Thursday 22 November 2018

Happy blog day to me!

It's my 7th Bloggiversary! This year's reminiscing is brought to you by the letter 'B' (for Barks' Bloggiversary):

Back to the (grimdark) future

I can't really hide that this year has seen an unexpected resurgence in my interest in GW. Necromunda, Kill Team, Space Hulk, and Blood Bowl have been a big chunk of my hobby time. I'm looking at Blackstone Fortress, the 40K version of Warhammer Quest. I feel a little dirty. If you'd told me this five or ten years ago I'd have been very surprised.

Battle of Britain

I really enjoyed painting these cheerful planes, although I was a little underwhelmed by the game.
Hello, Rabbit Leader!

Blood Bowl

I finished two teams this year, Khorne and Wood Elves. In 2019 I intend to finish my long-term goal of having played all 27 official teams at official tournaments!
Hardcore Khorne

Fangorn Forest Entwives- Best Painted Team, CanCon 2018

Batman

Next year I expect to receive the Batman: Gotham City Chronicles kickstarter, which is going to be a bat-load of toy soldiers. I'm looking forwards to some bright superhero colours, and it is giving impetus for me to finish a number of stagnant projects before the bat-crate arrives. Brace yourself for plenty of bat-posts in 2019!

Blood Angels

My 'big' project for the year was Space Hulk. I'm very happy they're done. A handful of genestealers to go!

BFG

This Vindicare was my entry for the AHPC VIII 'BFG' round. I'm looking forwards to AHPC IX starting next month, for which I have been volunteered as a minion.

Boardgames

I've played a lot of boardgames this year, including getting some good friends around for several days for some serious fun in August. I'm planning to do it again next year.

Birdz

These Crowz are an evocative little flying horde

Bad Squiddo

I got my first figure from Annie Norman:

Bane mask

I'm slowly building up a nice genestealer cult, and I don't even play 40K...

Thanks for all your support! I really enjoy our little corner of the blogosphere.

18 comments:

  1. A wonderful years progress, well done. It has been a pleasure watching and reading your updates.As for feeling dirty to quote Dr. Frank-N-Furter, `but it isn't all bad, is it? Not even half bad, I think you really quite enjoyed it.Give yourself over to absolute pleasure.'

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  2. Hard to pick my favourite from amongst this year's efforts mate. Lovely stuff all. Looking forward to seeing your Challenge efforts and thanks for volunteering to minion!

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    1. Cheers, Millsy- I felt minioning is a rite of passage I have to pass through.

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  3. Congratulations on the B-Versary. It is always a pleasure to drop into your man cave and enjoy your handy work.

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    1. Thanks you very much, Jay, drop in anytime!

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  4. Another fruitful year. Happy Blog Day Barks. I too have found GW's recent works enticing me back to the dark side. They must be doing something right.

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  5. Congratulations!!!
    Another year plenty of awsome proyects.
    I enyoy a lot when visit your blog.
    Regards

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    1. Gracias, Señor! Thank you for being a part of it!

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  6. Happy blog day my friend - here's to many more years of shared happiness!

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  7. Great stuff mate! Congrats on the anniversary 🙂

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  8. Congratulations, great years output! Looking forward to the AHPC this year I hope we have fun as minions!
    Best Iain

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    1. Bwa ha ha! I’m looking forwards to my reign of terror.

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