2012 The summary!

Well where has it gone!

Its been a superb year gaming/painting wise and I didn't hit Stef's "expectation" of 2012 models after last years stella performance but I still managed more than I expected as I hadn't planned on any new projects, but that kinda went out the window!

Play me really loud... If you dare....

Jungle

Metal!

Ragga


So the year in a summary....

Jan:

Mordhiem Gang & Necromunda (never did get round to playing with them)

Feb:

Went mental on 20mm WW2 stuff for KGN (system 1) for it to be dropped in May by GW!

March:

British for FOW (not played with them!) A load of warpath (system 2) stuff painted up and played one game.

April:

The dreaded month of Salute, picked up a fair bit and painted a load of modern Russians

May:

Continued with the 20mm WW2 and tried weathering powders for the first time

June:

More 20mm WW2 and picked up and painted a Relic's gang (system 3),

July:

must have been something in the water as I cranked out a load of 20mm modern Russian stuff and 40K chaos that I've had sitting around for about 3ish years!

August:

Went into "finish stuff" mode, Did my combined army, Kum bikers and the Disc riders and started working on my Gruntz force (system 4)

September:

40K 6th came out and I ended up painting up an entire city in 20mm! Oh and picked up Boltaction (system 5)

October:

Got the airbrush out for Drop Zone Commander (system 6) and painted an entire army in about 3ish weeks!! Also ticked a "must do" from my bucket list and helped/contributed with a demo/display table at a gaming show, and boy oh boy it was a table and a half!

November:

Thought about starting grey knights for 40K but then saw the light! Picked up Dystopian Legions (system 7) & X-Wing (system 8)

December:

The postman's arms nearly dropped off with all the Gruntz bits that I ordered from all over the place and somehow managed to get them mostly painted and still do my Chrimbo shopping, oh Dreadball turned up as well! (system 9) and also did most of my D-Legions stuff.

So other stuff inbetween the painting has been testing Nick's Modern system which is coming along in leaps and bounds now and deciding to buy a house (which I've already claimed the garage) The side business that I started at the beginning of the year is chugging along nicely and managed to get quite a few suppliers for paints &  brushes and once I get into my new place more room means more stuff! as well as a shiney website so watch this space!

So lets look at the pledge....

Bought - 407
Painted - 563
Difference  +156!

so comparing that to the last two years,

                    2010            2011           2012
Bought        469              1238           407
Painted        513              1245           563
Diff             +44               +7              +156

Quite a comparison compared to last year no Napoleonic/Celt armies certainly helped! The thing thats surpised me the most is the differance, I wanted to reduce the amount of unpainted stuff I've got lying about and that certainlly is a big chunk out of the huge amount of stuff I've got kicking about.

I'm not normally fussed about my "stats"

I'm happy that the line has stayed about the same, I've moved quite far from the GW & warmachine systems that I played quite a bit and gone for the more "traditional" systems/scales but with a nice twist every so often.


The Future.... 

I don't think I'll see hoverboards or giant robojox mech's in 2013 but I'm looking forward to expanding my 20mm WW2 collection with a load of Russians for BGK as the Phat Cats Demo team has secured Hammerhead in Feb and working on Expo and a few others so that should be a good laugh!

Helping Nick continue testing his Modern system and try not to get sucked into a huge of amount of systems! theres a few that have caught my eye I just need to show some restraint!

Stream lining the blog starting with the labels is something that I need to do and have a jigg about with the side bar on the right.


And finally thanks to all of you lot for reading my random whaffle and looking at my stuff, so have a great new year get completely mashed and play lots of random games!!

The smiling assassin!

Dystopian Legions, The Prussains Assemble!

Well I managed to get a couple of days off "Dad" duty and decided to crack on with the Legions stuff that I picked up last month,

So the basic starter set with an additional squad and medic blister/box all done,

The main colour scheme for my force,

The two commanders with the previous painted unit

and the two big battlesuit things,

I've also go the 2nd wave stuff and just weathering up the tankettes and trying to get some motivation to paint 4 models!

So with this lot as well as my Gruntz stuff I smashed the 500 mark the likely hood of getting anything else painted is slim, so onto the pledge...

Bought - 73
Painted - 83
Difference +10!

what a end to the year.

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Merry Crimbo!

To all my readers, thanks for the 100,000 page views! and hope you have an awesome Christmas with you family & friends,

Hope you all get what you want in your stocking this year......

Gruntz its onto the final push!

Well if your reading this the world hasn't ended! and another batch of the 15mm sexiness is sorted!

starting with some gunbot's from CMG.

nice and easy to paint, I'll be either using these as weapon specialists for the normal grunts units or a 3 droid special weapon unit. Not too sure on that one yet.

Some hover gun drones 2 with cannons 2 with missiles, I replaced the usual plastic flight stand with a bit of wire on a 20mm MDF base and looks spot on!

And finally the hired muscle, I wanted some thing a little different in my army and ordered these guys, I'm happy with how they've come out the red off sets the sea of green nicely!

More Gruntz stuff done!

Well I'm on a roll!!

I've managed to crank out the cool looking stuff and made some great headway with the last batch, the T-72 looking tank and the Doe gunship I'll leave till last as a "treat"

So 3 APC's that I picked up from Ground Zero Games, and at £7.50 a pop there not too bad, all metal so they've that "old school" feel to them, you know the one when you pick up your 2000 point marine army you nearly dislocated your shoulder!

I've gone for a "in the field" look and remembered what Dave from Portal gaming told me about sponging metal paint to make it look chipped scorpius and I'm quite happy with the over all look, might do some more washes but holding fire on that at the mo,

The Decals are from Doms decals www.domsdecals.com and the various sizes that he does on one sheet are spot on for loads of different scales,

so the two light Mechs from khurasan miniatures mounted on 40mm MDF bases from warbases, and all I need to do is get hold of some Russian looking numbers from Coops get them varnished to hide the shine of the transfers and there ready to go stomping!

And the last unit done is the suits from critical mass games,

again some numbers and these are sorted!

All I need to do is get the unit stat cards sorted and sort out a game.....

Gruntz infantry Completed!

Well this lot didn't take half as long as I expected thanks to my secret weapon!

So what did I manage to do once I'd peeled Isla away from my painting desk....

So the space marine looking power armoured infantry,

The Mortar teams

And all the infantry, so just the big guns to work on now and that will be my Ruskies ready for my game of gruntz in the new year, I've started messing about with some unit cards for the above guys as well,

I've not got a great deal of a clue if these are right I'm gonna check out the book when it turns up to see if I need to do any jigging!