A busy start to the year!

As I'm fortunate enough to retain a set of regular customers I will keep the painting service running for at least another year. One decision I have had to reluctantly make is that I can't accept anything smaller than Epic 13.5mm scale from now on. To be honest there has been a very slight deterioration to my focus over the last year, not serious but I want to avoid unnecessary strain. I do tend to 'rest my eyes' for an hour in the afternoon  (or as my wife calls it 'taking a snooze'), but I'm still putting in several hours each day at the painting desk be it priming, painting or basing. 

That said I'm keeping busy and will still be rolling out monthly batches for Old John, Mark, Noel and Stephen. A few photos of recent stuff below which includes Epic scale 3D resin Dutch infantry battalions, Warlord Epic ACW's (another 40 strip order from Noel), more lovely Streltsi infantry for Old John along with a group of rare 30mm scale Hinton Hunt ECW's. I'll be starting work on Mark's 18mm AB Peninsular project in March.

For myself I have been quietly beavering away at something new, building up ACW armies for use on the Battle Cry game board replacing the individual plastic soldiers with small bases, 4 per unit. This has involved trimming down a lot of  Epic strips as you can see, it's been a labour of love but about done with over 600 figures painted. What began as a retro Fire & Fury project has developed into this because I have decided that from now on I want to focus on playing boardgames with miniatures, in comfort on my painting desk. So no more terrain building for me from now on.

I'll have more  exciting news about the Battle Cry game in a future post.