Aggressive Retsuko season 2

 Time for some more hilarious situations with our favorite death metal loving Red Panda!

You would almost forget she is from the SanRio stable of cute little figures...

Having to deal with her co-workers, she also has her mom to take into account when she sends her a totally outdated style little dress.  Her mom comes over to visit, looking to find her a husband and arranging a date. 

While the date isn't a total disaster, her new collegue is.  While he looks like a nice guy, he sends her constantly messages on her cellphone with rules and regulations of the office which he finds are being breached by her training of him.  At a night out with her friends, she starts pondering to get her driving license.  She confronts him, and tells him how incompetent he actually is.

But then they have to man a foodstall for charity together, as she practices car driving.  But Anai keeps making himself impossible, also harassing her collegues with his rulesmongering.  But when the foodstand fails, he comes to the rescue making a far better yakisoba then Retsuko can.  

 

 

As her moms keep trying to couple her, Retsuko ponders more and more what she actually wants to do in her life.  As her mother sends her to a dating party, she meets one of her collegues there.  When she passes her driving lessons, she wants to tell it to a guy she met in class, Tadano.  But he never came back to the lessons, and later that night in the karaoke she has the discussion about marriage with her acquintances, as well as the day after at work, and realises she should have asked his number.

But he isn't the unemployed slacker he seemed to be, actually being a designer of an AI system for company assistance, and he comes to Retsuko's work to present the system.  When he sees her walking down the street, he catches up with her and go for a coffee.  He still plays the poor person in front of her, and they go for some ramen as he takes her on a date... revealing who he truly is to her.  An idealist that wants to change society by ending people to have to go to work as she falls head over heels for him.

 

 

She even joins him on a business trip, but her boss appears there as well to her dismay.  But that doesn't stop her dreams of a happy future with Tadano at all.  He doesn't want to marry though, even as he declares he wants to be with her forever.  She gets advice on how to handle it from the most unlikely of sources though, her boss Ton, realising it might not work out with Tadano and she takes him to karaoke.

This was another fun series with some good laughs, and it remains a cute drawing style after all. 

Star Trek Strange New Worlds season 2

 The second season of what one can consider "some real Trek" hit last year, and finally me and Noshi found the time to watch it.

And it didn't disappoint, with this pre-Kirk crew, captain Pike being of another breed then Kirk but likeable none the less.

Talking Kirk, he does appear in quite a few episodes, still a lieutenant aboard the Farragut, but to be honest he is like the only minor point for me, and a very minor, yet not per se bad point.  While his character is on point, being young and bold (especially in the time travel episode), the actor for me is a tat to willow-y in build, making him look a bit on the nerdy side instead of the lady swooner that William Shatner portrayed, as after more then half a century he seemingly gained the trait of empathy.  It just "feels" different from the captain I got to know over the decades of the franchise.

When undergoing upgrades, Spock, contacted by La'an, steals the Enterprise to prevent a plot to respark the Klingon - Federation War, and while clandestine this is hailed in thanks with the threat of the conflict with the Gorn Hegemony looming on the horizon.  In the meantime, Pike is recruiting a top lawyer to clear his first officer from the genetic modification charges, as she turns out to be the one that turned herself in.  During the process, she is cleared of charges and can resume duties, but this does mean her secret is out.

La'an, is tossed in the past, and must prevent the formation of an alternate timeline together with that realities Kirk, as they need to save Khan Nonien Sing from a Romulan plot to alter time.  While succesful, even though that timelines Kirk dies (and in this episode, we really see streaks of the Kirk we all got to know and love, I must say, cudos to Paul Wesley's portrayal here) to restore the timeline La'an came from instead of safeguarding his own.  

Talking captain', Pike has hiw own issues with captain Batel, his love intrest and captain of the USS Cayuga.  When he is assigned to investigate a planet where a previous mission failed, he finds one of his deemed killed in action crewmembers from that earlier mission has become a sort of local tyrant king with the help of a shield that prevents a memory whiping radiation.  Radiation is also of an issue when together with this timeline's Kirk, the first time we get to meet the actual character, comes aboard from the USS farragut to aid in the repair of a deuterium facility.

And then we get one of the funniest episodes this season, an actual crossover with... the Lower Decks animation series.  Mind you, the opening being drawn this episode was super.  Boimler, assigned by the USS Ceritos to investigate an ancient portal, falls through and ends on the Enterprise.  Starstruck, he tries to help out while not altering the timeline when an Orion pirate steals the portal.  When they get it back, instead of getting home Mariner comes through looking for him, and they need both their future knowledge on how to get the portal back up and running and return them home.  

While the episode with the Klingon ambassador is more serious in tone, looking back in the past of war of doctor M'Benga, the next episode is a musical.  Hilarious (and again, the thing they did with the opening was amazing), but then it all turns back to grim seriousness.  A colony is attacked by the Gorn, and the USS Cayuga who was there is destroyed.  The Enterprise intervenes, but a line is drawn across the planet, being claimed by the Gorn and making it a hard diplomatic tippytoe situation.  Pike finds Batel amongst the survivors, together with a young engineer called Montgomery Scott who had build a cloaking device to escape the Gorn in a shuttle when his own starship was destroyed.  By the way, Enterprise didn't get a new chief engineer this season after the death of Hemmer last season, so I think we all know who is going to fill the vacancy!

But during the rescue mission, which involves crashing the saucer section of the Cayuga on the planet to destroy a Gorn jammer, part of the crew is hijacked away from teleport by the Gorn, while captain Batel is infected with Gorn eggs.

So that was one heck of a cliffhanger for the season, and sadly season 3 at the moment is only in the process of being filmed.  That means we will still have to wait a long time to see how this resolves, but I for one can't wait for season 3 to air!

On the Painting Desk 268

 Fantastic progress for this week's update!

Because all on the bench are nearly done, by next week these figures will be rounded out and be ready for basing.

Meaning I'm also starting to paint on the deamonsmith, who will become the leader of my Mordheim warband, and some work on the WarCry Horns of Hashut.

Well, that is the plan at least for this week, because I feel a bit of a cold coming up in a household where everyone else has just recovered from a good wintercold, so it'll depend if my number will come up or not.

And maybe, very maybe, I might actually get a game in this week...

The Uncanny Counter season 2

 So our favorite supernatural demonhunting noodle-cooks are back for a second season of South-Korean television.

And the first season was great fun, and not only because of it's unlikely setting!

 

And it starts immediatly with some action, as a school bus is hijacked by a demon possessing the driver.   The Counters rush into action, showing us what exactly they are all about again.  On the other side, the evil spirits are introduced as they wipe out the chinese Counter team, Hwang Pil-Gwang, who is the maffiosio leader of the band, the hawt Gelly who is the resident psycho and weirdo sadist Wong.

They make the move to Korea, intrested in the real-estate fraud that was central to season one.  Realising they need an additional Counter, the team recruits Jaek-Bong who fell in a coma after saving his date from Truck-kun.  Ma Jo-Seok on the other hand is a safety worker that rescued So Moon's grandma, and has become a personal friend together with his pregnant wife, and victims of the season one fraud.

Unfortunatly the evil spirits are trying to eliminate the men behind the scene, and Ma Jo-Seok's wife dies as a result of running into them, breaking his spirit.  But as the evil spirits and the Counters meet, the evil ones see what the Korean Counters are capable off and lust after their powers.  Pil-Gwang comes to the noodle shop, having tracked down So Moon, intend on unnerving him.  Their hide-out uncovered, the  Counters have to move bases and relocate to a warehouse courtesy of Jang-mul.

As Ha-Na and Jeok-Bong go for a jogging trip, in which she runs into her high school crush, Jeok-Bong's power manifests.  He can smell evil spirits and locate them that way.  Chasing the evil spirits, the Counters are split up, miss Chu and Jang-mul being confronted by Wong and Pil-gwang, saved at the last moment by So Moon.  Mo-tak also arrives and together with Miss Chu beat Wong and summon him to Yung.  But Pil-gwang (barely) escapes the same fate as he blackmails So Moon into letting him go by threatening to shoot Jang-mul.

Ha-na and Jeok-Bong face Gelly, costing the latter an eye but Jeok-Bong his sense of smell.  He returns to the village feeling himself useless, but the other Counters convince him to stay on the team with the help of his father, and his smelling power returns as well.  Pil-gwang and Gelly though learned that the pregnant lady they killed was a friend of the Counters, as Ma Jo-Seok steals a firetruck to go after the man he believes killed his wife and unborn child.  He ends up in jail, but as he tries to commit suicide an evil spirit is attracted to his rage.  It cannot possess him as he hasn't killed anyone, but latches onto his innerself.  

Unremorsefull at his trial, Ma Jo-Seok is kept in jail, and is visited by Pil-gwang as we learn more about his involvement in the residence fraud, and he sensed a spirit in Ma Jo-Seok.  He comes to tell him the (twisted in his favor) truth, in the hopes of kindling the spirit even more.  As they chase Gelly in a warehouse, they learn they where involved in the fraud, and that they have been betrayed by one of the others on in it.  It turns out the Red Roses criminal organisation is behind the fraud, headed by Chung-Jae, the second in charge of the fraud and the one that killed Min-Ji, albeit controlled by Pil-gwang... and not dead from a car accident as is publically believed.

Miss Chu in the meantime takes care of a small time criminal, who was her first "save" as a counter when he was being bullied, yet now became a bully himself.  Pil-gwang and Gelly revisit Ma Jo-Seok, fuelling his rage ever more.  He breaks out from jail, going after mr Park.  But his humanity keeps the evil spirit inside him still in check, preventing it from making him do his first kill and become ever more powerful.  But he kills his target in the end, Mr Park whom he thinks is still the murderer, and the spirit can take full possession of him now at last.  So Moon can nearly summon it, but Pil-gwang intervenes and whisks Ma Jo-Seok away.  In Yung, they learn that if Jo-Seok and Pil-gwang would merge, a complete evil spirit will manifest, far more powerful then anything the Counters encountered so far. 

Pil-gwang reveals to Ma Jo-Seok the true killer of his family, Chung-Jae is still out there, as Gelly realises Pil-gwang has abandoned her as she is seemingly no longer usefull to his plans.  As she seriously injures ha-na's crush, she is almost banished by Ha-Na but Pil-gwang comes to her rescue, not out of loyalty but because he wants to absorb her powers for his own.  Miss Chu is captured by the boy she saved long ago, as he wants to prove his loyalty to the crime syndicate, but Mo-Tak saves her.  The team goes after Ma Jo-Seok, who entered a hotel, where they walk into a trap laid by Pil-gwang.  Gelly strikes Moon down, erasing the moment of his rebirth from his memory and putting him back into a coma, as Jang-mul comes in to save the Counters, machine gun blasting.

In Yung, his "handler" Wi-Gen is trapped now in the White Ground, where she must find So Moon's soul and reforge their contract in order to return his powers.  But she can't find him, as he isn't actually in a coma, something Ha-Na finds out by entering his mind.  At the port, Mo-Tak manages to arrest Chung-Jae, while Ha-Na faces off Gelly again.  Locking her in a container, the blinded Gelly can't locate ha-na, who thanks to her training of her other senses can easily punch the psycho blonde around and summon her to Yung.  Ha-na manages to bring So Moon back, but he doesn`t strike a new contract with Wi-gen, instead returning out of his own free will to the Counter life.

With both Gelly and (unknown they are back) Moon's powers gone, Pil-gwang decides to go to plan B and absorb Ma Jo-Seok's powers instead.  But Pil-gwang is no match, and Ma Jo-Seok sets out to hijack the prisoner transport that carries Chung-Jae.  he nearly strangles his mother against his will, but the Counters luckily intervene.  Pil-gwang lures Ma Jo-Seok to the television station as he brings Chung-jae's decapitated head, and revealing he was behind the fraud all along.  He quickly snaps Pil-gwang's neck and absorbs him, but in doing so the spirit inside Pil-gwang takes over the one controlling him and making Ma Jo-Seok his new vessel.  

Now a complete spirit, Yung orders the Counters not to try and summon him, but eliminate him all together, something So Moon does not agree with.  He knows Ma Jo-Seok is still in there, and wants to save him.  And when Mo-tak's partner is seemingly killed, the good in Ma Jo-Seok heals him from the brink of dead, proving So Moon's hunch.  The evil spirit knows though where they hide, and he attacks their base.  So Moon wants to sacrifice himself to take the spirit down, but the other Counters won't abandon him, and So Moon enters his mind.  In there, he needs to fight the spirit of Pil-gwang, and on the verge of being defeated by the evil being, a light starts shining as Ma Jo-Seok's spirit intervenes, and So Moon actually manages to summon Pil-gwang out of the body.  He goes to look for Ma Jo-Seok, finding him in the crumbling realms of his thoughts.  But So Moon convinces the Yung to keep his promise and he can briefly see Min-Ji again in the spirit world, before returning to jail to serve a long sentence, strengthened by the thought of her.

In the aftermath, So Moon goes to Europe for six months to train Counters there, even finding Wi-gen's daughter.  And when he returns, they go back to business as usual...

Okay, so it was fun, BUT... a lot of rules are bended and even broken about spirits and Counter powers compared to season 1, creating plotholes.  Also, no matter how villainous Pil-gwang might be, he is rather two dimensional compared to the villain of season one.  Was this a good season, sure, but it just has those little issues that don't make it as awesome as the first one was.

Oh well, time to go cook some noodles now I guess!

Zom 100: Bucket list of the Dead

 A comedy show for the summer season of 2023, and one I added to my FAL team as I had a gut feeling this would prove popular.  Except it didn't turn out to be a comedy show...

I guess this is alo my first real zombie anime, over 500+ series down the line...

 

Tendo is a 24 year old, totally broken by corporate boring life.  He doesn`t even dare to confess his intrest in his co-worker Ootori.  But one day he wakes up and finds that the whole country is being overrun by zombies!  Why he must struggle to survive, he never felt so alive actually.  He sees the world in colour again, happy he now has a day off from work... but when wanting to save his crush, he finds her turned into a zombie as well.

He wakes up the day after, happy he doesn`t have to go to work anymore even though the streets are full of zombies, and starts to finally clean his appartment now that he has time.  But he also finds out he has to go on a beer run as he drank the last one.  At the convenience store, he meets another survivor, a girl named Mikazuki Shizuka.  He feels alive, writing down a bucket list of 100 things he still wants to do before becoming a zombie.

A guy named Shou leads a resistance against the zombies, as Tendo reflects on his boring office life from before the apocalypse.  A mysterious sound lures all the zombies away, allowing Tendo to go and try an aquintance, Kencho, to apologise.  As they venture together in the city, they run into three fight attendant girls, and Tendo ends up very drunk.  But another survivor inside has been infected, and the girls attack each other and are infected.  The friends must move on without them, including a girl that made a lasting impression on Tendo.

 

As he wants to live out his childhood dream, he becomes Akiraiger, a superhero, but is soon faced with a zombified shark in the aquarium.  Mikazuki is also present, and in the end he saves her, but ends up with a reprimand for doing so and putting Kencho in danger as such.  They go on a road trip to Tendo's parents house, making a stop to get a camper... and running into Mikazuki again.  Their RV is stopped, by what turns out to be his old tyrannical boss, who started a sort of company again exploiting even the zombies.

Stuck in the encampment, he is forced to do the waitering of the men.  The boss takes an eye on Mikazuki, coming on to her.  But in the meantime, his boss keeps playing mindgames with him, slowly dwindling his resolve.  During a supply run, a zombie sneaks into the truck and gets into the encampment that way.  Mikazuki brings him back to his senses, Tendo telling of his boss.  But the truck arrives and in the ensueing chaos the zombies start making victims, but Tendo saves his boss.  

During a yoga excercise, they meet Beatrix, a samurai armoured girl that actually wants to find the last surviving sushi-chef.  They travel to an Onsen after enjoying a great sushi meal, but unfortunatly the hot spring is also filled with zombies.  Travelling through the forest, helping an old man out building a treehouse, they arrive at Akira's parents village... finding them in a sake induced party.  Akira appologises for not visiting for years, before they enjoy the rest of the infection safe haven.

Enjoying the calm life, there are however those that are in the village that are just bored, such as NEET Higurashi.  Fueled by a hatred for society, his actions cause an opening in the barrier, and allow the zombies in before he confronts Akira and his friends.  One by one his cronies are defeated, before they both end up in a duel of opposing views... and bucket lists.

His father held hostage, he is forced to make a hard decision.  Using a rouse to look like a zombie, he overcomes Higurashi and saves his father.  But Higurashi gets bitten in the end, and confesses that the one thing he really wanted to do was have fun with friends in a public swimming pool.  Akira makes him a promise when he finally turns zombie, he will find him and they will go to the pool before Higurashi runs off, throwing himself in the nearby pool.

Together with the villagers, they move away from the village and the zombies, but with the bridge gone they are caught, before help arrives and they make good their escape, and into new adventures!

Now, due to some studio issues, the series went on hiatus for a month or two between episodes 9 and 10, but once it returned it was the great viewing experience again, even though this did cause a bit of it's momentum to be lost.  But this is one fantastic series for sure and one you NEED to check out!

Star Trek Picard season 3

 Okay, two things first that immediatly drew my attention: it is no longer called Picard, but Star Trek Picard, and it has the old TNG music opening (and ending) theme's back.

Second thing: boy oh boy, this is what a farewell tour should be like, as it ties up a lot of loose ends, and it is a great hommage to all (and take that literally, more about that later in) members of the The Next Generation crew.

 

It all starts when Picard receives a call for aid from the medical vessel SS Eleos, commanded by Beverly Crusher.  As she tells him not to involve Starfleet, he turns to his old friend Captain Riker, and together they arrange a suprise inspection of the USS Titan-A, the successor to Riker's old ship.  They try to convince her captain, Liam Shaw (god I love this character) to take them to her location, which he declines.  But his first officer, none other then Seven of Nine, changes the vessel's course, ignoring his orders.

 

In the meantime Rafi, now working for Starfleet Intelligence and a mysterious handler, is tracing a stolen weapon from the Daystrom Institute but arrives to late and sees a facility being destroyed right before her eyes.  Btw, she inherited the La Sirena from the first two seasons.

 

Picard and Riker board the Eleos through a shuttle, finding a severly injured doctor Crusher and her son, Jack Crusher.  But a large vessel, the Shrike commanded by the bounty hunter Vadic, appears and tries to teleport Jack of the bridge, only justly prevented by Picard.  The Titan intervenes when the Eleos is captured in a tractor beam, but it turns out Jack is a wanted criminal and captain Shaw considers turning him over to save his crew from the formidable opponent.  Rafi is told by her Handler to hold back, but she pushes on and meets with a Ferengi named Sneed, but as he almost kills her, her handler appears and dispatches the Ferengi, being none other then Mister Worf!

 

 

It is revealed Jack is Picard's son, something Riker had already noticed, and realizing he won't turn him over, Shaw orders the Titan deeper into the unstable nebula, Vadic giving chase.  When Shaw gets injured in the chase, he transfers command of the Titan to Riker, but as they try to escape the use of portal technology keeps them trapped.  Picard wants to lay a trap, while Riker opts to flee, as Seven and Jack discover that a gas leak is giving away their position.  This is revealed to be sabotage by none other then a Changeling, as Rafi and Worf discover their target is also a Changeling, part of a group that keeps opposing the Federation after the Dominion War and the attack with the portal weapon was just a distraction.

 

Riker lets Picard convince him to attack, but their weapons are reverted due to the portal weapon and with heavy damage the Titan sinks in the gravitational anomaly inside the nebula.  As they make up later, Shaw bitterly tells his experience at the Battle of Wolf 359 and why he dislikes Picard as such.  Vadic, also a Changeling, is ordered to pursue the Titan, as the crew makes a plan to use the energy pulses in the nebula to repower the Titan, and as they damage the Shrike on their escape the nebula gives birth to a new organism.  Picard realises that five years ago, Jack had sought him out and he had unknowingly turned him away, as Jack experiences strange visions.  Returning command to Shaw, the Titan is approached by the USS Intrepid, to arrest Picard and Riker.  But their security officer, none other then Ro Laren, warns them to escape as it is revealed the higher echelons of Starfleet have been infitrated by Changelings that found a way past the screening tests.

Ro sacrifices herself to give them a way to escape, as they are contacted by Worf he was also working against the infiltration with Ro.  Gathering together, they journey to the Daystrom institute together with LaForge.  They discover that the security system there is actually a synthetic lifeform (like Picard is now) containing the memories of Data, Lore and B-4.  In the meantime, Jack and LaForge's daughters take the old cloaking device of the HMS Bounty (the Bird-of-Prey from The Voyage Home) to install on the Titan.

As they start to reinitialize Data, they find out the Changelings have stole Picard's original body as Riker covers their escape from Daystrom, being captured by Vadic who also has Deanne in custody.  The crew summarises they want to create a perfect replica of Picard to target the celebrations of the 250th Frontier day anniversary, as Data and lore fight out an ideological battle inside the body, Data using honest trickery to finally ascertain himself as the dominant personality, albeit he comes with emotions now.  As Vadic boards the Titan, she is captured and reveals how she came to be, before taking control of the vessel.  But when a "very pissed off AI" comes into action, they regain control and Vadic is blown into space to her demise.  As Riker and Deanna are saved from the Shrike, they find out the true plan: a new Borg based technology allows all vessels in Starfleet to act as one, and due to a virus in the transporter buffer, all younger aged crewmen become assimilated into Borg as it has been programmed into their patterns.

The Borg Queen, that once created Locutus, wants revenge by assimilating Jack and him becoming her new beacon.  Her damaged cube hides in Jupiter, and as she has control now of every vessel in Starfleet, including the Titan, they need another, not connected ship to go there and stop her.  Enter the final crewmember of the Next Generation as I said above...

Restored by Geordi as a labour of love, they travel to the cube where Picard wants to give himself in exchange for Jack, but the Queen laughs it away, stating the Federation will end anyhow and she doesn't need him anymore.  But Picard gets through to Jack and disconnects him, as they destory the cube and the Queen finally with it, ending the Borg threat now completely.  The assimilated crew returns to normal, as the crew receives full pardon's for their actions.

One year later, the Titan is rechristened the Enterprise-G in honour of their exploits, with Seven of Nine in command, having inherited the ship from the late captain Shaw who gave his life for the others to escape during the Borg attack.  Jack is assigned to the vessel, but as the vessel sets out, he is visited by Q saying Picard's trial has ended, but his has just begun...

Okay, this was an awesome farewell to the Next Generation, with a lot of tie-ups of older story arcs.  It also leaves open the window for a spin-off series, but unfortunatly that is not on the table though, even if you play Star Trek Online, shards can be deducted of what came to pass afterwards.

Maybe I should reinstall that game one of the weeks...

 

 

Fafner Dead Aggressor - The Beyond part 3

The lines are drawn and the battle has begun on the island...

And so to the tones of the awesome Angela, it's time for the third instalment of The Beyond, again consisting of three episodes.

As Maris and Soushi, with their conflicting views, engage under the island ship, Ashoka tries to protect everyone and the commander makes preparations for the Third Alvis.  The defences are steeled, and the fight back commences.  But  the big enemy commander is summoned as the Fafner's push back the swarm, forcing them to take it on, all the while as assimilated human Fafner's battle the regular Fafner.

Kazuki though unleashes the secret weapon of the island forces, the Mark Alles Fafner.  With the battle over, they mourn their lost friends and try to pick up a more or less regular life again, preparing for what they know will come in the near future.  The Second L Plan commences, as the island sub takes off, leaving some of their friends and Fafner behind to protect the island from a fresh approaching wave of enemies led by Maris...

The vessel is intercepted by the enemy, forcing them back to the island.  But the Fafner struggle as the enemy wants to show them fear in all it's intensity, something they learned to experience themselves in the previous battle.  Soushi intervenes as a fake Miwa tries to lure his friend in, while the others realise it might be futile and don't want to be assimilated to attack the island.  To that end, Reo and Mimaki want to sacrifice themselves in battle, Soushi trying to save them at the end and as a result awakening his full powers.  

This causes his Fafner to evolve, and make short work of the enemies, as Kazuki in the mark Alles also arrives at the battlefield at that time, pulling Soushi back from despair and telling him he has a future of leading them ahead.  He swears he will make Maris pay for the injuries inflicted on his friends.  Figuring out how the enemy tracks them through an unknowing Rina, they now have a chance even though it's a gamble.

I really adore this franchise, and I must admit I haven`t seen anything bad of it so far, now onwards to the final part, part 4, of the The Beyond.  And yeah, maybe I should start looking out for the manga...

The Haul Report 388

 Well, for The Old World I'm going to be building a Wood Elf army, just because I can, on the new base sizes.

And while starting from scratch, I am on the look-out for some cheap and good deals for figures.

Visiting the FantasyWelt online store, I saw the Runewars boxes where at -50%, so I ordered enough boxes of them to form a scout unit and fill out my Treekin unit.  Both the infantry boxes came to less then 11 euro a box, while the two big beasties knocked me back a measly 15 euro, so that was a good deal for sure.

Needless to say, I couldn`t let that pass and a few days later they already arrived at the doorstep.  I'll do an unboxing on them soon, as the line isn't that well known, and have a look at the figures in deeper detail.

 

 

And my Dolly brought back this amazing T-shirt from a shopping trip, found at Celio*, thanks love!!! 

 

I also treated myself to some fine beers, with the Straffe Hendrik 2023 special... and their triple, meaning I also go their nice glass with the purchase at a special action at the local supermarket.

Until the next instalment!

On the Painting Desk 267: beginning a secret not-so secret project...

 Another nice week of good progress this update, we are going places again!

With the henchmen Chaos Dwarf warriors having received a great deal of attention, the band is going forward strongly.

Okay, so I didn't make the paint target of finishing them all in january, recovery having had more setbacks then anticipated, never the less the whole band is at a good place and will be finished one of the weeks.

Which is the same for the Alchemical Monstrosity, on which I also have been doing a good amount of paint work in between.

I also have been painting on the sort off secret project as you can hear, it's not like the army is a secret, but the list is for now.  And the Horns of Hashut have made their appearance, them being the next project to work on once the Mordheim band has been finished!

So a lot going on at once, let's see by next week how we advanced!