Stuck at Home; Keeping myself sane

I haven’t been that productive since the festive break, though I did manage to start a new project for 2022. I’d decided to build a Late Roman warband for Saga, Age of Invasions. So far, I’ve managed to finish my first unit of Hearth Guard and made a start on a unit of warriors.

In order to build a Late Roman warband I decided to pick up a box of plastic Late Roman infantry.

The box will allow you to build 44 soldiers (4 command miniatures and 40 soldiers). They can be used as legionary or auxiliary infantry of the 4th / 5th centuries, for either Eastern or Western Roman Empire. They can also be used beyond that, for early 6th century armies, like Roman Britain or Gaul, as well as early Byzantine armies.

I decided to build two units of archers, two levy units and a unit of hearth guard and a command unit. I plan to add a cavalry unit to the warband along with a Scorpion ballista for added fire power.

I’ve also managed to get some orcs from the Lord of the Ring range painted as well, these were done with a minimal paint palette, and I decided to make the armor look rusty and dirty as possible.

I’ve also painted a few odds and ends for generic fantasy gaming, but as I’ve said before I’ve not been very productive in the last couple of months. I’ve found that I haven’t had the motivation coming into the New Year like I had for the last 18 months. I’m guessing I’ve hit a bit of a hobby burnout. So now I’m looking for things to motivate myself again such as new project ideas, trying to find a spark to revamp or kickstart myself on old projects that have been forgotten and left to the wayside.

One plan I’m considering is picking up a small starter set of the new Army Painter Speed Paints and hopefully this will rejuvenate me into painting some miniatures for the numerous board games I have. Looking at the many reviews online they seem to work better than GW’s contrast paints so one plan is to give these ago over the next few months.

I need to finish the Asian Town Project this year, and so I’m going to concentrate on getting as much of this done as possible going forward. My aim is to make a start on the river sections and make use of the water effect resin I have. I’ll probably write up a small tutorial for the next issue. As I have plans to play a few different games with the project everything from Samurai skirmish, WW2 and Korea battles, Asian Zombies, Silver Bayonet and Wild West games set in 1920-30’s Manchuria.

I also need to get my ECW project started so I can get some games this year, along with a wide number of games and projects that includes Silver Bayonet in Europe, Stargrave, modern conflicts and more WW2 action.