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Had a busy weekend – a few friends visiting and a Sunday airsofting up at Dirty Dog close to Darlington. Fun running around, need to improve my fitness/strength to be able to carry the gear I want to. As with all weekends, good for actually seeing people, bad for getting hobby done. Tonight’s work has mostly been cleaning up after playing host (and recovering some sleep) so our weekly hangout didn’t happen. But I have some stuff planned for this week: Finish off the pair of VBLs. Finish the figures I need for next week’s fantasy game (at the moment…

I spent most of my afternoon cleaning up my 3d printing room so someone can sleep in it on the weekend but managed to squeeze in painting up one final cultist for group of five. I’m still really big fans of the Northstar cultist figures. They are a great set of parts for building a force, and part of me is tempted to pick up a few more to assemble a collection of dirty, horrible adventurers. As for my own setting, these are supposed to be matching to the Rangers of the Shadow Deep cultists I’ve painted. Hence the splash…

Alas, I ran out of time to get my stuff ready to game with tonight. Long day at work, not enough time to finish the models I wanted to and so I pushed it back. Instead had an evening of TV watching and hanging out with The Sister, while also writing up a little more of my battle reports from the fantasy games. However, I also had some time to play with the UK para STLs I bought from Kickstarter. I have to admit, the 1 hour turnaround from payment being taken to files on my hard drive that occured…

T’was the night before game day and all through the house, not a creature was stiring… except me getting stuff painted up for the game. I have the rough idea planned out – layout sketched, special rules in place, the arc of the story telling that the game will map to. I just have to get the dungeon tiles out and finish painting the last few elements. Decided to take a different approach with my mages (not going to spoil the twist here), but going with red robes rather than black should make them more distinctive and useful in the…

After taking a few days off for the weekend (busy in the garden and watching films), decided to restart the hobby streak by frantically getting things together for Wednesday’s game against The Sister. For that game, I need some more cultists for my Swordmasters to fight. I’ve got 5 from the Rangers of the Shadow Deep range (two warriors, a champion and a pair of archers) but a few more will be needed for a proper scrap. Tonight I managed to paint up four of them, built from a Frostgrave Cultist sprue. I tried to match the scheme of my…

Started painting up the pair of VBLs. These will be vehicles from the Emirate of Bazistan, a sub nation of the larger Bazi Empire and one currently getting the cast offs. For this reason, I’ll stick with something similar to the two T62s I painted up – that’s about the tech level the Emir’s forces will end up being. Expect to see a lot of these vehicles as alternatives to the Humvee I’ve used in the past, providing some bulletproof armour in small engagements. This is all based around the world building I’m doing for the ChargeReal. To help you…