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Made a start on Zombicide with the misses ealier in the week. I did four of these and she did two. Only about 65 more to go (And then the second wave)

Nice! Those are Black Plague, yes? What do you think of the minis, quality wise?

Nice stuff. Now you've got figures for the zombie apocalypse in fantasy, medieval, and renaissance-faire-gone-bad settings

 Paradigm wrote:
Nice! Those are Black Plague, yes? What do you think of the minis, quality wise?

Yup. I like them. They seem better than the older Zombicide stuff and are easier to paint. There is a lot of them though. Really like the idea of having a fully painted board game.

I really enjoy putting my fully painted Imperial Assault on the table, even if I've only managed to do so once or twice. Most of my inspiration to finish Mars Attacks and Dungeon Saga comes from the finished IA.

Happy Newyear everyone still reading.

So 2015 goals didnt even end up half done. Going to be more modest this year and Aim for the following.

Paint at least 4 models for every one I buy. Preferably I would like this ratio to be even higher but we shall see. Looking over the models I have unpainted and unused I just cant justify buying more at the moment. The Ratio I am working at should allow me enough leeway to purchase models to round out or finish forces I play with as long as I am also making painting progress.

Paint at least three playable forces for games. Would prefer to get closer to 5 or 6 forces but will start off doable for now and adjust if I feel I am making good progress. Also my progress will likely hinge on the games I choose to paint for. For Batman I could paint three or four models and call it a playable force. For Flames of war I would be looking at painting closer to 100+ models.

Candidates for forces to finish this year are.

Batman Crew for BMG
Scarecrow Militia for BMG
Tengu for Bushido
Nomads for Infinity
Haqqislam for Infinity
British for Flames of War
Various Samurai forces for Ronin/Daisho
Bane crew for BMG (This is not a priority as these models are painted due to me buying them second hand, they will get stripped and painted at some point but not sure when.)

I also want to fully paint the Zombicide Black Plague box. This will be a joint goal with the misses and we might try for the expansion when it comes too.

If anyone has a particular force they want to see me attempt to paint (Hopefully before i get bored and see something else shiny) let me know. Not saying I will choose the one you wanna see but it might sway my choice if I am on the fence.

Well you can probably guess where my vote goes! Batman aside, though, I would love to see some more Infinity or Bushido from you!

Batman is certainly up there. Already painted Nightwing and being in the middle of Red Hood I am already arguably 25% done on a crew. That said for Batman Crew I have the following to paint

Red Hood
Batman
AK Batman
Robin
Arrow
Azreal

And will probably want to at least one batman and all the rest before I consider that added to the goal.

I also have every Militia model to get on with.

In terms of Bushido a lot of the models already have some paint on them which should help matters.

Pretty much nothing I own from infinity is painted. But the chance of an infinity journeyman happening at the FLGS this year might give me the kick up the arse I need to paint my nomads.

Tengu, not sure why, but do those

At the moment I am probably leaning towards the following.

Batman Crew
Scarecrow Crew
Bushido Tengu
Nomads

My choice I am sure will partially be decided by what gets played at the local game store.

The new Zombies look great. I have to ask - of the nominees to finish this year, which force is the closest one to completion? Because I'll vote for that one!

Thats a good call Az. Arguably the Batman one is the closest to being finished due to it being the smallest. It also is the one I am most enthusiastic for atm so is likley to get work done on it. However the bushido one probably has the most paint on the models but is around double the size.

The least close to being finished are probably the british from flames of war due to sheer numbers. Most of that stuff is undercoated the correct color but there is an insane amount of it.

My Koreans for Ronin are probably a quick finish too being mostly complete.

I'd be very interested in seeing the Tengu completed, but if Batman is closer to completiton then I say finish him up first. Theres nothing like that sense of accomplishment to help motivate getting more done.

If you get stuck have a set of zombicide zombies ready to the side of your paint desk. They are quick to do and can help getting the juices going again. What level did you get in on the kickstarter for? I got the $150 pledge and some add ons for just over 200 figures. Almost went double on the sets to get double extras, but funds at the time were lacking.

I got the Knight pledge. With so much included in that pledge I felt no need to get more. Plus the extra survivor packs didn't do a whole lot for me.

It also helps that I am much more likley to get a game of Bushido at the local store than a game of Batman. But we shall see none the less.

All the zombies in the Zombicide box is primed and the box itself is under my desk so they are always pretty close to hand and ready to paint. Would be working on some now if it wasnt for me having what I am sure is the flu.

Zombies are looking good. I don't know what the nomad models are, so I'll vote for them, just so I can see them.

EDC

Nice zombies! I've been painting a pile of board game stuff this year, and I really like that it is sort of self contained, no assembly and usually fairly simple models that I can knock out in a short timeframe.

I reckon get your Batman stuff finished, and then look at what is getting played the most in the local store. Playing with your toys is the best motivator for painting them!

Thanks for the comments guys

@Evildrcheese: Nomads are a faction from infinity. They are essentially space 4chan.



@Da Boss

Yeah getting to use stuff certainly does. I am a an of stuff being relativly self contained too. If only due to it preventing you spending a bunch more money on extra's.

British Infantry Platoon is finished now.







Due to them being 15mm I wont count them per model to my goal but per base. That's 10 models added to my painted total with 4 more being that have been dipped and is waiting to dry.

Still 10 more is pretty good, your numbers sound pretty darn high for the year compared to last year's pacing.

Looking good, particularly for 15mm minis!

 GrimDork wrote:
Still 10 more is pretty good, your numbers sound pretty darn high for the year compared to last year's pacing.

Screw you Grim . Yeah you are right last years pace wasn't fantastic. Don't know how may I got done last year but pretty sure it wasnt high. Hoping this year will be a significant improvement.

Thanks Para. Only about another billion models to go for my British infantry.

Was a compliment to this year not a disparagement about last year As it stands you've got me swamped under the table but I've got 10 or so minis in the works, semi batch painted so I'll try to give you a run for the money.

If you overtake me I will just start counting the 15mm guys as one each

 carlos13th wrote:
If you overtake me I will just start counting the 15mm guys as one each

Wait you mean smaller sized models don't count as one.....so much for getting around to Arcane Legions . So does that mean my Demogorgon figure counts as 1 also? It's almost knight sized?

Depends on your personal count. For me I dont want to paint a bunch of 15mm or 6mm stuff then use that to justify bigger purchases.

Carlos is doing a paint more than you buy personal restriction/challenge/goal. If he were just going for raw numbers I would advocate counting each 6/15mm model but since he wants some dollar value worked into his calculations I can see the reasoning.

Yeah pretty much what grim said. I want to have a 4:1 Painted to bough ratio or higher this year in order to make a dent in my backlog.. If I bought a batman miniature that takes several hours to paint for every 4 15mm flames of war models I bought then I wouldnt feel like I had made much progress.

So far I have painted 10 miniatures and bought five so I need to paint at least 10 more miniatures to get to the ratio I want.

The five things I bought were in one instance added onto a paint order and in the other instance something that is expensive, rareish and I haven't seen available in the UK for over a year. For the most part however I want to get my ratio to an appropriate level before I buy more stuff not after.

Those British infantry look good. If you keep up this pace you'll be good to go for your goal.

Oh I totally get what he's doing, I was just joking with the size of Demogorgon I think he'd be more than one figure.

From a money and time standpoint I should try the same goal. I also want to ditch a bunch of my horde (infinity and old metal marine stuff), so maybe I can figure selling 10 of those removes one bought figure or something like that to the goal.

Count him as two mate. (I don't actually know how big the fella is, he might be worth 5.) do you have a photo? Very tempted to break out some 6mm samurai towards the end of the year and count them individually, just for the lulz.

Could always do it on a pure cash basis for sales mate. Sold models goes into your model fund and use that.

What's your reasoning for getting rid of infinity? Just not into it anymore?