Dusting off the Dwarves

I started going through stuff in the basement, trying to purge odds and ends that will just never get used, when I happened on the box with my old GW Dwarves.  This army is a left over from about 30 years ago.  A large number were painted circa 1990-1995, and then a few more might have been added over the next ten years as they got to the table a couple of times facing my daughters Orcs.  

Otherwise, this 150 plus figure army has seen no use, and hasn't been out of the box since probably 2006.

I opened the box, looked at a few of them, and realized just how badly they were painted, which was kind of depressing.  I felt the tug, and briefly thought about completely repainting them, but the nostalgia wont let me, so I decided to finish the unpainted stuff and update some of the others, mostly just adding a little contrast to or details to various figs.

The lost dwarven army.

First I generally sorted them out into the old (I want to say 4th ? edition) GW rules, and started with the Miners.  These were just touch ups thus far.

Generally the figs are in decent shape, though one of them lost the flame to his candle, which I'll fix later.  And, yeah, I've never really been a fan of slotta bases, so they are mounted on .06 inch styrene sheet.

I honestly am not sure of what I'm going to do with them, I mean game obviously, but I have no idea what rules I'll use.  Though right now there is an orc and goblin army lurking somewhere in the basement.  

Additionally, there is some portion of a Tom Meier elven army that's been waiting for paint for a couple of decades (or more) as well.  And I guess my old Celts could join the battlefield if need be.

In any event, thats what I'm paining this week, while working on some the Star Trek campaign rules off and on.

End of the Trek

I spent the weekend more or less wrapping up my Star Fleet Battles miniatures project.  This was what my staging area for painting fighters looked like for Star Fleet Battles last Friday with a touch under half of the fighter painted.  By the end of the weekend, the table was empty.

There actually is a little more to do, the Hydrans still don't have fighters, as I failed to order the proper number of packs, but I am waiting for Trump's tariff thing to get settled out before ordering more.

In any event, I think I finished up 210 fighter miniatures over the three days, in what ended up being a bit of a painting marathon.  Here's a couple of close-ups of Federation and Klingon fighters.

Federation A-10s. The miniatures are from GZG.

These were originally going to be used for 

Klingon Z-2 Fighters, but wil be re-purposed 

as Z-1s as GZG discontinued them.

Paint jobs are pretty basic, and I still have to print the labels, but haven't been able to get the new computer to communicate with the printer yet.  

There are a few other odds and ends to do, the Gorn fleet is short of couple of ships, but will have to wait until I either scratch build them or find older miniatures on Ebay or elsewhere, as I don't care for the newer sculpts of the heavy cruiser or dreadnaught.  Additionally many of the Hydran ships still need their fleet stripe, for which I want to pick up a specific masking tape, as painting free hand did not work out as well as I would have liked.

I'll be getting the fleets out for upcoming games and will share more photos then.

Stay safe out there.