Archers Return And An Update

The first batch of archers (the Perry figures) is done.  Thank the Lord.  I need a beer.

My figure painting has gotten far off track as my hobby time has been cut down and what I have spent time on has been scenery.

I'm nearly done with my river.  That was a proper time sink.  The only thing remaining is to apply the Woodland Scenics EZ water once it arrives from the states.  I'll cover my trials with the river in a later post.

These six archers don't represent a tremendous amount of time and effort, but they are my first figures to get completed in way too long.  The painting was done a while ago, but they were sitting for several months awaiting touch-ups and clearcoat.

Real life and a general figure burn out have kept me from coming back to the figures for several weeks.  Hopefully I'll get my mojo back to finish my war band by July, but I'm not holding my breath.

In other news, I've come to the conclusion that what I have for the game is going to have to be sufficient.  I've got three buildings of various sizes, four stands of trees, the cabbage patch, the river (almost), and a pig sty.

Yes, I spent time doing a pig sty, as if I was trying to top the cabbage patch and cement my place of honor among 4-H members into Medieval wargaming.  That Venn diagram must have the narrowest observable overlap imaginable.

I'll write up the pig pen later, once the pigs have arrived, been painted, and added to the sty. I'm sure folks will be waiting for that post eagerly.

But back to the lede I had buried and just unearthed in the above paragraph.  I'm done with acquisition for a while.  My replacement water is...er...on the water.  As are my pigs.  I have the buildings and trees I need.  Sure, I still want a church and some deciduous trees.  I'd love to order some baggage and extra gubbins to sprinkle around the scenery.  I still want some civilian types to populate the village.

I'm not ending this blog.  I'm just going to stop buying stuff for this project for a little bit.  I need to restock my modelling supplies.  The brushes are down to the last few bristles.  The scenery materials are running out.  The paints are starting to run out.

There are still plenty of figures to paint and work to be done on the scenery.  I'm just glad that I don't have to buy a whole lot of extra stuff to get there.

While there's plenty of work left to do, the scope has finally been limited.  There's now a light at the end of the tunnel.  This, the largest, most complete gaming project I've ever embarked upon now has an end point.  While I will certainly continue to add to it, I can do so knowing that the core is complete.

And now to that beer.