I promised a reply. The Ship flats are finished. The ZRS Helen. Paper on plywood. Top to bottom, poop deck, main deck, earth deck, gun deck, machine deck and “in use”.
Once again shout out to @TwoGunBob, for the poster company. Without that it would not have gotten done.
https://discuss.penandpapergames.com/t/a-game-masters-work-is-never-done/1429
Work continues on the Italian Wars project. Furioso starter set is complete so I’m starting on… another starter set. I have four of these in total so I’ll have a fairly large representation of French and Italian forces. Last step was to magnetize the bases to prevent slipping and falling leading to bent pikes and whatnot.
Well, May 14th I had a drunk driver being pursued by police drive off the road. He jumped my garden embankment, rupturing his gas tank, and caught fire. Going 80 miles he collided with my house and landed squarely in my game room. No one was hurt thankfully but…
Wiped out about 90% of my game collection as what didn’t burn was hosed down by the fire department. I’ve sent insurance an itemized inventory and still waiting on the adjuster to call back and advise they aren’t paying out on those old AD&D modules 
no I didn’t have collectors insurance as no items individually were worth much but EVERYTHING just ouch!
So I haven’t painted since but I’m slowly working back towards it as a friend gave me a Flames of War Italian boxed set and paints.
And no, I’m not rebuilding my collection. I’ll get what few RPG’s I actually play on pdf most likely and just move on. A lot of people offered replacement games and books but I just don’t want to be shackled to all this books and board games again honestly.
Just kind wanted to put out there why I dropped off posting updates here.
Gods, I would simply die.
Ugh, what a nightmare! Looks like you had some pretty serious structural damage to the house too. So glad nobody got hurt.
Coincidentally, that very day, I was in emergency surgery for a retinal detachment in my left eye, which then re-detached again in July. So, I’ve not painted or played much of anything all summer either, and am only recently getting back to regular computer use.
Getting old sucks.
Everything good now? I know I had a friend’s son suffer it and he was forever in a brace to hold him immobile and even then keeping strain off the eye was awful.
Yeah, getting there. Had to stay in a “face-down” position for 2-3 weeks after each surgery, which was a hassle. Up and about now, but still on orders to stay sedentary to avoid redetachement - no “intentional” exercise. Ugh. Still healing, so it’ll be a few more months before I know the final impact on vision out of that eye. Right now, still super blurry and distorted. Definitely screwing up my minis painting!
Darkest Dungeon miniatures I’ve started working on. Painting station is back up with whatever paints I could salvage from the destruction.
Rock on dude.
So glad to read that you are safe!
Got the full compliment of heroes done and trying to get decent pictures of them.
Glad to be safe believe me. It is frustrating to lose so much but I’ll take it over any injury to any of my family.
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The latest new thing for me is terrain; I started trying out more basing techniques and it grew from there. This little scatter/objective piece is the first one I’m really pleased with. (60mm base, sand, rocks, and a piece of sprue with 1mm jewelers chain)
The threadf rises!!! 
Switched gears and put the brush to a Joanmif Arc 60mm model. Really pleased with how she turned out.
A pair of them I take it? Intricate flag.
I’ve got more “flat” models for my now favorite printing company (thank you). More flying ships.
A other night, another knight! Main issue is that the models are 60mm and expensive so doing forces for a game just for the wow of the size factor may not be a smart decision.
It’s Sir Feudalmind himself!! HUZZA!!
