January 2021 Totals

 It's a new year!

I haven't spent any time putting together a worksheet for miniatures this year. I went so far off into the weeds last year that I'm still trying to get back on track. I do plan on painting the Blackstone Fortress stuff and I know the new Warhammer Quest Cursed City will barge itself in front of whatever I'm working on. I'd like to paint a second Warmaster army too! And get caught up on Underworlds and the slow trickle of D&D miniatures I pick up.

When I track what I've painted, I track individual pieces. So one big piece of terrain (or a Chimera/Dragon) is still just one miniature. Sometimes that works against my totals ... but in some cases it works for them. This month it's definitely going to work for them. I'm going to include the various pieces and parts that are going into my 10mm medieval city project that I finished (even though the entire city isn't finished). So without further ado:

January 2021 Totals:

• Blackstone Fortress Terrain:
• 14 "crystaline" walls
• 6 stalagmite walls
• 3 techno walls
• 4 objectives markers
• 3 cube like impassable terrain things
• 4 gateways (1 with a removable door)
• 10mm Terrain
• 19 ruins
• 9 Barrels
• 8 Wall towers/guard houses
• 1 Small tower
• 7 Buildings (1 small cottage, 1 2-story cottage, 2 tower houses, 1 noble house, 1 tavern)
• 2 Man O' War Sea Forts
• 1 Man O' War Sea Castle

Egads! I think this almost doubles my previous best month (and that included a bunch of work that spanned multiple months). I still have about 1/2 the city to paint too.

January Total: 81

2021 Total: 81

Warmaster: City & Ruins Work in Progress

This is primarily what my 3d printer has been doing for the last few months. Printing a small walled city for Warmaster.

This entire project came about when I was looking at some 25mm field walls I'd bought a couple decades ago. Some were resin from a company call Armorcraft (iirc) and some were from Pegasus (I think you can still purchase these). The Pegasus ones were pre-painted. I use these mostly for skirmish games, but also as a quick way to setup dungeon rooms when playing D&D. At the time, I was thinking they might work as an old city wall for Epic games since there wasn't anything about them that defined their scale.

Fast forward to a few months ago. I was looking for themed terrain for my Warmaster Skaven army and found some ruins I could 3d print. Along with those, the modeller had made some non-ruined houses. I started printing, found more stl files that would work, printed more. Then I remembered my 25mm field walls and the idea that they'd work well as city walls. The scope kept increasing, I kept printing. Printed and assembled guard towers for the wall, and walk-ways for the walls (not pictured since they aren't painted yet). I'm about 1/2 way done with painting and about 90% done with printing. At some point I need to call it and move on to other things.

 

Man O' War Sea Forts & Castle

I printed these at the same time I printed the other Man O' War fleets. They aren't quite as nice as the ships, and the rules for forts and castles aren't as fun as the ship rules. My printer particularly failed at printing the cannons. They look a bit lumpy. I've seen some well printed ones and they look pretty good ... so it might be more an issue with my printer and less with the stl models.

Dead simple to paint though. Start with a Grey Seer undercoat. Then Basilicum Grey (1:1 with Contrast Medium) with Admin Grey drybrushes and Agrax washes (around the base and any "floors") does most of the work. Then snakebite for any wood and runesteel for the cannons (with some washes of Nuln Oil) for finishing touches.

 

Blackstone Fortress: Terrain & Objective Markers

 

Might as well start off 2021 with a bang! After finishing Hammerhal, I picked up Blackstone Fortress to play with the kids. I poked around on Thingiverse looking for ways to spice it up and found some 3d print files for walls and objectives and gateways. My print bed was too small for some of them, but using a bit of ingenuity (cutting up and gluing together smaller shapes to make the bigger shapes), I have enough for a full table. There are 34 pieces here (14 "crystaline" walls, 6 stalagmite walls, 3 techno walls, 4 objectives, 3 cube like things, 4 gateways (1 with a removable door)).

December 2020 Totals

Happy New Year! It's been a weird year. The quarantine has thrown everything out of sync. I veered off hard from my master list, and don't seem to be getting back to it anytime soon.

• 2 Warmaster Warp Lightning Cannon
• 1 Warmaster Screaming Bell
• 1 Warmaster Skaven General
• 5 Warmaster Skaven Wizards
• 6 Warmaster Skaven Heroes

December Total: 15

2020 Total: 195

I probably would have made 200 models for the year had we not got a puppy.

Warmaster: Skaven Wizards and General

The last of the Skaven (for now!). The general and 5 Wizard stands. The General is a Grey Seer with 2 undead rat ogre bodyguards (it's obviously supposed to be Thanquol). The wizards are 1 Grey Seer (Masterclan), 2 Clan Pestilens, 2 Clan Skyre.

 

Warmaster: Skaven Heroes

Heroes?!?! More like villains. These are the real leaders of the Skaven army. With the Screaming Bell nearby, their command is equal to the Generals.

The 2 in front are from Clan Verminous, the middle 2 are Clan Moulder, and the last 2 are Clan Eshin. If you look closely you can spot old Warhammer named characters. I'm fairly certain I bought 2 command packs long ago, so I have enough heroes for 3,000 points worth of Skaven.

I also played with my camera settings a bit and got a less dark picture (although it constantly wants to switch back to the default which is pretty dark).

 

Warmaster: Skaven Warp Lightning Cannons

A unit of warmaster skaven warp lightning cannons. Same basic paint scheme as all of the other skaven warmster stuff I've painted recently.

 

Warmaster: Skaven Screaming Bell

The centerpiece of the army. It's the Skaven Screaming Bell. It's usually surrounded by hordes of ratmen.

I got a new phone, and the pictures seem to be a bit darker.