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May Pt 1

June 6, 2026

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A good month, not as great as i would have liked it to be…but i blame the heatwave for that… i don’t deal with heat well at all (anything double digits is the unhappy zone…). But still got 32 minis/items painted this month, so pretty happy with that. So lets get into it.

First up we have 3 units of Roman Hastati for Epic Hail Caesar. These are 3d printed minis from Cromarty Forge as im not a fan of the warlord plastics. Annoyingly i wasn’t allowed to count this as 180 minis, so i have to settle for it counting as 6 (3 units of 2 bases)

Sticking with the ancients theme, we have some gladiators. This is the free sprue that came with June’s Issue of Wargames Illustrated which hit the stores last week. Got them painted up immediately, lots of fun and very much looking forward to giving the game a go. Currently printing off an arena board, so look out for that in next months progress update.

Another Maladum character, this time Brahm, slowly working my way through these.

Next up we go to the multi award winning Moonstone. I love painting Moonstone minis, so much character in them and forces me to paint differently to how i usually do, and to try new things.

Also dabbled in a bit of LOTR this month, the end is a lovely scuplt from Davale Games that i 3d printed. Had to scale it down a couple mm to fit it on my printer, but dont think youde be able to tell, its still massive.

Also started working on some Orcs for an Army of Gothmog army, not my best paint jobs, but was quick to get them done, and they should look good once a full band is on the table.