While the society members ramp up their projects for 2025 we thought for this Wednesday we would have a round up of the hobby related gifts members received as a teaser of what to expect to see this year.
We start with Phil and a fresh supply of GW Agrax Earthshade and Nuln Oil. If these ever go out of production Phil will never paint again!
Next up and Marcus has some new Battletech miniatures as well as some John Carter of Mars figures. Marcus has recently been painting up 6mm sci-fi forces and clearly felt the need for something a bit heavier.
Now we have Tony F with some Mantic sci-fi terrain, which he says will be appearing in a game of Stargrave this year. He’s also got more reference material for Middle Earth to help with the campaign currently running.
We have some 40k and paint for Charlotte, and some intriguing diorama lights. Never come across those before so am really interested in how Charlotte is going to use them, as intended or as terrain features?
Mark J has just gone for more reinforcements for his WW2 collection. This time some US Airborne troops.
Mark K has a new ruleset to try out in the form of L’Art De La Guerre,
and some Desert Rats decals, so a real mix of periods there.
While Mark W (yes we have a lot of Marks) has the Arkham Horror card game, Dunwich Legacy and the Investigators. You can never go wrong with a bit of Cthulhu style horror in my book (and we all know what book that is).
We have more new rules now, looks like John La will be up for more naval action this year, we’ve seed WW2 and Ancient naval games from John. I can’t remember if we’ve seen any age of sail yet.
Now on to what I got from Father Christmas, I love reading older sci-fi stories and picked this set of three books of edited collections about power armour, super tanks and space fighters. I get a lot of inspiration from books like these for miniature sculpting and rule writing.
And we end our Christmas special with a typical gamer response from Stephen. He didn’t ask for any hobby stuff this year but one of his presents had this packaging, which is being painted up as a sci-fi building as we speak, so look out for that next Wednesday.
That’s it for this week, we hope you also got some nice hobby goodies over the break. See you next Wednesday when our normal look at the work in progress will resume.