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Finished the first block of Force Grown Drones.

A classic piece from the Outlanders set...with all the cardboard replaced by plastic card painted and details added. I added an extra level to make this one even taller and the elevator a little more useful.





The long painting and converting war continues...

CB

Love that Necro terrain!

Adding some more backlog minis painted:
A dreadknight
Immolator, OOP exorcist, and two SOB Rhinos
20 Novitiates
6 Arcoflaggelants

Backlog minis painted:


Models added to the Backlog this year




Added to Backlog in 2023

Finished my first block of Stryx,and a High Clone Executor.

This in no way phased the pile.

That isane !

Finished Return of the Witchlord for HQ.

I cracked open my Anglo-saxon army and started assembling the first few units. I doubt I will get them done by End-of-the-Year.

The assembly is slowing me down. The single pose plastic models from HeroQuest have spoiled me!

This.

And I’d have the smaller buildings to the same state, but I’ve run out of Zandri Dust.

A Seigebreaker Behemoth and a High Clone Executor.

The end of my City States and Dweghom are supposed to arrive this week, so that'll set me back several days while I get things assembled and base coated, but that should be the end of the new stuff until next spring.

And FedEx is still giving my LGS the finger.

Finished up a set of Clockwork Hoplites.

And a second set of Clockwork Hoplites. At this rate I'll get to make the "and CS is finished again" wisecrack before I get the remainder of that order.

Got a lot of painting done, maintained discipline pretty well until I saw some used orks on my local dischord...

Adding some more backlog minis painted:
3 Field Ordnance Batteries
3 Armored Sentinels
1 Ursala Creed Proxy
1 converted OOP creed
5 Praetorian command
1 Mortar Team, 6 oop mortar guns only
6 Munitorum Armored Containers

Painted minis from 2023
25 Tempestus Scions
3 Bullgryn
1 Taurox Prime

Minis bought and painted:
Tempestus Aquilons
Hivestorm Terrain

Added to Backlog:
Vespid Kill Team
2 Battlewagons, 2 Trukks, Squigboss

Backlog minis painted this year:


Models added to the Backlog this year


Bought and Painted this year



Added to Backlog in 2023

Finished some Marksmen clones.

Finished several things. Six Centaur Avatara, some Sacred Band and Clockwork Hoplites. I've actually lost track a little bit because I keep expecting some things to show up at my LGS and those things keep failing to arrive.

Finished a Reaper Nativity scene.

Started on Victrix Anglo-Saxons for Fury of the Northman.

I've now added 1 Squig riding grot (I think he's from a Warcry/Underworlds team), 1 D&D Cleric, & 1 Wizkids D&D character sized Minotaur to my painted minis tally.

Three stands Desolation Drones and three stands of Stryx.

I've removed the "Things I Know I Will Buy" section of my first post, if something I had on order hasn't shown up already I'm not going to have it this year.

There's still a chance of knocking one more thing out before the end of the year since I have a few monsters in the pile and they're fairly quick, but I'm also probably looking at adding one more regiment since I still have a holiday party to get through and I didn't ask for anything else.

I'm pretty pleased with my progress for the year even so, I cleared out everything I started the year with and I ended the year with quite a bit less than I started with on The Pile.

 CragHack wrote:
Oh..
What's left to finish:
x2 Pallas - Nope
x1 Calladius - Nope
Valdor - Painted
x1 Venatari Custodian - Painted

What I would like to build and paint:
x1 Calladius - nope
x30 Custodian Guard - built like 10.
x2 Armigers - nope
x1 Vanilla Questoris - haven't even bought it
x1 Warhound - Legs are on jb weld right now.

What's built and needs painting:
x1 Cerastus Acheron - lol, nope
If I manage to squeeze everything in this year, I will be one very happy person.

What I did though, is that I got sidetracked and painted a 6x4 worth of Necromunda Ash Wastes table

Been scrolling through my google photos and I'm at over 220 models painted this year, probably a record in quantity and variety.

Amongst them

Turnip28 stuff


Man o War


Dystopian Wars


Space Battleship Yamato


Kings of War


Horus Heresy


Dracula's America


Random stuff


Needless to say, I bought way more than I painted.

Yeah my pile of shame swelled a lot, with very little actually making it all the way across the bench.

 ZergSmasher wrote:
Yeah my pile of shame swelled a lot, with very little actually making it all the way across the bench.

Same here but that is because I spent more time gutting a house and refinishing it. So now that it's done, I have move in.

For the holidays, I got me a bunch of Heresy Marines and am working on a test model for the Emperor's Children.

boyd wrote:

 ZergSmasher wrote:
Yeah my pile of shame swelled a lot, with very little actually making it all the way across the bench.

Same here but that is because I spent more time gutting a house and refinishing it. ...

"That still only counts for one!"

Seriously though, that's a lot of work. Congrats.

Finished up a Stoneforged this morning, see ya'll in 2025.

Some really fun stuff in there Lord Blackfang! Love the Space Battleship Yamato and Dystopian Wars stuff.

However, that first Turnip28 thing will haunt me!

I ended the year at 265 models painted, with over 100+ coming from Heroquest boxes. The rest were some Kill Teams, a 6mm Hittite army, and some Ancients.



You can see the details on my End-of-Year blog post here:
https://bloodandspectacles.blogspot.com/2024/12/random-drop-curtain-on-2024.html

 Easy E wrote:
I ended the year at 265 models painted, with over 100+ coming from Heroquest boxes.l

Very nicely done, dude! Congrats. I promised I would do my Pile of Shame by the end of this year but failed miserably, lol. Oh well, always next year. Keep up the good work!

I guess it's time for the final accounting. I hope to get a group picture of everything today or tomorrow when I'm off work.  I finally broke my discipline and not only bought more minis, but bought the dumbest possible sort of minis: a big box of first born stuff. I'm still stripping and rebuilding stuff, so nothing has seen paint. The good news is that I have a fun little project cooking up for all the loose firstborn dudes for the winter.

I was able to get a few more backlog minis painted:
2 rogal Dorns
3 Taurox
10 Kasrkin
3 FW Vindicator turrets, one FW exterminator turret, one metal demolisher turret

20 Infernus Marines
5 Sternguard
7 Stands Conquest Mercenary Crossbowmen


there were a few Minis I bought and painted this year:
Tempestus Aquilons
Hivestorm Terrain
Vespid Kill Team


Added to Backlog:
Lord Solar
Scout Sentinel
2 Land Raiders
5 Rhinos Mk2, 1 Rhino MK1
3 Dreadnoughts (plastic), one metal
2 Landspeeders
6 bikers
12 Terminators (mixed plastic and metal)
~40 Firstborn power armored models



Backlog minis painted this year:


Models added to the Backlog this year


Bought and Painted this year



Added to Backlog in 2023


It looks like I painted 373 backlog models this year, bought and painted 238 more, and added 107 models to the backlog. So a pretty good net reduction. I was able to paint all complete units for multiple armies: votann, 1k Sons, Disciples of Tzeentch, Tau, Grey Knights, and Sisters. My Guard are whittled down to a few units, but I'm also adding oil washes and weather to my currently painted stuff, so that project will never end...

Nice work! That is a lot of painting!

 Easy E wrote:
Nice work! That is a lot of painting!

thanks! I was able to pull everything (well, nearly everything) out, and got some pics:

Okay, how the hell does anyone find time to paint over 500(!?) models in a single year? Are you just independently wealthy and so don't have to work, freeing up plenty of time for painting? I'm not sure I could bang that many out even if I didn't need to work.

It is cool to see it all laid out like that. My hat is off to you for getting all that done.

Finished the following this year.

Legions Imperalis (Prospero Defense Force Completed!)
2 Warhound Titans (Just missing the one Reaver under construction)
1 Cohort (61 bases) Space Marines Thousand Sons including 2 Sicarans and 4 Predators
4 Cohorts Auxilia (58 bases) including 4 Leman Russes and 2 Malcadors

3 Random Medieval Peasants and 1 Knight

Blood Pact Army (Complete)

6 Person Command Squad w/ two different standard bearers
3 additional Blood Pact Squad members
Blood Pact Tank Commander
Two Ordinance Artillery Pieces

Iyanden Characters
Two new Warlocks
One Farseer
One Autarch

So many tiny minis!

Terrain
3 Commissions (Large sets)
Medieval Town & Keep

Goals for 2025

Build and finish...

LI Reaver Titan (January, this is for you!)

Warhammer the Old World Bretonnian Army

Starter Box Contents
Lord on Pegasus
3 Pegasus Knights
12 Knights
24 Peasant Bowmen
36 Men at Arms

Additional Army Components
Bretonnian Lord on Foot (The Old New Unreleased Mini)
Trebuchet (3D printed)
16 Foot Knights
2 Damsels (One on foot, on riding)
1 Army Standard Bearer (on horse)
6 Mounted Yeomen Conversions (may need to rebase them)
20 Braganza's Besiegers (Crossbowmen, can use in an Exile Army or if they ever bring back Dogs of War)

Terrain
To Build & Paint
Trebuchet Wall Piece/Tower
Garrison / Barracks Wall Piece
Fortified Manor

To Paint
Warhammer Keep (4 Walls, 4 Towers)