Post-Historicon I have been pondering what projects I will be working on for the rest of 2019 and into 2020. After spending most of the last couple years on 7TV spy-fi and post-apocalypse, I have decided to return to mainly historical projects. I have been thinking about this for some time as my interests have been moving back in that direction. For instance, I bought 2 painted ECW armies at Historicon and have been researching rules options. I plan on expanding the armies with the large amount of unpainted lead that came as part of the purchase.
A large part of my time will be allocated to painting armies for SAGA. I am already painting my own Romano-British army, currently on the 3rd of 4 foot units and the mounted are primed.
My friend Steve in Ohio was selling his SAGA stuff recently and last week I picked up another set of Romano-British and a set of Saxons from him. Each is a 4-point box with some additional unit packs. I am going to paint both of these with the intention of selling them when completed. I am going to do the Britons first as I am already in Briton-mode.
Also arriving last Wednesday were miniatures for 2 longer-term projects. I backed a Kickstarter in May for a set of post-apocalypse miniatures based on the 1980s RPG Aftermath. I don't remember ever playing it, but my group did play Gamma World in that long-ago time. I got 7 giant mutated rats with guns, a couple of rat swarms and 4 humans. As I wrote earlier, I am taking a break from painting post-apoc so they will go into storage for now. The bag on the left of the picture is a set of 12 Earth Force Infantry from Rebel Minis. They were having a sale and I have been looking for some humans that I could use as the garrison of an off-world base for a future Doctor Who scenario. Apparently they are modified versions of the mobile infantry from the old Starship Troopers miniatures game from Mongoose. I never played that game but they will do nicely for my purposes. Quick service from Rebel, I ordered them late Sunday night and had them on Wednesday.
