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tures i painted years back such as the zombies i was working on when this blog kicked off in addition i ve obviously been printing and painting lots more zombies fast ones this time on the list are also some private military operatives as well as scifi civilians all the usual suspects for a game like this i ve had a lot of fun doing some headswaps etc both digitally and physically for making a horde well 20 minis and working with a limited number of suitable models the option to mirror models before printing is pretty useful it doesn t really add a ton of variety but it s something so here s a bunch of painted models they are mostly from lost heresy with a bunch of knight soul studio heads thrown in they re overall lovely to paint as they re nice clean sculpts withouth excessive detail click for a larger version click for a larger version click for a larger version glad to be back to blogging no idea how regularly i ll be posting but it s nice to resurrect this old thing every once in a while share this share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on x opens in new window x share on reddit opens in new window reddit share on pinterest opens in new window pinterest share on whatsapp opens in new window whatsapp share on tumblr opens in new window tumblr like loading posted in miniatures sci fi zombies tagged knight soul studio lost heresy 9 comments merry christmas december 24 2024 share this share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on x opens in new window x share on reddit opens in new window reddit share on pinterest opens in new window pinterest share on whatsapp opens in new window whatsapp share on tumblr opens in new window tumblr like loading posted in editorial 5 comments salute and the pennine way 2024 may 11 2024 life goes on and occasionally the blog as well for the first time in a long while i felt like typing something here so here goes nothing dramatic as usual busy with life things and all that what follows is a description of my latest trip salute 2024 i went i helped bunnybadger games put on participation games and painted up a zombiefied joe biden and a glittery taylor swift for the trumpocalypse game i enjoyed the atmosphere walked with emmi around the show met friends the usual my salute purchases have been dwindling year after year this year i got a bunch of brushes for both myself and emmi for her craft hobbies ironically some years after my long only pirates for me thanks miniaturing period has come to a close for now at least the theme of salute was pirates oh well in addition to the brushes i picked up some lovely characterful futuristic law enforcers from die hard miniatures i put these together and cleaned them up last night and i remembered how much work there is working with metal compared to resin casts and prints photo die hard miniatures in addition to the miniatures i bought the sci fi backdrops picture book by jon hodgson published by handiwork games i was silly enough not to get in on the kickstarter but conveniently got this through bad squiddo i had to quickly try it out and i can safely say this is one of the must fun miniature related things i have bought in years as you probably know from reading this book i game very little but i do enjoy the storytelling aspect of miniaturing so this is perfect stuff for me i lined up a few scifi models for demonstration purposes click for a larger version click for a larger version the pennine way if you re a long time reader of the blog you might remember that five years ago emmi and i did about a hundred miles of the pennine way national trail in the uk as our honeymoon the trip was excellent and left us hungry for more so we decided to do the whole thing of 268 miles what followed was three weeks of beautiful views bog and more and more bog quaint villages friendly people tiny lambs and an amazing feeling of freedom in the walking bubble while it was a physically strenuous trip i guess getting to the blog after a long long break is evidence that it was a welcome recharge of energy creative included i have about a million photos but i ll just share some choice ones below if this feels tempting i m happy to provide advice it genuinely feels nice to be writing the blog after such a long break who knows this might become a thing again anyway i m still alive and well and playing with my toy soldiers how is everyone else doing share this share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on x opens in new window x share on reddit opens in new window reddit share on pinterest opens in new window pinterest share on whatsapp opens in new window whatsapp share on tumblr opens in new window tumblr like loading posted in miniatures miscellaneous sci fi tagged die hard miniatures handiwork games salute 9 comments merry christmas december 24 2023 share this share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on x opens in new window x share on reddit opens in new window reddit share on pinterest opens in new window pinterest share on whatsapp opens in new window whatsapp share on tumblr opens in new window tumblr like loading posted in editorial 9 comments time to kick off the posting year july 1 2023 as you may have noticed the blog has been getting more and more quiet in fact this is the first post of the year and it s out in july i m still alive but just haven t had the time or motivation to write or sadly comment on other people s blogs there s been a lot going on this year mostly fun things luckily which has also been keeping me busy so what s been up a few choice picks dublin and the uk in the spring following last year s lovely ghost archipelago event we redid it this year with stargrave it was a super fun event and it was such a great time hanging out with fellow miniature geeks even going out for a park run of all things there s a lovely event report on the leadplague blog i painted up a crew for the event of course said crew being rogue trader delphea scallak accompanied by wolger krant s ogryn mercenaries after dublin i was off to london for salute via manchester and nottingham in nottingham i visited warhammer world and helped annie from bad squiddo and ian from fenris with their salute prep the photo shows our trio heading off to london accompanied by a great soundtrack it was really interesting to get a behind the scenes look at how a trade show comes together and how much work goes into all the packing and setup salute was good fun as usual i did a bunch of shopping and ran some unabashedly political participation games as part of bunny badger games house we bought a house which feels like a very adult thing to do it s really lovely and i have a dedicated room for painting an isolated space in the basement for my printers with their smelly chemicals enough storage space for all of my hobby stuff and a garage for things like spray painting etc nice i didn t have any photos of the house handy but here are the printers and the painting space on a much more sad note a few weeks ago we said our goodbyes to one of our cats piku she lived a good life but with her health failing we decided it was best for her to let her go we buried her in the garden and there will be a lovely memorial spot for her there rest in peace little buddy we miss you a lot what s next today is the first day of my long summer holiday i ve no idea yet if it will see the resurgence of this blog or not but at least i ll have loads of time for hobby stuff with zero plans apart from house and garden work it should be a really relaxing summer ahead of me here s hoping share this share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on x opens in new window x share on reddit opens in new window reddit share on pinterest opens in new window pinterest share on whatsapp opens in new window whatsapp share on tumblr opens in new window tumblr like loading posted in editorial tagged salute stargrave 5 comments 2022 recap december 31 2022 another year done as you ve probably noticed if you read the blog with any frequency it s been very quiet on the writing front with only a few blog posts during the whole year as usual nothing dramatic my enthusiasm for blogging tends to wax and wane and for the last years i ve had less and less time and enthusiasm to put into writing in my spare time alongside my academic work what i do regret a bit is spending less time reading other people s blogs though although salute didn t happen this year i did have a great gaming trip to dublin for some ghost archipelago which was definitely one of the high points of the year both in hobby terms and overall for hobby things this hasn t been a bad year at all although towards the end of the year my time has been taken up by digital gaming primarily warhammer 40 000 darktide cyberpunk 2077 and assassin s creed odyssey i heartily recommend all three you can find me on steam under the nickname manatic if you re up for some darktide as usual i made some resolutions last year how did they pan out weeeeell learn some freehand no this was something that was carried over from the previous year and again didn t materialize i haven t given up though surely i can do this one year keeping this one paint at least 100 miniatures and other pieces another thing that s starting to be a staple i nearly met this but my painting output sadly stalled a bit towards the end of the year i did manage 75 miniatures and terrain bits and two larger pieces so this was well within my reach there are five nearly finished models staring at me while i write still happy with this number and i ll keep this goal for next year too build a 1000 point 40k force nope this just didn t happen i did paint a lot of stuff related to the 40k universe but my interest for army level 40k turned out to be a very brief thing never say never and all that but my minis found much more use in kill team try solo gaming yes i did and i liked it i played a bunch of five parsecs from home early on in the year it s a great game and i only stopped playing because i had to clear away the terrain from my usual gaming table and then the table got cluttered and i needed to paint some stuff for the next scenario and it just sort of never happened i think i just might get back to it in the next few days before work starts again clear some backlog nope a few old minis found new use in five parsecs but for the most part i was printing up new stuff and painting or not painting it with some late kickstarter stuff coming in and the printers seeing active use i built up more backlog yay i did publish an academic book chapter on the subject maybe that counts experiment with something new not to the extent i would have liked to i did play around with some blood effects and bought some fancy colourshift paints but have yet to use them i think i ll try this one again resolutions are always fun right i ll keep some of the previous ones learn more freehand paint at least 100 miniatures experiment with something new and let s throw a few new ones into the mix complete a project i m intentionally leaving this vague to make it easier to complete here project can mean anything deemed to be a project a squad for kill team a collection of walkways a set of object markers anything as long as it doesn t get stuck in a half finished state learn awesome drybrushing skills i ve been looking at but not watching drybrushing tutorials by artis opus on youtube for a while now i drybrush a lot and updating my technique seems both useful and viable so i ll try and pick up some new pointers for the new year come up with ways to use the stuff i have i guess i m not alone in that i keep buying useful new tools fancy paints texture effects and whatnot which then end up sitting unused because nothing suitable for them comes along i want to flip that around and come up with things that allow me to use all that great stuff with this i want to wish everyone a great new year let s hope the new year brings us a more peaceful world with 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