Week 41 - A New Game in Town

With all the push last week to finish my Halo stuff for playing I didn't realise I was only 2 models away from completing my goal for the year... So I went ahead and painted a bunch of models for Dropfleet Commander! I've completed the ship bodies for 3 cruisers and completed 1 cruiser, 4 frigates and 2 void gates. Once I've played a couple games I will settle on which weapons I want for the cruisers and finish them off. This leaves me just one void gate short of having a playable starter set, which I wasn't able to fit on my spray painting jig. I have 5 more Shaltari to go before I have completed all I have. Then I can either start on my Scourge or wait for KnightWolf's pledge to arrive and get the rest of my stuff. Picture below.

For the rest of the year I will be working on various projects, finishing off some of those stragglers from my to do list and commissions that have been progressing slowly. I have been using my 3D printer again, making floor tiles and walls. And a pretty sweet stargate (that took about 10 hours to print!) so I hope to keep on doing those. It is going to take forever to get enough for a table and I will need heaps more filament but I don't have any pressing stuff to make on the printer, so why not?

Day 290
374/290 Painted/Days passed
Goals:
Commission models - 18
3D printed models - 15
Paint remaining Zombicide zombies - 19/19
Build and paint a full Malifaux crew - 7/4
Finish Zombicide survivors - 30/30
Finish Halo Covenant - 28/28
Finish Halo UNSC - 52/52
Finish Zombicide zombivors - 27/33
Finish DFC Shaltari - 10/15
Mercs: Recon - 68/142
Dystopian Wars Prussians - 48/164
Finish painting Infinity Morats - 0/1
Paint all DZC Scourge - 43/62
Build and paint remaining KOW Elves - 0/15
Onslaught miniatures - 11/54

Week 40 - UNSC Fleet Reporting

It took a bit of effort but I managed to complete all of my UNSC for Halo this week, 52 models all up. I went for a battle worn white scheme, simple but looks good at a distance. Picture below.

We got a game in this week, it plays quite nicely. The usual Spartan Games mechanics are in there, the exploding dice are kept under control though by preventing adding more dice. This makes the big ships really hard to take down without concentrated fire. Every ship base has 3 hit points which makes the number of tokens on the board nice and small. We played an intro game which skipped some features, we will add them in as we play a bit more.

Day 283
364/283 Painted/Days passed
Goals:
Commission models - 18
3D printed models - 15
Paint remaining Zombicide zombies - 19/19
Build and paint a full Malifaux crew - 7/4
Finish Zombicide survivors - 30/30
Finish Halo Covenant - 28/28
Finish Halo UNSC - 52/52
Finish Zombicide zombivors - 27/33
Mercs: Recon - 68/142
Dystopian Wars Prussians - 48/164
Finish painting Infinity Morats - 0/1
Paint all DZC Scourge - 43/62
Build and paint remaining KOW Elves - 0/15
Onslaught miniatures - 11/54

Week 39 - Covenant Inbound

The Halo Covenant have been completed. That is the last 5 ships done, so that I can now move on to the UNSC ships. This coincided with me receiving a shipping notification for my DropFleet Commander, so I really need to get a move on and try out this game before it (potentially) gets shelved for a long time...

I hope to finish up this years models in the next couple weeks, which frees up my time for other projects like terrain and the garage, in between commission work. A large portion of those will be UNSC ships I hope, there are a lot of little frigates and I have a couple more Mercs civilians to do to round it all out.

Day 276
312/276 Painted/Days passed
Goals:
Commission models - 18
3D printed models - 15
Paint remaining Zombicide zombies - 19/19
Build and paint a full Malifaux crew - 7/4
Finish Zombicide survivors - 30/30
Finish Halo Covenant - 28/28
Finish Halo UNSC - 0/52
Finish Zombicide zombivors - 27/33
Mercs: Recon - 68/142
Dystopian Wars Prussians - 48/164
Finish painting Infinity Morats - 0/1
Paint all DZC Scourge - 43/62
Build and paint remaining KOW Elves - 0/15
Onslaught miniatures - 11/54