Still in the Hobby

For a number of years I cataloged my many attempts at building, painting, and collecting minis, as well as my adventures in wargaming with my friends. A number of things changed for me and I shifted my interest from maintaining my blog and working on my hobbies. I moved a fair distance from the place that I had grown up in western North Carolina to coastal Virginia.  For a couple of years my hobby stuff was definitely a back burner kind of thing.

That's not to say that I didn't work on some minis and some games in the interim. I have been participating in an ongoing Warhammer 40,000 narrative campaign setting with my friends, that project alone has seen me collect a substantial amount of Orks and a new Astra Milkitarum force.

These are my Usamlijan Fusiliers.

They specialize in old fashioned lasgun fighting.

But they do pack some punch with the big guns.

And some bruisers too.

I'm sure I'll do a few features on those minis but there are a few pics just prove that there has been some painting in the past few years. There have even been a few large scale engagements, though they are a bit further apart than my gaming activities have been in the past. (Warp transit times between Virginia and North Carolina can be killer.)

My friends and I might not play as often, but we make up the difference with scale.

I thought that I'd brought a lot of minis with me till...

The local Orks showed up.

The relaunch of the blog is just my way of sharing some of the nifty stuff that I've been working on, plus I realized how much I missed connecting with the broader community of miniature wargaming and collecting. Going forward I hope that I can provide some eye-candy, some insight into my process and articles that have more interesting content than spelling and grammar errors.

Still thirsty,
Chris