All STOP Drop Anchor..........Game Room Again?

                 So, There I was minding my own business. When she who has watch too much remodeling TV bullshit says, "We are redoing the downstairs." MoFo say what? And who exactly is this we? Followed by do not touch my stuff! All while minding my own business. I am tricked into such happenings. Hands in my pockets relieving me of me coins. Not so much trick but conned. "You get your own cave for soldier playing."

                After 3 dudes and quotes and sticker shock. I told her the dam flooring was going to be crazy. The dude who closed the garage is free. He is under half. He has an individual who swam over. Now one can see the economic impact and for once I am not on the shit end of the stick.

                And so here I am on my only 24 hours home boxing up me things.

    

            I am keeping the Carpet under and around the wargaming table. I cannot be standing on raw cement floors. I am old and my back can not take it.

            The understair closet gets enlarged. A door is added that opens to the gaming room. Not for games. A closet in a room makes it a bedroom. We go from 3 bedrooms to 4.

            That locking water proof flooring, Fake wood stuff goes down. I saved by doing the electrical myself.

    

            All that crap that was there has been moved into my painting room.

                Walls up and flooring down.

            The furniture shuffle starts. I need more cigars.

            I got the hippie fish net BS curtain thing out of there.

            All my books are organized by time period BC to AD. I have hung dad's Custer's Last Stand. His father got it for him. It hung in my childhood home until dad moved. Then it hung in his library.

Warlord Games Epic Ancients

 

This is the 4th time in days Ancients is every where.

            Warlord Games is bring Ancients back. Not sexy. This is the next expansion of their Epic line. Also not EPIC! The minis are. The rules, Hail Caesar. HC is a terrible set of rules. I would grab the minis and use Warmaster Ancients.

The Great Clean Out part two

 

            Last eBay round 105 minis, 2 detachments, 2 armies.

THE MOUNTAIN

Bought = 506

Sold = 406, 27 detachments, 5 armies

Painted = 353

28mm = 46

20mm = 0

15mm = 96

10mm = 0

Epic = 40

Terrain bought = 30

Terrain painted = 170

Printed Terrain = 0

Minis Printed = 0

Games = 8

Games hosted = 0

Books 

Bought = 3

Read = 2

2023

Bought = 321, 6 collections, 6 armies, 4 buildings

Sold = 142, 166 Detachments, 6 Armies, 1 Collection

Painted = 950

30k Epic Salamanders 2024 part III

 

                I have enough minis painted to field a playable army. But I do not know what I have painted total. I am on the road a lot. No idea what is actually done at any one point in time. And no way to check. I over pack minis to paint. In the end, I do not know where I need to focus my energy. An example being; I do not need any more Rhinos! I need Devs, Destroyers, and Character stands.

                I need to order resin. There is only 3 Rhino bases left untaken.

As of 4APRIL24

5 Vinnies, 1 Lazer Destroyer Rhino thingy, 2 Drop pods, 9 Rhinos, 4 Land Raiders, 3 Spartans, 1 Ram, and 1 objective.

3 Tactical Detachments, 2 Termie detachments, 2 Bike Detachments, 5 Devastator stands, 2 Destroyer stands, 9 Breacher stands, and 6 support weapons.

On deck

Thawk Lander, 2 Land Raider Crusaders, 4 Razorbacks, 3 Whirlwinds, 6 Rhinos, 2 Dreads, and 2 Devastator stands, and 9 infantry bases. 

    

                Next week I am out in AZ. Devs and Destroyer stands!

The Great Clean Out part one

 

                I do not want to stick the family with digging through and trying to sell all this crap. I am not sick or dying. Nor suicidal. A realist, taking life's lessons to heart. I am and have been working through my father's collection. It is not my speciality. You really need to be in that circle, have that speciality, to get the proper value out of it. It sucks time and energy!

Liquidation time. 

            Since AdeptiCon 19 epic detachments, 248 minis, and 3 armies have sold. Too much that never saw the light of day. Odds and ends. Bits from projects finished long ago. The Warmaster collection I bought is completely gone. The Eldar collection is going. My 28mm Imperial Roman stuff is 70% gone. All my Napoleon 15s are gone. 10% of the bare metal ACW is gone.

                I have my panited Dark Angels Epic army up for sale.

                I have another large bare metal Eldar epic army for sale.

THE MOUNTAIN

Bought = 506

Sold = 301, 25 detachments, 3 armies

Painted = 353

28mm = 46

20mm = 0

15mm = 96

10mm = 0

Epic = 40

Terrain bought = 30

Terrain painted = 170

Printed Terrain = 0

Minis Printed = 0

Games = 8

Games hosted = 0

Books 

Bought = 3

Read = 2

2023

Bought = 321, 6 collections, 6 armies, 4 buildings

Sold = 142, 166 Detachments, 6 Armies, 1 Collection

Painted = 950

Traveling and painting in 2024 part III

            While out at AdeptiCon the Wifi had my car. She got an ice storm. The ice coated the car. It was all over the gas cover. The ice scraper is what she used to free the gas cover. I about killed that one!

             Back in the Staybridge. No room for me at the Crowne. This was the last room here and its a small room. The desk guy wondered why I was in this room. But had nothing for me to move into. I am here thru Monday. Yep, working both Good Friday and Easter. I have double points and 3k a night bonus.

            I could not find all my paints. Some were just missing. I knew I had them. I remember them being somewhere and using them. Where they were, no clue. Then when packing for the extended trip I grab a large case. Opened the drawer with the Anno Domini 1666 stuff. There everything sat. Now I remember. I pulled everything and packed for Israel.

               I spent all day Sunday and Monday putting shit on ebay. All this stuff that Pri or VV will have to deal with has to go. It is a MoFo trying to sell my father's collection. I am selling everything that will never see the light of day. Then like any good collector of shit that is only important to them, I will buy more shit!

                I bought everything with me. Then spent another day listing stuff. The AdeptiCon minis went same day listed along with Nappys.

                                                

            People are crazy over Warmaster still. I said I had a lot to unload. Got an unseen offer. The Warmaster Empire is gone. 

            I had a little sissy room. Friday I changed. The wifi and dog joined me for Easter weekend. Dog's 1st hotel. Never barked but he was crazy. I don't believe he understood what we where doing in this place or why. My old swim buddy was the same. Unless I had the hiking stuff with me. 

            The room had the bar with good lighting. Dog would paw me every time I tried to paint. He did not want me sitting at the bar. I got next to nothing painted with the circus in town.

2024 Yearly Plans and Goals 1st quarter

 

            Only one out of many has been completed. The FW table took just a ton of time. Those first few weeks this year I had sitting around was the only reason it got done at all. I had no idea how much work was involved. 

1.) Finish the FW city table for AdeptiCon.

            Failed to get the table to an event. No Pa tourney, No AdeptiCon.

        A Roman Republican army was pulled out of storage, based and shields completed for Saga. No Saga gaming yet.