Monday, August 2, 2010

Slow updates at the end of the Month

How I wish this was where I actually am while on vacation. To be fair, how I wish I was actually on vacation and not the "Working Vacation" I am actually on. Its funny how a "Working Vacation" actually works out with my job. For the past two weeks, my wife and children have been gallivanting around enjoying the beach, shopping, and other sundry vacation activities. I have been sitting on some conference calls and other sundry work related items, with very few days to actually vacation. Ahh, the enjoyment of it all.

To be fair, I have dug through a small bit of personal time to do some painting. Of course I then ran into problem #2, which is my photo-editing software is on my Mac at home. Bleh..... No pictures of my newly painted models this week.  I will say, however, that I have returned to accomplishing some of the 40K models, knocking out both Jain-Zar and Baharroth for my Phoenix lord collection. This will provide a completed set of Phoenix Lords, which I am very happy with. I do not particularly like the Jain-Zar model, I think it is a very ugly sculpt. Its done though, so I can move on to the remaining DTP models on the list.

I have also been working on a fair number of Malifaux models. As you can see, I have a new number assembled and primed, waiting on my painting tray for completion. I knocked out a Student of Conflict for my Lady Justice crew, along with an Icy Razorspine Rattler for my Rasputina crew. I am very happy with how these came out, although the Student has a bit of Super-Glue-Elphantitis in his hands. I may put together a second one down the road and pin the hands to get better detail.

On a sad note, Russ Wakelin did not make it out for gaming last week, so I did not get a chance to play a game with him. It appears that the NH love for Malifaux is fairly constricted to just a few players (Russ, Craig, and 1 other as I understand). Myriad Games is an incredible store, and was a joy to hang out in. These NH'ites are big board game players, and I saw very little actual miniature gaming going on!

That's it for this update. I will be returning next week (after August 9th) with a flurry of pictures for whatever I accomplish around work. I also plan for 1 more Forgeworld order in my near future (this week?) and then I will be pulling out the Air Brush for some large model painting! If things go forward as planned, I will be knocking out 2 Night Spinners, 1 Eldar Flyer, and the Titan over the next month or so.

5 comments:

  1. Looking forward to seeing those painted models.
    Out here in where I game in Southern California, there are only 5 or 6 gamers playing Malifaux. The good news is they seem to be avid players. But yes, the Malifaux gaming crew appears to be very small.

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  2. Cool man, looking forward to having you back in the area. I want to play Malifaux but Mike and Dan and them don't seem to have time to play Malifaux when I do. My progress on painting has stalled, I'll send you an email on why, but I am looking forward to getting in some Malifaux games.

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  3. Next time I am out in CA I will bring a crew with me Mags. Your up in the SJ area, right?

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  4. I have gotten far less painted so far than I thought I would have. I am really hoping to knock out a bunch this week.

    On the good side, I am going to push hard to get a solid Malifaux group moving once Huzzah opens up. In addition, I think it might be good to add a new segment on GL specific to Malifaux.

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  5. Actually, I am in North County San Diego.

    However, if you come this way you have to bring the Eldar! :-)

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