So, I’ve been looking back over my first full year back in the hobby and figured it would be good to have a summary to look back on this time next year. As a reminder, this time last year I had painted up four armies (Vikings, Narnian, Lord Foul, and Undead) and had played three games of Saga Age of Magic.  Not bad going from a standing start in October, but how did that translate to a full 12 months?  Pretty damn amazing really.  I guess I can get a bit compulsive when I put my mind to it.  I’m struggling to think of a single weekend when I didn’t paint, model or play. So that included a Reptile and a Dragonkin army for Saga, and playing the remaining games for the Baldr the Unfortunate campaign.  I got into Five Leagues from the Borderlands in a huge way, adding to my models to be able to field a representation of pretty much everything mentioned in the book and playing almost 30 games. I have been involved with two great developers, Ivan Sorensen (Nordic Weas...

The third unit of Heavy Orc Infantry is complete.  That was going to be the end of that army, but Santa bought me Goblin Wolf-riders, so I’ll add them at some point. The wolves themselves will be vey handy for The Silver Bayonet, my next project, which you can find on a new Page called The Very Sharpe Silver Bayonet.   While I was doing those I also got a few more things off the workbench.  This Asgard Rising Druid figure is lovely, I have no idea what I’m going to do with it yet, but I couldn’t resist. The first of these three Werewolves is needed for the next 5LB game, the other two look good for TVSSB. Finally, in honour of the fact that Otherworld Miniatures retired this year, I got around to painting the Wizard and treasure variant of the cart.  I have been using the Farmer and hay version for awhile but this guy was still sitting in the pile.

  Bunch of updates on the relevant pages, from more Orcs for the Dernland campaign, more figures for Guards of Traitor’s Toll, and more actual games of 5LB in Gunnar’s Diary.  I really enjoyed my week off 😀. If anyone is actually reading this stuff, I wish you a lovely Christmas and I hope your 2025 is full of peace, joy, and tabletop gaming!

I had already painted up one box of the North Star Gnolls to use in 5 Leagues, so I added another box to build up enough for a force for my Fantasy campaign.  The full set has been added to the Defence of Dernland page, but above are the Individuals.  Pretty happy with how the Shaman came out - skulls are from an Orc banner and the severed head is from the Victrix Vikings.  The Herald is a kitbash too, need to think of a banner at some point.  Ready for Battle 3 now. When I ordered the box, I also spotted that North Star do a mounted Wizard that I have now matched in with my Human Cavalry figures. Also on the go is a box set of Orc Heavy Cavalry and some 3D prints for Traitor’s Toll, plus finishing up the buildings of course.  That and a few games will see me up to Christmas.

Been a bit remiss at posting but that’s because although I have a lot in progress there’s nothing ready to post.  However, my Christmas break from work started yesterday, and I have a pretty good scheduled lined up: More Guards of Traitors Toll playtesting - photo at the top of the page was a mission run through last weekend, the one at the bottom is all set for today.  These are shaping up really nicely.  Graham has been dropping pictures of the new plastics on Facebook -  https://www.facebook.com/groups/traitorstoll   - and I’ve been getting sneak previews of the bits and bobs, it’s going be a lovely tabletop experience both solo and multiplayer.  I’ve also got a few more 3D printed figures on the workbench while I wait for the box sets. More Defence of Dernland - I’ve been painting up more Gnolls (North Star Frostmark box plastics) and Ivan dropped the stats and special rules for them in the new EKPS rules last night, so that will be the next game in t...

  Above, four more Investigators (painted to try to match the cards).  Below, two hired guns and two skeletons (painted individually even though the pairs of figures are the same). The Lloigor was a bit of a challenge as the only description is that “it can take on a reptilian form”, so went with a similar colour scheme to previous ‘monsters’. Finally two Star Vampires which apparently only take form when full of their victims blood.  Again painted in different colour schemes on purpose.