'A Tale of Four Gamers'

[Hertsblue]

How to annoy a power gamer, "What have you got?"
Wait for usual list of tiggers, super tiggers, almighty tiggers and unbreakable/unkillable infantry, eventually, they may enquire about your force once they've spent twenty minutes explaining their special rules, inability to lose, unlimited range and massive antitank capacity (do yo u think they are compensating for something)...
Tell them they're deployed in 6'x4' of mixed ap/at mines, apart from anything in contact with that tree there!
Sit back and wait for the sulk...

[O Dinas Powys]

Just noticed it's this thread's birthday tomorrow 

Where did the time go 

Anyway, managed a couple of painting session over the weekend and think that almost every Tusk figure got a wash, over- or dry-brush! Pictures to follow ASAP...

Cheers!

Meirion

[O Dinas Powys]

Happy Birthday "A Tale of Four Gamers" 

Time for a party 

In the last year I have (mostly) painted a tribe of gnomes; (almost) painted enough megafauna for small Pleistocene ecosystems; and painted, based and entered into the 2012 Competition a small selection of fungies. Obviously, countless other projects have been considered, some have added to the lead hillock, fewer still have actually been started... 

Doesn't read like much, but with the small amount of painting time I've managed to scrounge from real life I feel I've achieved and this thread has been a great help with that.

Cheers guys and here's to a productive second year 

Meirion

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Happy one year!
Yay! 

I have really enjoyed this thread, seeing what everyone else is up to and what hints I can pick up.
I celebrated by assembling my missing 1870 Bavarian Jagers and two bases of French Guard Horse artillery.
As well as inking the sand on some 15 mm rebased Americans.

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

I'm in!
Plan for the next few months, in order:
Before Colours base up 50 palm trees fom my Flames tables (see you all there, Ill be the one in a Fez) done and fifty more added
10mm Finish 25th (Hessian) Division of XI Corps Franco-Prussian War. done
15mm 1806 Prussians - convert 6 units of infantry from POW:N basing to FOG:N basing (ie add about 20 figures to each unit) oops!
10mm Guards Voltigeur Division 1870 done
10mm Guards Grenadier Division 1870 done
10mm Falklands (when helmetted and capped chaps arrive) & Goblins, side projects. ongoing
10mm The other half of IX Corps? nope, maybe do them soon?
Also painted a division of 8th Prussian Corps and 4th Cavalry Division, plus a Division of French 1st Corps. A dragon, some fantasy knights, archers and bills. Added more Goblins to my fantasy kit too. Rebased two 15mm Vietnam armies and added a lot to them. Also constructed three tables worth of Vietnam terrain. Also added light horse, auxilia and Saxon mercenaries to my Later Roman project.
15mm Waterloo Anglo-Allied to change from POW:N to FOG:N yeah, right, abandoned that one!

So, next?

[nikharwood]

My updated progress:

- completed the SYW French commission
- completed my 28mm Crossover minis
- completed my 28mm Empire of the Dead minis
- completed my Warmaster Goblin & Wood Elf armies
- completed my FPW Prussians
- completed my SA Pacific War Bolivian & Chilean armies
- started a SYW Prussian commission
- played a lot more games - both solo & with the Minehead crew
- assembled, base textured, undercoated single figures for 10mm FIW skirmish
- completed my 10mm post-apocalyptic STALKER skirmish
- completed my 6mm FUBAR / FWC forces
- scratch-built & painted some 6mm sci-fi terrain
- completed 2mm Austrian & Prussian forces for Maurice
- completed a 3mm BAOR battlegroup for CWC
- assembled, based & undercoated 10mm French & 10mm Austro-Hungarians
- assembled, based & painted 3 more 10mm ACW Union units
- prepped some 10mm ACW buildings
- completed Russian & Covenant of Antarctica naval forces for Dystopian Wars
- assembled, based & undercoated 28mm WW2 platoons of US Airborne & Late War Germans for Chain of Command

[petercooman]

Probably did it fast too 

[Hertsblue]

I find that much of what I do these days consists of ancilliary activities in support of my wargaming figures. For example: painting, basing and flocking wall sections and hedges, adding steel paper to the bases of all my WW2 figures and magnetic sheets to their carrying boxes so that the little devils don't move in transit, basing and painting up railway track for all periods from 1850 onwards etc, etc.

Actual figures completed include two brigades of 1866 Austrians, a division of ditto Saxons, WW2 14th Army and Japanese forces, ditto Soviet and German Kursk forces and a whole stack of FOW US mech infantry gear.

But, of course, I don't go out to work any more....

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Load of bases flocked, pot dropped, carpet flocked too! Flocking hell!

[O Dinas Powys]

Load of bases flocked, pot dropped, carpet flocked too! Flocking hell!

Of all the bad flock!

[Nosher]

Flock me!

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Well flocked off!   

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Missing Jaegers from Bavarian 1st Division started...
But more importantly...


The French Guards Horse artillery for 1870 started, limbers, outriders et al! 

[Steve J]

Well just finished off Craig's hill at the weekend and am now busily scratch building a small river for the Colours table. Finished off a Stampede base of sheep this morning, again for Colours, and am onto the main Saxon warband this evening. Nice to be painting after the Summer break .

[Hertsblue]

Finished off a Stampede base of sheep this morning,

Do sheep really stampede? 

[Steve J]

Hmmm, I'll do some research Ray and get back to you .

[Matt J]

I think only herd animals can stampede, a group of sheep is a flock so technically they are classed as birds (isn't the english language mad).

although I have been stampeded by sheep before

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Started base colours on 2nd Bavarian Division. 
Waiting to do 3rd coat of white, on the airing cupboard! Previous occupants had an interesting shade of beige that is coming right through the first two coats! 
Had enough of 15mm for a while. Just finished a platoon of US Bastogne Airborne on winter bases. Realised I'm an infantry stand short, but I can swap in a zook instead! 

[Hertsblue]

Looking at a big pile of WW2 Japs, needed for next year's convention game. Ah, well, nose to the grindstone, I suppose....

[Nosher]

Looking at a big pile of WW2 Japs, needed for next year's convention game. Ah, well, nose to the grindstone, I suppose....

The things we do for our beloved hobby...

I have a rare Saturday off so have the dining room set up for some more CoC  and have the beers in the fridge for a post celebratory drinky-poos. Doesn't matter if I lose as its a solo game so win-win situation all round