Hittite Chariot and Crew

Unit #3 of the Hittite Augmentation Project rolls off from the painting desk.  This time, the second of three chariots planned for the project expansion is finished.  Three units down and three to go.  What remains are one more chariot and two bow units.  Figures are Wargames Foundry.

Besides Hittites for the Biblical Assyrian Wars project, I pushed a unit of Sea Peoples' bowmen into the painting queue.  While the Sea Peoples' bowmen will not count toward my Hittite Augmentation goal, it provides something new to paint for the project.

Reaching the Sea Peoples unit may take a while, however.  There are a number of units in the painting queue ahead of the Sea Peoples including SYW Irish and Revolutionary French and Austrian infantry.  As a radical change of pace, a handful of Star Wars Legion troops are in work.  With weather sunny and warm, mileage on the bicycle has increased after ten days of smoke filled skies followed by a couple of days of rain and high winds.  Tranquility has returned.  Very pleasant to be back outside.

Another distraction from hobby time this weekend was the painting of my office.  The home improvement project began as a repainting of the space but quickly turned into an exercise in scope creep as one task led to another.  In the end, my office has a fresh coat of paint, a good clear out, and a bit of furniture rearranging.  The game room is stacked with debris from the office refit as one bookcase from the game room moved up two flights of stairs into the office.  Next, the game room needs some attention since two battles remain out on deck as well as piles of figures, books, magazines, models, and other assorted goodies.

Still have not managed to get to the flocking of my hex terrain but someday, it may actually happen before the snow flies.  In the meantime, two more posts addressing results of the Great Wargaming Survey are in work as is a piece on my impressions of a recent remote battle of Bassignana in which I commanded the Spanish forces.

Enough to keep me busy, for sure.