Ides of August 2013

I've been spending my time working on assembling figures.  I've stopped painting miniatures for the rest of August.   I do have a bunch of 40K figures that need to be sealed.  I'll try and do that this morning.  The rest of my time has been ordering and tracking down misshipped figures.  Here's what I've been working on this week:

1)  28mm Vietnam - I got the rest of my 28mm US Marines and ARVN this past week.  However, there was an error on the shipping codes.  I resolved with the distributor I dealt with.  Instead of getting US Vietnam Marines, I got four packs of Asian Water Buffalo!  It's been resolved.  However, figuring out what happened was a headache when I realized the codes on the figure packs didn't match what was on their website...

I also had some minor issues with broken landing gear on a 1/55 diecast US Marine Sea Knight helo I bought from them.  It was easier just to repair the landing gears with superglue than send it back to the retailer.  I don't know if the package was damaged before the retailer got the helo or after it was shipped in transit.  It got resolved again when I fixed the landing gears.  Other than that, I have few complaints.  The two US Marine helos are prepainted and I didn't have to do anything other than get them out of their boxes.  And they were the same price as the FOW 15mm Vietnam Hueys (that's the scary part).

I now have a complete 28mm US Marine and ARVN mechanized platoons.  I'm now waiting on my 28mm Vietcong order from Eureka Miniatures USA.com.  That should come later this month from Australia...

2)  25mm Trojan War - I spent nearly two hours cleaning a basement sink by hand to get all the paint flakes off of it last weekend.  I never want to go through that again.  Until I get some bathroom cleaner and rags for the basement, I vowed not to paint.  Instead, I started working on 25mm Old Glory Trojan War armies.  The good thing is I'll get my ancients assembled.  The bad thing is drilling out 180 spearmen.  The hands of Old Glory figures need to be drilled out for the spears to be assembled.  I only have a hand Citadel hand drill.  It's been slow going.  I got my first unit of spearmen based this morning.  I got the Trojan archers and slingers done earlier this week.  It's going to take me the rest of August and a good part of early September to get these figures done (that's including the 28mm chariots, too)...

3)  28mm 1870 Prussian Heavy Artillery - I assembled and based an entire battery of 28mm 1870 Prussian Heavy Artillery this week.  Problem is it's 28mm siege artillery.  I went to the Foundry website and bought Krupp Siege Mortars instead of heavy field artillery.  Now, I have guns that range the entire board for Chassepot and Needlegun.  However, the Germans need in the extra fire power based on play testing of the rules.  But, I don't know about siege guns.  However, that's my fault...

4)  WH40K - My Khorne Chaos vehicles are done.  Now, my Blood Angel army needs to be resealed.  The weather is supposed to be good.  So I have no excuse not getting it done this weekend...