Week 1 - Hot Out of the Gates

As with each year I have tried to launch into painting and start to build a buffer. This could have been complicated by trying to finish a batch of commission work but I managed to do some Myth board game pieces.  See the pictures below.

Commission Work

Commission Work

This gets my first week total up to 24. A nice start but I have a stack more prepared for next week, which should launch my total up to two months ahead. Further to that I have prepared almost all of my Forge Fathers for working on during the year. This should be enough to get me well into the year along with all the commission work I'm likely to have.

Day 8
24/8 Painted/Days passed
Achieved:
Commission models - 6
Myth - 18

Week 52 - Last Day of the Year

It has been a bit quiet around here as I've been busy on various projects and such over the last few weeks. I've been taking the time to prepare models for the next year, work on some terrain and play some games. Overall it has been nice to have a break from painting and do something else with my spare time.

First thing in the new year will be finishing a commission I've had sitting for a while, some Age of Sigmar models and some more Hordes models. After that I have prepared some board game models to get my early numbers up and my wife has 'volunteered' me to paint some Zombicide models for a friend who got a set for Christmas. I should have over 200 models assembled and base coated already so I wont need to worry about clear weather for prep work in the near future! I've got Deadzone/Warpath, Myth, Dropzone Commander, Dropfleet Commander, Zombicide and Infinity all good to go. Odds are I will have something pique my interest in the middle of the year that needs to be painted in a hurry but at least I have a good start.

Day 366
374/366 Painted/Days passed
Achieved:
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
Onslaught miniatures - 11/54

Week 36 - Another Commission Complete

So after barricading my painting desk with a large lego project for the last week and a half I managed to finally wrap up the commission models I have had for a couple months now. I've been slipping on my painting quantities so really need to find another stack of 'easy' models to push me through to the end of the year. I may be able to do that with my Halo models, I've just undercoated the last of the Coveneant ships today, now to figure out the scheme I want. I should be able to do a bunch of the UNSC ships pretty quickly too once I get some undercoated.

The three treemen are all technically touch ups as they all had some degree of paint on them to start with. I also got the black wash on 4 more Prussian vehicles to bump me up to a weeks worth. Time and energy have been hard to find lately, some easy ones would be nice for my last 80 or so to go.

Day 255
284/255 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 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 34 - Slinking Back In

So its been over a month since my last post, largely since it has been over a month since I actually painted anything! It has been a long and sometimes rough month but I'm now back and should be posting a bit more reliably, at least I hope. I've got 2 commission models that just needing basing to show this time.

I have another two to go on this commission, but they are touch ups on an existing paint job so shouldn't be too difficult.

Day 241
277/241 Painted/Days passed
Goals:
Commission models - 15
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 Zombicide zombivors - 27/33
Mercs: Recon - 68/142
Dystopian Wars Prussians - 44/164
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 25 - Full Steam Ahead

Thanks to my lovely wife I got some decent time to myself this weekend and managed to finish some models. I finished a commission model and 14 worker models for Mercs. Photos below.

I've still got some more Secfor to do for Mercs but they shouldn't take too long. I may even finish them all this coming week. Other than that I have started getting my Dystopian Wars Prussians assembled and hope to get the bases ready so I can begin painting them all. Following that may be my Halo fleet. Maybe.

Day 177
207/177 Painted/Days passed
Goals:
Commission models - 13
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 Zombicide zombivors - 27/33
Mercs: Recon - 44/142
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 19 - Busy, Busy, Busy

More radio silence and still nothing to show. I finished the commission models just before the client arrived to pick them up and subsequently forgot to snap a photo of them. It's been a long couple weeks...

I have however had a couple games this week, including some more Zombicide. We tried out the hardest and longest challenge and managed to make it out without any casualties, 5 hours in. We nearly lost it only an hour into the game though, I had accidentally left the zombie dogs expansion in the deck, making things much more difficult. All in all a good game though. I've got the remaining survivors on the desk and about half way completed. I've still got lots of stuff on the calendar so I'm not expecting to make much progress in the next few weeks. I can try though! I also now have another commission model to work on as well.

Day 135
150/135 Painted/Days passed
Goals:
Commission models - 12
3D printed models - 15
Paint remaining Zombicide zombies - 19/19
Build and paint a full Malifaux crew - 7/4
Finish Zombicide survivors - 24/30
Finish Zombicide zombivors - 21/33
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 17 - Nothing to Show

Its been a rough couple weeks, with lots of life stuff getting in the way, no game nights and no progress to show. I've just about finished my two outstanding commission models though, they just need their bases done. I've also spent a bunch of time pulling stuff off the 3D printer, I have a full PHR army for DZC now, I just need cards and infantry. I should also get back to printing more technicals for the resistance to finish that army off but they are a bit labor intensive because of how quickly they print and the quantity needed. I have another commission model being dropped off during the week as well. My next few weekends are pretty booked so progress is going to continue being slow for at least another month. I hope to scrape enough time together to finish off the partially painted resistance vehicles during that time though.

Day 121
148/121 Painted/Days passed
Goals:
Commission models - 10
3D printed models - 15
Paint remaining Zombicide zombies - 19/19
Build and paint a full Malifaux crew - 7/4
Finish Zombicide survivors - 24/30
Finish Zombicide zombivors - 21/33
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 8 - Work Complete

Whew. Another commission is complete. These things really take a lot longer than I am used to with my own projects. There are so many more details on WarmaHordes figures than I can cope with for bulk models. But thankfully this lot is done and there are only a couple more on the horizon at this stage. Here are the 7 models I've just finished.

So I'm still behind by a weeks worth of models but now I will have a little more time to work on my Scourge. During evenings anyway, as it is my daughters second birthday next week. That has come by really quickly!

Day 58
51/58 Painted/Days passed
Goals:
Commission models - 10
Paint remaining Zombicide zombies - 19/19
Build and paint a full Malifaux crew - 7/4
Finish painting Infinity Morats - 0/1
Paint all DZC Scourge - 4/45
Build and paint remaining KOW Elves - 0/15
Onslaught miniatures - 11/54

Week 3 - One Goal Down

So I'm gradually picking up momentum on the painting front. I've finished up the commissions from last year which gives me another 3 models complete. The client dropped off another 7 models to do though, so I will be cracking on to them fairly soon. At least there aren't any runes on these ones!

I should be able to get on with some of my own stuff while I sort out the assembly on the new commissions so there is the possibility that I will actually catch up on my painting target.

Day 17
5/17 Painted/Days passed
Goals:
Commission models - 3
Finish painting Infinity Morats - 0/1
Paint remaining Zombicide zombies - 2/19
Paint all DZC Scourge - 0/45
Build and paint remaining KOW Elves - 0/15
Build and paint a full Malifaux crew - 0/4

Week 46 - Runes.....

That is officially the longest time between painting posts ever. My bad. What have I done in the last 6 weeks you ask? Aside from a bunch of life commitments I've done this:

Just the one model. Man that was a mission. At least this one is done, I have the gargantuan to do next. I've also had another two small models dropped off do do as well.

So yeah, I've managed to go from well ahead to nearly behind in the last few weeks. I'm going to have to spare some time to finish some zombies or I will miss my yearly goal, which would be the first time since I started back in 2013. And this post is early because I'm off to TCOW for the afternoon. Yay priorities!

Day 319
336/319 Painted/Days passed
Goals:
Commission models - 21
TNT models - 21
Finish painting Infinity Morats - 11/11
Paint Xtreme Ada-Lorana - 9/9
Paint all Directorate - 44/44
Finish all of the Dreadball teams and MVPs. - 4/4
Paint all Toxic zombies - 37/37
Paint all Berserk zombies - 37/37
Paint remaining Zombicide zombies - 100/150
Paint all DZC Scourge - 36/79
Build and paint remaining KOW Elves - 68/83
Build and paint a full Malifaux crew - 12/16

Week 40 - Printing Up a Dropzone

No painting progress this week, just some prep work in the background. I've got a stack of Zombicide models half way but none done just yet. Instead I've been running the 3D printer pretty much every evening, working towards this:

The one on the left is a product of someone else's file, the right is a card building from the DZC starter. Unfortunately that was all that was available, until I played with the source file. Now there are four designs, all able to be mixed together, as below.

I plan on doing some commercial building designs later, but this will keep me busy for a while. Also I have another commission making time a bit thin. Particularly since it involves these two.

So. Many. Runes...

I promised myself I would never do these models, so many runes. But I think that this time I have a plan, something to make the runes easy. I really, really hope so anyway!

Day 277
335/277 Painted/Days passed
Goals:
Commission models - 20
TNT models - 21
Finish painting Infinity Morats - 11/11
Paint Xtreme Ada-Lorana - 9/9
Paint all Directorate - 44/44
Finish all of the Dreadball teams and MVPs. - 4/4
Paint all Toxic zombies - 37/37
Paint all Berserk zombies - 37/37
Paint remaining Zombicide zombies - 100/150
Paint all DZC Scourge - 36/79
Build and paint remaining KOW Elves - 68/83
Build and paint a full Malifaux crew - 12/16

Week 33 - Post Apoc Wargaming

So there was no post last week as I was up in Auckland playing with the TCOW guys. We were playing This is Not a Test (or TNT for short) which is a skirmish game set in a Fallout-like setting. The guys are playing through a campaign and Knightwolf and I will tag along every once in a while too. I will give my thoughts on the game once I've played a couple more times but in the mean time I painted up my starting warband, pictures below.

Since then I have also painted up a couple extra models for my next additions and hope to get hold of a few more guys to round out my options. I also managed to finish up my commission work today so pictures are below also.

So that makes 20 models in two weeks, which just catches me back up. I've pulled out some Bones models to do quickly as some critters for TNT as well as some of the extra Mars Attacks heroes, giving me a nice range to work on. I'm bound to get back to those zombies sometime soon too...

Day 228
229/228 Painted/Days passed
Goals:
Commission models - 20
TNT models - 10
Finish painting Infinity Morats - 11/11
Paint all DZC Scourge - 36/46
Paint Xtreme Ada-Lorana - 9/9
Paint all Directorate - 44/44
Finish all of the Dreadball teams and MVPs. - 4/4
Build and paint remaining KOW Elves - 68/83
Paint all Toxic zombies - 14/37
Paint all Berserk zombies - 0/37
Build and paint a full Malifaux crew - 12/16

Week 15 - I'm Back (ish)

Well that was a long month! I have quite literally only just completed 2 models this last month. Things have been that busy. Hopefully things will settle down a bit now. I finished up one commission and picked up another single model commission. At some point I might even have some time to work on my own models!

I'm hoping to post about Marches loot soon but have misplaced the photos... Hopefully I wont have to re-take them. - EDIT: Just found them, post coming shortly.

Day 102
164/102 Painted/Days passed
Goals:
Commission models - 9
Finish painting Infinity Morats - 11/11
Paint all DZC Scourge - 31/32
Paint all Directorate - 44/44
Build and paint remaining KOW Elves - 68/83
Build and paint all Deadzone Enforcers - 0/34
Build and paint all Deadzone Plague - 0/21
Build and paint a full Malifaux crew - 0/14
Finish all of the Dreadball teams and MVPs. - 0/4

Week 5 - Elf Reinforcements Arrive

Here we are, February already! This week is where all the prep-work pays off as I finished a total of 43 models. This brings the Elves within striking distance of complete. I finished a final unit of 10 scouts, 30 Blade-Dancers and 1 Tree Herder. Pictures are below.

The tree herder was my first foray into working with Reaper Bones so I will write up a separate post for that at a later date. I probably will do some more posts on my experiences with other materials, to act as a guide for those looking at trying new product ranges.

I also finished another werewolf for my Undead this week (he was most of the way complete already) and the last model of my current commission. Pictures below.

I also received a lootcrate and nerd block in the last week as well. I've decided to split them into another post later in the week, I may as well try to post more often, it isn't like I'm super busy already! With it now being February I will be focusing on my DZC Scourge as a primary goal and wrapping up the elves as a secondary.

Day 32
89/32 Painted/Days passed
Goals:
Finish painting Infinity Morats - 11/11
Build and paint remaining KOW Elves - 68/83
Paint all DZC Scourge - 2/31
Build and paint all Deadzone Enforcers - TBC
Build and paint a full Malifaux crew - TBC
Finish all of the Dreadball teams and MVPs. - 0/4

Week 4 - Commission Progressing

It has been a hectic week so progress has been slow. I've been focused on getting a commission finished which takes far longer than my usual pace, which means I'm a little behind this week. With it being a holiday here tomorrow I should hopefully catch up that last model for the commission and be able to assemble the last of my elves during the week. The next couple of months are really busy for me so I need to get as much done in advance before all my free time disappears. Anyway, here are the first 6 models of the commission I have completed this week.

With the next month dropping my free time down to about 30 minutes a day (at best) I want to try and get about 60 models ahead before then. This means focusing on having enough assembled and undercoated now, so that I can maximize my productivity without relying on clear weather. I have 10 cavalry underway and another 20 elves ready to paint so far. I still have 20 elves in need of trimming and assembly and another few that need working from scratch. So the elves will get me most of the way, I will work on the Scourge to finish off the rest. Or so goes the plan...

Day 25
46/25 Painted/Days passed
Goals:
Finish painting Infinity Morats - 11/11
Build and paint remaining KOW Elves - 27/83
Paint all DZC Scourge - 2/31
Build and paint all Deadzone Enforcers - TBC
Build and paint a full Malifaux crew - TBC
Finish all of the Dreadball teams and MVPs. - 0/4

Week 44 - If the Price is Right

A short post this week. I finished up the commission work today. It was a bit of a challenge to remember my old colour scheme (even with the unit examples provided) especially since most of the colours I used had either dried up or been used up. I think I got them close, hopefully the client is happy. I also kind of hope that he doesn't need any more done, trying to mix specific colours (most are now out of production too, darn GW) was not worth the effort in my opinion.

I also received my second Arcade Block this week. It contained a Half-life T-shirt, Mario plushie, Bowser cart racer, Portal key cover, Ken Street Fighter block set and a pair of Zelda magnetic whiteboards. Pretty happy with the contents, the Wife hates the T-shirt though so it is up on Trademe.

If you are interested in the shirt my Trademe is here. I've also got some terrain and Warmachine stuff up right now if you want to check it out.

Day 306
282/306 Painted/Days passed
282/414 Painted/Bought
Goals:
Build a permanent gaming table.
Build a Kings of War army for playing with.
Complete my entry for the terrain competition.
Build and paint a set of Deadzone battle groups.
Build and paint a full Malifaux crew.
Finish all of the Dreadball teams and MVPs.
Finish painting an Infinity group.
Make some headway on my Warpath fluff.