Some ancient heralds, and some ancient Space Marines

 I had two leftover cavalry I decided to make into stand-in heroes, and stand-in couriers (which can be used to guarantee command rolls once a game) for FSF.

Given the cheap Horus Heresy Mk6 space marines all over eBay I grabbed a few sets to make some marines for possible 2nd edition games in the future (my buddies and I have been talking about doing some cooperative bug hunts).

Not overly stoked with the results, but Space Marines are Space Marines.  Amusingly the very first "expensive" thing I bought at age 14 with my first job was a painted squad of the original RTB01 Beakie marines from a local hobby shop.  They happened to be painted red, so this is all coming full circle now.

Just getting some stuff out of the queue...

As the year draws to a close, I find myself, for the first time in many years...with a slight "pile of shame".  Normally I'm pretty good about buying - opening - assembling - painting - playing.

I don't open packages, or build stuff ahead of my painting schedule, etc.  I only have one small shelf of "stuff to do", but that shelf has been a little heavier than normal lately.  So I'm now trying to make genuine progress toward clearing out boxes.

Most of this is simple; I just have too many projects on the boil at the moment...something I rarely find is the case.

 So, I wanted to build and paint something quick - threw these FoW 15mm Valentines together yesterday - primed and painted and finished them this afternoon.

 

A slow death by MDF...and some horsies.

I've been missing for a bit on my own blog due to spending several weeks gluing together MDF terrain (a backlog that had been building).  No pictures until that stuff starts to get painted/finished.

Having reached a suitable stopping point, I've gone back to finishing some models (and working on a new secret project - not a game this time!).

Some more light cavalry for the "not" Dacian force, and some army pics (some of which came out blurry, sorry).