On the Table- Isolation Blues

Like a lot of people in this tough time, I've been isolating at home for the past few weeks. While it's meant I can work on putting out blog content and hobby, it's also meant that gaming has completely ceased for the foreseeable future and a lot of things I had planned to work on (primarily battle reports) are simply not possible. I have however made the most of the enforced hobby time and at least have something to show for it, making a dent in my backlog and continuing to power forward and keep my spirits up!

First of all, I've been working through some stuff for Star Wars Legion. Since my early childhood I've loved Star Wars and especially the Rebellion, so I finally decided to jump in and get some Legion stuff to work on an army. Luke was painted a few months back, but over the last fortnight I've finished Chewbacca, Han Solo and a unit of Rebel Troopers as well to kickstart the army and get it closer to fully painted.

Next up I've been working on Warcry. I painted up my Chimera a few weeks ago and now I've been working on an actual warband, with the Untamed Beasts being the one I've chosen to play primarily as I love their models. I'm planning on writing a bit of Warcry content in the near future so stay tuned on that front!

More recently I've pulled out a few odds and ends for Malifaux to try and get through some of the half-painted keywords I have. The Desperate Mercenaries are the last of what I need painted for the Mercenary keyword and next up I have 2 Freikorps Engineers which are half of the Freikorps models I need to paint (the other 2 being Hannah and Arik, both of which are in the next planned Malifaux batch)

To finish, what I'm working on at the moment. The last few pieces of my Blood Bowl Skaven team are also being worked on, but now that the 7s league I was playing in has been indefinitely delayed its taken the wind out of my sails a bit there. I still very much want to get them done, but I'm not finding myself getting motivated to do it as much as other things and as such they're still in a state where they need a lot of work to be finished. I've got the previously mentioned Freikorps Engineers and an AT-RT for Legion on the desk as well both nearly complete, aiming to get them done over the next couple nights so I can start painting other things.

In general we are all living in some strange and difficult times, but it is the perfect time to band together and support who we can however we can. I've been having a few group calls lately while painting to keep my sanity and get things done, and it's a really great way of keeping up the sense of community while being stuck at home so I would really recommend it in any way you can. Another thing I have been looking into a lot over the past few days is the Vassal system to play games virtually, mainly Arena Rex and Malifaux so I can do some rudimentary battle reports and keep gaming, but I'm also looking at Tabletop Simulator for Batman games so that's a possibility in the future.

Best wishes and good health to everyone, we'll get back to gaming soon enough and it'll feel so much better after this break.

On the Table- BMG, Warcry

Hi again all, with another update on my hobby progress. Branching out a lot more lately and the last couple weeks I've been jumping around a lot more.

The local Blood Bowl 7s league started over the weekend, and I managed to get 2 games in. Despite losing 2-0 vs Chaos and 2-1 vs Skaven, I managed to avoid any serious injuries and get a few skill ups that mean I should be well off for later in the league. Planning on finishing up my last 3 models once the current stuff is finished off and keen for more games!

I've still been working away at my Batman backlog, focusing on getting specific things done in batches. This batch has been "rich people and Donna Troy" as I'm finishing off Bruce Wayne, 2 versions of Lex Luthor and obviously Donna Troy. That then finishes off my Teen Titans and Organised Crime collections, and only 7 more models to go for Batman once these are done (the new Batman and Gordon models from the starter set, the old comic Katana, DKR Scarecrow, sniper Deadshot, new Ra's and Ubu). I'm still playing away with my Batman crew, although once Donna is done I'm going to be playing Teen Titans a lot more to try and work things out with them.

To break up painting for the same game over and over, I decided to start painting my Chimera for use in Warcry. It's so far the only thing I've started for the game (although I'm planning to paint my Untamed Beasts soon) and its been really enjoyable to get it quickly done. Big monsters aren't something I usually do so it's been a nice change of pace.

On the Table- Blood Bowl, Batman

Hi everyone, thought I'd jump in with another quick update of what I've been working on the last couple of weeks and what I've been playing.

First up is the old faithful Batman. I've been playing a lot of Batman 3rd edition and I'm really loving it, having found my groove in both list and deck building with the Batman and Bat-Family lists (although I'm still experimenting with League and Titans, and Watchmen are on my mind) so I'm making sure I have all my options painted up ready to go. I've finished off all the Return to Gotham cops, so my backlog isn't huge for Batman, but I'm moving into some other options now before doing all of their bases at once. On the table currently are Bruce Wayne, Donna Troy and 2 sculpts of Lex Luthor for my limited Organised Crime collection.

I've also signed up for a Blood Bowl 7s league at a local club for the next couple months, and I'm using it as an excuse to finally finish off my Skaven team I've had sitting around for a while. It's all very close to finished now apart from 2 Gutter Runners and a Blitzer, otherwise I will have almost every option painted at max availability apart from a Rat Ogre (which I use Glart or Hakflem for because I much prefer their models). Skaven are one of my 2 favourite teams (alongside Goblins, who will be my next team)- I love how they are a very fragile but very quick team and they can run the ball like nobody's business.

That's all for today, but I have a lot more content planned coming up for a few different things so stay tuned!