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Thanks Nevelon, hopefully your holidays are going well.

Shorter paint night, mostly cleaning up older mechs:

DCMS Mad Dog, with cool snake/dragon mech tatoo:


Some Thumpers mercs:


And random yellow clanners:

More progress on the mechs, mostly just basing to go:


And the first of the eldar titans is done:


Getting to the end of the year, feeling decent about it. Hope everyone's holidays are going well.

Got the tumpers finally all done and dusted:


And getting pretty close on the freehand Mad Dog and the clan yellow guys:


Also did myself a little silly objective marker for small scale chaos forces to use up some excess milliput:


And started in on the troops for the mycenaeans:


Trying to keep them in manageable chunks so I don't bog down.

Nice work on the mechs.

Not burning out can be rough on rank and file. Good luck!

Thanks Nevelon! Got a little more at paint night, but forgot to photograph it. Everybody got base flesh colors done, which means I gotta figure out what the clothes are going to be now.

Mostly I did some more with my ork BFG fleet as somebody else was doing tau and the bug bit a bit:


And played around with a Clay Golem from reaper as flesh practice. I'd put it in the challenge as I'm pretty happy with how it came out, but forgot before pictures.:


Could probably shaded the pants harder so they didn't look unfinished, but ah well. Theres actually a speedpaint and a highlight there.

Also got home and immediately had number-go-up bite a bit, decided I wanted the last few minis under this year, not first of next year, so finished the basing on the mechs real quick:






And finished-ish the Thunderhawk. Not sure it should really count--no base, but technically doesn't need one, though mutant third hand thats for if I'd modeled gear down...



Anyways, happy new year all, may it be a good additon for your hobbies!

The flesh on the golem looks really good.
nicely done.

The skin looks good on that super buff dude!

Thanks Tommygun1918 and aku-chan!

Did a bit of checking back and such on last year. Mostly seemed to be a year of rush, speed painting, and tiny guys. Plus side is the final count was 379, so managed a bit over a mini a day on average. Of course, helps 176 were legions imperialis, another 42 were for epic:Armageddon, and 18 and 7 for adeptus titanicus and warmaster respectively-- a lot of tiny bases worth of stuff being done. On the other hand, had a least a few minis for almost every game system I've been into recently--two necromunda gangs, a trench crusade force, over a company of battletech mechs, a few war gods and burrows and badgers guys, some generic fantasy rank and flank stuff,and even a few AoS and 40k models. Do feel the quality has fallen off with the speed though, at least on a whole model basis.
Doing the traditional hobby bingo roundup, actually scored a bingo this year:

Titan for a vehicle, cnebba as a monster, all the titanicus got painted before play. Did a fair few conversions, on both necromunda and trench crusade, built a lot of bases, and sculpted armor on the brass bull, weapon swapped on the basti hero. Generally a well rounded set of things done.

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.

During the week, got some light mechs pretty far along for the dakka challenge--not sure I like how the paneling is, not sure how to save it though.

Otherwise just needs basing.
At paint night itself, likewise ready to base some steiner blue battle lance:


Made a little more wargods hoplite progress:


And made some good work on the eldar titan:


Got my dark mech constructs for LI in today, so now 26 in the hole for paint vs buy, seeing as the mechs are new buys, and nothing done yet, but should be getting a fair few on the board soonish, between the spaceships and.the mechs...

Nice work as always.

If you are talking about proof pics for our competition here, don’t worry about it if you want to enter the clay golem. Your painting life is a pretty open book here on your blog. It’s not like you were secretly working on him for months. You are a regular who’s been entering constantly for years. I trust you.

Thanks Nevelon! Partially I don't want to abuse that trust, but also I was going to put him in for December, which is currently voting, so a bit late--skeleboys will just have to do.

Am making progress on the mechs though, just gotta paint up the basing and tuft up tomorrow:


Little glazing helped the green guys. Think another edge highlight might really push them, but worried about getting caught in a cycle of edge up-too wide-glaze down...

And first finished models for 2025:


Didn't end up doing the edge highlight again.

Nice Eldar titan, always liked the old school look of those. Purple and yellow suits them well.

Thanks Thargrim.

Spent the weekend basing up the space ships:

Also dug out some old ork 3d prints, and some chaos stuff, may start doing some of that, as a buddy wants to get back on the bfg train.
We'll see what actually floats in front of the brush.

Another paint night, another set of tangents:

Bfg bug biting some, so did a test chaos cruiser:





And played around with a reaper Avatar of courage, zuluesque lion man sort of dude:



Plus the reapwr mini-taurs


Tempted to get more and make some kind of rank and flank unit or something from them...

Shame BFG really never took hold locally. Always liked it, and the ships were cool and fun to paint.

Mostly looking to be me and an ex-roommate, but hoping we can get some enthusiasm. Theu are fun to paint though, got the cruiser based and did a second one:


And started some more at paint night:


Also based up the miscellaneous reaper:


Minitaurs

Avatar of courage

Also got that little objective marker I sculpted a bit ago painted:


And my roommate wanted some gobbos for d&d, and surprisingly, the GW were the cheapest, so speed painting ahoy:

Just block colors, still needs highlights and such, but feel pretty good building and 3 coloring 20 minis in a few hours. Hopefully can finish them this week...

I like that Lion-man. Are you experimenting with NMM now?

Thanks! Playing with NMM a bit, depending on how much of a pain in the butt it feels it'll be and whether I'm trying for speed or looks.

I log in to ask for your secret ways painting those lion/lioness fellows from Wargods. I find them inspiring yet cannot figure how to replicate your paintjob.

M.

Miguelsan--uhhh, I actually forgot the specifics, each of the batches and characters get a slightly different look because of that. I think the oldest ladies were something like prime white, VMC Iraqi Sand, VMC buff, VMC Ivory (or possibly pale yellow?), wash with army painter mid brown shade (may have been soft tone instead). More recently I think was something like vallejo brown sand (or green ochre), iraqi sand, pale sand, then wash sepia (army painter or vallejo both work), and use a dry clean brush from above to brush off the sepia from the highs while its still wet. Its basically khaki/ochre shades and a red brown shade/wash to tie things together. Going to make the add-ons I want to make eventually hell to match though. (Also checked after writing this, but theres a couple wips back on page 1 of this thread, though probably not much of use)

Painting progress wise, gobbos are done:



As long as I fudge counting from time in the door instead of time bought, made my 48 hour aquire to paint models for the bingo card done. Also not counting them for paint more than I buy, as they've been paid for and are for use of the roommate. Definitely showing the speedpainting, but happy enough for d&d table fodder.

And also some small progress on the shipping:


We'll get on to details on those tomorrow. Doing pretty good so far.

Got the Styx and friends done:



Most of the way through the next batch as well, though forgot photos. We'll see what grabs me at paint night.

Paint night wise, mostly stayed project focused.
Playing around with white and orange for the avellar guard for battletech:


And most of the way there on the next cruiser batch. Should probably stayed at two to the batch though:


Hoping to get them both done soon, should probably drop back to the eldar eventually...

Small shipping progress:


And some finished Avellar guard medium lance:



Brings me to 50 for the month, and 1 above my bought list. Got about another 8 cruisers for chaos, and a decent wack of escorts to go, hopefully get them finally done...

That looks like a rough sea state for those ships!
The painting is looking good.

Thanks tommygun1918!

Some finished and less storm tossed crusiers:



And playing with some other possible fleets, eldar and ad mech:


Gonna try some other stuff at paint night tonight , the ships don't carry well, but hoping to make some progress tomorrow.



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And some paint night stuff:

Started some more mechs, this time some dracs to go with the mad dog:


Also started some old metal marauder horse as a buddy's moving back towards warmaster:


And for the challenge, a post apocalyptic bazooka team from bad squiddo:


Almost done there, mostly wanting basing, and maybe some glazing to tighten things up...

Some progress, should get done by this weekend:


And a nice group shot for stock taking on my warmaster stuff:


Hopefully get a game in soon...

Did get done this weekend:


As did, more or less, the post apoc missile team:


More or less as I've gotten some advice and crit on them, so may try to push the quality up a bit more, more advice definitely welcomed.

Also started more projects, because of course I did:

Want to get some actual command for my lizardmen, that and some skinks should get me a usable army.

And feeling my way through some eldar, going to try to use a similar scheme to the titan if I can:


We'll see what actually gets done at paint night.

I shake my head every time I come here: it's not just the volume of owrk- it's the breadth of variety and the quality at the same time. Rock on, man, rock on!

Thanks Meer_Cat, its mostly lack of focus though.
Speaking of, a little more paint night progress:
Shipping pretty far along:


A second mech color:


And priming up more warmaster:


I'm sure some of this stuff will get done eventually...

Well, some of it is done, at least.
Spaceships and the lizard heros done and based:



Stars I think I did a little dense, and shouldn't have done on the stems, but happy enough with them.

Also put a little paint on the doggies:


And rushed a cruiser through paint as we're having a presidents day bfg cruiser clash game tomorrow, and I wanted something for anti-torpedo work:



Hoping the brain lets me do the doggies next...