go, been a slog but it's nearly there...

World War Z .... ****/5 it's good and a must for zombie fans, the science didn't add up for me, but the action was bang on, runners I can cope with, long range health monitoring? Pfft

Figures for sale? The ancients are going on the back burner and I am gonna fire up some Naps. Painted figures for sale at a bring n buy near you soon.... Need les mis tickets for Christmas, come on we can get there !!!!

Admissions .... ***/5 not the funniest film, no one got offended, More knocked up than hangover...

Man of Steel .... ****/5 better than iron man 3 but not as good as Avengers, will there be a Justice League film off the back? Probably, doubt they will go solo tho, especially with Aquaman lol

Oh well, better get on then...

One by one...

So painting dreadball MVPs one at a time, customer has requested 'canon' or book colour schemes... But need ing to paint 2 an hour is proving a struggle, have finished three teams in his own colour schemes.

Also taking a break from these by painting Gallic warband figures, 8 at a time, hopefully this will give a varied colour scheme, 24 figure units will be on sale later in the year at either SELWG or WaRfayre at Reading, just in time for the road tax and Xmas presents, anyone got access to cheap theatre tickets? Les mis please.. :)

And a unit of dark skinned numidian light infantry, African skin tones more than middle east.... Who knows, no two websites  agree, altho 15mm tend to be darker than 28mm it seems

So 92 figures this month somehow... None for me, but to be honest I need the money more than figures that I won't play with til I retire in 25 years time.

Shaun

Starter for 10.....

Where's has my paint mojo gone?

Figures started since the last post -

24 ACW Cavalry
24 Wild German Tribesmen
48 Gallic Warband

figures finished -
None

commissions accepted -
50 Dreadball figures

games played - none

So, where to next? Wibbly wobbly time machine trip to the 60s not an option

Paint it black?

Am slowly painting the lead mountain of abandoned projects... Ancients of various denominations from NewLine.

While painting some 'wild germans' I have started to paint the naked figures with there mostly wicker shields and realised I may have gotten it wrong, and my google foo has failed to back up my thoughts.

So would it be right to paint the unclothed figures as caucasian flesh... With blonde hair...
Or with a black block 'tattoo' over arms or torsos etc .. Still blonde? Or a mix of gingers n brown hair....?

Is this historical or just me going all Conan?

Please reminder these are destined for sale so getting it wrong will effect future purchases :(

Many thanks all

Shaun

Option 3......

Salute has been and gone, it just felt too big this year..... Or maybe my hobby is just small? Not sure, very much enjoyed it but can't seem to remember anything awe inspiring but I also seem to have missed an awful lot of the games in my wanderings. Did see many people I know from various hobbies, a little bit of cross hobby pollution.

Well Mssrs Perry failed to grab my money as they were guzzumped by Victrix and there one off, til next time, Salute special of 10 boxes for £130.00, a no brainer at £9 off per box. So now I have 480 hoplites and a few ideas.

club has seen the return of actual figure gaming which I get to play with!! ACW which led to my purchase of 2more Perry Infantry and a Zouave Boxes to build units into solid 24 figure units with 4 skirmishers each.... Will even try to convert some Berdans in fockcoats from the spare shell jackets.

My plastic Wargames Factory Romans now have 48 plastic velites from new kid on the block, Agema.

I had a brief look at the 3ups for Warlord, WW2  Japanese ... Meh, then at Perry, WOTR dismounted men at arms and mounted sergeants.... Meh, and the FireForge, Mongols? Eh, what happened to the Crusade stuff... And Victrix, had lots to say bu nothing to show ...

Perry did tempt me with Desert Rats, but not Africa Corps? If I was still VBCWing they are ideal for a unit of ' black shorts' ala Jeeves and Wooster fame, will wait and see.

And then as I was about to get some of the new Perry AWI... Dave Thomas had sold out? so I have shelved the money til the next show and until I have got my glue on and maybe painted some more metals to feed to he bring and buy

April fuel

As its April I figured an update was due, being on holiday and generally off hobby lately has resulted in more games and less paint. Also I have hit the can be arsed wall again.

Two Dreadball teams painted for 20 points
Still not finished the Ratlins and last Chancers but am gonna get them done this week.

I need a project to kickstart the year but am flitting between too many scales and ideas, so instead of throwing money ,which I don't really have, at the problem I am going to go to Salute for some inspiration. Paint some units to sell at BnBs later in the year and let the hobby fund itself again.

Except for the 100£ christmas money left that I need to make into something physical soon or risk loosing it to the bills.

I have several projects in the offing but am being drawn to 28mm Sudan. I already have 4 boxes of pErry Ansar to build and paint, but can't decide what to buy to face off against them.

Option 1 is perry metal British units at 6.50£ a pack of 6 or 26£ a unit plus a gun and some sailors with an MG

option 2 will be to go for the new Perry Plastic AWI at 18£ for 40 odd Which willPlace the action 100years earlier and be a little more imaginary but a lot more affordable