Had the foam case on a chair, slipped putting him a cell, and he shattered on hitting the floor--cheap etsy 3d print is brittle. Steel washer base probably didn't help.

Oh no.
It would be interesting to do a test. Coat the brittle resin cast with maybe 2 layers with wood varnish and drop it, see if it adds enough durability.

At least the fox now has a cool back story.

It'd be on some other guy, I lost enough peices here. Not sure it'd do much for brittle. He and his buddy are done though:



And I found my microworld rats, so started a second infantry platoon, as that seems to be more the speed of usable E:A steel legion lists:


We'll see what gets done at paint night.

Got some paint down, everything kinda coming along.

Rats got a color:


Mechs got two:


Got the lizard rider from last week almost there:


And started and made good progress on a gnoll:


A little spare time this week, hoping it lets me get some of them fully done...

Got the 6mm rats done at least:



Also got a game of Wargods in, against some sebeki. Some hard fought stuff, but my decision to try to lead with my harbinger saw her pinched out and killed, breaking half my army, where we called it.


And at paint night, got the gnoll pretty close to done:

(Just need to decide if I'm TMM or NMM ing the weapons and armor...)

Also got the battlemechs close to done:


And made good progress on the 6mm tanks from a few weeks back:



Hopong to sneak in at least one for the year, but if not, just starts next year quick.

Got a little silly new years eve, got a bunch of basing done.

Lyran company got completed out:


Did the finish touches on the dark elf lizard rider:




Likewise a demonkin paladin from a bit back:




Also based up the tanks:


And finally made the plunge on the yetis:


Making them the last minis for the year for me, at 473.

On the resolutions from last year:

Going forward, kinda aborted tracking my purchases last year fairly early, would like to do paint more than I buy this year, or at least get a handle on how much I'm picking up. On the other hand, need to actively resist number go up more--probably still be doing a fair bit of speed paint just because of the number of projects I want to do, but some of those legions guys were more for quota. Kinda want to do at least a bust this year, and consider entering crystal brush at historicon--dunno if the time will be there. Likewise, want to try to get an opfor for wargods running--have several options, just gotta get some units to finished.

Pretty much all failed. Got a little off track in fall on tracking purchases, but at least have ballpark numbers, and I didn't quite keep up (my sheet is showing 443, but its missing some multibase 10 and 15mm stuff that I wasn't sure of the final base count on), but two of them are WGA dwarfs that're at least 15 each). Also failed hard on painting slower but better--last year was 379. I've made a start at a bust and a few larger scale display models, but nothing finished, and don't really feel I got anything to a level that wouldn't be insulting to put in to a competition. Wargods did get a few bits, but nothing amounting to another force. Did get some games of it in though!

Probably do the hobby bingo and some stat checks, plus plans for the year a little later.

FOUR HUNDRED and SEVENTY THREE in a year??

I've always known you were productive but thats a huge number. Lots of good stuff happening too - the blending on the paladin's shield is great, as are the scales and the skin for the lizard rider. The battletech mechs look great all together too.

Congrats on a big year mate, and for managing to get some games in too! All the best for more in 2026.