Inventory day

Well, I was keeping them in iBodger. I love the program for army construction, but when I was making my Omnibus list, it chocked up somewhere past the 300 figure mark, and when I restarted it, it was down to 230 or so again. Looks like a lot of that is a start from scratch, although I should be able to simply double-check most of what I have already done. Bleah.

As I am counting, I have also set aside and primed a couple figures - it's not much, but at least a bull snapper and a ghost sniper are primed as of this afternoon, and yesterday they were merely bare metal. It's progress, but thin progress against the mass of metal on my table.

My next project

I'll take a pic tomorrow, but I think I found my next project. I was at the FLGS today, and we're still trying to get people interested and attending regular games. It's slow, and a little depressing at times, but I expect it. I am going to whip up a flyer or two, and maybe a sign-up sheet, but that's not my next project.

I did a quick inventory. By my count, there are 11 factions between Warmachine and Hordes (Khador, Cygnar, Cryx, Menoth, Retribution, Mercs, Minions, Skorne, Circle, Legion and Trolls). Ignoring Minions (though I have both Farrow and Gators), but fielding 2 different Merc battleboxes (Magnus and Gorten), there are still 11 different battlebox armies.

I have 10 of them, though I still need to pick up a Mk II Legion deck. I can pick up Kaelyssa and the Griffon, and have the Retribution "box". All total, those 11 battlebox armies total 47 figures. I have only 1 of them painted, but 31 of them assembled and primed. I should be able to get the other 16 (well, 14 of them, anyway) assembled and primed before next weekend, and then I'll see what I can get done before the demo.

A random WIP

OKay, so Tuesday night, I didn't get anything done. Sure, I got the lawn back under control (much to the disappointment of H. M. Stanley, who must look for Dr. Livingstone elsewhere), and assembled a literal behemoth of a desk, but I did not get any real painting done. Last night was an improvement, however, and although I did not paint any figs, I worked on assembly of a full unit of Ogrun Assault Corps and a full unit of Bloodgorgers.

I also spent some time working on this, my new dice tower:







Sorry about the quality of the pics - I wanted to take something quickly, and show figs for scale, and the primed Styker did not help.

So, tonight, I will wind up doing one of two things: either I get to go and get a game in, in which case I will not be painting, or I will be spending some quality time with my brushes and paints, in which case I might get some more stuff moved along.

Last night, and impending distraction

So, my goal for this week is not to finish any particular figure, color, or the like. Rather, my goal this week is to spend at least seven hours at my painting table, whether it is trimming, priming, basing, painting, whatever. I want to firmly establish the habit of me going down to the basement, almost every day, for at least a brief period, and working on stuff.

And no, time spend sitting at the table, head in hands, moaning "Oh $%($^%, look at all the unpainted $%)$*%" does not count.

So anyway, last night, I pinned and glued a Bull Snapper, worked on pStryker a little, did some base colors on a Firefly, did some detail work on four Reaper CAV figs, some touch up on my dice tower, fixed my Mangler (right arm had popped off, not surprising since it was never pinned. It is now.) and probably a couple of other things that escape my memory.

And yes, tonight I hope to get down there again, once I have cowed the lawn into submission and put together the new computer desk. And again tomorrow night. But, any victories (other than time in that uncomfortable chair) are short-lived, since I am looking at yet another possible trade - a Warmaster army of mine that has been gathering dust, in exchange for some Khador and Legion figs. With some careful choices, and a fruitful negotiation, the only thing that will keep me from fielding at least 35 points in every faction is the fact that I am still missing the MK II Legion deck.

No time to paint lately.

I didn't get much painting done this week. I did get the base colors down on the magnetized Cygnar heavyand I built a dice tower. I'll be posting pics tomorrow at some point, and, with any luck, I will even get in some painting time.

More distractions

Wrath arrived today, along with the Ogrun Assault Corps, and a merc deck. Magnus, Boomhowler, and other MK I figs are now playable, and I have only two factions to go in order to have something beyond the battlebox for all of them.

And, in a related note - I was contemplating dumping one of my Warmaster armies, and even put it up a few weeks ago, and, out of the blue, I get a couple trade offers on it today. Now, I have to decide - because one offer is Khador, and one is Legion. . . .

New day, new distraction

It's still Warmachine related, but the mail today brought some Rhulic goodness. I picked up the following figs:

Durgen Madhammer(primed black)
Wroughthammer Rockram(primed black)
Ghordson Basher(half painted)
Driller x2(both primed black)
Thor Steinhammer(primed black)
Ghordson Gunner x3(primed black)
Ghordson Blaster x2 (primed black)

I also finished building a dice tower last night, and am trying to finish up four figs from Reaper's CAV line for someone.

Back in the saddle (so to speak)

I didn't have a whole lot of painting or hobby time this past week, but I did get at least something done:




Okay, I did get some painting done too:



The terrain is a Space Hulk board, made using Hirst Arts blocks. I plan on painting it up, but I am not certain if I will keep it, or get rid of it just yet. I have the molds to redo it as many times as I want, but I am running low on Ultracal 30, so that is a consideration.

Anyway, I am hoping to finish up the three jacks in a couple of days, but I will confess that I fully expect to be distracted once again by the middle of the week. Why? Well, the friendly mail carrier will be leaving several packages, one of which will contain Wrath, a long-overdue Merc deck, and a box of the Ogrun Assault Corps. And, within a day or so of that, I will be getting one of the Rhulic casters (Madhammer, IIRC), and a bunch of Rhulic jacks. And thus, I will have a 35 pt Merc army - and so, the only faction for which I will not be able to field 35 points will be Legion. And it's next. I hope to hit 35 in Legion by the end of July - which leaves me the rest of the year to get each faction up to 50. Some are already done, and others need only a unit or two. They may not be competitive, but that's another matter.

Nothing new, sorry

Went dark there for a bit - went out of town for a family matter for much of the tail end of the week, and did not get any painting done.

The goal for this week is to get base colors onto the Cygnar battlebox, and work on the Khador battlebox as well. Three guesses what I want to use them for, and the first two do not count.

No pics needed for this one

I'm not going to take pics of it, but on Sunday I finished with the assembly of the plastic Cygnar battlebox (the one I got Saturday), as well as the Firefly, and a magnetized Cygnar heavy. All of them (except the heavy) got primed yesterday.

I haven't settled on a paint scheme for my Cygnar yet. My Skorne are in PP colors and my gators are in fairly normal colors. My trolls, however, are green (using the fluff from the Monsternomicon as my guide), and my Khador are going to be painted using Vallejo Soviet WWII colors, not reds.

I've got some other stuff this week to assemble as well, and the weather outside is hot enough to give me a good excuse to paint in the nice cool basement, instead of mowing the lawn.