2021 and painting log

 Happy belated new year all!

Sorry for being quite and not posting anything, I have and still am at little unwell mentally currently, my anxiety is causing me alot of problems so it's been hard to paint anything with shaky hands!

However over the past 3 months or so I have got a few projects finished and some new miniatures painted as well! 

So I've finally finished repainting my Reaper Bones Frost Giant for Frostgrave after trying to paint him twice before!  Used alot of GW Contrast paints on him and he's come out wonderfully!

Then we have two Northstar metal skeletons, also for Frostgrave.  I preordered these from the last Nickstarter they did for then new Oathmark plastic kit!  Lovely miniatures and will fit in nicely with the plastic Mantic ones I've painted.  You can never have enough undead in my opinion!

Next is my completed all female plastic Frostgrave warband, like the Barbarian warband these are the Northstar kit.  I ordered a couple of sprues form SGS Model Store a local Leeds based online model shop who stock alot of great plastic kits and sprues!

Again I've used GW Contrast paints for the majority of the details bar the flesh and metallics.  I was inspired by Luke at Geek Gaming Scenics YouTube video  on speed painting.  

Next are four Reaper Bones Wraiths once again for Frostgrave!  Lovely miniatures, they came in packs of two and in clear green!  I bought them from Mighty Lancer Games a great Bridlington based shop and there prices for Reaper stuff us great value!

This is a Bad Squiddo Games Amazon that I bought back in December of 2020 in there little sale they had.  Lovely miniature and a real joy to paint too, I will be using her with my all female Frostgrave warband! 

Finally we have this trio of Alternative Armies Flintloque miniatures that have languished on my painting table for a while now!  So I finally finished them and they've come out lovely!  I've almost finished painting the fourth figure I bought when I ordered these.  These are a Dogman soldier, a Savant Zombie Cuirassiers and a Wraith Line Private.  These are all so full of character and the two undead miniatures are resin in the main and were nice and crisp castings!  These are also the first Flintloque miniatures I've painted in quite a long time so it was nice to work on some of the newer miniatures!

15mm Undead and Frostgrave miniatures

 I finished these 15mm undead at the start of September but forgot to put them on here as well!  They are from the excellent Alternative Armies range and are lead by a Tabletop Games wizard I painted as a Necromancer.  They will see some use in games of Advanced Song Of Blades and Heroes!

Next is my repainted barbarian warband for Frostgrave.  I painted these mainly using Games Workshop Contrast paints and happy with how they turned out.  I was inspired by Luke at Geek Gaming's batch painting video on YouTube!  

Also some photos of all the miniatures I have painted for the Frostgrave bestiary bar my frost giant!  These are a mix of various figures from heresy, mantic, GW, reaper and a 3d print as well!

Frostgrave 2nd edition

 This beauty of a book landed in the post on Thursday. I had pre-ordered it from Northstar as you got a free apprentice wizard figure with it too! It's a lovely full colour book and I'm planning on making my own gaming board and terrain to play it as well! I've finished all the bestiary save my frost giant as I wasn't happy with the paint job so once I've repainted him I shall put photos up of my complete bestiary and also the maufactuer as well.

Ow and the 2nd picture is my favourite illustration from the book, it's very Japanese like armour and helmet too!

February painting so far

So far this second month of the year it's been a bit of a challenge to get much done.  I've had a bipolar flair up and my medications giving my anxiety levels a battering so shakey hands and restless nights sleep aren't helping my motivation.
I'm doing as much as I am able and that it really.
Got a trio of Alternative Armies 15mm trolls based to completion as they'd been languishing almost finished for well over a year now lol. They are on a warbases movement trays and will be part of my goblin Dragon Rampant army of which this is the first completed unit. I still have 3 wolf rider units, an infantry unit and the army General to do. In comparison with my 15mm barbarian army which need the General, giant, 1 more foot unit and 1 cavalry unit to paint lol.

I've got a 40k friendly competion gaming event this Saturday at M and L models in Pontefract so I've been trying to get 1500pts of deathguard done for it. So far I've done 5 plague marines and 37 poxwalkers. I've still got about 15 more plague marines as well as 3 characters, 2 blight drones, a rino and a blight hauler to finish as well. I'm hoping to get enough plague marines some to have two fully painted squads but we shall see! They have all had a sepia wash over a white spray undercoat so at least they aren't going to be bare plastic or just white lol. Well the 2 blight drones are still green and partly paint stopped but that's besides the point lol.

I've not kept on top of my weekly mortal realms magazine miniature but I'll get back to them once the 40k army's done and painted even after the competition is over. It'll be nice to have a fully painted 40k army for the first time in a long time the and they have such wonderful character and detail in them as well I love painting them i just can't get through them fast though due to the details lol.

I've painted another Frostgrave creature and this time it's a Genie. A wonderful metal model from Reaper. Done in the Disney style of blue skinned as well lol.

Finally I got around to painting my Arcane Hazards for Warhammer Underworlds Nightvault. I've had these for over a year now and they've been assembled, never used in game do I threw some paint on them as I'm getting regular games in with my mate Rhys who you'll be hearing more about in my blog as he's my gaming buddy lol. We had our session 0 of his dungeons and dragons Skyrim inspired campaign started Monday just gone and it was fun to play as it's been about 3 years since I last played an rpg and I loved being a barbarian again :)
We've also had a few games along with his other half Trina of the fun little game Elder Sign which I highly recommend by Fantasy Flight . If like myself your a H.P. Lovecraft fan then this is a nice little game for you!

January 2020 painting log

Well the maths have been done and got 48 miniatures painted to completion this month!
A variety of periods and 2 different scales as well.
Images below of what I've done as of 31st January, missing a picture of the 4 nighthaunt banshees on my phone!

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