Thinking Outside the Box

Played another 250 rep game of Batman Miniature Game yesterday. I wanted to use something other than my Bane crew, even though I have an unplayed 250 list ready to go. As I’ve been building my figures I’m keeping my eyes open for groups that I can paint together, which is how I came up with this: - Loeb - Ron w/ radio and undercover - O’Connell w/ ammo, radio and badge - Policeman - Policewoman - Batwoman All the cops I can paint as a unit, and Batwoman fills out the roster nicely. The colours probably won’t deviate much from the studio paint job. They’re police officers, so why make my life more difficult than it needs to be choosing colours? My opponent played another variation of his Arrow crew. I don’t recall all the equipment taken but the list looked like this: - Arrow - Huntress - Ron - O’Connell w/ ammo - Policeman - Policewoman The table set up had some elevated areas around the edges and corners, but was largely flat terrain. (As an aside I thought t...

If you're like me, you have a huge pile of boxes, models and various other figures and terrain bits awaiting construction, painting and (hopefully) time on the gaming table. Kickstarter may or may not have affected the size of your pile. If you've been able to resist some of the games providing masses of models on KS in the past few years I commend you. I keep a big wish list / to-do list related to my miniature hobby. It serves a few different purposes: GOOD: Reminds me of what project(s) I'm working on and keeps me on track (sometimes). GOOD: Give me ideas about stuff I could do next. GOOD: Is a place to put things I need to buy or do for specific projects. BAD: Reminds me how much stuff I have spent money on. BAD: Makes it pretty apparent I'll never finish all this stuff, or play all of these games. In May I started posting up monthly progress reports to keep myself motivated and serve as a reminder that building and priming models is progress too. As muc...

First off, I hate UPS. They're thieves who charge an insane amount of 'brokerage fees' to pay my GST for me. In this case I shouldn't even have had to pay GST, since the Badger Minitaire  line of paints are made in the USA. Anyway, they're here, and UPS still sucks balls. The paints however, do not. Here is a wonky-angled shot of the contents after I started sorting them out. I've had my airbrush for almost two years now but don't use it often. Occasional priming duty in the dead of winter is about the extent of the work my Badger Patriot had put in, until now. One of the biggest troubles with airbrushing is thinning the paints. I have paints from Army Painter, Games Workshop, P3, Tamiya, Vallejo and even some Testors acrylics. I've experimented a bit with mixing them and thinning them down and getting a consistent result is nigh impossible, and made me think that airbrushing wasn't for me. I picked up some Vallejo Model Air last summer and ...

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...