Tuesday 26 June 2012

Holidays, inactivity and illness...

There's not been an update on here for a while, mostly because the real world has kept intruding into my hobby time.  First of all there was a week's family holiday, then a trip to the Czech Republic with work and now a spate of aggressive rhinitis which the doctor's got me taking more anti-histamines than I can count and all of which is leaving me permanently sleepy.  Oh for good old honest man 'flu...

Anyway, inspired by Mr Hotspur's very nice efforts with some Pendraken miniatures I've decided to have a bash at putting together a few test bases which will hopefully get expanded out to a full army for Dux Bellorum written by good chum Dan Mersey.  In the past I've not given much love to 10mm figures as they'd taken me the same amount of time as 15mm figures to paint with the end result being nowhere near as eye catching but I'm willing to try and prove I was wrong.  Since I was one of the playtesters for Dux Bellorum and also have some figures I painted featured in the book my view of it is almost entirely biased but it's a game I genuinely enjoy and I've been looking for a way to create a few portable armies for it.  Hopefully this'll be the way forward.  I'll post some pictures once the figures have arrived and I've had a chance to change my fugg filled head for the painting one that I seem to have mislaid somewhere around my flat.

And there's still the small matter of those Judge Dredd figures I need to paint for Mr Mersey too but that's a whole other story...