May update

The painting binge continues.

LOTS more after the break.



First up another of Foundry miniatures discontinued 2000AD range; Ukko the dwarf.

Slaine was always one of my favourite characters so when I saw his little side kick I had to buy him.

 
He's a little rushed but I wanted something finished in one sitting. From bare metal to finished in under 2 hours.

 

Next up the other Gorebeast chariot for my Khorne army.

Made the crew removable so I can proxy it into my Beastman army.

Here is a group shot of my 1250 point Khorne army for the first season of Blood in the bad lands.

Epping forest continues to be a welcome relief for my daily exercise.

Here is a photo of the location for next years Riotville LIVE!!

We tried playing 'Dungeon Mayhem' over zoom . . . . . . Nightmare!!

Next up the two Beastman crews for the proxy Tuskor chariots.

for a change of pace I then finished up another of my brothers Black Scorpion Miniature, cowboys.

My daughter has also returned to the painting table.

Next up I finished 5 Ungor raiders.

This saw me finish my 1000 point Beastman army for the Badlands.

 

In other news with the extra time at home I have really got back into my fitness.

Could not do this before lock down!

The wife and kids were most impressed.

Next I got 5 Chaos Knights finished . . . . .

Phil and Grunt

 . . . . as well as 10 Blood letters.

This leaves my 'Chaos; shelf looking like this. . . .

Not bad considering this only had 10 Warriors of Chaos on in before lock down!

This also saw me pass the 100 miniatures painted for the year mark.

I celebrated by digging into my old skool lead pile.

First up I finished this 1989 Blood Bowl, Dark elf, Cheerleader.

This gave me a thirst for some more Blood Bowl miniatures so I cracked open my modern Ogre team.

After painting the 1989 miniature I had a re-appreciation of the crispness of the modern sculpts!!

 

 

They are on square bases as I will use them in my 8th edition Ogre army.

While digging through my lead pile I come across this Midlam miniatures Kickstarter Gnome.

He went straight to the front of the painting que.

With all this old skool lust in my veins I dug RIGHT back to the very origin of my 'grey shame'; this 1977 Airfix Medieval soldier I bought when I was 3 or 4!

Found him at the bottom of a box of original Star war toys my mother dropped over after having a clear out!

I remember Airfix Royal Marine soldiers being the first ever things I tried to paint as a kid.

40+ years this fella has waited to be painted!!!!!

"Listen sonny. Back in my day . . . . . . ."

The old skool purge continued.

First this old metal Gor.

He sort of blends in with all the other ungors and Gors I have also painted.

And then I found this lovely old Marauder miniatures Goblin Shaman.

While I was painting these I also churned out the rest of the Bloodbowl Gnoblers.

Enjoying painting metal mini again I finished off this Hasslefree miniatures Dwarf.

I also come across some 1997 Ungors.

The photo above just make me think of a 'bring your kid to work' day.

I also had a lovely surprise when I was putting up some new book shelves in my sons room and found he had started making his own figures out of blue tac.

Something about this sculpt I just find adorable.

We have discussed him having a go with some 'green stuff' so we will see how that goes.

Finally my daughter and I decided to have a go painting the same miniature.

It was great fun!

So there is your May update and I can't lie I am chuffed with how much I have got done.

Here is the numbers.

Bought this year 8

Painted / sold this year 133

remaining 349

I am seriously wondering if I can get this last total under 200 miniatures?