Painted in 2025

It was a gaming life lite year, my regular opponent's grandson had football on Saturdays and that is the only day that works for the both of us. When his grandson's team got eliminated and freed up his Saturday, his wife decided that now that hhis Saturdays were free the could now do the stuff they did on Sundays could now be done Saturdays.

   Not a lot got painted the entire year. 

   Lack of motivation was the primary effect. Apparently I need a reason to paint stuff.

That said. 

   I was scheduled to run a Wild west game ion December. I felt I needed more Indians, as I wanted something different than a town shoot out. After much searching I found that Wargames Foundry would be the best mix with my Old Glory and Wargames Foundry Cowboys/Townsmen. 

   OMG they are expensive, 2 packs (16 Figures) was $97 Shipping included, they sent 2 gift figure s, a medieval archer (I guess since some of the apache had bows someone thought it was close enough) and duplicate Apache.

 I got them done pretty quickly in November, but then as December started I got sick and stayed sick for 3 weeks and had to cancel.

I have been looking at other sets, mainly fantasy One Page rules being the main one but also Battle Cry. For some reason fantsy rules now the main ranged weapons seem to be guns, not bows, and there aint a lot of Gun armed troops that don't look like Conquistores, and I wanted some. Kit bashing seemd the best option. I had half a box of Oathmark Human Infantry and a box of Warlord games Scots Coventers, I got somewhere. I thought about using muskets from some of Napoleonic figures bits, but Pictured those a too Advanced for the way the weapons are described.

 They look OK and I can also use them for 2nd ed. Dragon Rampant as one 12 figure unit and 1 six figure unit or threes 6 figure units.

 Painting totals for the year

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Vehicles (1/72 scale):                                                  0 

Infantry/Cavalry (1/72 scale):                                      0 

Infantry/ Cavalry (28+mm):                                       35

Artillery (28mm):                                                        0 

The yearly total is:                                                    35

What I painted in August

Painted in August

  August got off to a slow start, I had not touched a brush until the 12th.

I picked up 40 Bretonian (I think) archers at my FLGS's Bring and buy, not from any interest in Warhammer, but figuring I can use them for Dragon Rampant or any fantasy rules, and could even use them in a Historical setting. One thing I had not considered when got them, they are intended to go onto slotta bases of which I have none, so I just glued them to normal bases and will raise the basing material to cover the tabs.

   I painted them for use as units of either 6 or 12.

   I also want to run another game of Cowboys vs. Aliens at some point and whilst I have aliens I figured they needed some automatons to supplement them.

These are resins minis I bought off Etsy, one of the not minions snapped off at the ankles when I dropped it 3 inches while I was painting them, fortunately it was a clean break and 2 drops of super glue was sufficient.

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Vehicles (1/72 scale):                                                 0 

Artillery (28mm):                                                         0 

Infantry/Cavalry (1/72 scale):                                    0 

Infantry/ Cavalry (28+mm):                                       48

Miniatures painted in August:                                    48

The yearly total is:                                                    235

Painted in July

 What I got painted in July

I needed some mounted crusaders and as I had picked up a box of conquest games Medieval Knights.

They moved to the front of the line. 

The Conquest games box contents comes in 2 flavours, one with 14 figures one of which on foot, my box was the 16 riders with 18 horses edition.

The figures wielding hand weapons had to canted to prevent the weapons attacking the mounts and as you can see a lot of the figures are looking up into the sky.

I need to get some decals for the shields, though my understanding is there was little heraldry on shields at this time.

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Vehicles (1/72 scale):                                                  0 

Artillery (28mm):                                                       0 

Infantry/Cavalry (1/72 scale):                                    0 

Infantry/ Cavalry (28+mm):                                       16

Miniatures painted in June:                                        16

The yearly total is:                                                    187

Painted in June 

(all Victrix all month)

 There were no miniatures painted in May, due to time spent on cleaningup/updating my Wild West collection. I agreed to run a couple of games for my local FLGS's Game day in July.

Roll-4-con-tickets  I am running the Fistful of Lead: Reloaded games

A mix of Ancient Carthaginians and Napoleonic Austrians.

The last 5 figures from my box of Victrix Austrian Landwehr.

3x figures to bring unit of imiatation Legionares up to my standard of 12 figures.

3x figures to bring unit of hoplites up to my standard of 12 figures.

6x a half unit of Libyan Skirmishers

6x Hoplites (half unit) with Scutum.

6 figures, a half unit of imiatation Legionares with hoplons

 

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Vehicles (1/72 scale):                                                  0 

Artillery (28mm): 0 Infantry/Cavalry (1/72 scale):       0 

Infantry/ Cavalry (28+mm):                                       29

Miniatures painted in June:                                        29 

The yearly total is:                                                    171

Painted in April

 It was a a low production month.

I finished off my Box of Victrix Austrain Landwehr.

Miniatures painted in April: 39

The yearly total is:
     Vehicles (1/72 scale):                0
     Artillery (28mm):                      0
     Infantry/Cavalry (1/72 scale):   0
     Infantry/ Cavalry (28+mm):    142

Painted in March

What I painted in March

I finished painting my box of Victrix Austrian Infantry.

 Then I painted my box of Frostgrave Cultiists.

A bag of Victirix Greek Archers.

 A bag of Victrix Greek Slingers

And started my Box of Victrix Austrian Landwehr.

Miniatures painted in March: 64

The yearly total is:
     Vehicles (1/72 scale):                0
     Artillery (28mm):                      0
     Infantry/Cavalry (1/72 scale):   0
     Infantry/ Cavalry (28+mm):    103

           Monthly Painting, February 2024

I finally seem to have recovered from my funk.

Victrix Napoleonic Austrians are this month's production. All painted just basing to do and am going to wait unitl I have the whole box painted, so the bases will match.

39 miniatures in February

The yearly total is:
     Vehicles (1/72 scale):                0
     Artillery (28mm):                      0
     Infantry/Cavalry (1/72 scale):   0
     Infantry/ Cavalry (28+mm):    39

Monthly Painted, July 2022

 I finally started and finished some figures that had been Works In Progress, for a few years.

Frost Grave Gnolls, added some shields (mostly hoplons) from other kits

And finished the last few figures my box of Wargames Atlantic Persians

Not sure if these guys are actually from the box though.

 

33 miniatures in July

The yearly total is:
     Vehicles (1/72 scale):                0
     Artillery (28mm):                      0
     Infantry/Cavalry (1/72 scale):   0
     Infantry/ Cavalry (28+mm):    60
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                                             Total 60