A short post and a round-up of current projects, starting with another couple of sets from Stronghold Terrain; shield-maiden warriors and civilian/villagers. As always with Stronghold Terrain, these sculpts have plenty of character and action to them, making them a pleasure to paint. As you can see, I'm in the process of prep'ing; filling shoulder joints and evening out the bases before adding sand and undercoating. Next we have a selection that will eventually be added to the shop; the last two female action gunners and Roxlade - a witch/mage character from Westfalia. I purchased the latter more out of curiosity than anything else. The model was on clearance at Bad Squiddo, which seemed a pity as it's a nice sculpt. So not too sure if its still in production? Manufacturers/Suppliers: Stronghold Terrain Badsquiddo Games Copplestone Castings Westfalia

A major social media detox occurred, and I decided to close my Instagram and Twitter accounts. I did this for a few reasons but mostly because they were becoming a bit of a drag. I'd got into the regime of only really scanning through posts when I myself had something to post. If not, I rarely bothered. Pretty selfish. So a clean break was needed, although I kept my Facebook page and I'm hoping that this blog can be dusted off (again), and start posting more solid updates to my work - fingers crossed. And so ... we kick off with some recently finished models. Now, I still have a few sets to paint - two are already in prep - of some SAGA viking figures, from Stronghold Terrain . They are all beautiful sculpts, and a pleasure to paint. As you can see from the photos, we have a shield-maidens as well as some tooled-up villagers! I've also been painting some more figures for my Etsy shop , buying in some Copplestone Casting Future Wars Gunners and a Westfalia mage from Ba...