What next for the painting and gaming table?

January has been a productive month for me and I am pleased with the models completed but for February I would like to try something different. Being a solo gamer the skirmish game is almost the only type of game I can afford to play in 28mm. It would be nice to actually give myself a promotion and go for a larger game where I can throw battalions around instead of squads...

Last year I tried to paint 20mm figures, I loved the cost of these little dudes but I am afraid that my painting and basing of these models was pants. I grew up on Donald Featherstone books and in Particulsr "Operation Warboard" by Gavin Lyall. This little book got so much use that it literally fell apart in my hands!! I believe it to be very similar to "Rapid Fire" a set which I also greatly admire. Did anyone else use Mr Lyalls book?

Painting of 20mm figures can be effective...see here...

http://inthegrandmanner.blogspot.co.uk/search?updated-max=2011-08-23T16:58:00%2B01:00&max-results=7&start=7&by-date=false

Amazing work...it almost made me start planning a "Black Powder" army in this scale! I have just a few days to decide what to paint, happy times, and with my new white undercoat system in development who knows what may happen?

I do hope that you Chaps face the same "problems" that I do in my hobby, I think it is all part of the enjoyment!

January totals.

18X28mm Figures
Scratchbuild of 4 housing blocks
2X28mm Landrovers

Good luck for February!

The Assault Group moves into town!

Hi All,

just completed my 28mm Assualt Group militia so I thought I would become a miniature war correspondent for an hour, the houses are scratch built...a little small for 28mm but that was to save on space.

To give the feel of a larger town I will make a few more buildings in time. For February I feel the need for a change! Unfortunatley being the poorest person I know my choices will be limited...plastics probably.

Thanks for looking.

Inspiring

I have spent the last two days floating around the blogosphere looking for inspiration for a campaign that will take me through 2013 and give my hobby a focus that it is so sadly lacking at the moment. This is the curse of the solo gamer, attempting to collect and paint two opposing forces takes the willpower of a Tibetan master!

During mt wanderings (bards will make poems of my epic blog hopping) I came across two outstanding blogs which are just amazing. It is possible that everyone has visited them already and that I am the last man on the planet to discover them, if not please give them a click.

http://misminis.blogspot.co.uk/

http://www.heresybrush.com/

Last year I was impressed by 20mm and Hat in particular but I am really struggling to paint this scale-it is just  age I suppose, even in 28mm I use a magnifying glass! The detail on the 15mm (?) tanks are astounding, drives home how poor my eyesight is and how much I need to improve my painting!

Have a good weekend everybody!

28mm Figure painting pics

I started to reorganise my desk today and came across several figures that had been painted but put to one side. Indeed my desk is akin to a miniature zoo with 5 wolves, bats and rats that I have only a vague recollection of painting. Old age?

The Officer and the lady are from a game...possibly Cleudo and painted up OK, the pictures are poor because of the bad lighting here today-it is snowing outside-humbug-I have to trudge to collect my son from school...

This year I intend to campaign in the hope that this will make me paint on a regular basis, collect my figures in a more rational manner and have some fun playing games with my son! One of the most enjoyable aspects of solo gaming is the campaign diary...though I have only ever completed one (and that was over 20 years ago) this still holds a fascination for me. I may follow the progress of this project on this site or start a new blog...?

Thanks for looking.

Thank you all...30 000 visitors

A big thank you to everyone who has visited or especially if you left a comment! At times contact with the outside world has been a life saver for me and has helped me to keep what sanity I possess. Looking through everyone else's blogs is very inspiring and I do find some excellent work which I usually copy!

So a milestone is reached, thanks again. Now did any one read "Running a war games campaign" by Rick Priestley in Wargames Illustrated? I have the first part but not the second (doh missed the mag that month or more likely I was broke). Anyway has it appeared online? Is it worth ordering a back copy of the magazine to read it? I feel a campaign coming on-preparing for a campaign as a solo player is a great task as it makes me paint figures and make terrain... Thanks in advance for any information supplied.

Keep blogging Chaps I need to steal your ideas! Sorry I mean gain inspiration from your work!

This is one of HM finest...do not worry given his range performance he will miss.

The Assault Group update

Thought I would post an update on my modern figures. The Assault Group sculpts are so easy to paint-I have been enjoying painting these tremendously...I would urge anyone to buy from this company as the service is first class.

Today was the first day of sunshine in weeks so I popped into the garden to take some snaps...the neighbours already think that I am odd so I do not care!
Why is it that I rarely ever think that an army is complete? Are you chaps the same? Just when I think that I'm done another must have unit springs to mind!

WIP Security Advisor...

Hi
These are a few snapshots of today's painting efforts, I just realised that I am a very slow painter! Even with the simplest of paint jobs my total today is just 5X28 mm figures...I hope it is simply because I am out of practice?

These are two rather serious looking characters who will be working the circuit of my war games table! In time they will be joined by more from the Assault Group and maybe Copplestone's. Its odd but I am getting the painting mood back which has been absent for round 12 months...plastic WW2...must resist!

Thanks for looking.