I am really happy with how January played out on the hobby front, with one exception, which I will talk about later.

The Crocosaur painted up really well. This was part of the Zombicide “Undead or Alive” Kickstarter and is the opponent for the Abominape finished late last year.

Next was the “Lizardmen” army for Xeno Rampart. This was a very quick painting style which compromised painting quality for fast production. Despite this I am again happy with the result.

A repurpose of a portion of the old Airfix Foreign Legion fort. This was used as the main objective in a Men Who Would Be Kings game featured below.

The Dr Who U.N.I.T sections came out better than expected and will be an excellent multi-purpose force. There is still four more infantry section to be completed, hopefully this month.

Additional Dr Who sets were also completed. The “:Headless Monks” were very effective and are the “project” that I am most happy with the outcome this month.

The Tomb of the Cybermen figures were a very quick chrome spray, black wash ,and a few fiddly bits to finish off. The basing took the most time.

The time Lords were another good outcome except for my painting of eyes!

The two units of Galifreyan Guard are great all-purpose Sci-Fi figures.

Only one unit of my Jungle Division finished. I need to pull my finger out and get this project completed.

The last of the British Commandos put together and undercoated ready for painting. I hate this essential part of the hobby!

Only this PIAT team were painted.

Despite losing one of the turrets for a short period of time two Stuart tanks were also finished. The Tamiya spray cans, TS28 and TS3, make painting these very quick with an OK outcome.

The big disappointment, despite all of us being on holidays, was fitting in only one game during January. This was a great fun game of Men Who Would Be Kings, played out in true Hollywood style (without the sex, drugs and rock and roll). Great to finally get the band back together.

There was another game played last night (Tuesday the 31st) not included, but this will be posted on later this week.

Not completed were the 20mm Australians, 28mm section of the Jungle division, the Home Guard on bicycles were not put together, the mule teams remain unpainted, and the Imperial Guard “old school” sentinels were not finished.

As always there were some new projects started that were not planned for at the start of the month. These included:

Snowmen

Children with snowballs to fight them

The rest of the “left over” Stargrave figures for a Xenos Rampart security force, including an old 40k Dreadnought.

Another box of Lizardmen put together and painted with first coat. Also a US Army section put together, undercoated and the first colour painted.

All-in-all a good month!

The Xenos Rampart project WAS completed, but I have added the left over figures to this so that will now move into February to finish off (are projects ever finished?).

The completion of the Dr Who figures is now well underway with a substantial amount finished during January. This will continue, probably until the end of March, as although something I want finished there are others more important to me.

I have also ditched some 20mm terrain, a pile of figures, and some Flames of War books I will not use, to unsuspecting “victims”. Something I wish to continue throughout the year.

I also intend to sell off a large amount of figures I am not using this year and will give blog followers first bite before they go on various sites for sale, so keep you eyes open for these.

The main thing is the plastic and metal mountains are, and will be, becoming smaller!