Peter Pig 15mm US Marines

I just finished up a squad of modern US Marines from Peter Pig (Im totally in love with the Peter Pig figures...I have a unit of ACW soldiers Im working on now).  Ive had about 60 of these guys primed and ready to go for a while, but I could never get motivated to work on them.  So, I cut 60 down to 9 (Ill probably get to the others someday - you know how that is), just so I could get them done.  I hope Ive done them justice to any members of our military that come across this site.

The Man Room

Just finished up moving 'The Man Room' this weekend.  I had been in a tiny little room over the garage, and over Christmas, I moved into a still tiny, but larger room.  Its pretty sad really, but my wife and I probably spend 70% of our time in this room, 10% in bed, 10% in the kitchen, and the other 10% in the rest of the house!

Here is 'the back' of the room - you can see some new figure cases (CD cases from target) hanging on the left.

Another 'back of the room' shot - a couple shelves, and a window.

This is what I see sitting from my chair.  (TV and homage to Dan Marino and the Dolphins)

My painting space...just a small laptop table.  Works perfectly for the space I have.

Old West Outlaws

These outlaws are from Black Scorpion miniatures and were a Christmas gift from my wife.  Very cool miniatures!

Perry Miniatures Samurai

These figures are great, but TOUGH to paint.  They are, by far, the hardest miniatures I have painted so far.  Ill probably revisit these guys at some point - I bet a unit of these would look really cool.

Down the comics path

By buddy (thanks Corey) has been taunting with comics for a long time now. For what its worth, I guess I sort of taunted him into it a while ago first :)

To continue my path to dorkdom, Ive started getting a few series again. My first shipment in a while has the following in it - looking forward to reading them:

The Boys - 48 and 49.  Ive actually been collecting these since they came out.  Its a hardcore, violent, sex filled mature comic about a group who keeps tabs on the 'supes'

Haunt 11 and 12

 And, the one Im most intrigued by - Iron Siege - a WW2 zombie comic

December 2010, and 2010 Yearly Totals!

Holy crap - I just read Scott MacPhee's blog (from MacPhee's Miniature Men blog) and looked at his totals for 2010 - pretty intimidating!  Something like 850 28mm infantry and 650 15mm infantry alone.  I dont even have 10 percent of that!  In fairness, I didnt paint a lot in the way of 'uniform' soldiers - most were different in one way or the other, and I bounce around from type to type.

Oh well - I did complete a lot for me, and I feel like I get better every time I paint a new figure.  I hope to up my totals in 2011.

Completed, for December, 2010:

28mm infantry completed: 3
1 Dark Elf Assassin (Reaper)
1 Barbarian (Reaper)
1 Paladin (Reaper)

15mm infantry completed: 5
3 Zombie Hunters (Rebel Miniatures)
2 Special Agents (Rebel Miniatures)


In progress, December, 2010/January, 2011:
15mm infantry in progress: 9 (Reduced this number here from over 100 last month)
9 Modern US Marines (Peter Pig) DAMMIT!
28mm cavalry in progress: 3
3 Mounted Samurai (Perry Miniatures)
Mini Sci Fi Vessel: 1
1 NAC Suffolk Class escort (GZG Miniatures)


My wife picked up several Western outlaws for me for Christmas, plus several that I bought for myself in November from Foundry.  Once I finish up the samurai, they are next.

Yearly totals:
25-28mm infantry completed: 54
25-28mm cavalry completed: 18
15mm infantry completed: 73
15mm cavalry completed: 4
15mm armor completed: 3
1/720 warships completed: 2
1/600 airplanes completed: 12 
1/285 airplanes completed: 4 
1/285 armor completed:10
1/285 infantry completed: 24
Battlestar Galactica: 1 
Other mini sci fi vessel: 1
Total spent: about $1076.89