We begin this post with some work-in-progress. As of posting the viking shield maidens and the second set of villager civilians are ready for airbrush undercoating, although I still need to seal the bases first. As well as getting these painted, I've also dug-out a few figures that have been on the back-burner for a while. In the case of the two barbarians, it's just been down to time. These are from a Frostgrave multi-set. I've been meaning to make my way through them for ages, so I aim to get these two done for the shop as soon as I can. I've also got this beautiful Pharaoh figure from Lucid Eye ; again, had him hanging around - not happy with some of the details, so I'll be nipping back to this chap too while I paint the vikings! In finished stuff, I completed the set of Future Wars Action Gunners from Copplestone Castings and the Roxlade model (via Bad Squiddo ). Pretty pleased with how they turned out, so may see about getting another set of them soon. ...

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...