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I finished this giant off as a stretch goal for this month, because an army should have 2 giants

Dealing with a few of life's unpleasantries right now - both personally and professionally, so while I've been ok to look, I haven't felt up to commenting on people's work here and in their blogs. So it's good to see so much good work still coming out in this thread. I'm still painting and doing a bit of writing up my own blog stuff occasionally. Got to have distractions, after all!

@ Azazelx, Praying for you man, hope everything smooths out quickly and for the better.

finished off four more ( last of these guys) boomers, here they are posed with one of the older ones I have done, they fit right in.

Man, I love this thread! There's so much amazing work on here from the past 4 months.

If there is a round 2, I am definitely jumping in. I have such a hard time motivating myself to paint, and it's led to 3 armies sitting on my shelves unhappily bare.
I'd just have to decide if I want to try and start working on my 8k nid army, my 3k bretonnia army, or continue working on my 30k Raven Guard... Or I could start working on the 100+ cultists I just bought for a Imperialis Militia 30k project... Too much plastic crack!

Thanks Theo. I'm pretty much going through a "don't give a feth" period at work with regard to all of the additional duties I have right now., Getting the core stuff done as best I can, and then when I'm feeling a bit better I'll just catch up on the additional planning and reviews and such then. People there are aware of what's going on, it's just a difficult and stressful time there for everyone right now, and not helped for me by the family issues.

I have to admit, while painting the same two things over and over have been tedious, it's also been a real motivator to get units of both the Gondor and Undead armies painted and I've managed to get a lot done.

There'll definitely be a round two and you're welcome to join. There are a few people who have expressed interest in jumping on and a few who haven't been seen since their initial posts, so I'll probably try to fill those gaps without letting it get too much bigger.

I've just finished another unit of Gondor (from metal to done this time) so I hope to get them photographed this weekend. Still waiting for the varnish to dry and then it's flock time before photos can happen.




I got these two finished last weekend. They're both "Undead" but neither falls easily into the KoW army list, but they might end up being my submission for the Undead part of my monthly pledge anyway. We'll see what the next week brings...

Could be a banshee, isn't that in the undead list? And the other could be an extra necromancer.

I know what you mean about work stuff, dealing with similar stuff here too, but I'm also looking for something different since finishing my B.S. degree.

No Banshees in KoW, sadly - and I've already got plenty of wraiths and wights. With KoW2's insistence on not having units of single-model large infantry there aren't a lot of options for "small monsters" either for the ethereal.

That's the Haunter model from Dark World isn't it, Azazel?

That's the one. I'll have a Plog post up about these two when I get home from work.

Progress!!! 'The Ashen' are all finished, based and photo'd. rest of the photos are up over on my AdMech plog. These guys were a blast to paint. Want more!!! Back to Space Hulk now

Good work guys. I got the rest of the mummy King's entourage done, may make a unit base just cause. Think I may have a little more painting in me this month...hasn't gotten too hot yet. Maybe trolls, or skulks, or something gianty. Dunno.

You can never have too many giants

Stunning Jan!

Cheers TP. That's just one of the photos. Didnt want to clutter this thread up with the ridiculous amount of photos I ended up taking - lol

I completed two more stretches today, both in 15mm.

A pair of Cyclops battlesuits



And a Japanese Power Armor squad



That completes my 15mm stint for a little bit. I'm going to try and focus on some 28mm figures now, though I may sneak some work in on my Fiddler mecha.

I've just spent the last little bit of time updating the OP with people's finished models. I haven't quite got the last 2 pages from the thread in there yet, but some of you guys keep churning out the models and so I'd be changing the pic every 2 days with all your extras - so I might do a couple of them at the start of May.

On that note, anyone who's done and pretty much dusted with April can start to put in their final photos if they like and I'll try to catch up on updates this weekend.

April has been a slow month for painting. Here are my latest finished models:


These are banner bearers that came packed with the Ii Naomasa model I got in the first Steel Fist Kickstarter. I'm working on several more models from this campaign, but it's been slow going. More here.

I may have to put off the Piranha yet again. However, I intend to fully finish something for my Tau army, even if its just a few drones.

That's the spirit, mate. Anything is something, after all!

I've finished the next Gondor unit for my army, a small unit of Osgiliath Veterans, including a Faramir model.



Many, many more pictures here

Interesting, Azazelx - a mixed melee/ranged unit? What do you use them as in KoW?

Next month's goal- a Heer Panzergrenadier platoon.

 Dysartes wrote:
Interesting, Azazelx - a mixed melee/ranged unit? What do you use them as in KoW?

Having only just finished them, I'm not sure yet. Probably Foot Guard as befits veterans. If I move the spears to the front I might count them as having 2-handed weapons. Unless there's a more fitting entry in the Basliean army list, or the Not-Bret list or the "other half of the Empire" list. The mix is very much a thing in LotR SBG, though.

I may have some Gondor hidden in he garage somewhere. I might have to drag them out.....

Feth! Has is really been 3 weeks since I last looked at this thread? Amazing work since then everyone.

Sorry that I've done nothing for a couple of months. For various reasons that I'd rather not go into beyond saying that severe bouts depression are involved, I've had a complete lack of hobby interest since the middle of March. I seem to be coming back to wanting to paint something now though.

Bit late for me to get anything done for April but I'll see what I can do for May. No promises yet as depression is to put it bluntly a bitch to deal with and very good at rearing it's ugly head at about the half way point in any project I start.

I might move away from doing any ME stuff for a bit, a fresh something or other might be just the ticket to make me feel enthusiastic.

BIG EDIT!!!!!:

Ok scratch that thing about having nothing for April. After making this post some inspiration struck and I started painting the minis from a boardgame I bought recently, Fleet Commander Ignition. This game allegedly came with pre painted minis, if pre painted means bare plastic with coloured blobs or lines for engines and a nearly invisible faction logo then I guess that's true. Needless to say they were not up to scratch. So I've only gone and painted the whole set of 14 minis in an afternoon.

Here's a group shot:



The Hegemony of Amycles Fleet:



The League of Phoebe Fleet:



I guess you can call that lot my April submission. Not my best paint jobs ever but a huge improvement on the standard minis. If the game is any good I'll probably pick up at least the first expansion and maybe another base box to allow either larger 2 player games or 2v2 team games so I guess there's a good chance of more spaceships from me in the future. Even if the game's no good with a quick rebasing these minis would be great for something like Full Thrust. Not bad for £15

Part 1 of this month's pledges are here, as well as a 'surprise' model. The first lot of photos are all for Warmachine/Hordes, as my Warhammer stuff isn't quite finished yet (it will be in a couple of hours, so I'll post them when they're done). So here we have Warwitch Deneghra and the Officer and Standard Bearer for my Bane Thrall unit, finishing off my current lot of Cryx models, and the surprise, Maelok the Dreadbound. Maelok will be followed up by some more gators in a couple months time, as I aim to not get any new models until Warmachine/Hordes MkIII is released, and I have cleared most of my backlog.

And now for my Part 2, fairly delayed as I had a run-in with a wasp on my painting table! Here's the 'marine' half of this month's pledges, a 5-man Legion Heavy Support Squad wielding Heavy Bolters, some regular old tactical marines, and the Imperial Space Marine released last week.

My target of 9 Orks is looking very distant :(

I may manage 2 to complete one of my units of 30 boyz.

I honestly forgot what my goal was for this month. I had to check the first post to double check!

I guess it was Ogres. Good thing they're done! I should probably finish up the current batch sitting on my table to go with the completed guys!

I did actually get 90% of my Tau collecting box put together, considering I've been talking about doing it since January....

Maybe next month. If I don't get too distracted by those new Orruk models, which depending upon their size, could quite well end up with my Ogres...

I've managed to get 10 more zombies done, from sprue to (almost) completed. Just need to add some final BFTBG, add flock and rim the bases. They'll combine with the two I did last year to make a "regiment" of 12. A bit pissweak for zombies, but I'll add more later.

No zombie should ever be underestimated.

Well I've been less than productive today, I should have some painting time in the morning where I intend on getting 36 more figures done.......yes 36. They are the mulfins, and they are only snotling sized, but they still count . They already have their yellow basecoat and a bone colored belly done, just need to pick out the back spines and the eyes, they are very basic. Also the mountain that I found has gotten some base coat painting done on it, but I'm not too concerned with getting it done anytime soon due to it's size and no use in game.

After April is done I think I'm taking a break from this army for a little while, I haven't nailed down my next project for May yet, I'm feeling the need to scratch build something, which takes away from painting time.