painting challenge 2019: keep on rolling!

[FierceKitty]

Now the first Bondi and the first Berserkir are painted.  I'm afraid I can't manage the picture posting alone. When Lee gets back from her family weekend away, I'll ask her to help me post a picture or two.

[petercooman]

Just got home from a big shopping spree from crisis, pictures will follow soon!

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Uh oh! 

[petercooman]

Uh oh! 

uh oh indeed!

The most expensive crisis yet! Happy camper here!

the loot



first up, stuff for sharp practice, printed copy of the rules and movement trays from warbases


some nicely painted knights from the bring and sell


the show exclusive miniatures, Lippens & De Bruyne, + also from the bring and sell,  all the show exclusive minis from past years that i had been missing, giving me a full collection!


victrix higlanders centre and flank box , both incomplete, but 97 minis for the same price as a a 'new box of 60', so happy with that



from Dave Thomas, where i spent nearly a third of my budget:

historical minis to fill out my brettonian army/ use for lion rampant /use for AMW


perry carlist war packs to use as peninsular guerrillas, and victrix french infantry


including this very nice pack of civilians with donkey!



from mark's minitools, a headlight/magnifier, pin vice and drill bits



from eagle figures, spanish garrochista's, french voltigeurs and some odds and ends (including a good looking prussian landwehr figure in clogs with a pitchfork  )



some scenery items, mostly from emperor toads, a pack of pworks 'mordheim' buildings (the white package), and some goats from warbases (i have played a steal the cattle scenario from songs of drums and shakos last year, and it was fun, so i decided to get some goats instead of stealing tokens!)


included are a bunch of walls that are supposed to form a church, but they don't seem to fit togheter. Still was only 5€ so willing to put some effort in for that price.




then something of a bummer, 6 walking dead packs i got for half price, but when i opened them they had french cards instead of english, and the morgan one didn't even have any cards. Not a huge problem as i understand french, but still, they should note that on the box, there is no way of seeing the difference between these and an 'english' box. still great minis though!



also some bolt action stuff from a few different sellers, stug 3 and mortars for my germans and my us airborne


And then last but not least, my package from pendraken (and a pot of camo green that i forgot to order with Leon 


inside some hard needed hobby supplies



sherman dd's and some churchills, naval crew and oerlikons


an LCT (yes i immediately had to fill it up with tanks, just for fun)


5 LCM's


My buddy bought into cruel seas so i decided to get landing craft for my guys, so we can combine both games by playing both sea and beach assaults!



So all in all, a great edition of the show for me!

Venue was very crowded though and some stands were near impossible to look at with people swarming around them. Have seen some nice games, in particular a battlegroup game , where we had a nice little chat with one of the club members




Really fun day!

[petercooman]

Now to update the lists!!!

adding 396 models to the collection (of wich 11 are already bought painted !)

This brings us to about 5700 models are painted and 2322 models are still waiting for love.


making some adjustments to the projects list:

1) epic orcs
2)epic space marines
3) warhammer fantasy undead
4)warhammer fantasy orcs and goblins
5)  warhammer bretonnians
6)  D&D temple of elemental evil game (1/10th done)
7) D&D tomb of annihilation game
8 ) d&d mad mage game
9 ) mice and mystics/reaper mouselings (prepped and mounted to bases)
10) 40k dark angels (dark vengeance starter set)
11) 40k chaos (dark vengeance starter set)
12)40k imperial guard
13) LOTR high elves
14)LOTR goblins
15)napoleonic waterloo British/Hanoverians/prussians
16) napoleonic waterloo french
17)peninsular british (97 models)
18)peninsular french (75 models)
19)peninsular spanish guerrilla (53 models)
20)bolt action additions (7 models)
21)pendraken landing craft and tanks (25 models)
22)walking dead minis (15 models)
23) various scenery (15 models)


16)pendraken zombies and survivors
17)LOTR numenor
18)D&D legend of drizzt game (1/8th done)
19)undead pirate warband
20) republican rome
21)carthago


So, a whopping 8 projects added in one go  

[paulr]

Well done, that man

[pierre the shy]

Well done, that man

I bet that's not a direct quote from Peter's other half 

Looks like you picked up a good mix of stuff at the show Peter....always love reading blogs about the big European/US shows....One day I might get to go to one...maybe 

thx's for sharing.

[petercooman]

I bet that's not a direct quote from Peter's other half 

Looks like you picked up a good mix of stuff at the show Peter....always love reading blogs about the big European/US shows....One day I might get to go to one...maybe 

thx's for sharing.

Well my wife was there with me, and there was no trouble (yet)

She even bought herself the same headlight/ magnifier as i did, for her hobby, so we are getting her in the right direction!

[FierceKitty]

A pin vise is used by modellers. A pin vice is practised by sadists.

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Mine is pretty sadistic FK!

Good haul, better get on with them...
More mouslings?

[Westmarcher]

Oooft! What a haul!

[petercooman]

Mine is pretty sadistic FK!

Good haul, better get on with them...
More mouslings?

Not this year, didn't spot any (read that as: the stand that usually carries the mouselings is always at the back of the venue, and the budget only covered 3/4th of the trip through the venue  )

[petercooman]

Oooft! What a haul!

It is quite ok. Must admit i kind of held of on buying stuff this year, instead opting to just buy everything in one big spend and saving a lot of shipping.

Worked pretty well.

[fred.]

That was a lot of stuff Peter! Very disciplined to not buy during the year, then pick it all up at a show.

The landing craft look really good - Leon could do to pinch those photos to use on the website.

[petercooman]

That was a lot of stuff Peter! Very disciplined to not buy during the year, then pick it all up at a show.

The landing craft look really good - Leon could do to pinch those photos to use on the website.

Well i did get a few presents over the year, a d&d board game for my birthday and some gaming mats in a sale, but nothing else. I wanted to try and plan a project (peninsular nappies for sharp practice) and buy it all at once with noshipping.

Yes the landing craft are great, will paint these up very soon!