Not abandoned! Just busy!

I have not abandoned this poor, neglected blog!  I've just been busy with playing the games, painting the minis and working rather than writing about any of it.  I swear!

Here's the status of the various things:

Cygnar:

Loving Cygnar in Mark III WMH.  Just won a small tournament after completing a Journeyman League.  Haley2 is still strong, shock I know.

More importantly, I'm still painting Cygnar models.  I'm currently at 322/536 points painted, and still going strong.  I just completed a pair of Trench Busters, one of which was a test of a new primer...not a successful test, sadly so I'll be sticking with Duplicolor Sandable Black/White.  My goal is to keep moving towards that moving "fully painted" target for this army.  Maybe I'll stop buying to stop the goal from moving so much....but not likely.

Guild Ball:  

Still playing Alchemists, still haven't finished painting my Alchemists.  I have 9 painted models (7 Alchemists, 2 Union), so I have a playable team, but Katalyst and Smoke are still on the painting table, at 90% and 50% completed, respectively.  I have finished probably a dozen other models since I started Katalyst and just can't seem to get any progress done on him.  Naja just joined the assembled club the other night, and had his first outing on the pitch.

Also, I'll be running the Guild Ball events at Crucible 2017 in sunny Orlando, Florida!  Check back for more details or find The Crucible on Facebook!

Malifaux:  

Very sadly, haven't touched it since March or so.  Want to, have the stuff and want to play, but not a big group locally.  May go to a tournament on this coming Saturday, but not sure.  Not giving up on it.

Board Games;

Mansions of Madness;  Love it.  Played it twice now, great app-integration, fairly smooth running game.

Legendary:  Doesn't matter what IP you slap on it, basic Legendary doesn't do it for me.  Shame that they wasted Big Trouble in Little China on this POS game.  Legendary Encounters games are at least interesting and not competitive.

A Game of Thrones LCG:  Still enjoying the game, trying to keep the local scene going.

Expect more posts, maybe not soon, but maybe soon.  Very decisive, I know.  Maybe just some picture posts.

The time is up! What's the verdict?

Did I finish everything?  No.  Did I change my lists around so that everything is painted?  Also, no.

I will be playing an unfinished (but partially painted) eEiryss and a primed Aiyana and Holt unit.

Everything else is completed.  Feeling pretty good about it, too.  Stormwall was an enormous task to finish, even with the base coats on it.  Black 13th are done now, too.  The Stormwall has made his way into my eCaine list as well, taking the place of the Nyss Hunters who will be painted shortly after the Crucible...and after I finish the last two members of my Alchemists Guild Ball team.

So overall, I finished 14 models in 8 days, give or take.  Could I have done more?  Sure, but not while having lots of fun doing other stuff in the process ;)

Major Victoria Haley
Captain Allister Caine
Stormwall
Black 13th Gun Mage Strike Team (3 models)
Lady Aiyana & Master Holtscabbards, eff those things)
Rangers (Leader and 5 Grunts) 
Eiryss, Angel of Retribution - assembled!
Squire
Stormsmith Stormcaller

And now, off to the Crucible!

STORMWALL!

It is done!

[Picture goes here to make this not such a tease]

Also, I finished the other half of the Rangers and started the Black 13th.  Hopefully finishing those three and eEiryss tonight after some GuildBall!

Progress:
Major Victoria Haley
Captain Allister Caine
Stormwall
Black 13th Gun Mage Strike Team (3 models)
Lady Aiyana & Master Holt
Cylena Raefyll & Nyss Hunters (Cylena and 9 Grunts) (Bow-Nyss got quivers, sword-Nyss did not get scabbards, eff those things)
Rangers (Leader and 5 Grunts) 
Rhupert Carvolo, Piper of Ord
Eiryss, Angel of Retribution - assembled!
Squire
Stormsmith Stormcaller

Odds are good that I'll be changing lists in such a way as to not need 10 Nyss Hunters...I don't have the time to get them done.  I might be able to finish the rest between tonight and tomorrow.  Maybe.  Either way, I'm already stoked about getting so much done!

The race continues! More like a marathon, really!

6 days until the Crucible and we're moving along at a solid pace!  Here's the latest:

Wednesday night:  Completed eCaine, Squire and Stormsmith
Thursday night:  Completed eHaley, 3 Rangers


Major Victoria Haley
Captain Allister Caine
Stormwall
Black 13th Gun Mage Strike Team (3 models)
Lady Aiyana & Master Holt
Cylena Raefyll & Nyss Hunters (Cylena and 9 Grunts) (Bow-Nyss got quivers, sword-Nyss did not get scabbards, eff those things)
Rangers (Leader and 5 Grunts)  (that's half of them done)
Rhupert Carvolo, Piper of Ord
Eiryss, Angel of Retribution - assembled!
Squire
Stormsmith Stormcaller

The Complete:
[Pics of completed models]

The Rest:

Pics of incomplete models]

I've got 21 left to paint, and I've already started 5 of them.  Everything is assembled and primed.  Unfortunately, I've got quite a full schedule for the weekend, which may derail my current momentum.  I'm going to try to minimize that, though!  We'll see how I come out!

Off to a good start!

[Pics of eCaine go here]

Completed Captain Caine last night, started work on Major Haley and a Stormsmith Stormcaller.  Also finished adding parts to the Squire-Raider (again, pics to come).  He'll be next on the painting block, as he goes in most, if not all, lists.

Remaining to be painted:

Major Victoria Haley
Captain Allister Caine
Stormwall
Black 13th Gun Mage Strike Team (3 models)
Lady Aiyana & Master Holt
Cylena Raefyll & Nyss Hunters (Cylena and 9 Grunts)
Rangers (Leader and 5 Grunts)
Rhupert Carvolo, Piper of Ord
Eiryss, Angel of Retribution
Squire
Stormsmith Stormcaller

I'm also looking at my lists again, may have some tweaks to this within the next few days.  Maybe sneak a few already painted models into the lists, and a few unpainteds out...