Not much to show here, my Aliens: Another Glorious Day in the Corps + Expansions arrived. I've assembled it all and figured out how to store it, as well as embarked on the painting.
In other news, I got my old desk back for my office, so I can get back into bigger builds, and in celebration I chucked some Bolt Action toys down and made some explosion noises...
Next up will hopefully be some progress on the Aliens stuff.
I blasted through the unpainted/bits box recently and knocked out all of (well, nearly) unpainted genestealers and tyranid gribbles to use with Grimdark Future.
As it stands I've got 3 units of 5x Soul Snatchers (Genestealers)
2 units of 5 x Grunts (Termagaunts)
1, yet to be painted brood lord or hive tyrant.
This will give me just over 1000pts which is another nice wee army for smaller, kitchen table games.
I've also got a bunch of spore mines, and objective markers, which will work for Epic too.
Really basic speed painting, but happy just to get them in a playable state.
And if anyone had a sweepstake going...
My first and second miniature purchases of the year...
A box of Sicarian Rust Stalkers for my Ad-Mech/Machine Cult.
The full GF9 set for Aliens: Another Glorious Day in the Corps... :D
I FOMO'd this one, learning that the license was lost, meaning this game will either disappear and become rare as hens teeth, or will end up in a bargain bin!
I'm quite happy, the price for the game plus all expansions was less than a GW big box release, and the game it's self can be played solo or co-op which should be perfect for the perpetual lockdown.
I built and painted these at the start of the month, utilising Predator and Razorback kits, plus a plethora of bits.
As usual, I couldn't go vanilla and had to make some conversions. The modular nature of the Rhino allowed me to create some different loadouts, including magnetising all of the 'out of the box' stuff, and scratch building an Anti-Aircraft unit and Mortar module.
I've also launched a YouTube channel where I hope to do more builds like this and record them.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCc1jqlxQISlOUgh4uKEj30A
Next up - Genestealers! Finally clearing my storage boxes of my unpainted Space Hulk Xenos and Battle for Macragge 40k Starter models.
More progress through the big box of gifted minis...
I'm calling the Space Marine/Battle Brother Scouts done, and the same for the Ad-Mech/Machine Cult troops.
I would have spent a bit more time on them but I've been feeling ill the last couple of days and just wanted them off the table, plus in game I expect them to be squishy, so don't want to pour too much love into them to see them destroyed :D
N.B. I will go back and tidy them up when I feel better as I can see some annoying stuff in the photos now.
Happy New Year!
I've cracked into some more of the Warhammer 40k Christmas haul to paint up some Ad-Mech to use with Grimdark future, and some additional Space Bros, which are works in progress.
At this rate I'll have the whole lot done by the end of the month!
In other news - my gaming buddies and I have a new podcast discussing all things RPG and Tabletop, which might interest some folk!
https://open.spotify.com/show/3ItXAn2F0g9bAv7MaumWsf
Cheers!
Seasons greetings!
As is the tradition I'm going to do a quick (hopefully) hobby state of the union address, and follow up with my plans for 2021.
OK, so it was was a weird one...
The year started with the finishing up of my Epic scale Chaos army, I managed to get a game in with them, and begun great fun X-Wing 1.0 campaign with some friends. My Hobby Chi was in perfect balance. I was paring down unused games/models and focusing in on the practicalities of actual gaming.
Then you know what happened - we ended up in lockdown and face to face gaming was swept away and replaced with perpetual time at home.
Boredom struck, and whilst I maintained a steady run-off of unused toys in a bid to achieve similar minimalism that I practice in other aspects of my life, I was too weak...
Frostgrave - painting warbands, terrain and monsters too up the 2nd quarter.
Epic Tau - I spontaneously bought and painted a sizable proxy-Tau Epic army, which were almost as quickly consigned to storage. I have no idea if or when I'll get them on the table.
Bolt Action - The remainder of the year was WW2 focused, and it's rapidly taken a fair chunk of my hobby time and storage (mostly the terrain, having to dive back in to 28mm)
By December I was in a good place, hardly anything unpainted, surplus photographed and boxed for eBay... Harmony once again.
Then Santa...
Santa, in a generous, yet cruel twist of fate delivered me an embarrassment of Warhammer 40k, including a number of starter forces and the Blackstone Fortress dungeon crawler game.
I'm a bit overwhelmed by it, and my first instinct (normally the one you should trust) was telling me to graciously accept, and then as they are non-returnable, I would sell them on without dwelling on it.
But then... I remembered One Page Rules: Grimdark Future exists.
I started list building... talking to people about it... and now it's happening...
Another year, yet another game to add to the list.
My reasoning;
