It’s one thing to set resolutions, and quite another to hold oneself to them. I intend to review my progress monthly toward each of the resolutions. Welcome, then, to our roundup for November 2023. Let’s start with a reminder of the resolutions and where we were at the end of October:
Painting
- Finish 3 army-sized Warhammer projects (~2,000 points). (Oct Status: 1/3 complete)
- Finish 2 starting forces each for 2 smaller, non-GW games. (Oct Status: 2/2 complete)
- Paint a Warhammer Underworlds Warband. (Oct Status: no progress)
- Paint a Blood Bowl Team. (Oct Status: no progress)
- Paint 6 miniatures unrelated to current projects. (Oct Status: 15/6)
- Paint 365 miniatures this year. (Oct Status: 430/365)
Gaming
- Play 40 different games. (Oct Status: 43/40)
- Play a new (to me) skirmish game. (Oct Status: 1/1 complete!)
- Play 3 non-D&D Roleplaying games (Oct Status: 3/3 complete)
Writing
- Complete 12 book/game/media reviews. (Oct Status: 15/12 complete)
- Release 3 titles on DriveThruRPG. (Oct Status: 4/3)
Onward, to November!
Painting
Last month was all about Gargants, Kruleboyz, and Malifaux (and more Malifaux). This month we are starting with yet more Malifaux! This time, it’s all about tokens and markers. I printed up and painted scheme markers, scrap and corpse markers, and status tokens:
These prints came out well, and I’m particularly delighted with how the status tokens came out. For the purposes of the model count for this month, I’ve counted the markers, but not the tokens. I think if you add it all up, that’s pretty fair.
Next up, I set my mind to completing a couple of resolutions. The first of these was to complete an Underworlds warband. Blackpowder’s Buccaneers made it to the painting table:
This was a fun warband. It didn’t turn out quite like I’d hoped, but it’s still cool. I love all of the sculpts and I’m keen to try them out in-game.
The other resolution I was keen to finish was to complete a Blood Bowl team. As such, I broke out the Nurgle team that had been sitting on my shelf for a long time.
They were painted up to match my Maggotkin of Nurgle and my far-from-finished, Nurgle-themed Slaves to Darkness. I swithered over putting them on grass, but I just like them on mud. Once they’re varnished, I’ll probably add some slime to the bases.
At this point, I took stock of my remaining resolution; that of finishing three armies. I thought it wasn’t going to be doable until actually sitting down and realising that I only had 22 Tzeentch miniatures and 4 ogors to finish. I then set to work on one of those 22 Tzeentch minis and an accompanying (not necessary for this resolution) endless spell:
A 3D-print, the Magister turned out well. He actually turned out better than expected. I did darken down his skirt a bit, going from Frostheart to Talassar Blue. That really helped. Until then, he was just too bright. The Chronomantic Cogs turned out great. I’m happy with those.
My next mini was actually done for work. As part of some activities I had planned for some kids, I painted up a 3D print of Monkey D. Luffy, the main character from One Piece:
This was a very quick paintjob, but I’m pretty happy with it! I actually also ended up doing a second one, also pictured above. The point of printing these miniatures was to do some painting with kids. My second one was done during that session. It went really well, by the way!
Next up were another 10 Tzeentch minis in the form of these Kairic Acolytes:
These were a lot easier to paint than I expected, and I’m really happy with how they came out. I swithered between going with a caucasian fleshtone or with the pale grey that I had used elsewhere in the army. I ended up going with the fleshtone because there are meant to represent the more human cultists that follow Tzeentch. This will further set them apart from the Tzaangor, which I resolved to paint grey when I got to them.
Having spent quite a while on the Kairic Acolytes, I wanted something quick and easy for my next mini. I picked up a Slaughtermaster that I had printed and slathered it in paint:
This was a very quick job that I’m reasonably happy with. The print came out quite well and the whole thing came together well with the wee Gnoblars on the base.
The next model I tackled was one that I was dreading. There’s just a lot to the Curseling, you know? it had to be done, though. I buckled down and spent a few evenings working on him:
This model turned out to be not actually as bad as I’d expected. I had a lot of fun doing the feathers in particular. I also really liked this comment that came up in a Discord that I frequent:
I then moved on to the last of the Tzeentch army, these ten Tzaangor:
There were not so fun to paint. I don’t know if the issue was the sculpts or some over-exuberant priming, but there were a fair few rough patches that i had to just muddle through. I went with the grey skin and blue/gold armour again, and had some fun with the fur and feathers.
Finally, I moved on to painting up a truly worthy general for my Ogor Mawtribes in the form of a Frostlord on Stonehorn:
It felt good to get him down, and he was actually a really quick model to paint. He took less time than the Curseling did. He turned out pretty well, too.
Total: 69
I’m very happy with that total for the month! Next up, I’ve got another two Stonehorns to do which will complete my final resolution for the year. The end is in sight and is very achievable.
Gaming
Here’s a reminder of the games I had played at least once already this year:
- Ticket to Ride
- Warhammer: Age of Sigmar
- One Night Ultimate Werewolf
- Dungeons & Dragons
- Star Wars: Rebellion
- Galaxy Trucker
- Century: Golem Edition
- Root
- Age of War
- Malifaux
- Call of Cthulhu
- Warhammer 40,000
- Blitzkrieg
- Cyberpunk Red
- Avatar Legends RPG
- Twilight Struggle
- Quadropolis
- Terraforming Mars: Ares Expedition
- New York Zoo
- King of Tokyo
- Quirkle
- Clank! Catacombs
- King of New York
- Tiny Towns
- Dice Miner
- Monopoly
- Codenames
- Santorini
- Lords of Waterdeep
- Sushi Go!
- DC Comics Deckbuilding Game
- Euphoria
- Zombie Dice
- Endangered Orphans: House of Rath
- Isle of Skye
- Hive
- Betrayal at House on the Hill
- Frostgrave
- Architects of the West Kingdom
- Warhammer Underworlds
- Warcry
- Magnificent Flying Machines
- Age of Sigmar: Soulbound
This month, I added two more games to this list:
- Traveller
- Escape the Dark Sector
- Here to Slay
I got to play plenty of other games, including a lot of Architects of the West Kingdom and Root.
It’s been nice to play more board games in recent months. It’s also been good to do the Game of the Month posts this year. I feel that I haven’t really written about board games as much as I used to, so it’s great to be talking about them again.
Writing
There haven’t been a huge amount of more writing-heavy posts this month. With fewer RPG posts at the moment, I’m just not writing as much. December looks like it will be the same.
There are a few highlights, though:
- Some thoughts on how to get to the end of my resolutions
- Ideas for adapting the newly-revealed Flesh-Eater Courts minis
- A review of Dark Space by Kabuki Kaiser
That review was definitely my favourite post of the month!
There were no new additions to my DriveThruRPG offering, and I made no progress on unfinished projects.
November 2023 Summary
Painting
- Finish 3 army-sized Warhammer projects (~2,000 points). (Nov Status: 2/3 complete)
- Finish 2 starting forces each for 2 smaller, non-GW games. (Nov Status: 2/2 complete)
- Paint a Warhammer Underworlds Warband. (Nov Status: 1/1 complete)
- Paint a Blood Bowl Team. (Nov Status: 1/1 complete)
- Paint 6 miniatures unrelated to current projects. (Nov Status: 17/6)
- Paint 365 miniatures this year. (Nov Status: 499/365)
Gaming
- Play 40 different games. (Nov Status: 46/40)
- Play a new (to me) skirmish game. (Nov Status: 1/1 complete!)
- Play 3 non-D&D Roleplaying games (Nov Status: 5/3 complete)
Writing
- Complete 12 book/game/media reviews. (Nov Status: 17/12 complete)
- Release 3 titles on DriveThruRPG. (Nov Status: 4/3)
Onward, to December!
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