Week 18 - Life Changes

So its been a bit quiet around here, the reason being that we are expecting a second child. This has meant that getting more painting done has been very difficult and will continue to be. I'm trying to wrap up my outstanding commissions before shutting up shop for a bit. The impact to the blog will be long periods of silence, as there simply wont be anything hobby related to cover.

I have morphed game nights into hobby nights with Knightwolf, as we both try to get our costumes together for Auckland Armageddon later in the year. In writing this I am realising that my wife's due date is within days of it, so odds are I'm not going to that... But I've been wanting to do this sort of thing for years, so I may as well continue working towards it for now.

The blog may return, but in many ways it has run its course. I've gone from painting a few models per year (to a fairly good standard, placing in a few competitions) to being able to paint a few dozen models in a week. Nowhere near the same standard, mind you. The blog facilitated that, as well as feeling like there might be some possibility of someday having everything painted. That was stymied by selling painted models and replacing them with new ones... Most of what I have now I didn't own when I started, but my total model count is around half it was. And I have more painted now than I ever had in the time I have been playing which is another solid win. But there isn't much more for the blog to do, its purpose has been served.

In the down time I will re-evaluate what the blog is for but for now it is back to getting ready for child #2.

Week 10 - Under the Weather

I've not been feeling great the last few days and work has been manic. This all adds up to not much painting progress. I did work on a few Stygians for Epic, netting me a new formation. This brings me to around 500 points which is nice, to make any further formations though I need to pick up more stuff, as unfortunately all the Dark Eldar stuff comes in units of 30 and the stuff I bought was packs of 25...

This adds another 6 models to my total for the year. I'm still working out the details for the basing, I'm trying to find something that looks decent but doesn't hide the figures, which is proving a challenge.

Day 71
143/71 Painted/Days passed
Achieved:
Commission models - 6
Myth - 41
Prussians - 30
Zombicide - 15
Stygians - 18
TNT - 1

Week 8 - Back on Track

It has been a long few weeks, we were getting our windows painted inside so I had to completely strip all my hobby gear out of the hobby room for the last four weeks. This obviously made painting a bit difficult. I managed to get everything back together late this week and do some small painting yesterday evening. I painted up 2 Raiders, 24 Scourges, 24 Mandrakes and 5 Wyches. These I am only counting as 12 models but it was good to get more done. Photos below.

I'm still working out the basing for this stuff but I am settled on hexes. They fit within both the Warpath and Epic Armageddon rules and should look a little more modern as a result. I just need to work out how many formations I have with what I've got and what I need to finish them off so I can play a little bit next time I'm up at the club.

Day 57
137/57 Painted/Days passed
Achieved:
Commission models - 6
Myth - 41
Prussians - 30
Zombicide - 15
Stygians - 12
TNT - 1