End of Summer Totals

I've been a bit remiss on updating the blog. In part it's do to my picture area being overrun with stuff I'm assembling. I'm still trying to assemble everything I own (which is a lot!). But it'll never get painted if it's in pieces.

So I don't have any pictures at the moment.

So on to the things that were painted over the Summer:

• 47 Cursed City Miniatures (the remaining miniatures from that set)
• 10 Zombies
• 2 Zombie Ogres
• 3 Lesser Vampires
• 1 Radukar the Wolf
• 1 Giant Werewolf/Vampire Hybrid
• 6 Undead Ratswarms
• 6 Giant Batswarms
• 1 Gorslav the Gravekeeper
• 1 "Traditional" Necromancer
• 2 Undead Cats
• 2 Gargoyles
• 2 Grave Stone Markers
• 2 Waystones with Crows
• 1 Ogre
• 1 Dwarf Pirate
• 1 Duelist
• 1 Vampire Hunter
• 1 Wraithlike Necromancer/Death Wizard
• 1 Seeress
• 1 Knight
• 1 Elven Archer
• 1 Mordheim Necromancer (to be used as the Necromancer that came with the Cursed City book)
• 2 More 10mm buildings (one by each kid)
• 1 Giant Serpent (painted by elder kid)
• 1 Frost Giant Queen (elder kid finally finished it off)
• 1 Death Dog (painted by younger kid)

Summer Totals: 53 Miniatures

2021 Totals: 286 Miniatures

May 2021 Totals

 No pictures this month... I'll add some soon.

Started working through the various Cursed City contents. Painted the Skeleton heavy pieces this month and almost got the Zombies done in time to count for this month.

• Cursed City
• 1 Watch Captain Halgrimm
• 10 Skeleton Watch
• 2 Skeleton Objectives

May Totals: 13

2021 Totals: 233

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!