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Caught back up on my MCP backlog. Taking a bit of a break but also plugging at my Orks for a couple weeks before another wave of Shatterpoint hits.

About to start clearing the last of the ancient Eldar kits I keep inheriting from my friends. Surely at some point they'll just stop giving me metal models so old I can injure people with them right?

Another two out the door so I can get that Gloomhaven: Crimson Scales campaign going.
The creator of the CS game, Addax Games, will have a KS in May for their GH-alike game, ROVE.

Artificier character class, with his construct proxy companion, Rusty.
Proxy by Wildspire Miniatures, available retail on Amazon, from the "Spellblades and Enchanted Objects" set.

WS: https://www.amazon.com/stores/WildspireMiniatures/page/B343BFEF-3714-440E-9750-50FC66D51848
Addax: https://addaxgames.com/
More pics: https://forum.reapermini.com/index.php?/topic/103935-wildspire-miniatures-gloomhaven-crimson-scales-thread/

Hold Ballistae.

I made a vow to finish my Pile of Shame by the end of the year, and until then, I'm not buying any more new minis. I haven't been very productive, in all honesty. But I'm slowly getting through it.

i mostly do terrain now, my recent edition was for infinity/star wars legion hover trucks-one green one grey-



Next up i need to finish off my guard army once i get around to painting up these 3rd party chimeras-

I started painting up on my Heroquest boxed set.

Finished a piece of Necromunda terrain...replacing the cardboard with plastic card and sprucing up the terrain. So one done.








Cheers,

CB

Got motivated to work through some of my big pile of middlehammer empire minis. Currently rescuing some ebay 5th edition state troopers. Old on the left, saved on the right

Still plugging away at those Dweg, got some more Initiates done.

i am finally getting off my backside to finish my imperial guard for our 5th ed games. i just have to finish off these lovely chimeras, 2 down 1 to go.

Despite surfing Etsy quite a bit, I've managed to keep from buying more minis. But I've been slack as hell in painting old ones. I did begin working on a Mantic Terrain Crate Military Compound kit, but I don't include terrain in my Pile of Shame, so. Meh.

Here it is all done-2k worth of 5th ed guard. with some 3rd party chimeras (just finished) from the makers cult and a vulture gunship from 2nd dynasty. i got lazy with my infantry, just using the pre-painted UNA AT-43 minis to represent my guardsman and ogryn.

More just keeping up with new releases than clearing the backlog, but shrinking the pile regardless:

MCP



Shatterpoint



Orks

Who is that Kingpin with a Fez? I am a casual comics guy, but that guy stumps me.


Good work all.

I have been slowly working on my Heroquest core set.

That's the Shadow King. Kind of obscure X-Men villain that's some kind of demon that attacks psychics in the astral plane. He was actually the villain of that New Mutants movie that no one saw.

His actual biggest pop culture impact was ripping the mind out of Captain Britain's sister and putting it in the body of an asian assassin to create the version of Psylocke that most people know.

I've been working on my Terrain Crate Mantic Landing Zone and, before that, the Military Compound (which I don't count as being in a pile of shame for some reason), But I'm tired of it, so I'm back on some minis, again. I wanted to complete the landing zone for the next miniature gaming club session with the kids, but realised I couldn't get it ready in time, so meh.

So…found my alternative turrets and weapons for my Legions Imperialis last night. So that’s today’s task sorted. Sicaran, Predator and Kratos options coming right up.

I posted some details about finishing up my Octarius Kill Team boxed set on my blog.



You can read the blog itself and see more photos on my blog if you are interested:

https://bloodandspectacles.blogspot.com/2024/05/on-painting-desk-kill-team-octarius.html

So four Swooping Hawks are finished.


Cheers,

CB

Not really shame, but stopped this stuff from ever going to the pile:



This is the Way!

Wardens down. At this poiny I only have two Dweg units left to paint, but City State Chariots are on the horizion.

It's going to be a busy year for new Conquest releases for me actually, Dweg and City States are both slated to get the remainder of their unreleased units by November, but maybe I'll be able to sneak that last 40k Chaos Knight into the paint queue.

My pile of shame is diminishing faster than it grows. For like, the first time in my life.

This is everything I’ve painted this year, with more to come.

finished three Sentinels and a Malcador Infernus and feeling good about it

but also bought another three old Sentinel kits of Ebay and think about getting some GW stuff before the price hike which is.... kind of not helping with the pile of shame...

Nice job MDG!

I finished my Heroquest Core Set.

Cheers dude

Expect me to pinch your paint scheme when it comes time for me to paint my Hero Quest stuff.

Which might make a nice break from So Much Black in the coming couple of months.

Though of course, I’ll need a storage case for the models, as the plastic trays are a bit too grippy for painted models.

Speaking of Piles of Shame I began painting a mini that's been a part of it for ages. She's just been sitting around primed and gathering dust but no longer! She can stand around being base painted and somewhat layered up now! Nah, I fully intend in finishing her soon. I bought her down in Wellington years ago now as she was the closest I could find at my local Friendly Local Hobby Store to one of the main characters of my novel series The Angaran Chronicles, the Hunter: Jelcine as there's a quite alarming lack of female characters in a long dress, sun hat and carrying a huge double headed axe (I made her eventually on Hero Forge) Also, Jelcine isn't an elf either. This chick is a Reaper druid, I think, but I decided to just make up her colour scheme as I went along and try out colours I don't normally use and practise some painting techniques.

So, without further meandering here she is so far! I'm quite happy with her, for now, anyway.

Daaang that's a lot of tiny Marines.

Finished the end of my Dweghom today. If chariots don't get released on time I might actually have to paint some GW stuff.

Just getting back to painting my pile of shame so I am borrowing this format to keep me honest in 2024:

Things I owned Jan 1, 2024 that are unpainted
Space Wolves/Primaris:
Primaris Captain
Primaris Lieutenant
Primaris Chaplain
Judicar
3 Bladeguard Veterans
Bladeguard Ancient
3 Eradicators
10 Assault Intercessors
3 Outriders

Orks:
Warbiker Mob (3 models – unbuilt)
Deff Dread
3 Deffkoptas

Tyranids:
Tyranid Prime
Psychophage
2 Ripper swarms
5 Barbgaunts
20 Termagants
3 Leapers


Things I bought in 2024 that are unpainted

Orks Battleforce (23 models)
Orks Start Collecting Box (2016 Version, 19 models)
White Dwarf 500 Mini

Things I owned Jan 1, 2024 that are now painted



Things I bought in 2024 that are now painted

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
Cheers dude

Though of course, I’ll need a storage case for the models, as the plastic trays are a bit too grippy for painted models.

Since I expect them to take a lot of handling, I also gave them a healthy thickness of protective coating.