July 2026

A big month for miniatures.

Had a great time at Historicon, thanks to all the GMs. I ran a convention game for the first time...it is a lot of work!

In a major milestone, I finished off selling the 15mm collections. Bitter sweet to move on from the original Katzenstein figures, but it does simplify things with one set of terrain. I may revisit the Kingdom in 28mm later. 

Painting focus has been on several smaller catch up items. Quar, some VSF additions, and a batch of kitbashed sci-fi figures in the works.

Continued with tinkering with three sets of home rules. I am also making up up some rocky ground with bark. My big Historicon purchase was a big batch of trees from battlefield Terrain Concepts. Expensive, but they do look great.

ACW with Carnage and Glory

A Very British Civil War with Combat Patrol

Congo

AWI with Blood and Steel

Innsmouth pulp game with Fist Full of Lead

Seminole War with Fist Full of Lead Bigger Battles

War of the Worlds with GASLIGHT

My AVBCW game with Combat Patrol

Ditto

Battle of Brandywine with FOB3

More Quar

VSF tribesmen

VSF militia and pioneers

Mix of figs

PAINTING 

69 various figures: 69

2 x vehicles

Total: 71

YTD: 682

GAMING 

1 x  Quar with Battleground HD

10 x games at Historicon

YTD: 33

BUDGET

$12 Quar, $750 trees and supplies at H'con

YTD:  $2729 (Sold: $3646)  

April 2026

A very active hobby month. Besides starting on painting more fantasy figures (28mm Halflings), I started making some terrain. Spending is over budget...but some supplies and things were needed. I have also almost finished selling off the last of the 15mm stuff, so I am still very much in the black for the year. 

I started on a terrain project. I made a big batch of stackable foam hills. They are very stylized, but I have wanted to try them for a while now.  I hope to continue my terrain making momentum. I am refreshing my trees now. I need to add bigger trees since I switched to mostly 28mm gaming.

Stackable hills

I started work on a new set of fantasy rank/flank rules using colored dice to resolve combat. Few test sessions so far. This is my 3rd set of fantasy rules...all are a mish-mash of rule mechanics that I like. 

Test game 

Death in a Dark Continent at the club

More Quar...every month

Start of a Halfling fantasy army...Wargames Atlantic plastics and 3D prints

Civs/militia, armored cav

Halberdiers and pikemen, crossbowmen

Slingers and bowmen too

PAINTING 

4 x Quar: 4

112 x 28mm Halflings for the expanded project: 112

22 x foam stackable hills: 22

30 x movement trays: 10

Total: 148

YTD: 350

GAMING 

1 x  Death in a Dark Continent

1 x Quar with Chain of Command

1 x series of test of my fantasy game

1 x Wars of Eagles and Empires with Slaughterloo figs

YTD: 20

BUDGET

$523: $15 on Quar MMF, $35 HMGS renewal, $130 base trays, $60 dice, $80 terrain materials, $50 cutter, $20 rules, $133 fig files

YTD:  $1435 (Sold: $2269)

March 2026

Hosted a big game of A Very British Civil War with the Combat Patrol rules at the club...4 vs 4 with two others helping me run the game. This was the 2nd playtest for a game I plan to run at Historicon. 

AVBCW at the club

Club test game for April

Quar at home

Newest Quar

3rd try at a 6mm sci fi project started

Test game with club members for the April game.

Some bigger spending this month on materials and a MyMiniFactory subscription renewal. I have just about finished phase 1 of my sell off too...making nice money so I am well ahead for the year.

PAINTING 

84 x 6mm sci fi vehicles

20 x 6mm sci fi buildings/parts

7 x Quar

1 x Quar vehicle

Total: 112

YTD: 202

GAMING 

1 x club game AVBCW

1 x Quar w/ BGHD at home

1 x test game for April club game- Death in a Dark Continent

YTD: 16

BUDGET

$470: $11 on Quar MMF, $93 basing materials, $230 materials and tools, $ 36 figures, $108 MMF sub, $22 figs

YTD:  $912 (Sold: $2269)

February 2026

AVBCW game at home with 8 players from last month

FFOL/GH and 5PFH mash up

Quar

Hosted a AVBCW game at home and made it to the Cold Wars HMGS convention in Lancaster, PA. 7 games over three days. Enjoyed it as always. Only bought some bases and varnish. 

The 15mm fantasy figure collection sell off is in full swing. The unpainted are all sold, and I have started on the painted armies. 

Cold Wars HMGS convention- played in 7 great games and kept my spending to a minimum. 

Next up...6mm sci fi project reboot #3!

PAINTING 

1 x 28mm sci fi figure

16 x Quar, 2 x Quar vehicles, 6 x Quar terrain items: 19

Total: 20

YTD: 90

GAMING 

7 x cold wars

1 x club game

2 x FFOL/5PFH games

YTD: 13

BUDGET

$275: $11 on Quar MMF, $114 bases, $62 bases/dip, $62 supplies, $26 rules

YTD:  $442 (Sold: $1839) 

Cold Wars Games:

Fall Out with Fist Full of Lead: Wasteland warriors

Reeving with Feudal Patrol 

Sea Lion with Combat Patrol

Anarchy England with Feudal Patrol

Wild West (and zombies) with Fist Full of Lead

More knights in action with Feudal Patrol

Star Wars

A Dark and Stormy Flight- Very British Civil War – Miniature Wargame Scenario (part 2, After Action Report)

 GERMANS, FASCISTS, & LOCAL AGITATORS BATTLE WITH POLICE AND CHURCH!!!

     The Dorset Police and Fire Squadron engaged in a battle today after a plane crashed in the River Otter Valley.  Defenders of the Anglican Church - led by the Princess Elizabeth - secured the crash site, gathering intelligence on BUF plans to attack the nearby town of Exeter.

     Emergency Services Chief Nolan O’Coakel heroically directed officers to arrest the head of the River Otter Local Fascist Brigade — an armed, local militia & temperance movement.  Dorset Police also detained a suspected BUF officer, who is now being held under armed guard for questioning.  Chief O’Coakel declined to comment on what police have learned thus far.

    Local Firefighters valiantly defended the crash sight beside the Princess Elizabeth and her retinue.  The defenders encountered armed men - speaking German.  It is suspected that this rabble were members of the dog-killing German Advisor Korps, encouraging and advising the illegitimate British Union of Fascists.

     Overall, the decisive and inspirational actions of the Dorset Police and Fire Squadron mitigated a great catastrophe, alongside the Princess Elizabeth’s guard and members of the local River Otter community.

     Leaders of the British Union of Fascists and of the Royal Army fervently denied any violent clashes in the River Otter Valley, and maintain that local communist agitators have not shaken the stability of the legitimate Monarchy — despite the still-smoking wreckage of the BUF plane in the valley.

Fog on the hill with the old Roman Ruins

The Bereton farm

Advances begin

The plane crash in the center

River Otter Valley Local Defense Brigade troops inspect the farm

BUF thugs under the watchful eye of German advisors advance...the Germans jump in the boat

Anglican League sets up a base of fire at the crash site

ROVLDB troops jump in a truck

Riverine Huns

Red Kat's communists battle it out with the Royal Army on the hill

Princess Elizabeth's honor guard in action

Colonel Smythe is discovered in the barn

He fears that the BUF may execute him so he jumps out the window to escape...into the arms of the ROVLDB

BUF transport crash in

Kriegsmarine wannabees get cut down

Crash site secure, but the Germans have found the plans!

Communists escape with Miss Christe