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No stopping you. The heavy armor Blood Angels look great, as does that group shot. Color scheme for the Necrons is very cool.
   
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Wowsers! They just keep coming! The Blood Angels look absolutely amazing on their display shelf. You’re gonna smash through the 1 mini a day for the year… at this rate you’ll be able to put your feet up in October and still get through 365 minis I reckon

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youwashock wrote:No stopping you. The heavy armor Blood Angels look great, as does that group shot. Color scheme for the Necrons is very cool.


Glad you like the colour scheme, it's nice and easy but adds some colour.

gobert wrote:Wowsers! They just keep coming! The Blood Angels look absolutely amazing on their display shelf. You’re gonna smash through the 1 mini a day for the year… at this rate you’ll be able to put your feet up in October and still get through 365 minis I reckon


If I keep it up I'll probably be at 365 some time next month we'll have to see how it goes.

Real life incoming, if you just want hobby skip down to the bold bit and pictures.

I've had a bit of a slowdown in my painting. Turns out there's a good reason I've had a difficult time keeping on track for one project at a time, I've recently been diagnosed with ADHD (innatentive type). Which in very basic terms means I can't sustain attention on things (unless it hits a special spot in my brain, in which case I can focus on it for hours and forget to eat, sleep or do anything else. But I don't get to consciously decide what hits that spot...). Which has made life awkward at times, but as Warhammer has been one of the things I could focus on, meant I could get a lot planned/built/painted.
I'm now on medication, which has allowed me to have more control over what I can spend my time working on, so I've been doing lots of DIY that's been put off (for years...) And spending more time with my wife and son doing things that interest them (and not driving them crazy due to my fidgeting and being distracted), and as such it's cut into my hobby time. That's why there has been a lack of posts as I don't like to post in a P&M blog without some P&M. Hopefully I'll get a nice balance where I get some hobby done, but I'm almost certainly going to be less productive than I have been since the start of the year, which is a shame for my hobbying, but is much better for my life

Anyway back to hobby:
I did manage to get a bit painted this month as I hammered these out in maybe 6 hours over two days (to allow washes and bases to dry):


3 scarab swarms and 17 warriors. The number of warriors is because I already had 3 from the start painting set, so scavenged 7 of the old warriors with green rods from my bits box and swapped the guns with some spares. They were a bit battered from being not very carefully looked after for over a decade, but it kind of helps them fit in with the others.

I think that puts me at 339 models so far for the year, 26 models until I hit one a day for the year! I'm pretty sure I'll hit that target, and as the new Horus Heresy box with 54 models in is tempting me (for at least one...), I'll almost certainly overshoot it by some margin...although I do have a plan that will make painting the heresy stuff nice and quick.

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Good news on your diagnosis, hopefully the meds help you find an even keel, even if the hobby slows down!

The old-cron interlopers are very well hidden. I had a good look and couldn’t spot them! The extra guns certainly help to disguise their age along with a few knicks here and there. I took the clippers for the Necrons in the start collecting box

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The hobby can always wait for real life to catch up - I’m glad the meds are helping and I hope you are feeling even better in yourself

Great painting progress as ever, mate! I loved all the 2nd Ed stuff!

   
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Thanks for the well wishes Ragsta and gobert.

It's been a while since my last post, turns out getting meds balanced isn't a walk in the park, and real life has been busy for the last month.

I've been struggling to work up the enthusiasm to work on the project I should be focussed on (I've got some harlequins sat on my desk but need to work out the colour scheme and which bits of which models are what colour).
However I have made some progress on other projects.
I picked up a Lahmian Vampire to stand in as Lucrezzia Belladonna for my WFB Dogs of war army:

I got her second hand, and the paint job was already decent, so I didn't bother stripping her and just went over her and tidied up, mainly giving her a normal skin tone.

I also worked on a project that I new what colour everything was going, more Necrons!

My son and I have been (very) slowly working through the Imperium magazine, he's got the Space Marines, so I've got the Necrons (and possibly other assorted imperial forces from it). Some of them turned up earlier in the thread, but I've got around to painting most of the rest that we've received so far:
Yet more warriors and scarabs:

That's me up to 60 warriors and 15 scarab bases...

5 immortals:


5 Flayed ones:

Those guys are so fiddly I don't think they'll ever survive actually being used on the tabletop...

I've got two cryptecs awaiting paint, but apart from that this is what we've got so far from Imperium (with a couple of extra warriors):


That puts me at 363 Models so far this year and 24 for this month. Hopefully I can get another 6 done this week to keep me at one a day for the month, and push me over the 1 day for the year target.

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Looking good, I really like necrons with a touch of colour.

Hope all goes well medication wise.

   
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That’s a serious volume of Necrons! The flayed ones look great with their neon claws, shame their nails will get clipped through use. .

I can only dream of getting to 365 minis, seriously impressive volumes painted.

Good luck getting the meds balanced

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Slinky wrote:Looking good, I really like necrons with a touch of colour.

Hope all goes well medication wise.


I'm glad you like the colour on the necrons. I think it breaks them up a bit, and the red is very forgiving, as it's just a coat of mephiston red before I nuln oil the whole model, and then some evils suns scarlet to highlight.

gobert wrote:That’s a serious volume of Necrons! The flayed ones look great with their neon claws, shame their nails will get clipped through use. .

I can only dream of getting to 365 minis, seriously impressive volumes painted.

Good luck getting the meds balanced


The neon claws are a bit of fun, however I've already snapped one

Finger crossed, I'm now on the right dose of meds, and as a result, more hobby!

I got the two crypteks painted up, nothing fancy, but they fit right in.
The Chronomancer:


The Technomancer:


And then I thought it was a pity that the necrons from Imperium were painted up, but the marines weren't, so the first 8 assault intercessors got some paint:



I've got a lot more Ultramarines to power through, but as I'm only painting them up to battle ready at the moment, I'll hopefully get them done in short order.

That brings me up to 373 models for the first half of the year, and I've manged to hit more than a model a day each month, although I only scraped in at 34 this month.
Even more impressively, I've managed to shrink my pile of shame, as I've managed to paint about 2 extra models for every one I've bought, hopefully I can keep that going and get through the rest by about...2030...

I might see if I can dig out all the models I've painted so far this year for a group shot over the weekend, assuming they will all fit on my table...

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So I didn't get a chance to pull my models out and get a 6 month photo, but I did get time over the weekend to get some paint on another couple of models. These guys went pretty quick as I've already painted so many of them I can just about do it on autopilot.

My Necrons got some reinforcements, bringing me up to 9 destroyers, and far too many characters...


And the Ultramarines got some more Assault Intercessors. Between Imperium and Imdomitus, the Ultramarines are up to 20 Assault intercessors, in 4 x 5 man squads (plus the three randoms from the paint set):




And then as a bit of a break and letting me push my painting just a little bit (I actually highlighted the blue on this guy ), there is the captain from Imperium (with an unapproved loadout...):


So that's 16 so far this month, which brings me to 389 for the year.

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Back on the wagon MST! The electric Necrons look awesome, the orb on the Chronomancer being the standout for me. The Imperium Captain looks good, can’t wait to see him leading the horde of Assault Intercessors. Hopefully we get to see a full 6 month shot too

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 gobert wrote:
Back on the wagon MST! The electric Necrons look awesome, the orb on the Chronomancer being the standout for me. The Imperium Captain looks good, can’t wait to see him leading the horde of Assault Intercessors. Hopefully we get to see a full 6 month shot too


Glad you like the necrons! I've hopefully got some time tomorrow to break out the models and get some group shots (including the 6th month painting shot), I'll try and remember to get one of the Captain and assault Intercessors!

However, I'm back on the painting wagon, painting some things I can do on autopilot and finishing off some bits and pieces that've been on my to do list for too long, so I thought I should put up my latest painted stuff, before I post a load of photos of stuff I've already done...

So beware, many photos ahead!

Trying to get through the rest of the Imperium/starter box backlog, more Ultramarines got painted, specifically the Captain and Lieutenant:




Also some Aggressors, because who doesn't like flaming death:


Yes, I now have 9, at least it's someone for my gravis captain to lead...

To complete the Imperium haul here's the last Necron I've got (excluding the one tomb blade who's waiting on his mates to show up in Imperium, who I'm ignoring until I've got the three of them to paint up together), a Canoptek Spyder:


Just trying to clear off my WIP tray, so I finished off a Deathwatch Inceptor, which I've had sat around for far too long. Eventually I'll get around to getting a heavy intercessor squad for him to go with, that's not happening any time soon, but at least he's done...


I actually made progress on the combat patrols! That project I started ages ago, and is in my thread title and everything...
Some Farsight Enclave Breachers:


Looking at what I've got left to finish for the Combat Patrols:
  • Harlequins: Painting all of them (2 Shadowseers, 2 Deathjesters, 2 units of 6 Elven Space Ninja Clowns.)

  • T'au: Painting 20 firewarriors, and a commander

  • Farsight Enclaves: Painting 3 crisis suits and 2 drones, and then getting a broadside, which oddly is showing as "Sold out online" on the GW webstore in the UK, so I might need to replan...

  • Corsairs: Still waiting for them to be released individually

  • I really should prioritise them...

    Ah well with the painting I've done I've hit my target for July, (36 models so far this month), and it puts me up to 409 for the year.

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    So I spent Sunday rearranging my office so that I'm not staring into the sun all morning when I'm working from home. Which did result in me freeing up a bit of my desk to take photos on!
    It was about 2 foot square, and I thought I could fit all the models onto it...
    I was wrong.
    So I've split them up, here are all the (modern) 40k models I painted in the first half of this year:


    Then all the 2nd Ed. models I painted:


    And, for sake of completeness, the WFB/AOS models I painted:

    maybe I should try and make the latter half of the year more balanced.

    I realised that I haven't taken a photo of all the Necrons together so far, as they were split between two cabinets and slowly getting added to, so here they are:


    I also purchased some black A2 card when I was out on Saturday to use as a backdrop for stuff that won't fit in my lightbox, turns out I'm going to need a bigger piece as A2 isn't all that large. However I did get some photos:
    My Custodes combat patrol:


    My Tyranids Combat Patrol:


    My Horus Heresy Emperor's Children:


    My Deathwatch:


    My Admech, who are yet to make an appearance in this blog, but they're about to get some reinforcements from the Imperium magazine, so they'll get more photos then:


    And some renegade sisters of battle, both on foot:

    And on wing:

    I did those conversions a while ago, and I was crazy to convert so many metal models. It took forever with a hobby saw and green stuff. I really should get around to giving them some nicer highlights and picking out some more of the details.

    And then I thought I should round it out with Gobert's request, my Captain leading a horde of Assault Intercessors:

    I managed to convert a couple of spare guys out of a normal intercessor and a hellblaster to accompany the 3 from the pain set, so that's me up to 5 squads of 5. They're the guy on the back right without a helmet, and the guy to the right of him, which puts me up to 411 for the year.

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    There’s a real beauty in such volume of minis. Amazing stuff ManSizedTarget! The 2nd Ed shot is great, so much goblin green! the corrupted sisters win the basing competition though, awesome lava bases. Loving the new Captain leading the charge too

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     gobert wrote:
    There’s a real beauty in such volume of minis. Amazing stuff ManSizedTarget! The 2nd Ed shot is great, so much goblin green! the corrupted sisters win the basing competition though, awesome lava bases. Loving the new Captain leading the charge too


    Thanks! I really like the lava bases, they're a mix of resin ones and one's I've made out of cork.

    So this weekend was pretty productive. I've added some more to the oldhammer, turning the two spare meks I had into a squad of 5 evil sunz:

    It didn't feel oldhammer enough without paper banners, so they had to happen. It would be rude to leave the main mek in the army without a banner, so he got one too:

    I also threw a quick paintjob on some carnifexes I rescued a while ago, they won't win any painting competitions, but they're off the pile of shame, so that's the important part.




    And then I also got some work done towards the combat patrols, some Crisis Suits:

    I've got them set up as three members of the 8, Sub-Commander Torchstar, Commander Bravestorm, and Commander Brightstorm, Although they're going to be run as a commander (Bravestorm) and a unit of Crisis Bodyguards (the other two). With the breachers that leaves about 8 power left to make a combat patrol, so I can either fit Ob'lotai in a broadside, or one of the other commanders, depending on what I pick up when I get around to it.

    I got some paint onto the Fire Warriors for the T'au combat patrol, but they're not finished, so there's no photos so far.

    That's me up to 47 models for this month, 420 models for the year, and making progress on the combat patrols!

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    Lovely old skool banners! Really sells the Oldhammer aesthetic. I really like the crisis suits, some of your best work I think

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     gobert wrote:
    Lovely old skool banners! Really sells the Oldhammer aesthetic. I really like the crisis suits, some of your best work I think

    I'm glad you like the crisis suits, I spent ages edge highlighting and resisted the urge to just cover them in a wash to do the shading, which makes a massive change for me, so I'm glad it's worked!

    Back to the old school, I had Baharroth sitting in some paint stripper for a few months. I've no idea in what I painted him in originally, but acetone, IPA and even lacquer thinner failed to remove all of the paint. I had given up with stripping him, but then realised that I had (hopefully) got enough paint off that you could still the details, so I undercoated him to see how bad it was and he was...okay. There's a couple of bits that don't look quite right, like the fae of the hawqk on his chest, but as I'm not painting to 'Eavy Metal standards, I think he should look okay on the table top.


    I broke out my 2nd Ed. Eldar codex for the paint scheme, as although the 2nd ed model is still the current model (and sells so little it's still available in metal ), I don't think the new paint scheme would fit with the rest of my 2nd Ed. army. I've attempted to get a side by side photo, but the slightly shiny paper and a model that doesn't want to balance on the page made it slightly awkward:


    I'm happy with how he turned out, so definitely worth giving it a go and gets him out of the paintstripper and onto a shelf. Also he can replace my non-2nd ed. Fire dragons to bring me to a 2000 point fully 2nd ed army!

    That's me up to 48 models for this month, 421 models for the year

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    Lovely, he turned out super, particularly his rainbow wings.

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     gobert wrote:
    Lovely, he turned out super, particularly his rainbow wings.


    Thanks, I am pretty happy with him

    I've been productive! Painting a lot of purple!
    I got my fire warriors done, 10 with rifles:

    and 10 with carbines:

    I'm missing a commander or something to fill out the combat patrol but here they are so far:


    I also managed to actually finish another combat patrol, Harlequins!
    I've got two troupes, 2 death jesters and 2 shadow seers.
    Shadowseers:

    Death Jesters

    Troupe 1

    Troupe 2


    So that brings me up to 29 Combat Patrols! And the Tau and Farsight are only missing one suit each(and possibly some drones). That just leaves one Aeldari combat patrol, either Drukhari Coven or Corsairs. I'm tempted by the Corsairs, and raiding my bitsbox for customising them rather than having to just buy three boxes (and Yriel).

    That's 457 models this year, and 84 models this month, almost the best month so far, (I somehow managed 87 in January), if I can get 4 in over the weekend then this will be my most productive!

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