Warm Ale and Mud

 Here is Uli the Dwarf who lives and works on the Pertwee Farm: I had already made the Farmhouse and the Barn but I wanted some way to link them together as a single terrain piece.  I could have taken the buildings off their bases and made a new big one but that seemed like a waste of the work already done and it would mean the buildings could not be used elsewhere. So I concocted a template that would be the sort of yard and would join up with the two farm buildings. It is a piece of MDF with some scratch built items. The gate also opens for added greatness. Here is a rough photo dump of the beginnings to the end. And then add the scratch built bits, some more flock etc and bingo: Time for a break and something small and easy next!!

Whilst my wife and daughter are away on holiday I am finding more free time. So I have painted 2 models already this year!! I was going to paint the Dwarf farm hand but upon closer inspection the model is not that suitable and also a bit of a crude sculpt so instead painted Johannes' Wife and his Doggo. HANSINE. No-one messes with a farmers wife, especially one with hands the size of hers!! Now, the colours are not what I would have done ordinarily. A white apron and hood sprang to mind as the obvious choice, but I wanted her clothes to match that of Johannes, so that is what I ended up doing. (Mostly, I meant to do grey tights but forgot...) HOLEN. Whilst I search for a suitable Dwarf I will make the terrain section that joins the Farmhouse to the Barn.

Over on the oldhammer forum there was a topic about what you did in 2025. Here is a piccy of what I did. 2 buildings, 1 field. 1 Troll 1 villager 10 skeleton archers 15 skeleton swordsmen ​15 skeleton halberdiers 20 zombies 3 ghouls 1 Krell 1 The Lichemaster 5 Fleglers 10 Armbrustschutzen 15 Helblitzen 1 Count 1 Elementalist 99 dudes and 3 terrain pieces. Resolutions/plans for me are to try and get as much of the village as possible done and then maybe start 1 of 2 special projects... I had hoped to have done all of that 12 months prior, but I had neglected to factor terrain and other stuff. But all in all I am happy. That is about 2 figures a week which I am happy with, of course some weeks saw nothing done at all, and some weeks saw much more than 2. But I guess 30 or so villagers for 2026 and 10 buildings should be do-able?