{"id":4985,"date":"2016-11-14T22:39:42","date_gmt":"2016-11-14T22:39:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hntdaab.co.uk\/blog\/?p=4985"},"modified":"2021-10-29T03:00:42","modified_gmt":"2021-10-29T02:00:42","slug":"lead-mountain-ii-the-bad-guys-strike-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hntdaab.co.uk\/blog\/2016\/11\/14\/lead-mountain-ii-the-bad-guys-strike-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Lead Mountain II – The Bad Guys Strike Back!"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you have been following my blog, last year you would have seen The Lead Mountain – an attempt to paint all my figures. Well it went as well as you would expect the average wargamer’s attempt to paint up everything would go. I also drove myself mad and posted up repeated posts going “I didn’t paint anything :(”<\/p>\n

So this year I’m doing something different. I’m setting a much more manageable goal – themed posts with a smaller subset of figures to paint. Think of this as a nice winter feature where you get to see more painted miniatures than usual. Lead Mountain 2 will run from now (middle of November) until the end of February 2017. I’m aiming for at least a post a week, with a group of figures (fully painted and based) in each one.<\/p>\n

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The Pile<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

As you might have guessed from the title, I’m going to be painting up my literal pile of OPFOR that I’ve collected. The models are a mixture – mostly Empress and Spectre ranges (Insurgents, militia and criminal element) but there is also a few remaining Eureka weapon teams and the models I reccived from the Day of the Rangers kickstarter to represent the Somalis. So a nice mix and not too much camo to paint. I can’t see the pile growing but the potential could be the SPG\/rocket launchers from Eureka or whatever Spectre have been cooking up….<\/p>\n

I’m looking forward to it!<\/p>\n

Plan for next week – paint up MENA civilians, start \u00a0on boiler suit wearing robbers<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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