2013 Part 2

The first miniatures of the second half of 2013 are beginning to stack up. Here are some Hasslefree minis flanking some very old Grenadier evil dwarves.



Following swiftly on we have a couple of Citadel Black Orcs and Savage orcs. I've painted these up to fill the gaps left by the standard bearer and musician.



Painting these with "modern" techniques (i.e. washes) meant that these were quicker to paint up than the original unit members and the results look better too - that's progress for you.

Half term report

Well the score at half time is 181 miniatures worth painted (165 actual) vs an unknown total of purchases.

This means that even if this year is likely to be a fail, I am still on track to have the most productive year since records began which is something to take comfort in.

Lets see how I've been getting along with my objectives.

1) Play more games
I made a good start with this one but it has tailed off a bit recently. Must try harder.

2) Don’t make any impulse purchases
Er, best skip this one I think.

3) Paint at least 4 DreadBall teams
I've done well with this one - I've painted up 6 teams so far.

4) Paint my Dwarf Army
Well I have 5 of them on my workbench right now. I think I will have to make a bit more of an effort with this one.

So lets see what the second half of the year brings.

More guards

I decided to take a quick break from painting DreadBall minis and paint up some more elves. The trigger for this was organising a game of KoW and deciding I wanted to use more palace guard in the list. I dug out the palace guard I bought in January(-ish) to use to plug the gaps left by removing the banner and musician from the units (to save on points).



It was a nice change to paint some elves again as it has been a while. Whilst I was doing the palace guard I decided to paint up a couple of siege engine crew which were also on the to-be-painted tray.



The Dragons Breath engine itself will be done when I work out what colours I want it to be.

The sound of sirens

Another milestone - I'm now half way through my DreadBall Season 2 teams. Here is the complete female human team.



I painted these up very quickly - probably too quickly. After I had varnished them I had a good look and realised that I didn't like what I saw. Fortunately it seems like another round of highlights has salvaged them and I think I am now happy with the result.

Next up is Anne-Marie Helder, a S2 DB MVP. I painted her at the same time as the rest of the team but as she can play for anyone I game her a unique colour scheme.



And lastly I have a colour scheme tester.



I bought quite a lot of Mantic orcs in the sale and also when they were on offer at the Clash of Kings. They are stylistically quite different to the other orcs in my collection so I wanted to try and make them blend in by using the same colours. I'm quite happy with the results here so at some point I will be painting up several units of them.

Faceless and nameless

Its been a relatively slow week on the painting front due to a short holiday. Despite this I have still managed to quickly paint up a couple of DreadBall MVPs. First up is the squiggly tentacled John Doe.



Followed swiftly by Number 88.



Currently on the workbench are the Void Sirens (female human) DreadBall team. I have come up with a simple (and easy) colour scheme and I'm aiming to have them done quite quickly.

Judwan done!

Wow, that was quick - I only got these primed on Monday and now they're all done, a complete Judwan Dreadball team. That's the first of the season 2 teams complete with three more to go. They were very quick to paint up and maybe not to my best standard but they're ready for play.



I also completed the fist of my MVPs, Mee-Kel Judwan. I'm planning to paint most of my MVPs in team neutral colours but as MKJ only plays for Judwan teams I decided to paint him up with the rest of the team.



I have already made a start on the next team, the female human team but with half term coming up for my daughters it might be a little longer before I can get them completed.

It's clobberin' time!

A couple more bones minis have rolled off the production line, firstly an ogre:-



And also a bugbear:-



Both were nice and quick to paint up. This just leaves me with three more bones to paint up out of the ones I had bought. An unofficial target I had set myself was to get all my bones minis painted before the Reaper Bones KickStarter deleivers and as this has now been delayed it looks like I might achieve this one.

In other news yesterday marked the end of a 12 day period where I was untroubled by my movement disorder following a blow to the head (and subsequent concussion). Unfortunately this might slow me down again but at least the stuff I painted during that time stays in the painted pile.