March 2023 Totals

March is finished and so are a few more miniatures. I've gone back to painting ratmen. It's more Warmaster Skaven this month. I have another 60+ stands of rats to paint. Finished most of these off about mid-month, then launched into painting a huge block of them. Hopefully I'll have them all done by next month. Contrast paints are the real stars with these. I'll take some pictures and will describe my process soon.

March Totals:

• 9 Warmaster Skaven Clanrat stands (3 units worth)

March Totals: 9

2023 Totals to Date: 47

February 2023 Totals

Made it through the shortest month of the year! Finished off all of the BattleTech Mechs I've managed to pick up through various starter sets. That means I painted almost a mini a day! 

I have to admit, I have very little idea what most of these Mechs are called (I can spot the Mad Cat, the Atlas, the Catapult, and the Archer ... everything else kinda blurs together). So I might figure out some way to label them. I'm thinking right now I'll put a strip of white paint under their base and take a sharpie and write the names there. I'm still going to count them as complete for this month though.

I'm still deciding what to paint next. I'll probably end up finishing the Warmaster Skaven army. There's always a part of me that wants to continue the current project after I reach the finishing point (this part is pointing out that 3 lances make a company ... and it'd be easy to increase both of my lances to full companies). I also picked up some Necromunda Zone Mortalis terrain over the years and after seeing the Zone Mortalis Scenery Tips, there's part of me that wants to get it all assembled using magnets.

Now onto totals:

• 8 BattleTech Mechs painted in Lyran Commonwealth colors (2 lances worth)
• 10 BattleTech Mechs painted in Wolf Clan colors (kinda) (2 stars worth)
• 2 Clan Elemental stands
• 2 BattleTech Mechs painted in my "Mercenary" colors (taking me to 2 lances worth)

Feb Totals: 22

2023 Totals to date: 38

January 2023 Totals

 It's the first month of 2023. Finished everything I need to play Warhammer Quest Lost Relics with painted miniatures and started chunking through the Battlemechs I picked up in various starter sets. I'm fighting the desire to pick up a few of the "Lance" boxes (of 4-5 mechs) you can find at Barne's and Noble.

I really need to go back and finish off some old projects I started (a few Star Wars Legion sets I picked up, and the Skaven Warmaster army). I'll probably do that after I finish all the BattleTech stuff I picked up.

In sad news, my dog got a hold of Padme Amidala and she was unrecoverable. The wind blew her off the table she was sitting on (shortly after I assembled her) and the puppy sees everything on the floor as acceptable chew toys. Oddly enough, she won't touch anything on a table (even food). So I got complacent about putting stuff away.

Now onto totals:

• 9 Stormcast Eternals (4 Xandar's Truthseekers, 4 Crypthunter Stormcast, 1 Wizard type Stormcast)
• 6 Battletech Mechs

Jan Totals: 15 miniatures

Year to Date: 15 miniatures

WIP Battlemechs

The next set of Battlemechs. Wolf Clan is Tan and Grey (as far as I can tell). So these are Wolf Clan.

I still need to wash the metallics and do detailing (like canopies), but the big colors are all blocked out.

 

Battletech Mechs

Six Battletech Mechs. I looked for Battletech paint schemes for various factions, and as far as I can tell, there IS set colors, but no consistency in how you paint them. So I just picked two colors I thought would look good together and blocked them out in various different ways. I think they came out pretty well.

I also hunted down a water transfer sheet from the Dwarf Blood Bowl team and added a few numbers here and there on them.

 

Various Stormcast Eternals

 

More Stormcast Eternals. Some of these were painted for a game called Crypthunters and the others were painted for Lost Relics. Both are games you can get from Barnes and Noble. I have another set of all of these (except the guy with the staff) from Underworlds warbands. I probably won't paint those. The guys with crossbows were fun to paint, but the others were less so. I now have a small box that's just filled with various Stormcast Eternals. 

2022 Year End Totals

Sigh ... nothing got completed this month. I'm just about to finish a bunch of Stormcast Eternals. I'm painting Xandire's Truth Seekers, a Storm of Celestus (aka Suresight and Valiant), and a Lord Arcanum (I think that's what he's called). The newer ones (Xandire) are a bit of a pain compared to the older ones (Celestus). The details is a bit smaller and less pronounced, I really notice it when I switch between the two sets. It takes away from the one thing Stormcast have going for them, they were easy to paint.

2022 Year End Totals: 103 Miniatures!

That's not a great year, but not unrespectable either.