Monday 30 January 2023

Baron’s War Outremer Kickstarter

Back in May 2022, I backed Footsore Miniatures Baron’s War 4 Kickstarter titled Outremer which takes the game to the Crusades setting.

To be honest, gaming the Crusades isn’t something I’m overly interested in. However, I was interested in getting more figures for my Baron’s War forces.

Growing up watching Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, and more recently Robin Hood, I like the idea of English noblemen returning to England during/after the Crusades and finding King John mucking things up.

Today, my pledge arrived.



Now this was paid for in 2022 so it doesn’t affect my 2023 Hobby budget.

I received 12 Cavalry and 20 Infantry figures. I have between 30-40 other Baron’s War figures so this give me 2 larger forces. I think 2 freebie figures are missing so I will have to follow up.

I should also probably track all new figures received vs figures painted to see how the Lead Mountain changes in size.

New figures for 2023:
12 Cavalry
20 Infantry


Sunday 29 January 2023

Blog Review

My plan this year it to post more. Including pictures.

I had several posts way back in 2014 regarding a German FallschirmJager army and the board game Descent. Thought a tiny update would be appreciated. They are gone.

I traded Descent and all the expansions for some figure painting by my friend I want to say around 2019. I know Descent 2.0 is now out but I have no plans to return to that market. It was a good game. Just not enough time.

Also sometime in 2022 (possibly at Hotlead 2022) I sold off my FJ to another friend. I kept all the armour and am building a German Grenadiers force instead. 
I thought it weird to have US 101, British Red Devils and German FJ.
I’ll probably try to hock the Red Devils at some point in the future too.

Thursday 26 January 2023

January update

Here’s a quick update,

Hobby expenses:
$18.43 on 2x 1LB boxes of 5/16 metal washers. 
$43.90 on  50mm x 50mm plastic bases and Jan/Feb issues of Wargames Illustrated (shipped for UK).
Total $62.33

5/16 metal washers are my go to for my 28mm metal figures. They give a nice heft and make the figures harder to knock over. They are about 25mm across. 5/16 is the interior hole size. My individual German infantry are now all based. I need a few larger bases for things like snipers, the machine gun and the anti tank gun.

I also need (sometime this year) 50mm square bases. So I placed an order from Northstar. I also added the two WI issues. February seems extra appealing as it has some RCW articles.

This week I started basing my 30 Oathmark Dwarf heavy infantry and 4 metal characters.
I cover the base in GW Stirland mud and then add static grass. I did the mud stage. I do a heavy-ish coat to hide the integral base of the miniature.
Then I’ll static grass the base and use the geek gaming scenics spray to lock it in.

I also put head on my 30 Oathmark orcs and built 10 of the 30 newly released Goblin slaves.



I have 30 more Oathmark Goblin infantry to build as well. That’s all for now. Hopefully I can find little bits of time to keep plugging away.

Sunday 1 January 2023

Happy New Year 2023

We’ll it’s been quite a year.
I finished only a handful of figures myself, a whopping 9 28mm NPCs for my ongoing RCW project. 

I have another 9 RCW figures in some state of painting. I have 6 pirates about 20 Afghan War and another 20 Barons War figures also with some paint on them.

Pretty disappointing to tell the truth but I found some painting mojo and expect to exceed these numbers this year.

Vehicles wise I primed two MDF airships from Crossover Miniatures, and put paint down on a Sarissa Precision train set (tender and 4 carriages) for the RCW. I also assembled an Ainsty Castings Man o’ war pirate ship and have mostly painted a Firelock Games sloop.

My plan for 2023 is:

RCW project
Finish painting the Sarissa train.
Base the Sarissa train tracks.
Finish painting the NPC characters I have for the RCW

Pirates
Get some paint on the 60+ figures I have.
Finish painting both pirate ships.

Oathmark
Finish building my Oathmark Orcs, Goblin slaves and Goblin boxes and get them commission painted (100ish)
Paint my oathmark wolves for the Goblin wolf riders.

Stargrave
Finish building the rest of the Troopers (20ish) box set.
Paint them (60ish)

Baron’s War
Finish painting the figures I started.
Assemble/paint the 40ish figures I have still in the blister.
Assemble/paint the new kickstarter figures whenever they get delivered.


WWI/WWII
Get my WWI British (90ish figures) and remaining Germans (40ish figures) to the commission painter.
Get my WWII German tanks to the commission painter.
There aren’t any major projects I’d like to start this year so hopefully just some small purchases here and there to finish old projects.

My wife thinks I spend $200/week on figures. I actually spend less that $200/month so I’d like to also document my hobby expenditures. I’ll also include supplies like glue and baseing materials etc.

So far I’m at $0.00 Hahaha.

That’s my plan so far.