Month in Review - May 2020

Well, another month been and gone, and I definitely took it easy in May.  A grand total of 8 minis painted this month, a drop in the ocean compared to previous efforts, but, I'm still on track to beat last years output.

There are a number of reasons I slowed down this month, feeling a bit burnt out from nearly 2 months of constant painting, being back at work, the heat, working in the garden, and Sarah taking up residence in the games room while working from home.  I've also been doing some assembly, so was working downstairs for that anyway.

I painted up a unit of Invokers for the #talesofinstahammer challenge seeing as the theme was magic, and supplemented them with Stormsire's Cursebreakers which also knocked off another Warhammer Underworlds warband.

Stormcast Eternal Invokers (Age of Sigmar, Games Workshop)

Stormsire's Cursebreakers (Warhammer Underworlds, Games Workshop)

I also made a start on more reinforcements for SAGA/Lion Rampant, but going back to work scunnered that...

Dark Age Infantry/Medieval Archers (Conquest Games)

In terms of non-painting hobby, I've assembled 2 sprues worth of Wargames Atlantic Dark Age Irish to do a review, along with more Foundry Vikings (2pts of Warriors with various hand weapons, and a point of Levy with Javelins) although I decided to give most of the Levy spears as they had helmets and I'll fill out the unit with more bareheaded ones and possibly some Crusader Miniatures sculpts.  I also based and primed the 3 Oathmark Dwarf Champions, the limited edition alt Ranger from the Rangers of Shadowdeep book and an old Grenadier Barbarian shaman from ebay (another Copplestone sculpt I think) along with 8 Footsore Norman Crossbowmen (the unarmoured ones) to give me 1pt for SAGA and 2/3rds of the unit I need for the club Lion Rampant campaign.

These new Dwarfs are almost as tall as the old Vikings...

Picked up/made a few random orders for stuff too, some boring necessities like lipped bases, and, thanks to a Northstar flash sale, all the remaining sets of SAGA dice.

Should probably add some standard d6, right?

Pretty much the last of the Stonecast backlog.

Final numbers then?  Gaming and events has obviously taken a big hit for the year, hopefully I can get those numbers up when things go back to normal (and I can bust out all my new painted armies)

	Amount		Amount	Task	Completed
13	41	13	41	Fully Paint Grymkin (HORDES)	13	32%
53	54	11	12	Tales of Instahammer (Stonecast Eternals)	11	92%
50	50	7	7	Paint 6pts Saga Age of Vikings army	7	100%
	33		7	Paint 6pts Saga Age of Crusades army		0%
	46		9	Paint 8pts Saga Age of Magic army – Vikings		0%
62	62	9	9	Paint 8pts Saga Age of Magic army – Goblins	9	100%
51	96	10	20	Paint Shadespire Warbands	10	50%
	40		16	Paint 2000pt Warmaster army		0%
			24	Paint Osprey Wargames forces		0%
8	52	8	52	Play 52 Games	8	15%
4	10	4	10	Play 10 new opponents	4	40%
	8		8	Play 10 Boardgames		0%
	4		4	Run a gaming event/session.		0%
5	12	5	12	Maintain blog with monthly posts	5	42%
5	12	5	12	Write 1 extra blog post per month (BatRep, tutorial, review etc)	5	42%
	467		467	Transfer flip top paints to dropper bottles		0%
1	4	1	4	Go to 4 shows or conventions	1	25%
252	991	73	714		10.22%

That's it for now, stay safe people.

Cheers,

John