ORIGINALLY POSTED - 3 Jan 2017, 17:41
Here goes with the obligatory January update, your one post for the year and all that...
Actually,
I am going to try and keep this updated semi Regularly, hopefully at
least once a month, whilst still tinkering away at making the site look a
bit nicer and getting more pictures up.
2017 Hobby Resolutions
I've
had a bunch of Plastic Soldier Company and Battlefront Germans lying
around for a few years now, from when a few guys at the clubs I went to
were all over Flames of War. I never got beyond building and modding a
few tanks before they moved onto something else, so that was as far as
that project went. So, general love of werewolves, and having a bit of
an interest in Weird War, I was very interested in Konflict '47,
especially as I had been following Clockwork Goblin when they were
producing the 15mm versions. Talking to my Erstwhile partner in 15mm
Crime, I figured I may as well get some of the stuff painted up. I've
worked out a preliminary 1000pt list, but will take it up to 1500 or so,
as I didn't add a tank.
Warmaster
was a game I really enjoyed back when it was released, and despite
never playing much, I've always had a soft spot for it. Despite owning
both an official Chaos army and the Copplestone 'Honestly not Lord of
the Rings' Orc army, I decided to go for 6mm as I had fallen in love
with the models from MicroWorld Games
and it was a lot cheaper than starting a new Ebay army. I settled for
Beastmen (although both Demons and Wood Elves were tempting) and got a
fair amount painted up last year in a couple of sessions. Currently
sitting at about 1400pts painted, and I hope to get the army to at least
2000pts, which I can hit by finishing the units and characters that I
had already started.
Imagine Mt. Everest. Made of Lead...
So
between the various factions I collect (read: Most) I have ended up
with 6 (at current count) Gargossal models. All of which are
unassembled. I would like to change that, and get at least one of them
built and painted this year. Current though is that it will be a
WoldWrath for my new Circle Orboros army, But it might be the Storm
Raptor (also Circle) or Mountain King (Trollbloods). May even be the
7th one I get...
Pretty
Straight Forward. Once everything starts getting cluttered it becomes a
real drain on my hobby mojo. The table becomes a dumping ground for
boxes, cases and figures, and it then stops me wanting to play (as I
have to clear it...) I also immediately feel more settled when it is
clear and that helps productivity. Managed to clear my desk and the
tabletop yesterday. Cleaned out my painting mug, washed my pallet. Was
tempted to wash my painting towel, but I think it is now more paint and
glue than fabric, and that is all that would survive a wash. May just
invest in a new one.,
Seeing
as it was one of the few Game Systems that I actually had Fully Painted
for a while, I figure I had better keep on top of at least one team, it
is currently only 3 figures to paint to get them back there, and I have
another 2-3 teams to deal with after that. Fully Painted straight out
the window...
So
part of being a PressGanger is getting new blood into Warmahordes, and
the other part is keeping them there with various events. I've been
running a 4-weekly Steamroller, mainly at Common Ground Games in
Stirling, and I really want to put on a big two day event, as I've been
to a fair few and have always enjoyed them from a Player Perspective. I
have a venue and date set up for this already, it's just a case of
getting it all planned out and sorted now,
7 - Play 6 different Board Games.
Kinda
self explanatory this one. Now I've spent a fair bit of cash on
various kickstarters, mainly miniature related ones, and that has
included a lot of board games. Beyond organising them, and spending
even more cash buying card sleeves, I haven't really done anything else
with them. We had a kinda impromptu weekend gaming session early last
year when my friend Mark was over from Northern Ireland around March,
but that was really it. Fast forward to the last couple of weeks, and I
managed to get Brushchewer, Jimboba and Duffy together to play
Bloodrage at CGG, which was a blast. So, yeah, play 6 different
boardgames at least once, hopefully more. I know Bloodrage and
Battlelore 2nd edition are going to be part of that, probably Zombicide,
and seeing as she bought me Star Wars Imperial Assault and B-Sieged for
Christmas, I figure I better play those too. (once suitably sleeved)
I've painted up 3 Blighthaven warbands now for Paul at Ral Partha Europe
and have amassed sizeable forces of Beastmen, Elves and various other
models. I absolutely love these sculpts, they are, in my opinion, some
of the best 15mm available despite being more that 20 years old. Seeing
as Jimboba is fielding his Celts, I figured I would do something a
little different for a new army, rather than the Copplestone
Northlanders I had been working on. I picked up Pendraken's Warband
rules a while back, along with a Taurian army pack, but I immediately
looked into switching to 15mm for this over 10mm. I got some sabots
made up at War Bases
so that I could use individually based 15mm models to play, and still
have them able to pull double-duty for skirmish games. Turns out that
the list I have planed for Warband will cover me for Dragon Rampant once
I add a Dragon. Go figure.
Again,
pretty self explanatory. Went to Welsh Masters last year, had a blast,
want to do the same again this year, and place a bit higher than I did
with MKii Thornfall. Top half of the table would be great, but I'd
settle for anywhere in the top two thirds.
Some
of my paints are old. Like, 15 years old or more, and recently I've
had a few of my Foundry paints lid's shatter when opening them. I have
the complete collection, so that's a lot of paint. Add the P3 line to
that, as well as the newer GW line, and that's even more. Now, most of
the little nubbins on the flip tops are breaking anyway, so, 400 dropper
bottles from Ebay and a bunch of little funnels are waiting for me to
begin what is surely going to be a messy and tedious task.
So
Tim is running a SAGA campaign at the club, and I figured I would join
in last year when it kicked off in a bid to play new people and learn a
new game. And clear some of my unpainted backlog... The Campaign
petered out after the first round or so due to various real life events,
but is scheduled to start up again this year. I am using the Conquest
Games plastic Normans for my force, and aim to have 6 points done,
hopefully with a few points of extra options.
Again, self explanatory. Get out the house, stop being a recluse and play games versus new faces..
Similar
to the above, just something to force me to get out of the house once
in a while. Between Nightshift and kids, free weekends are a luxury,
and never seem to coincide with anything exciting. Already booked in
for SmogCon in February, so that's a big one. Sadly I'll miss our clubs
show (Carronade) this year as it clashes with Welsh Masters, so
hopefully I can either get down to York for Varpartnak or one of the
other Scottish shows.
Frostgrave
really took off at FDWC, probably because most folk had a variety of
old models to shoe into a warband (and trigger random basing OCD...) and
I got pretty much all of the original Kickstarter. Did I mention I am a
huge Copplestone fan? I painted up an Enchanter Warband (Witch and
Necromancer were close choices) and both the standard and Cult
Barbarians. Added enough models to have a starting warband, and that is
as far as it got. Total games played 0. But at least I can say that
my warband has won more painting awards than it has won games, right? I
want to chip away at some of the Frostgrave drawer, probably because it
is full, and just to give me some random stuff to work on. The 20
figures I have chosen (at the moment) include the Apeman from Empire of
the Dead, and the Demon gang from A Fistful of Kung-Fu, as both should
fit in pretty well. I like getting double duty from models these days
(even if I continue to buy the official ones too) and the Demons should
be a good choice to work in AFoKF, Daisho, Ronin and Frostgrave. I will
do a seperate blog post detail the 20 figures and why I chose them.
For
the last two years I have participated in the "A Tale of
Warmachine/Hordes 20xx" on the official Privateer Press Forum. The
general idea is to paint 10+ points a month (MKiii) or a Warlock or
Warcaster. You are allowed two gap months by playing a get out of
painting free card, which can also be won back by painting 20+ points in
a single month after that. There was a list of various titles and
achievements listed somewhere, and one of those was the Ironman award,
for completing all 12 months without using a GooP card. I've managed it
for 2 years, so aiming for a third. Should be alright with my 2 new
battleboxes, a colossal or gargantuan, and adding to my Circle army.
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