Consumerism and Painting

    Can you believe it? This will be my first post without any Battletech miniatures in it. Fear not! As I have purchased more, just no progress on the pile I already have. No, I have started painting up Zogar Sag with all the Pict Hunters included in this box. Fifteen mono pose warriors. The kickstarter had, I believe, three versions of each enemy, two variants of melee (sword and spear) and a ranged weapon. But this version is from my friend James, not sure if it was kickstarted or not. 

Zogar Sag

Pict Hunters

    During the winter, I started to throw some junk together and call it terrain. Now that it's nice out, I finally spray primed a couple pieces. The first one is finished, though I painted in my basement lighting and taking it out into natural light, I will probably throw a wash on that silver. 

Sister of battle for scale

    The next piece I used pieces from a printer I scrapped for parts as well as car parts that had emerged from the spring melt. I took inspiration from a YouTuber called Scratch Bashing. I intend to do several more of these to link/ stack together for Necromunda or something similarly grungy. Still need to finish painting it. 

    And now for the purchases. First up, Darkoath Savagers. Now veterans of this blog will say, "Hey, Jon? Didn't you just trade that box?" Why yes, yes I did. Warcry doesn't seem to be making a return and the product seemed to be on it's way out. I really like this warband so I purchased it again. They are in the Darkoath Raiders Spearhead, but I wasn't interested in the rest of that box.

Like I mentioned, Warcry is being discounted at Comic Readers. These comes with some nice jungle terrain which would fit right in with Ghosts of Archipelago, as well as two warbands, Rotmire Creed and Horns of Hashut. Rotmire Creed have been on my radar for awhile and the Horns, might grow on me. 

    I have purchased the Battletech Alpha Strike box as well, but more on that when it arrives.

Next on the Hobby Desk

    Planning my entries for Monster May(hem) challenge? Painting?

Q1 Wrap Up

     Cleaning up the hobby desk, I snapped a few pictures of these freshly varnished miniatures. While looking around for miniatures that were 80-90% finished for the Paint What You Got Challenge 2025, I found some skeletons and a golem.

    All of them are from Reaper Miniatures. I picked these up back when I brought the first edition of Frostgrave with the intension of using them in my warband. I might still do that in a pitch. The warband is on lipped edged circular bases which might make my hobby heart hurt if I mix bases within the warband.

    

    This is the one exception, for this construct is from Dreamblade. I finished it last year, it was only one model that I randomly finished for Frostgrave so I didn't bother posting it. But now that I have other Frostgrave minis to post about, here it is!

Filling out my random encounters for Frostgrave

    This tree I made some time ago when I was making my own Feculant Gnarlmaw. It has sat on my hobby desk nearby just hoping to get completed. With some basing and a few 3D printed gravestones, I can now call it done and toss it off my desk... gently into my terrain container.

Close up of gravestones

    And what's a painting update this year without Battletech? Non-existent, that's what. Here are two staples of Clan Jade Falcon. Summoner and Timber wolf. 

    

That's it for the painting, now we get into the purchases. In February, I commissioned some gaslands weapons and accessories to be 3D printed so I could have an impromptu vehicle make and take. My friend Victor brought his son, Roberto, of seven, who really enjoyed the activity. His are the two on the top left. My friends Todd, John and Vic all worked on a vehicle or two, as well as my brother Nathan. Might be a fun idea to run a game with a kitbash station? I'll think about that one.

    The other commissions were these, a graboid and two shriekers from the Tremors films. I'd like to create unique rules for these monsters to be used in Don't Look Back. 

    Someone was giving away Chaos Warhounds on our local wargaming FB page, so I now have 9 said hounds. I'd like to paint a couple up for Mordheim, if I do play that.. or even Frostgrave.

    And finally, I bought Blitz Bowl from London Drugs on sale. It was a late night purchase that I didn't look all that closely into, as I had thought it came with the new orc sculpts from the 2020 edition of the Blood Bowl box, but they are in fact the same orcs from the 2016 box I already had. I recently discovered that London Drugs seems to carry Warhammer.

Next on the Hobby Desk!

    Hopefully some more painting!