I recently ordered some 28mm sci fi weapons from Hasslefree Miniatures on a whim. The vague plan is to use them to try scratch building a Necromunda Scavvie warband, and maybe just random sci-fi figures in general, which was the same reason I lalso picked up some sci-fi heads from Pig Iron Productions..

I ordered two baggies of Squad Support Weapons and two baggies of Sci fi Human and Halfling guns from Hasslefree. They arrived promptly and well packed in a bubble wrap envelope. Nothing was damaged or required straightening which is good considering the distance they had traveled to reach me in New Zealand.

In the photo above you see a couple of the white metal sprues as I took them out of their baggies. There was a moderate amount of venting spikes on both of them, but they were all easily flicked off with an Xacto blade. There were no prominent mold lines, but I did spend around five minutes per spure taking the weapons off and tiding them up with a needle file.

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The last post I made on this blog was Anzac Day, which was roughly three weeks ago. It was also the day my Father was diagnosed with terminal stomach cancer and went into hospital. Complications caused by that cancer ended my Dad’s life early last week, only two weeks later. He was 67 years old.

As you can imagine (or if you’ve been through something similar) this has been a shock to all our family and friends, particularly considering how healthy Dad had been for most of his life. Naturally it’s also made us all look at our own lives and how we’ve been living them and all I can say is don’t take anybody you care about for granted because they may be gone tomorrow.

We visited Dad every day he was in hospital and then we had to organise and attend his funeral, which explains the lack of posts in the last month or so. Hopefully I’ll start posting again soon.

Take care.