Today's Acquisitions...

In an effort to keep up with this blog, I got this out this evening...(while finishing off a bottle of Johnnie Walker Black Label).

One of the things with most miniature gamers, (at least with me) is the amount of "non-gaming, gaming stuff" that we do. This include cleaning worktables, emptying that overflowing trashcan in the game room, organizing your figures, paints, brushes, etc.

To be honest, this seems to take up more of my time than actually gaming.  However it is the little things in life that make it worthwhile and "it is the season for the Halloween stuff to be coming out!"

So today I took a much needed little jaunt, under the guise of taking care of a bill with my eyeglasses company, (who just happened to be closed, so I get to go on Monday), and stopped by Michael's, Hobby Lobby and finally for the first time in over a year my LGS.

The first stop WAS the optometrist, which happened to be closed and seems to keep bankers hours.

So after that it was a quick run down to Michael's to see if their Halloween stuff was out and much to my surprise the first portions of it are out on the shelves!

YAY!

Summer be gone!!!!

The biggest problem I have with the Halloween decor is simply that "If I was single and had the house to myself, this would probably be up all year around..."

I saw some nice Lemax Halloween pieces that I will be stocking up on soon, Their cemetery gates make nice terrain pieces.

And then it was off to Hobby Lobby...

At Hobby Lobby I was on a mission. I needed to pick up some thin metal rods that they have so I can finish the bars to the jail cells in the Sheriff's Office and put that nightmare behind me. 

Add to the fact that my Dremel bit the big one...sigh.

But I was able to get two packs of the brass rods.

Hmm...these will work quite nicely...

And while checking the clearance area, I noticed that some brushes were on sale, and lo and behold, they had some of the REALLY NICE Windsor and Newton Brushes for 50% off!

I found two nice ones and added them to my collection.

Nothing wrong with getting nice brushes when they are on sale, I always say....

And then it was off to my LGS.

Readers will hopefully remember that I have had mixed feelings and experiences with my LGS in the past years. The store I would really like to check out regularly is over on the other side of town, (a good 30-40 mile drive).

So I really wasn't sure what to expect this time I showed up.

The place is still small, and honestly, sitting in an industrial park area, the rent may be cheap but the frontage is non-existent and even though I have been there half a dozen times since their move, I still need a GPS to locate it.

However I wasn't there for directions or inspections.

Instead I picked up some Reaper Bones figures.

A nice PC cleric figure...or a NPC...

And some more female sword-users

And then I found this and said "Cool, Old School Roper Style monster to give the PC's a problem or four...lol..

This looks like some promising XP's right there....as soon as they can kill it, without being killed that is...

And then I decided to pick up some of this as something to work with on some ideas I have seen it used on. Let's hope I can master it.

 On the way back I stopped for a quick lunch of Sliders and then made it home.
Relaxing today after a hard week at work, and tomorrow I get to work on the jail...finally!

More to come!

Egad, It's almost May of 2014 already?!?!...

Oh my dear readers, I am sooooooo sorry!
It seems perhaps that this poor little blog was left out in the electronic digital cold tundra to wither and die from lack of attention....
To be honest, since the end of last year, things have just gotten away from me.
My work has taken off like crazy and with year end and now the beginning of convention and reenacting season, I am going to be hard pressed to keep this going (and regular).
Oh wait...who am I kidding? This isn't regular. It does need to be though.

Hmmm....

Okay...

Well I will try to at least cover some of the missing time...

So here we go...

First off....
Things slowed down as a result of a hard winter.  We had recently purchased our house in October and now we were homeowners and watching with anxious trepidation as to the amount of ice and snow coming down and the uber frigid temps.
It's hard to sit in the garage work area and paint and my gaming work station, when the outside is so cold that it there are icecicles over four feet long hanging off the side of your house...

Yeps...four feet....

So with that in mind I took a stock (kinda sorta) of what I had in stock...

A quick pic of my 25-28mm drawer...the jumbled mess that it was:

And my even more confusing 15mm drawer....

"WHEN DID I GET ALL OF THIS STUFF?!?!..."



Battle Honors, Heritage, Minifigs, QRF, Peter Pig, Raventhorpe, Steve Jackson, just to make a few....sigh...



I then took a look at my kits that needed to be built...

And I had a good cry....

So in good tried and true form I laid a portion of the 28's on the table and tried to get some photos of what I had. ( It took five different photos to do this)....

Foundry, Eureka, Grenadier, Bolt Action, Pulp, Kenzer and Co, Rafm, Ral Partha, Harlequn, Reaper, Tri-Tac, Dixon, ShadowForge, Westwind, to name a few....

However my company messed up and sent me to Columbus on a long weekend to wait for a part that didn't show up for three days...

So while there I got a chance to visit, "The Soldiery"...

Honestly? When I walked through these doors...after waiting for the ever present backpack carrying fanboy to get out from blocking the doorway, with the exception of the Kids Card Group going that day, it was as if I had stepped back in time and walked straight into the early 1980's...around 1983...I was halfway expecting to hear The Eurythmics singing "Sweet Dreams Are Made of This"....

I swear I now know how Marty McFly felt in "Back To The Future"...

The Display case showing minis, and DICE BAGS!!!!

Of course they had GW stuff at GW prices too....240 bucks? I just bought a 48" LCD AND a new Blue-Ray for about the same price....yeesh...

But I did come in and walk out with some purchases...specifically some of the Undead from the Reaper "Bones" series that was funded on KS. (My opinions on KS are still out there for now...)

Not too bad I think.....

I also picked up some old WestWind Star Wars RPG figures (Mos Eisley Cantina), and for the first time ever I think I saw a figure in a package that was suffering from the first stages of lead rot. I'll post a pic here soon.

And my wife's daughter and her husband came to visit and we played Gloom and they loved it, and then we saw that they had this for sale at the LGS here in our town:

Oh dear....

And as the weather slowly lessened up and old man winter gave up his icy grip on us, I slowly started painting again, and actually finally preparing for my long overdue "Call of Cthulhu" game. (to be covered in the next entry)....

So now it looks like we are getting back on track with this thing!  Let's celebrate!!!!