Builders, keep on building

Another building complete, that'll be the last one for a while.



Now to get on with painting some more miniatures. I think I need to break out a new main paintbrush too - all that scenery seems to have messed with the bristles.

Half time

So with half the year gone it is about time I took stock and tallied up my painted miniatures and my purchases and checked on how my wargamer's pledge is coming along.

Total Bought    56
Total Painted    155
Balance    99

All in all that's pretty good new I would say. Loads painted and loads more painted than bought, result.

But actually that total doesn't really reflect the effort I have been putting in this year because most of what I have painted so far has been scenery. Some of this hasn't featured on the blog so far so here are some shots of the scery I have painted up in the first six months of this year.

Amera Factory



Gamecraft City Buildings



Gamecraft 7 Eleven



Sarissa Buildings



Italeri Berlin House



Timeline Miniatures Pub



Demo's Laser Cut Terrain shops



Demo's Laser Cut Terrain shops



Robocop Garage



And the latest one completed yesterday (so 2nd hald of the year):-

Dust Tactics WarzoneTenement




Here's hoping that the second half of 2014 is at least as productive as the first half.

Murphy's law

Officer Murphy was one of Carnage's most dedicated officers until 'the incident'. Now his pursuit of justice is so single minded it is almost robotic earning him the nickname ... AndriodCop.



Murphy is for the 'special missions' section of Officer Down.

All present and correct

As promised I've cleared a load of dwarves off my workbench. Firstly another rank of GW plastics.



And then some BTD metals that I rather like.



Looking in my dwarf army box it is actually beginning to look like I could have a serviceable army painted up with a bit more effort applied. I've been painting the occasional rank or two here and there for a while and it has all been adding up.

But this week's big painting item is some ponies from SLAP Miniatures. I bought these earlier in the year as I had promised to buy some if they ever went into production. I wasn't sure what to do with them but with my youngest daughter's 8th birthday coming up I decided to paint them up as a birthday present for her.



I have put on two layers of varnish but even so I don't expect them to stay intact for long.

The rat pack

I've been meaning to paint up the giant rats and rat swarms from the Reaper Bones kickstarter for a while as they are very handy in a lot of low level D&D adventures. This week I have been laid low with tonsillitis so I decided to paint something easy when I eventually felt up to it and here are the results:-



Next up - something completely different! After that I will be finishing some dwarves who seem to have invaded my painting space. I think I dug them our when I was play testing Hellfire and Stone.

Bring out the big guns.

And here is the final faction for the game - the Russian Mafia. These heavies are a group of former Russian private military contractors who are exploring other wealth generating activities within Carnage. After years spend in war zones and other hazardous areas I guess they felt right at home down town.



These are from The Assault Group's Russian Mafia range. It was a bit odd looking up from my painting desk and seeing these guys on the news with the crisis in Ukraine. Watching the news made me realise that I'd painted the AK74s and AKSU74s incorrectly so I had to go back and re-do them (and yes I did mean AK74 and not AK47 - I've learned more about firearms doing this project than I ever knew before).

Now I only have a few character miniatures left to complete for this phase of the project and I'm done. Of course I still have buildings to complete as well but overall I think I'm making good progress.

Gnome alone

Sorry, gnome pun intended.

Here is a quick paint job I slotted in yesterday. This is a Female Gnome from the Reaper Bones line or as we know her -Syradinkle Finewhistle a gnome thief in our current AD&D (2nd Ed) campaign.



Elsewhere on the workbench the Russian Mafia types for OD are coming along too.