Atlantean Building

3 Intrepid knights approach a large, featureless building from the lost Atlanteans.  With no apparent entrance or exit, the stone structure is covered with huge, unknown glyphs.  (I whipped up 2 of these buildings today).

Knights Ahoy

Special Bonus, after finishing my Muslim horsemen, following a week or more of assembly, priming, painting various bits, I looked in my "To Be Painted Bin" and found 8 dismounted knights with axes or maces already assembled, based and prime, probably from over a year ago.   They painted up 1,2 3, --ahh, metal miniatures on foot beat mounted plastic kits by a country mile.   Anyway, here they are:

The two on the right are painted as knights templar, but they and the other mace wielders would make good cleric figures for D&D applications.

Muslim Light Cavalry

I assembled and painted 12 plastic Muslim light cavalry which I bought for a project I'm not going to do anymore, but still, Arab horsemen was a gap in my miniatures, so I will get some use out of them sometime.

First:  the Fabulous Fez Squad:

Next, the Fez-less back-up dancers:

Vikings, Batch-2

I finished my second batch of 16 Vikings (started with Bob , Sunday, finished Monday).   These went smoother than the first batch.

Wooden Towers

I also bought and painted 2 wooden towers for the stockade fort, they have removable roofs and 2nd floor.

Stockade Pieces

Thanks to a sale at Acheson creations, I got 4 more pieces to increase the size of my log-stockade fort.  Painted up on Sunday's paint night.

Wooden Bridge

I painted a Wooden Bridge model that I ordered recently.  Should be useful as both a bridge and a pier.

Vikings Batch-1

I bought this box of plastic Vikings  at a convention a long, long time ago.  So long ago I can't even remember when it was.   I'm going to guess 8-10 years ago, but can't be sure.  I bought them because there were 32 miniatures in the box for just over $20

Two things kept them in the box this long:  one, I had painted so many Dark Age spearmen (Saxons, Romans, Britons, Goths, Franks etc) that I swore off painting any more for a long time; second, I hadn't realized that I would have to glue the arms, heads, shields and weapons onto the torsos.   I really hate glueing together miniatures.  

However, recently I had a relatively good time assembling my 15th century knights and then my Norman knights.   I decided to bite the bullet and clear the Vikings off the shelf.

With 32 in the box, I decided to do them in 2 batches of 16.   I kinda hated every second of assembling them.   I assembled and painted the first batch over the last couple of weeks, and they are pictured below.   I didn't like how they looked when they were done, but like them better now.   I think I will eventually give them the "magic dip" treatment, when both batches are done, and I do a test run with a new batch of stain on some of my old peasants.

The second batch are almost assembled (just have to glue the weapon-arms onto the bodies), but here is batch-1"

Finally, the Dead Guy

Lastly,  the dead guy.

Norman Knights, Batch 3

The third batch are the command figures:  mailed swords men. flag-guy, horn guy and Duke William (or Bishop Odo) with club

Norman Knights, Batch-2

The second batch of 5 are the 5 mail-armored lancers.

Norman Knights, Batch-1

Finished the first batch of Norman Knights.  Of the 15 knights and 1 dead guy in the pack, these are the 5 knights with Gambesons instead of mail.

Workshop is back Open

Now that I've finished the work on my new Dark Ages course for school, a task that ate up most of my time for the last six months or so,  I've gotten back to some miniatures work.

I bought a box of Perry Brothers 15th century knights during my brief drop-by at the Fall-In Convention last year.   I finally got around to assembling them (re-learning that one should use model airplane glue for hard plastic miniatures, not superglue).   Then after a few days, I got to painting them up.

I made half of them on armored horses, half on unarmored horses.  3/4 with lances 1/4 with swords or hammer

It's Satyr Day

I've painted up 6 Satyrs and 1 juggler (free bonus with my order from Turnkey Miniatures).  I know Marlon won't be here tomorrow, but I'm ready for him now.

Not Wasting a Snow Day

Home from work today, finished my re-ordering of the game room:

Top:  multi-colored bin-shelf is now dedicated to mostly paper, tokens, templates and office supplies.

Bottom:  the metal shelf unit is almost all terrain/buildings
Plastic shelf is painting equipment and a grab bag of other stuff.  Books and old campaigns piled up by the wall.   There's some clear space along the inside wall!

I reorganized the miniatures shelves a bit, getting the fantasy all on the right set, the historical on the left.   And organized the fantasy arrangement a bit.  

I packed up Krondor and put 5e books on second shelf of low book case.  Top shelf has the Tnranconia campaign and the appropriate books.

I even edited the pencil cans, fresh sharpened pencils at the ready, dead pens and markers thrown away.

My only fear is that since it's a snow storm and it's also garbage day, something will go wrong with collection, and I've kinda filled the garbage can to the top.

I'm not a hoarder

I've been reorganizing the game room and moving stuff into the multicolored shelf deal.  I could not believe how many packs of index cards I found.  If I were aware of how many I had stashed, it would be some sort of sign of mental illness.  The notebook paper supply and pile of prong folders weren't far behind.

But, I'm not a hoarder.  Honestly.  I threw out a bunch of the stuff unbidden, all by myself.  It's just an accidental accumulation, not a compulsion.

Battle of the Gnome King's Gold

2 armies of about 120 men each brawl for possession of the Gnome King's Lost Gold

1) The Blue Army's Knights and Armored Pikes engage a small unit of Red Army's Plate-Armored Swordsmen

2) The Red Army's Knights Advance between the central hill and a grove of trees

3)  Tangled Melee between Red Army's Light Cavalry and the Blue's armored halberd men and light spear men