End of month totals

Pathetic.

OKay, my official, final, and kind of pathetic total for the month is:

Dire Troll Mauler (9 pts)
Slag Troll (6 pts)
Winter Troll (5 pts)

But - if you look at the pics of the group at the beginning of the month (Pics 1,2,3), and those at the end of the month (Pics 1,2,3,4), there is a fair amount of work done. I'm not pleased - I had hoped to at least hit 50, but losing power for half the weekend did not help. Otherwise, I would have almost certainly had a bouncer, an axer, a swamp, the other mauler, and possibly an impaler done. Oh well.

Will I continue with the trolls? Nah, my goals for June are:

Khador battlebox (primed)
Finish Cryx battlebox
Assemble and prime Cygnar MK II battlebox

I'll probably try to finish up some of the trolls (the mauler and the bouncer, most likely), and I have a new scheme for my Retribution that I want to try out on a fig, so I might get to those as well.

Well, that was fun

As the Impossible Dream wraps up again, I have a final tally:

Dire Troll Mauler
Winter Troll

That's it. I might finish something tonight, and even though I knew I wasn't going to hit 100 points, I am still a little disappointed. Of course, losing power from Sunday afternoon through today did not help. Especially considering that all my painting stuff is in the basement. The windowless side of the basement. The pitch black, almost like a cave side of the basement.

I did get a pic of the DTM, but I need to get it off the camera.

Still, all things considered - I did get a lot done, even if I did not get much finished. Almost all of my trolls are assembled and primed, and most have base colors on at least part of them. It could have gone a lot better, but it could have gone a lot worse.

This next week, I plan on assembling some things - there is a FLGS to my west where people might start getting together to play, so it's time to make sure I have some battleboxes ready to go. Maybe I'll work on the Khador box tonight, and see what I can get done.

No gaming last night

So, normally on Thursdays, I get to go play. But, work has been a little stressful for DW lately, so I took the night off from gaming and we went to go see the latest installment of the Pirates franchise. While waiting for it to start, I remembered that somewhere I have a 25mm ruleset for pirates. Don't have any figs for it, that I recall, but that could easily be remedied. In fact, Dixon makes some nice 25mm pirates. . . .time to start looking for some.

(And that, boys and girls, is pretty much how I pick up a new army or game. Distracted by bright and shiny things on the screen, and *poof*. Money flows out, lead flows in, and my basement bomb shelter gets a little bigger.)

No pics tonight

No pics tonight, but I did get a good solid hour of painting in, and a short period of painting earlier in the day. Hope to get some pics up tomorrow, to at least show some proof of progress.

On a related note - I think I found my project for next month. I am about 75% sure that I should paint up a couple of battleboxes, and start running unofficial demos at a store about 30 minutes to the west. Right now, I travel about an hour to the northeast every week or so to game - the other store is closer, but would charge a table fee until there is a decent fan base.

Sorry for the slight delay . . .

Long story short, I did no painting from Thursday last week until (hopefully) sometime today. Long drive on Friday, race on Saturday, long drive Sunday, and a science fair yesterday. I hope to get some painting in today, at long last.

No pics tonight

I didn't feel like taking pics tonight, but I did get a couple hours of painting in. If I can get a couple of hours tomorrow night, I will definitely take some pics. No, I don't think anything new will be done, but a lot of figs will show substantial improvement. I didn't assemble anything today, so the scattergunners are still undone. As long as I have them ready to prime before the weekend, I will be happy.

An update of sorts

I put some more pics up here, but nothing else has been finished. It's a little depressing, when put up against some of the phenomenal work in this thread, but more stuff will get done before the end of the month, and, if nothing else, only a couple of my trolls are still unassembled or bare metal. (And those will be assembled and primed before the end of the month, no matter what else gets done.)

The new pics are Trolls5 through Trolls10.

Progress (of sorts)

I need to take pics, but I'll wait until tomorrow when the basement has more light. Did some skin tone tests on the trollkin, finally got one that I actually kind of like. Skin tones have begun on some of the fennblades and some of the stone scribes. Scattergunners are being assembled, albeit slowly. Skin tones are down on the axer, partially down on an impaler and the bouncer, plus one of the dire troll maulers. Burrowers have skin done on all except the leader, and I have begun work on the clothes and weapons. Some skin work on the swamp troll, and the slag troll is fixed and getting close to being done.

Update

Got nothing substantial done on Thursday or yesterday. Hoping to get in some painting time today, have plenty of time blocked off already tomorrow. If nothing else, I will have gotten a lot of stuff that had been sitting in boxes at least cleaned up, assembled and primed, but I really want to get more stuff done.

Pics (finally)

I still need to do a couple (very minor) touch ups on the bases, and then seal them, but they are done. Total point count for the month so far - 5.