The Blog of Michael T. Murphy and his lifelong obsession with "little army men" and their imaginary glory, miniature wargaming, and other things...

Saturday, July 11, 2015

A way overdue summer update.....


Well dear reader, it's been a bit of while for me to give you a good and proper update, and to be honest, I cannot believe that it's July already!
Work has kept me busy, but at the same time I have had a chance to do some exploring of some out of the way game stores, and I found one which is unreal, (more in detail about it on another post)....
However, this last recent two weeks found me back at Columbus and some money spent at "The Soldiery".
At first I was quite perplexed because as I walked into the store, three fanboys were walking out. There were five employees there, and the store was "CLEAN!!!". It didn't have that "trashed game store look" that so many of them seem to have. Indeed they were actually reorganizing. I wasn't sure if this was a game store or not, until I realized that there were five employees there, and one customer, (me), and none of them asked if they could help me...
Yeps...it's a game store alright.

But while there I did pick up some packs of Reapers "Bones"....


Hmmmm....can't have creepy places without creepy candelabras.....


And what's a creepy place without a creepy "Altar of Evil"....

And I can NEVER have enough nuns....

Decided to pick up on these while there also....

I had heard good things about the "Chaos in Cairo/Carpathia" rules. So when I saw them there, I decided to check them out. I will let you know what I think.

So I get back and lo and behold, a package is waiting for me!!!
It's a "deal" I got from TMP!

Opening it up and packs and packs of 19th Century Colonial Goodness!






And to top it off, my wonderful wife, (Gawd bless her!), kept me nice and fed during my painting sessions...

Speaking of painting...I finally got some WIP and (since I started this entry about two weeks ago or so), I have actually finished and sealed approx 50 more.....
Here's a few as a teaser....

"Cpl. Benny" of the Askaris, ready to take charge of yet another African "expedition"....


Ol' Jebediah Gitt wants you TO GET OFF HIS LAWN!!!


WIP: "Victor (Big Vic) Pannino says to you..."So's I got's two ticket's to da gun show dis Friday. I wuz t'inkin' maybe youz and me's could go out you knows like on a date or some'tin'.....We could get some linguine at Luigi's place on seventy 'toid street after hittin' da show. Whattaya say?".....I'd be by earlier but I gotta go and break some fingers on Lenny Mallensky's right hand for bein' behind in payments...you know how dese 'tings go...

WIP: "Tex McGraw will happily sing and yodel to you as he plugs you full of lead from his '73 Winchester, in case you are stupid enough to make fun of his 10 gallon hat....."


More to come and already an update!!!