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Lot of work completed in 2020 gobert.

Cheers,

CB

That's an impressive amount of painted miniatures in 2020!

I'm loving the old school orks! The banners are especially nice.

As someone who started orks with the newer 4th and 5th edition sculpts, I've not always been a fan of the old stuff.
But over the last couple of years, I've been really warming up to them. This thread has certainly helped me to appreciate them more!

Happy new year!

You did good gobert, really good.

@Ezki. Part of the reason is, that it highlights the old more satirical edge 40k had to it... newer sculpts often tend to take themselves and the universe a bit too serious.

Love these year in retrospective posts, I bet it takes a minute to compile but it's really cool to see all your progress throughout the year. Excited that the Void Panthers will continue to expand in 2021!

Fantastic year of minis! The elves, the gretchin, the Termies! Id forgotten about those Crimson fist termies, so nice. Not to mention the magestic Void Panthers and of course all the rest that I literally didn't mention. Too many to recount but all worthy of much appreciation. I applaud your most glorious year.

Great retrospective mate - congrats on an awesome year of mini painting! Nice photos too, great to see some things I had missed the first time around.

The oil stains on the BSF robot...chef's kiss

The old orks came out wonderful. Full of character - I miss cheeky orks with yellow highlights.

Looking forward to more this year mate - you've set the bar high!

Great to see that round up of minis Gobert! Personal favourites of mine are the BSF minis and your Orks at the end there, but everything you've painted up is really cool. I envy the amount of minis painted up!

Love the year in review, and the classic orks and BSF in particular brought me joy to see in the mix!

Thanks for sharing

Captain Brown wrote:Lot of work completed in 2020 gobert.

Cheers,

CB

Cheers Cap! I suppose 2020 wasn’t all bad.

Ezki wrote:That's an impressive amount of painted miniatures in 2020!

I'm loving the old school orks! The banners are especially nice.

As someone who started orks with the newer 4th and 5th edition sculpts, I've not always been a fan of the old stuff.
But over the last couple of years, I've been really warming up to them. This thread has certainly helped me to appreciate them more!

Happy new year!

Yeah, I’m chuffed with the quantity and I think my quality has improved too which makes it more satisfying. I’m glad I have played a small part in helping you appreciate fine wine miniatures; they get better with age!

Not Online!!! wrote:You did good gobert, really good.

@Ezki. Part of the reason is, that it highlights the old more satirical edge 40k had to it... newer sculpts often tend to take themselves and the universe a bit too serious.

Cheers Not Online!!! I think you’re right, they have much more satire back then, which is often why it’s said they have more character.

Don Qui Hotep wrote:Love these year in retrospective posts, I bet it takes a minute to compile but it's really cool to see all your progress throughout the year. Excited that the Void Panthers will continue to expand in 2021!

Indeed, late December posts are always good on here. Looking back through the plog was how I did it, and yeah, it’s pretty quick to put together, even on a Phone. The Panthers will probably be one of three main pushes this year, along with the High Elves and Necrons. Certainly they’re the only faction I’m thinking about expanding right now. I’m currently tempted by Land Speeders, Terminators and Jump/Vanguard Marines.

theCrowe wrote:Fantastic year of minis! The elves, the gretchin, the Termies! Id forgotten about those Crimson fist termies, so nice. Not to mention the magestic Void Panthers and of course all the rest that I literally didn't mention. Too many to recount but all worthy of much appreciation. I applaud your most glorious year.

Yeah, the Termies were pretty cool to do and I love how they look on the shelf. I really should do some more Fists!

tzurk wrote:Great retrospective mate - congrats on an awesome year of mini painting! Nice photos too, great to see some things I had missed the first time around.

The oil stains on the BSF robot...chef's kiss

The old orks came out wonderful. Full of character - I miss cheeky orks with yellow highlights.

Looking forward to more this year mate - you've set the bar high!

Cheers bud, I reckon the camera helps! I’m personally still not convinced on the BSF robot, I think it’s something I need to try some more. Cheeky Orks with yellow highlights though I’m pretty happy with

Tyranid Horde wrote:Great to see that round up of minis Gobert! Personal favourites of mine are the BSF minis and your Orks at the end there, but everything you've painted up is really cool. I envy the amount of minis painted up!

Thanks TH, the BSF stuff have been great to paint. I do wish I’d have spent some more time in filling gaps on some of them, but it think that’s helped me learn, so it’s not all bad! As for the quantity, a good third were at least partly done with not much beyond bases needing doing. I’m running out of that sort of stuff so I expect my output to have peaked for a while at least.

IGtR= wrote:Love the year in review, and the classic orks and BSF in particular brought me joy to see in the mix!

Thanks for sharing

Thanks IGtR, it seems Orks have been my most populous looking at my shelves. BSF has been great fun and I look forward to finishing that off, hopefully this year. I’ve got all the minis for the full set of expansions, but I’m missing the official stuff from No Respite. Zoaty, Plague Marines and Giant Spindle Drones will appear at some point.

No painting updates this week; craziness of homeschool, building works and fitting work in hasn’t been conducive to hobby time. Hopefully tomorrow evening will give some head space. I did however take some pics to document my 2 years of hobbying since returning.

Ok, so the Bikes and Buggy haven’t been touched with a brush, but I like how big the waagh looks. If I base them this year they’ll count right? As will banner on Makari and the converted gobbo? The pile of shame/opportunity has a box of 16 boyz to do and I think I have 2 or 3 bikes somewhere too.

Sticking with 40k; i note that the Blood Angels, my main 2nd Ed army hide at the back whilst the newly painted RT Fists and all new Panthers are at the fore. I really haven’t refound the love for the BAs that I thought i would have. I’d at least like to finish the Tac Squad this year and the company Banner bearer (his banner seems to have survived quite well. I have some metal Wolf Guard stripped but I feel even less inclined to do them. The Panthers will get plenty of love with Space Marine Heroes Series 2, an Attack bike, more tacticals and a dreadnought already purchased. I’m also eyeing up a landspeeder and possibly some Terminators to make complete squads.

I’d love to finish BSF this year and maybe even get some friends interested in playing. As for the Necrons, they’ll expand pretty quickly as the recipe is so straightforward and Indomitus gave me quite a few minis to build. I might even get in to the Primaris side too at some point.

My BattleMasters chaos guys didn’t see much love in 2020, though I have the Knights part way through preparation for priming. Other than that there is only the Archers left as the Ogre probably better fits with the green skins.

My elves are probably my most numerous faction at the moment, but the Orks take up more space as they aren’t ranked up on tiny bases. I really like how these guys look and I want them to be my first finished Army ever in 2021. That’ll take some doing as there are a LOT of Archers to get through with plenty of white. I then have the odd spearman and a chariot to round things out.

So that’s all of the minis I’ve finished since looking for something to ease me back in to the workplace after breaking my back. I hadn’t intended it to go on this long, but Dakka has certainly helped my motivation to keep going. I think I’ve now surpassed the love of the hobby I had as a teenager, so I will probably keep going for the foreseeable. I’ve noted some of my hobby goals above, but my explicit aims are as follows;

1 - paint at least 100 minis
2 - Finish my 4th Edition High Elf Army
3 - paint a display board for at least 1 army
4 - finish painting all of my Blackstone Fortress minis including all expansions

I think they’re achievable even with lots of building works going on for the next couple of months. I think BSF + High Elves will account for a good 75 minis, so I’ll have to up the ante if I want to do Panthers and Chaos and Orks and Blood Angels. Still as long as I’m having fun I suppose!

Thanks for looking

Great pics, gobert. Can't wait to see more. BSF expansions sound exciting.

 youwashock wrote:
Great pics, gobert. Can't wait to see more. BSF expansions sound exciting.

Cheers youwashock, I’m thinking No Respite minis or Escalation adventurers might be next on the BSC front.

Managed a bit of painting, somehow doing a second layer of gold, tidying up the purple and applying Leadbelcher took me 3 hours! Phew! I’ll do the black and washes another time! I’m glad I did the second coat though, they look much more vibrant now as there’s no grey showing through. I’m looking forward to seeing how the new shoulder pad casts turned out with a bit of paint soon !

Thanks for looking

What a great display! Your High Elves in particular are a really beautiful sight all ranked up and presented like that. A propper Oldschool army that is and more to come you say!

Your super vintage chaos warriors and beastmen are looking like they need an old cavalry unit or Lord in a chariot or something big and evil and suitably vintage to rally around.

Your Space Marines through the ages shelf is great too. And I have to agree the idea of picking up some old Wolfguard minis to paint would inspire me not a jot. Maybe save them for a kill team project or something. Lots of SM plastic incoming already by the sounds of it. Can only be a good thing in your hands.

Such a nice and diverse collection, love the 2-year-recap pics. Although at some point you need to have a green battlemat with styrofoam hills to have a fitting photoshoot for the orcs and elves
And good to see more panthers arriving.

Those are some amazing 2nd Edition Orks! Such nostalgia... although mine didn’t look anywhere near that good and of course only about one in four was actually painted at all... You have done them justice!

Overall, it looks like a super productive year with a huge mix of projects. Congratulations.

theCrowe wrote:What a great display! Your High Elves in particular are a really beautiful sight all ranked up and presented like that. A propper Oldschool army that is and more to come you say!

Your super vintage chaos warriors and beastmen are looking like they need an old cavalry unit or Lord in a chariot or something big and evil and suitably vintage to rally around.

Your Space Marines through the ages shelf is great too. And I have to agree the idea of picking up some old Wolfguard minis to paint would inspire me not a jot. Maybe save them for a kill team project or something. Lots of SM plastic incoming already by the sounds of it. Can only be a good thing in your hand.

Thanks man, there is something lovely about a unit all ranked up, looking all splendid! Sadly the cavalry for the Chaos guys is only 3 knights strong. I’ve been tempted by a Slaves To Darkness box to expand them, but I really should paint more than I buy! I certainly have lots of choice available to me...

Viterbi wrote:Such a nice and diverse collection, love the 2-year-recap pics. Although at some point you need to have a green battlemat with styrofoam hills to have a fitting photoshoot for the orcs and elves
And good to see more panthers arriving.

Hehe! I should’ve magnetised them and done some extra nostalgic goblin green bases too! At some point I would like to have little display board for each army, though probably without any goblin green.

The Riddle of Steel wrote:Those are some amazing 2nd Edition Orks! Such nostalgia... although mine didn’t look anywhere near that good and of course only about one in four was actually painted at all... You have done them justice!
Overall, it looks like a super productive year with a huge mix of projects. Congratulations.

Thanks for the kind words Riddle. I reckon 1 in 4 being painted is about where I was at the start of 2020, it feels good to get them army closer to being done. I’m probably at about 3 in 4 painted now I reckon.

So as I feared the building works have taken over life at the moment. To suck even more time, Lockdown 3.0 in England sees the return of homeschool. As such Ive not managed to comment on the forums much and tonight was the first bit of hobbytime in a while.

I feel I was quite productive, getting the black bits base coated and a wash of Nuln Oil on the latest Panthers. As the Netflix documentary I was watching had half an hour to run or so I also decided to build the Start Collecting Box’s Terminator Captain.

He’s a cool mini, but his 2 head options don’t include a helmet. :(. That got me thinking, maybe he can be the reason for their fall? Or at least the reason for the black vehicles and 1st Company having Black Armour; leading by example he was the first to remove his helmet, as is traditional for the Panthers, but he was exposed to one of papa’s special recipes and succumbed to it, leading the 1st Panthers to adopt the Black? Anyway, here they are right now;

As ever Thanks for looking!

Looking nice.

These also will turn out nicely .

I love the mix of old and new that you've been working on, and the two year shots are great!

You should do a 2nd ed battle report with your marines and orks, it'd be amazing!

I'm not sure I spotted that librarian with the lovely glow on his psychic hood first time around. It makes him a candidate for best model of the year, but there can be only one winner, IMO, and that is Janus Drake.

Going to be a good start to 2021 with the panthers. I like your idea for the 1st company using Black Armor, maybe you could find a face with a respirator on the lower part of the face.

That's a cool backstory for the Captain and it would be interesting to see the first company with differing armour.

Hope renovations at least go along smoothly and more hobby time will come along soon!

The Reason for their fall?! Have I missed something along the way? Something heretical? I thought they were the Big E's golden boys.

I think that Terminator Captain is one of the best loyalist Marine miniatures for years, frustratingly he was unique to a long OOP Ultramarines boxed set for an age but thankfully they finally released him as a solo blister a while back.

Building works suck!

Wonderful group shots painted up Gobert and good goals to follow as well.

The Void Panthers are coming along nicely! The idea of black armour sounds good too, that'll denote the important guys quickly. As for their fall, that's the consequence of no helmets!

Glad you could get a bit of painting in. Looking forward to that Terminator.

Not Online!!! wrote:Looking nice. These also will turn out nicely .

Thanks, I’ll try my best!

MegaDave wrote:I love the mix of old and new that you've been working on, and the two year shots are great!
You should do a 2nd ed battle report with your marines and orks, it'd be amazing!

Thanks MegaDave, it’s been fun to mixup the eras a bit, I hope to get to some Primaris soon to get the full gambit of Marines.

Fifty wrote:I'm not sure I spotted that librarian with the lovely glow on his psychic hood first time around. It makes him a candidate for best model of the year, but there can be only one winner, IMO, and that is Janus Drake.

Thanks fifty, the Libby was a slow grower on me. It was only when I took the photos with my Camera that I was happy with the hood. Drake did come out pretty well, he’s a nicely detailed sculpt which helps with the paint i think

Yorkright wrote: Going to be a good start to 2021 with the panthers. I like your idea for the 1st company using Black Armor, maybe you could find a face with a respirator on the lower part of the face.

Cheers, I think one of his heads has a respirator, I might see how that looks.

Viterbi wrote:That's a cool backstory for the Captain and it would be interesting to see the first company with differing armour.
Hope renovations at least go along smoothly and more hobby time will come along soon!

I’ve enjoyed the variety I’ve kept up since returning to the hobby so I wanted to fit it in with these guys. The renovations continue at pace, plastering is done ready for painting before the kitchen gets installed next week.

theCrowe wrote:The Reason for their fall?! Have I missed something along the way? Something heretical? I thought they were the Big E's golden boys.

Hehe, yeah they’ve been heading for a fall since the start! When I decided to not directly copy LTMWs Lions I stuck with the gold, but the purple and black linked them to my BSF Chaos Marines. They were originally going to be a Lunar Wolves successor (and still might be) using RT Space Wolves transfers, but I couldn’t find them. They might be an Emperors Children Successor being all bling and matey with Big E, but they loved their Chapter Master too much. So when Papa took him, the First Company and Techmarines went in to Mourning, the Terminators painted their Armour Black and the Techmarines painted the Vehicles Black. One thing lead to another and it became a cult to their immaculate Chapter Master. The black Armour started to spread from the First Company, with Marines embellishing their armour to keep some of the gold and to honour their beloved Fallen Master (Note to Self: buy some Chaos Marine sprues to use Arms Legs etc). As the Campaign dragged on, some began to remove their helmets to suffer the same fate as their Fallen God. Papa had other ideas and transformed them to Plague Marines, before transporting them and some of their more devout Brethren to a Blackstone Fortress.

Ok, so that grew Arms and Legs! The link to the Chaos Marines was new just now, so thanks for the nudge.

ListenToMeWarriors wrote:I think that Terminator Captain is one of the best loyalist Marine miniatures for years, frustratingly he was unique to a long OOP Ultramarines boxed set for an age but thankfully they finally released him as a solo blister a while back.
Building works suck!

He is cool, I got him through the Start Collecting box. I think I prefer the SMHeroes2 Captain though, he has a more commanding, if maybe less Heroic pose. Indeed building work sucks, we can’t even go away on holiday either !

Tyranid Horde wrote:Wonderful group shots painted up Gobert and good goals to follow as well.

The Void Panthers are coming along nicely! The idea of black armour sounds good too, that'll denote the important guys quickly. As for their fall, that's the consequence of no helmets!

Indeed, the heresy of not wearing the Helmet the Emperor provided!

youwashock wrote:Glad you could get a bit of painting in. Looking forward to that Terminator.

A wee bit here and there, should help with the sanity during the building works.

That was quite a few replies, thanks guys, it helps with the motivation!

So, I’ve had a mixed few days relating to my hobby goals for the year.

The good news is I made a start on the Elves, removing mould lines from 10 archers. My plan has changed on these guys, I was planning lots of small batches, but I’m going to give one huge batch a go. Though each step will be done in between other projects. At the very least I’ll do the silver and the blue wash that way, possibly the Red too, the white sounds like a recipe for disaster though! I’m thinking I might try to convert a few of the spearmen to a champion and a standard bearer. The Champion might get one of Captain Browns arm adjustment conversions too. For the musician I might use an archer for a horn blower, or maybe flip the arm of a Spearman to be a resting hornblower. Regardless I’ll have to brave GS sculpting I think.

The “bad” news is I’ve bought more minis than I’ve painted. In my defence I was after a Land Speeder for the Panthers and my daughter enjoyed painting a Sequitor (I need to sneak a pic to post) and asked for some more mini guys like it. So I spotted a bunch of new in box bits in a bundle on eBay, netting said Speeder, Storm of Sigmar (Stormcasts plus some Chaos chaps), a AoS paint set (with Stormcasts), some Combat Cards, an ETB Intercessor and some old school Chaos Beastmen! They should arrive this week so I can count them up, but I reckon I’m about 20-25 in the negative if I keep the Chaos minis and let my daughter have the Stormcasts. The things we do for our kids hey!

Good luck with the big batch mate. It's not my favourite way to work either but it definitely feels good to get them all done in one wave rather than repeat 10 fiddly steps over and over.

And I think that there should be an exemption to the rule for minis bought for kids to paint/play with!

Great group shots by the way. Those Elves are really an impressive bunch, tugging on my heartstrings! The different marine chapters are cool all together too, a bit like an old WD showcase.

Keep truckin!

hmm, yes. Buying models is so much quicker and easier than painting them. And there are so many out there!

Ok, your renovations are much more daunting than ours, which mostly are exchanging furniture

That's a nice haul you got there and I hope your plan with the elves works out, sounds good to always sneak one color in between other projects.

tzurk wrote:Good luck with the big batch mate. It's not my favourite way to work either but it definitely feels good to get them all done in one wave rather than repeat 10 fiddly steps over and over.

And I think that there should be an exemption to the rule for minis bought for kids to paint/play with!

Great group shots by the way. Those Elves are really an impressive bunch, tugging on my heartstrings! The different marine chapters are cool all together too, a bit like an old WD showcase.

Keep truckin!

Cheers, I hope the big batch won’t be too bad. I reckon it’ll take me most of the year doing it between other hobby projects as long as I don’t get too distracted!
I seem to remember an addendum to a rule book saying that they don’t count in your pile of shame if bought at the same time as ones for your kids!
I’m glad you liked the group shots, and thanks for the high praise!

DJJazzyJeff wrote:hmm, yes. Buying models is so much quicker and easier than painting them. And there are so many out there!

Yeah, damn those eBay merchants and their cheap plastic crack! They’ve all arrived, just about in one piece. I thought they’d come with a Brucey Bonus squad of Sniper Scouts too, but it was just the remnants of the sprues.

Viterbi wrote:Ok, your renovations are much more daunting than ours, which mostly are exchanging furniture

That's a nice haul you got there and I hope your plan with the elves works out, sounds good to always sneak one color in between other projects.

Ha, yeah, they’re the biggest thing we’ve undertaken. New kitchen arrives today at some point!

Hobby time will be limited this weekend as I’m painting the kitchen ready for installation of new units next week. Hopefully my back holds out! I have managed to sneak a bit of time prepping minis. I’ve removed mould lines on half of my Elves and took the opportunity to snap one of my earliest paint jobs before they get repainted

Nice! I’m not sure what I was thinking here, but I liked the bright colours I guess! I’m not planning to strip these guys, so they’ll always have their blue roll under robes!

As I mentioned above my eBay spoils arrived today. There was a big hole in the box, but there doesn’t seem to be any damage to the contents. The scout sprues note above had a few skulls on them, pouches and ammo, plus a single torso and the his weapons. They might come in handy at some point I guess. The Speeder looks intact on the slide and has t lost its flight stand. It’ll get.a new 60mm base instead of the clear flight one. My daughter I keen to get painting them, so I built her 3 Sequitors.

I also decided that the Khorne Blood Warriors and Bloodreavers would join my BatlleMaster force so put together the Bloodreavers.



They’re quite a cool kit, I just need to decide whether stick with the purple and gold or switch to Red and Gold. I’m hoping to mount them so I can swap between display on square bases and round omes of my daughter wants to try AoS. They seem to rank up pretty well here

I’ll probably be AWOL for a while, but will try to find time to comment on plogs where i can

Thanks for looking

The old paintjobs are great. Always good to look back and realize how far we have come. Good luck on the renovations!