February 2023 Monthly Round-Up + “Paint What You Got” 2023 Challenge Round-Up

Ah, February. A month where I didn’t get much painted due to a whole bunch of factors. Work being immensely stressful, several heatwaves that always seemed to be scheduled around the weekends as the AC has been D.O.A. and a little misunderstanding between Leonard and myself that left my hand pretty messed up for a few weeks… So I wasn’t posting, painting or following others real well for a little while there…

 

So in the end, I wrapped up February with 5 pieces of pretty simply-done terrain, and only 6 models painted. A pitiful 11 pieces completed, all up.

They do all count towards Dave Stone’s current Paint what You Got challenge, along with the models I completed at the end of Dec through to January.. I even took a special photograph of the December batch at the time…

So my 2023 as of the end of February is 38 models from January and a mere 11 from February. March already has more models done – and I’ll be onto posting those in a couple of days, as I’ve already started to finish models for Monster March over at Swordmaster’s blog – Path of an Outcast.

AT-43 Shipping Containers

AT-43 Shipping Containers

A quick one today (if delayed) – my final completed pieces for February – A set of four shipping containers from various AT-43 sets I picked up a number of years ago before letting them sit (for years, again) until finally getting to the weathering stage a couple of weeks ago. A couple of them may be a little over-weathered, but I guess they’ll still look fine on the tabletop, especially alongside the Reaper Bones ones I painted a couple of years ago.

AT-43 Shipping Containers

I wanted to get these up over a week ago, but the wargames table is covered in stuff from inside that had to get moved until the AC guy came to fix the AC. Well, he finally turned up yesterday (almost 2 weeks after getting in contact with them) and it’s now hopefully fixed. A loose wire on the board outside and a dessicated gecko corpse across a board on the inside(!) and $240 later, and it’s now hopefully sorted. We’ll see, I guess. It’s not like I would have known which wires to check on the exterior unit high up on the outside wall…

AT-43 Shipping Containers

The motivation for these came largely from continuing to get ready to play Crisis Protocol. If I ever get the minis and terrain done and actually set down to play, it’ll be a good looking setup!

AT-43 Shipping Containers

So now the schedule is Monthly Round-up tomorrow – which doubles as my part 2 for my Dave Stone’s Paint what You Got challenge. – And then right into March’s (small) backlog of models – starting with my first model for Swordmaster’s Monster March 7 challenge…