Update - terrain and 6mm Pontic imitation legionaries

 Although my painting endeavors are limited by a current shoulder injury I do still try to get something done. At the moment terrain and bases are the easiest things for me to do.

First up are some 6mm Pontic imitation legionaries from Baccus. In January I painted some other Pontic troops and I had painted 6 out of 8 bases of the legionaries, except for doing finishing the bases which is something I usually do when I have painted all the figures. However, because of the shoulder I never got to paint the last 2 bases, but eventually I decided to at least finish the 6 bases I had painted. With these figures I tried to use mainly contrast paints over a metal spray and it worked out nicely.

Back in February I showed some 6mm latex fields/rough ground I had made. Now I have finished them all and here is a photo to prove it. These are very simply done with a brown spray, some shading and drybrushing, and few areas pained with contrast paints.

The fields/rough grounds are from TimeCast and with them I also purchased some fords and bridges which I have also finished. These are painted enturely with contrast paints.

Over time I have bought various 6mm buildings for different time periods. So I decided to make one base which could be used with the different buildings. Here is the base with first some ancients houses and then some ACW houses. The idea is to use them as a village/town and you can move the houses around to accommodate the figures.

Back in November when I was browsing a ton of webshops for Black Friday I came across a Polish shop, terrain4games.com that sold various terrain, including painted stuff. I was very curious about it, but didn't buy anything from at that time. But I kept coming back to the page, and a month ago I just decided to try it out. So I ordered a Rocksy terrain set with 16 pieces for 61 $ including shipment. It actually took a little longer for them to send it than expected (I had ordered a 'Ready to ship' item), but as a bonus they had added 3 more pieces to the set. I'm very happy with set and can recommend the webshop.Here is the set with a couple of 28mm fantasy figures for size comparison.

So although I don't get to paint as many figures as I would like (and need) to, at least I get something done. Unfortunately I also keep buying new stuff, but really comes as no surprise.

Hobby Update

I am unfortunately still suffering from severe pains in my shoulder, so my hobby work is very limited at the moment. So this post is a summary of what I have been doing the last few months.

While doing the 15 minutes-a-day painting challenge in January I also worked on some 6mm terrain. I had bought some 6mm latex fields and and rough ground pieces from TimeCast during the Black Friday week, that I decided to work on also. As always I kept it simple and spraypainted them brown, flocked the edges of the fields and gave them some various wash and drybrush. I'm quite pleased with the result given the work put into them. The plan was to show them when I had finished them all, but the injured shoulder put a stop to that. In the photos there are also some 6mm buildings from Irregular Miniatures that I have had for years. They were painted with contrast paints. At some point I will also do a base for them.

About a month ago I played a game of Middle-Earth against my regular LotR opponent Chris. This time he brought the Fellowship from the book 'The Quest of the Ringbearer'. I think it's the legendary formation called 'The breaking of the Fellowship', so it's without Gandalf.

I took a Mordor army led by the Shadow Lord on a Fellbeast with a Mordor troll chieftain, an orc captain and bunch of orcs. We played the scenario where we had to search 6 objectives for an item. This definitely favoured my larger army, but I was uncertain as to how I should deal with the hero army. It was, however, still a fun game, although we did make a few, possible game-changing errors.

6 markers on the table. Mordor on the left, and the Fellowship on the right.

The troll chieftain tries to flank the Fellowship, but the heroes kills the orcs easily.

The Shadow Lord leads from behind.

The Fellowships struggles against their many foes.

Eventually the Fellowship is overwhelmed. Ironically the only survivor is Boromir.

I have assembled a few things, just to try and do some hobby work. Here are some Norman archers, a Russian KV-85 and a 15mm ruin.

And when I cannot do hobby work I have resorted to purchasing stuff to fill my hobby needs. A local Danish hobby shop have had a FoW sellout with 50% off everything, so I have stocked up on such items. I also won a Facebook auction for some painted LotR elves.

My gaming room in the garage has suffered from a leaking roof for some time, so now we decided to get it fixed. So we hired someone to put a new roof on the garage. Hopefully I will be able make the room a little bit better when the roof is done, so that will be the focus for the coming months. 

And hopefully my shoulder will get better, so I can paint some more stuff. I still have lots on the painting list, and the collection is still growing.