Prepping minis. Lots of minis.

One thing I did whilst at ReaperCon was trade in all my blistered (unopened) pewter and my scrap pewter.  They let you do this at ReaperCon.  I had a bunch of blistered stuff that I was never going to use for various reasons and I had a lot of scrap pewter.  Let me explain.

A while ago I purchased a mixed lot of Warlord factions.  Warlord is Reaper's miniature strategy game.  Well, with the release of the annual update I actually sat down to see what I needed to make these mixed lots into playable armies.

Turns out, a lot.

I scrapped three factions completely.  Mostly because I didn't like the sculpts and had no real interest in painting them.  That left me four factions to fill out.

I asked for advice on the Reaper forum for how best to fill them out and got lots of helpful stuff.  So I sat down and made my lists.

Let's just say that I 'spent' more on minis that day than I payed for tuition my first semester of college, not adjusting for inflation.  But since it was all trade-in I really only rearranged the pewter.

Now that I'm settled back at home I wanted to get started on these.  Painting four armies doesn't happen overnight.  I had a plate full of elves that were already prepped and primed so I decided to start with that faction.  As of now I have twenty minis prepped and assembled with one left to do.  But that's a really big one.

Tonight I'll use the epoxy putty (aka greenstuff due to the color) to smooth out any joins and help them adhere to their bases.  That will give it the twenty four hour cure time it likes before I start priming.

Oh.  Priming.  Now that the weather is nice I have to prime outside.  I could get away with priming the occasional single figure in the basement during the winter but that tolerance has ended and Mr. Rastl won't make me a spray booth.  But we've been getting a lot of wet weather so I don't think it will dry out enough by Saturday so I can prime.  I'm holding out hope tho.

Then I'll have all those minis to paint.  The amount of paint love they get is directly proportional to how long I expect them to be upright and fighting for me.  Grunt - not so much love.  Warlord - much love.

I'll post piccies to show progress.  Right now they're just a mix of primed and unprimed minis.  I'll start the photo journal when they're all primed.

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