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Finished all six stands of Satyroi. Decided after the first three that I didn't like some of the shields, so I replaced all of that type in the second batch and shuffled them around a bit.

Also traded those Valks away to offset the cost of buying the CS half of the two-player starter set from a guy just buying in to Conquest, so I added some more Thyreans and Phalangites.

And knocked out a giant.

Finished another five old metal Harlequins.


Cheers,

CB

I am onto my last 3 bases of chariots for the Egyptians, but the Hittites are going to have to wait for next year.

Finished my Egyptian 6mm army. Pictures soon.

Onto my Dark Eldar Kill Team as a palette cleanser before diving into some Hittites.

Finished up my Legion stuff and painted up enough of my Mk4 Khador to play most anything I want until the balance pass in January. Working on some backlog items and new Judgement releases at the moment. Bit of terrain too.

Continuing to make progress on my City States, but I burned up a huge pile of store credit on picking up a Dweghom army to kick off next year's Pile of Shame.

DE Kill Team is done. Onto Hittites.

Finished a lot of smaller bits and bops. Doesn't look too bad any more.

Things quite literally on my painting table.

5x doom resvers. Just need washed.

11x trencher long gunners
3x ironclad
2x defenders
1x thunderhead

8x assault kommandos who I'm gonna convert (different arms!)
Irusk 2.
6x stormguard.

6x lurchers. Dogs are awesome.

Finished five more old metal Harlequins, that is twenty now.



Cheers,

CB

Getting some mechs out of the way.

M.

Deadnight wrote:
Things quite literally on my painting table.

5x doom resvers. Just need washed.

11x trencher long gunners
3x ironclad
2x defenders
1x thunderhead

8x assault kommandos who I'm gonna convert (different arms!)
Irusk 2.
6x stormguard.

6x lurchers. Dogs are awesome.

Update: DJ Thunder (thunderhead) and doom readers are done.

Have 2x defenders and an ironclad ob my painting desk now

Nice to hear that people are still painting Warmachine/Hordes models, that system is completely dead at my LGS.

The closest place that I know it's active isn't that much further away, but their hours really don't work with my schedule.

For my part I've finished the end of my Inquisitors and Phalangites, leaving just one more block of Minotaurs to finish out my City States for the year. I picked up a big pile of Dwegholm because the Black Friday sale was too good to pass up. I kind of want to wait to add that to the Pile of Shame until 2024 since it's so close to the end of the year and I'd have waited without that sale, but that a seems a littile disingenuous.

I've managed to smash most of my backlog out of the way the past few months, but there's a few things sitting in the pile I've not touched (and probably will continue not to until at least a few months away).

Warmachine- The better part of my Blindwater army from almost a decade ago still has no paint, and as I'm not interested in playing the game at all at this point I'm not really inclined to paint them. Maybe at some stage as a little hobby project, but unlikely
40k- 2 Wave Serpents, a FW Nightwing and 10 each of Striking Scorpions, Dire Avengers and Howling Banshees. I'll get them done, they're just not a priority and I lose motivation every time they hit the desk and go back away into the box
WHFB Dark Elves- Goal is to have them done before Old World, but we'll see when I get around to them
WHFB Khorne Warriors- Waiting fully on Old World, these guys are gonna be the only army I put on new bases because 40 unpainted minis is far more realistic than rebasing 300 painted minis
Malifaux- A couple of the limited edition crews still sitting around unpainted, but the game is all but dead to me and my local group so there's no reason to paint them right now. Same as Warmachine, dead game locally that would be a nice fun project, but I tend to paint to play

On another note, I've managed to finish a few army projects off this year so I'm clearing the backlog, just not in every way
Bolt Action- One of the projects I've let sit for a few years, happy to finally get it all fully painted and complete
30k- I've gone deep, with 3000 points of Knights, Blood Angels and Sisters of Silence all fully painted plus a Warhound and tons of expansion for my Dark Angels

Finished the end of my City States. Again. It's a running gag.

I think I will be putting the brushes down for the end of the year now.

About 51 of 28mm scale and 34 bases of 6mm scale stuff for the year.

Between now (12/23) through the 31st I will try & get 16 more kits built & basecoated from my backlog.

Backlog = anything I've had for more than a year.

That'll bring me up to 3x my stated goal for the year.

Very small list to start 2024.

To Paint List Complete – Base Coat Completed - Primed - Un-assembled – Still in Blister/Box/Closet/Under the Bed

Eldar – 11
Eldar Falcon - 1
Converted Eldar Dark Reaper Exarchs - 2
Harlequins-22
Harlequins - 5
Eldar Howling Banshee Exarch - 1
Eldar Farseer Conversion - 1
Swooping Hawks - 4

Necromunda - 40K Terrain - 3
Ruined Cathedral - 3
Battle Zone Nachmund -5
Imperial storage pallets - 6
Alien plants - 3
Bridges - 2
Burnt forest terrain - 3
Necromunda Tower - 1
Scatter terrain - 3
Nexromunda Tower - 3

Sisters of Battle – 0
Cherub - 1

Painted in 2023
52 models and figures

The long painting war continues...

CB

Currently on my painting table, I have a lot of Slaanesh. I'm painting 22 archers, 5 myrmadish, 5 dudes on steeds, and 2 characters. Finished are 3 slaangor, a character, 11 archers, 20 demonettes, and 5 hellriders.

I've got 11 more archers and a keeper of secrets to assemble and paint. I still need to add a couple of items: terrain piece, spells, 3 fiends, and some chariots.

Update...

Hangovers from... to my double shame... 2021:-

KoW Northern Alliance army:
* Assorted 1980s Dwarf minis, mostly with 1980s era paint jobs so at least needing a wash or two... DONE enough for at least one unit.
* Blood Rage minis to be my main human forces. Mostly primed, some painting done. DONE one unit and most of a second.
* Three Shieldwolf Amazon riding bears. Assembled and primed.
* Three Mierce Walrus Dudes. Assembled and primed. These will be Snow Trolls.


Hangover from... to my somewhat lesser shame... 2022:-

One space dorf airship (converted toy). I hit a bit of a sculpting wall on this but will get back to it soon -- have decided to abandon the original work and start converting a new, different, better toy...


ALL NEW AND BLUE AND FREE FOR TWENTY-THREE:-

More Northern Alliance bits -- two units of ice elementals and one of snow foxes DONE

Terrain scratchbuilds -- I really want to make a big-ass oil rig thing for SF skirmish and narrative gaming PARTLY DONE -- some painting needed

28mm scale converted toy spaceships -- got at least 5 or 6 of these that want painting and probably mild conversion DONE two

My next army for F28: War Always Changes will be a Thunder Warriors & Imperial Army, Unification Wars era force. I'd like a 1200 point force painted by year's end. LOL I think I'll call that a 2024 project instead

My sister in law brought me a Target supermarket exclusive box of Btech, and by God that I'm going to finish my Davion Crucis Lancers lance before 2023 is over!

M.

Finished a Knight Tyrant and two War Dogs, and with that I've completed everything that I had at the start of the year. I may not have defeated The Pile of Shame, but I think I fought it to a draw.

Interestingly (from my perspective anyway) I updated my original post on page 1 a total of 45 times this year. I finished something and failed to update that post twice that I'm aware of, that means I only went a week without finishing a unit 5 times over the entire year. That ain't bad.

Looking ahead, can I suggest "A Good Day to Paint Hard" for inclusion in a theoretical 2024 thread title?

Or "A New Hope", I guess.

 Dysartes wrote:
Looking ahead, can I suggest "A Good Day to Paint Hard" for inclusion in a theoretical 2024 thread title?

Or "A New Hope", I guess.

I was going to suggest "The Pile that Never Ends" but I don't know that I want to be responsible of people getting that song stuck in their heads for 12 straight months.

"Pile of Shame: the Morning After"
"2024: Return of the Pile of Shame"
"Citizens on Paint Patrol"

The neverending pile!

M.

Well, I kind of failed on the year to keep my pile near zero. I was basically down to one model I planned to sell, but then Judgement and Mk4 Warmachine hit about the same time our FLGS shut down and everything kind of shifted around and now I've got a sizeable backlog again. A lot of purchases needed at the time that I haven't been able to keep up on plus a couple questionable buys I probably could have skipped. Hoping I can whittle things back down soon but that's for a 2024 thread!

Some Wildspire Miniatures for more Gloomhaven Crimson Scales!

Proxying the Gloomhaven standees with Wildspire Mini's. These are for some imprisoned City Guards and City Archers.

Last pic shows the party fleeing the room where the City Archers were revived. Then bad decisions were made.

Wildspire Monster Set on Amazon : https://www.amazon.com/stores/WildspireMiniatures/page/B343BFEF-3714-440E-9750-50FC66D51848?ref_=ast_bln