Thursday, April 25, 2024

March painting, finally.

     After a productive first two months, I have started to slow down on the painting it seems. Not because I don't have stuff to paint, but I am a bit directionless as I don't have any specific wargame that I am currently playing. This blog entry is well overdue, as a lot of the miniatures have been finished in March and it's apparently mostly thought April now!?

    First up, a triple threat of metal harpies from Gamesworkshop. I bought these when Thunder games and gifts closed in January. Frostgrave has peaked my interest recently, so now I wish I had painted them in cooler colours. Doesn't matter, still enjoyed painting them, pick out more metal minis to paint soon.







S'Kara, female Skoli (reaper miniatures) was painted up to about 90% last year, adding I couple more colours has now taken her off my painting desk. Was going to be part of the Paint an Adventuring Party Challenge for last year, but didn't get much finished for it.



Obligatory battle scene

    Mech Attack! is a skirmish game that simplifies the rules to Battletech for those that don't want to read through all the crunchy rules. (though I might dip into the lore a bit more). I have Alpha Strike on PDF, a simplified version of Battletech and it is 250 pages? That doesn't sound very streamlined to me. I first heard about Mech Attack from the Chicago Skirmish Wargames blog. They take the game to a whole new scale, a scale I'd love to build for but for now, I'll repaint my heroclix.

Slattern and Coyote Tango rebase and repaint





Scunner and Gipsy Danger WIP

        A friendly local game store one town over called Dragon's Den has had a couple Resident Evil 2 board game expansions on their sale rack for over a year now. I offered to buy both for an additional discount on one expansion. This was my second big purchase of miniatures this year. B-Files came with 8 zombies, 2 Lickors and 2 forms of Mr. X, the stalker type nemesis that hunts you throughout the game. Survival Horror adds a PVP mode adding 7 survivors to play as in the main game, as well as 2 Ivy plants, 2 Giant Spiders and 2 zombie survivors. A grand total of 25 miniatures to paint up. I also traded away a box Kabalite warriors for 3 Space wolf Thunderwolf cavalry as well as 2 Space Marine Captains and 1 Dark Eldar Incubi and wytch. Broke even on the trade as it would be 10 points total for both. 
    
Hunk and Tofu, yes, a walking piece of Tofu


    In the Resident Evil game, when tofu gets damaged, he turns pink and has chunks bitten off of him. Hence the pink colour scheme.

Painted: 8 points
Purchased: -38 points
Total: -30 points

Next on the Hobby Desk

    Birds! Well actually mice and rats. I have been working away on Tail Feathers and have finished up all the infantry in the box. I just need to get some pictures taken.