February Monthly Painting Wrap Up

This was truely the month of “what can I do in order to not have to paint Forgeworld models?” The answer is, a lot of little things.

To be honest, I didn’t get a ton painted in February. Blame the shortness of the month, or that I spent most of the month fighting with my 3d printer and creating a new Blood Bowl Transportation System (which may get its own post in the future).

I started the month off with two Forgeworld Blood Bowl Goblin models I started at the end of Janurary, the Ooligan and the Loony. And my god, something about those models just saps the painting energy from me. I think it’s a combination of them being older, less defined models so a larger portion of my time is spent going “what is this bit supposed to be?” and the fact that they’re specialist positionals - I have to recreate my process for each one, so batch painting even two at the same time is becomming more of a hassle than it might be worth.

I think I have to paint them individually going forward. So I started looking for ways to paint anything else I could.

First was seven different kit bashed gun turrets for Gaslands. Some friends and I wanted to try a new game mode to break out of the Death Race mode, and the Death Match Areana needs a semi-random number of gun turrets. So I whipped some up from (mostly) extra Tau weapons and gave them a quick and dirty paint scheme. A nice little side project to net me 7 Gaslands terrain entries on my painting list. Worth 0 points/cans, and cost $0 thanks to digging in my sprue box.

(Also pictured are the arena spawn points, but I don’t count those as they’re just a basing effect.)

And an action shot, in game:

Next was another session of “clearing off the painting desk” by finishing these Skaven Endless Spells Warp Lightning Vortexes(eses). Vortexii? They’ve been assembed and primed for probably 6 months to a year sitting on my desk. So I finished them quickly as to not have to paint Forgeworld. I kind of had to make a jugement call with these - it’s one “thing” but on three bases, so I’m counting them as three models in the painting list. Endless spells cost no points, but breaking down the box into 5 parts puts them at $5.60 each.

And finally, Big D (of And The Kids Table fame). The largest effort thus far not to paint Forgeworld. The Trained Troll had been assembled and primed through the whole of the Blood Bowl First Annual MacGuffin Cup League, and now I figured “this will be a nice break from painting the little goblins, it’ll respark my motivation to paint because it’s a modern GW kit.”

Plot twist, fuckers. There’s a whole ass goblin you have to paint for this model.

I was questioning my color choices initially while blocking out base colors, but once the wash was added I’m really enjoying them. I was initially thinking of using different colors for the second troll (The Kids Table) but might stick to these ones for consistency.

Big D is worth a whopping 115k Blood Bowl gold, and retails at $35, single handedly doubling the year to date total points and costs for painting Blood Bowl minis.

I am thinking of kit bashing for The Kids Table, mostly so I don’t have to paint an extra goblin again but it does feel like a toss up of “will kit bashing give me more or less material to ‘ska-ify’ on the model?”

And there we have it. I still didn’t finish the stupid Forgeworld models this month, though I did make some progress. Maybe in March.

Ending the second month with 11 models and just under $52 worth of retail product painted. It’s not much data to go on so far, but I’m currently averaging 11 models a month.

And yes, I did make a new chart just for this.

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