Redoing the game room...

Well this weekend was stormy, and I had to put mini painting on hold to do something that I had put off for a while...clean the gaming/work room.
I hadn't made efficient use of the space in that room, and now it was coming back to haunt me.
So with a recent 20 buck purchase of a 5 shelf bookshelf, and having recently acquired another dresser and 2 nightstands, I decided that "now was the time".
A little sweat and some reorganization later and voila, the "new and improved, Murphy Game Room."
Martha Stewart would be proud...


Looking in from the door, you can see the painting and work table, (Clean at that!!!),



2 dressers with plenty (I hope), of storage space. dresser #1 on the left is for holding building supplies, resins, etc., while dresser #2 is basically the home base for all unpainted figures, (and yes there are A LOT of them!)...



Another shot of dresser # 2 and the parts storage bins and painting table...


Drawer #1 of Dresser 2, Ogrethulu, Peter Pig, Bolt Action, Pulp Figures, Gear Krieg and more...


Drawer #2; Peter Pig, Battle Honors, QRF, and loose figs...


Drawer #3; More loose figs, (mostly 15mm)...


Drawer 4; More loose figs, (mostly 25-28mm)...

WHEW! That's A LOT of lead!!!
Here's a shot of the room from the dresser corner...

You can see the painting and accessory table, along with the closet full of "stuff"; boxes of terrain, ERTL cowtowns, etc...

My "wall o' stuff" including a certificate from the International Society of Vampires, an RPGA membership certificate, pictures of Adam West and Linda Blair, and a copy of Fiddlers Green...

Yes, Adam West as The Caped Crusader, keeping order to the room, and giving it just that bit of "class" that it needs...(or not)...

And once again, my picture of Linda Blair, who looks at us with those eyes and whispers to us seductively that "Historical Miniature Wargamers REALLY turn her on..."

*sigh*

Yeah, right...

My gaming shelves, with rules, boxes of troops, and other stuff on it. If you look at the top you can see the mostly finished Sovie...errr..Russian Cargo Ship, "The Rattlehead", and the Golden Eagle of the Bongolesian Arch of Victory peeking out...

Rules and books...Foundry was having a sale and I scored...Old copies of MWAN, Little Wars by Wells, Rule books, notebooks, and various assorted stuff, (including Ospreys, etc...)...

And last but not least...What's MY game room without this...????

Yes, the National Flag of Bongolesia hangs majestically on the wall of the room, waiting once again to go up the pole and fly in the breeze!

Well, hope you enjoyed the tour. Hopefully tomorrow, (or next week), I'll get some more painting done...

Comments are appreciated...

Hostages, Scale Creep, (and another trip)...

Welcome back dear reader with another exciting update!
(More or less)...

First things first...
ALL Praise to Scale Creep Miniatures for getting me my recent QRF shipment.
QRF was about a month behind in getting it to them, but I was able to get what I needed.
The NDF for Bongolesia currently has ALL the hard armor they will ever need...
Along with a section of tanks for The Presidential Guard.
Thanks to Scale Creep once again...
Now...
Recently I was able to get figs painted and what I wanted and needed were people in a crisis in Africa, (who isn't on that continent?)...Anyway, I decided to finish painting up the last of my Rebel Minis Hostages, along with some more BARF troopers and a couple of stands of LOA: "The Lions of Allah"..the latest group to bust onto the scene...
The Rebel Minis Hostages in size are about 15mm, if you compare them to Peter Pigs figs. They do look a little taller. In fact the zombie figs look to be about 18 and possible 20mm...
But they are clean figs with no flash, and very easy to paint.
Here they are...

( Hmmm...three hostages waiting on word of their release...or....)

(The set of hostages; there are three poses in all. Wait...Is that a shallow grave next to the kneeling female? Oh dear...)
(Three "businessmen" hostages close up. Notice the guy in the back with the toupee. OBVIOUSLY he's a CIA agent, or a used car salesman...)

Along with the hostages, here are some recently painted PP figs...BARF Militia troops...

(Is that a SMILEY face I see???)
(Some call them "Liberators", "Freedom Fighters", and "Revolutionaries"; while others call them "Thugs", "Bandits", and "Terrorists"...we simply call them "BARF"...)
(LOA: The Lions of Allah, Assault Troops...also calling themselves "Martyrs")


(LOA RPG Team...)

( A standard scene of hostages and keepers in front of vandalized B'wonah propaganda)...

I'm going to be reviewing the Rebel Minis Hostages figures in a soon to be posted update here on the forum...Stay tuned for it.

And now...

Indiana has a lot of things to see and do, and this weekend, the lady and I wandered down to Corydon.

Corydon, Indiana has two distinctions in State and US national history.

It was the first capitol of the state, and it's one of the ONLY TWO recognized Civil War Battles that took place on "Northern Soil"...

Corydon was the site where Gen. John Hunt Morgan in July of 1863 routed the home guard on his ride through the north. Not a big fight like Gettysburg, but a fight nonetheless, and we wandered down there the weekend that they had the reenactment.

(The Corydon State Courtbouse Capitol Building which was threatened to be burned by Morgan if the folks didn't "pay up" and the marker on the square...)

The Reenactment (as far as reenactments go), was a small affair that desperately needs help, and I think I am going to work to help push it to make it grow. The organizers are totally out of their league on running this.

And it has promise.

In the town is the Corydon Battle Park, which is actually on the site of the battle, which really is little more than a small park. I've seen some backyards that were bigger...but it's there, and it's part of our history and heritage...

(The Lady at the 6 lb gun at the Corydon Battle Park...)

After Corydon, we wandered down to Mauckport and it was going there that we saw graffitti that made me scream "STOP!"...and a photo I had taken of it and me...heheh...
See if anyone gets the reference...

(Quite appropriate, don't you think???)

And thus ended our little journey for the weekend...
Next weekend...A review of Rebel Minis Hostage figures and priming up the Presidential Guard!!!