Thinking Outside the Box

March was a rough month, with all of my hobby progress happening in the first week. The rest of it was spent on real life stuff, as the poor economy here has resulted in my renewed quest for employment. Lots of other folks are in the same boat as I, but I'm looking at it as a chance for something new and interesting. While I have some more free time I'm also looking forward to a short break and some gaming, while I prepare for the next career step. When I looked at what I did accomplish in March though, it wasn't too shabby for a seven day span: - Built Killing Joke Joker, Mr. Hammer, Joker's Daughter, Master of Ceremonies, and Frank Miller Batman - Built two custom Joker clowns for BMG: August for Harley Crew, and a version of "Six" - Gap filled a ton of KM models and Grimms for Pulp City, 44 in total! - Based all remaining models (16) Today we started our first round for the Batman escalation league here. Scheduling conflicts kept our attendance dow...

December is a busy time for me, but with some vacation time booked, I was looking forward to getting a few in-progress items knocked off and finished before the end of the year. Mother nature had other plans for me however, as I came down with a cold the first night of my vacation. I still have that cold now, but it's finally loosening its claws and I do hope to be rid of it in short order. So here's what I got done built in December, despite being sick for a good third of it. It all ended up being building, green stuff and basing, as I didn't finish painting a single model in December. (Well, unless you count the Orks, which I had essentially done in November, so...I don't.) At least I honed in my focus on two games: Batman Miniatures Game and Pulp City. - Built Ra's & League of Shadows starter box (4) - Built BMG comic Ra's, Talia & Nyssa (3) - Built BMG ninja booster pack (2) - Built BMG Shiva starter box (4) - Filled all the gaps on al...

I mentioned a bunch of items that I pushed across my hobby desk earlier this month, but here's a full recap of what I accomplished during the month of November. - Re-based two Heroclix for repainting: purple jumpsuit Luthor and Black Mask - Built Poison Ivy starter set for Batman Miniature Game ; started painting (4) - Built and based more serpent worshipper cultists (4) - Built new cultist minis for a brand new group, likely for Kulten (11) - Built safe box objectives for BMG (2) - Built all my Joker minis for BMG (14) - Built Arkham Inmates I booster for BMG (2) - Cleaned and based my remaining Threshold agents for Strange Aeons (9) In terms of painting I am nearly finished a 10-man Ork squad for Warhammer 40,000 . I also ordered and have received some stuff, but haven't had a chance to actually open the boxes for my Knights of Dice buildings & props or Ghostbusters Kickstarter pledge package. I've had word that my Pulp City ...

October was a fair bit lighter in the realms of completed work, but not an entire wash. Hobby: - Cleaned, based and primed six new SuperFigs . This batch included the very first model from the line that came in multiple pieces. My copy of SuperSystem 4th Edition also arrived so I'll try my hand converting these character profiles over from 3rd Edition. - Built and primed the last two (of three) western-themed buildings from PlastCraft . They are all quite similar in design, but mixed in with the rest of my buildings provide a nice amount of variety. - With all of my western buildings finally finished I was able to lay them all out on the table and decide what each of them was going to be, and what colours I'd likely use. I'm going to aim for having a decent amount of colour, but still look worn and weathered...it'll be an interesting experiment. - Built and primed half of the Infinity N3  models I have from the "Operation: Icestorm" starter b...

September didn't feel like a terribly productive month, but doing these progress reports serves as a nice reminder to me that I haven't been entirely idle. Let's have a quick recap! Modeling / hobby: - Fixed Copperhead broken during a demo of Batman Miniature Game . She also got a little more putty work done to really make sure the joins were looked after. - I prepped and based the Hell Division trio and more police figures for Empire of the Dead . I've also decided to include the "Gentleman Bat" figure (created by some top-notch fellows over on LAF) in this batch. Total of 12 figures ready for paint. - I applied basing materials to my 25mm Jaffa minis in hopes of someday getting my  Stargate  project further along. Total of 22 soldiers and the like. - All of my MDF western buildings from August got a spray coat of black primer. - Finished a bit of customization work to an o-scale train water tower model I bought a while back. - Sculpted custom bases ...

August was a really productive month. Between my other half away visiting family and me sleeping even less than my usual there was a lot accomplished. Modeling / Painting - I primed the remainder of the figures I'd built for Batman Miniature Game  (18 in total) - Finished painting the original hero miniatures for Guardians Chronicles - Painted my first figures for Batman Miniature Game : uniformed cops (5 figures) - Repainted two Heroclix : Barbara Gordon and Batman Beyond . There's a custom profile card created by me on the blog, but I didn't feature Barbara. Can you spot her in last month's posts? - Completed my entire batch of Law Forces for Batman Miniature Game  with four SWAT troopers and three officers (7 figures) - Added a full set of extra walls/fences to my Garden of Morr set and got it all painted up. Construction / Terrain - I touched up a western wagon toy given me by a friend. It looks pretty good, but I'm not sure when it'll make ...

Hobby seemed to take a bit of a back seat through July. I split my time amongst five projects, which is a quite few more than I'd promised myself I would work on. Here's what happened in my hobby realms...with far fewer photos than I'd like! The first thing I recall finishing in July was actually painting my MDF DreadBall pitch from start to finish. You can read more about that by clicking here . Stuff built for Batman Miniatures Game : - Black Canary and Batgirl - Victor Zsasz and Arkham Inmates set (4) - Titan Bane - Blackgate Prisoners set I (4) - Blackgate Prisoners set II for BMG (4) When I bought my Terminator Genisys starter set I built them the same day. This month I put some basing material on them and got everything primed in black. Although not fully complete I've painted all the endoskeletons (15) who simply lack a few finishing touches. We even had a chance to play through a few games. I may or may not do some kind of game recap or review...

My second progress report post, which feels like a bit of a mixed bag in terms of work accomplished. The month started off really strong with a bunch of stuff getting hobby and paint attention. Work, nice weather and a bit of vacation closed out the month and really put a dent in things at the end. June Progress Report - Painted sewer markers for Batman Miniature Game  (7) - Built Walking Dead prison tower set (1 of 2) - Painted 3 sets of lamp posts for BMG (7) - Painted second objective pack for BMG (4) - Built and painted set of custom riddle objectives for BMG (2) - Painted SuperFigs Emerald Alien (1) - Built Catwoman, Origins Deathstroke, Huntress and Origins Batman for BMG (4) - Built miniatures for Terminator Genisys starter box (32) There were several other things that I had were very near completion that intended to knock off in June. After returning from my trip and getting settled back into my work schedule I couldn't find the motivation for in the last few d...

With all the hobby and gaming stuff arriving lately I've been trying to find ways to keep myself motivated. The mountain of 'stuff to do' keeps growing at a rate faster than I can manage. Keeping that in mind I started keeping track of the stuff I am accomplishing each month. A lot like working out, writing down what you did can help one maintain focus as you move forward. May Progress Report - Painted Martian Dreadball team (this included building 2 custom players out of the Mars Attacks wounded markers) - Built two packs of gas lamp posts for Batman Miniature Game - Stripped and began repainting base game figures for Guardians Chronicles - Stripped and fully repainted Heroclix Vindicator (Heather Hudson) - Painted "strumpet" figure from Reaper Bones line - Built Commissioner Gordon GCPD starter (4 figures) - Built Corrupt Cops GCPD starter (4 figures) - Fixed massively busted UNA Fire Toad for AT-43 - Built second token pack for  Batman Miniature Ga...