Category: 20mm Force on Force

2019 Projects and Goals for the Year

In general paint, play, sell, and stop buying collections.

2019 Projects and Goals    

3D printers

          Getting the printers up and running again. The filament printer needs a cable created. As the manufacture is chapter 7, a new one is not available. There is a plan. Only time is required. The Resin printer needs only time and effort.

Get the Sudan project on the table.

          I have maybe 900 Fuzzy Wuzzys,  the Sudanese, and most of the British to complete. Almost all the Cavalry, but I hate painting horse most of all. No supply issues this year. No purchase required. All materials are on hand.
          To get them on the table; I will need to focus and identify a few battles. The units required for those battles finished. All the while banging out the Ansar and British forces as fast as possible.
     

20mm Moderns. 

          I would like to do one Con game.

Warmaster

         Finish the Araby army. Start and finish the Samurai army. Then develop a plan and start a strong  effort to complete 2 ancients armies.
          

HH World Eaters army. 

         This should be an easy check. 30% is done. I have everything required. I know where everything is and there is another 20% ready started.

Conventions and Gaming.   

         I am booked for AdeptiCon and Cold Wars. Hopefully I will get HistoriCon, NEEAT, and the Epic World Championship in. This year, step up the effort to build a gaming group here in central PA. I would also like to link up with the NJ group.

Sell off

          Continue to sell off the Kickerstarters never started. Liquidate the collections purchased. Sell off the extra 10mm Samurai.

Painting  

         730 plus dudes painted last year. The goal will be 1000 this year with at least 300 coming from the 20mm Colonial project. With the amount of terrain and 10mm involved it should be an easy score. As long as I stay focused.


2018 Closes

         Here I sit at the end of the year, with an honest summary of the lies told to myself. I continued buying boat loads of minis. Several armies purchased, one sold. Cherry picking bullshit in full effect.
         The kickstarters never opened were sold off. The printers were started up again, then promptly broken.
         I got a house. I do have a room to paint in, a wargaming table is in need of a builder.
         Never ever really got behind the brush on the Colonial project. Hundreds of 20mm Colonial dudes wait NIB. 1000s of Ansar are washed. This was the worst part. I must finish the project. That means chipping away at what left unpainted and getting games on the table. Hosting a Con game.

         What happened was Warmaster and returning to work. Way too much time picking around with a system that was only to assist in getting me some more playing time with little effort.

         I spent a fortune buying ancients, tomb kings, araby, and samurai over the last two years. Ancients started fall in 2017. Most of time and energy pissed away with ancients shields, getting 2 jobs, buying a house, and moving everyone back to the states.
         With all those excuses/lies. I only managed 2 out of the 6 goals with one half way achieved. At least my ability to speed paint has improved. With it I was able to crank out 730 miniatures.

2018 Projects and Goals

        Get the Sudan project on the table. I only managed a to finish the Naval Brigade, Egyptian Infantry, and 1/2 the Baggage train. Only about 8% of the Ansar were painted. They were the major goal.
        
         20mm Moderns. I got a bunch of characters, pulp, and Zombies finished.  All the Afghans as a goal this year totally missed. I got a butt ton painted up, nothing related to the original goal. Plus a small purchase of a large number of painted US 1st desert war dudes.

         NetEA Imperial Fists and HH World Eaters armies.  Imperial Fist got some love. The WEs got nothing   

         Attend 2 HMGS cons and AdeptiCon.   Only made cold wars, NEAT, & Adepticon.

         Painting  800 plus dudes painted last year. The goal was 600 this year.  Smashed with 730+ painted


Painting at work again.

         Short work week. People have use it or lose it time. And everyone wants to take 3 days off for 11 days. I was not up on the rotation, but I volunteered to be. I am the only eng that could cover the Northeast without flying on Xmas. Nice guy maybe, but no. I did it as a trade for AdeptiCon time with no issues.
         I left the day after Xmas at 2:30 in the morning for a contract customer. Sucks? Yeah, but I am a sneaky fucker. Remember; Short work week. People have use it or lose it time. And everyone wants to take 3 days off for 11 days. This fact creates 3 full days of painting for me. No one to bother me, no guilt, and I won’t be doing jack shit because; Short work week. People have use it or lose it time. And everyone wants to take 3 days off for 11 days.

Here I am in some dudes office painting and drinking dew…….

My trusty world traveling GW case
poor bastard’s desk
          I have done nothing here. I have painted epic, 20mm colonial, samurai, roman, oscars, tomb kings. Next week will be a busy basing week.

Terrain repairs "GW Desert table"

The Games Workshop Realms of battle Desert table.

          It is showing wear and bald spots. The are indentations, craters, and chunks sticking up. This is mostly my fault. The initial layer for sand was wrong. I got so cheap sand from Home Depot. Not play sand, more like construction sand.

          The sand was not uniform in size. It created a very uneven surface. Stands and model would be off balance and tip. The rough nature also was very rough on terrain and models. Some larger chunks stuck at odd angles and stuck up too much. Those broke off right away. There by creating holes.
          Also half way thru I started to sift the crap out. Then the nozzle on the spray bottle clogged. It was not spraying, but shooting out a jet. The jet moved the base layer around, increasing unleved, crap surface.

         The table has been around for about 2 + years now. In the condition that it is currently in and with little to do this week, it is time for repairs. The first step was to scrap the top genteelly with a paint stirrer. This would bust off the larger chunks sticking up and attached poorly. The surface was then brushed and vacuumed. The second step was to take FL beach sand, very fine sand to level the surface. I soaked the original layers with watered down white glue. Then using a shaker bottle coated it in the fine sand. The fine sand self levels.

         I don’t want it totally flat and level, because ground just ain’t that way. Just level and flat enough  that stands are not wobbling like drunken sailors.
         The edge along the hills took a beating. 

        The 3rd step is matching the tiles to each other. 3 different home made flocking mixtures were used.

        If you even do this, remember sand gets darker when wet. You will need to soak it. As in below, it does not look very desert more afghan like. Once it dries, which will take forever, everything will lighten up.

Terrain "The Rivers"

         I had a bunch from long ago. Mostly purchased over many years at the HMGS Cons. All from Terrain Concepts, I think. Then maybe 4 years ago these rivers developed a limited availability.

        While in Argentina I bought a collection that had a huge number of them. Plus some of the smaller and largest sizes. After returning to the states they surfaced. Now I got some time to finish them just before the Holiday BS starts.

        The edges touching the water are flocked with the desert table base. The outer edge get the FW table green flock. 
         47 Additional river pieces completed. Now all the river sections are done and match. Next the Desert table repairs!

Bunker 51

This is what was left of the french built bunker 51. My customer wanted it without battle damage and unpainted. Set to 15mm, I think he plays mostly NUTz.

 One heavy chunk of resin. The green is GW liquid green stuff. It works more like a putty if you add a little water. Sands down as smooth as a baby’s ass.

 The roof needed extra help, as the resin sand bag thingy was causing it to bow.

 Same with the walls. They needed studs to stop the walls from bowing.

Tom’s NAM bunker part I

         Many month’s ago, Tom asked if I could build bunker 51 for him. Bunker 51 was constructed by the french. Then the US occupied it and a battle happened. The bunker took a full on ass beating but stayed strong and is still there today.
         Tom doesn’t care what it is exactly made from. Only that the bottom, base plate of the model be from 2mm plastic card. It has to support a resin sandbag bunker on top.

 Tom’s sketch. How I go about building from his sketches.

          He would like it as thin as possible. Yet it must be able to support the resin topper. So, I will build this beast like a house. Then there will be no problem supporting the resin or an issue taking it out for a Con.

20mm Zombies

Listening again to “We’ve Alive.” Radio blows driving back and forth to work. I listen to this podcast, old school radio show long ago. Its still pretty badass.

Covert Intervention Games

         More Zombies.

Some first responders and National guard contaminates.

Some of society’s best that have been bitten.

Regular old citizen zombies. How much of turning was just piss poor luck?