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Howdy folks, I've been inspired by a few of my fellow modelers lately and I have a huge backlog that needs to be painted. I've put myself down for a 365 models done for the year challenge to keep myself moving and motivated. I'm hoping to be a little more productive in the next month or so as I'll be getting less time to work come March.. but so far, at least, I'm still technically on target.

Pictures:


Everything with a little crappy paint editing Note that I'm counting the hill and vehicles as 1 because CHALLENGE!


Zombies backed by jungle terrain piece (as is everything).

The jungle bridge/hills was a fun terrain piece to build. I'd like to make 3 matching pieces and grid up all 4 to have a jungle outpost deadzone board. The zombies were quite fun to assemble and pretty simple to paint. I usually stick to tabletop quality and these are no exception, I figure having upwards of 100 of them means I can slack off a bit here and there. Expect more zombies through out the challenge/project.


Marauders!

I had one commando and the captain done from last year, so this batch bumps the total up to 7. I still need to paint 3 more for a full strike team but I can only do so much red/black combo in a row. I may keep the scheme moving forward after those 10, but it will have to come a model or two at a time. If anyone missed it, I'm going for a bit of an M. Bison/shadowlaw vibe with these in terms of color, and the mawbeasts below loosely resemble Blanka


Mars Attacks minis!

These minis are all from mars attacks, though I've been using them for Pulp Alley too. You've got from left to right: Tunga, Esteban, Agent Falco, Buck Spencer, Natalya, boy/civilian/whatever, Novas Vira Militia (Vasquez). All of the mars attacks stuff so far has been pretty fun to paint. The details are strong enough to get by on, though certainly not the same quality as top shelf resin or metal or what have you. The amount of detail is just right for me, enough to keep you interested but not so much you get tired of it.


Fantasy minis!

Left to right you've got the Astrologer/Heavens Wizard/Diviner or whatever, Sir Garrik the Bold/Sir Forscale, and a Nature priest/druid. I wanted to paint my own Sir Forscale for when I got my bones 2 shipment in, and the other two have just been knocking about for some time. I still need to decide how I want to generically base my fantasy minis, the two wizards need a bit of a change.


Martian Mayhem!

Big Stompy Robot and Martian Attack saucer. These were both painted in absurdly simple schemes but they're two of my favorite models from this batch. I really like how they've turned out especially considering the amount of work involved. Both have a little bit of airbrushing but the majority of the models have just been hit by a few waves of drybrushing. These didn't get dipped like everything else, just a double coat of flat sealer.

Thanks for looking in, if there's interest I'll post next month's results as well when the time comes.

Love the group shot in the scenery. Now you'll have to knock out a scenery object of comparable quality each month just to display that month's models on!

Nooooo! I spent 3-4 days worth of productivity on that alone! Not a lot but when you consider it being worth a point the same as a zombie... meep.

Yeah. Clear bases get the job done.