Badgering a Normie

So the game didn’t happen. There was a good reason and there have been good reasons in the *checks calendar* two months since that it hasn’t happened. It was my friends birthday back in late June and so I grabbed a copy of the rulebook and one of the starter warbands from Oathsworn’s website to properly get her started on her mini journey once she has had her demo day and will clearly be hooked. If we manage that before the new edition comes out next year, I’ll call it a win.

This is going to be a bit of a project pivot then. Reading the rulebook and looking over my painted models has put me in the mood to paint more B&B minis and with the winter season coming, I’ll maybe dabble in the solo mode over the next few months.

While looking through the models on the site (there over 200 of them in the range now!) I realised that most of what I own are the warrior types. I have very few of the townsfolk. Have the willpower of a toddler, I immediately added a bunch of them to my order. As usual, the order came in super quickly and everything was well packed.

The B&B minis are always excellent casts and they even do a little of the clean up for you. It means that other than giving them a good bath and a couple of scrapes over minor mould lines, they are good to go very easily.

Everyone gets a black then white zenithal prime. Around this time my lovely new paints from the Spring Clean Challenge prize arrived and these seemed like the perfect models to try them out of (though they also work really well with Contrast/Speed Paints). Two evenings and this is where I’m up to; it’s been really nice working on models to completion with very little uniformity – the Grand Army Project is fun but this is a lovely break from it. The basing stopped at a layer of AK Interactive Dark Earth texture paste because I’m going to rebase all my old models once I’m through this batch.

It was around this point that I found another box of B&B minis in the stash and realised that all but two of the models in my recent order were part of a Kickstarter a couple of years ago that I backed. Oops.