January 2023 Monthly Round-Up

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Yeah, I know – long time, no post. Again. The short version is that work right now is more brutal than it’s ever been in all my time there due to a number of issues, and on top of that we’ve had a pretty hot February compared to the last few while at the same time the AirCon has packed it in along with heatwaves covering almost every weekend – so my weekends lately are a lot less …productive. Or pleasant. So with that, it’s time for the rather belated January Round-Up.

January was essentially a handful of this, a handful of that, and a pile of those. What that actually means is that I got the remainder of my Zombie Dogz painted as well as a single Hasslefree Zombie and the Abominabear from the Western-themed version of Zombicide.

The second handful of models is of course the collection of Original and newer Marvel Crisis Protocol models – Three more from the core set: Black Widow, Captain Marvel and Baron Zemo as well as an earlier model in Venom and some slightly later ones in three of the Winter Guard – Red Guardian, Ursa Major and Crimson Dynamo.

The pile, of course is the 18 Secret Weapon Tiles that I managed to complete. I still have the second half of them to work through – the ones with actual roads on them – and the hope now is to get them done if not before, then over the Easter Break.

Creating my initial tally for 2023 so far: 11 dogz, 2 other Zombies, 18 tiles and 7 Crisis Protocol models – for a total of 38 models. A lot more than I’ll have for February, but I’ll get to those in the next few days! Hopefully when (if!) work calms down, I’ll start to catch up on people’s blog posts. Not that some of you make it any easier to catch up – you know who you are! 😉

Secret Weapon Miniatures Tablescapes Tiles: Urban Streets & Urban Streets Damaged – Part 1

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Secret Weapon Miniatures Tablescapes Tiles: Urban Streets, Urban Streets Damaged

Today we have the terrain that I managed to get completed in January. None of the usual sort of thing – instead I managed to start and finish 18 of my Secret Weapon Tablescapes tiles, from that Kickstarter campaign oh so long ago. They are very much something that I’ve wanted to get painted for years, and unfortunately the combination of limited work space, work making it difficult to mentally “spin up” enough to just spend time focused on getthing larger projects like this done due to the large number of tiles and repetitive nature of the project.

Secret Weapon Miniatures Tablescapes Tiles: Urban Streets, Urban Streets Damaged

I was fortunate enough this past January so that the whole Crosis Protocol enthusiasm thing was enough to help me to get these shown tiles done from start to finish. Unfortunately, there still lies the small matter of all of the road sections, all still very much WIP – So I need to really get that enthusiasm going again since I’ve been back at work. I know that there are people out there who can paint a set of tiles like this in an afternoon. I’m not one of them

Secret Weapon Miniatures Tablescapes Tiles: Urban Streets, Urban Streets Damaged

I have one 16-tile set of the Urban Streets – Clean, one 16-tile set of the Urban Streets – Damaged, and one 4-tile “Display Board” set of the Urban Streets – Damaged. I also have the 16-tile sets of the Ruined Temple and Rolling Hills themes, and as you can see here, I nicked 2 of the Ruined Temple tiles to use as a pair of “Demolition Site” tiles to give a bit more variety to my layouts. Here you can see a theoretical Marvel Crisis Protcol battle in action.

Secret Weapon Miniatures Tablescapes Tiles: Urban Streets, Urban Streets Damaged

Similarly, I also have a pair of the Rolling Fields set picked out to turn into a pair of “Parkland” tiles to provide options for layouts with a bit of extra colour. I’m looking forward to having time to get the roads finished. Hopefully sooner than later!

Secret Weapon Miniatures Tablescapes Tiles: Urban Streets, Urban Streets Damaged

The 36″x36″ layout of standard Crisis Protocol games will allow for a lot of variety even with the tiles I already have done – but obviously it’ll be far more aesthetically pleasing once there are roads to mix in! These 18 tiles are the last thing I have to show for the January component of Dave Stone’s Paint what You Got challenge.