April 2021 Totals

It's that time of the month again. Time to look back at the previous month and figure out if I've been productive. Miniature-wise the big accomplishment was a few units for Warmaster. I also got my hands on a copy of Cursed City and assembled the 60 miniatures within. The game sold out during pre-order within 20 minutes and to add to the drama, GW has announced there will be no follow on print run. I'm a little saddened by the fact that it appears like there might not be any expansions to this game (since why expand a game that you aren't producing). The miniatures are awesome, and there's a lot that could be done in this space. I'd have loved to see a Ghoul expansion, a Gheist expansion, and various other Undead beasties just to begin with. Oh well ... onto totals.

• 12 Warmaster Wood Elf Stands
• 3 Units of 2 Stands of Wood Elf Waywatchers
• 2 Units of 3 Stands of Wood Elf Eternal Guard

April Totals: 12

2021 Totals: 221

Not as good as previous months, but still respectable.

Warmaster: Waywatcher Rangers

The sneaky guerrilla fighters of the Wood Elfs. The Waywatchers come in smaller units (2 stands instead of three) and have special deployment rules that let them ambush other units. Technically I had 2 units worth, but I split them amongst three. I only realized after the fact that you can only have 2 units in a standard 2000 pt sized army. So I have enough for 3000 pts. Oh well.

 

Warmaster: Wood Elf Eternal Guard

More warmaster units. These are the Eternal Guards. Painted with either blue cloaks or white cloaks so it's easy to tell the two units apart. Mostly these were painted with contrast, which works pretty well at this scale. The key to getting the light blue on the cloaks was too thin the Contrast paints down. These were fun to paint. In game, they aren't necessarily the best choice.

 

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: