Last week was a big one for hobby, not because I was able to get a lot done, but because I had a lot delivered! First off was an order I placed a while back with BrushFu Studios on Etsy.
My perusing of Etsy started in the beginning of the year, after I got Core Space. I was looking for cyberpunk style miniatures and Etsy has a good selection of them available. I stumbled across BrushFu Studios and liked what they had to offer but unfortunately they were taking a break at the time. Still, my hobby was slowing down at the time anyway so I added to my cart and just let it sit there until they were back.
When they did open back up, BrushFu was right up front with the fact that they had a lot of orders to fill and to expect orders to take three weeks to ship. I was in no rush and I really appreciated the honest about this so I went ahead and ordered.
Fast forward about two weeks and I received a shipping notification, and then the minis themselves a couple of days sooner than the USPS predicted. I haven't had a chance to really start working on them, but I did check them all out and even gave them a wash to I can start work on them.
From what I have seen, the prints are very clean and crisp. There are a couple of thin strands from the printing but they will be easy enough to clean up before I get to painting them. All told, I had ordered ten minis. Three of those came with bases attached but they threw in eight cyber bases as well which I wasn't expecting. All in all a good shopping experience and I've already got a bunch more minis queued up in my shopping cart for my next order from BrushFu.
About the time that package showed as shipped, I started see people posting about the Stargrave Nickstarter coming in which got me wondering if might might arriving soon. I tried to log into the Badger Games website but couldn't remember my password and the system wouldn't let me reset it. A couple of quick emails to them, and they had it sorted out then my package of goods was sitting on my doorstep!
I don't have pictures of these sets, but I did take a quick look at each of the sprues and man are there a ton of options! Lots of heads, weapons, and various little gribblies, plus the Nickstarter comes with a sprue of gnolls and cultists for even more options. Looking forward to getting these into the que at some point and fleshing out my options for Core Space and Five Parsecs From Home.
Last but not least, I even managed to do a little bit of actual hobby! Ages ago I started buying miniatures for a couple of Warlords of Erehwon armies using the now defunct Runewars figures. I'd made a bit of headway before I was called back to the home office last year, but since then it has just been in a holding pattern. Last night I decided that I might as well at least assemble the figures that were sitting on my table in baggies and it wound up being a pretty impressive looking horde.
Of course I still need to paint them all but at least now I have a better idea just what I have which is handy. I had been thinking about getting some more of the crossbowmen and scouts but I'm thinking this is good enough, especially since this isn't including all the spearmen I have as well. I also did some quick math on the points and just these figures were just shy of 1000 points (minus the wizard and priest at the front, and the standard bearer and musician which don't have stats). Adding in the leader, champion, spearmen, and rune golems to the mix and it's gotta be around 2000 points which should be more than I'll ever need... in theory anyway. Now I just need to paint them... along with the Nickstarter... and the printed minis... Oh boy... I think I better start painting again soon! Until next time...
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