The Final Push – Lawnor approaches 100% painted

Models remaining:
Batch: 0, Normal: 5, 30mm Painters Pieces: 11 Luxury: 10, Modular: 56, Bits Box: 3, Terrain sets: 13, To Ship: ATO Wave 2, TSoH, KDM
Models Finished in Collection: 3043 Models since start of project: 729 out of 63 completed and still not done!

Apparently I’ve not updated this in over a month.  I’ve been busy painting, but not had time to spare to type here.  So it’s time for a catch up.  Lets see.  Last thing left on that tray was the Druid Mist Riders for Circle Orboros for Warmachine.

With the last of the Normal models in my house finished (Even now I’m still waiting for delivery on those ATO models I mentioned) it was time to raid the pile of Painter Pieces.  A while back I bought an Evangelion Gunpla kit and was surprised to find 2 50mm-ish humans inside.  I’ve got them painted and mounted them on MCP bases.  The plastic was a little rubbery and it reacted very badly to files and knives.  They are not very good models.  I do not recommend them.  Here’s Asuka Soraya Langley and her guardian, Ryoji Kaji from Neon Genesis Evangelion.  Despite using a light box, all my photos with my new camera appear to be coming out a little dark.  I’m going to have to start using an extra lamp.

Still no delivery so it was time for Sci-Fi Aya from Kingdom Death.  I decided to paint her based on Samus from Metroid, both in and out of her suit.  I suspect the colour scheme makes her look a little more like Bishop from the X-Men though.

I had a week off work and I was finally up to date with my painting so I threw myself in to my first playthrough of the People of the Star for Kingdom Death.  I beat it with only telling the dice I wasn’t listening to their unfair bullshit a few times, and some of them I remembered more rules that meant the bad luck wouldn’t have happened anyway.

With everything painted I was able to go to my display cupboard and extract a suitable model for almost every equipment build for the whole campaign, which was really rewarding.  I’ve since built a few models from the modular sprues to fill those gaps.  More on this later.

Here is every model I used while playing the campaign

This all leaves me with just 2 non-modular models left from the gamblers Chest.  Here’s Nightmare Adam

Models remaining:
Batch: 0, Normal: 10, Luxury: 24, Modular: 56, Bits Box: 3, Terrain sets: 13, To Ship: ATO Wave 2, TSoH, KDM
Models Finished in Collection: 3034 Models since start of project: 720 out of 63 completed and still not done!

I’ve not updated in a few weeks, but I’ve made good progress in that time.  I’ve also found a few good bargains online so I’ve added to my backlog again too.

To start with, I’ve painted 6 Godtear warbands.  3 boxes, twice.  One copy of each is for friends I play against and don’t paint.  I was already painting mine so doing their at the same time barely slowed me down at all, so why not?  It’ll make my games prettier and will make them happy.  I painted the bases different for my friends copies, and tried to pick out another detail too, that wouldn’t add work.

First up, Skullbreaker The Dragon Slayer, and Tooth bearers

That’s 18 models done.  But then there’s the purchases.  They just released some new content for Aeon Trespass and I picked up the 5 new Titans.  They’ll work in both ATO and Sins of Herakles so I’ll get use out of them.  I also picked up Pinups of Death 5 from ebay.  I don’t really want or need most of the PoD models, but they are pretty and it was very cheap and no one else bid.  That’s 11 more luxury models.

None of this has arrived yet, and I’m making progress on the final 5 “Normal” models in the house so it’s time to look at the “Luxury” category and admit it’s really 2 grades of models.  There’s the bust level stuff which is real high end luxury stuff, and then there’s the 30mm-ish stuff that’s just there to paint for fun but probably won’t get the bust level of attention.  Lets split that category in two then: “30mm painters pieces” and “Luxury”

That brings my totals to this:

Models remaining:
Batch: 0, Normal: 10, 30mm Painters Pieces: 15 Luxury: 10, Modular: 56, Bits Box: 3, Terrain sets: 13, To Ship: ATO Wave 2, TSoH, KDM
Models Finished in Collection: 3034 Models since start of project: 720 out of 63 completed and still not done!

Wave 2 of Aeon Trespass is due in September so I’m gonna finish up my Normals and move on to the 30mmPPs.  I don’t want to start anything big or demanding when I’m going to want to drop everything for that.  I’m also hoping to embrace playing Kingdom Death once my final unit is done and I’m “up to date”

Models remaining:
Batch: 0, Normal: 23, Luxury: 13, Modular: 56, Bits Box: 3, Terrain sets: 13, To Ship: ATO Wave 2, TSoH, KDM
Models Finished in Collection: 3016 Models since start of project: 702 out of 63 completed and still not done!

I got the Frogdog finished this week.  I also got everything else primed, and an airbrush base coat.  I have a painting averse friend who plays Godtear with me so I offered to paint his warbands that match the ones I’m painting.  It shouldn’t take much longer to paint 2 identical warbands at the same time.  I also painted 5 double sided tokens, as they were hard to read when they were bare plastic. This means I put at least a basecoat on 60 subassemblies and 5 tokens this weekend.

Models remaining:
Batch: 0, Normal: 24, Luxury: 13, Modular: 56, Bits Box: 3, Terrain sets: 13, To Ship: ATO Wave 2, TSoH, KDM
Models Finished in Collection: 3015 Models since start of project: 701 out of 63 completed and still not done!

Frogdog has arrived ( +1 normal, +8 modulars), and eBay was good to me/mean to me, depending on your point of view and let me get 3 more Godtear warbands (18 more normals) so my totals have gone up.  However, I have painted the Killennium Butcher and his Wishseekers (-5 normals), and I’ve built and primed a bunch of what remains.

Models remaining:
Batch: 0, Normal: 10, Luxury: 13, Modular: 48, Bits Box: 3, Terrain sets: 13, To Ship: ATO Wave 2, TSoH, KDM
Models Finished in Collection: 3015 Models since start of project: 701 out of 63 completed and still not done!

I’ve been looking at my master spreadsheet to see what’s left and it appears my totals here have gotten a bit wrong.  I seem to have painted 4 more model than I’ve tracked.  The master sheet has to be more accurate than my running total, although the running total includes models I’ve painted for others and models I’ve sold, when the master sheet does not.

So what do I have left from the Normal category?  Here’s the table I have showing everything I have left to paint, with guesses for model counts for stuff yet to arrive.

If I paint the following, then I have completely finished every game piece I own, and can move on to stuff to be painted purely for the fun of it.  At least until Aeon Trespass Wave 2 arrives August/September time.  This includes Frogdog, which I’m expecting a shipping notification for any day now (I think it’s 8 Modular models and 1 Normal model).

I’ve already started work on the 5 Normal models from Killenium Butcher (pic 1).

Can I get them done sufficiently before ATO arrives that I can complete a painters piece or two?  11 models isn’t much, and 5 of them are a unit which is always faster to paint than 5 solos.

Models remaining:
Batch: 0, Normal: 14, Luxury: 13, Modular: 48, Bits Box: 3, Terrain sets: 13, To Ship: ATO Wave 2, TSoH, KDM
Models Finished in Collection: 3015 Models since start of project: 701 out of 63 completed and still not done!

I’ve just had a week of and got a lot of painting done.  I was supposed to be playing KDM, but once I started work on the Black Knight it all kinda just flowed and held my attention.

That’s 9 more models done, and at some point I’ve moved 3 models over from Normal to Luxury because they have no in game use, and are just there to paint.

Models remaining:
Batch: 0, Normal: 26, Luxury: 10, Modular: 48, Bits Box: 3, Terrain sets: 13, To Ship: ATO Wave 2, TSoH, KDM
Models Finished in Collection: 3006 Models since start of project: 692 out of 63 completed and still not done!

This just leaves The gambler on my painting tray and I’ve already finished his one huge fleshy ball.  I’ve had to start building the Black Knight set so I can get them primed and ready before I run out of minis ready to paint.

The King: What even is it?

Models remaining:
Batch: 0, Normal: 27, Luxury: 10, Modular: 48, Bits Box: 3, Terrain sets: 13, To Ship: ATO Wave 2, TSoH, KDM
Models Finished in Collection: 3005 Models since start of project: 691 out of 63 completed and still not done!

Atnas, the Child Eater, from the Gamblers Chest for Kindgom Death.  This leaves 2 more models and I can call that box done for now.