Category Archives: Monthly Painting Round-Ups

January 2026 Monthly Round-Up

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Here’s January 2026 monthly round-up! Sure, it’s almost halfway through the month, but I’m still pretty much in catch-up mode here so it is what it is.

There’s still a lot of “scatter terrain/token replacements” here, along with some “NPC/monster” figures like most of the droids, raptors and the Cthulhu monsters and for the first time in a while, a bunch of 28mm “player character” models With Vader, Palpatine, 3PO and the chibi Spider-Man. One lance of Battletech Mechs provide the armoured aspect of January’s completed models.

Not too bad a collection of models for the timeframe – and it’s certainly been nice to have some humanoids that aren’t simply faceless zombies and characters back in the mix as well!

So what did I get done? 1 Spider-Man (he’s been straightened, too!), 2 little Raptors, 2 big Cthulhu beasties, 4 Battletech Mechs, 6 Rebel Assault Droids, 34 pieces from Aliens, 3 bits of Shatterpoint rock & 8 Shatterpoint Crates, 3 Legion models with a 3D printed Gonk friend and Harley Quinn for DCeased. That gives me 64 models completed in the month of January.

See what a bit of a break from work over Christmas can do for productivity! Most of these models also worked for Anne’s 2026 Miniature Assembly Challenge for the assembly and printed-model-cleanup being done before February and all count towards Dave Stone’s Paint What You Got Challenge 25-26 due to being completed between Dec 26th and Feb 28th.

October-December 2025 Quarterly Round-Up

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Well, it’s the end of January 2026, so I guess I may as well post the finale for 2025’s painting.

Basically, as often happens towards the end of the year – a combination of work ramping up, a bit of burnout, a bunch of “life happens” and an extended video game event being more appealing and less effort than hobbytime combine to drastically reduce what I get done in the final months of the year. Usually with a paint resurgence of sorts once work breaks up for Christmas and we get that recovery time.

So what did I get done? Seven Tiny Teal Tanks, Six Large Tiny Tanks, Fifteen bits of scatter terrain/barricades and Forty mixed Zombies. 68 various bits and pieces over three months. Not my best run, but it’s ok.

I was at 396 models at the end of September, so the extra 68 models from October-December gives me a 2026 total of 464 models.

Not too shabby. Not my best but not my worst, either. Also not anything near the number of models I’ve purchased and/or printed in the last year. That’s something to work on a bit more in 2026. I’m not going to lay out specific hobby goals for this year of 2026. They’d just be the same as the ones I’ve kept rolling over. Finish units, try to finish armies, finish complete boardgames worth of models, work on this and that sets of models, try to play more games. You know the drill from your own hobby experience.