Category Archives: Monthly Painting Round-Ups

September Monthly Round-Up (Season of Scenery: Extended Edition)

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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!

July-August Monthly Round-Up (Season of Scenery)

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Well, this one has certainly been a long time coming! My model Round-Up from July and August finally showing up at almost the end of September! Usually this would be two separate ones, but I’ve been busy – and posting to the blog isn’t always the top priority, so it’s constantly ebbs and flows – or perhaps more accurately: lull and catch-up!

So yeah, in the end I got quite a decent amount of stuff completed in those two months, despite the various distractions that life throws up and at you. Nothing on what turned out to be September’s distractions, though!

Over both of those months, and even still now, I’ve got a bunch of pieces that are waiting on a day that fits a bunch of specific criteria so I can get outside and just spray away for a few hours. This day needs the following 1. Not at work, 2. Not Raining, 3. Not overly-windy, 4. Not too sunny or hot. I’ve not had any luck. I can get two of those at the same time, but all four? Buckley’s even now that we’re almost a month into Spring here.

I figure I’ll now just throw a bunch of photos up so you (and I) can see what I got painted in this couple of months. As is plain to see, the primary focus was very much on terrain for the Season of Scenery, which Dave Stone runs each year. Dave has had some health issues recently and has now been MIA since his last update post at the end of July, which is quite concerning – so we’re all hoping/wishing/praying for the best for Dave and his family.

Frank the Tankfanboy was asking about a cityscape photo the other day. These are all a bit crowded, but they’re the best I can do for the moment. If we get that nice day for spraying I was mentioning earlier I might be able to do something a bit better shortly with a gaming layout or something crazy like that!

In all, I completed 1x Custom Zombicide survivor, 13x Zombicide Zombies of various kinds, 23x pieces of Cities of Death Terrain, 1x printed Guillotine for Zombicide, 8x Fabricator’s Lair Horton Spheres, 2x Wargame Forge Bunkers, 2x Simple MillerBro Buildings, 2x Corvus Shopfronts (shout-out Dave & Kuribo!), 2x Damaged FL buildings, 2x FL Nuclear Cooling Towers, 3x WF Octagonal buildings, 2x WF “Jetsons” buildings, 4x Shiac3D Battletech Buildings, 4x Hextech Fluid Storage Tanks, 9x FL ruins, 4x WF Generators, 6x FL Fountains, 5x FL Spires, 9x Tanks for FoW (Battlefront & printed), 3x printed Glaive tanks for Legions Imperialis and 4x Catalyst Battletech Battlemechs.

I hope I didn’t miss anything there! That list comes to 109 models completed in July & August. If we add that to the 229 painted up to the end of June, it gives me a running total of 338 completed so far for 2025, not counting the stuff I’ve finished so far in September that I’ll start posting in a couple of days. A few of these last couple of photos are pure “Season of Scenery” ones with the non-valid Zombicide models removed.

A lot of the stuff I finished over July and August were things I’d been chipping away at for awhile. I’ve usually got way too many things going on at once which both makes things seem to take forever to finish, but also results in little floods as a set of this or that can be finished off in quick succession when I have a bit of time to work on them.

With a bit of luck, September’s models will start being posted before the end of September. Crazy, I know!