The plans of Mice and Ken

 apparently oft go astray

So this was my Christmas break 2024 hobby plan

1. Print and Paint some Lizardmen for Warmaster

2. Repair a Pegasus Hobbies Log House - I have one with a missing roof bit so I've ordered some tiles from Warbases and my m8 Dave has laser cut me some new roof bits and bases so that's an easy one

3. Construct and paint three Pegasus Hobbies Log Houses - in addition to the above. That will give me a full log built village that will cover both WW2 Ost and AWI 

4. Construct my DMH buildings - I've "quite a few"

5. Repair \ bodge a few buildings for Irish Revolt \ Civil War

So a clear and well thought out plan.

Instead I've started painting bloody Frenchmen! My Sharp Practice French have been hovering at half done for months. I've decided to cheat and switch to Warlord models in greatcoats, err and contrast paint. Feels dirty but it does seem to work :-) 

Project update - err stuff is happening

I've not posted for a while so I thought a generic post would maybe be relevant.

So where to start.

Blood Red Skies. Over the last few years this has been my main game. Over the last few months progress has stalled a bit (pun intended). I played a few games at the Middlesbrough club and also did a demo session at the Warlord Opening Day - all good, but I've mainly been painting and playing other things. This is hopefully going to change. We have a small tournament planned for mid November so hopefully that will run ok.

Quar. Ive been quite taken with The Clash of Rhyflers starter set and have been busily expanding. I've hit a bit of a bump in the road as my core Crusader force is just about done, but for reasons I cant really explain even to myself I have started two new forces, Royalists and Arnyarans (it's the bikes). This means I have a pile of unpainted models - oh dear.

Sharp Practice. French are stalled but I hope to get them back running soon.

Quar adjacent is the Irish Revolt \ Rebellion \ Civil War. I've been looking for a set of rules that handles the scale and scope of the actions of the period and I think Clash of Rhyflers does this really well. I'm hoping to put this to the test on Thursday night at Middlesbrough Games Club with our first "This Mick's War" game. Report to follow (hopefully).

Printer issues. Yup, that's a thing. Mt Saturn 2, which had previously been rather reliable, had a FEP leak. In attempting to change the FEP I damaged the resin tank. The replacement resin tank didn't quite fit so I have spent some time staring (and swearing) at the machine. I finally have it working again however I noticed the Saturn 4 Ultra was on sale and....... well this happened. 

It's almost Christmas so..... It will be a while before it is set up and running - I may need to move stuff around in the print room.

Phew, so that's about it for October. It has been less productive than I would have liked but hopefully now that will change. Cheers