Hobby progress & bingo card

Hello and welcome back to my blog. 

Just a quick update on this years hobby progress. Back at the start of the year I set a aim of getting 104 figures painted this year, so 2 figures a week.

Here we are in week 23. So where am I at numbers wise? 

Figures painted: 48

Figures reworked: 1

Terrain finished: 15

I am above the weekly aim by two. Working on 15mm scale has gotten the numbers up quite a lot. Once good thing about the scale is how quickly you can paint figures. The extra time from the lockdown has helped too. 

I have been working on my hobby bingo card, it is getting there. 

Will I get it filled? I hope so.

Thanks for reading. 

Take care out there. 

Trash bash terrain finished.

Hello and welcome back to my blog. 

Some new terrain from the depths of the rubbish bin....

A couple of walls. 

These are card packing pieces which have been filled with expanding foam to give it a bit strength. They had a coat of textured paint. Grey spray primer went over the top followed by a white dry brush. A dark wash tied them together.

The posters where printed off and glued on. Signs and graffiti was added all over the walls. A couple of weathering washes was added. I have been experimenting with sepia artists ink. A little goes a long way. 

This is a old world um....thingymabob. Who know what it did. 

This started life as a pressed card fruit punnet. Again it got some expanding foam to reinforce them. Some poster board was glued on to make a base.

The pipes are drinking straws. The hatches are 1/35 tank wheels and the hatch wheels came from micro art. 

Once again a textured paint coat was added followed by grey primer. Another white dry brush highlighted bits. I touched the pipes and hatches up with dark brown. Lots of browns and oranges where added to the metal bits.

Loads of dark brown and orange washes followed to weather and tie things in. 

I spotted a hole in the side so some hot glue was added to look like a leak. Green paints made a nasty looking radioactive slime. 

Posters, graffiti and more washes to tie it together. A little red to highlight the wheels and brown spots to the posters finishes it off. 

This also hits another couple of spots on my hobby bingo card. 

Thanks for looking and don’t lick the green slime! 

Howlers

When howls start in the wastelands it’s time to start worrying. If you are lucky it is wild dogs or wolves. If you are unlucky it will be howlers. 

Howlers are a mutant that looks to be part dog, pig and possibly lion. They were first encounter in some contaminated ruins around 20PA. They have since spread across the wastelands. 

Howlers hunt in packs. Like wolves they communicate with howling. These creatures are fast and powerful. They seem to be pretty immune to most of the toxins and contamination in the wastelands. 

The howlers are Hell Hounds by Grendel. 

The recent beastie additions manage to hit another box on my hobby bingo card.

Thanks for looking, stay safe out there.

Wing nut clan

Hello and welcome back to my blog. 

Wingnut was a officer in a enclave long ago. A mission into the wastelands showed her just how dispensable they were to the enclave’s masters. Bandits ambushed the patrol with Wingnut was the only survivor. Hunted by the bandits Wingnut tried to return home. She was bitter that they had been sent to their deaths and she intended to deal out some well aimed retribution on the enclave leaders. 

Wingnut - figure by Bad Squiddo Games

As she approached the Enclave lands she saw a ominous column of smoke in the distance. While her patrol was being massacred the bandits were attacking the enclave. Was the patrol sent out deliberately to weaken the enclave’s defences? A few bandits were left behind, stupidly drunk. Wingnut executed every one, torturing the last bandit to find the bandit base. 

After saying good bye to her dead friends and family Wingnut collected what supplies she could scrounge, mainly off the dead bandits and set off hell bent on revenge. 

Wingnut found the bandit’s base and observed from a distance trying to figure out a plan of attack. Tonight she would die and take some bandits with her. As luck would have it the bandits were still blind drunk after celebrating their victory. Wingnut walked straight in and she started firing. The drunk bandits attempted to fight back but it resulted in them taking even more casualties. 

Wingnut walked straight up to the Boss and challenged him to a fight to the death. The bandits laughed. The drunk boss proved to be easy pickings for the hardened warrior. As he fell by her hand Wingnut stepped back ready to face the onslaught but was shocked to see the remaining bandits on their knees. She was shocked to learn that she was now the bandit’s new leader. 

After a moments thought Wingnut realised that she had nothing left in the world and being a bandit leader wasn’t a bad gig. She changed her name to Wingnut (you didn’t think that was always her name did you?). She whipped the bandits into a better shape and started to take out the competition while raiding settlements. 

Wingnut Clan - Figures by Copplestone, TAG, Bad Squiddo and Oakbound Studios 

This also hits a couple more boxes in my Hobby Bingo. 

The TAG figure has been in the pile for years and that’s a complete gang painted.

Thanks for looking, take care out there.

Hobby Bingo 2020

Hello Wasteland Peeps! 

You may recall me mulling over giving Hobby Bingo a spin, as a way to keep my hobby time focused and keep me productive. So here it is - my Hobby Bingo 2020 card. 

The aim is like regular Bingo. Every time I achieve one of boxes I will cross it off. Like regular Bingo the aim is to get all the boxes crossed off. It will hopefully get me productive on a few fronts. 

Thanks for looking.

Stay safe and warm out there.