Well, I thought I should wander out to the games bunker and do a visual recording of the progress of the preslotta fantasy armies, as my painter is down to the last 800 of his batch and I have about 500 to do myself. The unpainted stuff includes 350 Grenadier Barbarians including 3 war mammoths, 10 Ackland Orc Wyverns, 20 or so of the lovely little attacking golden eagle, 5 Ackland Elf War Eagles, 200 or so Chronicle Orcs, 500 FTS, FTZ and C Series Undead and a load of angels, demons and war machines... I really ought to try and get an accurate number of those. Oh, I forgot to photograph the pink T-Rex and the Dwarf on Triceratops. And then, a lifetime's collecting of fantasy armies is complete. I certainly don't need any more. My historical collecting is also pretty much over now, and I am working through the sci-fi so, that I will hopefully have it all done in 18 months ahead of hitting 60. I'm always available if an show organisers want a 15 x 5 Oldhammer game in atten...

 Well, my month of R&R is finally upon me, so, having received a delivery of Aly Moorrison High Elves from my painter (the infantry part of my army) I set about basing them yesterday. Today, they are based and double varnished, along with a couple of human characters who were in the box with them. I asked my painter to work from the descriptions in Forces Of Fantasy, which he has done, with exactly the end result I envisaged and which, would have made the 14 year old me, get a little excited in the trouser department. Hell, the 57 year old me is barely holding steady...