June review and July goals

Re-reading this month's goals, my motivation just went through the roof. Let's take it piece by piece.

On the RPG side, Dungeon of the Mad Mage still carries on. The return to Call of Cthulhu failed due to summer holiday intermittence; we decided on continuing our escapades into D&D5.5 instead. Triss has her work cut out for the month.

ASOIAF will see me joining the national tournament in about 2 weeks. Mag smash!

Warhammer 40k is back on track, with one game of 11th edition already under the belt and more planned within reason.

Obviously all this is subject to summer holiday nonsense... we'll see where it goes. I'm happy with the pacing so far.

Now on to miniatures. A month ago I wrote: 'I am now "behind schedule" by 188'. Apparently, I smashed the month's goals. All Cadian infantry nuns are now finished. Plastic guard vehicles are painted, magnetized and/or LED-enabled. Lots of Free Folk done, including a set of heroes, Frozen Shore Hunters, as well as a nice little zoo. And I painted some D&D minis on the side. I am now "Behind schedule" by 98. Whew.

So what is up for July? I'm already working on stuff. I started with two batches of commission minis, one for ASOIAF (in return for more guard vehicles) and one for D&D (in return for beer). Finishing both should boost numbers by a good chunk. After that, I have the usual projects to continue: Guard infantry (on to Kriegers) and vehicles (3d printed armored car and halftrack); Free Folk (bear riders); D&D minis (for extra gains). Pedal to the metal!

Astra Militarum vs Dark Angels, 23.06.2026

11th edition starts with a paintball match between friendly imperial forces. We were pretty sure that the terrain footprints were off by a bit, but who cares. I tried a new detachment: the Grizzled Company a.k.a. "I don't like to miss". The Dark Angels brought All The Plasma Ever. Well haha, my girls are T3.

The Dark Angels played "Locate and Deny" where they place a bunch of markers in terrain. I got the opposing "Extract Relic" where I must remove the markers. We got a bit over eager - no deployment pictures. I got turn 1, so have at it!

Fixing up frost giants

 Two frost giants I bought second hand, painted. Pretty well, actually; just needed some minor fixing up.

Painting a Tyranid girl

Don't judge me, it's a gift.

White bird/feathers

D&D 5.5: Big Baldur's Gate 3 energy

We were actually meant to play something else, but life happened, so we jumped into this D&D 2024 adventure instead. Excuse our hastily drawn maps and lack of miniatures. Except me, I had the pool of Lucys to draw from.

Silka the halfling rogue and Daramin the elf paladin already played the first part, where they hunted down cultists for the Flaming Fist, just before Elturel was swallowed by the Hells. Big Baldur's Gate 3 energy. I jumped in as Triss Merigold, human sorcerer - a tribute to my Baldur's Gate 3 character. 

Painting commission winged monsters

Three monsters with Contrast-based paint schemes - despite some difficulties.