For The White Horse!

 No minis painted today, for a variety of reasons. Principally I was recovering from a weekend spent running about like a headless chicken (but more organised) as a variety of enemies and non-player characters at the Gritlands LARP event, G3: From Radtown With Love. It took place at HQ Airsoft in Driffield, an amazing ex-MOD site that is now this set of overgrown and abandoned buildings used primarily for airsofting (the ground was covered in probably tens of millions of BBs). The atmospherics were impeccable - just right for the post-apocalypse UK.

As a member of the crew, I was - variously - many Meat Freaks (cannibal mutant), several Kenturions (a professional Roman-inspired military force hailing from Kent who were out to enforce the Pax Kent), various Security Bots, and a hardlight hologram Administrative Asssistant (now 3.4% more administratively efficient).

Here's a photo of me as a Security Bot guarding a MEGA(tm, r) factory and about to unleash LETHAL FORCE upon the player party:

YOU HAVE THREE SECONDS TO COMPLY

The system is completely ridiculous fun, with players forming groups such as the Littlest Chefs, the Pot Noodle Knights, the Neon Nuns, or being characters such as Raleigh (who is a slug mutant who rides a child's bicycle), Ace (a man who wears a suit and top hat decorated with hundreds of playing card aces), Bunny (a fighter wearing a pink and white frilly costume and wielding either a baseball bat with BUNNY written on it or a massive two handed maul), and so on and so forth. The various NPCs also included Viking Ravers:

They untz-untz-untzed all the way to ravehalla

As well as a whole host of other wild and wonderful things. Massive, massive fun all round. The Gritlands. Well worth a look if you like the idea of cross country pantomime / the sort of games you played as a kid but with a bigger budget and a little more organisation.