A rusty and kitbashed armoured tank squadron for the Iron Cult (Undivided Lost and the Damned). I am working on the finishing touches for the Iron Cult Demolishers.
The second squad of Traitor Sentinels is completed. I used more black and less pink to contrast them with the first squad. The models are old Eldar warwalker.
More cleaning of my painting table. Some Dread Claw markers for the Iron Warriors based on the old style Drop Pods.
Finally, the Big Mutants of Papa Nurgle are completed. I kept to the rat theme and used Warmaster Rat Ogres. Together with the Mutants this makes two full Covens for Nurgle.
I have ten of those beautiful Blight Drone proxies from a talented TacComs artist. Below are my two paint scheme trials. The left scheme is based on the Forge World 40k Blight Drone example with dirty metallic green top armour. The second one emphasis the rust a bit more. Any preferences? I could paint the two squadrons in different colour shcemes so “both” is a viable vote.
Some more Dreads. The Black Legion contingents all have their Dreadnought squad now.
Finished up some more Terminators for my Salamander Chapter. The unit includes a (mildly) converted Librarian to round out the command choices (I already have a Captain and Chaplain for the other two squads). Nothing fancy as I had to match the style of the other models.
More reinforcements for Papa Nurgle. I added a bunch of Plague Marines to my existing four models. The new models include a Plague Marine Lord. There are only two Rhinos because this really isn’t a legal formation. They can either be fielded as a 4 model “Cult Marine” upgrade for a Black Legion Retinue (with two Rhinos), as a dedicated 7 model Plague Marine formation in the EPIC UK Deathguard list (without Rhinos as that formation can’t have any), or as part of two mixed Plague Marine and Deathguard Marine formations in the TacComs Deathguard list (again without Rhinos). Chaos is confusing…
I finished up a model that has been on my painting desk for years. Very quick, nothing fancy but I wanted to get him off the table. It’s a literal interpretation of the “Scroll Caddy” concept for my Bogenhafen empire army. I am using a Mordheim Sisters of Sigmar Augur for my wizard in the army and she has two (now three) “Scroll Caddies”. I use those to mark how many dispel scrolls she has left. I will take some pics of the other two caddies soon. They are all old familiars carrying scrolls or books. For now, all I have is an old White Dwarf pic of part of my Empire army from a long forgotten Grand Tournament. You can just barely see the two other caddies on the front left. I will have to learn how to photograph larger 28mm units (and keep everything in focus).
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Painting Balance 2010
It’s time to look back at the wargaming achievements of 2010. It was a fairly busy year for me in “real life” so my painting progress suffered accordingly. Nevertheless, I managed to paint 595 models (about 45 per month). The theme of 2010 was clearly Epic with 505 models completed. More minor contributions where made to my Battlefleet Gothic, Blood Bowl, Man-o-War and Mordheim collection. Separately, I also managed to complete 66 terrain pieces (mostly Mordheim items).
Unfortunately, the impact on the lead mountain wasn’t very impressive. Overall I purchased close to 1000 new models during year (80% of which for Epic). I did manage to sell a bunch of truly ancient Warhammer and Warhammer 40k stuff so the overall net gain is only 507 models. My painted to all ratio has therefore been slightly improved from 64% in January 2010 to 68% in December 2010. Current total (painted & unpainted) stands at 7027 models and 721 terrain pieces (of which 4618 and 659 are respectively painted).
Below are my progression over the last decade in terms of overall and painted model count, as well as the current status per gaming system.
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