Posted on July 30, 2026
There are times when I enjoy arts-and-crafts assembly-line work. Such was the case in making generic sabot bases for Midgard. Luckily, I had enough material laying around to get started. Somewhere in the past I acquired a small stack of 150x150x3mm p...
Posted on July 30, 2026
I generally avoid popular rule systems like the plague (I'm a born contrarian), Midgard has certainly piqued my interest. So I bit the bullet and ordered a dead-tree copy. I like what I read. Like them enough that I invested a bit of time in creating...
Posted on June 30, 2026
Crossing the Finish Line! As the painting for this particular project nears the finish line I got to looking at various rule sets to use. While I'm mostly a historical player, let's face it, what's the Trojan War without at least a touch of myth? Con...
Posted on May 31, 2026
Well... after a slow April I seem to have really caught up! Below are the last 24 regular figures for my Trojan War project. Most of the figures were purchased between 1998 and 2024. In the last 6 months I've painted 189 of them. That is a phenomenal...
Posted on April 26, 2026
Not too much accomplished this month in regard to the painting queue. But, this being the first month of decent weather, I did some yard work for the first time in 15 years: weeding, mulching, general outside clean-up. More importantly, I got the gar...
Posted on March 30, 2026
Progress continues with the Mycenaean/Trojans. These are all Foundry figures. The first set is a batch of characters of the major heroes, both Achaean and Trojan. Interestingly enough, Old Nestor, Menelaus, and Agamemnon are all included in another p...
Posted on March 5, 2026
After my slight 18th century division I've gotten back on track. The latest Trojan War figures are the last of my Redoubt figures. I think I'm getting close to having two Triumph! size forces so maybe some gaming with these figures might occur in the...
Posted on February 25, 2026
Still working on the next batch of Trojan War Bronze Age warriors but I've been sidetracked. A few weeks ago I played in a 'Not Quite Seven Year's War' game hosted by Rob D., a local gamer. He's been running these games for a few years now using the ...
Posted on February 14, 2026
A few more figures finished last week. In fact, I've completed 88 Trojan War figures in the last 2 1/2 months and I've got another 24 nearing completion. I'm currently at 61.7% complete with 179 out of the 290 Trojan War figures I've acquired over th...
Posted on January 20, 2026
I've been hammering away at the Trojan war project. Thirteen of these Redoubt figures were already painted but they were never photographed so here they are along with the recently painted six (picture 1). According to my handy-dandy tracking app I'm...
Posted on January 18, 2026
I grew up a profligate book buyer. Perhaps there was an intervention by loved ones. I don't recall. But eventually I adopted the practice of buying any book I wanted... once I finished reading one. Read one; buy one; read that one; buy another, etc. ...
Posted on January 11, 2026
As folk like to say these days… it’s been a moment. Life™ has been topsy-turvy. My last burst of blogging was in 2021 while we were still reeling from the effects of the pandemic. Truth be told, the pandemic really put a damper on my gaming activitie...
Posted on January 23, 2022
It's a gray, dreary December 31st here in Washington, D.C. Seems appropriate somehow for 2021 to end this way. Four years ago when I wrote the last 'year in review' post I was upbeat in restarting my gaming hobby. Well... let's just say it didn't go ...
Posted on November 28, 2021
The Iliad inspiration continues.... While I've had these figures for quite a few years I've never managed to complete more than four or five. So, I'm feeling pretty proud of myself for getting 32 figures across home plate in the past week! Most of th...
Posted on November 20, 2021
My gouache experiment left me a bit flat and unmotivated. In addition, the 'main' project on the painting desk (32 plastic hoplites) doesn't provide much inspiration either. So, I needed to complete something to regain my painting momentum. I don't k...
Posted on November 7, 2021
So... I think I've learned all I need to know about using gouache paints for figure painting. I don't think so! The first issue is the thickness of the paints. I knew that with a paste-like consistency they'd have to be thinned to avoid an impasto e...
Posted on October 22, 2021
A number of years ago I fished two Lifeguard trumpeters out of a $.25 box at a toy soldier show (manufacturer unknown). I painted the first one with craft acrylics, much as I've been painting figures since the '70s. Ten years later, the second one is...
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