Another way overdue round-up here. I’ve actually had these photos sitting on my drive for months ready to go, but frankly I just wasn’t feeling up to posting. You know how it gets sometimes when posting on your blog feels more like work than hobby or fun? Yeah, that. I guess I finally got all the individual updates done and then burnout hit and I didn’t force myself to write this post when I “should” have. I mean, mid-October is when work becomes much more intense running through the rest of the year until the week before/of Christmas, and I do tend to disappear in November, so it tracks.
Anyway, it turns out I managed to paint a very decent amount of stuff in September before dropping off. The focus still largely being on Nu-Epic/Battletech scaled terrain, but with a bit of extra variation and finishing off of other things.
One thing I particularly like about a lot of these terrain pieces is their versatility. A lot of this stuff primarily aimed at the tiny-mans scale still works okay right up to heroic 32mm or even the 40mm Crisis Protocol/Shatterpoint scale. A while back, Frank the Tankfanboy asked to see a cityscape photo of my tiny buildings – I still haven’t gotten one and still have more work to do to get one I’m going to be happy with (more terrain to finish) but hopefully these shots will suffice in the meantime of a weird looking outpost surrounded by mesas and patches of broken ground!
The focus in September remained very much on terrain for Dave Stone’s Season of Scenery (Extended Edition) which culminated in the return of the Prodigal Sun as Dave was absent for some time for personal reasons – returning from his blogging break pretty much just as I dropped out. As it happens, EVERYTHING I completed in September counted towards it!
So what did I manage to complete in September 2025?
In all, I completed:
Fabricator’s Lair’s: Botanicae building, 8x Generators, a “1×2 Medium A” building/segment, a 2×4 Medium Building and a 2x of 2x2x2 silos, Grimdark Industrial Promethium Reprocessing Factory and Grimdark Industrial Forge.
Wargame Forge’s Ruined Gothic Cathedral, nonPareil Institute’s Power Generator, and a family of 9x variously (re)shaped and (re)sized Propane Tanks by Syllogy.
9x Tinnut BattleTerrain Rough Terrain Tiles, 11x Thunderhead Studios Hextech Hills, a 20th Century Fox logo by Isekai Heavy Industries.
2x signs from AMG’s Marvel Crisis Protocol Cosmic Terrain Pack (I need to do a group shot once I figure out where the other elements have gone!), the Beastman Herdstone for AoS/ToW from Citadel and 6x GF9 Battlefield in a Box Sandstone Rock Outcrops.
57 total. Unless I’ve miscounted.
Oh, and there’s also a little subway entrance piece from Fabricator’s Lair that got missed. You can see it between the Botanicae, Industrial Forge and one of the Propane Tanks near the Fox Logo. So 58. Not too shabby for a single month’s work!
Not too bad a haul. Looking at it all together, one realisation does occur. There are no “miniatures” in there at all. No humans or humanoids, or even any vehicles. It’s all scenery and terrain.
Last time we did this, I’d counted a total of 338 models completed, so adding in this September haul the new total comes to 396, so that’s the “365” target well and truly broken in 2025.
I have also done some painting since I last posted, so once I’ve had a chance to take some new photos, I’ll start posting the October-November-December stuff and do a combined round-up for those models. It may or may not start before the New Year because we’re still in the Family Obligation Fortnight for a couple more days and then there’s other important things to get done once the period of seeing people is finished up – you know how that goes this time of year… I was crawling around on the roof fixing things this morning – not fun!
Azazel's Bitz Box. 
Wow and that is just one months output!!!!!????
Shed-loads completed though, well done.
Not quite a cityscape but very impressive all the same 😀
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Well, I ended up having some time off from work in September, and so I took advantage. Luckily terrain and scenery pieces are often a lot faster to “git ‘er done!” than humanoid figures, monsters and vehicles
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Fantastic output mate, and thank you for pushing the extension, made a huge difference to me, and really helped in my recovery.
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Thanks Dave! You’re very welcome and honestly, it probably helped keep me from going on one of my own most-of-a-month-long breaks keeping an eye out for your posts!
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Loads of great stuff there mate – that 20th Century Fox logo still cracks me up though 😁❤️
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Thansk Alex – yeah that was one piece of terrain I knew I needed to track down as I saw it!
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Looks really good seeing this all together! 🙂 An impressive total! I like the term “Family Obligation Fortnight”!
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Haha thanks John. That’s how the couple of weeks always works out to be when you just want to take a bit of a rest at the end of the year! 😉
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Well mate you certainly did well for a bloke with burn out, I to had a lapse from posting stuff as things just seemed to pile up for a while there.
I didn’t have much time figure painting or doing dio’s so instead I started on a few aeroplane models I didn’t realise how rusty I was 😉in my youth I slapped them together in no time, maybe it’s old age showing.
Great work on these matey and look forward to seeing more of your fine working 2026👍🏻.
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Thank you Pat! I’m on a constant cycle of long breaks from blogging it seems – then I force myself back for a week or two of rapid posts and extremely-late comment catch-ups (like this one), do some catch-up reading of the blogs in our circle, then get overwhelmed by everyuthing else and disappear again for a bit!
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Well done! I like seeing the lot together in those pics; it gives a good idea of the variety in scale. I hope you get a good rest and productive painting & gaming once we hit January!
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Thanks mate! Well, as seems predicatable these days I get a lot more video gaming done than tabletop gaming, but at least I’m still painting!
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I think it is an excellent haul, especially considering everything else going on. I commend you for focusing on terrain so much too. If I was able to do that, I’d have much nicer looking Fallout games 🙂 Hopefully as we move into 2026, you’re able to get back into your hobby groove again!
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Thanks mate! Since I have so much terrain to paint (especially these days because of Flippy and Clippy!) I find Dave’s annual terrain challenge super useful to get a pile of it done! If only you lived closer, you’d no doubt have a milk crate full of terrain to work on thanks to their endless output!
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I am going to try and get some terrain done when the challenge rolls around too. The backlog is piling up as of late. You’re too kind and I know all too well how bad shipping costs can be these days. I will get a printer one day, eventually, I promise!
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Gorgeous stuff and your sheer output is simply mind-blowing to me.
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Thanks mate. The trick(?) is that I’ve constantly got a big pile of things constantly on the go that I can dip in and out of, and then when I get around to finishing things that are batches it gives a big bump. Especially so with fairly simple models like most of the terrain here.
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Fantastic collection of painted goodies. I was particularly caught by the Beastman Herdstone as I have that sprue boxed away in the loft somewhere – so really need to dig it out and get it tabletop ready. Great posting, and delighted to have found your blog.
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Thank you! That herdstone was a real guilt bomb – constantly sitting on the painting desk staring at me for literally years (I got it on release and got a big chunk done immediately) until I finally had a (second or third) “just get it done” moment as part of Dave’s challenge, and then finally got it finished!
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