25 mm Classic Ral Partha fantasy figures from the 70s. I started collecting these while in high school; after amassing a ton of 1/72nd Airfix Napoleonic figures during my Column, Line, Square days. Probably some of my favorite figures ever. Tom Meier and Julie Guthrie are two of my favorite sculptors and I have hesitated to paint them for all of the wrong reasons! These are the figures that have inspired me to get serious about painting again! I have a ton of them, mainly Elves. We'll have to see what happens with this project . . .This particular archer languished partially painted on my shelves for years. Inspired by TtE's upcoming "Road Rash" DBS game, I finally just sat down and painted him. Even though I slopped some paint on his boots and still need to finish detailing his feather and base I had a great time working on him again! And no, we didn't use him in that game ~ next time though . . .
1/144th WWI Aeroplanes, for Wings of War ~ a great Fast and Fun game that we can play on my "roll up" terrain. (Gotta love fast set up and clean up!) Six planes so far, I've begun re-painting them to depict a French squadron. I also have Poppa John's 2 Dr.Is for safekeeping.
25 mm medievals from MegaMinis. Beautiful figures that fit well with my beloved Ral Parthas. I painted up three of them for Tim the Elder's "Road Rage" game a couple of months ago.
Like the AElf they were photographed under diffused natural light in our moss garden. I'll add the Mayor once I'm finish detailing him.
25 mm Dixon medievals. Tim the Elder gave me twelve of these, already undercoated, to paint up as leaders for our skirmish games. There are six personalities, mounted and dismounted. I've finished the dismounted version of myself and have a good start on the mounted version. I have all of the information I need to do the rest of our gamers as they each specified. A fun little side project that has stalled. (I wonder when the next "Road Rash" game is going to be? That'll get me moving again!)
15 mm Essex medievals. I have more than one DBA army painted and based. Lots of camp figures and accessories. Another couple of armies that have been almost finished for an embarassing number of years. (It's all TtE's fault! This was my first scale shift. Then he moved and took his huge collection of 15 mil Tabletop medieval minis with him!) We haven't played 15 mil lately, but I really would like to get these guys finished and based.
Epic scale Warhammer 40K. Oh yeah ~ I have lots of these little plastic guys! Mainly Eldar (my favorites), enough finished for a company of Imperial Guard, a number of Marines done. Lots more waiting to be painted, and way too many vehicles yet to go . . . John and TtE and I played a pretty good game earlier this year. The email lead up was hilarious and as much fun as the game itself! (The game suffered from a case of wanting to use as much stuff as we had! It was fun but we got bogged down speed wise.) This is one John and I both would like to play again.
25 mm Ancients. Years ago I was lucky enough to buy a large collection, mainly painted, from a gaming friend. These are all classic figures from the 60s and 70s, I'm not sure of the maker. He bought them when he was in grad school in England. The Macedonians are definitely my favorites. The Successors are a close second. I have Romans from throughout the Empire's many years. Lots of generic Barbarians. We used to play a lot of DBM, a long time ago. Then we moved to DBA with them. Earlier this year I finally put on my version of It's Down to the Triarii!, from an old Wargames Illustrated; Number 2, October 1987. It was a good game, fun and very different. And I finally have a game where the Camillan Roman army actually looks like and fights like it should! Definitely something I want to run again. I definitely have enough Ancients re-based (to WRG's DBX method) and touched up for just about anything we want to play.
6mm Adler ACW. Yet another scale shift thanks to Tim the E again! Only a few bases are finished. A couple of brigades are started on painting strips. Not sure what the status is for these guys, though I did some work on them recently. I love 'em. Tim has a couple of armies. After some great Johnny Reb II games we switched to our own DBACW rules. Got 'em perfected too. Maybe they were too 'right'! We grew bored and stopped playing ACW. I'd like to return to this sometime.
Games Workshop 40K. I have a ten man squad of Space Marines in safe keeping that David painted up for John. Fourteen usable almost finished Eldar and a wonderful Eldar command figure that David painted for me. I recently gave the rest of my Space Marine figures away to Thomas and David. I haven't played the game in years and doubt I ever will. Life is just too short to play a "skirmish" game that takes all day and needs so many pages of rules . . . Besides, if I ever do want to play 40K again David has everything we need! All beautifully painted. Heck, David is the best and the fastest painter I've ever know!
That's what is in front of me right now. I'm not even going to look in the closet (more Ral Parthas, Ancients, and Epic 40K) or hall shelves (even more Ancients ready to go) right now!
For now my plan is to try to really focus on painting my beautiful Ral Patha AElves. For variety I'll keep moving on our Dixon personalities and the MegaMinis for our Castle Devin skirmish games. When I really need a break I always have the aeroplanes waiting. They are nice models and are pretty easy to paint up.
Of course those darn 15 mil Essex figures are staring at me . . .
You know? This has been a good exercise for me! I'm beginning to realize just how many figures I have that I'll probably never use . . . Lots of unpainted, or partially painted, Ancients. Who knows how many sets of Airfix and ESCI??? Maybe I should start selling what I know I'll never use on eBay . . . That might help me afford to buy even more figures! : - )
Now, to get some pictures uploaded! Have Fun gaming!
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