Seven Years Old…

Seven years old… 

It still seems like yesterday that I decided to start Blogging…

This year seems to have flown past…

I reckon that probably has to do with the constant upheaval of life and building work… As I type this I am waiting for someone to come and look at my drains ( Rock and Roll or what) and then organise getting a door fitted before the decorators come in for three days…

This has certainly affected my painting… pretty much everything is now in boxes so they can be moved easily when I get the wargames room fixed up… this will be mostly cosmetic unlike the cellar which was completely ‘tanked’ out.

Next door are having a big extension added to their house… so I am now getting their dust as well as my own 🙄.

I have had a reasonable number of games… not as many as I would have liked… but all were jolly good fun…

The youngsters at work have organised a monthly wargames evening… at the moment we are playing Lion Rampant War of the Roses but there are plans afoot to do other things.

So far I have been to Hammerhead, Partizan and the Wild Geese Weekend all good fun…

BritCon is coming up soon and I have the Other Partizan to look forward to…

Did I complete/start any of the projects my butterfly was fluttering over?… Sort of. 😁

The Crimean Russians are all rebased…

I will make a start on the British later in the year…

That little 1836 project is still ticking away in the background…

I’ve actually made some new torsos and heads for my Shiny Toy Soldier range… hopefully I will get some stuff in a mould sooner rather than later.

The ‘ yes I know I’m mad’ 54mm project has moved forward a bit… I have some more figures cleaned up and primed.

Shiny Napoleonics continue to move steadily on… I have enough for a game but not all the terrain… there are trees and buildings but no hills, rivers or roads.

Everything else is keeping its head down and avoiding the dust…

So what new trouble has my butterfly got me into?

Remember this picture…

It may have lead to something Pyrrhic…

I really couldn’t resist these lovely Aventine Miniatures…

This will be a slow one for the moment… 

My sarcoidosis related eye problems have meant that while I’ve been cleaning up and priming figures…and buildings… I have not been doing a huge amount of painting…but things are improving so hopefully the output will start to increase…

So… What else for the future?

Once the cellar is finished it will become my work room… I shall do most of my painting and terrain making down there…

The Wargames room will be next… As soon as that is finished the toys will all be put back on the shelves and hopefully a lot more gaming will happen. 

I also have a hankering to do something from the Waterloo/100days campaign… I’m not sure what yet but something is taking shape in the back of my butterfly brain…🦋🦋🦋

Hopefully when I post on my next Blog Birthday I will be on the verge of retiring… my plans are to reduce my working hours slowly then take the plunge in 12 months or so.

After that… Sitting in my renovated house, painting toy soldiers, reading books, playing games, making miniatures for myself and doing the odd bit of freelance….

Thank you to everyone who has followed me and given me encouragement and support in all my butterfly madness…

All the best.   Aly