I thought I'd take up Curt's suggestion as well and introduce myself briefly. I am Martijn, sometimes also known as Emjenic, and I am a Dutchman living in Belgium with my lovely Flemish wife and her two teenage boys. This will be my third Challenge. I have been wargaming since I was a teenager, but nowadays I am as much a hoarder as anything else... I am a slow painter and not a very good one, but the Challenge tends to send me into a bout of productivity, so I suppose that's a good thing!
My main interests are historical, particularly (late) Antiquity and the "long" 19th century up to and including the Great War, and I mostly collect smaller scale figures, but previous Challenges have prompted me to take up painting 28mm figures again. Also, I really like the opportunities provided by 3D printing, so next to my not inconsiderable metal and plastic mountains is now also a resin one, and my hobby stock is rapidly growing into a mountain range.... 3D printing has also rekindled my interest in fantasy; there are such fantastic creative and prolific sculptors out there!
Unfortunately, I find it very hard to resist the (not so) new and (not too) shiny, or the obscure and quirky for that matter, so I am definitely great squirrel material; expect a fairly wide range of scales and subjects from me, possibly including but not limited to 6mm Austro-Prussian War, 6mm Napoleonics, 10mm fantasy, 10mm ACW, 28mm WWII DAK, 28mm World War I, 28mm Napoleonic Württemberg, 1/3000 WWI naval, perhaps some Dystopian Wars, definitely some terrain, and whatever else takes my fancy, or what our journey through the AHPC Studios may throw (in) my way...
So here is some of what I have prepared, more or less, in the full knowledge that no plan survives first contact with the enemy:
I am very fortunate to have my own hobby/ study room in a little house at the back of the garden, with a spacious dedicated hobby space. I am afraid it looks a lot more impressive than warranted by my output and results!
Now I will probably be reorganizing my hobby room in the next few weeks, as my better half has hinted in her own subtle way that the 1000 books or so on Ancient History still in the study (okay, her, now, I guess) in the house should be relocated to my own den asap, which will involve the purchasing of more Billy bookcases and finding the optimal way to cram them in what is ultimately not an indefinitely expanding room; but I am sure it will be ok in the end, and I hope it will not have too much impact on my painting!
I am very much looking forward to our journey together, and I will try to comment as much as I can on your doubtlessly again truly fabulous, varying and interesting entries. Only about two weeks to go now!
