Some Bad News

Well ... the blogger app I was using to upload pictures has stopped working. So until I can figure out what went wrong, no more pictures.

Looking at my worksheet of miniatures I'm trying to get painted, I have around 350 to go. That's around 30 miniatures a month ... so I've decided to make that my stretch goal for each month.

I'm already behind, I've finished 11 miniatures in January. 10 Bloodbound for Shadows of Hammerhal and 1 Herdstone.

I like the Herdstone, it's better (i.e. more impressive) than the ones I kit-bashed for my 7th edition Beasts of Chaos army. I followed my "standard" terrain formula. Most of it was done with a grey undercoat, followed by a Administrum Grey drybrush with another dry brush of Screaming Skull in select places, and a wash of Nuln Oil (all over) followed by another one of Agrax Earthshade in select places.

The 10 bloodbound, I'm more "bleh" toward. The miniatures aren't as nice as the Karic Acolytes, and that might be why I didn't get more done this month. I wasn't really feeling it with these guys.

Still trying to figure out how I'll paint 49 miniatures in February to get caught back up. :-).

Out with 2018, In with 2019

Goodbye 2018 ... Hello 2019!

Looking back on my 2018 resolutions:

I've been a bit better with updating this blog. As I said in the previous resolution posts, I'm trying to make it mostly just a pictures blog. I haven't pictured everything I've painted, but definitely better than in previous years.

I'm not sure I painted as much of what I committed to at the start of the year. There are entire projects I didn't touch (I'm looking at you: Blood Bowl Teams, Eldritch Council and Malifaux Guild posse), but I did manage to paint 100 miniatures. I finished off all of the Shadespire Version 1 warbands, A bunch of Giants and Silver Tower (finally).

Looking forward to 2019:

Next year might be a slower year. Part of me wants to make it the year of Blood Bowl (and see how many Blood Bowl teams I can get painted), but I also want to paint more terrain, AoS endless spells, Shadows over Hammerhal, some Gloomspite Gits and start painting my Eldritch Council finally. That right there is a tonne of stuff.

I'm also going to try to go back and get more of my finished stuff pictured.

I've started a worksheet for 2019 here. It already has more on it than last year <sigh>. In my defense, about 1/2 of what's on it is Bloodbowl teams.

AoS: Mistweaver Saih

The Mistweaver Saih from Warhammer Quest: Silvertower. This miniature was mostly painted by the girl, I did a bit of edge highlighting/cleaning up (and the base) to make her pop a bit more. She's the girl's character in Silver Tower and does quite well (the girl tends to gather the most experience points). Her ability to blast things from across the board is quite good, it helps that my Stormcast character tends to hold the enemies up.

This is also miniature number 100 for the year! Woot 3 digits! The Mistweaver also finishes off the Silvertower project. Given the holidays, I suspect I won't get much more time to paint this year.

Tzeentch Arcanist: Kairic Acolytes

The Kairic Acolytes from Shadows of Hammerhal. This is kinda an awesome kit, if you like mask wearing egyptianish cultists. It's got a lot of options and makes some pretty dynamic models.

In the fluff, these are wizards who have transformed themselves into warriors. So you end up with some odd anatomies (in particular, a surprising number of 8-pack abs), because being scrawny wizards, they don't really know what a real fit person actually looks like.

I painted them with 4 different skin tones. Most of them are pasty white (see the wizard comment above), but a few of them have more color.

For some reason the camera pictured them with a bit of a blue tint. hmmm...

Stone Giant

A Stone Giant from Reaper's Bones line. He's an older sculpt, and as such he is a bit on the smaller size when compared to the other Giants. He's still plenty big when compared to other 25mm miniatures. He should be the last miniature on the blog for a while. I'm out of giants to paint. I'm keeping an eye out for the Frost Giant King, the Ettin, and the Fomorian Giants from Reaper, but I haven't seen any yet.

Hill Giant Part II

Yet another Hill Giant. It's Krug the Hill Giant from Reaper's Bones line. His proportions and pose is a bit better than the previous one. He's the second giant I painted, but once again, I didn't get pictures taken until recently.

Hill Giant

Another Giant. This time it's Golan the Hill Giant. He's actually the first giant I painted, but I never got pictures of him taken until now. His pose is odd, and his proportions seem off, but he still works in some way.