Tuesday, January 26, 2016

TOMB3 Update: Miss Ery loves company.

Quick update:  Miss Ery completed.  Pictures to follow.







Finished:
Lucius:  Painted!
Bloodwretch 1:  Painted!
Bloodwretch 2:  Painted!
Scion of Black Blood:  Painted!
Lawyer 1: Painted!
Miss Ery - Painted!

Not Finished:
Guild Guard 1:  Partially painted.
Guild Guard 2:  Partially painted.
Primordial Magic - Partially Painted
Illuminated One - Partially Painted
Depleted (slenderman) - Still on Sprue
Depleted (lady) - Assembled 
Depleted (squidly) - Assembled

Not Likely To Be Used/Painted:
Lawyer 2:  Not planning to use, no intention to paint unless all other minis for the TOMB3 are done.
Dashel:  Reconsidering use after good times at tournament.  More games to decide.

Scribe:  Unsure if I intent to use him or not.

Tuesday, January 5, 2016

Boardgaming in 2016

Board games are a big hobby of mine;  a good challenge, social interaction, and generally a good time!

I've previously been introduced to a concept called the 10x10 challenge:  Play 10 games 10 times each in the coming year.  This year, I'll try it out and see how far I get.  I'll track it here, for funs.

Games I'd like to play 10 times this year:
Mysterium
Battlestar Galactica
Codenames
Pathfinder Adventure Card Game
One Night Ultimate Werewolf
Mission: Red Planet
Imperial Assault (one  complete campaign, rather than 10 times)

and 3 more to be named at a later date, when I can look at my shelf of games ;)

And as a bonus, I've already started!

Mysterium O O O
Codenames O

Monday, January 4, 2016

TOMB3 End of 2015 update - 3 down, 3 to go! Plus some bonus Neverborn! And January's TOMB3 plan!

As 2015 draws to an end, the TOMB3 is still going strong!  We're 3 months in, with 3 months left!  Cue the Bon Jovi!

In December, I completed the Guild Lawyer I plan to paint (Lawyer #2 may get paint some day, but not intending to play him for a while, so he's a low painting priority).  This picture was posted a few days ago.  Over the New Years break, I also managed to complete Lucius!  Woo!\


I've started mapping out the rest of the TOMB3, purchases and painting-wise, and I've got the following expenditures for January:  Gain $25 ($41.25 remaining), then purchase 3x Depleted ($21.00)($20.25 remaining) and purchased Teddy (I have Miss Ery ready for painting) ($18.00) This leaves me with $2.25 remaining, to carry on into February.

TOMB3 Status:


Finished:
Lucius:  Painted!
Bloodwretch 1:  Painted!
Bloodwretch 2:  Painted!
Scion of Black Blood:  Painted!
Lawyer 1: Painted!

Not Finished:
Guild Guard 1:  Partially painted.
Guild Guard 2:  Partially painted.
Primordial Magic - Partially Painted
Illuminated One - Partially Painted
Depleted (slenderman) - Still on Sprue
Depleted (lady) - Assembled 
Depleted (squidly) - Assembled
Miss Ery - Assembled

Not Likely To Be Used/Painted:
Lawyer 2:  Not planning to use, no intention to paint unless all other minis for the TOMB3 are done.
Dashel:  Reconsidering use after good times at tournament.  More games to decide.

Scribe:  Unsure if I intent to use him or not.

In addition to TOMB3 painting, I finished up a few Neverborn who have been sitting on my desk for a while, mostly painted:  Mister Tannen and Baby Kade!





More painting to come soon!

2015 Painting Wrap-up

Another year in the books, and I've actually done some painting this year!  I've started a few new armies, Neverborn in Malifaux and Cygnar in War Machine.

Points painted by faction, start of 2015 vs. start of 2016:

1/31/2015 1/4/2016        % Painted
Skorne 30 30 9.62%
Legion 53 53 37.86%
Circle 4 4 3.54%
Trollbloods 0 0 0.00%
Minions 15 16 12.12%
Cryx 41.6 41.6 12.47%
Cygnar 0 112 41.18%
Mercenaries 41 44 15.66%
Convergence                      0 0 0.00%
WM/H Totals: 184.6 300.6 18.17%
0
Arcanists 0 0 0.00%
Gremlins 20 20 40.00%
Guild 0 6 2.54%
Neverborn 0 97 26.65%
Outcasts 7 7 7.07%
Resurrectionists 25 34 10.93%
Ten Thunders 0 0 0.00%
Malifaux Totals: 52 164 13.30%
Total: 236.6 464.6 16.09%
[Pictures of minis painted this year to be added here at some point]

I've still got a shitload of models to paint, as noted by the horribly low percentages above...except for the factions I started this year.  Interesting to me, I've painted significantly more this year than any other year of my miniature painting career.  Now the goal is to keep on the same track (or even ramp up!) and keep painting!

Hobby goals:
Play fully painted at the Crucible 2016:  I'm playing my Cygnar at the event this year, and I'm going to play fully painted.  I made lots of progress on this army last year, but haven't finished anything since October.  Time to jump back in.  I've got to finish a colossal, at least one warcaster, some solos...oh, and I need to figure out exactly what I want to play. list-wise.  Lists to be figured out asap.  3 months to go for painting.  Watch this space for progress.  

Complete the TOMB3: I'm three months in, and still a bit behind on painting.  I'm making solid progress though.  I will be completed with the models purchased for the Tale by the end of March.  Yes, this is a second project to be completed in the same time frame as the Cygnar one.  

So, apparently, I only have hobby goals through March of this year.  That's cool, a strong start to the year.  I'll add one more:  
100% Painted for a War Machine Faction and a Malifaux Faction:  All the mini's I own for a faction, they will be painted.  I've got lots of unpainted.  No guarantee on which faction, though I don't intend to cheat out on this by picking a small one that I'm not playing.  For War Machine, it'll likely be Cygnar.  For Malifaux, I may end up playing Guild or Ten Thunders by the end of the year, or I'll keep up on the Neverborn.  We'll see as the year goes on.

That's it for the wrap-up.  Expect more updates!