2018 - Sculpting and other mayhem

When last we met, this was a Frostgrave blog for soloist adventures with some lite battle reports and other garbage. This year, I find my interests shifting and consequently, the themes of this blog are changing as well. A lot of my efforts are still on playing and making single player content for cool games I love, but soon I'll be posting about games I'm working on, because I'm also doing that now. Also, comics? Maybe baby.

Also, I'm working on scratch built models. Last year I made a handful of bugs and pugs.

This year I'd really like to continue the trend of making my own toys. I've already started with two more pugs and their robot pal, bringing the posse up to almost 400 points in my favorite game right now, Wasteman by Thunderchild Miniatures.

I've been trying to decide what im doing with these fools, since I also have hopes to build them a tank. Once I finish the handful of goofs I'm sculpting and once the kickstarter comes in, I'll be looking at 14 pugs and a tank (give or take.) It might be rad to get to 30ish pugs, and maybe try playing them in 40k (if I can find rules that feel right.) Anyway, its got me drawing up plans for more sculpts, which thrills me to no end. 

I'm still working on a list, but since I'm a narrative player, I've given a lot of thought to scaling up/down for making games adhere to a plot.

For smaller games with specialist teams, I'd like to use the four infantry pugs I sculpted last year, plus a robot that I'm sculpting presently. Its led by Tex, the pug who bears a very small resemblance to one Ron Swanson.

The larger army would be something like this:

• A commander of some sorts
• Karl Barx and Co. (the official pug posse) 
• Tex's Troublemakers (4 pugs and a robot)
• The Lizard Kings (3 pugs rough riding iguana-esque kritters)
• The Iron Kettle ( a roly poly tank) (manned perhaps by two more pups)
• Captain Pugmosh and Mean Moe (other doggos from the kickstarter)

I've already begun calling in brainpower from my hobby friends on how to begin sculpting/modeling a tank, which I'm hankering to put on a big circle base for some reason. In the next few weeks, I'm hoping that The Iron Kettle and crew start coming together along with that robot, while I sort out the rest of my hobby plans for 2018. At least I'm keeping busy!