Sunday, July 13, 2025

Hobby Update June 2025

Wow! Half this year has gone by already. Seems like it just started. Its been a busy one on all fronts, probably why it seems to have moved along so quickly.  Also, preparations for TaKtiCon have really started in earnest. TaKtiCon is a local con here in KC Nov 7-9 this year, take a look here .


Books

Finished a couple this month. First off


Not what I thought it was when I bought it, but an interesting book of Viking tales none the less. This translation was difficult to read. Hopefully there is a better one out there.

I also finished this


I have to say, this was a vast improvement over the first book. Though, in retrospect, I think he really needed to set the scene, so to speak, in the first one. The second was excellent, and I was looking forward to the third.


Purchases

June was not a big month for purchases. I picked up a few figures though. First up were some ACW Bucktails in 15mm. When I had gotten the command pack for the VMI cadets it was a mixed pack with 2 sets of Bucktail command as well. So I decided to order some bucktails . I got enough for a couple regts.

I also picked up another sprue of Perry men at arms for my SAGA French. I felt that the 4 figure hearthguard units were just too brittle  so ill bump them up to 6. They should hang around better that way.

Lastly I bought a pack of Victrix early Saxons. I blame Midgard and the Warlord Chronicles for this purchase. Though I had been toying with the idea of an early Saxon SAGA army as well.

Games

Unlike most months I have been able to get some gaming going in June. The first weekend was a Bolt Action Demo game put on by Underfire Bolt Action club down in Peculiar MO. I had been waiting for them to run demos again after a long run of tournaments. Had a good time and learned a lot about game play. I also got in two games of SAGA with my French. Which is always fun. Unfortunately our SAGA Ironman for the 29th fell through, but we still did our league games anyway. All in all, a decent month of gaming.

Painting

This was a decent month overall. I did stay on the plus side v purchases, July won't be as kind.  I managed to get 180 figures done as opposed to 112 purchased. Among those painted were some 28mm Alpini, 28mm Spanish for the WW2 Blue Division, a Few Waffen SS supports, some French knights in 28mm, and a bunch of 15mm Mexican American War stuff, odds and end mostly as I come to a conclusion to the project most likely this week. Here are some pic of some finished products!

Perry French Knights for Saga

More Perry Knights as a Warlord

Perry English bowmen 




A mix of Warlord and Black Tree Roman Command

Pt 1 of Warlords Chobei's Renegades

Pt 2 Chobei and the rest of the renegades

Zenit Miniature samurai

More Zenit bowmen this time

These are Zenit, I think they were stretch goals for the Kickstarter

More Italian Wars



An Italian pike block from Alternative Armies



And that's about it for June See you all next month!