Fight 'Em 'Til You Can't

This is turning out to be a good week for painting. Next off the production line are some zombie hunters/survivors. These are all Reaper bones minis which I got from the kickstarter last year. These are for my "... and stay down!" project which uses the same scenery I have built for Officer Down.



Next up are a couple of Otherworld war dogs which I got as perks from their Indiegogo campaign. These are needed in the D&D campaign as the nature priest has acquired a couple of hunting dogs.



The workbench is currently cluttered with modern zombies. Some may escape soon.

The fantastic four

And here we have the human torch, the thing and er.. okay they are in fact four elementals from Reaper miniatures. I thought these might be handy whilst I am running the Temple of Elemental Evil in our D&D sessions.



In other news I have taken delivery of a very large number (60!) of modern Zombies. I think I know what I will be painting for a bit.

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.