The Shape of Things To Come

My modeling & painting activities will be on hold for a week or two. Aside from some home renovations, last-minute out-of-town trips and another broadcast campaign at work (aka more late nights at the office) most of my hobby stuff -- wargaming miniatures, scale models, toys, etc. -- have been temporarily boxed and put in storage. The good news is that along with the home renovations, I've contracted the foreman and head carpenter to make me a better modelling workbench and storage system in the garage as well as a new 5ft x 3 ft gaming table.

I was tempted to try a bigger table but most of my existing terrain mats were configured for that size and a change would render them useless. As of this June, these are the projects I'm in the midst of and which would be on the priority list as soon as my stuff gets freed from their temporary confinement.

Here's the list in order of priority:

28mm People of the Woods

-- Made almost exclusively from Mageknight figures, the army features ent-like monsters, dryads, forest elementals, firbolg (Mageknight Trolls) as well as the fairy folk, this army just got some new recruits in the form of some Gormiti figures. The biggest hurdle now is to decide which ruleset to use them for. I have AD&D Battlesystem but the articles I've read about Hordes of the Things and De Bellis Antiquitatis have piqued my interest. I'm scouting ebay for a reasonably priced copy of Hott and DBA and may buy the rules soon.

Here's a roll call of the figures I have at hand:

• MK Wood Golem x6 (3 painted)
  
• MK Troll Brawler x6 (3 painted)
• MK Troll Shaman x 2
• MK Troll Chieftain
  
• MK Thorn Maidens x5 (painted)
• MK Tanglewood Spirits x3 (painted)
• MK Living Elemental x1
• MK Pooka x8
• MK Sprites x3
• Gormiti Ents x4

And here's what I want to add:

• GW Dryads x6
  
• D&D Treant (from Giants of Legend)
• MK Oak Mage x3
• MK Oak Warrior x3

1/72 Warmaster Carthaginian Army

-- I need to finish a set of elephants and one set each of Ancient Spanish cavalry & Celtic cavalry before I can start working on the stand bases.Plus, I haven't painted up the command figures I plan to use as generals and heroes. These will be mounted on 1.25 round bases. Majority of these figures are from Hat Industrie with a few boxes of Zvezda thrown in for good measure. These are the units already painted:

Painted:

• Spanish Scutarii
• Spanish Caetratti
• Balearic Slingers
• North African & Libyan Heavy Infantry
• Numidian Light, Unarmored Infantry
• Lusitani, Celtiberian & Celt Warriors
• North African Noble Cavalry
• Numidian Light Cavalry
• North African & Libyan Light, Unarmored Infantry

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Unpainted:

• Spanish Cavalry
• War Elephants
• more North African & Libyan Heavy Infantry
• Command stands & figures
• Celtic Cavalry
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1/72 Warmaster Republican Roman Army

-- with the velites out of the way, I'm getting the legion, the roman cavalry and artillery as well as the Italian allies assembled, primed and based. A thread at TMP has made me decide to make each legion unit ( 3 stands as per WM) a stand of Hastati, a stand of Princeps and a stand of Triarii.

Painted:

• Velites
• Celtic Mercenaries

Unpainted:

• Republican Romans Princeps, Triarii, Hastati
• Although these were less numerous, I have 3 flavors of Cavalry ( Hat, Zvezda & Italeri)
• Roman Catapults
• Italian Allied Foot
• Italian Allied Cavalry
• Command stands & figures
• Celts & Gallic warbands
  

1/72 Middle- Earth Warmaster Armies

-- Caesar's fantasy line as well as matters of budget have made me look into 1/72 as a feasible scale for making large Middle-Earth armies for mass battles. A query at TMP provided a lot of suggestions for figure choices in that scale. I haven't made a final decision though on which figures to use but will post updates soon. I've already ordered boxes of the orcs and dwarves from Hannants and they may soon be the first of my 1/72 LOTR armies.