Keeping Myself Busy

In between building more of Venice, I've got on with various projects I've had sitting around for a while.

Some more figures for my new (still in planning) fantasy project, very loosely based on Scandinavian myth and folklore. Most of the miniatures are from Heatbreaker, dating back to the late 1980s/early 1990s, designed by Phil Lewis.

 Dark Dwarves, these guys have oodles of character, but with their oversized heads they did not fit in with my existing dwarf forces, which are mostly Vendal and Mithril. So they will be my Dokkalfar for this new project.

 A bunch of frozen undead, in various stages of decomposition.

 A Frost Giant, this time a 54mm plastic barbarian from a Russian toy company.

More Dokkalfar, some sort of evil spirit (not sure of the manufacturer) and a couple of Svartalfar, Heatbreaker Goblins, also by Phil Lewis. This pack was entitles "Nasty Goblins", are there any other kind?

Some more low scatter terrain for Frostgrave.

The Librarian. The miniature is from Westwind's Vampire Wars range. No idea where the candle stands came from originally, I got them in a job lot on ebay. Not sure at the moment what I will use him for, but I'm sure I will find a purpose.

I Have No Self Control!

Just to ensure everything is ready for the possible lockdown, I put an order in to TTCombat for some expansions to my Streets of Venice set up.

My plan was to stash this away until we got hit with the sort of enforced isolation that Italy and Spain currently have, but of course I'm a wargamer!'. No sooner had I taken delivery I had to open a couple of packs just "to have a look".

And now I have some time on my hands (so far all our work has been cancelled up until June), I gave in to temptation and started to assemble a couple of items.

This is the set of small steps assembled and painted up, I can see these coming in very useful.

And, of course, a gondola is essential! 

I've also finally got around to painting some of the old Heartbreaker miniatures, designed by Phil Lewis, that I've had hanging around for a while.

The two purple wizards are for the new Frostgrave campaign we were supposed to start in April and the other two characters are for a new project I'm working, a fantasy campaign incorporating elements of Scandinavian/Finnish mythology. I guess I'll get at lot of work done on that now!

Bloody cameras, now I've looked at this picture in close up, I've noticed a couple of spots I missed on the blue-faced wizard. That will teach me to paint without a magnifying visor, my eyesight is not what it once was!