So, it’s been three months since my last post. Not long after Salute, we got an eviction notice through the door letting us know that we needed to find somewhere new to live on a deadline. To cut a long and unfun story short, we did in fact find somewhere new to live, but it did mean putting a pause on hobby activity while we packed everything up.
The new house has a garage, which is a handy amount of storage considering the last two houses we’ve lived in have had basements. Unfortunately, despite moving day being needlessly hot, the weekend after had heavy rain, and the garage turned out to be less waterproof than we had been led to believe:
Honestly, we got very lucky, with minimal actual damage to our stuff. One box of terrain at the bottom of a pile unluckily turned out to have a crack in it though, and so I ended up with this:
An amount of time with a hairdryer and sitting on a cookie rack in the bedroom has managed to salvage everything though, so it could have been much worse! Which reminds me, the roof for the clock tower has fallen behind my chest of drawers, must remember to dig that back out…
So, despite hobby activities being on hold, the lead mountain has in fact grown. First of all, it was Father’s Day since my last post, and as I’ve been watching some old school Doctor Who my presents included a Crooked Dice Temporal Traveller that looks uncannily like Jon Pertwee:
I also grabbed a mini of the month from GW, as I figured he’d make a nice unit champion or Wight if I slapped him on a square base:
I got a message from one of the buyers at work asking if I wanted her spare advanced copy of the upcoming 40K Character encyclopaedia, and who am I to turn down a free limited edition mini:
Which has also tempted me to maybe paint up a little Kill Team or something - GW released a mini game based on the video game where Titus and 3 other marines battle a handful of Tyranids, that’s a small and doable project right? For the other three marines, I figured I would probably want to have them be quite distinctive looking, and so grabbed another mini of the month, this time a Space wolf:
I’m not sure if I’ll leave him as is or try to convert him into a Deathwatch marine, only time will tell…
I also grabbed a magazine that had this sprue as a free gift on the front, because who doesn’t need more hero minis for D&D?
It was also my birthday at the end of August, and among my presents were this baggie of Foundry harpies, because I’m quite excited for the next Joseph McCullough game Warriors of Athena (it was previously released in Spellcaster magazine, and so was going to be my next project, but googling around to see if anyone else online had made war bands I stumbled on a product page saying that it was getting a full book release next year, but more on this in another post):
It also came with a free archer, hooray!
Which brings the Tally to… no, wait, in the time since I started writing this post I’ve ordered more minis. So, to continue:
Sprues! Some skeletons, for Warriors of Athena purposes, some Greek chaps, for Warriors of Athena purposes, and some Wargames Atlantic zombies, for… well, because that is a goodly amount of zombie heads, and between this and the release of the newest Silver Bayonet book inspired me to convert up some historical zombies for Zomtober:
Speaking of Silver Bayonet, I also grabbed a bunch of limited edition minis and… a sprue for Warriors of Athena, because that’s what I’m all about at the moment:
So, all in, the Tally now stands at:
15 vs 247 = -232
Hopefully I can get some minis painted in the next few months and try and chip away at that deficit a little!
