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Back to it? Well yes, a bit.

So the original purpose of creating this blog was to help give me some motivation to make progress and therefore have something to write about in the blog which I would regularly update....

It never really worked, obviously, otherwise the blog would have some content.

Why am I back? 
  • I actually quite enjoyed using the blog as a sort of diary of progress, and having tried an actual diary, it just wasn't the same. 
  • I've got a number of projects, which are moving forwards albeit slowly, and not all are reliant on painting which has long been my biggest issue.
  • I currently have more time, what with being furloughed.

The Active Projects
  • So the last thing completed was the the Nomad half of Infinity's Operation Icestorm and Beyond boxes. (Painting - not bad, photography - horrendous). My regular gaming group cares little about unpainted minis - they also don't play Infinity, hence prioritising these to enable me to use them, post lockdown. Probably.

Lovely miniatures to paint, and for me at a good pace.

  • Late War Fallschirmjager for Chain of Command/Bolt Action. Platoon plus a few odd supports. These are the current focus, not part of the regular groups repertoire so need to be painted. A test of batch painting, doing a group of 46 in one go. I'm not hating it, although still not particularly fast.
  • Harlequins and Craftworld for 40k/Killteam. Just over 3,000 points worth, bought, assembled and with sand on the bases Roughly 100 points worth painted. Not high on the priority list - generally played with the regular group.
  • Gloomspite Gitz for Age of Sigmar/Warcry. About 1,500 points worth, bought, assembled and with sand on the bases. Again mostly regular group so not high on the list, but planning to use these as my first foray into GW contrast paints......
  • Lastly, thanks to seeing some interesting ancients things going on. I want to get involved. This will likely take 2 paths.
    • To the Strongest! seems to have a decent following using tabletop simulator. Within the next week I want to check I can run it, and get a game. So far, I have bought and read rules.
    • Some solo gaming, likely using some top downs or some such in place of miniatures as this one is as much about gaming a topic I've been watching/reading. As well as TtS!, I am tempted by Mortem et Gloriam for this, I'll definitely buy the rules to read even if it goes no further.
So that's an update/brain dump. I'm going to target once a week for this. Let's see if it goes better than last time.



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