New Year Challenge

About this time last year I was getting ready for the Vappafaux event, part of Vappnartak, a hobby convention in York.   Vappafaux is a 40 soul stone 3 round Malifaux event.   Vappa14 was my first event in several years, my crew (outcasts) had been fairly ignored for a long while.   I managed to get some practise games in and paint up some of my crew.   The event came and went and was a great deal of fun, I did not place too highly after a close game, a bloody draw and a final game I struggled to compete in.

The months came and went, my daughter came into the world and hobby stalled, not to a halt but to a major slow down.

Then the announcement if Vappa15 came out, I put my name down in a flash and paid my fee, I figured I had months to get really ready so no pressure.   Work, family, time away, other hobbies getting new stuff (WoW, SW:TOR, Tyranids, Blood Angels, End Times) and moving out of my house for major refurb followed by Christmas and New Year has left me in my current predicament, I am barely any further on from last year.

So I currently have 28 days to knuckle down and get my crew sorted.   Normally should be fairly easy you may say, especially as some of it has been started.

In 2013 I signed up for the Through the Breach Malifaux kick starter, when it came through, much later than originally planned the lovely people at Wyrd also gave the backers a free, random starter box.   Mine was The Children of December Rasputina crew.   Not a crew I had considered in the past but hey, free is free!

I have decided in my great wisdom and habit of "oh look! Shiny!" I am planning to try to get my Rasputina crew built and painted for Vappafaux.

I have my initial starter box and some December Acolytes on the way so I shall hopefully updating my blog regularly with updates

The ice gamin and ice golem will get the standard ice paint scheme I think.   I may try to give the wendigo a Wampa look if possible, Rasputina will be the trickier one, whether to go full ice look with blue coat etc or something a bit more utilitarian.

The acolytes may get some sort of snow camo thing.

Fingers crossed :)