October’s Round-Up! As we hurtle as ever-increasing speed towards the end of the year, it’s time to look at what I managed to get done in the month of October. Also known as Orctober, and Apocalypse Me month.

I didn’t get huge numbers done for any of the monthly challenges, and in fact didn’t get a single model finished for Dreadtober. Who’d have thought that recovery time off work would need to be used for actual recovery rather than hobbying and relaxation?

As is now usual, the month had a strong board game miniature focus, with of the 20 of the 33 models completed being for boardgames with miniatures rather than “miniature wargames” per se.

I also finished a few more Cthulhu: Death May Die models, though in October I did not manage to get my required pair of investigators painted. I’ve really stalled out on those mdoels, and I only have four left to paint. Gotta force it in the next 6 weeks or so, I think! I did at least paint two types of minor enemy, in the set of five Deep Ones and the set of five Ghouls, so still some forward progress on the DMD front.

Zombicide makes an appearance as usual, though it’s pretty light output with only 8 models combined from the 1st Edition and more recent Marvel versions. Luke Cage made an appearance in several forms, and I did at least get a pair of models painted for Marvel United, which is a nice change.

For the month-by-month count so far, I had 331 at the end of September, and in October I managed to complete a further 33 models, so at October’s end, it turned out that I was at 364 models when aiming for a minimum of 365 models for the year.

Spoiler alert: while I haven’t really been able to crank up the production speed in November, but I have managed to paint more than one additional figure….

Another late round-up. I’ve had these photos for some time, but I just wasn’t feeling like cropping them for the post, and then as we got closer to my surgery date that meant that I had to spend extra time getting stuff ready at work for my impending absence, and simply didn’t feel like blogging at all. Now I’ve had the surgery, I’m still a bit messed up as far as sleep and movement goes, but it’s time to get this thing out into the world and out of the way.

September featured some more late completions of “Season of Scenery” models, with those mostly being from Marvel Crisis Protocol as well as a few small pieces from the Archon Terrain sets that had been hanging around here forever.

Along with that was my latest run of Toxic Zombies for Zombicide. I’d painted a bunch of Fatties in the past, but picked up a few more since then – so I got the new ones done as well as my first batch of several Toxic Runners. Boy, those are fun to work on! I also got a couple of the larger Zombicide 2nd Edition Abominations completed with Cthulhu and The Mummy.

I also finished a few more Cthulhu: Death May Die models, though I appear to have mistakenly added one extra investigator into the group shot here – similarly, I’ve got one too many Spider-Men from Marvel Zombies in here as well apparently!

A couple more Zombicide survivors, a Hasslefree Dirty Harry, a random Chaos Warhound, Crisis Protocol Logan and another pair of Colonel Schaeffer’s Last Chancers pretty much bring us to the end of September’s models. Not a terrible month overall with 37 models completed – a hell of a lot mroe than I’ve gotten done in October!

Given that I was up to 294 at the end of August this makes my September total 331. Closing in on that magical 365, but really not sure how many I’ll have done by year’s end with me still being a bit out of the painting game as I recover and the busiest time of year in place when I return to work…