Status update monday March 16th

There has been a long time since my last update. I admit (again) that taking the Pledge didn't work as well as I'd hoped for the update frequency for this blog. But it has helped when it comes to stockpiling miniatures, so all hope is not out. I haven't bought a scale model set in over a year (because I started buying miniatures instead, if I should tell the whole truth), and it is now about a month since I bought a miniature.

I haven't been that good when it comes to painting my miniatures either, but at least I paint a lot more than I did before. I have great plans to end up with more models painted than bought when 2009 gives way to 2010.

At the moment I am working on my first Ironbreaker unit (I guess there will be more of them in the big dwarf army I hope to build over a period of many years to come). The armor is painted, and all the minis are standing firmly and steadily on their bases courtesy of Green Stuff. The Ironbreakers have been a pleasure to work with so far, although I must admit I prefer working with the plastic models over the metal ones. One of the main reasons for this is that I feel the paint sticks better to the plastic. Given time it sort of chips off the metal if they stand a long time before they get coated. But after they are coated they are just as robust as their plastic counterparts, and a lot of the metal minis are more detailed and I love details (except at the exact moment when I try to paint them).

King Alrik and his two shieldbearers are done. Miraculously I managed to get the shieldbearers to hold on to the shield by only pinning one of them. I know how I can pin the second if he decides to drop the shield at a later time, but I hope he will hang on to it by the GW superglue he is attached with. At the moment I am trying to decide if I should glue (or pin) Alrik to the shiled or not. The advantage of glueing/pinning him to the shield is that he stands a lot better when played with, but if I don't glue or pin him on the miniature is much easier to carry around to tournaments or games. And I hope to do some of that in the future.

I have also added an old metal sculpt of a dwarf engineer to the workspace along with a unit of a plastic cannon with three crew. I'm told the latter is from the Battle for Skull Pass Boxed set.

Hopefully some pictures of finished models wil follow in the near future!