December 2024 Monthly Round-Up (Yeah, just a little late!)

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Gotta get this one out before I go further into January and then February’s painted models. December was actually pretty decent when it came to getting models finished – one reason for this was probably the fact that I was spending much of my limited free time painting and gaming, while letting things like the blog take a back seat. It’s that Zero-Sum dichotomy again.

So I put a lot of effort into getting these Zombies finished over the course of the month. I probably got some done after the start date for Dave’s “paint what you got” challenge but since I was so far out of the blogging loop I have no idea when I finished each batch aside from the GW staffers being the last pair. I also found a small set of Chests – and got them all done before finding a pile more not long after. After the Zombies I was able to paint some more “Hero” oriented models as a reward to myself, even if they were simple boardgame PVC.

What did I get done?

34 Zombies, 4 Mars Attacks models, 4 Last Night on Earthers, 12 chests (one is MIA, but I painted it!) & 10 Munitorum crates. So that’s 64 models. Even with the caveat of all those barrels and crates, it ain’t too bad actually! Add those to the 359 I’d painted up to November, and I have a total of **drum roll**….. 423 models and pieces of terrain. Huh. Not too shabby in the end, despite my posting being quite sporadic.

I won’t bother with reflections on 2024 or targets for 2025 right now. I’ll wait on that stuff until after I’ve finished the run of catch-up posts I need to run through. Let’s be real, though – the majority of the goals are probably going to be the same ones recycled yet again for yet another year!

Fallout February – Barrels (Imitation of Life 3D Prints)

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Barrels (Imitation of Life 3D Prints)

A quick one today – some barrels I 3D printed several months ago that I got from Imitation of Life’s Patreon several years ago. While that sculptor seems to have taken a break from Patreon these days, I found what appears to be at least two of these sculpts for free over on MyMiniFactory in a sample STL set. Seeing how they came out, I can certainly recommend them!

Barrels (Imitation of Life 3D Prints)

Barrels (Imitation of Life 3D Prints)

I’d sprayed them and they were prepped for painting for some time, but it wasn’t until Thursday when I managed to do some blog reading that I saw Kuribo was doing a “Fallout February” thing that I decided to kick it into gear, starting these Thursday evening and then finishing them, spraying them and photographing them Friday morning as I had a day off work. Sure, they’re not specifically Fallout models, but they fit the setting and I’ll even go so far as to say that the colour chosen is close enough to one of the barrels in Fallout 76, easily one of the Fallout games of all time.

Barrels (Imitation of Life 3D Prints)

Not that these are particularly unique, but I mirrored them when I printed them so I could get a few more onto the plate and also have a small bit of variation, though only the set with fallen barrels manages to have any actual variation. Still – better than a complete repeat!

Barrels (Imitation of Life 3D Prints)

They’re a good fit for Post-Apoc games, and will work as barricades for Zombicide, though they’re a bit small for games like 40k and Crisis Protocol, especially with the tall bases many of these figures stand on. I’ve upscaled a set of these as well, but not yet printed them yet. These are of course, February models, and so these queue jumpers have gotten slightly in front of some January pieces that Kuribo will also be interested in.

As they were printed months ago, they also fit in with with Dave Stone’s Paint What You Got Challenge 24-25. As will the next half-dozen (at least) posts!