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.

Games I Played, whats for the future.

I was just having a think Today about the wargames that I have played and ended up noting them down see below, these are games I played multiple time, I had a very active club and played many other periods once or twice but these are the ones I stuck with.

15mm Zulu War (house rules)

15mm NWF (house rules)

15mm Ancients (shock of impact, WRG)

15mm Sci-Fi (lazerburn)

28mm Fantasy (WFB 1^st-4^th Ed)

28mm Sci-fi (Rouge Trader)

1:300 Jet planes (Jet Noise)

28mm Ancients (WAB)

28mm ECW (WECW)

28mm ECW (Black Powder)

28mm SYW (Die Kriegskunst)

28mm SYW (Black Powder)

28mm F&IW (Musket & Tomahawk)

28mm Fantasy (WFB 3^rd Ed)

I have painted so many more periods than these, but as I do not game that often these would still be what I consider my periods.
what about the future?:

If you are sticking with me and this blog what will you be seeing in the coming year, well mostly what you see above 28mm SYW, F&IW and WFB but I have a few newer things on the back burner. I have 28mm NWF already bought and paid for waiting paint (will be a skirmish level game) along the same lines I have 28mm Sudan (dam you lot for showing too many nice pictures of those Perry figures, you know who you are) again already bought and paid for. 15mm Pirate figures and ships are sitting in the lead pile and will see some paint this year. I guess my biggest efforts this year and into next is that my Dad and I have finally given in to our urges and started to build up at Zulu war army both Zulus and Brits (you will not be surprised to note we are going to build the column our relative was in).
On the Zulu war diary front you may not have noticed that I have now added the whole diary as an extra page on this blog, you can access it via the TAB at the top under my banner.

The Naval Brigade.

 

Back to the Brushes

So after my holiday I did a few days of prep I have started on my NWF figures and prepped all the Dwarf figures I have ready for my Oldhammer army.

After a few days sticking it was time to wet my brushes, I have started on the next lot of BB figures and am still working through the last of the F&IW and AWI figures.

I am busy getting ready for my trip down to London this weekend for Salute, I look forward to meeting fellow bloggers at the red dot.
Peace James