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Well as 2020 comes to a close, and most of us had the opportunity to pretend we have more time for painting but really didn't, I would like to take this time to show off some of what we may have accomplished.

I know for me 2020 will likely be my peak year for miniatures painting. I even managed to paint my first complete army with a Death Guard commission:





The commission was done in three major parts with a couple of ancillary additions. The bulk (shown above) of was mostly Poxwalkers and a couple of sets of Dark Imperium. Followed by more Poxwalkers (I think 60 in total), like 20 or so Plague Marines and a handful of Terminators, various HQs, three drones and 1 Blighthauler and custom Rhino. The commission was orginally supposed to be just a quick 3 colors up to get this player up and running and if they wanted to they could easily finish the models later. However, they proved a lot easier to paint, and I didn't think the owner really was going to finish them, so I completely painted and based them for the cost of the basing paint.






Also, this year was more additions to my Primaris army. In addition to the Indomitus stuff, I really filled out my Gravis section this year. The was also the year that I managed to apply transfers to my marines and triple my Primaris Lt powa. I really do enjoy painting this army more than any other. I also completely my dream of having 23 Reivers (first spoiler). Just in time to not play 9th edition I also finally finished my Apothecary (who hasn't proven himself to be Chief yet). I also finished my Redemptor Dreadnought like a week too late to pick up another ETB as they went out of stock around the time I did finally finish painting it.



This year I also not only finished updating my Black Legion to the new models, but I also gave my army more heavy and special weapon options than they had ever had. It still has a little more work, but I have painted a lot of gold trim on power armor this year. And after years, finally re-based my Dark Venegance Chosen to 32mm where they will likely serve as Aspiring Champions of my Chaos Space Marines.






Finally, I managed to take my extra large kill team of Genestealer Cults to a technically playable 1000pt army to a technically, almost for real playable 2,000pt army this year with the introduction of the GSC Start Collecting. The photo included is a little outdated, but I have been wanting to hold taking a newer one until I make another trip to the painting table with this army.




And that is more or less (well less, as some of what was shown was painted before this year) I have managed. I am pretty happy with both the amount and quality I did this year. What did everyone else manage to accomplish for their armies this year?

Just stared doing my year’s end summery. Here is a snap of the YTD shelf with everything I’ve done this year.

Well my tally for the year for projects completed-

DUST 1947 armies (priimed edition) fully painted minus bases

Allies heavy rangers with SAS support



Axis heavy grenadiers with armor/air support-focus on laser units



SSU steel guard force with support artillery and combat engineer walkers



My 40K armies i always wanted to build done in epic scale (adding to my epic marines, DKOK, necrons and reaver titan)

Elysians



Mechanicus



I also picked up these 10 GK terminators to use for our retro games of 40K using the allies rules and 3.0 GK codex. i am waiting for secret weapon miniatures to release their new color infused bases to put them on.




I am currently working up an Iynden eldar force in epic, sadly i need some minis from vanguard to complete the force and they are shut down for the holidays so i will complete this project in 2021.

Last up is my backlog of master grade and SD gundam kits from 0083 stardust memory

commander south burning and his GM custom



GP02/GP02 SD



GP03

Cannot seem to find the solo pic so here it is in the group shot-the white/blue one in the middle left.

So, I did quite a lot of painting this year, as with Corona my one other hobby (playing Rugby) was not an option and I kinda isolated myself a lot. There have been a lot of days, where I worked (home office), closed my laptop and hit the painting desk for a few hours and nothing else. Contrast was a big contributor to my motivation.

This is everything I painted in 2020:

I basically finished my LotR Dwarves Army and started the first few miniatures of my Angmar army:

For 40k, after I had a bit of a struggle with my Space Wolves motivational wise, I rekindled my love to them and added some Primaris stuff:


Most of my painting was for my Astra Militarum (renamed as the 161th Koranoan):


I wanted to start either GSC or Tyras for a longer time now, and with the Christmas Bundles I pulled the trigger on the Tyranids. And so far, I am having an absolute blast: