Skeleton horde and more

       Whelp! I should probably show an update for all the miniatures I have acquired over the summer. In July, we visited Sentry Box, I mean Rachel's half brother, in Strathmore. The night before going to the game store, I went through their catalog of reaper miniatures and sent Rachel and Rosie to pick them out while I looked through their wide array of RPG, tabletop games, etc. Most of their stock is not carried by our local store in Regina. I might grow a second beard looking through their stock, but we were on a time line with supper looming over our heads after a fun day at heritage park.

    From top left they are:

• Unicorn, Young Ice Dragon (both for my daughter)
• Dwarf Cleric, Corinna, Dwarf Master of the Hunt
• Zombie Pirates, Gloom Stalker, Ticks, Troll King

    I also picked up two Ghost of Archipelago supplements, Gods of Fire, which adds tribal warbands, small boat mechanics and notable beasts like a kraken! and Lost Colossus adds a campaign mostly.

    I picked up Battletech Alpha Strike from Dragon's Den in Saskatoon, which adds another 13 mechs to my already expanded collection.

    Though it is the Season of Scenery over one Wargames Terrain Workshop, I haven't been in much of a paint mode for the Heart of Ghurr terrain that I have started. Especially when I had these Conan mummies and skeletons on the hobby desk. I did a quick wet blending for the whole body before picking out small amounts of metal with some silver. Good enough for undead fodder. I did miss one skeleton that was hiding out in the game's box. I'll get around to it after the challenge.

Next on the Hobby Desk!

    

    Time to reveal all the terrain I was building and not finishing with any sort of paint!

Monster Mayhem Challenge 2025

    While I wasn't as motivated in sitting the hobby room this month, I did get a few things done for the Monster Mayhem Challenge.

    First up, and I am not sure how much these would count, but these five hyenas from the Conan board game. Judging from the size they look more like dire hyenas, towering over the NPC character, Yselda. This seems to be a common theme with my monsters this year, super sized animals/ dead humans. Giant Snake for example. With these enemies painted, I can now play the first scenario with all painted enemies that is, still have the heroes to work on. 

Focus!

    One model that has loitered on, near, around the hobby desk for far too long is my Colossal Skeleton from reaper miniatures. Purchasing the metal figure for way too much money, double the bones version and probably half the headache. It was one of the monsters I was going to paint in 2024, but with a bent base and a snapped arm, I found every excuse to set it down for anything else! I am going to call it a Ogre or Hill Giant Skeleton, which makes it sound more monstrous. I am also going to call it done!

    Last but not least, while out searching Value Village, I found a megabloks set with a large scorpion. The limbs were ball joins that swiveled around which I removes to glue them right to the body with some green stuff for support.

    It was not my intension to paint up monsters that all could fit into Frostgrave Ghost Archipelago, but it is a nice happy accident. 

Next on the Hobby Desk!

    I finished painting my trash terrain, time to post it. Also a glimpse of my next garbage build.

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?