Some old paint.

When Saga was 1st released Arkham gaming centre was in existence and I snapped up the chance to play Dark Age stuff without painting loads of Saxon shields. Got a few games in, though my priority at the time was Flames of War, though when the demise of Arkham happened games of Saga seemed to dry up.

I had seen that Saga was getting a 2nd Edition and that it was getting some action in Coleraine, so deciding if nothing else happened I would have something to paint. But who to paint, I hadn't seen anyone mentioning the Welsh so decided they where the boys for me. I even started to paint them last summer getting the flesh base down and not much else.

I also decided to use the Wargames Foundry paints I had bought at least 12 years ago and was really happy to find them still in a useable condition.  These come in "triads" of a shade, mid tone and highlight, lending themselves very well to the kind of paint job we done before we were told to do 17 layer of highlights.

So that's the look I've gone for here, the blue and green still need highlighted up but you can see the effect on the linen and ochre parts. And the thinking here is they're never going to be on display so the 3' rule is in full effect.

There's a cream for that....

So.
I have the gaming itch again.
GW have dragged me back in. (40K is sooo sparkly at the moment.)
But I'm stopping at 2 Armies, OK maybe 3, yup definitely no more than 3 GW armies...

And there's other shineyness about.

I have some Saga stuff to get painted, in fact I've started, they're Welsh but that's OK.

And I've 15mm Greeks that need a system. L'Art de la Guerre (ADLG) seems to fill that need, of course I don't have enough Greeks so I need more. And then I'll need some other armies to fight, War of the Roses is sort of calling me here.

I still have 28mm Romans and Britons from when I wanted to play Warhammer Ancient Battles, Clash of Empires is my new choice of ruleset for those, as well as the Saxons and Vikings I've accidently bought lately. Maybe some Hail Ceaser for comfort.

And then there are the board games, so many board games, but not enough time to play them all.

I haven't really decided what direction this blog will go, probably just my incoherent ramblings and odd girly squeeee over something I find cool. Some tutorials will no doubt appear, some projects will be started but never completed.

Some weeks will get a post, some months may not.

It's not going to be a magazine for all that's new in the gaming world, too many people already doing that. It's just my way of telling people what I've been up to in the limited time left after a more than full time job, a healthy list of DIY and 2 young children have had their share.