"These are NOT the droids you are looking for..." (Nick)

So I'll get the ball rolling before Carl comes along and puts me to shame with all the wonderful things he's been painting!

Here are two robots I knocked up as objectives/mood pieces for the Beyond the Gates of Antares demo at Warlord Games Open Day back in July.
They are actually a couple Renegade Robots from their Judge Dredd range... they still need a little tidying up and the bases finishing, but most of you will probably get the cheeky inspiration for the colour scheme:

I also started work on this Wrecked Robot by Ainsty Castings as a main objective... this one still needs plenty doing to finish it, but looked fine on the day as the hall's lighting was a bit poor:

Hopefully I will have more to show in the near future, but my progress has been rather poor recently and the Lead Mountain continues to grow quite substantially!

Haven't we seen you two before?

Well yes, as the title suggests, you may have seen us blogging before as we have a sister site Tale of 2 Gamers which is dedicated to specific projects between myself (Nick) and my gaming buddy Carl.

Rather than clutter up the project blog with other random or unrelated stuff, we agreed to start this second blog to run alongside where we could post anything else we were working on and hopefully start to reduce those Lead Mountains without feeling totally constrained to finishing 'To2G' related miniatures.

Unfortunately anything we post here will likely be a 'distraction' from those other projects, but at least it is progress of another sort... and this gives us both (and any guest bloggers) a place to vent these distractions!

So, what's this all about then?

Welcome to a Battling a Lead Mountain. We've created this blog to track the progress of two tabletop miniature gamers as they attempt to tackle the vast array of unpainted metal, plastic and resin miniatures - known affectionately as 'The Lead Mountain' - that have been collected over many years in the hobby.

Hopefully it will energise and incentivise us to get a few projects completed and make good progress on others, or just finish random pieces that we've been working on for ages - we want BaLM to cure that itch not just scratch it!