End of Easter holiday

I have had a week off during Easter, and although we took major advantage of the splendid weather, I did manage to base and prep a load of new miniatures for RuneQuest.  The collection includes a bunch of trolls and trollkin, some dragonewts on demibirds, a wyvern, a female giant, a gang of skeletons including some broo skeletons, a bunch of kids, an elderly couple, two bison riders from Prax, a Dara Happa patrol,Lunar guards , An Aldryami –or lunch, as the trolls would call it, the Hiording Huscarls, things that crawl, a big bunch of Glorantha personalities, a big bunch of Broos, some nice new adventurers, a Ralios Patrol, a Centaur patrol, Hiording slingers and archers.  Miniatures from a variety of companies, including Lance & Laser, Warlord, Otherworld, Ral Partha, Grenadier / Mirliton, Hasslefree, Fenryll, Black Tree and a few I forgot.

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Salute 2011 pictures

 

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Ready for Salute!

Just so I don't go on a manic shopping spree and buy all kind of stuff I still have lying around at home waiting to be painted, I have based and prepped (about) all of my Runequest miniatures still residing on the lead mountain.  Whenever I feel the urge to start buying more Babylonians, Romans, Athenians, Celts, Britons or Picts, I just take a look at this picture


I haven't started on the hundred or so orcs and goblins I still have waiting, nor the big giant, the trolls and other stuff, but I'm not gonna be buying any of those, I swear.

On the shopping list:

Pendraken preorder of WW2 US, British and German for D-DAY
KR preorder of a nice 10 mm vehicle case
Hasslefree preorder of SciFi Grimm

And looking for:
10 mm terrain, especially a few bridges, and some nice ruins
Some CoC bargains at the bring and buy if I'm lucky
CoC miniatures in 10 mm, although that would mean I'll have to sculpt things like the old ones myself...
Other cool SciFi stuff, maybe even a bit of terrain
Small chance, but I really really need the HQ baboons from Armorcast
Lots of ideas to make my gaming tables neater, cooler and amazing-er

5 AM tomorrow morning I'm off!

The workbench

Not a lot of updates lately, and funnily enough that's not because I haven't been busy, quite the contrary.  Between visits to the game club, DIY sessions in the new Club House, I managed to continue the painting of a lot of Lance and Laser Glorantha Miniatures, as well as finally base some of the cheapo minis I got at Crisis 2009.  Here's a gang of skeletons, as well as some BTD Babylonians that'll become Dara Happans and some Greeks, both mounted and on foot, about to become Lunar troops and Yelmalio lords.

Started working in the new HQ club house

It has been some time since the last upgrade, partially because I am working hard on my WW2 game to be presented at Crisis 2011, but also because I recently joined the HQ wargame club in Sint Niklaas.
They are open for business Friday and Saturday, and I have been playing several fun games there in the weeks since I joined, which I am trying to list here:
Roll through the ages (a civilization version of Yahtzee)

Bang (Western card game)

Dominant Species (Darwin revisited)

Big City (You could call it a boardgame of the Sim City computer game)

Pandemic (Coop game where you can save the earth or let it perish)

Our wargame club - I am an official member since last Friday - is moving to new premises sometimes soon, and this new place needs some serious work.  Here's our webmaster Bram hard at work putting up electricity for the bar area.  The bar itself is gonna be 5 meters long!

My modified APC

Here is the first stage of the painted APC for my Shocktroopers army.  I still need to put up some scifi decals and do the weathering and varnishing, but the idea is there already.