The mountain of lead and gamer's A.D.D.

Saturday, August 29, 2026

Work, Travel, and painting

Long time no travel and painting thingy. I am out at one place babysitting junior engineers for 3 weeks. As HistoriCon was going on a was changing my load out for an extend trip.

I collected and primed up almost all of the 3 musketeer minis. All those for the 1672 collection, spanish dude ones, bloody ground ones, and a few printed dudes.

I also grabbed the AWI indians that have been sitting awaiting some love and the French musketeers I was working on for the Cardinal's forces.

I am at the crowne plaza, double points plus 5k a night. And the table light sucks. I had to go buy a cheapo at home depot. The 2 weeks effort. I had hoped for more progress. I added a dude with a Spanish flag for these to work double duty.

Back to the small case and flying. Delta 1st to TX and hot seat to NY. Then on to 2 others. One tried to use the sprinklers in improve performance and another that hired paint chip eaters. I am 30 seconds from wrapping a lamp cord around the applications engineer's neck. On top of all that I did not get a single number for the 750 million lotto! 6 numbers from freedom.

I have only French Musketeers with me.

First 2 week training class in cali. Kind of sucks. I thought I would have more painting time. I have less. Every night I have to take the kids to dinner.

Sunday, August 23, 2026

Muskets and Tomahawks from the basement

Americans. Those on 28mm circles are line infantry. Those on 20mm bases are my behind the trees, loose order fighters. Very few touch ups, more highlighting than anything else. The two conoes are 3D printed.

Below are the American artillery crew. I have had them kicking around forever.

The next group working their way through the rebasing and touch ups. These boys will need more love.

THE MOUNTAIN

Bought = 386
Sold = 13 28mm, 5 epic detachments, epic FW terrain collection

Painted = 306
28mm = 100
20mm = 95
15mm = 0
10mm = 0
Epic = 0
Terrain bought = 0
Terrain painted = 115

Printed Terrain = 105
Minis Printed = 14

Games
Played = 13
Games hosted = 3

Books
Bought = 2
Read= 6

Monday, August 17, 2026

28mm Spanish Musketeers

Blood & Plunder minis and a few from somewhere else. I cannot remember the source. It could be multiple companies.

THE MOUNTAIN

Bought = 386
Sold = 13 28mm, 5 epic detachments, epic FW terrain collection

Painted = 258
28mm = 52
20mm = 95
15mm = 0
10mm = 0
Epic = 0
Terrain bought = 0
Terrain painted = 115

Printed Terrain = 105
Minis Printed = 14

Games
Played = 13
Games hosted = 3

Books
Bought = 2
Read= 6

Tuesday, August 4, 2026

Muskets and Tomahawks British from the basement

All dude were HMGS Walley basement grab, 100 for the AWI lot. The British need rebasing to match mine Galloping Miniature Brits and a rare touch up here and there.