Viking Army Progress

 Everybody sing now:

"I write one post and then I write ano-ther" (oh yeah)

"Do people care? I sometimes won-der"

"could you read, would you read ano-tthhheerrrr?"

"I hope you do, I hope it gives pleas-sure.

--That's to the tune of "Down Under" from Men At Work.  Did it come through in the writing?  I'm sure it did.  And now that song will be stuck in your head the rest of day.  BOOM! psychological warfare.

Speaking of Being Down Under

Vikings.  I have some.  In a totally unexpected twist of events I've made some more movement trays for my Viking miniatures.  OK, so it's NOT totally unexpected but easily foreseeable as I've been making these for awhile now; and even in the past wrote how I would be doing more in the future. 

 I'm something of a predictable stick in the mud.  Consistent.  It's why all the ladies find me so non-threatening.

I made up 6 trays / Big battle Bases.  Which is not all that much really.  To create the illusion of doing more than I have done; I'll show you pictures of the trays in small increments.  It's a blogging trick that.  ALL the best bloggers do it.

First small bunch. Two trays

Second small bunch.  These guys have a nifty Raven banner

Third bunch.
"6 foot, 7 foot, 8 foot BUNCH!
Daylight come and we want to go home."
(Now that's two songs that will be stuck in your head all day.
BOOM!  Psychological warfare strikes again)

Here's 2 pics of the 6 bases.

View from the Helicopter

This makes the Viking Army 10 trays strong so far.  More to come.  

I will blame my slow hobby progress on the baby.  Son #3 is now 10 months old, and into everything and everywhere so I had to get serious about baby proofing the house again.  I spent some nights reinstalling latches on cabinets and gates across stairwells.  Safety First.  His safety that is; I've already tripped over a gate coming down the stairs. 

Wait A Minute;  That First Subtitle Made No Sense.

What do Vikings have to do with 'Being Down Under?' 

Nothing really.

I'll do better next time.

Inevitability

We Wargamers all have different styles.  A lot of gamers I know will do a little from one project / genre and then go over to another one.  Little bit of A, then a little of B, and then some C.  I'm a little different in that I tend to focus on one genre for months at a time.  It's because I get a lot of satisfaction moving a project to it's next milestone.  I like to achieve goals; it seems to happen so rarely once one is over 30. 

Yet most gamers I know while working on a project will then go buy stuff for it.  Seems to be in our DNA.  In this respect I am no different, so while working on Dark Ages stuff and sorting out what I actually had and had not; I made a little  purchase to round out some missing elements.

A box of generic plastic Dark Age warriors
A blister of 8 metal Saxon Ceorls
and 3 blisters of Saxon Standard bearers. 
The standard bears I thought were pretty nifty.  A unique figure complete with pole and LBMS banner.

I also purchased a pantsload of LBMS shield transfers, but these are coming from the UK so who knows how long that will take to show up.  But there's no rush.  I don't know when I'll get around to assembling these.  Probably next year.  I just couldn't resist getting some Dark Ages swag.  It seemed inevitable.  See, I did do a better job this time around.

It's the End of the Post as We Know It

(Third times a charm for the musical psychological warfare)

I gotta run.  I hear the baby rattling one of the baby gates by the stairs and I don't trust my handy work all that much.  Thanks for reading.  Double Thanks for writing a comment.  Till Next time.