Major Ballsup's Hobby Shed

Introduction For the first game of 2026 it was time to dust off Space Weirdos.  The Cordeaux, an all female biker gang and the Ceaux du desert, hardened raiders clash in the barren wastes of Ilmoral.   Starting positions -  Cordeux are at the top Round 1 The Ceaux du desert win the Initiative roll and their rifleman moves up.  He has line of sight on Crow and uses another action to Aim and then Shoots at her.  Being obscured by cover gives her a positive dice shift and the resulting rolls are the same so the shot misses.   Rifle takes a shot Crow decides to fire back.  She Aims and shoots.  Her shot is true and Rifle's roll on the Under Fire Table is 11 - he's Out of action in the first burst of action!  Seeing his comrade downed, Rocket moves up, takes Aim and Shoots at Crow.  Her luck holds as her Defence roll is far superior to the Rocket's Attack roll, and the projectile goes harmlessly over her head. Picking her way throu...

Once again I've split my Ovelists into gaming and doing ( here ).  Here's the 2026 gaming plan: And as in 2025 I've gone for periods rather than specific rules.   Fantasy  - I didn't play any games using Fantasy figures last year.  I lost all interest in the genre and mused  about selling my Warmaster armies, having little interest in the GW world.  Sword Weirdos, Warlords of Eherwon and Midgard will be the rulesets I'd use, dependant on the size of game for this genre. Verrotwood  - I'll be continuing The Awakening Campaign for it's third year. I never lose interest in this! Sci-Fi/ Post-Apoc  - I played a couple of neo-Sov post-apocalypse games last year using Space Weirdos.  Much as I like that game I'm thinking of using What a Cowboy/Cartel going forward as I can then run the games as a campaign.  I still want to give the Last Days zombie rules that I've owned for years a go. Ancients & Medieval  - This covers my Punic ...

2026 will be my third year of using the Ovelist approach to track my hobby progress.  It's working for me so why change it.  As before I've split out the doing from the gaming ( here ).  The list is mainly determined by what I've got outstanding as we start the year and then modified as I complete these items and acquire more.  Here's the starting point: The starting balance is: 28mm - 6 figures (all Verrotwood) 20mm - 45 figures, 1 gun, 1 aircraft (all French Indo-China War) 15mm - 7 afvs (all WW2) 6mm - 368 figures (11 Iran-Iraq/1980s, 33 1980s, 9 1980s afvs/aircraft; 240 Seven Years War; 84 19th C. French Colonial) All of the above are additions to my existing collections and there's a square each to cover these.  My collection covers such a wide range of periods that I have more than enough getting these rounded/finished off to last me the rest of my life, let alone starting anything new.  However, as before I’ve left a number of squares with quest...

And that was 2025.  A really mixed bag of a year.  Too much serious stuff for my liking, but unfortunately it's one of the "joys" of getting older.  From a hobby perspective it was successful and I managed to finish quite a lot off and played a few games.  The end of year Ovelist updates ( doing and gaming ) give the detail if you're interested.   Thanks to all those that read my blog this year and especially those that have taken the time to comment either here, on Facebook or on TMP.  I very much appreciate it.  I wish everyone all the very best for the New Year. Completed  Here's what I completed this month: 18 Heroics & Ros 6mm Soviet Paratroops finished as Soviet Airborne for the Soviet-Afghanistan War.  This is a platoon of Airborne based for Force on Force/Ambush Alley.  This is a side project that spawned out of The Iran-Iraq War project, which was my main focus of the year.  I just need to work out what I need and ...

Well that was 2025. Where did the year go?  The gaming update for this period is here . The image below is how the Ovelist looked at the start of the year, the detail is  here .  Here's what it looked like at the end of April with the detail  here .  Here's how things at the end of August (detail here ): And here's how the doing Ovelist looks as 2025 ends. The balance at the end of August was: 28mm - 9 figures - all Verrotwood 15mm - 6 afvs - all WW2 6mm - 302 figures; 5 afvs; 5 aircraft - all Iran-Iraq War It's now: 28mm - 6 figures - all Verrotwood 15mm - 7 afvs - all WW2 6mm - 368 figures; 44 figures 5 afvs; 5 aircraft Iran-Iraq War/1980s. 240 figures Seven Years War.  84 figures 19th Century Colonial.  I've completed the following this year: 28mm - 37 figures 20mm - 39 figures 15mm - 1 afv 6mm - 266 figures, 43 afvs. I bought a fair few 6mm figures in November, but overall I don't have anything that's been hanging around for too long.  I've no...

Here's the final gaming update for 2025.  This is the summary of my gaming from September to the end of the year.  The doing update for the same period can be found  here .  This was the gaming Ovelist at the start of 2025 (detail  here ): This was how it looked at the end of April having played six games (detail  here ): Here's how things looked at the end of August having played a further eight games (with the detail here ): And here the final gaming Ovelist for 2025 with another four games under my belt: As can be seen by the big red crosses I didn't get to play three of the categories of games that I planned to.  I lost all interest in playing any fantasy games part way through the year and this hasn't changed.  I may sell my Warmaster armies in the New Year as I have no interest in the GW setting.  I started wargaming pre Warhammer and by the time it had come out, I’d moved on to guitars and girls, so I have no feelings of nostalgia for ...