New year new models

 The leadpile of potential never seems to dwindle. I am forever getting distracted by new shiny things, there is always something on my painting tray.

I even got temporarily distracted by thus Gundam malarkey. I'll admit, the original cartoon is pretty good, even if I can't watch whilst painting. It's in the original Japanese, so I can't read the English subtitles whilst painting. For Christmas I did get my first kit and it have to say, all those comments on YouTube about the high quality of the kits is not an exaggeration. The amount of toy soldier kits I've tried to glue together (not mentioning any specific company) and things have just not quite fit right. Gundam kits are so precision they don't even need glue. Yet somehow they also stay together once constructed.

I went for a High grade kit which is 1/144 scale (not the simplest difficulty but far from the highest grade either!)

Strike Rouge

The Analogue hobby challenge continues on, you can see it here. I am posting as PeterB. I'm not going crazy with my target this year, an easily obtainable target of 1000 points, which I am sure I will just about meet. I am mostly giving myself the challenge of hitting all of the bonus locations instead, rather than just the mandatory number. I shall see how I get on.

At the club we are still in a Warhammer Old World love fest. At least two or three games are being played every week along with other games. In fact, the club is really thriving with members and we are even in danger of running out of tables! It has been really fun meeting some new members and playing some great tabletop games. Old World has its flaws, but mostly it is a great game. I have been working on a third army on top of my Goblins and my Chaos and I am making great progress with an Empire army.

Progress so far

Obtaining original GW models has been a bit tricky with eBay prices going crazy (We must not be the only club going Old World happy) but I have found the Warlord Games range of Landsknecht make great alternatives for line troopers with some Ogres from Wargames Atlantic to fill out the units.

Finally, I did these a couple of months ago, some dwarfs I did on commission. Super proud of them, it almost makes me want to start a dwarf army for Old World as well.