Wow, the month of September has blown by and now I am staring at the family vacation to Disney World (staring tomorrow!). Anyway, as (maybe) seen in my last blog post I finally finished up the mousling foot soldiers for Tail Feathers. It is very nice to have them off my desk. I followed that up by getting the birds cleaned up and primed, but nothing more since I realized that I really have no idea what birds look like (at least in enough detail to know how to paint them). Luckily my wife reminded me she had an artist photo reference book for birds, so hopefully that will clue me in and I can knock them out after vacation. Along with cleaning and priming those models, I have also done the same for several other things but they have been all over the place. I have not been very focused.
Additionally, I dreamed up two other builds for games I don't play. *sigh* Out of all that stuff though, only one of them would require any purchases but I've been trying to behave until the Fallout Miniatures game pre-order goes live because that is going to hurt my wallet.
Anyway, one of the many scattered started projects included my British Infantry for K47. I pulled 3 of them out of the batch of primed models to do test paint schemes on. I think they are coming along fairly well and hopefully I can wrap them up when I am back from vacation.
About the only other thing I have to report for the month is that I got in a game of Frostgrave. Definitely not my first choice, but it was the pretty much the only choice for the one game day I could attend. Attending and playing it only reinforced my desire to not play the game. I rather have stayed home and painted, not that my family would have let me..
Anyway, part of the reason for disinterest in Frostgrave was the situation: It ended up being 4 teams of 2 players each. So 8 people. It was slowwwwww which was also compounded by 3 new players (new players are a welcome addition to the group, don't get me wrong). It also didn't help that I was between 2 high level warbands with basically a starter warband. So not really a fault of the game but that game also confirmed something I thought I did not like about the game: I just find that it to be non-interactive. Everyone just telekinesis treasure around, places practically permanent walls of fog and mud pools, cast beauty, etc...
Not that I think it is a bad game mechanically. It's actually fairly decent in that regard, albeit a bit bland. I think the problem really is certain spells and how each wizard has access (at varying difficulties) to take pretty much every one of those problematic spells. So it just becomes a game of denials. The repercussions of this have been that my enthusiasm for Ghost Archipelago has waned. It is going to have traction around here though, so I will at least pick up the rules and give them a read through to see if I detect some the same issues.
Well, that is all for September. Next stop, Disney World. Wish me luck. Wish my family more luck. ;)
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