May 2020 Totals

This month was more productive than last month, but still not anywhere near what I "normally" do. The quarantine is still effecting my output.

I also 3d printed 2 fleets for Man O' War this month. I now have a Skaven fleet and a Khorne fleet (to go with my dwarf & chaos dwarf fleets). Since masts are next to impossible to find online, I'm trying my hand at making some by hand using really thin polystyrene tubing with thread and white glue. We'll see how they look when I finish.

Totals for May 2020:

• 6 Warcry Terrain Pieces
• 6 Warcry Furies

Totals for May: 12 Miniatures

Totals for 2020: 48 Miniatures

Warcry Furies

As my son keeps pointing out, there should really only be 3 of these. He also thinks their beards should have been blue. These are the Furies from the Warcry Start Set. They are nice models. I must admit, I had issues painting the fangs, they were really difficult for some reason. I don't think they had much definition. Everything else came out okay.

A brief painting guide:

Undercoat: Grey Seer

 Red Skin: Blood Angels Contrast, Wild Ride Highlight, Fire Dragon Highlight.

Tan Underbelly: Zandrax, Wash of Agrax, Highlight Ushabti Bone.

Beards: Git Yellow, Orange Wash, Git Yellow and White Highlights.

Wings: Contrast Black, Dawnstone highlights/srtreaks, Wash of Naggaroth Night

Horns & Talons: Skeleton Horde, Screaming Skull Highlight

Base: Wyldwood Contrast, Deathclaw Brown drybrush

Stone: Grey Contrast, Admin Grey drybrush

Warcry Starter Terrain

Finally finished the Warcry Starter terrain.

There are 6 pieces, the other 3 pieces not pictured look pretty identical to the first picture. I like these, they painted up pretty fast, and I think they look pretty good. The wood is Wyldwood Brown over admin grey, followed by a drybrush of Mournfang Brown and an even lighter drybrush of Admin Grey. The other bits I followed my standard formula for ruins.

The only bit I'm not happy with these models is the two skeleton's hanging from the side of the bell tower. Those things are pretty fragile, and will likely break off during storage. I doubt I'll keep gluing them back on, once that happens.

April 2020 Totals

Only one miniature this month! That's the most unproductive I've been in a long long time.

The quarantine has had the opposite effect on my painting time than you'd expect. With the kids and significant other all at home 24/7, there's just not a bunch of time to get away by myself. My board game playing has taken off through the roof! I usually play 2-3 boardgames a day.

As I mentioned in a previous post, assembly is still going on. In part, since it's easy to pick up, do a bit, and then drop whatever I'm doing if a fire breaks out someplace in the house. I'm also pretty far into the final bits of the Warcry starter set terrain, and the kids both of miniatures they are almost finished on. So next month should be more productive.

Whenever I don't paint enough, I suffer from hobby wobble. Assembling 32mm Skaven convinced me to hunt down and pull out my 10mm Warmaster Skaven army which is only 1/3rd painted. It's only a 1000 pts worth, I thought it was 2000 pts. That in turn got me to look for more, but Warmaster stuff is insanely priced on e-bay. I did find some 3d print models that have potential. Trying not to get my hopes up, printing at that scale is pretty tricky. So I might pull out the 3d printer and try to expand the army to 2-3 thousand points. And if I'm going fire up the printer, I might as well print some Skaven Man O War ships. Don't know when I'd ever get it all painted, but both Warmaster and Man O War stuff look much better on the table than they do photographed.

I'm also wanting to paint some Black Seas ships I picked up when that game dropped. They are beautiful! I wrote an Age of Sail Full Thrust variation back when I used to play with a historic friendly group, so I've always had a soft spot for that genre.

The quarantine is making me chatty, time to list the totals for the month.

Miniatures painted in April:

• Chimera

Totals for April: 1

Totals for 2020: 36

Chimera

If two heads are better than one ... how about 3 (4 if you count the snake head)!

It's GW's Chimera. I didn't like the "official" paint scheme, so I tried to keep it more natural. It was fun to paint and it's a better miniature than it looks, but not as good as some of the other Chimera's that are on the market. I still like it though.

She'll go in my Beastman army and can be used as an independent monster in Warcry.

I'm not totally in a hobby slump (contrary to what the one model I finished this month might indicate). For some odd reason, I've decided to mostly do assembly. I put together about 100 Skaven in the last month, as well as, more Warcry monsters and some random metal Moonclan Grots I found.

Gotrek Gunisson

A bit delayed on taking his picture. Gotrek actually counted toward last months totals. This is my attempt at painting Gotrek Gunisson. I followed my formula for Fyreslayers, but gave him some blue pants and blue tattoos.

He's either the most successful or least successful Troll Slayer in history. Slayer's seek a glorious death fighting the biggest baddest monster they can find, Gotrek has been trying to find his for literally 1,000's of years (although it's not clear how long he traipsed around the Realms of Chaos ... given that time works differently there). He's effectively a demigod at this point.

Still not making as much progress during Quarantine as you might expect on other projects. For some reason, I've started assembling most of the excess sprues I have.

March 2020 Totals

The coronavirus pandemic is giving most people a ton of free time. I however, still have work and now have wife and kids home 24/7. I have mostly been assembling miniatures here and there. So even though my totals for this month are a bit low ... I have been making some progress. I've also had several sessions painting with the kids, so that both decreases and increases my output (I don't paint as fast when I paint with them, but since there are 3 of us, we still get more done (of lesser quality)).

• 3 Rippa Snarlfangs
• 1 Gotrek Gunnison (to be pictured)

Total for March: 4

Total for 2020: 35