Tuesday 9 January 2024

Too Many Irons in the Fire

 

Being a wargaming butterfly means seeing shiny things and being unable to resist buying them. The result is a ton of unfinished projects that, realistically, may never reach fruition.  With no loft access at the moment I am working on a sub-set that consists mainly of 15/20mm 'ancients.

(1) 15mm DBA armies - added a few more this year - Kushites, Germans & Huns.

(2) 20mm DBM armies - only 2 of these extant - Egyptians and Trojans.  The former have been tidyed up with unwanted Armati figures going to the 'spares box'.  Some of these have formed the basis of DBA armies (see below).  The Trojans still need to be split into 2 armies - Trojans and Achaians.

(3)  20mm Chinese and Arab figures will be moved to the Renaissance box to provide more DBA-RRR armies.    

(4)  20mm Book 1: In the process of forming DBA armies - part painted and assembled armies (including scratch-built chariots) for Nubians, Early Bedouin, Early Libyans, Kushites, Medes,  Etruscan, Greeks, etc

(5)  20mm HotT armies - only a little paint on them - Elves, Dwarves, Goblins, Ratmen, Lizardmen.

(6)  20mm Jacobites - plenty of figures - unpainted

(7)  Spaceships - have converted some 40k bits into federation-ish craft (and painted them).  Trouble is that I need some stands - maybe Litko - but where can I buy them?  Ed - found a source and put in an order.

(8)  Sailing Ships (ex-Risk) - have quite a number of these - few painted and never tried out the rules.  Seen some clear plastic bases on some blogs and would love to know where to get them.  More research needed.

There are plenty more figures and models sitting around needing my attention.  Far too many in fact.  Given my painting rate I will need to be a centenarian before they are finished.  I Don't recommend being a wargaming butterfly.