Reply To: Hobby Weekender 14/04/2019 – Waking up before we get to sleep

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Ok Team, before I get to responses just a quick update on what I’ve been up to given i’ve been offline for a bit (work ate my hobby time…). Spent a few hours over the last couple of weeks trying o get the 3D printer back up to speed after the last head crash. No go unfortunately so replacement parts are now on order. Plenty of stuff in the queue to work on so not that big a deal.

Been really getting into the WHFB 9th Edition fan rules and armies so prepping a few alternate forces ostensibly to use with that. This will also be my way of sneakily getting some historicals done up to tabletop standard. I don’t know why but I seem to have some sort of in-built painters block when it comes to historicals. I can merrily churn out large scale fantasy armies at a reasonably horrific rate but the painters block kicks in when I hit historicals. I think it’s a combination of wanting the armies to look better and also having things along the lines of historical accuracy (I’m not a stickler for exactness but a close approximation is I think helpful). Could also be the slightly smaller canvas, true 28mm vs heroic 28mm. It shouldn’t be the price – I can get a box of 40 historical infantry or a dozen cavalry for the equivalent price of a single mid to high end resin mini. Anyhow, working on an Albion force using Warlord Celts, a Norse force using a mix of Fireforge Scandinavians with some Shieldwolf Shield Maidens and Frostgrave soldiers to plug some gaps in the unit options, and also going to look at getting a bunch of my other historicals to tabletop through the medium of some Dogs of War mercenary forces (was contemplating Estallia (fantasy version of Spain) but can’t find an appropriate range of plastics to use and I seriously have enough that I’m working on right now. Five separate fantasy armies at once is getting a little silly, even by my fairly loose standards….

Anyhow, today I finished assembling and priming about 500 points each of Norse and Albion. I usually don’t let unpainted minis on the tabletop but I think if I get a chance I’m going to trial these guys as I want to test some ideas i’ve got for a home-brewed mash-up of the Sharp Practice rules set with WHFB. Should go disastrously 🙂

500 point Albion force (plus a catapult which I haven’t primed yet…):

500 point Norse force:

Broad hobby goals for this week are as follows:

– Finish reading the Rangers of Shadow Deep rules

– Work out what to do about order dice for Warlords of Erehwon, work out that making 20 marker tokens for each of the 6 order actions for 2 armies would be 240 individual markers to scratchbuild, give up and just buy some order dice (I don’t resent paying for them but there is much shinier stuff from warlord I’d rather get for the money 🙂 )

– Reread the WHFB 9th edition rules

– Test play WHFB 9th ed with elements of Sharp Practice incorporated

– Get caught up on painting some scenic elements and terrain pieces

– Painting (aforementioned fantasy armies – Norse, Albion, Dogs of War, Cult of Ulric and High Elf Sea Patrol)

– Maybe work on some of the Napoleonic stuff I have floating about?… Would like to get two core forces with a bit of versatility finalised to test the game and I’m not too far off that point.

– Try not to start any more armies until the decks have cleared a little…

– Hopefully get some gaming in.