September 2026

A short month since I am traveling the last 10 days. Still got a bunch done, carried over from August. I also got in another game at home testing my Hostile Realms/Field of battle mash up...and realized I should just use Hostile Realms. Have to try that next with the rules as written.

I 3d printed a whole set of fantasy figures that should carry me through 2027 with some exceptions. Mass producing like this helps with clean up and controlling the resin waste.

Great ECW game at the club, I know so little of that period. 

Over the budget for the year...but still ahead based on what I have sold. I will make a few purchases of supplies and bases that will cover me next year. In 2027, I plan to keep the budget much better under control.

My dog meeting a mantis on his walk. 

ECW

PAINTING 

80 foot x fantasy figures: 80

31 mounted: 62

1 animal: 1

Total: 143

YTD: 864

GAMING 

1 x  ECW

1 x fantasy game at home

YTD: 36

BUDGET

$175: $12 Quar, $163 kickstarter burrows and badgers

YTD:  $3450 (Sold: $3708)  

August 2026

While I worked on shrinking the lead/plastic mountain...now really only a small batch of plastic kit remnants, I could not resist a summer sale on 3d files. I am now working on 9 more fantasy units for "A Game of Shires" project and i just printed off a huge number of additional little fellows that will take over a year to complete. This blew my budget but I am still ahead for the year after the big sell off. 

Blood and Plunder at the club

Misc kit bashed sci fi troops

PAINTING 

39 x misc sci fi figures:39

Total: 39

YTD: 721

GAMING 

1 x  Blood and Plunder at the club

YTD: 34

BUDGET

$ 546: $12 Quar, $122 stl figures, $65 rules, $33 starmada, $266 files, $48 resin

YTD:  $3275 (Sold: $3708)  

Wargame rules for sale

Pulp Alley 2ed and scenario book, lots of cards!,

-includes cards for: base game plus!, solo, horror, Tomb of the Serpent, Lemuria, characters, some boosters

Soldiers of Napoleon with card deck,

Pulse of Battle with card deck (not in original card package),

Feudal Patrol with card deck,

Blunders on the Danube scenario book,

Kung Fu Fighting card game, with More KFF expansion,

The Men Who Would Be Kings,

$225 total including shipping in USPS large flat rate box

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)  

The juice is worth the squeeze: A Quar battle report with Battleground HD rules

A big battle with Quar figures using the detailed Battleground HD rules.

Opposing Crusader and Coftyran forces marched to secure a lone fruit tree on a nearby hill. Mayhem ensued.

From the Coftyran side

The objective on the hill

RCO gun gets set up to cover the road

Coftyran's take some early casualties

But the return fire is effective too

Both forces advance on the hill

Mortar and Torpedo fire suppress the RCO

Coftyran flank squad gets caught in the open

Casualties mount in the woods

But the Crusader sniper is hit

It is a race to the top

Fire and maneuver

Trading fire

Deadly clash at the ridge

Initially the Crusaders have the upper hand

But the flank move is working

RCO is still taking fire

Crusader casualties mount

The push around the flank can't be stopped

One last rush to the hill

The position in the woods is holding on

RCO is abandoned, temporarily

The climax approaches

Crusader CO guns down the Coftyran Commander

Standard bearers fight it out...Coftyran Victory!

Three prisoners are taken by the Coftyran's

Outflanked, the Crusaders pull back

Casualties-

Crusaders: 8 KIA, 3 heavily wounded, 2 wounded, 3 POW = 16

Coftyrans: 7 KIA, 3 heavily wounded, 2 wounded= 12

Very close, the POWs and taking the fruit tree tip the scales in the Coftyran's favor.