Last Update for 2020

These are the final miniatures I completed in 2020. They were used in a special Dungeons and Dragon encounter for the nephews and nieces. All four of them are Reaper Miniatures. Sophie the Sage is made from the original Bones plastic material. The Clauses are metal and the Krampus is the new plastic material Reaper is calling Bones USA. Unfortunately, I did not accomplished the goal I set at the beginning of the year. I am happy, though, that I got some painting done. Here is hoping (again!) for more models to be painted in 2021!

Reaper Miniatures (Left to Right): Sophie the Sage, Mrs. Claus, Santas Claus, Krampus

First Update for 2020

It has been an interesting year! Just a quick post to show most of the completed models painted since the last post. In other words, encouragement to myself of what I have accomplished so far.

My Little Scythe core for friends' children (J Set).

Variety of models from Games Workshop, Reaper Miniatures, Armorcast, Foundry, and Wizards of the Coast.

10 years into the hobby and a start of a new decade

December 2019 is special. It marks 10 years since I started the hobby of modelling and painting miniatures! I took many breaks in between, but by the end of 2019, I reached some milestones in the hobby. I have painted my 50th unique miniature sculpt and completed 100 models total. If I include the terrain pieces, game boards, and accessories, I had completed over 200 items! It would be great to start the new decade completing 50 unique sculpts and 100 models in just one year. So that is a goal I have set for 2020!

Fall 2019 Update

October is here and I have moved into a new house! That took some time from painting and updating the blog. But now I have my own dedicated hobby room! I still need to organize the room, but the increased hobby space is already proving very useful. For example, I do not need to clear space each time I want to work on something different.

Various items completed since the last update.

This is just a short entry. While I have not wrote any new blog posts since March, I have been updating the blog of my progress and time spent in the hobby. I am ramping up on productivity and hope to post more regularly in the coming weeks.

[Projects] Santorini

2019 started off well. I finished painting all the sculpts for the board game Santorini and its expansion, The Golden Fleece. This is the first game that I have completed painting all the miniatures! It is not much, but it is progress in my never-ending quest to paint my collection of miniatures.

Santorini sculpts from the both the core game and the Golden Fleece expansion.

Total: 11 Items Painted

Completed: February 1, 2019
Core Game - 6 Workers (3 color-coded sets of 2 workers)

Golden Fleece Expansion - 4 additional Workers and 1 Golden Fleece Statue

End of 2018, up next 2019

The year 2018 is coming to an end!  I completed just 15 miniatures this year; however, I look back at 2018 as a transitional year on how I spend my time in the miniature hobby. In the past years, I attempt to make this blog into an all encompassing record of my time spent with the hobby. That was too lofty of a goal, and I lost sight of my original intentions for the blog: to get me painting more miniatures! I hope what I started in 2018 will result in me being more productive and that I will paint models on a more regular basis. So what happened in 2018 for me? I started using Pinterest to gather references and inspiration for my own projects. I am painting with the Hobby Holder. Finally I have joined Facebook miniature painting communities to give me that small push to try to complete painting models.

Midsummer Update

As mentioned in the last update in May, I had started work on various things. Since then, I have completed a set of figures (from Ninja All-Stars) to be used as trophies in a summer tournament I run for my nieces and nephews. The plan is to make this a yearly multi-game event when the kids are on summer vacation. I also painted up a "Better Luck Next Time" figure for the person that finished last. That person will be given some advantages for the next tournament.

Trophies for a summer tournament I run for my nieces and nephews.

The trophies were a hit with the nephews and nieces and I plan to make two more sets of trophies with a different paint scheme and base design. One of the new set is for another yearly tournament that will be played during winter. The third set is for regular tournaments, held on a monthly basis. I likely will not make them this year though.

My Hobby and Blog in the First Four Months of 2018

Third of the year has passed, the blog has not been updated as much, and on my spare time I have been working on various projects. At this time of my life, I am more interested in organizing games and events for my nieces & nephews over playing games for myself. Nevertheless, the painting, modelling, and assembly of miniatures is something I see myself doing for the rest of my life. These last several months I have been been making a lot of accessories to be used in conjunction with the Hobby Holder. With the school year almost over, I am finishing up on "trophies" for home tournaments I plan to run for the nephews & nieces. This year, I backed the Kickstarter projects Zombicide Invaders and Godtear. I think those are the last "new' game lines that I will invest into and will only make purchases to games that I have already invested into.

My Hobby and Blog in January 2018

Generations Power of the Primers Leader Class Optimus Prime

A short entry for this month. For 2018 I need to dial back on Kickstarter projects and focused on my collection that I currently have. This is something I should have been doing since the beginning of this blog....anyways! Mythic Battles Pantheon and Blackwater Gulch were recently fulfilled. I am expecting SMOG: Rise of Moloch and Rising Sun to games in the next couple of months. What remains are the Modiphius projects, Ninja Division projects, Wyrd's The Other Side, Reaper Bones 4,  Terraincrate and Tablescapes.

For January, I got to play Wrath of Ashardalon scenario where the dragon makes its first appearance in the game. We lost! While digging through my storage boxes, I found the Heroscape board game that I bought many years ago for my nephews and nieces to play when they were old enough to understand the rules. We spent the weekend playing that mostly. They seem to enjoy both the building and combat aspect of the game. While the product line has been discontinued, all the unit stats are online. That makes it easy to proxy figures.

Transformers Generations The Prime War Trilogy toys have rekindled my fondness for the 1980 Transformers. The modular aspect of this toy series seem to make it easier to be adapted for a homebrew tabletop skirmish/rpg game. I would like to get the Combiner gift sets (Bruticus, Menasor, Computron, and Superion). In addition, I want to get a Leader class Megatron to go with the Optimus Prime I already have!

[Log] Workshop 5 - Hobby Holder

In December, I received a production sample of the Hobby Holder. The Hobby Holder comes from a Kickstarter project that I backed late last year. I was lucky enough to try it out before my actual pledge arrives. Overall, I am very happy with the product and plan to be using it for most of my miniature paintings.

[Games] Way of the Fighter - Action Cards' Priority Score

This entry list various observations I have made when looking at all the actions in Way of the Fighter. I have a tendency to look at large sets of data and attempt to identify general patterns from it. These observations does not translate directly to actual improvement in playing the game. It might, however, give players some additional insight to the game which then would allow players to make better informed decisions. Hopefully some of you will find the information of some use or of interest.

Actions that have similar properties tend to have a Priority Score Value as summarized below:
1 - Fighter Pack Power Grab Actions
3 - Fighter Pack Strike and Blast Actions
5 - Technique Pack Strike, Grab, and Blast Actions / Heavy Block Actions
6 - Mode and Move Actions
7 - Medium Block Actions
9 - Light Block Actions

My Hobby and Blog in December 2017

The last month of 2017. A look back at what has been accomplished (not as much as I would like!) and a look forward to 2018. In 2017, I experimented more on creating scenery, accessories, and storage than on painting miniatures. I am expecting some additional hobby material next year that I believe will make painting miniatures more comfortable.

The celebration of Reaper's 25th Anniversary was a popular event for me. Reaper continues this for 2018 with Dungeon Dwellers. Like the 25th Anniversary, every month will feature a new model that customers can get for free for purchasing a certain amount on their webstore. The only difference is that these new figures are not a one time release.

[Games] Warhammer Underworlds - Supremacy

Only by restoring the Faneway mirror can one hope to escape Shadespire. Only the bold can achieve such a task.

This is part of a series of entries to collect and organize my thoughts on the objective and power cards in the Warhammer Underworlds game. As more cards become available through new releases, the value of putting a specific card into your objective or power decks will likely change. My goal is to update these entries as the meta of the game changes with new releases. This entry was written after the release of Sepulchral Guard and Ironskull's Boyz Expansions.

SS 292 - Universal Objective

Score this in an end phase if you hold three or more objectives.

3 Glory Points

[Games] Warhammer Underworlds - Hold Objective 5

'Great Nagash opened our eyes. Life is a curse. Death is a gift.' - The Sepulchral Warden

This is part of a series of entries to collect and organize my thoughts on the objective and power cards in the Warhammer Underworlds game. As more cards become available through new releases, the value of putting a specific card into your objective or power decks will likely change. My goal is to update these entries as the meta of the game changes with new releases. This entry was written after the release of Sepulchral Guard and Ironskull's Boyz Expansions.

SS 267 - Universal Objective

Score this in an end phase if you are holding objective 5.

3 Players - 5 or 6
4 Players - 1, 5 or 6

1 Glory Point

[Games] Warhammer Underworlds - Hold Objective 4

Unwilling to share the source of their might, the Katophranes locked their secrets away.

This is part of a series of entries to collect and organize my thoughts on the objective and power cards in the Warhammer Underworlds game. As more cards become available through new releases, the value of putting a specific card into your objective or power decks will likely change. My goal is to update these entries as the meta of the game changes with new releases. This entry was written after the release of Sepulchral Guard and Ironskull's Boyz Expansions.

SS 266 - Universal Objective

Score this in an end phase if you are holding objective 4.

3 Players - 4 or 7
4 Players - 4, 5 or 9

1 Glory Point

[Games] Warhammer Underworlds - Hold Objective 3

'The Faneway is a paradox. It confines us, even as it frees our souls from the grasp of death.'

This is part of a series of entries to collect and organize my thoughts on the objective and power cards in the Warhammer Underworlds game. As more cards become available through new releases, the value of putting a specific card into your objective or power decks will likely change. My goal is to update these entries as the meta of the game changes with new releases. This entry was written after the release of Sepulchral Guard and Ironskull's Boyz Expansions.

SS 265 - Universal Objective

Score this in an end phase if you are holding objective 3.

3 Players - 3 or 6
4 Players - 3, 4 or 8

1 Glory Point

[Games] Warhammer Underworlds - Hold Objective 2

'Treasures of all shapes and forms were crafted from shadeglass - items of prodigious power.'

This is part of a series of entries to collect and organize my thoughts on the objective and power cards in the Warhammer Underworlds game. As more cards become available through new releases, the value of putting a specific card into your objective or power decks will likely change. My goal is to update these entries as the meta of the game changes with new releases. This entry was written after the release of Sepulchral Guard and Ironskull's Boyz Expansions.

SS 264 - Universal Objective

Score this in an end phase if you are holding objective 2.

3 Players -  2 or 7
4 Players - 2, 3 or 7

1 Glory Point

[Games] Warhammer Underworlds - Hold Objective 1

'Death is simply a riddle we are yet to solve. In time, all truths emerge.'

This is part of a series of entries to collect and organize my thoughts on the objective and power cards in the Warhammer Underworlds game. As more cards become available through new releases, the value of putting a specific card into your objective or power decks will likely change. My goal is to update these entries as the meta of the game changes with new releases. This entry was written after the release of Sepulchral Guard and Ironskull's Boyz Expansions.

SS 263 - Universal Objective

Score this in an end phase if you are holding objective 1.

3 Players - 1 or 6
4 Players - 1, 2 or 6

1 Glory Point

[Games] Warhammer Underworlds - Denial

'None shall pass! These treasures are ours alone!'

This is part of a series of entries to collect and organize my thoughts on the objective and power cards in the Warhammer Underworlds game. As more cards become available through new releases, the value of putting a specific card into your objective or power decks will likely change. My goal is to update these entries as the meta of the game changes with new releases. This entry was written after the release of Sepulchral Guard and Ironskull's Boyz Expansions.

SS 253 - Universal Objective

Score this in the third end phase if there are no enemy fighters in your territory.

3 Glory Points

[Games] Warhammer Underworlds - Conquest

'Hope is not yet lost. While we still stand, we can prevail.'

This is part of a series of entries to collect and organize my thoughts on the objective and power cards in the Warhammer Underworlds game. As more cards become available through new releases, the value of putting a specific card into your objective or power decks will likely change. My goal is to update these entries as the meta of the game changes with new releases. This entry was written after the release of Sepulchral Guard and Ironskull's Boyz Expansions.

SS 247 - Universal Objective

Score this in the third end phase if all of your surviving fighters are in your opponent's territory.

3/4 Players - in any one of your enemies' territories

2 Glory Points