Category Archives: Monthly Painting Round-Ups

February 2024 Monthly Round-Up + “Paint What You Got” 2024 Challenge Round-Up

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Somehow we’ve already passed the end of February and are starting to hurtle through March. Almost unbelievable, right? Anyway, here’s the very focused selection of models that I managed to complete this past month!

Yep, I’m definitely so much closer to getting that one game/faction that I want to play fully painted with such a tight focus.

Terrible jokes aside, after a slow start in late January, Feb was when I really did start painting models regularly again, and my output is usually about as focused as a bag of dropped marbles, though there are at least a couple of themes running through these models – essentially militia and Zombies/Zombicide. And a couple of HeroQuest models for extra variety …along with a giant cartoon duck.

Fembruary was also a thing I painted towards this year, with a few Zombicide Survivors and yet even more zombies fitting the category. As with any painting challenge, I never manage to finish all of the models I’d have liked to, so we’ll see some Fembruary latecomers in the coming days…

In the end, I completed a total of 35 models in February. Added to the 7 other Zombies painted in January and we have 42 models for 2024 so far. They do all count towards Dave Stone’s just-concluded Paint Whatchoogot Challenge for 23-4. (See below for the rest!)

November 2023 Monthly Round-Up

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Now we have a very belated round-up for November of 2023. As you can see with the count of only 11 models, this was when I just petered out and stopped painting for the year – taking a break from painting and blogging to pretty much just play video games and do other things until mid-January when I started painting again, and mid-February and a resumption of posting.

So let’s do the numbers. I had 364 models at the end of October – we add the 11 more and I’m barely over my personal annual “soft target” of 365 with a total of 375 models painted in 2023.

Obviously I could have gotten far more done if I’d kept painting in November and then gone hard in December, but to be honest, the end of year stretch at work was a lot more taxing for multiple reasons than it’s been the past few years, so another excursion into Azeroth was what I needed instead. I’ll do one of them “hobby reflection and new years goals” posts a bit later, but in the meantime I understand that Dave Stone is still running challenges, so I need to get the stuff I’ve done in 2024 posted up before February ends…