An exuberance of walls...(cont.)

The rest of the wall box painted up.  There wasn't enough bits and content to really make two gated yards as I wanted, so I went with some corner walls to match generously with the other straight wall sections.

 

This year has been awfully slow with painted miniatures, a scant 110 thus far.  My yearly goal is always 120 (10 per month), so that's fine, but I won't be reaching the heady heights of the past few years where I've done 400-500.

 

However, I have added/painted a lot of terrain so I consider that a huge win, and I'm making genuine progress on actually writing the games and getting FSF to production. 

An excitement of walls...

I have formally decided that the collective noun for multiple walls is ...an 'excitement'.

 

I picked up the plastic 'stone wall' kit from Warlord Games.  It's a nice kit, and comes with - as they say - 54" of wall.  These four long stretches were too big to put on a solo base, so I kept them single, so they can line a road, etc.  The remaining bits will be done up as some walled gardens or some such.

 

 

Overall, nice and decent kit for around $25 USD.  Not mind-blowing, but very servicable.  I added the bases and the chopped up wagon wheels, obviously.

Some WW2 repaints...

Been a while since I dabbled with 15mm stuff, but I had a bunch of German vehicles I wasn't super happy with.  Instead of flogging them on eBay and buying more stuff...I just tossed them in the ultrasonic with some alcohol.

 

While they came out a bit 'chunky' - some of the primer didn't come off, so these are a bit less 'crisp' on the details, I speed-painted these to put them back into service.

 

 

Games!: Famine, Sword, & Fire

My buddy had the day off today so we managed to try out two scenarios for FSF.  In the first scenario, Bretonnians had to escort messengers off the table, fighting through Hobgoblins and Chaos Dwarfs (they succeeded).

 

In the second game, Mercenary Tileans had to escort peasants off the table through a narrow gap, defended by his newly painted Dark Elves.  In this game, the Dark Elves were about to win the game when I managed to break all the units on the table, sneaking a victory.

 

 Sadly, as usual...I was too busy gaming to take pictures, and missed tons of cool opportunities!

Games!: Famine, Sword, & Fire (Battle of the short folk...)

Met a buddy of mine in another town today for a game of FSF, this time pitching Chaos Dwarfs vs. less-Chaos Dwarfs.

 

Sorry for the poor pictures - my newest phone seems to have a shit camera...and I didn't have a spare with me.

 

The scenario was "Hold the Pass" with the Chaos Dwarfs attempting to break through the Dwarf lines and exit the far table edge.  I managed to win with nine victory points by turn 9 of 12.

 

 

Closing in on the finale...

Several years ago I ordered the majority of my Chaos Dwarf army.  I normally don't buy stuff up front - but knew that the seller was printing really nice stuff, and I am always wary of GW's overzealous defense of their IP...so I 'invested' quite a bit to buy the whole army.

 

Once I had the whole collection I remember thinking "I'll never get through this...", and it was even daunting having it stashed away in boxes.

 

Tonight I finally received my bases in the mail and finished up the second Black Orc unit --- the second to last unit I have for the Chaos Dwarfs.  Following this it's down to one more big block of Bull Centaurs and then it's all complete (though I may add an occasional unit or model going forward).

 

 

CoastalCon - Beaufort, SC (December 12, 2026)

Well, good news for the local guys: the guy behind CoastalCon (who called it quits a few months ago) has secured a venue and is going to run it again this year.

 

 

CoastalCon is a small (read: 20-30 people, normally) gaming convention started - unfortunately, in 2020.

 

Needless to say it was a rough time to start a convention (though the first one was pre-Covid), it struggled with people and venues the following few years.

 

Mac, the guy behind it called it quits a few months ago - but has since been able to secure a venue, for at least one day (previously the events were two days).  December 12, 2026 in Beaufort, SC.

 

You can find information on their Facebook page.

 

If anyone is local to that area, come check it out.  It was started as a platform for smaller indie-games, but is really just a variety of demo games and a handful of vendors.  Tickets are $20 a pop, and there is normally a raffle for random hobby stuff. 

A 'summer project' for a friend.

A buddy mentioned the other night in Discord that he had an old 10-15 year old Baneblade sitting around in pieces.  Assembled when he was younger, it was missing a lot of pieces, poorly built, covered in sprue gates, etc.

 

I told him I'd paint it.  He joked it would be my 'summer project'.  I patched it up in one sitting and painted it the next day.

 

I normally hate grey, and prefer camouflage tanks, but he asked for a basic utilitarian grey.  I hid/removed all the aquilas so it could be used in Horus Heresy for either side (the game they're currently playing).

 

All in all, not too bad for 48 hours of fixing an old teenager built tank from bits.  You'll notice a lot of patched bits from plasticard and random vehicle bits --- lots of the hatches, engine were missing, etc.

 

 

Some FSF for the road... (Lizardmen vs. Mercenaries)

 A few times a year I get to meet some of my friends from a city which is about three hours away - but we meet at a large game story precisely 1.5 hours from each of us (allowing us to make a simple day trip of it).  I ran a game of FSF for two friends.  One was running his Lizardmen force, and the other ran my mercenaries in a lengthy "Burn the Bridge" scenario.

We actually called it a narrow tie late in the game as it went longer than any FSF game before because the game went back and forth maybe six or seven times.  Every turn was "oh now they're screwed...", nope.

 

Really close run thing.