Well, that was November’s painting posted up quickly. 34 Boardgame models. 21 Zombies, 9 Mutant Zombies, 2 Beholder Zombies and 2 board game pterodactyl people. I think it’s explained pretty easily in that when you’re having a rough time and maybe can’t concentrate well enough for those fine details that you enjoy – but still want to paint, some of the best stuff you can work on are terrain, zombies and board game models. Board game models for the reason that (excepting ones from GW and the like) they tend to be a bit less detailed and so a bit more forgiving. After a good solid run of several months dominated by scenery, November was the third month when my model output was dominated by board game models. And let’s face it – zombies are some of the most forgiving models you can choose to paint!

The fact that we were also playing the D&D boardgames, Last Night on Earth and some Zombicide also helped with the motivation to paint models in this vein as well.

Continuing the count, 34 models completed in November added to the 397 up to the end of October brought me 431 by the end of November. Damn those bright orange prison jumpsuits really pop in these photos!

Only a couple of posts for December as I had basically stopped painting from mid-late November through to just before Christmas – so I’ll get through those quickly once again.

Hey all! Hoping that you had as good a Christmas as possible, and that most of you are at least able to have a bit of a rest this week before heading back to work soon and into what will hopefully be a better year than the dumpster fire in a shitstorm that was 2020.

Speaking for myself, I’m finally getting a bit of a break from 2020 now at the end of December, and so it’s time to post again while I have a bit of energy. I’ll get caught up on things (comments, other people’s posts, round-ups, my own posts) as and when I can. Today I’ll share what I finished in October. I only technically touched Orctober this year, but I guess I inadvertently managed to get a little bit of Zomtober-themed stuff done as well, though not nearly as much as in September (or, ironically, November). I did finally finish my Celestial Lions Dreadnought for Dreadtober, though!

As with September, it’s dominated by scenery and board game models. Similarly to September, there were a couple of good reasons for both of those – the tail end of Dave’s Scenery challenge kept on rolling, and the fact that we were actually playing boardgames as opposed to miniatures wargames – and of course both are a little more forgiving when it comes to your concentration and focus not being at 100%. Yes, I recycled most of this paragraph from September’s post, since it also applies to October.

it was at least satisfying to complete that Dread, and those sci-fi crates, and the turret, and those ruined buildings. You know how it is when you’ve had stuff part-painted for a very long time and see it frequently (or simply when you start something and then have to see it in a base-coated condition constantly!) I started a large and (will be) impressive modular terrain project back around then that I stalled completely on while waiting for more parts, and now it’s just still in the way. Maybe I should try to finish it in January when not painting Space Marines or playing videogames…

36 models completed in October, which just scrapes by my unofficial monthly target of a minimum of 1 model for each day (spoiler alert! I missed this in December!) So assuming I can still perform basic addition correctly, 36 models added to the 361 up to the end of September gives me 397, so I did at least beat my annual target of 365+.

More soon!