Back to the Grindstone

Well after a great weekend in London and a return to Hockey training yesterday, today was my first full session on the painting table. I had a great time at Salute and the highlight was meeting my fellow bloggers, I am sorry if I failed to say hi to you but I am a pretty shy lad and so many new faces was quite overwhelming. I slipped off after a while but again great to see you all. Hard to believe but I only took one picture in Salute and that was a face shot of me and my old man to share on Facebook so the family could keep track of us.

On Sunday we went into London again to catch a bit of the Marathon was very happy to capture a great picture of Team GB super star the Weirwolf.

Back to the painting I have a quick shot of my painting table.

I spent a couple of hours on the Dwarf Crossbow men blocking in colours and doing the flesh, I have also started the flesh on the BB Orcs and completed the horses and flesh of the riders.

Lastly while in the loft the other week I spotted a box of Zulu war figures which I brought back down I plan to paint these up and sell them off, to which end I based the up ready for priming.

At least its not a motorbike

So I think that I have hit my mid life crisis, after finding a community that will play Warhammer the way I always love to I now feel I MUST recreate those heady days of the 80's when I had WFB armies aplenty and spent many a happy school holiday tucked away in a tin hut (our wargames club) in the Mediterranean sun (heat stroke was always an option).
As I want to save all you perfectly sane poeple from my mad rush back to my youth I have started a second blog which will record my efforts to replace, first my Dwarfs and then who knows. If you are already a little mad and want to see how I get on feel free to pop on over and check it out
http://exilesoldhammer.blogspot.co.uk/

To which end the British Nap unit I was painting has gone back into the lead pile and my Dwarf box has been pulled to the front.
 

Painting Table's WIP

So today is the first day since the end of the challenge that the painting table has hit full speed again. I have a few commissions on the go, the last 15mm Para's and the start of a huge Blood bowl Orc and Goblin team. On top of this I am doing the Generals for our French SYW army and for no other reason than I always wanted to I am painting a 28mm Nap British unit (or army will see how it goes, I have enough figures).

Last night during my break I was having a surf and found some thing that fired my gaming juice's, I used to love WFB I have in my time owned painted and sold most of the armies you could have for WFB including Nippon and Norse (I should point out I was lucky to have a Dad who bought the armies) the peak of my gaming was 3rd edition and I slowly lost the love since then. So imagine my joy to find that there is a group of gamers who feel just the same. Check out the following blog Warhammer for adults  and even better they have a weekend of 3rd edition gaming at Foundry in Aug oldhammer event foundry 2013 if like me you are a lover of 3rd ed and like a good forum check out http://bloodforum.treps.net/viewtopic.php?f=25&t=388
All I need to do now is paint up (and buy) my Dwarven army and I might just be nipping down to Nottingham at the end of Aug.
I was glad to see my last post has got plenty of reaction I am hoping I can keep posting enough of interest to keep the visitors coming.
Peace James