Update Feb-March: Part 1: " Figures and Life"

Greetings once again dear readers!

And yes it is time for another overdue update!

Since this one is extraordinarily long, (and picture intensive), as it covers a couple of months, I have decided to break it down into two parts.

So lets get going!

Figures and painting: 

I won't lie to you, when I say that work has kept me extremely busy. Last year I was working with the "One Hour A Night Scenario" and it was actually paying off quite well on weekends when I hit the table for a longer stretch.

Now with the onset of more work, my hours are limited to practically weekends only.

However, I have been getting some stuff painted.

First off: Some reminders of an old 1970's TV show...(These are still works in progress (WIP)..)

Two "you know what's" looking for "The Lost City"

And although they didn't find the obelisk and the crystals, (or those three noisy individuals), they did come across this...

Really? Do I have to explain to you what THIS is???

 And just for laughs decided...."What if?"...

As a friend of mine said "This is BAD...on sooooooo many levels!"

The "Not Sleestack" Figures are from Forge of Ice. Truly an amazing small company with excellent products. I need to order more.

And then I moved onto some Pulp Adventurer figs and did a group of American Adventuring Mercenaries. 

NOTE: The photos are showing the figures to be VERY glossy and shiny. This is not the case. This is simply a very powerful OTT light reflecting off the figures. They are indeed sealed in flat/matte spray sealer.

"Have no fear...The Americans are here!....Oh...and keep your head down!"

An amazing set of figures from Pulp Figures. This is the "Istanbul Constabulary" set. These no-good do gooders were simply a joy to paint up to a good standard. I am always pretty well pleased with pretty much everything Pulp Figures puts out.  And the dent in my wallet is proof...

And where would we be without "Damsels in Distress".

Yeps..straight from schlocky 70's and 80's medieval/fantasy films, (or a cheap Vallejo/Frazetta style ripoff magazine cover), these are some old Ral Parth/Ironwind "Maidens on Crosses".

Ouch...You know that's gotta hurt!

Getting back to non-nude figures, I also finished out the rest of Brigade Games "American Mercenaries". You can see the BAR gunner also in the pick above of the American group.

For good old pulp goodness sake I went ahead and did a "Noir" style B&W photo...

From L to R: Daredevil pilot, Charlie "Crash" Jackson; Adventuring Archaeologist Idaho Jim, and Andy Walker (from Council Bluffs Iowa, now touring the world with his BAR)....

More to come!

End of December and end of year (almost) update....

Well dear readers, it is almost the end of December and with it the year 2015 goes out of the window and 2016 comes staggering in bleary eyed and smelling of cheap rotgut gin, (or something like that).

I'm hoping to make my 2015 "Year in Review" post here real soon.

And happily enough I was actually able to break my post records for 2008, and 2011-2014....

I promise that I will do more posts next year...I really will try, including some game reports and more scales and scenery and terrain.

But that is for next year, and for today it's "What I got for Christmas"....

My wonderful wife (Gawd bless her!), was able to make a good purchase in cahoots with Bob Murch at Pulp Figures again and in doing so, I got a nice box of lead....

Here's what I got...

From PULP FIGURES, courtesy of Mr. Bob Murch.....

(PWM31: Arrogant Gestapo: Yeah right, like there's any other kind of Gestapo...)

(PWM5: Cultists: The Fill-out crew for "The Evil Jade Cult....)

(PWM6: Evil Cult Leader and staff....Every baddie needs assistants....)

(PGJ1: Agents of Justice: Agents ready to dispense Justice....hence...Agents of Justice...or something like that....Masks to hide their identity and .45's to dispense....Justice...)

(PGJ2- Masked Avengers:  Avengers with masks....and ready to avenge those that cannot avenge themselves...)

(PHP-15- The Istanbul Constabulary, complete with Hookah, they are ready to enforce the law (or their version of it), in Istanbul, (not Constantinople now)....)

And so that was it for the Pulp Figs purchase.....
Then I got noticed of my Reaper presents!!!!
WOO-HOO! My wife rocks!!!!

Oddly enough, most of these figures seem to follow a peculiar and particular pattern....

 

 

 

I'll admit that I do enjoy the Reaper figures. They give me the same type of joy that the old RP figs did back in the 90's...and now that Ironwind Metals is redoing them that joy can then return.  

And then in the box, I noticed this....

 

I didn't remember ordering paint....

So I checked the invoice and there at the bottom in the fine print was what it was....

Cool! So I was randomly selected!!!!!

I'm a WINNER!!!!

And then finally....FINALLY, I got this from my wonderful wife...

FFG's Fury of Dracula 3rd Edition Boardgame.....and now I smell an adventure coming up.....

Needless to say I did a pretty good score in the gaming stuff and am happy.

But now I have lost count of my 28mm inventory, and well...I'll have to start all over again......

Next year....