Dawn of the Lead

As you may have noticed, the blog has been getting more and more quiet. In fact, this is the first post of the year, and it’s out in July. I’m still alive, but just haven’t had the time or motivation to write – or sadly comment on other people’s blogs. There’s been a lot going on this year, mostly fun things luckily, which has also been keeping me busy. So, what’s been up? A few choice picks:

Dublin and the UK in the spring

Following last year’s lovely Ghost Archipelago event, we redid it this year with Stargrave. It was a super fun event and it was such a great time hanging out with fellow miniature geeks, even going out for a park run of all things. There’s a lovely event report on the LEADPLAGUE blog. I painted up a crew for the event of course, said crew being rogue trader Delphea Scallak accompanied by Wolger Krant’s ogryn mercenaries.

After Dublin, I was off to London for Salute – via Manchester and Nottingham. In Nottingham I visited Warhammer World, and helped Annie from Bad Squiddo and Ian from Fenris with their Salute prep. The photo shows our trio heading off to London, accompanied by a great soundtrack. It was really interesting to get a behind the scenes look at how a trade show comes together – and how much work goes into all the packing and setup!

Salute was good fun as usual. I did a bunch of shopping and ran some unabashedly political participation games as part of Bunny Badger Games.

House

We bought a house, which feels like a very adult thing to do. It’s really lovely and I have a dedicated room for painting, an isolated space in the basement for my printers with their smelly chemicals, enough storage space for all of my hobby stuff, and a garage for things like spray painting etc. NICE. I didn’t have any photos of the house handy, but here are the printers and the painting space!

On a much more sad note, a few weeks ago we said our goodbyes to one of our cats, Piku. She lived a good life, but with her health failing, we decided it was best for her to let her go. We buried her in the garden and there will be a lovely memorial spot for her there. Rest in peace little buddy, we miss you a lot.

What’s next?

Today is the first day of my long summer holiday. I’ve no idea yet if it will see the resurgence of this blog or not, but at least I’ll have loads of time for hobby stuff! With zero plans apart from house and garden work, it should be a really relaxing summer ahead of me. Here’s hoping!