Adventuring Party 2022 Wrap Up

     I finished off two more miniatures for the paint an adventuring party challenge that is ran by the_goodground on Instagram they were basically finished last year besides varnishing. That counts! right?

    On the left is Azura, Halfblood metal from Hasslefree miniatures and a metal Reaper Bones Townsfolk IV on the right. The townsfolk was picked up at Dragon's Den in Saskatoon when they had half off their metal reaper miniatures to make way for the Wizkids miniatures. When I base coated the townsfolk, I thought the colours clashed with each other. Now that he is finished, it doesn't look that bad; a backstory was forming in my head that he was blind so he didn't notice what he wore or that he was poor and just wore whatever he found. In the end, he is just a hip old thief. The other townsfolks in that set had been painted up for Rangers of Shadowdeep before the baby arrived.

    With that I have completed my adventuring party, it wasn't done within each month or even enough for the full 12 months but it was a fun challenge to be a part of. Here is what I got finished, they all decided to have a party on the gate to Helm's Deep there was cake.

    Nine out of twelve ain't that bad, hoping this year to complete the full twelve and one a month. I did enjoy thinking of backstories, but then got busy/lazy and a painted miniature wouldn't get posted till the next month to give me more time to write their story. 

    The challenge is also to paint up several different classes and races, which I was more focused on in the beginning of the year, but then starting picking miniatures I liked the look of instead. As far as model distributors go, I feel I am very fond of Reaper Miniatures, usually their metal minis, as they are usually big and chunky for good detail. Wizkids are quick to paint up, I bought a lot so I better get used to them!

Next on the Hobby Desk

Looking forward to 2023, what should I play? What adventuring party will I paint? The Fellowship? Seven months for seven members, the year of the hobbit! 

    

Droning on...

 Before Christmas I finished off three Plague Drones that have been sitting on my half finished heap of abandonment. When I first started them, I wanted to magnetize their fragile legs and rider for more easy transportation to games. At some point I broke my hand drill bit and ran out of magnets, so they languished in the miniature prison called The Heap.

 No longer, these prisoners of their owner's apathic ways have come to an end!

Despite my fussing about with magnets I decided to only magnetize the limbs on two of the drones. The one with the dynamic pose, is clearly the one I just glued. Really like the pose, but boy is it going to be tough to transport. 

Shelf of Plagues

Here is a shot of all the Nurgle Daemons I have, oh and some plague skaven behind the big fella. 

I have a few more nurgle units to paint up:

• 5? Or 10 putrid blightkings (some might turn into kitbash fodder, could see 15 work for a slaves to darkness mortal)
• lord of plague
• Gutrot Spume
• Bloab Rotspawner (might need to actually magnetize this model to make any three of the brothers) 
• 3 nurgles
• of course three MORE plague drone of nurgle

I believe that's all... at least for AOS nurgle. I do have more skaven but they are clan rats. An idea dawned on me that the clan rats could worship one of the four gods, instead of the horned rat. Could give features of their chosen god if the Island of Blood models lend themselves to kitbashing.

Next on the Hobby Desk

    Couple more models left to show off from 2022, then onto hobby resolutions!

Ooo Shiny!

 So I bought a lot of miniatures, like what am I doing!? I mean I know miniatures are cool and playing new tabletop systems is a fun experience but I should at least PLAY the games I buy. But no, I picked up all sorts of random unrelated miniatures. 

I am always looking on the buy and sell Facebook page for Saskatoon and Regina. Which now I have stopped looking or at least tapping the proverbial brakes instead of just jumping on everything. 

One of the individuals on there was selling a load of dark elves. I justified this purchase as it would a good fit for all sorts of skirmish games or specially Warcry. But I didn't think it was this much for how much they were asking!

I was expecting 10 archers and 20 spearmen, looking back on the message they were saying he had a least that many plus extra! And of course, no deal is complete without me getting a few lizardmen. 

This dark elves isn't going to be the HEAD of a major corporation anytime soon!

Looks like I have:

24 dark elf spearmen 

11 dark elf darkshards 

12 glade guard? 

4 high Elf shadow warriors?

5 dark elf executioners

High Elf mage 

Eldar Bonesinger

    I have been following Leadballoony's blog. he has been doing a 'Realm of Warcry' campaign, in which the warband is randomly generated from the tables found in Realm of Chaos: Lost and the Damned. Since reading about this, I have been rolling up chaos champions with the people I support at work as fun little activity to do while it's cold outside. 

    One I rolled up was a Dark Elf that rolled immense as a trait, which brought me to the idea of this Dark Elf corrupted by nurgle, wishing to be a more of a girthy presence. I'll have to go through my bits and see if I can start making this champion a reality.

    With the new starter set of the Middle-earth Strategy battle game coming out, I got a bit of FOMO and picked up the older Battle for Pelennor Fields box set. I know the rules might be a bit outdated, but I found the models in this box a much better deal then the new one. (I also wasn't into the dynamic posing of the heroes). As for the models, the forces of good have 45 and the forces of evil have 38 (two being the witch king on fellbeast and a troll). The new Battle of Osgiliath has 27 and 26 respectively between the two side. Once I get the fellowship painted up, I think I will try to track down the Quest for the Ring mission book, which takes you through the key moments in the hobbit's journey to Mt Doom.

    I might've gotten a targetted ad for Barbaric Splendor, which had 50% off their model range and claimed to be going out of business. Which doesn't seem to be the case anymore, I will assume that I single handedly saved the business with my purchase. I picked up 7 as follows:

• Desdire
  
• 2 x Jeyra
• Llama Queen
• Kaegan
• Katja
• Thorn

Jeyra and Thorn could be tribe leaders for PrimeEvo, I liked the sculpt of Jeyra which is why I bought two. I am sure I can figure out a kitbash to make them a bit different from each other. The Llama Queen I bought because I have a saber tooth tiger from Hassle Free miniatures that she could be a rider on.

    On the buy and sell facebook page, I found someone selling off two forces of Bushido. The Yutei Clan and the Temple of Riso. Should be a good start to learning the game.

Bushido Lot from Facebook

Temple of Ro-kan

    Temple of Rokan, is located on the Rokan mountain. Masters and monks hone their skills at summoning powerful spirits and harness the fury of natural elements to fight back against the darkness.

Cult of Yurei

    Cult of Yurei are worshippers of the dark god Yurei, giving his followers the power to control life and death. Though they might think they aren't bound by fate, to his will, every puppet has a master.

    The blister packs contain two Cult of Yurei: Yugio & Rokuro; as well as one Rokan: Master Akari. From the small amount of reading and videos I watched, a standard game of Bushido is 100 pts. The Cult box as 99 and the Rokan box has 70, giving me options with the additional blister packs. Master Akari boosts the Rokan to 90. 

    The seller was saying he didn't have time to start another profile, which a second baby on the way. Hopefully I can find time to paint these two factions up and get some tutorial games in. Looks like he bought two factions that thematically would appose each other.

    Alright, I think that's it? I do have some Kingdom Death pin up miniatures coming in from Aliexpress, but those won't be here till like February. Boy do I need to slow down on my purchasing and get some games and painting in!

Next on the Hobby Desk

Some miniatures that I painted to round out 2022!