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!