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| A game of Dux Britanniarum in full swing. We use Lord of Rings figures and the heroic Free Men are getting squashed (mainly on my flank) in this Xmas-game with Laffe, Thomas and Koen. |
Another
year gone and even more minis painted.
I
had a goal that the tin- and plastics-mountain would actually be smaller at the
end of the year, so let’s see how that turned out (for an explanation on the
idea and how I count see here)
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| A shoot-out with the Fistful of Lead-rules at the Club. |
The year in summary:
Bought
Well,
my fingers sort of slipped on a couple of Kickstarters this year; Uboot
(8 minis, as 1/72 figures counts as ½ a mini), Cthulhu
– Death must Die (84 minis) and Tainted
Grail: The Fall of Avalon (38). Minis from these do count, as I count
models when they are actually bought. On top of that a box of 40 farmyard
animals, a couple of tanks in different scales, a few airplanes, 44 Vikings and
a handful of other minis.
234 models
bought, far more than expected.
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| Being swamped at Zombicide: Black Death |
Sold
I
have really excavated the tin- and plastics-mountain this year. Stuff I know
won’t be painted have been sold off or put in the For Sale-box at the club. With
another hundred hitting the sales-box in December I’ve reached 285 minis.
Painted
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| All of the Mesozoic critters. |
It’s
been a modest year of painting, as I have just finished 139 minis. You’ve seen most of them here already. The year ended
with the final dinosaurs from Tamiya’s excellent Mesozoic Creatures boxes (I
got two) and a couple of random 28mm figures.
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| Finished in December: A Prospector from Brimstone and The Major from SMOG: Rise of Moloch (and I painted another 5 zombies for SMOG also, but no pics of those) |
Terrain-wise
it has been much better, with lots of different terrain finished, much of it 3D-printed.
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| A game of D&D in the printed dungeons. |
So
my goal was reached! I actually sold more minis than I bought and with the
models painted I reached -190 models.
Not bad at all.
3D-printer
I
finally bought a new 3D-printer this fall, a Prusa i3 Mk3. It’s been printing
mainly dungeon-pieces for my Dungeons & Dragons campaign, but also some
scatter terrain and a couple of houses. You’ll see more on the dungeon soon.
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| One of the demo-games of What A Tanker we staged at Smashcon. |
Well,
I think that neatly sums up 2018. A good year in many respects, even though it
was rather weak on painted minis.
So, what about 2019?
I
will try to shrink the tin- and plastics-mountain even more, that’s for sure.
Otherwise, I don’t know. We’ll see what happens.
I
wish you all a very good 2019. Hope to see you all in this and other blogs, and
maybe meet some of you in the flesh.
