January painting

It's been an odd start to the year.  Usually January is a bit of a slow burn, takes a while to get going after the fortnight of holiday induced sloth.  But this year I have been painting like a madman!  Also been seriously ill and working from home, could the two have a correlation...




First off Epic:

So most of the army was done in 2014, but I smashed out the last 15ish figures in 2015 to get it over the line.  I then picked up a few more trades to get my hands on some more aspects, wraithguard and jetbikes because I wanted to be able to use the army as forces other than Biel-Tan so Saim-haan and Iyanden were the obviously 'different' lists to aim for.

Then with the Epic army done and basing in the glory of another army completed I turned my attention to the next upcoming WFB tournament.  Back in October I wrote a list I thought would be fun to play for this, it's also potentially a bit nasty but hopefully not too awful (we shall see).  I had to paint 22 archers for this, a mage and I built & painted the second phoenix too, it's a conversion using the IoB griffon and the spare parts from the phoenix box for the one I'd already built.  They're intended for a flame phoenix but the real difference is paintjob so did nicely for giving me a 2 for 1 special with a model which would otherwise never make it into my army!

As it turns out the event is going to be a total filth fest so even what I consider 'nasty' is likely to be sub optimal.  But it's one I'm really going to for the social.

Still only mid way through January and I've painted over 40 models!  The last ones being for Malifaux (an illuminated not pictured plus Levi and the Desolation Engine).  As ever their models are such fun to paint and so quick to paint that this was an utter pleasure. 

[EDIT] Update to the end of January and I got to 50 models painted.

High Elves - 23 (1 mage and 22 archers)

Epic Eldar - 20 (assorted inf & tanks)

Malifaux - Levi, Rusty, Waif & Des engine), Tannen & Illuminated

Warmachine - Boomhowler Troll

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2014 resolutions summed up

So 2014, I said I would:

1. Buy less than 25 models (the mrs said 10 so may try for that but suspect I'll fail with a few bits I want to add to make a HE army). 

Epic fail, over 200

2. Finish painting the last of my TK figs. Not many left about 20 I think. 

Done and then picked up a few more! 

3. Finish my Brets to 2400pts, finish all the models I have for them (again less than 20). 

Painted but still not based. 

4. Paint my HE army. Very specific build planned and have most of the models for it so not too much conflict with 1.
Success/Failure.  The build I painted changed and haven't done some of the original stuff yet, but have painted about 3500-4000pts worth of stuff for them.

5. Get back into malifaux and finish painting all my stuff (7-10 figs for guild/neverborn)

Kinda success. Painted everything. But only played 2 games. Bought a bunch more tho. 

6. Strip the rest of the CD stuff I bought and paint up a few units. (Not committing to a playable army this year as purchases would be needed).

Stripped but otherwise untouched. 

7. Empire or DE 'should' be next army I target as have majority of both owned, commit to painting without buying for either to continue to build them up. 

Ended up doing HE and WoC instead so rolled forwards!

8. Improve the quality of a specific 2400 pts WE list to target a paint nomination at an event (if I get to any). 

Done and got a second best at an event. 

Overall a fairly successful year in actually doing what I set out to do. Also painted close on 300 figures again so not quite one a day but still a good effort. 

2015 resolutions

Hobby resolutions:

Finish epic Eldar 3000pts list

Base Brets

Paint all malifaux figs (2 ish crew boxes plus a few)

Paint 50pts Relic Knights

Assemble guild ball teams, paint 1 team

Finish WoC (3 chariots, 4 skullcrushers, disclosed and hell cannon)

Finish empire (10 Demis, mounted wizbang)

Epic further considers:

Complete aspect formations to 8 of each where relevant (Hawks, spears, spiders)

Warlock Titan (need fist)

Devise storm serpent proxy

Alt lists wraithguard, wind rider - work out how many figs needed for each.