Half Year Recap (Painting)

So continuing the previous post, here is a brief update on what all I've been painting the past few months.  These are no particular order since my memory is a little fuzzy.  Mostly I had concentrated on Outlaws for Wild West Exodus, with a couple of distractions/breaks along the way.

Jesse James and Friends

Not really a fan of the longhorn skulls these have, so opted
out and have some decals to add instead.

Love these bikes and after shaving off all the Lawman stars,
they are ready for duty as Outlaws (or even Lawmen).

Never could get glow effects to work out with these guys,
so I backed out of that completely.

Some local people wanted to do an true old west game using Dead Man's Hand, so I dusted off some old Black Scorpion minis I had (unpainted of course) and knocked these guys out.  It was a nice break in the middle of the WWX stuff above.  About the time I was adding the last highlights to these, I caught Pale Rider on TV.  I was a little dumbfounded when Stockburn's Deputies showed up in the movie.  Maybe that image was buried deep in the back of my mind guiding me.

I almost went back and repainted the color of my hats...

And for my last distraction from pulling together 1500 pts of Outlaws in time for Adepticon, I decided to go back and finally finish off my Company of Iron force that I was supposed to have ready in time for the previous Adepticon.  lol.

I should really ditch the rest of my Menoth figures.  I really don't
want to paint anymore of these guys.

Anyway, I've got some other stuff in progress.  Some 40k Space Marines for Kill Team and some Lawmen for WWX (so I can have a demo force).  I've also been assembling a ton of Greeks for Mortal Gods.  And even threw some Fallout super mutants together to have ready as a distraction.

My first attempt at the color scheme I wanted.  Seemed to
much like Dark Angels.  Kinda wished I had kept it though.

Second attempt and what I'm working with now.  I "think" it
will come together the way I want.  The other would have been
lower risk though.

Just getting base coats blocked in.

Oh dear, that's a bunch and I'm not even showing you the
archers, slingers, and javelin guys...  Or the Spartans...

These should be fun.

Anyway, that mostly gets me caught up with the first half of this year.  Maybe I can get back to at least posting up monthly recaps.

Half Year Recap (Games Played)

My, almost the end of May and I have yet to post anything this year.  Obviously, things have been extremely busy.  I've gotten a fair number of games in and a respectful amount of figures painted.

Games Played:
Our group managed to play through about 75% of the Western Desert campaign for Bolt Action.  I missed a game here and there but got several in before the demise.  All in all, Western Desert offered some very interesting scenario but overall I found it extremely frustrating.  Many of the scenarios placed the allies at significant numerical disadvantage.  This was somewhat by asymmetrical win conditions/scoring, however it was often not apparent you could be winning until the very end of the game so it left me with the feeling of pushing water uphill throughout the game.  To the point of frustration at times.  Anyway, a couple of random pics:

Hold the line boys!

After those of us playing threw in the towel on Western Desert, we were all a little burned out on Bolt Action.  Interest transitioned to a Old West campaign using the Dead Man's Hand system.  We just wrapped that campaign up last week.  It was a lot of fun but the game system is not particular great.  I should expand on that in the future by adding a review of it.  The final games of the campaign were pretty fun as things turned a little "weird" in the Old West.  One table had players fending of an Alien invasion, while the other table was trying to stop a T-Rex from rampaging through the town.  Anyway, couple of game shots from various points:

Oh no, Mad Dog is bout to get hanged!

Aliens vs Cowboys?

Finally rounding all this goodness out, I attended Adepticon.  And finally after many years of effort, I managed to pull my buddy John from 40k Hobby Blog along.  Derek, Mike, and many others from our weekly virtual hobby hangout.  It was a great time and John and I finally got a chance to play a game of Bolt Action.  John provided the materials, so we played at his preferred scale of 20mm (1/72) and I have to say it is a really great scale for the game.  It just really feels right for a 6x4 board, vehicles, and what not.  We even played with John employing true hidden deployment.  All in all, it was truly great to get in a game with him.  And just as great to hang out with him and everyone else.  Some pictures of our game:

A long ways to go.  Hope we don't get ambushed!

Contact with enemy armor, call in the Shermans. 

Well, just trying to get caught up.  I'll try to post up soon a Recap of all my completed painting so far.  After that, I'll need to get a few more posts out to capture some of those paint schemes/colors.  Then I'll try to get back to posting at least a monthly update.