Tuesday 26 December 2023

HobbyResolution2024 / Ovelist24 Challenge

gaarew's 2024 Ovelist

 

 

Well, it's been a while since I updated this, or youtube, or anything really, but life has been crazy, and I only really got back to painting about November.  I have done about 200 minis in the last 2 months, so, at least I've still got that low effort mass output thing going eh?


Figured I'd throw up a post covering my #hobbyresolution2024 or Ovelist24 plans for the coming year as it'll keep it all together and not get lost on a facebook group.


So... in a break from my standard painting/playing/hobby challenges, I've one for all painting this time, a bit of a variety of stuff over different scales, some small projects and some bigger ones.  Had to settle for 24, because I wanted a header image in the centre, and 8 projects didn't seem much.


Before I begin, I did spend a bit of time this year basically starting to catalogue my hobby, which is a bit of a Sisyphean task, I got a fair bit done, but still have probably thousands of figures to add to the master list.  After over 7300 minis accounted for (not touching most of my 15mm stuff, or the 6mm...) I figured I'd stop, take time to clear a few drawers and shelves, and slowly start filtering more over when there was space.  I've also added a load of shelves (still about 20 short) to my cabinets to hold the fruits of my labours.


So, 24 painting projects, here goes.

 

 

1. Age of Sigmar Nurgle Deamons


 

Sarah really wants to play AoS, and I picked her up a Cities army on release, and while I already have my Stonecast Eternals, I don't want to do loads of Order on Order battles, so, the plan is to paint up about 1000pts of Nurgle Deamons to play.  This is going to tie into another project, and the planned list is about 47 models.


2.  Malignant Sorcery.

 


 

We managed to get a copy cheap as the box was damaged, figured they would be useful for playing AoS, so I get to paint them.  I've also got an extra copy of the SoulSnare Shackles, so 20 models total.


3.  The Silver Bayonet

 


 

Got the Russian starter to paint up, 8 models, and hopefully the closest I'll ever get to Napoleonics.


4.  Moonstone

 


 

We played a demo at Carronade this year, Sarah really enjoyed it, and I absolutely hated the bluffing mechanic.  But I picked her up the starter, rulebook and some faeries for Christmas, so just grabbed a couple of boxes of Fauns that had cool minis for myself as a painting project.  6 models total, might expand on it with cool figs, but it's definately a painting project for me rather than a new game to get into.


5.  Godtear

 


 

The plan is to maintain fully painted status.  Grabbed most of the last 7 sets I needed to finish the range in the Steamforged Black Friday sale, and one from Amazon.  It's a fun game, that we bust out from time to time, can rattle the warbands out quick, and it's not too taxing.  44 models total.


6.  Of Gods & Mortals Norse.

 


 


Played this a couple of times in 15mm, but the plan is to get a 1200 point force done in 28mm.  I have a load of vikings ready, but I'll probably still try and do new figures for it, not like I have a shortage of Vikings to paint.  37 minis, including Odin, Dwarves and Trolls for fun.


7.  No One Knows

 


 


Leaving this open for something that is bound to pop up over the year.


8.  Xenos Rampant

 


 

Worked out a force to put my Vanguard Minis Defeat in Detail 15mm Tusculum Nova Siege Infantry to use.  Lots of footslogging light infantry plus support weapons, psykers, and a Leman Russ to boot, basing them off of a 2nd Edition 40k Imperial Guard army list.  47 minis.


9.  Warhammer 40,000 - Nurgle Deamons

 


 


To tie in with project 1, the plan of doing Deamons means they work in AoS and 40k, basically using the same list for the mos part, so it's only like another 3 minis to add.


10.  Stargrave Crew

 


 


Another purely painting project for the time being, I don't think I even own the rulebook.  Plan to paint up a couple of metal figures, and a couple of sprues worth of grunts.  It's played at the club sei regularly, so it won't hurt to have a gang ready.  12 figures total.


11.  Dragon Rampant

 


 


So, like any good hobbyist, with the advent of 3d printing, we immediatelty added thousands of stl's to the collection to complement the metal and plastic and resin hordes...  I have a pile of Duncan Shadow Luca ratmen printed out to organise into a playable Dragon Rampant army, because obviously, I need yet another DR force.  About 53 minis planned so far for options.


12.  Warhammer Underworlds.

 


 


Another Maintain Fully Painted Status challenge.  Finally caught up on this one, have painted every warband released (so far) with the exception of 2 starter box ones I missed.  Crrently, 0 models to paint.


13.  Relic Knights.

 


 


OK, maybe a weird choice.  Did play it years and years ago at the Vapnartak show in York, but it's mainly a painting project to clear a drawer out.  11 models.


14.  SAGA Age of Magic 

 


 


One of two AoM forces planned for the year, using my 15mm scaled Forest Dragon Chaos minis.  I've cleared a load out this year, but the plan is to do at least 8pts plus a Warlord.  68 models.


15.  Oathmark (or some other square based Fantasy)

 


 


Another one from the pile that I have hundreds of minis for.  I keep wanting to do a square based fantasy army again, and this might be, because of the varied army building, fit the bill.  Over the years I've picked up the metal Copplestone Wood Elves from Fantasy Warriors with a view to doing an army for that, or maybe doing a Dogs of War style army, but Oathmark Elves is a relatively small force, that still leaves plenty of models to put on round lipped bases to match 90% of my collection.  31 models.


16.  SAGA Age of Magic.

 


 

 

The second AoM force, this time mainly using my Foundry Vikings, I had a load prepped and primed, so ties in with the OGAM force and clears more hairy dudes from the backlog.  58 models.

 

17.  Mordheim.  But Bigger.

 


 

 

Got Sarah to print me out an Artizan Guild Witch Hunter at about 60mm with the idea to paint up a Mordheim Warband but in a more Inquisitor scale (God, really aging myself now).  Might still put it on a round lipped base, but, not really an issue as I don't imagine many people are playing 60mm Mordheim.  1 figure so far, will expand if it's fun and/or looks cool.

 

18.  Of Gods and Mortals Celts.

 


 

 

Well, Sarah is gonna need a force to play, so I'll just do that too seeing as I have the SPQR box of Celts still to paint, and more dark age fantasy style stuff will come in useful.   42 figures planned, but not sure I need to paint more Wardogs as I have loads already.


19.  Age of Sigmar Stonecast Eternals.

 


 


I've had the Dominion box sitting since release so I figure I'd better get that painted up.  21 figures, and a decent chunk of army that I might push to aim for 1500 points of new recruits.


20.  A Song of Ice & Fire.

 


 


Another  Maintain Fully Painted Status challenge.  Got what I had finished off this year again, got 3 boxes of stuff on order, so another 33 or so models to do, and probably a couple more boxes to order once the Giant Spear Throwers are released.


21.  Daisho

 


 


Big fan of this, played a few times at the club.  Plan to do the Sohei Monk warband box from Ronin, to give me my own force to play either of those games.  8 models.


22.  Dreadfleet.

 


 


So, at great personal expense, Sarah picked this up for me years ago, so I feel I really should get to it, it's probably one of the lower count 'board' games I have, so 34 various minis including terrain.


23.  No One Knows.

 


 


As before.


24.  Warmaster

 


 


So, I've done 6mm Beastmen and 10mm Vampire Counts in previous years.  Need to do a 2nd army in either scale, so too advantage of the Black Gate offer to pick up an Ogre army, to add to the few packs I already had.  47 various characters and stands, not counting individual models for this.




So, there we have it 24 (well, currently 22) painting challenges for the year ahead.  I'll be happy to get 12 done to be honest, no idea how life is going to be over the next 12 months, so I want to get a good chunk done ASAP while my mojo is still hanging around.  According to my spreadsheet, it's currently 631 miniatures (or stands) of the aforementioned 7300+ so, a bit shy of 10%, but who knows how hard I'll go at it.  There is some space for new projects, which might be new releases, or just other stuff pulled from the stash, kinda want a bit more small scale stuff on there, maybe more 6mm sci-fi or 15mm fantasy, so, we'll see.  Listening to the Hobby Support Group podcast also has me thinking about a winter German army for Bolt Action/Konflict 47, as Sarah has some winter Russians already.


I might also try and shoe these into the Plastic Crack Podcast challenges, but as I seem to works in fits and bursts, I might end up doing a few months at a time over the various armies and just submitting them at the appropriate time.



So yeah, that's the plan, still got a load to prep and prime, and probably more shelves to install in the cabinets to make room for them.


Fingers Crossed.


All the best,


J


Sunday 1 August 2021

Wednesday 30 June 2021

Month in Review - June 2021


OK, halfway point of the year, so, can't really skip this update right?  So, what have I managed to get done so far then, considering 6 months in I had about 2 months of not hobbying...

June Progress

 

Painting Resolutions 

1. Continue to work towards Grymkin being fully painted (HORDES) 

Not touched them, as predicted, because I've been focussed on the big army projects, but, with them wrapping up this month, I should get to these soon.

2. Complete the Tales of Instahammer challenge (Warmaster) 

Got it done in the end.  Smashed the 2000pt list I had planned out with a load of extras, so I'm sitting on over 2900 at the moment, and can field a 3k list once I paint up a couple more units of Zombies to meet the minimum requirements.

Vampire Counts, 2985 points
Warmaster Revolution
--------------------------------
 180 - 6 Skeletons
 140 - 4 Zombies
 110 - 2 Ghouls
 240 - 4 Grave Guard
 540 - 6 Ethereal Host
 440 - 4 Black Knights
 240 - 6 Dire Wolves
 130 - 2 Fell Bats
 150 - 1 Vampire Lord
 680 - 6 Vampire
     - 2 Winged Nightmare (160)
     - 1 Black Coach (40)
 135 - 3 Necromancer
--------------------------------
2985 - 34/17

 

10mm scale 3d prints from Forest Dragon


3. Paint 6+ points for Age of Crusades (SAGA) 

Managed to get caught up with this one too, ended up with 2 points of Hearthguard, one standard and one with Heavy Weapons, 3 points of Warriors, 12 standard and 12 with Crossbows, and a point of Levy with Bows.  I also painted up a couple of Lifeguard so that I can play Hermann Von Salza, and use the models I don't field as the "free" unit he summons.

 

#heerschau2021 SAGA Age of Crusades Ordensstaat (Crusader Miniatures)

Warlord/Hermann Von Salza with Lifeguard

Ordensstaat Hearthguard (Crusader Miniatures)


4. Paint a lot of Warbands (Warhammer Underworlds ) 

Doing pretty well here, I had planned to try and get one warband done a month for the first half of the year, then do two or three a month for the rest once my online challenges had finished.  Kinda smashed it this month by adding a further 5 to the ones I had already done.

 

Godsworn Hunt - Nightvault (Games Workshop)

The Wurmspat - Beastgrave (Games Workshop)

Garrek's Reavers - Shadespire (Games Workshop)

Spiteclaw's Swarm - Shadespire (Games Workshop)

Hedkrakka's Madmob - Direchasm (Games Workshop)

I currently have Myari's Purifiers and Rippa's Snarlfangs part done on the workbench, and Magore's Fiends and Thundrik's Profiteers primed, then it's just a case of picking up the ones I don't have yet.


5. Project: Shieldwall 

Haven't added anything since January, but I did paint January to June's quota back then...  Got 8 more heavily armoured types basecoated and washed ready for layering though.

Vikings (Wargames Foundry)

 

6. Monthly Fun Mini 

 Knocked out a 3d print for this one this month.  I actually organised a small group to do a randomly allocated colour and theme on a single mini each month to give me some direction for doing these.  The theme was stripes and the colour choice was orange, so, here she is.

Vae Victus Miniatures

7. Blood Bowl Team 

 Well, I can't undo it, so they are still done.


Plastic Ogre team - Blood Bowl (Games Workshop)


8. Terrain

 I have clipped out some of the terrain pieces from the Mortal Realms magazine, and the 3d printed statue is still sitting untouched.  I reckon I can get this stuff done now that things are opening up again, and I can hopefully nip over to Warbases to get some custom bases made to do a full set of SAGA suitable terrain.

 

 Gaming Resolutions

9. Play 26 (or 52) Games 

Played 3 or 4 games so far... hoping to get more in with my upcoming holday, and with things opening up a bit.

 

10. Start a Blood Eagle Campaign.

Errr... nope.  But not had a chance to get out gaming so...

 

11. Play 3 New Games.

I'd need to play games for this to happen, right?  I did pick up a Freefolk starter for A Song of Ice & Fire though.

 

12. Play 6 Boardgames. 

 Nope.

 

Hobby Resolutions. 

 

13. Weekly Social Media Post 

Managed 19/26 or so, so far.


14. Do a Month in Review post every month. 

4/6 so far.


15. Games Room furniture.

Nope.


16. Go to 4 Shows or Conventions.

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA...  Even the ones that have been announced are now getting cancelled.  Maybe I can just buy a load of stuff online while not playing games to do a lockdown version?

 

 

So yeah, that's the 6 month wrap up, getting there with a lot of stuff, a few resolutions ticked off already, some I can't complete but can still have a good go at, and a few that wel, I won't know until another 6 months have passed.

 

 

Amount Task Completed
28 Fully Paint Grymkin (HORDES)
0%
83 Tales of Instahammer (Vampire Counts) 83 100%
47 Paint 6pts Saga Age of Crusades army 47 100%
22 Paint Shadespire Warbands 10 45%
50 Project Shieldwall 25 50%
12 Random Fun Minis 6 50%
17 Blood Bowl Team 17 100%
4 Terrain
0%

Paint Osprey Wargames forces
#DIV/0!




26 Play 26 Games 4 15%
4 Blood Eagle Campaign
0%
3 Play 3 new games
0%
6 Play 6 Boardgames
0%




12 Maintain blog with monthly posts 4 33%
52 Social Media post every week 19 37%
2 New Games Room Furniture
0%
4 Go to 4 shows or conventions
0%
372
57.80%

 

Stay safe folks, and I'll be back soon with another update.

 

Cheers,

 

John



Monday 31 May 2021

Month in Review - May 2021

Well, been a while since I updated this, but I have been busy with real life stuff, yet, thankfully, I've put some time in over May to bust out a lot of minis. Not fully caught up yet, but made good headway into outstanding challenges. First up, #talesofinstahammer, managed 6 units of Ethereal Hosts, 2 Vampires, 2 Necromancers, a Vampire on Zombie Dragon and a Vampire in Black Coach. Still have 4 units of Black Knights part done, and 4 units of Zombies, 2 units of Ghouls and the Von Carstein nobility to be my General (the Vlad and Isabella figures I did this month, but on the same base).
Next up, #heerschau2021, managed to get my Levy unit done for May, and done a bit of catch up, getting 12 warriors with crossbows blocked in and washed, and getting some hearthguard and my warlord assembled and primed. Hopefully can get this caught up in June.
I did knock out my Blood Bowl team, just another exercise in contrast paints really, and it went in a totally different direction than I had envisioned. I had originally planned Black and Orange for the team colours, but ended up going with Red and Black. For the Ogres anyway, I figure nobody expects the Gnoblars to last very long, so they just get sent out onto the field wearing whatever rags they turned up with on.
Also caught up with my monthly fun minis, a bit of a mixed bag, a prototype Norse Dwarf from Foundry from years ago, the Road Warrior from Copplestone/North Star, another Frostgrave character and a Lucid Eye Cro Magnon.
Also knocked out a couple more Warhammer Underworlds warbands, keeping me on track for the year to this point. Morgwaeth's Blade Coven and the Dread Pageant, I have the Purifier's part done, and the Karahadrin Overlords assembled. Still haven't picked up any of the season 4 warbands yet though.
So, yeah, that's it for May, not a bad output to get back into it I guess. Nearly at the halfway point of the year, so I'm going to have to get my finger out to get to where I want to be overall.
Stay safe people, and hopefully I'll be back soon with an update for the middle of the year. Cheers, John

Sunday 28 February 2021

Month in Review - February 2021

 Back again with another monthly update.  So, what have I been up to then?

February 2021


Jut that little lot, another 47 minis added to the painted tally.  I managed to get a full brigade of Grave Guard done for Tales of Instahammer, because that is a monstrous unit on the table, probably second only to Black Knights in the army, as well as two units of Fell Bats, because they are monstrous bats, and just to make sure I stuck to brief, the General riding a Zombie Dragon (I'll do a foot general for June, but this was one of the few "monstrous" entries in the list.


Black Guard (Forest Dragon)

Fell Bats (Forest Dragon)

Vampire General on Zombie Dragon (Forest Dragon)


As well as the Instahammer stuff, I knocked out 1.5pts of Warriors for the Heerschau challenge (because it gives me a full unit for Lion Rampant).  I still have to do a banner, but am undecided if I'll get a printed one, or go for hand painted to match the shields.

Teutonic Warriors (Crusader Miniatures)



I did get 2 more units of Viking Hearthguard basecoated and washed, but my favourite brushes were on their way out, so I didn't get them layered up and highlighted, but, I was well ahead on Project: Shieldwall anyway.

Viking Hearthguard (Wargames Foundry)



Fat dead brushes only means one thing, battering out some Warhammer Underworlds warbands with judicious amounts of contrast paints.  In short, I finished off three warbands, making up for not doing one last month, and putting me ahead for next month.

The Eyes of the Nine were the first warband I did, and you may be surprised to see black base rims, but brown just wasn't going to work with the tiles...  Then I worked on Mollog's Mob and Hrothgorn's Mantrappers (alongside the Dread Pageant, but they aren't finished yet)

Eyes of the Nine (Warhammer Underworlds - Games Workshop)


With the Eyes, I went with a lot of blues and yellows, because Tzeentch, and had a lot of fun painting the Brimstone Horrors.  The bigger Horror was initially Pink, then Sarah pointed out it's a Blue one, so, I just slapped more paint on it...

Mollog's Mob (Warhammer Underworlds - Games Workshop)

With Mollog's Mob, I wanted him to have a kind of albino-ey look, like something that lives deep underground and has a pallid, clammy look.  Didn't spend too long on the little critters, but I did paint the Bat-Squig to match my other "normal" ones.

 


 

Hrothgorn's Mantrappers was next, basically using them to experiment with colours before I 'tackle' the Blood Bowl team.  I think I prefer the lighter green skin on the Gnoblars, and I'll probably use that for the Blood Bowl ones.


Speaking of Blood Bowl...

Primed and ready to go.


I didn't get a "fun" mini painted this month, I had started the Mom Miniatures Barbarian Giant, but didn't even get all the basecoats on, still, that's a good start for another month, and it had sat most if not all of last year on the shelf primed.

 


 I have also been back out in the workshop pottering away, so that has divided my hobby time (we won't mention the 155+ hours of Assassin's Creed Valhalla...) and knocked up two sample planters over the weekend.



I mentioned last time I had a surprise package in from Cromarty's Forge, it contained a number of 15mm scale Lizardmen prints, which are very nice.  I want to do a separate post about them, but the Kickstarter for the files and printed models is currently running, and well funded, so gratz John.

 

So yeah, 47 added to the tally (broke 100 already) and I'll leave you with a quick shot of the bench earlier before I moved the new recruits up into the cabinets.

New brushes arrived!



See you next month,


John



Amount Task Completed

28 Fully Paint Grymkin (HORDES)
0%
46 83 Tales of Instahammer (Vampire Counts) 46 55%
12 49 Paint 6pts Saga Age of Crusades army 12 24%
3 22 Paint Shadespire Warbands 3 14%
25 50 Project Shieldwall 25 50%
1 12 Random Fun Minis 1 8%

17 Blood Bowl Team
0%

4 Terrain
0%


Paint Osprey Wargames forces
#DIV/0!





3 26 Play 26 Games 3 12%

4 Blood Eagle Campaign
0%

3 Play 3 new games
0%

6 Play 6 Boardgames
0%





2 12 Maintain blog with monthly posts 2 17%
8 52 Social Media post every week 8 15%

2 New Games Room Furniture
0%

4 Go to 4 shows or conventions
0%
100 374
26.74%