The Final Push – Lawnor approaches 100% painted

Models remaining:
Batch: 0, Normal: 20, 30mm Painters Pieces: 11 Luxury: 17, Modular: 96, Bits Box: 3, Terrain sets: 11, To Ship: ATO Wave 2, TSoH, KDM, Enormity
Models Finished in Collection: 3136 Models since start of project: 951 out of 63 completed and still not done!

Eight more models done, and I remembered I picked up 4 more modular KDM armour models over Christmas, so the total went down by 8 and then up by 4.

Here we see the Red Witch Braal

Followed by the Red Witch Nico

And the final Red Witch, Seer.

They have 5 Initiates who also join them in the fight.

I’ve got the last 5 models on this style currently waiting for their bases to dry so I can prime them.  In the mean time, I’m going to sink my teeth in to a large build project.  This is a single model kit and seems to be the most amount of plastic I’ve ever had for one build.  This Zoid kit may contain 3 times the sprues of previous Gunpla kits I’ve built.

Question for the community: Is it still Gunpla if it’s not connected to the Gundam IP?  If not, what is it called?

Models remaining:
Batch: 0, Normal: 28, 30mm Painters Pieces: 11 Luxury: 17, Modular: 92, Bits Box: 3, Terrain sets: 11, To Ship: ATO Wave 2, TSoH, KDM, Enormity
Models Finished in Collection: 3128 Models since start of project: 943 out of 63 completed and still not done!

Here we have two versions of The Pariah.  One is him hanging from the ceiling.  In the upcoming campaign The Inverted Mountain a lot of fights will happen this way.  I currently have 6 more upside down models to paint.  I’ve been thinking about how I want to present them in my cabinet and I came up with an idea involving magnets, shelf brackets from eBay, and a piece of sheet metal.  I got lucky, in that while I’m an office worker, I work at a company that regularly cuts in to ductwork and I was able to find a coworker kind enough to cut up a piece of scrap sheet metal to fit around the framework of my Detolf cabinet.

He has 3 standard issue 5mm hobby magnets in his base.  I had no idea how many magnets it would take to hold him and I didn’t want to risk him falling and breaking.  It turns out 3 is overkill.  1 might do the job, but if you’re doing this stick with 2, and then feed back for the next person.  I wouldn;t trust just one without further testing.  As for fitting the magnets, I expected to need to drill through the base and the insert to fit them, but they fit nicely in just the base without disturbing the insert.

That’s this project back up to date for now.  I’m currently painting the Red Witches.  Another couple of days home alone and they’ll hopefully be done.

Models remaining:
Batch: 0, Normal: 30, 30mm Painters Pieces: 11 Luxury: 17, Modular: 92, Bits Box: 3, Terrain sets: 11, To Ship: ATO Wave 2, TSoH, KDM, Enormity
Models Finished in Collection: 3126 Models since start of project: 941 out of 63 completed and still not done!

Below, in order:
The Screaming Nukealope
Ashbloom
Ashroot
Gnostin
Monday

Models remaining:
Batch: 0, Normal: 35, 30mm Painters Pieces: 11 Luxury: 17, Modular: 92, Bits Box: 3, Terrain sets: 11, To Ship: ATO Wave 2, TSoH, KDM, Enormity
Models Finished in Collection: 3121 Models since start of project: 936 out of 63 completed and still not done!

Below, in order:

Messenger of Courage (link from Zelda)
Messenger of the First Story (Ayla from Chrono Trigger)
Messenger of Humanity (Guts from Berserk.  I already have this model so kitbashed him badly into Lantern Armour with Fist & Tooth)
Messenger of the Spiral Path (Kamina from Gurren Lagann)
Female Gatherism
Male Gatherism
Wanderer Aeneas
Wanderer Candy & Cola (Cross promo with Soda Pop Miniatures)
Wanderer Hyperlight Death Drifter (Cross promo with Hyperlight Drifter)
Wanderer Goth Amy (Cross promo with Zombicide)

Models remaining:
Batch: 0, Normal: 45, 30mm Painters Pieces: 11 Luxury: 17, Modular: 92, Bits Box: 3, Terrain sets: 11, To Ship: ATO Wave 2, TSoH, KDM, Enormity
Models Finished in Collection: 3131 Models since start of project: 926 out of 63 completed and still not done!

Below, in order:

Pinup Spider Silk Assassin.  Her daggers have been swapped with Katars.  I accidentally painted her a little too similar to my other one, while using different paints.  Oops.
Pinup Sunstalker Dancer.  one of her daggers has been swapped for a whip.
Indomitable Survivor – Thumping Timpani Ledla
Pinup White Speaker Kysia
Anemone box model from Frosthaven
The two mystery box models from Aeon Trespass Odyssey

Models remaining:
Batch: 0, Normal: 45, 30mm Painters Pieces: 11 Luxury: 17, Modular: 92, Bits Box: 3, Terrain sets: 11, To Ship: ATO Wave 2, TSoH, KDM, Enormity
Models Finished in Collection: 3131 Models since start of project: 926 out of 63 completed and still not done!

Below, in order:

Pinup Remastered Apotheosis.  As this is not an armour set of use in the game yet, I’ve painted her to match my Dragon Armours and I’m treating that scepter as a club
Pinup Butcher
Pinup Female Dung Beetle Dancer, being used as Fist & Tooth
Pinup Male Dung Beetle Dancer, being used as Fist & Tooth
Pinup Dragon Sacrifice, being used as Dragon Armour Fist & Tooth
Pinup Forsaker.  That’s an Axe or a Grand weapon, and she’s wearing lots of metal, so Lantern Armour proxy?
Gold Smoke Knight.  Lantern Armour Archer proxy?
Pinup Kingsman.  Anyone using the Lantern halberd, or possibly Lantern Armour with a spear?
Pinup Lioness, with her katars swapped out for fists
Pinup Preacher.  I moved her hammer from her back to her hands, so she now works for Spider Silk Armour with a club
Pinup Primal Huntress.  i removed her katars and gave her a club.  Antelope Armour with Club.

Models remaining:
Batch: 0, Normal: 56, 30mm Painters Pieces: 11 Luxury: 17, Modular: 92, Bits Box: 3, Terrain sets: 11, To Ship: ATO Wave 2, TSoH, KDM, Enormity
Models Finished in Collection: 3120 Models since start of project: 915 out of 63 completed and still not done!

I’ve been slowly playing through HeroQuest with my friend and his kid, so I snapped up the first 2 expansions (Return of the Witch Lord, and Kellar’s Keep) when I found them cheap.  While the model designs are probably better, I’d have to say they are worse, for what the product is.  They have a lot more detail, which would be nice, but it makes them more difficult to clean up and the plastic does not respond well to tools.  it also means they take a lot more time and effort to paint up.  Take the skeletons for example.  The classic prints were basecoat, wash, drybrush, paint the scythe and you’re done and have cool models.  Now there’s layers of clothing and armour fragments.  Not just more colours and more layers, but they’re more awkward to paint.  They should have been designed with the mindset that this will be a lot of peoples first hobby experience and kept simple.  Instead they made the hobby side demanding and not fun.

Also, I’d like to complain about the plastic inserts.  The don’t just hold the models.  They clamp them in place.  just getting them out I was afraid I was going to break them.  There’s no way I’m putting painted models back in those boxes.  I’ll remove the paint.  It’s a horrible design.  I need some foam inserts designed to fit those boxes and models.

Anyway, that’s 35 more models done, and here’s the pics.

I knew I’d gotten a bit lazy and not sorted through my pics and uploaded them for a couple of month, but I really didn’t realise it’d been 6 months since I last updated a project!  I’ve got a lot of work to do to get everything up to date.  First up, the boring maths.  What have I bought and what has arrived?

Product                                                             Number of Models

That’s 84 extra models to paint, bringing my totals up to:

Models remaining:
Batch: 0, Normal: 91, 30mm Painters Pieces: 11 Luxury: 17, Modular: 92, Bits Box: 3, Terrain sets: 11, To Ship: ATO Wave 2, TSoH, KDM, Enormity
Models Finished in Collection: 3085 Models since start of project: 880 out of 63 completed and still not done!

I haven’t been lazy though.  While I have been distracted by starting Eve Online (only 22 years late!) I have still been busy painting and I’ve got a fair bit done.  Lets see if I can get this project back up to date before I get distracted again.  Then I can move on to the other projects, and my FB gallery, and hopefully keep up to date after that.

Two things not included in the above table is I also picked up a Real Grade Eva-01 kit and a Blade Liger Zoids model kit to work on soon too.  I’m looking forward to those.  The Blade Liger seems to have 2-3 times the plasic previous model kits come with so that’s looking interesting.