Miniatures Painted This Year (November Update)

I'm actually on time with this post for a change... so let's see what I painted and purchased in November :)

So... painting-wise... the first things I splashed some paint on were these casualty markers:

Now, looking back at my blog posts, it seems that I actually purchased these back in February - so it's only took me nine months to get started on them.

And as far as the painting goes, it was a pretty quick job on these... just base-coats, a light wash on the 'dirty whites', a flesh wash on the skin, and Sonic Sledgehammer 'marine juice' over everything else. I also tidied/highlighted most of the areas with the same base coat colours (as the washes tend to darken everything down a bit).

Next up were these plastic Victrix gauls/celts... which I'll be using as Rhudaur Hillmen for a possible 'Angmar' themed game of 'Age of Fantasy: Quest'

And these were painted up in pretty much the same way... so just a flesh wash over the skin... 'marine juice/sonic tonic' over the rest... and then tidied back up in a few places with the original colours. There's also a bit of kit-bashing going on here and there - but nothing major.

And, while these models don't look great individually, I'm pretty pleased with how they turned out as a group - especially when you consider that they're just quick paint jobs :) 

Anyway, now for my purchases... and it seems that it's been a bit of a Victrix month - as I've also bought some late (armoured) Romans...

...as well as a sprue of their fantasy heads, cloaks, and shields...

...with the aim of maybe kitbashing these (along with some other Victrix/historical sprues that I already have) to make some Arnorian soldier types (specifically those of Arthedain)... again, for a possible Angmar themed game.

And while that does amount to three new sprues - technically, it's only six new models... and so I'm counting it as such :P

Which brings me to this year's totals. So that's 15 painted this month, and only six bought... which amounts to:

112 bought

125 painted

 ...and I've not even been tempted with any of the 'black friday weekend' sales so far - so I might be able to pull this whole 'paint more than I buy' challenge off after all.

Though I probably shouldn't tempt fate by saying that... as there's still one more month to go :)

Orc/Goblin Huts

As is usual with most of my projects, I’ve been posting WIP pictures of these on the various social media sites… and I even ‘streamed’ on discord for a couple of hours while I was drawing some of the textures (I say streamed – but it was just me and a couple of guys in the chat :) ).

 

Anyway, they’re finally finished…

 

...and while I’ve labelled the video as ‘orc/goblin huts’ they could be used for a wide variety of humanoid creatures (including humans).

So here’s hoping you can find a use for them in some of your own games!

Miniatures Painted This Year (October update)

OK then, I'm back with another monthly catch-up on all the miniatures I've painted this year (with the ongoing goal of painting more than I buy).

So to start things off, I'll cover October's  purchases - which consists of these guys:

So just a couple of models this month - which means that I haven't added too much to my pile of shame - though I have added to it (because, as you can see - I've just got them based on some mdf ovals... that's as far as I've got with them).

But the reason I picked these up (they're 'rad hounds' from Ral Partha Europe BTW) is because I thought they looked like the kind of creature that you might find in the bowels of some kind of hive city :)

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However, I have managed to splash some paint around on a few models these past couple of weeks... and I started things off with this pretty fellow:

And, while this is a 40k model (it's from their Gellerpox killteam I think - though I bought it separately from a bits seller), there's nothing on it that screams 'sci-fi' - so it could just as easily be used to represent some kind of huge ghoulish creature in D&D or similar.

And, even though I usually shy away from painting larger models (I prefer human-sized models for the most part), this guy was fun to paint, and I'm pretty pleased with how he turned out.

Next up are a bunch more poxwalkers (as you can never have enough zombie guys - even in sci-fi games)...

...though these only got a quick paint job (just base-coats and washes) to match the 24 others that I already have.

And to finish things off, here's the last model I got done...

...which, again, is from that Gellerpox box - but I've arranged them as a 'swarm' for the One Page Rules 'firefight' game.

Speaking of which - here's a quick pic of my nurgle themed 300 point warband for Firefight:

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Anyway, if I total things up - so far that's...

106 mini's bought

110 mini's painted

...this year.

Which means that I'm back on track for reaching this year's goal (which is, as I mentioned at the start, to paint more than I buy). So let's see if I can keep it that way until the end of the year!