Major Ballsup's Hobby Shed

This has probably been my most productive month of the year.  It's definitely the longest update! Completed I've completed quite a bit this month: 15mm Cromarty Forge Ancient Germans and Imperial Romans.  I finally made a decision on how to base the figures that I'd been painting over the last few months.  I've now based and thereby finished: 16 Ancient German archers 16 Ancient German javelin men 8 Early Imperial Roman auxiliaries 8 Early Imperial Roman auxiliary archers They're all based individually to make them usable for as many rule sets as possible.  The missile armed troops are all on 15mm rounds, the rank and file on 12.5mm squares.  I've added 3x1mm magnets to all the bases and I'm working on some movement trays.   Victrix Dark Age Warriors, four from the Viking set and one from the Ancient German set which you can see more of here .  By painting only a handful of these at a time they're a joy rather than a chore. Verrotwood Cultist.  During my

I've just finished off a few more Victrix plastics.  These are the first that I've done for quite a few month after finishing off the last of the late-Romans and Germanics.  Four are from the Viking set, the figure on the far right is from the Ancient Germans set.    I painted two as generic Dark Age warriors.  I didn't glue the shields to these two, as with the appropriate shield they'll do as well as spearmen from the 4th to 9th Century.  I have some spare Gothic/Germanic shields which I can swap the Norse shields out with when they join my 4th Century Germanic force.   I didn't do anything clever with mixing the parts.  I used heads from the Viking set for all of them.  The hands and spears of the two unarmoured spearmen are from the Unarmoured Romans set.  These spears are a bit thicker and more robust than the earlier Viking set which are very fragile.  The knife on the Ancient German body comes from the Dark Age Archers.   The shield transfers are from Battle

Introduction  News of an abandoned village draws the cultists of The Uncoiling of Beiysss and the Wisentii into the Verrotwood again.  Whispers abound that the place is haunted but they are undeterred and they strike out, forever searching for Favor and Power for their dark deities.  The Uncoiling of Beiysss Wisentii Set up The Haunted Village is an encounter that appears in The Mother & the Damned supplement by Mike Crutchett.  This is the fourth game of my Awakening Campaign.  The AARs for the other three games are here , here and here . The cultists are tasked with searching an abandoned haunted village.  As they search each building they take a test against their Intelligence statistic.  They have a 50% chance of gaining Favor and a 50% chance of the building becoming Haunted Terrain and a ghost being spawned as per the core Verrotwood rules.   Round 1 Starting positions, Wisentii at the bottom As is often the case Round 1 is all about movement.  SerpensLeachim  starts the proc