Projects and stuff

 Just a simple post, mostly to get me back into the swing of things with this site...

Here is a brief view of my projects:

Lots of the same from before, but some changes.

My sons and I have been focusing a lot of time and attention on Warcrow from Corvus Belli.  Warcrow is a fantasy skirmish game based on mostly original work by Corvus Belli, with a growing line of miniatures to support it.  We are big fans of Corvus Belli's sci-fi game Infinity, so Warcrow attracted us from the original Kickstarter.

Battletech is right up there as well, although we have not played for some weeks now.

And everything else is getting some small amounts of attention.  I recently received some 1/200 aircraft models - WW2 US and Japanese - and I will post about them soon.  There are plenty of options for naval combat, with WW1 ships just waiting, a few WW2 battleships waiting, and ironclads as well.  I do have my eye on the recently released 1/2400 Anglo-Dutch ships developed by League of Augsburg as well.

Malifaux is a newcomer to the desk.  This is another fantasy skirmish game, one that I have never played but have heard about from the 'Web and now from my sons who have picked it up.  'Bayou' is a faction of Gremlins in the game, and they attracted me by being a bit silly and comical.  I am not really sure how that will go - stay tuned!

I am also looking towards a medieval project.  The new 13th century figures from Victrix are quite appealing.  This would not be a skirmish game - larger battles would be the goal.  AS I have plenty of figures from other projects to work on at the moment, this will get more attention next year.

There are several projects missing from the list, however.  Spanish Civil War is gone, along with my Mesoamerican figures and Trojan War projects.  These have been sold or traded for the projects that are more active recently, or simply for $.  I have been doing some deep cleaning of my hobby storage, and making some difficult decisions on projects.  

The 15mm Greeks are on hold for now.  I am having a hard time getting myself to paint the figures, so they have been put aside for a time.

The GW stuff is on hold also; definitely no purchases for a long time now and it will be very difficult to justify more.

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... And back again

 Welp, it has been a while.

Lots of things going on - work and family and such - but not much desire to post here, until recently.  Now I hope to keep posting; there have been items to share but I'll keep those for later.

And, the usual table pic:

Covered with the typical chaos.  Step 1 will be to clean and organize so there is more than a few square inches of working space!

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Again with the delays...

 Welp, still here although hard to tell that recently!

Seems to be one problem after another and sometimes compounded - work getting worse with personnel shortages and technical issues, a bit of personal bad times as memories of my lovely wife that I thought were secured came flooding back, and assorted other things.  But, I am struggling my way through them...

The table, showing some actual progress which has not occurred for a few months - working on Infinity miniatures and some terrain for Warcrow.

Apologies to those bloggers that I try to visit; and I will attempt to keep in the swing of things here again.

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Working on some terrain

 Something a bit different - 28mm terrain:

Assorted conifers from Bachman, tree bases from Charlie Foxtrot, foreground ruins, runestone, and stela from Fenris Games, and the dark grey resin buildings in the background from Fogou Models.

Not much else getting done as cascading crises at work keep me otherwise occupied!

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Great War naval, the return

 The naval project, hinted at in my previous post, is indeed Great War naval in 1/2400.  This marks a return to one of my original historical projects, as I first dabbled with these dreadnoughts in the mid 1990's using the fine miniatures from CinC.  Another attempt in this century was made with 1/3000 ships and again with 1/1800, but nothing really stuck and many of these ships were accidentally discarded.

But, the world turns and so does my attention, and here we are back with 1/2400, this time with GHQ ships.  I am trying to guide this project along a few lines:  one, as a solo project I am going to try and not get too carried away with purchases (we'll see!); two, also along the lines of a solo project I am going to try and purchase these ships as they come on sale from GHQ or other sources; three, limiting the theatre of operations to the Baltic (and maybe the Black Sea); and lastly to not be too concerned with historical squadrons and just get a game on.

First up are some Russians:

GHQ lists them as BB-class, but in reality they are pre-dreadnoughts.  Slava and Tsessarevitch are survivors of the Russo-Japanese War, and Imperator Pavel is only slightly more recent.

A mixed bag of cruisers:

And a few German heavy units:

The shift away from purely historical encounters starts straight away with these selections.  SEYDLITZ, as far as I know, did not engage in any combat missions in the Baltic during the Great War, but I certainly will put her in harm's way.  And SEYDLITZ will not be the only one, as I intend to get the Russian Gangut-class battleships in action as well, eventually.

Next item on the list is rules.  I have some in mind already, old ones and newer ones to try out.

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