Category Archives: Monthly Painting Round-Ups

May 2026 Monthly Round-Up

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And for today’s post we have May’s monthly Round-Up. I’m over a month behind with these things now, but June’s models should offer me an opportunity to do some more efficient post-catch-up.

For the first time in a long time, May also allowed me to take the Round-Up photos in the light box rather than spread across the table. That’s right! A month with no terrain pieces!

Spoiler alert – June’s stuff will be the same. Not that I didn’t work on terrain over the last month – just that none got completed in time as my focus, as in May, was largely on regular models.

Numbers-wise, I completed 28 models, which is lower than the 31 that I would want to finish in May, but I do feel like there’s very little filler here. Each one is a model, and even the models with similar sculpts like the MotU Bots have a bit of work in them. The least of these models is the very simple Mudman, but it’s also part of a MotU set, so it’s fine.

I guess Tyrion is only considered half a man as well, but we’ll let that one slide for today. Anyway, adding 28 models to the 169 I’d completed up to the end of April and the year’s running total as of a month ago is 197. Not terribly shabby.

Next up will be June’s models. A chance for some real catch-up here with more models grouped into fewer posts. See you there!

March-April 2026 Monthly Round-Up

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Another dual-monthly Round-Up today. Yes, at the end of May, I’ve finally finished posting March and April’s models while not yet having photographed a single one of May’s models.

It’s been awhile now – I didn’t even realise that the greenish buildings hadn’t yet been rounded up for one of these posts.

Only two “proper” Legion models as well, not counting the 3D printed Legion-Compatable terrain pieces. I did at least finish off a nice little chunk of Marvel Zombies’ Bystander models with six done (and more to come!)

I also took a few photos of the two broad scale categories alone, to give a little bit of a different perspective on each.

I do of course always like to see the all-in-one photos, but when you’ve got a couple of months smooshed together along with some incogruent scales of models, I’m thinking it might be nice to give them a bit of space to visually “breathe”. Metaphorically speaking.

Funny – it looks like more models when they’re laid out separately like that, doesn’t it! It certainly gives each model a chance to be seen, even in the context of a tiny part of a cityscape – but even that is improved as opposed to just a mass of stuff smushed together in a tight grey mass.

With all that said and done, my total for March and April was 62 models in all, Just about keeping to the 1-per-day progress I like to try to keep to, even if there’s a lot of low-effort stuff in there. (And I forgot to include the dumpsters in these pics as well!) Since I was at 107 at the end of February, my basic maths skills tell me we’re now at 169 total for the year so far!

Well, that’s it for March and April. Now onto sharing May’s models during June… 🙄