Week 4 - Building the Fleet

I made a lot of progress this week, focusing on smaller figures will do that! I've been working on my Prussians for Dystopian Wars mostly, as that will give me a nice array of stuff to play with. There are a couple things to tidy up on these, particularly doing turrets and flock but they are otherwise done for now. Photos below:

So that is 28 more models complete. On top of those I also finished off some more Mercs and Myth models, 10 more between them.

That all adds up pretty quickly, setting me nicely at 125 for the year, less than a month in... I'm over one third complete. In a couple weeks there is a gamer trade session up in Auckland, I'm hoping to be able to reduce some of my clutter by going to that, but more likely I would be swapping my clutter for someone else's... At least I should be able to reduce the amount of stuff I don't use and get in some stuff that I might use.

Day 29
125/29 Painted/Days passed
Achieved:
Commission models - 6
Myth - 41
Zombicide - 15
Prussians - 30
TNT - 1

Week 28 - Security Forces Complete

I gathered up some energy and finished up the last 19 SecFor for Mercs: Recon. I've also been working on my Prussians which mostly involves figuring out the basing. I'm going for winter snow basing and I had an unopened container of it which helped. The scale really complicates things as at 1:1200 most basing material would be half the height of a person! I'm not usually that worried but I am trying to keep things roughly right for now. Once I nail it all down it should be fairly easy to get most of it painted up.

Day 198
231/198 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 - 68/142
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 27 - Under the Weather

So everyone at home is sick. It is making us all miserable and making painting a bit difficult, not to mention how cold my painting area is. I managed to get another 5 SecFor painted for Mercs. I also started on my Prussians for Dystopian Wars and I am currently trying to find a scheme and balance of work that I am comfortable with.

Day 191
212/191 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 - 49/142
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 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 21 - Mercs Progress

Its been a bit of a dog of a weekend but it is over now, back to work... I squeezed in some painting around everything going on and between the fairly constant rain making spray painting difficult.

Despite deciding I wasn't going to paint board game stuff I decided that the Mercs: Recon SecFor needed to be easily identified during a game. This was an opportunity to do what I wanted for Zombicide correctly, as I went a bit astray on those. So here are the first 30 SecFor, in easily identified colours.

So the brown ones are level 1 and the blue ones are level 2. To keep things easily identified I stuck with a simple rule: Monotone + skin. This lets them be identified as people while also stopping me from going overboard with detail colours muddying up the visuals. I have SecFor level 3 and 4 to go as well as the civilian assets. The civvies will be greyscale and level 3 will be green. Jury is still out on the level 4, possibly red...

Day 149
192/149 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 - 30/30
Finish Zombicide zombivors - 27/33
Mercs: Recon - 30/???
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 20 - Photos (Yay!)

Well, one photo anyway... I've been out of town all weekend but managed to finish up another 12 Zombicide models during the week, so finally a photo. See below.

I'm almost done with these now. Just 6 more to go, the original survivors in their zombie forms. Really looking forward to completing this lot, no more zombies for a while I think! I also just received the last of my Mercs kickstarter stuff. I'm going to set up a couple games to figure out the rules while I get all the figures assembled. They may get some basic paint on the 'baddies' and better paint jobs on the Mercs teams, I've not decided yet.

Day 142
162/142 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 - 30/30
Finish Zombicide zombivors - 27/33
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 18 - Return of the Father

And lo, he returns from the darkness, weary, scruffy and smelling of sour milk. He rises anew, a parent.

So I'm back, sort of. Lucky for me I went into parenthood assuming I would have no time for myself. That was not far from the truth it seems! I have managed the odd hour here or there in the last 8 weeks, where I wasn't exhausted and felt like building something. That is to say that I haven't done much (I picked up a brush for the first time in 8 weeks only today) but I have assembled 26 Orcs for KOW, assembled 6 of the 7 Batman miniatures I have and started painting my Sorilians. Pictures follow.

Unfortunately one of my Batman miniatures was miscast, missing an elbow. I have decided to re-sculpt it at some point as getting a replacement part could be more trouble than it is worth. Once I find the time anyway...

I have been given the opportunity to play around with a DSLR camera (used for the photos above) and while I still have almost no idea how to use it I can already tell the difference. Below is an example of my old camera (first) and the DSLR with only limited idea of how to use it.

Unfortunately I won't get to play with it for too much longer, but the wife wants one, so there is that at least... I hope to do some updates around the blog, like to the wall of shame, probably mostly from work, so look forward to that. One thing about parenthood, simple tasks take way longer than normal. If you think you have no spare time before you have a child, you will learn exactly how wrong you are! Even eating dinner can take over an hour and include a mid-meal reheat... As a result I have had to shift my style of doing things. I now work on a monthly project cycle, last month was mostly KOW, May will be mostly trying to paint my 10 Sorylian models for FS:A. The terrain project has no hope of being done in time, maybe next year.

Day 124
0/124 Painted/Days passed
0/19 Painted/Bought
Goals:
Build a permanent gaming table.
Complete my entry for the terrain competition.
Build a Kings of War army for playing with.
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.