March 2021 Totals

 March Totals. A bit early (by 2 days), but I don't think I'll be getting anything else done this month.

The big news this month is I finished the Warmaster city project, unexpectedly added to the 32mm Graveyard project and started a Warmaster Wood Elf project.

I suspect the WM Wood Elfs will get shelved the moment I get my hands on the new Warhammer Quest game. I'm oddly excited to start painting Skeletons/Zombies/Vampires and the heroes that fight them. The Warhammer Quest games are probably my favorite GW games to play with my kids. Maybe I'll also do the Ghosts and Ghosthunters from Crypthunters (since I've been playing that intermittently during Covid) as well. I bet there will be rules for adding Ghosts and Ghouls in the near future as well.

Onto the Totals:

• Warmaster Graveyard
• 17 Gravestone Bases
• 3 Small Mausoleums
• 2 Large Mausoleums
• 25mm/32mm Graveyard
• 8 Weeping Statues
• 8 Single Gravestones
• 15 Based/Double Gravestones
• Warmaster Wood Elfs
• 1 Wood Elf General on Forest Dragon

March Totals: 54

2021 Totals: 209

Warmaster: Wood Elf Dragon

 I need some Warmaster miniatures to go with all of this Warmaster terrain I've been making/painting. So I bought a Wood Elf army for my birthday a few months ago. I got these from Warprunner Games in San Diego. Looking at pictures online, I think Excellent Miniatures are a bit more crisper, but given my painting skills at this scale ... I don't think it matters much.

The first piece I finished is the centerpiece of the army. The "general" on dragon.

I had a lot of fun painting this guy. I tried for an autumnal leaf look for the wings (it was either that or make them look like monarch butterfly wings).

My eyesight isn't as good as it used to be, so 10mm is proving to be a challenge. It doesn't help that my brushes are bit worn and due to Covid I haven't been able to get new ones. Overall I like him though, he looks suitably woodsy!

Graveyard

A Spooky Graveyard!

When I printed the Warmaster Graveyard (see previous post), I also printed all of the elements at their normal 25mm scale (sometimes multiple times). I was always a bit disappointed that my Gardens of Morr WHFB/AoS set never had many gravestones (there are a few along some of the wall sections). Now I have a bunch to add to that kit to make even larger graveyards!

I had originally printed a single weeping statue, but after I finished printing the Warmaster city, the printer wasn't doing anything (and I had the filament), so I cranked out a few more. Mainly these could be used in scenarios that require multiple statues, some of the Frostgrave scenarios require a bunch. I recollect thinking "who has that many statues?!?!" ... now I do!

• 8 Weeping Statues
• 8 Single Gravestones
• 15 Based/Double Gravestones

 

Warmaster: City and Graveyard

I'm calling this project complete. I think my family thought I'd gone a little mad with this one (well ... more so than usual).

It's a modular 3d printed Warmaster city (i.e. 10mm scale), complete with graveyard and city walls. I don't even own an army yet that would call this thing home ... although the Skaven would probably like invading it. So at some point I should probably get a Empire or Bretonnian army (or Vampire Counts).

The pictures show one possible layout. There's not enough walkways for all of the walls, but there are enough for 6+ Warmaster infantry units worth, which seemed like plenty for a reasonable army. Not everything is pictured here (there were a number of bits I didn't setup in this photoshoot ... mostly extra ruins, barrels, and fieldstone walls). I could also set this up on one side of a table to imply a much larger city off screen.

Only the graveyard pieces were painted this month.

• 17 Gravestone Bases
• 3 Small Mausoleums
• 2 Large Mausoleums

I ran my 3d printer until it finally broke down. So that makes me sad. I was trying to print rivers and bridges to add to the city. I'm still trying to troubleshoot it, but this seems like a bad break. It's not heating either the print bed or the filament and the reason isn't obvious, the fact that 2 parts seem to have broken at the same time suggest to me it might be software related (although it happened when I was trying to print a river piece that had a particularly bad scaling down attempt).

Now onto the pictures:

 

February 2021 Totals

It's a short month, so in theory it should result in less painted minis. But on the other hand, I've been painting 10mm terrain, which paints up fast. Let's see which one is more impactful! Onto this month's totals:

• 10 - 10mm City Buildings (4 Houses, 1 Bridge House, 1 Inn, 1 Tower House, 1 Small Tower, 2 Cottages)
• 16 - 60x20mm wall walkways
• 6 - 40x20mm wall walkways
• 6 staircases for walkways
• 36 - 60mm fieldstone walls (2 with gates, 2 with openings, 2 with end pieces, 30 regular ones)

February Total: 74 pieces

2021 Total: 155 pieces

One of the cottages was painted by the boy, I have another 2 that others in my family have expressed interest in painting (that I set aside). Pictures of the entire city/town setup should be forthcoming.

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.