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

September 2025

Great month working on the hobby. I spent at least one hour a day, sometime much more on the Quar and VSF projects. I am all caught up on my Quar backlog, and major progress on the VSF front. 

Budget has taken a beating again!

I now have 1 of each vehicle

Two mercenary squads plus some odds and ends

The whole Quar collection

VSF cav

Heavy camel corps

Zanzibari troops to serve as enemies

Naval detachment

Civilians and a few deserters

Gun crew

Club game of Dracula's America

Club game of GDA2

Rebellious natives

Askari

Eastern infantry

Yet to be named unit

PAINTING 

62 points of Quar

116 points of Colonial/VSF

Total: 278

YTD: 1045

Next up: 

1) Continue the VSF project- just got a big batch of lead at a good price.

GAMING 

1x Dracula's America at the club

1 x 5 Parsecs from Home (modified) at home

YTD: 26

BUDGET

$463: $452 on VSF figures from TMP, $11 Quar subscription

YTD:  $3189 (Sold: $1367)  

August 2025

Big push on my Quar sci fi figures this month while prepping more VSF figures. No games, but spending back in line...until I just saw a listing on TMP.  Surgery (nothing bad) kept me from the club game but I hope to be back for September. 

PAINTING 

100 points of Quar

Total: 100

YTD: 767

Next up: 

1) Finish on hand Quar vehicles and recent figure prints

2) 8 units for VSF project

GAMING 

0

YTD: 24

BUDGET

$17: $11 Quar subscription, $6 files 

YTD:  $2726 (Sold: $1367)   

Micro Arts Studios MDF East front buildings

Quar

More Quar

and even more...plus some walls. 

June 2025 and mid-year review

I ran another game at the club this month, A Very British Civil War with the Combat Patrol rules. Sold off a bunch of things, a few more to go. Spending for the year to date has been more than expected, but I should cover a big portion with the sold items. 

3D printed and assembled the next batch of Quar. Such fun figures.

Registered for lots of games for Historicon, working on my shopping list. 

Started my Victorian Science Fiction project. Some great figures and the Wargames Atlantic plastic and 3D STL releases will help build out the forces. I have been having fun using ChatGPT to generate background for the fictional "lost world". 

A sample, I will start a separate post with the units. 

PAINTING 

106 foot and 16 mounted VSF figures: 138 points

Total: x

YTD: 574

GAMING 

1 x AVBCW game I ran at the club

YTD: 13

BUDGET

$31: $11 Quar subscription, $20 brushes

YTD:  $1633 (Sold: $1357)   = $276

Mid-year Review:

Plans for 2025

1) Next wave of Quar 

    - Complete

    - Printed next batch, ready to paint

2) Focus on some terrain upgrades: trees, rivers, roads

    - No progress

3) Host a club game in Feb

    - Complete, plus another in May

4) Work on 6mm sci fi home brew rules with 3D printed figures

    - Tinkering continues

5) Spending <$2000, sell $500

    - Spent more than planned, sold more than goal

6) Attend all 3 HMGS conventions

    Cold Wars (this one is a maybe): Complete

    Historicon: Registered

    Fall In

7) Complete on hand 28mm fantasy figures

    a. Plastics; Complete

    b. Metals: Complete

8) Add to 28mm sci fi by getting select sprues instead of full boxes

    - Nothing

Project Update: 10 projects

Victorian Science Fiction:

---Last Painted: June, 2025

---Last Gamed: not yet

Quar:

---Last Painted: Feb, 2025

---Last Gamed: Mar, 2025

Slaughterloo:

---Last Painted: Dec, 2023

---Last Gamed: Jan, 2024

28mm Fantasy:

---Last Painted: Apr, 2025

---Last Gamed: May, 2025

Burrows and Badgers:

---Last Painted: Sep, 2024

---Last Gamed: Jan, 2023

Pulp:

---Last Painted: Jan, 2023

---Last Gamed: Feb, 2025

A Very British Civil War:

---Last Painted: Oct, 2024

---Last Gamed: Dec, 2024

28mm Sci Fi:

---Last Painted: Jan, 2025

---Last Gamed: Jan, 2022

Fantasy 15mm:

---Last Painted: Jul, 2019

---Last Gamed: Jul, 2021

Kingdom of Katzenstein 15mm Imagi-nation:

---Last Painted: Dec, 2018

---Last Gamed: Nov, 2024

January 2025

A great start to the new year. 

The highlight of the month has been starting 3D resin printing. After some fine tuning, the prints have been flawless. I printed up 3-4 months worth of Quar figures and vehicles, plus a few items for the Feb club game. 

Great painting month. Finished a batch of fantasy figures and made major progress on more Quar. 

Registered for Cold Wars and got my room for Historicon. 

Spent significant time preparing for the club game I am running next month. Island of Dread with 7TV Pulp rules. 

Spent way more than expected getting items for 3D printing and my Pulp club game. Plus added two boxes of figures on sale late in the month. Feb has to be better!

PAINTING 

39 x 28mm Levy/militia: 39

3 x 28mm Sci fi: 3

59 x Quar: 

Total: 101

YTD: 101

GAMING 

1 x Club Blood and Plunder game

YTD: 1

BUDGET

$365---, -Quar tribe subscription, resin/supplies, bases, primer, glue, trees for pulp game, figures

YTD:  $365 (Sold: $0)