It has been nearly two years since I have posted something here which has really been due to lack of time and the work that has gone into Black Hat Miniatures since I bought Gladiator Games from Bill and Elaine Lucas in August 2006.
I have been running it one and then two days a week whilst also working and whilst also suffering from M.E./CFS which still hasn’t gone away, though it has improved some what. In that time I have found that I have almost no time to paint anything other than display figures, that I don’t have the space to plan any large games projects now that my games room is now my workshop and that I have had very little to report about personal hobby projects…
I have been very lucky to still have Guildford Wargames Club to play at each Monday, so I am still getting regular games in.
I have been playing a big mix of periods and stules over the last couple of years without really managing to start much that is new. I have finished enough Normans now to field a WAB army and started on some Vikings, I have also added to the Saxons and War of the Roses armies. I have still not finished the Scouring of the Shire project, though it is almost finished with about 12 figures left to paint and some hobbit holes to make.
However, as of next week I will be running Black Hat Miniatures 4 days a week and doing 1 day a week consultancy work. This should mean that I have more time to devote to my own wargames hobby interests as well as the purely commercial ones of Black Hat.
To this end, I have started working on some Copplestone Gangsters and today started building the first building to go along with them.
Couple of quick photos here:
I am hoping to use this blog to comment on a few things, track my painting again and document the building of the gangsters project…