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And it's March!! Happy with what I got done in Feb so well up the ante a touch for March. Main goals are to get a squad of skit rangers all done along with brother Goriel (space hulk) and Kranon the relentless (dark vengeance) done. Stretch goals - held spryer, librarian Turmiel and AdMech tech priest.

There's my march pledge.
Front left: Orcs and Orc Archers, lead by an Orc shaman. Gonna paint them as Bugbears because I don't have any and they feature heavily in two adventure paths I want to run.
Behind them, Bears, Snakes and an Otyguth, as well as a trio of cultists.

Centre is the Dragon Ashardalon, which I will be painting red. In front of him are 3 kobold warriors and 1 kobold leader. That brings my kobold total to 11!
Front right, Heroes - Half Orc Rogue, Human Cleric, Elf Paladin, Dwarf Fighter, Dragonborn Wizard. Also two descent heroes. Directly behind them is the Rage Drake - I wish I had a bunch more of these because I would totally use them as a mount for something! Next to them are the Legion Devils who will probably get used as Tiefling rogues, and 3 Duregar Warriors and a Slavemaster.

The very back contains a pile of aberrations - floaty tentacle brains called Grell, piles of gibbering mouths and staring eyes called Gibbering Mouthers and a Gauth, which I will use as a Spectator for a D'n'D adventure I am planning.

TL,DR? I am painting all the dragons in all the dungeons this month.

Wrath of Ashardalon Orcs! A shaman, some warriors and archers. I'll be using these as Bugbears in Dungeons and Dragons since I have plenty of Orcs already.

A decent start to the month! Got some Cultists and Devils up next.

Those dungeon monsters kick butt!

I've been distracted by goff orks...

Nice work Weety and Da Boss.

@Da Boss, I picked up the set with the trolls, ogres and manticores after your picks . They are primed now, I hadn't even bothered looking at the hero figures, but a lizardman with a pet baby dragon familiar.....score

Ooh, very nice indeed!

Okay! We're 1/3 of the way through this challenge and there's some really nice stuff happening - both quality and quantity. I know that probably most of this would have happened anyway, but it's still good to be in a group encouraging one another to keep it going, and for me it's been good to make sure I finish more stuff for those armies I'm working on.

I've updated the OP with more pictures, but between work becoming more demanding in the last few weeks and the OP becoming nightmarishly long, I've no doubt missed some people's Feb photos and there are probably a couple of people who haven't posted theirs up yet. Can participants please check the OP and let me know if I've missed your Feb pic or made any mistakes so I can sort it out. Likewise, if you need to get your pic up for Feb, then it'd be great if you could get it up by Sunday night AU time, which for most of you is going to be Saturday or Sunday morning your time. That way I can update before I go back to work for the week.

Az, maybe put each month in a spoiler or something, but leave the current month exposed. That might help with the crazy length.

 Azazelx wrote:
Okay! We're 1/3 of the way through this challenge and there's some really nice stuff happening - both quality and quantity. I know that probably most of this would have happened anyway, but it's still good to be in a group encouraging one another to keep it going, and for me it's been good to make sure I finish more stuff for those armies I'm working on.

I've updated the OP with more pictures, but between work becoming more demanding in the last few weeks and the OP becoming nightmarishly long, I've no doubt missed some people's Feb photos and there are probably a couple of people who haven't posted theirs up yet. Can participants please check the OP and let me know if I've missed your Feb pic or made any mistakes so I can sort it out. Likewise, if you need to get your pic up for Feb, then it'd be great if you could get it up by Sunday night AU time, which for most of you is going to be Saturday or Sunday morning your time. That way I can update before I go back to work for the week.

I updated my monthly pic .

Nice work Da Boss and weety!

Here's this month's entry (early too!):



Orcling Regiment #2. 28 orclings and their base. Honestly could probably pack more in but given the poses they have I didn't want to. If some of them were up on the shoulders of others or what have you... but I'm happy with the density here.


Here's the two orcling units arranged in Horde formation. Not sure which is more desirable in the game, but I have both options now.


They don't look as good from the side (the way the units join is more obvious), but I think they work out well in any case.


And here are the orcish hordes so far, a nasty block of troops, fast hard hitting cavalry, and a couple of screens to help the main units get to combat. I think the force could use a leader to help it look more complete, if still small.


Oh and Azazelx use this for my February Final..Foto..wait.. anyway:

Great idea, Zergsmasher. I'll keep the "just finished" month and the current month on display, and I'll spoiler the previous ones. I'll add any February straggler photos that turn up in the next few days before "officially" closing Feb.

Sorry about not posting a photo of this months mini. Been ill all week and really couldn't be bothered to get the camera out. I'll try to post one later today or tomorrow, just waiting for the battery to charge.

Progress on the skits. Metals, wood and filigree down and shaded. Hard to beleive thats over 10 hours on them already. Onto the pressure suits next

No worries, Nick. gak happens.

I've noticed that a few people who signed up originally haven't been seen or heard from since those original posts, though. I won't "kick" them, but July-December will probably be a less "open" group with mostly just the current/active participants (if they wish to continue).

Lord knows I have enough stuff to continue painting July-December, SO as of right now I'm in for that too. Nothing to show for today. My son and I got to play Zombicide today for 2 hours by ourselves as the lady folk were at a T.E.A. party (forget what all the acronym stood for, but it was a school technology thingy for girls only). Much zombie killing was done, and I need to get some more survivors finished, so They have gotten moved up the que for this month.

Hurrah! I managed to pull myself away from painting other things to actually work on my pledge for this month. Today I finished half of the month's pledge.

This month I'd pledged to work on my Orpheus Class Drone Controllers for the Covenant of Antarctica. Well, I haven't worked on the Orpheuses (Orpheii?) themselves yet, but I did work on their drone tokens. So, I give you six Covenant of Antarctica Drones.



Yeah, they're kind of phallic looking. I'm not a fan of these things, but apparently the COA can field a lot of the little bastards.

It's only the 6th! I can't believe people are already knocking off March. I haven't even picked up a brush towards the Tyranids this month. I am working on something a little different for the next couple of days though so not completely idle.

Huh. You just reminded me that I forgot to put my finished Gondor unit pic in the thread.



I planned to work on the Knights, but got sidetracked and started another small unit of archers last night. They're not a whole lot away from finished, amazingly.

Primed my Reaper Elf and his Eagle familiar for D&D, hopefully can finish it by the end of this week and get cracking on the Tyranids

Just a quick pic of what's lined up so far.
Missed the 3rd Thallax from the pic but oh well.

So I have.

3 Thallax
6 old metal necron Raiders
1 old metal necron Lord
2 old metal necron destroyers

And not pictured is a thanatar I'm still basing.

Edit: forgot to mention a Culexus assassin too that is drying after being primed.

Very old-school Necrons! Nice stuff!

Finally got a photos of February's mini, a Karist Mature Angel:



Tried to keep the using the turquoise I used on the troopers to represent the cybel energy stuff. I think it came out quite well. Started with a 1:1 mix of the turquoise and german grey, washed it black and then dry brushed it all over with a 5:1 mix. Finally the eyes and mouth were simply painted turquoise. That it took me all month to produce something so simple show how busy and ill I've been recently. I really hope I get more hobby time this month. No idea what I'm going to be painting probably more Karist stuff.

Procrastination mode is fully active this weekend so I have been finishing off my remaining Warzone rather than doing stuff I should be doing.


Martian Banshees

Air Cavalry

The Banshees and Aircav just needed a wash and the bases finished.


Captain Henry Thomas who I painted from scratch.

I think I will finish this army, at least to 1000 points, in the vain hope that I can find some opponents as the rules would make for quite interesting game, in so far as its possible to tell from reading them at least. 2 full squads of Light infantry (Air Cav with different helmets basically) would do it.

Havent been able to take photographs yet (Had a lot going on) but I managed to do the 9 zombicide zombies and the Yakuza for Feburary. I didnt finish the basing however as I want to base a bunch at once and I have no putty to build up around the integral bases.

This month I am going to take a break from Zombicide and try to paint up a faction for This is not a Test in preparation for their kickstarter. I am unsure which of the three I have avalable I will go for or if I should just kitbash something from plastic kits. We will see.

If you go with premade I wanna see those hazmat dudes.

Set up a poll on hobby blog detailing the options.

And voted

As far as stretch goals this month dunno. I'm painting stuff but it's so far removed from Orcs I don't know if I can consider them stretch goals. Maybe I'll knock out the leader or something one of these days.

Lots of great stuff already and its only the 6th! Az, I really like those Gondorians, and I'm looking forward to more of them! Reminds me that I have some of those myself, although my 40k backlog is stacked so high I can't even think about painting them right now.

I'm kind of cheating with my goal this month.
Having a hard time settling for something specific to paint.

So just took a pic of a chunk of unpainted and based models and I'll start from there.

Just primed 3 thallax, an old necrons warrior to test a scheme on and an epic Eldar avatar aswell.

I'll see where that leads to while I dump more and more sand on the base of the thanatar :p

Sorry for not having posted for a while. My Minnow is complete and the Angel needs to be photographed mainly. I got sidetracked by the need to apply for a really important job opportunity - the form was 28 pages long and took 10 days to complete!!!!