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Slow progress continues. After banging out a Team Yankee British Army of the Rhine force last month, I’m back to proper historical armies - Orks!

The long March through the pile continues…


Shootas


Sluggas


Next, on to some tanks…

Finished six Farrow Slaughterhousers and Maximus, but I need to add another scratch-built Soul Ginder to the pile.

Glad to see some photos in the thread!

I have finally worked through my first batch of 40 Persians. Only 80 more to go, with 30 being cavalry!

Finished up a big batch of DW and Sisters stuff. Now I'm on to some Gencon purchases including the Kitsune for Bushido.

After that.... the home stretch. Some Imperial Knights to paint, a Rhino and a Hooch Hauler are the huge final projects on the pile. Hoping I might have things wrapped up before Mk4 hits.

Those orks look really good Gordy. Nice skin

 Easy E wrote:
Glad to see some photos in the thread!

I have finally worked through my first batch of 40 Persians. Only 80 more to go, with 30 being cavalry!

I used to post pictures, but trying to read the thread when there are pics that aren't hidden inside spoilers is tough on my phone so I fell out of the habit.

That said, finished that Soul Grinder:




Admittedly I might have sped through it more than usual since I got a game in with the 9th ed codex and now I'm leaning toward selling the whole army.

I'm basically treading water at best.
I haven't really made any progress on anything in my initial post.
Meanwhile more minis have come into my forces/hoard & some have been painted. About a 3:1 ratio....

As for painting 1 more mini than last year?
When I get the stuff from the HH box finished I'll be at +3 vs last year.

The Newman wrote:


Admittedly I might have sped through it more than usual since I got a game in with the 9th ed codex and now I'm leaning toward selling the whole army.

Check out onepagerules instead for 40k fix if you are getting burned out on 9th. Much smoother and quicker gameplay. Support for all 40k armies, and points calculator to make your own units. It is so nice to just build and paint stuff you like the look of instead of chasing the GW meta.

 Illumini wrote:

The Newman wrote:


Admittedly I might have sped through it more than usual since I got a game in with the 9th ed codex and now I'm leaning toward selling the whole army.

Check out onepagerules instead for 40k fix if you are getting burned out on 9th. Much smoother and quicker gameplay. Support for all 40k armies, and points calculator to make your own units. It is so nice to just build and paint stuff you like the look of instead of chasing the GW meta.

The problem with OnePageRules is that it looks at GWs clunky, complex rules writing and decides that the complexity is the problem and the answer is to strip it out. I'm a huge fan of Warmachine so I think the problem isn't that the system is complex but rather where that complexity expresses itself.

Warmachine is even more complex, but that complexity is expressed in on-the-table tactical decision making. 40k's complexity comes out in list building and mechanical operations, but the decision tree is never all that complicated. In Warmachine a good player can pick a list by throwing darts and reliably beat a tuned tournament list in the hands of a mediocre player. You don't see that much in 40k, and OnePageRules is even worse from what I've seen.

Besides, I'm just looking at selling the Daemons off because the new codex stripped out everything I liked in the old one. I still own 'nids and Marines, and with Warmachine kinda sorta picking back up locally I can't justify holding on to a tertiary 40k army.

Try F28: War Always Changes, rather than OPR. F28 gets rid of complexity very precisely, where we don't need it, but gives richer tactics than 40K instead, with a detailed Reactions system. All major factions supported.

I've made huge progress in painting, this year, so far, thanks to a couple of long hobbystreaks... but my priorities have shifted somewhat so I've not necessarily addressed the list I have here very effectively! Ah well...

Everyone has there favorite, but suffice to say if you are burned out of 40k that there are literally 100's of alternate rules out there that work just fine with the models.

Go to the Wargame Vault or Freewargames Wiki to see a whole new world of options.

Edit: Oh yeah, Labor day weekend was productive with finishing a couple stand-alone minis and good progress on 20 more Persians!

Down to the last 20 minis in my pile of shame. About half of those are vehicle size stuff so its not going to be done immediately, but so..... close....

10 Vanguard Veterans and Gravis Captain done today.

I am down to:

4 Armigers
1 Dominus
2 Questoris

1 Rhino
1 Exorcist

1 Hooch Hauler

Everything else I have to paint isn't in my hands yet. Feels good. This is down from over a thousand at one point. I might get bored enough to work on terrain.

I just finished a 10 Eldar Corsair Kill Team, but still have about 30 Persian Archers and 30 Persian cavalry to finish.....

 LunarSol wrote:
I am down to:

4 Armigers
1 Dominus
2 Questoris

1 Rhino
1 Exorcist

1 Hooch Hauler

Everything else I have to paint isn't in my hands yet. Feels good. This is down from over a thousand at one point. I might get bored enough to work on terrain.

Terrain is a nice change of pace if you use techniques like oil-washes, zenithal base coating etc. Then it is very free-flowing and quick compared to painting minis.

 Easy E wrote:
Glad to see some photos in the thread!

I have finally worked through my first batch of 40 Persians. Only 80 more to go, with 30 being cavalry!

Good point! Here's my newly finished Kitsune force for Bushido!

Here are some of the finished Persians.....

Finished a Meat Thresher and Razorback crew.

Added a Chaos Knight army.

Finisher my remaining Tyranids. ...or at least I have them done to my original standard, before I started putting gravel on my Marines. I will almost certainly go back and address that eventually, if only to make the Hormagaunts less likely to fall on their faces.

I finished off 30 Persian archers, which leaves me with 30 Persian Cavalry to get done this year. It is a race against time now.

Been a while since I've updated, but I've still done a decent amount of painting although at a slower speed than before. Our club lost interest in Oathmark for a bit so I've put my ancients back on the table and have been splitting my time between them and fantasy. Currently over half way through Scythians.

Done:


To be done:

So far this I've painted 232 Infantry, 81 cavalry, 1 Character, 4 Monsters, 2 Catapults and 2 chariots. As well as 32 Infantry started last year but finished this year.
Purchased 68 Infantry, 5 Cavalry, 7 Monsters, 2 Catapults, 10 Foot characters, 3 Mounted characters.

Great progress for the year!

Very nice everyone. I'm going to start my post in 2023, but for now I have two gargaunts to finish for warhammer at the Las Vegas Open. A Mega Warstomper and a baby Mancrusher. Looking forward to tackling this thread next year and seeing what else i can do in a full 12 months.

Just cleared the Indomitus Box. Painted them up as Black Templar. Figure they will be fun to run a Crusade army. Picked up Brayard's Revenge for the Emperor's Champion. Figure I can use the captain as my Sergeant who had the Feast. Figure I will need to get a Crusader Squad but I painted both of the Primaris starter sets as Templar (Necrons and Death Guard boxes). The last thing I have to complete them is decals.

Items left in my queue:
HH - Dark Angels
10 Lascannon Devastators,
Contemptor Dreadnought
10 terminators (both Tartarus and Cataphractii)
Sicaran
Rhino

AoS - Slaves to Darkness
10 Warriors (details and bases)
5 Knights (bases)
Karkadrak (base)
10 Chosen
1 special edition Chaos Lord)



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@Boyd and @DuracellRabit that's fantastic progress.

Finished some Bone Grinders this morning. They took several days longer than they should have because I was cleaning the unused bits off the Chaos Knight and wardog sprues and the "...there's two more wardogs here if I add a few things from the bits box" though got the better of me.

I've made some progress but am pretty behind schedule on fantasy, largely due to a lack of interest -- we've been playing primarily F28: War Always Changes, this year, so it's been SF all the way.

Anyway -- apart from all my planned stuff I've made a fair bit of terrain and other bits and pieces, but here's an update:

KoW Northern Alliance army. Very little further progress on the planned 1500 pt army; just a bit of work on the Blood Rage Viking minis.

For F28:
Five chaos space marine bikers
One chaos lord biker
-- these are built, undercoated, and have the main armour panels painted and shaded.

One space dorf airship (converted toy)
-- this is mostly built but I'm still wrapping my head round some of the more complex aspects.

One space dorf land train (bought as a 3D print)
-- built, primed, and painted.

One space dorf drill vehicle (converted toy)
-- conversion finished, primed, and painted

At least two squads of space dorfs
-- a lot more than two squads built and primed, and a fair few more finished other than basing.

At some point I may even upload pics to my painting & modelling blog, ya never know.

Been grinding on some 30 Persian Cavalry. Almost done with the horses, and then onto the riders. I am doubtful I can finish by the end of the year.

You can do it! Riders always seem quicker than horses, even flashy Persians.

(Shamelessly cross-posted from the showcase thread)

Well, a bit late I guess, but with the launch of the new guard codex I was motivated to put a dent in my tank backlog (click for bigger images)

Taurox


Russ 1


Russ 2


Demolisher


Vanquisher 1


Vanquisher 2


Destroyer


Executioner (alternate load out on the Demolisher hull)


The whole gang