In No Particular Order: Kitbashing, painting and mini projects

Silver Bayonet was released to some fanfare, and given the author there was no way I wasn’t going to get it. Of course, that meant painting Napoleonics…

So these guys were mostly built for Stargrave, only two were painted when selected. There’s two Stargave , one Necromunda, On WA, One Anvil Industries and one Shield Wolf miniature. At least in terms of torsos! Everything else is mixed up a bit.

I want to take a moment to talk about my relationship with history as it came up a few times during my Bolt Action project. For the record I like history and find all of it interesting, however I have no great compunctions to deep dive into the minutiae of every era, however should I stumble across little nuggets and factoids during the course of a project , then great. Historical gaming I was always a little wary of because of the gatekeepers and button counters in the community. Similar reasons also keep me enthusiastically disinterested in GW games, along with the behaviours of the company and it’s prices.

I seem to be unconsciously following a course of replicating the toy soldiers I had as a kid. Airfix, Matchbox and Italieri were the most common brands . Mostly Napoleonic,  WW2, American Civil War era . I always wanted science fiction figures at that age, but there was little to none in 1/72 scale. I guess I have made up for those now! I used to have a load of Zulu Wars and Napoleonics, managed to resist temptation in those eras until Silver Bayonet happened.

I guess we can start with a milestone miniature. This figure is my first successful 3d print, after many failures, Winter is not a good time to take up the hobby! I own two Anycubic printers but when anyone ask for a recommendation I say get an Elegoo. If I recall correctly this is an Ian Lovecraft design.

I still haven’t painted her yet along with a load of other pirates. I have On The Seven Seas from Osprey, I am waiting to see how people do rigging as I have two boats and no ideas.

Prepping for priming we have Artizan US and Russians, future NCOs for Bolt Action. Bad Squiddo Russians, Grey For Now Ashigaru for Test of Honour, WA lizardmen and Panzer Lehr (these will be painted as Hollywood Germans for my Pulp project). When I’m actually painting it’s a bit more empty.

My main issue is my workspace is also my gaming space and I am forever working rather than gaming.

I rekindled my love of gaming and art around 2017 .Before I had acquired my first set of mini rules I got into boardgames, given my artistic streak it was inevitable that I would be tempted to paint some of the pieces. The last miniatures I had painted had been in the 1980s!

The games featured about are :Mancala, Victorian Masterminds, Imaginarium and The Awful Orphanage.

So , the aim of this project is going to be an ongoing brain dump of miniatures I have kit-bashed, printed, purchased and occasionally even painted.