So, I broke the duck... (and then some!)

Finally managed to actually get something painted yesterday, after following the advice of a couple of you on my other post. I went through my 'In Tray' of figures I've not catalogued and put away yet, and found one of the old Confrontation Bratt models, kindly given to me by a friend a while ago.

He's entirely unrelated to my other current projects, and so I give you Ludwig Von Blautoven:

I've gone with some old metal Empire infantry arms I had knocking around, which work quite well, I think. Not bad for a figure painted over the space of 8 hours. I've only got another three of these, so might pick up one or two more and make a small Necromunda gang out of them.

Whilst I was waiting for the layers/inks to dry on Ludwig, I also finished off President Kitenge's Personal Retinue for my Feral Army:

'Hi, my name's Evo, and I'm a Halflingaholic.'

Collect all of the halflings! 

So, whilst my painting mojo still hasn't returned (and I'd like to thank everyone for their suggestions on my last blog post!), I thought I'd briefly document one of my other hobby issues, namely the obsessive hoarding of obscure armies.

I've got a lot of unpainted and partially painted obscure armies sat in drawers, but possibly the most ridiculous of them all is my planned Halfling Army. I've been collecting it for a while now, so I thought I'd give you a taste of what's in the drawers and what I have planned, if I can ever get back into the groove...

Hitting 'The Wall'.

Or: some advice requested on 'Painter's Block', and how to get past it...

Still not a huge amount to report...

We're currently in the midst of lots of house renovation, and the games room is full of tat from the rest of the house, so painting is out of the question at the moment.

However, I just thought I'd wish you all a merry Christmas!. Also, so does Remington De'Ath, one of Queen Victoria's Special Agents, and Captain Spade of 'The Nemesis', one of Her Majesty's new and secret submarines.

In other words, I've got vaguely into Victorian Pulp gaming, so here's a sub and a couple of models to tide you over until the new year, when hopefully I'll be able to get back into the Games room and the painting desk.

Hope you all have a happy Christmas, and you New Year is full of painting and gaming!

Nothing much to report at the moment, so have some Halflings!

So here's something a little older that I've only just got around to photographing. Ladies and gentlefolk, I give you 'Lil Bandit', the pride of my Halfling ally contingent's Mechanised Infantry, or at least it's the current pride, until the Landship 'Admiral Battenberg' is finally launched (that's been sat on my workbench for several years now!)

More after the cut...

The bargains are out there... Some thoughts about eBay.

As I'm sure some of you may have gathered from this blog, I'm somewhat of a hoarder of figures, games and scenery, and so as part of this, I obsessively search eBay on pretty much a daily basis. As well as the usual stuff I'm always on the lookout for (WFB/40k Slann, RT Imperial Guard, and that bloody Eldar Trader from the Adventurers range!) *EDIT* Just realised I finally bought the Trader the other week!, I also keep an eye on the ending (non BIN) listings, for 'bargains' that are too good to resist. It was because of this I chanced across the following three listings, all from the same seller:

Bargains after the cut:

All hail President Kitenge! (or a couple more feral pics)

Not really been up to much, wargaming-wise, recently, but here's President Kitenge, leader of my Feral Militia, along with N'Gungo, his trusted, yet unstable Psychic advisor.

More pics after the break: