It's "Terrain O'Clock!"

Hello once again all!

Alright I'm back and I got some progress!  I buckled down and got to work and finished up pile of terrain that I had sitting in a box.  Now to show it all off.

One ruined building.  This particular piece is a a Temu terrain piece I bought for 10 bucks....and for 10 bucks it's pretty damn good!  Quick and easy to paint up, overall I am very happy with how it turned out.

Next up, something I bought from a local 3D printer...

One ruined building!  Now you might recognise this as it is similar to another building I painted last year.  This is just a damaged version of that building.  I can easily use this for Mordheim, Frostgrave or even D&D!  I've quite happy with how they all came out.  All painted with craft paint and home made washes.

So if I calculate all the parts on these models as separate minis it comes to 10 models down.  Not too shabby if I do say so myself!

Now off to work on my next project!

- Commodus

Spring is in the Air...Which Means one more Snow Storm

Hello once again all!

SO lousy Smarch weather is gone, terrible April weather is here and I got more painting to do.  How much did I manage to finish from my last post?  Lets take a look!

Five more Stormvermin for my Skaven collection!  Honestly the best part about these minis is how easy they are to paint.  Quick and simple overall I just like to mix up the colours since. I don't think most Skaven Warlord clans would be big on keeping a consistent colour scheme.  So with these guys done I have about 5 more Stormvermin left unpainted.  I'll get to them eventually...In the mean time..

Five Stirland Archers!  I've had these guys sitting around for awhile and I figured I'd just finish them off.  I plan on building a 1000pt Stirland force and these will be a detachment for a unit of Stirland Swordmens I have partially built and painted.

With these models done I have finished another 10 models!  Not making crazy progress but I am getting things done.

Until next time!

- Commodus

SMARCH is Here!

Hello all!

So I'm back with another quick update on the things I have managed to get done painting.  Lets take a look at the models I finished to round out the month of February!

One more Skaven Rat Ogre.  I just started randomly buying these models mostly because they were very cheap to get my hands on on Ebay.  I really only started with one to use in a Mordheim waband.  But when they keep popping up for 6 bucks a pop I figured, "Why not build a unit?"

Sooooo...

Now all thats left is to build a movement tray and get some packmasters for them.  But overall they are done!

So that's one model....what else?

One test model for my Nuln Gunners.  Honestly not much too it.  It feels kinda flat on the black, which is to be expected since...you know, black.  But I was just testing a colour scheme to see how it would look.  I'm sure I'll refine it as i move through the unit.

So for the month of February I have 10 models done!

Onward!

- Commodus

Despite Notions to the Contrary....I am Painting

Hello all!

I'm back with even more progress on my armies.  I even have a project completed which I'm super happy about.  See as how it's been sitting unpainted for 10+ years I'd say that's an accomplishment.

Anyway, enough talk, lets get to showing!  I managed to finish up the last 3 Mercenary Swordsmen in my army.

With these three done, and my movement tray completed, I now have a full mercenary detachment done!

My Averland Mercenaries are all painted up and ready for the table.  Of all the units sitting unpainted, this is the one I thought I'd never finish.  But here it is ready for the fight!

But that's not all...

Five more Dark Elf spearmen!  Just 5 more to go and the unit is done and I can move on to other unpainted things for my Dark Elves.

So with 8 models done I'm off to do more!

-Commodus

First Months Work....What did I paint?

Hello all!

So I'm back, sooner than many of you have probably thought.  Unlike months prior, I have things to show off.  I've been making progress on a few projects and I figured I'd show them to you.  So without further ado...

Five Dark Elf Warrior Spearmen!  Now I continued with my Dark Elf paint scheme and these guys came out lovely.  The shields were all cast in Greenstuff as I don't have enough spare shields to go with the remaining troops I have.  With these guys done that leaves 10 more left to finish the unit.  So excited to finally finish another unit!

Hey, speaking of working to finish a unit...

Four Empire Swordmen!  Well, mercenary swordsmen to be exact.  I plan on using these guys as a detachment for my "Mercenary" army.  With the three I already painted that just leaves three more!

Now for a palate cleanser...

One Kings of War, Nightstalker butcher!  I have a box of Nightstalkers I bought on discount and I always wanted to paint them.  So I figured now's as good as any so here he is!  Done!

So 10 models done at the start of the year, not too shabby!

- Commodus

New Year New (Painting) Me!

Hello once again all to my Yearly wrap-up!

So its that time of year again where I show off all the last models I panted this year and tally up my total.  

Which, I'm going to be honest, was not much....

Seems in the last half of the year I just zonked out and was not motivated to paint at all.  I did man age a few things, but overall not much.  So lets take a look at the Things I did finish up.

So to start off we have the Truthsayer from the Albion campaign book.  I've has this model primed on my desk for years.  I decided to paint it up with contrast paints and I'm pretty happy with how it turned out.  Especially the skin.  When I finished this bad boy I was also going through my boxes of partially finished minis and decided to go whole hog on a mini project.

Behold!  My Hobgoblin Horde!  Or, more specifically, the Hobgoblin half of my Chaos Dwarf army.  Now many of these were already partially painted.  I just had to properly base, wash and highlight them.  I painted most of this stuff in 2006 and now they are finally done.  Now I just gotta refresh my actual Chaos Dwarfs.

Next up!

One Black Orc!!

Yeah I know, it's not that much be he's a test model for the colour scheme I want.  He came out pretty good and I'm happy with it.  Now I just got to do it 23 more times.

Alright next up

Behold my Marienburg Warband!  Now this is a shot of the whole team after a game of Mordheim.  with the exception of two many of these were refresh paint jobs, also one I painted early last year.  I just grabbed these from my pile of Empire minis and went to town on them.  I was inspired by Mordheim so I decided to finish one last model before the end of the year.

One Skaven Rat Ogre!  Pretty basic and I painted it pretty fast but he's done.  With that last model lets count up all I've done this year.

*Drum Roll*

100 models!....I'm actually pretty shocked.  I didn't realise I had managed that many given how I've barely painted over the last 6 months.  Also, quite a bit was repainting.  But I'm happy with everything and I hope to break this record next year! (This year I guess)

Until next time!

-Commodus