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Ah, the days where every shiriken was unique.

Cheers,

CB

Classic models have a certain charm for sure, and you did them justice! Also liking some of the Deadzone stuff; I think the Star Saga game was based on that same universe as there's a boss in that game who looks similar to your plague guy (possibly even the same sculpt). Which reminds me, I need to eventually either paint or sell that game (yet another in my endless backlog of projects...).

 ZergSmasher wrote:
Classic models have a certain charm for sure, and you did them justice! Also liking some of the Deadzone stuff; I think the Star Saga game was based on that same universe as there's a boss in that game who looks similar to your plague guy (possibly even the same sculpt). Which reminds me, I need to eventually either paint or sell that game (yet another in my endless backlog of projects...).

Much like music, my hobby tastes were pretty much cemented when I was in my teens. A lot of the newer models, from any manufacturer, are objectively better than a lot of the classics, but the classics are what I grew up on.

Star Saga is, indeed, set in the same universe. A lot of the character models have counterparts in the Deadzone rules. Every once in a while I regret not backing that particular KS, but almost immediately I remember just how many unpainted models I still have from the first two DZ kickstarters and then I feel better.

Here are the Path To Glory models, all painted up and in a group shot. Individual shots came out dark and a little out of focus, so I'll be redoing them before I share.

OH! those are glorious! Fantastic work

Are they from Knightmare?

They look like the path of degeneration for the guy on the far right. They get steadily more chaotic and mutated from right to left. They look fantastic!

Wow they look like the stepped out of the pages of Slaves of Darkness!

bbb wrote:OH! those are glorious! Fantastic work

Are they from Knightmare?

Thanks! I honestly don't remember where I got these models from. Some boutique outfit, most likely one guy working alone, that appeared in my FB feed a while back.

Warboss_Waaazag wrote:They look like the path of degeneration for the guy on the far right. They get steadily more chaotic and mutated from right to left. They look fantastic!

Kid_Kyoto wrote:Wow they look like the stepped out of the pages of Slaves of Darkness!

That's exactly what they are-- the sculptor was inspired by this two-page spread from Slave to Darkness:

Excellent! Great paint and an awesome homage to a classic.

 youwashock wrote:
Excellent! Great paint and an awesome homage to a classic.

Thanks. They are cool models, and I'm pretty happy with how everything but the daemon blades have turned out. The flame running up the middle of the blade is acceptable, but I can't seem to get the glow right along the edges.

 JoshInJapan wrote:

bbb wrote:OH! those are glorious! Fantastic work

Are they from Knightmare?

Thanks! I honestly don't remember where I got these models from. Some boutique outfit, most likely one guy working alone, that appeared in my FB feed a while back.

Found them. Drew Day Williams / Satyr Studios

https://www.instagram.com/p/C9aUq1uOKCJ/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

 bbb wrote:

 JoshInJapan wrote:

bbb wrote:OH! those are glorious! Fantastic work

Are they from Knightmare?

Thanks! I honestly don't remember where I got these models from. Some boutique outfit, most likely one guy working alone, that appeared in my FB feed a while back.

Found them. Drew Day Williams / Satyr Studios

https://www.instagram.com/p/C9aUq1uOKCJ/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

Nice hunting! This fellow makes a lot of nifty, RT-esque models that I in no way need, but want nonetheless.

Work for 2024 is over, and I found some time to re-photograph the Aspiring Champion:

Turning To Chaos:


Just some ambitious Empire soldier. This is a one-piece mold, which must have been a bear to cast given how he's holding the dagger.

Mark of the Gods:



A pretty quick jump from Empire gear to Chaos Armor. We see his first mutation-- a horse leg. The helmet flash was kind of confusing. He has horns as well as decorative elements. Typing this out, I realize he actually has two mutations.

Mark Of Chaos:



Two more mutations-- a tentacle arm and a tail-- as well as a Daemon Weapon. This guy is rolling pretty well on the d1000 table. The weapon caused me a lot of heartache. I tried to make it look white hot at the core, but it came out a cheerful lemon yellow. This version works well enough, I suppose.

Eye of the God:


An extra pair of arms, plus some growth on his tentacle and tail. The model is bigger than the previous three, so I put him on a larger base (32mm insted of 25mm). These guys all come with slotta tabs, so I had to slice out a slott(a) in the base for him. This sword looks better than the previous stage-- I think I learned from my mistakes.

Becoming a Daemon Prince:



The previous four models were all one-piece casts. This guy had separate wings and head, which gave him a little more dimensionality. This guy is on a 40mm base, which also required some cutting for the tab.

Here is a group shot, slightly clearer than the last one I shared:



This was a fun little project. There are a lot of little details on all the models, but not a lot of colors, so painting didn't take terribly long. I have a few more models mostly finished on the painting station, and I hope to have them ready to share before the New Year.

Nice to see more pics of this project. You did a great job on them. I'll always have a place in my heart for the original Realms of Chaos books.

 youwashock wrote:
Nice to see more pics of this project. You did a great job on them. I'll always have a place in my heart for the original Realms of Chaos books.

Every once in a while, I pull them out of storage just to wallow in the weirdness. So many random tables, so many crazypants conversions, so much Goblin Green...

Great stuff! Really like those Eldar. Looking forward to seeing what you have planned for the new year

Love the evolution of damnation. Great job!

PaddyMick wrote:Great stuff! Really like those Eldar. Looking forward to seeing what you have planned for the new year

Thanks! I love Eldar in pretty much any incarantion.

I hate to disappoint you, but I never actually have a plan for my hobbying.

Nevelon wrote:Love the evolution of damnation. Great job!

Thanks! This set was an impulse buy, but a good one, I think.

Nicely done on the Path to Glory set, dude rolled well on his mutation table!

Very nice work on the Path To Glory models.

And Happy New Year.

Cheers,

CB

Love seeing that aspiring champion mutate. Nice work and happy new year!

aku-chan wrote:Nicely done on the Path to Glory set, dude rolled well on his mutation table!

Indeed. Leafing through Slaves to Darkness in preparation for painting these models really makes me want to run a Path To Glory campaign. If only WHFB rules weren't so klunky...

Captain Brown wrote:Very nice work on the Path To Glory models.

And Happy New Year.

Cheers,

CB

Thanks, and Happy New Year to you, as well. I can't wait to see what you paint in 2025.

The Red Hobbit wrote:Love seeing that aspiring champion mutate. Nice work and happy new year!

Thanks. It really is a cool set of models.

It's 2025 here, as we're on the future side of the International Date Line. We had a pretty low-key holiday, as my son is prepping for his high school entrance exams-- Exam Hell , as it's sometimes called. I did manage to finish a few more models that had been sitting on my painting station. First, some Forge Fathers for Deadzone:







These guys are vintage restic, so I didn't spend a whole lot of time cleaning them up. I decided to lean into the construction worker vibe I used for my Brokkrs, thus the safety yellow armor. The blue is supposed to be denim, but it's a little to bright for that.

Next, the fifth Enforcer Peacekeeper from the set I painted a few months ago:


The sprue comes with five Defender Shields, but only four arms to attach them to, so I gave this guy a Burst Laser instead.

Finally, an armored fighter, from Bear's Head (I think):



This guy came with the Beholder I shared a while back. I'm mostly happy with the NMM on the armor, but not so much the sword.

By my count, this puts me at 107 models for the year, plus a set of modular spaceship terrain, two walkers,a quad mech, and five giants. Not too bad, I think. I'll try to put up a retrospective in the next few days, and maybe reflect on my hobby progress at the same time.

Thanks to everyone who reads this P&M blog. Your comments really, truly encourage me to keep on hobbying. I hope to see you all here in 2025!

Cool stuff, JoshInJapan. Again, all your Deadzone minis make me want to dig through and see what I have left from Sedition Wars. That and paint the box of Enforcers I picked up for pennies.

 youwashock wrote:
Cool stuff, JoshInJapan. Again, all your Deadzone minis make me want to dig through and see what I have left from Sedition Wars. That and paint the box of Enforcers I picked up for pennies.

Thanks, youwashock! I remember Sedition Wars minis as being pretty cool and not hard to paint once I accepted restic and all the attendant limitations of the medium.

2024 ended up being rather a productive year. I entered the Dakka Challenge every month, which kept me at the table regularly, which in turn kept me pulling out models that I wanted to paint. Some were more fun than others, but painted is painted, after all.

For January, I painted up some Blackwater Gulch models for the Challenge:


And then the models for Demon Ship:


The game comes with a photocopiable mat and terrain, but I wanted to play in 3d, so I built some stuff out of expanded polystyrene I had lying around:


The crates and barrels are from Dreadball Xtreme.

For February, I started with some oversized Usagi Yojimbo miniatures that had been sitting, unloved and unpainted, ever since I came to Japan twenty years ago:


I followed up with some rangers/assasins from Midlam:


and some Amazons from Bad Squiddo:


March is Space Marine month in the Dakka Challenge. I opted to revisit my samurai marine army that I took to the 2001 and 2002 Grand Tournaments:



I am not ashamed to admit that I've improved a lot in two decades.

The rest of the month was a random assortment of models, including more Amazons:



A valkyrie from Bad Squiddo:


An Oldhammer Chaos Thug:


A couple of Oldhammer Elves:



and a couple of Geisha, one from Clan Wars, and the other from Zenit;


For the April challenge, I finished this Harlequin dreadnought that had been in a box since well before I came to Japan:


as well as finishing my old metal Fellowship:


and a Deadzone merc:


In May, I painted these Striders, also for Deadzone:


a sniper, also for DZ:


a Marionette Phantom, yet another DZ model:


a Dreadball team:


and some corpse markers from the Sedition Wars terrain set:


Kind of a Mantic heavy month.

For June, I entered this Avatar of Khaine in the Challenge:


followed up with this Tigrax Outrider for DZ (I sense a pattern developing here)


July saw me painting up some dudes with rifles from Alternative Armies:


a bunch of Bad Squiddo ghouls:


some scouts from Mantic's Vanguard line:


some Frostgrave cultists:


and Raging Annie, from Bad Squiddo:


August was a change of pace, with the 1/35 quad walker:


Then back to Deadzone with Boss Somethingorother:


September started with some Enforcers in Peacekeeper armor:


followed by an Oldhammer ogre:


and a Cloud Giant from Reaper:


I kept with the Giant theme with these dudes from Old School Miniatures:


October is Spooky Month in the Challenge. I entered this Scooby Gang:


and followed them with a Beholder from Bear's Head:


For November, I went Old School with these Eldar:


followed by some more Eldar:


and then some more Mantic models, starting with Blaine:


followed by this limited edition Plague Lord:
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I finished off the year with this Path To Glory set from Satyr:


and then some DZ Forgefathers:


a Peacekeeper to finish the squad from September:


and finally an armored fighter:


Thanks, as always, to everyone who looks and comments. Here's to another fun year of hobbying!

A glorious retrospective! I love the sheer variety, as always.

 inmygravenimage wrote:
A glorious retrospective! I love the sheer variety, as always.

Well, having been in this hobby for so long, I have enough models to play any game that I am every likely to play, so anything I decide to paint is based purely on whim, rather than any need to finish some army project or whatever. Variety, you might say, is my middle name.

And it's the spice of life!

Great wrap-up! Lots to look at, and all well done. Big fan of all the Eldar minis and that Cloud Giant.

 youwashock wrote:
And it's the spice of life!

Great wrap-up! Lots to look at, and all well done. Big fan of all the Eldar minis and that Cloud Giant.

Thanks! I always love painting Eldar.

My first finished models of 2025:



A couple of Reaper Bones spiders. They took about 20 minutes, not including drying time.

Thanks for the year in review, Josh. It was fun seeing those minis again. And wow, you already have something done in 2025

You had a really productive year, nicely done!