Bramblten
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Hi folks, welcome to my plog!
First up, I'm Brambleten and I currently live in the rather soggy county of Cumbria in Northern England. And yes, I did manage to spell my name wrong. That's what happens when Newcastle win when you aren't expecting it.
Anyhow. I've been into wargaming since I was about 10, so over 13 years now. Through school I considered myself more gamer than painter then put the hobby on hold through University, where I studied Accounting and rather foolishly researched crowdfunding for my dissertation. At that point I only really bought stuff from Games Workshop but after Uni, I started writing crowdfunding articles for Portal magazine and learned more about the industry away from GW.
Despite only having played a couple of games of Batman in the last year (and before that nothing for 2-3 years), I still consider myself more of a gamer than a painter, because my painting isn't up to much!
I did attend the Wamp Workshop with Scott Hockley and John Keys in August, where I learned more about painting in two fairly hungover days than I did in the last 18 months or so.
Recently I've been adding any new miniatures I buy to a spreadsheet to keep track of them and am slowly adding my back catalogue to them. There is still a decent amount of Games Workshop stuff to be added, but I think the below tables will show up what people have been known to call my "problem".
Yep, that's over 1500 minis there, and I have to say, other than maybe 200 or so from GW, that's all in the last 2 years or so (having an income makes it so much easier to buy stuff!)
I buy from a wide range of companies, which can be seen even easier when I open up the "Others" category on the sheet.
I've tried to keep track of how many miniatures I paint during a year - last year was 49, while this year to date is currently 17.
Here are a selection of this years pieces (working from the start of the year forwards).
My League of Shadows crew for Batman - Deadshot, Yang, Liam Neeson Ra's al Ghul, Lotus and AC Talia al Ghul
Daredevil
GCPD Detective
Steampunk Boudi, who was the subject of our work at the Wamp Workshop. As you can see, she still isn't finished!
Death, from Purgatory. She actually won the single figure category of the painting contest they ran when they released her which I was quite chuffed with, seeing as it was my first contest win and also the first miniature I'd finished since the workshop.
Blackheart from Guild Ball, who I don't actually have any more as he was donated to Tales of a Tabletop Skirmisher for their Little Heroes for Little Heroes charity auction that recently finished.
During November I finished Bonnie from Another World, but as she's been entered into their painting contest I'm not allowed to show her off until the results are posted.
So, here's what's on my desk at the moment.
A Space Marine Terminator for my Dusk Raiders and St Peter (minus wings) from Purgatory, both for painting contests due in December.
Also on the desk (again for a contest, but not as high a priority) is Father Griffmas from ArcWorlde.
Oh, I've also been writing for a blog called Noobs and their Paintbrush for almost a year now (it was started up in January). It's a group blog, currently with three of us contributing. My main contributions are pretending I'm going to paint something and buying new miniatures to take pictures of for unboxing reviews.
And I think that's everything up to date!
First up, I'm Brambleten and I currently live in the rather soggy county of Cumbria in Northern England. And yes, I did manage to spell my name wrong. That's what happens when Newcastle win when you aren't expecting it.
Anyhow. I've been into wargaming since I was about 10, so over 13 years now. Through school I considered myself more gamer than painter then put the hobby on hold through University, where I studied Accounting and rather foolishly researched crowdfunding for my dissertation. At that point I only really bought stuff from Games Workshop but after Uni, I started writing crowdfunding articles for Portal magazine and learned more about the industry away from GW.
Despite only having played a couple of games of Batman in the last year (and before that nothing for 2-3 years), I still consider myself more of a gamer than a painter, because my painting isn't up to much!
I did attend the Wamp Workshop with Scott Hockley and John Keys in August, where I learned more about painting in two fairly hungover days than I did in the last 18 months or so.
Recently I've been adding any new miniatures I buy to a spreadsheet to keep track of them and am slowly adding my back catalogue to them. There is still a decent amount of Games Workshop stuff to be added, but I think the below tables will show up what people have been known to call my "problem".
Yep, that's over 1500 minis there, and I have to say, other than maybe 200 or so from GW, that's all in the last 2 years or so (having an income makes it so much easier to buy stuff!)
I buy from a wide range of companies, which can be seen even easier when I open up the "Others" category on the sheet.
I've tried to keep track of how many miniatures I paint during a year - last year was 49, while this year to date is currently 17.
Here are a selection of this years pieces (working from the start of the year forwards).
My League of Shadows crew for Batman - Deadshot, Yang, Liam Neeson Ra's al Ghul, Lotus and AC Talia al Ghul
Daredevil
GCPD Detective
Steampunk Boudi, who was the subject of our work at the Wamp Workshop. As you can see, she still isn't finished!
Death, from Purgatory. She actually won the single figure category of the painting contest they ran when they released her which I was quite chuffed with, seeing as it was my first contest win and also the first miniature I'd finished since the workshop.
Blackheart from Guild Ball, who I don't actually have any more as he was donated to Tales of a Tabletop Skirmisher for their Little Heroes for Little Heroes charity auction that recently finished.
During November I finished Bonnie from Another World, but as she's been entered into their painting contest I'm not allowed to show her off until the results are posted.
So, here's what's on my desk at the moment.
A Space Marine Terminator for my Dusk Raiders and St Peter (minus wings) from Purgatory, both for painting contests due in December.
Also on the desk (again for a contest, but not as high a priority) is Father Griffmas from ArcWorlde.
Oh, I've also been writing for a blog called Noobs and their Paintbrush for almost a year now (it was started up in January). It's a group blog, currently with three of us contributing. My main contributions are pretending I'm going to paint something and buying new miniatures to take pictures of for unboxing reviews.
And I think that's everything up to date!
