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

Buring Through my Pile!

Hello once again all!

So here I am just pounding the pavement and getting things done.  Looking over my pile I decided to focus on my original plan and get these half done models finished!!

 

Three Dunedain warriors for the Middle Earth Strategy Battle Game!.  I dont know if anyone remembers on this blog, but I started painting these in 2016.  There they sat, half painted for almost 10 years.  Now they are done!  Off to the finished pile with you!

Speaking of Lord of the Rings...

Faramir and a Gondorian standard.  I bought both of these relatively recently and figured I could pound them out fast.  Which I did!  Only thing that prevented them from being done faster was me waiting for the wash to dry.  Of course I didn't just sit around not painting while I was waiting...

Dungeon Terrain!  I know, not much to them.  But they are done and also off the table!  Despite all this I did take a detour from the prepped models on my desk...

My last two Stone Trolls!  Yes I was sidetracked by these guys.  I saw them on a shelf and base coated them and painted them all in the same day.  Also put in the extra effort and got the Movement tray done too.

Here we see them sitting with a Troll I painted a few years ago.  Now they are all done and ready for the battle field!

So with 9 more models done I am off to continue the long slow paint war...

- Commodus

April Shock and Awe Continues!!!

Hello once again all!

So im back again, much sooner than you thought!  Mostly because I want to show off another thing I did on a whim.  I had my craft paint out already, so I decided to bang out yet another terrain project!

So without further ado...

One bakery for my Village Terrain project!  I had pulled this out in November with the plan on painting it...never got around to it.  But since I was working on terrain with my last post, and all my paint was already out, I decided to say "to hell with it!" and buckled down to paint this up.

Overall im very happy with how it came out.  The whole thing was technically 8 pieces before being put together, so I'll count this as 8 separate models.  Is that fair?

No.

- Commodus

February not as Great as I hoped...

 Hello once again!

 So I had planned to get SO MUCH DONE in the month of February!!!!

...That did not happen.  Turns out what I decided to paint was much harder than I thought.  So with that said...

Five Inner Circle Arc Knights of Averland!  Bodyguard of House Leitdorf.

Now this unit has been base coated and sitting in a box since 2008.  I had taken them to a tournament, the last tournament for Warhammer Fantasy I had gone too, back then.  I came in 3rd with the plans of finishing this unit.

Of course I instead but them in a box and forgot about them.  However now they are done!  Now just to get a movement tray for them.  Also figure out how to get them glued to the horses.  So far I'm using sticky tack as their legs keep getting into the way.  Oh well, we shall see.

So I guess for February I only managed 5 models.  Hopefully more next month! 

-Commodus

January Painting! What the Hell did I do?

Hello once again!

So end of the month and time to look at what I managed to get done.  Granted, due to some sickness and general real life getting in the way...not as much as I would have liked.  HOWEVER!  I still got stuff done so lets take a look!

 

 

First lets start with this piece of Dungeon terrain.  The Rack!  I have a pile of blisters that I decided I need to get through so here's just one I got done.  But along with this...

One Iron Maiden and two Mines for my Kill Team.  The Iron Maiden was easy enough, mostly just wash and drybrush.  The Mines were the last two pieces for my Kill Team box.  So that is 100% done!

Now what else did I finish?

3 Osgiliath Veterans!  I know, I haven't painted any Lord of the Rings models in a good long while.  But I had bought these and decided to just get them done ASAP.  So, here they are!

Now for an update on my Empire army...

These are my Knights I would have painted back in 2005, when I had just started getting into Warhammer.  Honestly, these were a pretty simplistically done and not super great but were a good base coat. Now however...

My Arc Knights of Averland!  Beyond the banner it was all mostly just washes and highlights.  Its kinda tough to Highlight metal but I did my best and here we are.

So in total I managed to paint/repaint 12 models.  Not much but a great start!

- Commodus
 

November Painting DASH!

 Hello once again all!

So I'd thought I'd just share something I have been working on in the background.  Over the Summer while I wasn't painting all that much I have been collecting.  Specifically a Dwarf army!

Now this army was suppose to be a 6th Edition all Metal Dwarf army.  But after some calculations I determined I CAN make it an Old World army....soooo

The Great Throng of Karak Azul!  Lead by King Kazador himself!

Now I know its not painted...Well mostly not painted, but it is in good enough condition that I CAN game with it.  Now I know I was going to do a Wood Elf army but this inspired me much more so I went all in.

Here are the first 6 Dwarf Longbeards.  I'd say they came out pretty well!  Super easy to paint too.  These were mostly test models for the colour scheme.  Karak Azul doesn't really have a specific colour scheme from anything I can find in the Wiki.  However Total War: Warhammer 3 Wiki has a Blue/Gold colours they use for it so I went that route.

So 6 more models in the done pile....but now I'm skipping off to another project before coming back to this one.  I hope to have it done pretty quickly (It's only going to be 10 models anyway)  Then who knows!

- Commodus

Summer is at an End....time to PAINT

 Hello once again all!

Summer is now over, Autumn is in the air.  It is starting to get colder....which means its now cool enough to basecoat!  So as always I spent my Summer months doing anything else than be hunched over a paint desk in my horribly humid house.

Now however...now it is time to how off just a little of what I have been working on in my spare time.  So without further ado...

30 Flagellants with a Prophet of Doom!

I'd been planning this unit for a good long while. Over the summer when I was not painting I was all over Ebay trying to find the Minis I was missing to complete the unit.  Now it is here.

I retired my old Warrior Priest and made him a Prophet of Doom as his esthetic matched the Flagellants much better that any other model.  I put a Banner bearer in the unit because this unit can dual use for Old World and not just 6th Edition.

Well 30 more models done after a long, lazy summer.  Whats next?  Wait and see!

-Commodus

February Schmebruary

Hello once again all!

So I had initially planned on posting this update back in February...heck I even started to with the title!  But I got distracted....mostly due to travel.  However in the proceeding months I managed to get a bunch of painting done.  So while I was quiet, I was not Idle!

So without further ado....

One Griffon Mech for Battletech!.  I actually have a small pile of Battletech minis I want to get done.  This one is my test scheme for the Crescent Hawks.  It came out okay mostly, I had an issue with the base coating from a white primer I was using to Zenithal the model with.  Probably wont use that spray bottle again, but I was able to strip it and start over.  Hopefully my next mech wont be as bad.

One piece of Warcry Terrain!  I had bought this as a separate sprue online almost 2 years ago and I figured I'd just get it done.  Painted entirely with craft paint and homemade wash.  Very happy with how it came out...even though I lost a piece and had to make one to replace it (Maybe you can tell which piece I lost!).

5 Oathmark Skeletons!  I most bought a sprue on a whim and decided I didn't want to add to my pile so I built and painted them right away.  They are good models but they are a little spindly so be careful when gluing them together!  But fun and easy to paint, do recommend!

So now next up...

One Dog of War Mercenary Cannon!  I've had this idea floating in my head for awhile as I have an unopened 7th edition starter set sitting in my hobby space.  While I have a Dwarf army technically....its specifically all metal so I have no room for these plastic Dwarfs.  So I decided to grab some spare models and kitbash a DoW cannon painted in my mercenary colours.  Overall fun to paint!

Go go along with that however....

Another Engineer!  Added once more to the pile.  I was honestly intimidated by this model.  I base coated it last year this time and its just bee sitting there, staring at me mockingly....but now he's done!  I do have one more Engineer I need to get done....maybe two (We shall see!).

And now for some fun...

RATS!  I decided to pound out a pile of Skaven.  6 Stormvermin, 3 Clanrats, a Gutter runner and a Plague Monk.  Just more to added to my Warhammer Skirmish team.

And lastly...

One Manticore for D&D!  I plan on adding this bad boy to my Gnoll Warband as a monster they control.  Also for generic D&D purposes he's on a larger base as he's an important villain for my campaign.  Overall I'm happy with him although I wish the skin was slightly better.

So 24 models painted in the last few months.  Added to my total I have managed 61 models for the year so far!  Happy with my progress and hope to get more done soon!

Until Next time!

- Commodus