6MMPC 2023: Progress was furthered.

Okay so second post in about a week, so maybe the ball is rolling.  I definitely got some work down and was fairly excited to knock these out.  As pictured in my last post we have the Thralls and the monstrosity from Iron Kingdoms: Undercity as well as two Ogrun models I had half painted and found in a box of my RPG minis.  This finishes off all of the rank and file models form this set.  I still have the characters left as well as the two BBEG models.  I am counting this as a Joker though.  I also started work on the undead and already finished the Bone Swarms.  I ended up adding glowing eyes after my wife's recommendation even though the artwork does not show them.  I do think it is an improvement in the menacing-ness of them.  This is a brief post and I am hoping to make another one soon with the undead finished.

Until next time Happy Hobbying!

6MMPC 2023 Progress report: Block finally Breeched.

Well it has certainly been quite awhile since my last post, and well that is how long it took me to finish my first set of Warders.  I came to the epiphany while working on them that painting a unit I "have" to assemble, paint, and play; to use an army effectively on the table top, that I otherwise would not have purchased or dedicated time into is a huge mood Killer.  Unfortunately I have quite a few more of these kind of projects in my pile of shame.  This batch is done and while I have one more unit to finish to actually be able to play my Stone Gauntlet list again I am taking a break.

Instead of beating my head against the wall with models that I have no inclination to paint I am pulling out some old projects that have been lingering unfinished.  I ma hoping since these are quicker paint schemes and techniques they will help cleanse my palette and potentially reinvigorate my desire to Hobby.  First up is the last of my rank and file (and one boss) of my Iron Kingdoms Undercity set.  I have been playing Iron Kingdoms Requiem with my wife and some friends and I have found I have a lot of energy in preparing models and terrain for those games so I am also hoping that helps.  These were started while I was in Korea but I had missed priming one of them, and they got set aside till I could prime the last one and that didn't happen till this last Sun.  They are being painted with a mix of GW Contrast and then base coats with a layer of wash.  Simple scheme for some models that just serve as monster fodder for RPGs.  

Following that we already have the next batch in the wings for after them.  This is the entire Dead Men Rising set from the Widowers Wood Kickstarter.  I already completed the adventure that I originally planned to use these models for with the Party but its a big pile of undead and i figure there will be use for them sometime in the future as well.  I figure finishing the Undercity stuff and Dead Men Rising will net me a Joker each.  I have no plans to purchase anything else for a while though.  I think the only thing on my Radar potentially is the new Horus Hersey set with the Land Raider Mk III marines and Dreads but there is as yet no release date on that.  Until next time Happy Hobbying!

6MMPC Week I don't even know anymore...

Okay so I have had the models posted here painted for a while I think date on the pics is the 8th of July.  These are the last models I have finished,  I still have the 10 Phalanx Warders sitting with paint started to be applied.  So here is the finished work.

I painted these up for some upcoming encounters in Iron Kingdoms Requiem, a 5th edition version of the roleplaying game for the Warmachine/Hordes setting.  These are all for ma long ago Kickstarter for the Widower Woods.  Paint was a mix of coat and wash and Contrast paints, I actually started these about 3 years ago while in Korea and they had been sitting with the first coat on them since then, As a wargamer I use miniatures very heavily in my RPGs.  I even custom build or convert models for my players.  Such as these...

The three on the left were painted by me and the two on the right were paitned by my wonderful wife who is also playing in the game.  

Here it is a month later and these are all I have painted, why?  Well I am pretty much just done with everything.  I am desperately scrabbling to dig myself out of the pit of depression that I have been slowly sinking into the last lets say two years.  Painting used to bring me joy and was one of my major stress relievers and when I can bring myself to do it it still is.  That said so much hate has been directed to me and people like me that I struggle to find the energy to put paint to models.  Combine this with a propensity to find it all of a waste of time when I am not playing the games it is not helping much.  I have not been able to get a game in since I want to say maybe December for Wargaming and since March for RPGs.  The state of affairs in my home country is bleak, I may have 3 months I loose coverage for my Hormone Therapy depending on which way things break down in the committee to determine the NDAA for FY 24.  This is probably TMI but I don't produce my own naturally any more and never produced the ones that actually allow me to think clearly and feel more than a constant state of stress. 

Combine this with people in my home State ramping up to start the stupid "If we pass this anti discrimination law for LGBTQIA+ people, rapists are going to use it to molest women in the bathrooms" B.S.  I am not really in a great state right now.  I love to see the progress other people are making on this challenge and as a plus I have been so depressed I haven't bought anything since the Leviathan box which was only purchased because I had finished up the Gatormen.  I think I was a week or two passed when I finished painting them when I took the pictures.  Even as I am writing this I am glancing at the Warders trying to determine if I have the energy to put any more Leadbelcher on the remaining 5 that need that color.  

I am not making any promises as to when I will post next,  I hit bottom about the beginning of  July and while I am making progress (as evidenced by the fact I finally managed this post) I am no where near where I would like to be.  As much as this may ring hollow I sincerely mean it for you all until, next time, Happy Hobbying.

#6MMPC Week 8- Bing Bang Done

 Yah! I have a post that is being made only a couple of days late instead of a couple of weeks. Go me!

Anyways this week saw me complete some Deathwing Knights form the Wrath of the Soul Forge King kit. I wanted something that was not Black, Red and Gold and these guys checked that box.  I have a Demi Company of Dark Angels already as part of my long stagnant now Fall of Cadia Project and I am adding these guys to that force. I sold the Azreal and the Dark Angels Primaris upgrade bits to a friend and am debating if I am going to be tackling the Chaos side of that set soon or move on to something else.  This week though is going to be one of my least favorite things to tackle Resin.  I have some Forge(ry) World bits for some Phalanx Warders to add to my Horus Heresy Imperial Fists so I can again run a Stone Gauntlet list (I finally just last year got my Breachers done and hadn't even gotten to use that RoW with them.)  I am just debating if I am going to try to knock out all 20 or just paint the 10 I got assembled already and do the other 10 later.

I am finding myself getting slowly back into the hang of painting.  I haven't really stopped but I have found that the excitement level I have for a project determines the quality of the finished project.  These guys went a bit better than some of my other recent projects.  They still have their flaws but I think there are fewer.  

Let's see if I can further reduce the update time for the next post.  Until next time Happy Hobbying!

#6MMPC Week 6-7(I think) Dear Gods above why am I still Painting black gold and red...

Okay so as is customary I am behind on my posts (I try I really do)  I didn't get anything painted really just assembled and primed last week this week I struggled to get through the models.  I have been painting Sisters (Our Martyred Lady) and Black Legion pretty much for the last 6 months off and on.  I have spun in a few Necrons from my Imperium subscription to try to avoid full burn out but I was feeling it on this set.   Not even these being the last of my power armored sisters units or the Rhino conversions I have been itching to do for months could stave of the apprehension of painting more of these colors.   That all said I managed to push through and finish them this week.  

I also took a somewhat painful but reluctantly step which was to take pictures and start the process of selling my custom Space Marine Chapter.  The Red Magi have been a staple of my collection since I started.  They have been converted, de-converted, stripped and then repainted to their current status.  That all said the last time I did anything significant with them was in the global campaign at the start of 8th (I forget the name).  They were my go to army for each of the global campaigns and they earned honors on Armageddon, Cadia, Medusa V, and most recently the Ultramar Sector.  The final straw though was having to rebase the models to continue playing them.  Probably some of the guys in the local group would not complain but enough of them would that I won't bring them to the open gaming nights in hopes to get a game in.  So here is one of the last pictures of the lot overall.  Individual units are peppered through out the earlier pages of my blog but I think this is the first and probably only group shot of what I have done, (minus two Land Raiders I am keeping for another project.)  I don't know if I will redo the chapter with new Primaris models (I have quite a few extras at this point) or let them fade into the warp, maybe write up an ending for them in my personal fluff and let them go.  

The next project is some Deathwing Knights (yes I have roughly 5 various Space Marine Armies its a problem)  which at least is a completely different pallet then the last few.  After that not sure may finish up my Horus Heresy Imperial Fists as I have the parts for the two squads of Phalanx Warders and the Spartans to cap that project off.  On a reluctant note I used my second Joker to pick up a copy of Ashe of Faith ass the Inquisitorial unit and the Campaign book were to tempting to pass up for the price.  I think finishing my Sisters (minus one unit I am still waiting on a 28mms base to come into my FLGS) counts as earning another one.  Until next time Happy Hobbying!

2023 Back at it (and back story) for another 6MMRC Week 5

*tap* *tap* Is this thing on, let me dust off the cobwebs here a bit.  SO, It has been a very very long time since I posted to this thing so first a bit of a recap of some stuff that has gone on.  I finished my last 6MMRC in June of 2018, I had every intention (as I always do) to keep the blog going after, life didn't really have that in store for me.  I found out in June that I was heading to Korea for a duty assignment about the time the last challenge ended.  That brought a whole wealth of challenges as where I was supposed to be going (spoiler alert that is not where I went) was not a great place to bring my family so we had to pack up and make a move for them back home which was across the country and through another one.  That left little time for hobbying, though after I got back I did do a push to get some projects complete and even manage to enter an Armies on Parade again and even one best overall.

(Tried to add more pictures but blogger kidna sucks and couldn't get the laid out the way I wanted )

After that I mostly got every thing ready for my move.  I got to Korea and while I did keep at the painting and modeling as a way to keep busy I had none of the stuff I needed to really take pictures (yes I am aware they sell break down photo boxes on Amazon, I am looking to get one here soon) so even though I wanted to and thought about it I could never got around to doing it.  While there I had probably my biggest life change occur, and perhaps reintroductions are in order for those that knew me before.. Hello I am now Ana now, my pronouns are she her and yes I am transgender.

Here's a recent picture of me at 20 year OIF reunion

Needless to say the next couple of years were a whirlwind, I made a few posts here and there on FB in various hobby forums are am on there for some projects here or there but I was kind of nervous about being in the public eye for a little while (that's changed in a bigger way to some extent but ADHD still keeps me from posting regular.)   So lets talk the whirlwind, in addition to my transition of genders, I was also retiring from the Army, and relocating back home which thanks to some a*hole at my branch meant a whole other move with the family completely across the country and through another one.  Starting a new job setting up a new house (though I finally have my own game room office now.)  Whew whew does a girl find time to assemble and paint tiny plastic men and women?

Eh she finds a way.

So while I haven't been posting I have been hobbying, I have taken a bit of an interest in Youtube and I have posted a series of a play through I did of Minecraft and am currently working on one for Cyberpunk 2077 (I hope to get back to it now that college is done oh about that...)  I also finally managed to earn my Associates degree so hey finishing college can get checked off my to do list finally after 25 years.  With all this going on the fine fellow who runs the Six Month Mountain Reduction Challenges posted about doing another one from April to the end of October.  While my new job pays really well and my plastic mountain has grown considerably over the years with all the other craziness going on.  I am starting a wee bit late but I talked with David (that fine fellow I mentioned earlier) and he said I was good to start once I finished my finals and final papers.  So that pretty much catches us up to now.  My first weeks completion was some of the Sisters of Battle from my imperium subscription, though these week also sees me blow my first joker as I picked up the Gallowfall Kill Team set (if your just joining me look back through older posts and you can probably see why... this girl loves her some Beastmen.)

crappy picture but we are still re-learning this

Next week is more Sisters, five Seraphim, five Zeraphym and three converted Rhinos, until then Happy Hobbying! 

Orks!

Orks, for the first time in almost 10 years I have finished some of my Orks.  In the last three weeks I have completed 1/2 of the reaming Grots as well as my Big Gunz crew and the last Trukk Boy mob of my Evils Sunz tribe.  The the biggest hang up I have had was that I started the Orks under the old citadel range and several of the colors did not match.  Though using some different techniques I think I have managed to come close enough it won't be noticeable.  I have the Trukk left for this mob, three Nob Bikerz, and a Big Mek on bike with Kustom force field to finish up the force at least until the new codex drops but I think even then I am pretty much done with this faction.  Doing the math I have close to 10000 points and I think that is sufficient.  I want to knock out the last of the stuff for the Evil Sunz in the next couple of weeks and then move on to other things. Until then Happy Hobbying.

Comparison between old paints and new.

Two Down Countless More to Go.

Brief post but doing it just to get another one out there and try to make them more regular. So this week I finished up my Triumvirate of the Imperium by completing Celestine and retinue and Inquisitor Greyfax.   Last week I focused on finishing my Storm Raven gunship.  Overall this was inspiring progress for me and I am very happy with the finished projects.  I also knocked out he last two Interceptors for the Primaris portion of my Ultramarines, which leaves 10 Pox Walkers and a converted Nurgle Chaos Lord for my Black Legion to finish out my Know No Fear box.  (Sorry for crappy picture of the Triumvirate)

Next project is to finish some of  my much neglected Orks.  First batch is a large number of Grots. Specifically its one fo the 2 boxes of he normal ones and nine more cobbled together Grots (spare models form other Ork kits and Gnoblars) to man my Big Gunz.  After that I have some 'Ard Boyz for my Goffs and a Trukk Mob and some Nob Bikerz for my Evil Suns.  Getting through these will definitely take some of the regret I have for purchasing new models when I still have unfinished stuff as these projects have been in the queue the longest (since GW changed their paint line which forced me to reformulate my paint schemes).  Until Next time Happy Hobbying!

Back in the saddle again (Maybe)

So its been quite awhile since my last post,  I hit a huge wall towards the end of the last 6MMRC when I took a couple of commissions for Christmas, and one following the new year.  I have managed to paint some of my mountain of miniatures but have added more to it then I have completed in the last several months.  There is another 6MMRC going on and my hats off to those working towards it but alas I am just now trig to get back the motivation to paint regularly again. I did manage 1 major thing off my mountain, mainly my Cities of Death terrain purchased in 2006.

This was a huge weight off my conscience.  I assembled 2-3 building myself back in 2007 but was overwhelmed by it then.  In 2008 an event organizer in El Paso asked if he assembled them if he could use them for tournaments while I was stationed there and I agreed.  In 2010 I painted up three of the buildings but was never quite happy with the look.  I decided to run a Narrative 40K game at Siege of Augusta and decided that I would finish the buildings for that.  The narrative game also ran into the trouble of not having anything to play on so the family got together and did a huge felt/paint/sand gaming mat so we now own a 6' X 12' asphalt gaming mat.

I built some special characters for the event though I don't seem to have any pictures of them at the moment I think they may be somewhere in my local groups Facebook page.  Overall the event when pretty good we had two Imperial players and 3 Chaos Players for about 9000 points on each side.  IT ended up being a close game basically decided on a -1 die modifier giving Chaos a victory.  

Most recently I have been working on some 30K Imperial fists and some more commissions.  I have been lovign the Imperial Fists as the make a very striking army in yellow and black.  I have pretty much all the models I need for the force with a few exceptions mostly Rhinos and the shields to field some Breachers.  The commissions lately have mostly been single models as the wight of knocking out two armies on commission (one Dark Imperium Death Guard set, and about 2000+ points of Imperial Guard) definitely brought me towards burn out.  

I managed to finish up five Plague Marines of mine as I worked on Typhus.  The last two weeks I have been working on Cypher, five Fallen and Eisenhorn.  These models have been my attempt to get back into things a little more.  Cypher marks me finishing the last of my Rise of the Primarch Box and the Fallen are made using some Dark Angel Veterans I picked up quite awhile ago for an idea that I decided against for my own Space Marine Chapter.  

So I don't know what the road ahead is I want to finish up my Necromunda set and I am also clsoe to finishing the Know No Fear box I have as well and I think as far as completing projects of of thsoe might be where I go but I will make the decision tonight and see form there.  Until next post Happy Hobbying.

6MMRC 2017 Weeks 20-21: Quality Time and New Acquisitions.

So another double week post, but with some progress.  I have finished my 2nd Set of Shadow War Armageddon Terrain, assembled a complete building as a test piece for my Cities of Death stuff, completed the last pending commission, and assembled a House Escher Gang for the new Necromunda.

So last week was some slow progress mainly because those pieces were painted with assistance with a helper.

Since the pieces were mostly painted with dry brushing I let my daughter help me out.  I am pretty happy with them and can now cover roughly a 30" square with dense multi-level terrain.  My daughter had a blast helping daddy and even though I could have knocked them out in one evening and instead they took three it was well worth it. Here's a look at the completed stuff.

I also took some time to put together a LOS blocking building using some extra Cities of Death terrain.  I had an extra un-assembled Administratum building kit that I used to make a small chapel.  I will be adding some stained glass to it once its painted. I used some of the ruble pieces to help center the door and then used push molds to fill them in.  I am hoping to get it primed up and painted this week and then do a big run on the stuff that I have assembled but badly damaged next week.  

I spent most of this week knocking out the other commission I took at the same time as the Falchion, an Ultramarines Fire Raptor.  The kit was a huge pain to put together, some of the pieces literally did not fit where they were supposed to.  The rear top was probably the worst it took 2 hours of filing/fitting to get it mostly right and while it is not noticeable at a glance it is defiantly skewed and off center looking.  The problem is to right the skew I have to make it look more off center and to make it line up on on the sides I would have to skew the tail even more.  This kit has defiantly got me wondering about the supposed high standards of Forgeworld products.  Overall the customer is very happy with the final product so I guess its still a win though I almost feel bad at charging him for the work, though I am working for about half of what he has been paying others since I mainly take commissions to work on projects that don't end up on my pile.

This week has also been a huge win as far as selling some stuff.  I manged to sell off the extra Chaos Space Marine stuff I had, the Martian half of the Mars Attacks KS, and about 40 un-assembled unpainted skeletons and zombies.  I used the funds to purchase the re-release of Necromunda.  I already have the Escher gang assembled and up for priming as well as 2 more models for my Beastmen.  

This week's goal is to get that stuff painted as well as the Chapel, until next time Happy Hobbying all.

6MMRC 2017 Weeks 19: Of Commissions and Charity

Another late post but at least its not a week late this time.  I made some progress on my mountain this week and also finished a commission.  My progress this week was finishing up some models that I started back during the Konor Campaign, mainly the last 10 of my Space Marine Terminators.  I also finished up another Rhino I had base coated at some point.  I also started working my 2nd set of Shadow War Armageddon  Terrain. 

I also knocked out a commission  for the same guy I painted up the Guilliman for.  The model was a Falchion Super heavy tank.  It was fun to build and paint and I think it turned out pretty awesome.  The gentleman was very happy with the finished product and even fielded it the next day at a tourney.

Speaking of Tournaments I also participated in the same one.  The event was a Food Bank Charity event.  The entry fee was nonperishable food with the option of earning cheats for additional donations.  I had a pretty good time even though I ma pretty sure I finished 2nd to last.  I brought my Chaos Renegades supported by my Renegade Knight.  The list did okay but defiantly highlighted the weakness to the current Renegades and Heretics Army list.  MY Militia were WAY over coasted and pretty much failed to accomplish anything of note.  Managing to kill only 5 Tau drones during the entire course of he campaign.  The other models managed to hold up their own with the Leman Russ Exterminator working far better than I expected.

My main focus this week is to knock out the Shadow War Terrain as well as some other smaller terrain projects.   I have some buildings that I purchased form the original release of the plastic buildings by GW back in 2006.  I have started to paint them previously but was pretty unhappy with the final product.  My hope is that before the end of the year I will have these completed.  Well that is all for now Happy Hobbying all.

6MMRC 2017 Weeks 16-18: Overcoming Disappointment

So its been awhile since I managed my weekly post, I attempted to knock out one through the mobile Blogger App but it failed miserably.  Though that is not the disappointment I am referring to in the title.  I have been working over the last couple of weeks to finish my Armies on Parade entry.  I had completed the last few models and then logged on to Facebook to check when the event started.  The first post on their page was  made 12 hours  before to state that Armies on Parade had just started.  Despite having talked to the employee 3 times prior and being told it was on Nov. 5th he had changed it with no notification outside the store to the 4th,  Needless to say I as a little angry but also I am crushed.  Of all the events GW puts on over the course of the year this is the one I am most excited about and have the greatest desire to participate in and this is the 2nd time I have been screwed out of it by a store employee.  So here are several pictures of my entries and some WIP shots of some of the last models for it.

The previous weeks progress was pretty much painting up the Grey Knights for the team tournament.  I got them done and while at the store took a group shot of all of my Grey Knight stuff as well as the last shot being my force for the Tournament.  That is all for now I am not sure what next week will bring as far as projects go.  Until next time Happy Hobbying.