Hey folks,
Despite my previous good intentions, blogging got away from me again. That's not to say I haven't been busy with various things, just rather lax about showing them off anywhere other than on social media. Even then, I've taken more to Instagram than Facebook.
I'll go through some of the hobby related things I've done since October last year.
In November, I did a bit of gaming in Martinc's new pad, using his 10mm figures. Austrians via Prussians (pre-napoleonic).
I went on to paint a couple of character models for my Crimson Fists - a Techpriest and a Librarian.












In the same month, we managed to have our 5th and final D-Day game, with a scenario depicting Omaha Beach. I remember this one played pretty quickly. DaveD organised the terrain, giving us some nice high bluffs to attack. The defences were laid out as per the various maps, etc. By the end of the game, the German defences had been breached and one of the draws opened for armour.
From all the games, we established that despite the casualties in the initial waves, the allies will always win. The Germans are just too thin on the ground, and while their defences are a force multiplier, once they are outmanoeuvred, they are easy to mop up. We also found, unsurprisingly, that the Brits and their specialist armour had an easier time clearing and getting through defences. Out of all the games played, though, the Canadian beach scenario was the bloodiest and hardest fought. We hope to revisit that game in the future.



November also featured the local wargames show, organised by Pendraken. This was at a new venue, which worked well. We put on a 7 Days to the Rhine game, which was a Soviet airborne assault on an airstrip.
December was a quiet one, painting-wise. I managed to finish another squad for my Crimson Fists (Eradicators?) and repaint the Impulsor APC.
In January, I finished my Crimson Fist jump assault squad.
And played some Blucher using StiG's fantastic 6mm Napoleonic collection.

February had me working on a mix of models. I cleared my painting shelf of the Necromunda lurkers from last year (then added more).
Then I (finally) got all my defrocked priests finished - 14 in total. These are the stack of Battlefront resin and metal 15mm models I'd had in my lead pile for waaaay too many years. I also painted a couple of cut-down Morris trucks, as transport for my British Engineer platoon.
March was a bit of an odd month as well. My boy has been showing an interest in playing with my models, sitting with me at my desk, rolling dice and knocking figures over (he is only 4). I'd been tidying and came across some random models, which I built to add to what he could play with. This Necron was one of those models, along with a few bits of Age of Sigmar.
I actually really enjoyed painting these (though I've the 3rd one still to finish). Nice models, and the boy finds it easy to tell who ae the goodies and baddies (as the other models I have are ghosts). I ended up buying an old AoS starter set for cheap, just to have opposing forces. Yet another project. As an aside, the boy selected the colours!
Later in the month, I attended our wargames club in Northallerton, and we had a run out of DaveD's 15mm Battle of the Bulge table and figures. This is a newish project for him, and it looked 'cool'.
And back to WW2 models for me, a trio of 15mm plastic Jagdpanthers. I'd spent time applying something approximating zimmerit to these kits, which ended up with an effect that is passable from a distance. The main reason for adding these is that we are planning a Market Garden campaign this year, and I'd had the models kicking around for a bit. I've also got three King Tigers and a bunch of allied halftracks in the painting queue.
Then into April, where I've been working on painting King Tigers, building my first batch of Sdkfz 251's for Market Garden and playing on DaveD's winter table again. Less of a win for the yanks this time, but he'd added more toys to the Germans... Still, an exciting and good-looking game.
And that's me up to date!
Plans for the rest of the year mainly revolve around painting the necessary equipment to play Market Garden games. I've enough tanks, but allied transport is still lacking. I'm sure we'll play more on Daved's winter table - and while I was tempted to get some winterised British stuff going, I'll refrain.
40k, Necromunda, AoS and Legions Imperialis may also distract me!