Ex-terminate!

 …wait, wrong franchise.

So, I watched the first Terminator movie while wrapping presents last week, and watched T2 while prepping veg on Christmas Eve, and so I dug out these minis to get my numbers up by the end of the year:

Terrible pictures, unfortunately, as I didn’t manage to get pictures dome while there was still natural light available. 

These were great fun to paint, and look great after just a base coat and a dark wash, let alone going back to add some scrubby highlights! I actually messaged a pal that I know has a Necron army asking if painting them was as much fun as this…

These were originally part of a bit lot of old Grenadier minis that I acquired many years ago (potentially the first time the Tally got absolutely wrecked) and were in pretty shaky shape - one guy had a missing arm, that I cunningly disguised as battle damage by the addition of some paperclip hydraulics, whereas another two were actually snapped off at the feet and needed some very careful drilling and pinning to get them back on their feet as it were.

Quite a few of them got skulls on their bases too, as one of the most iconic images from the franchise is the human skull being crushed by a robotic foot (and apparently the future is absolutely littered with them).

Theoretically I should have stuck these on 30mm bases, if I was going to use them with my post-apocalyptic survivors, but I went with 25mm rounds instead as they’re most likely to actually see play in Stargrave as generic robots. ‘Wait, Stargrave?’ I hear you ask - you’ll have to wait for a future post that talks about projects for next year…

Finishing these 8 brings the Tally to:

47 vs wait it’s been Christmas, I got the Barons War starter set:

Which is chock full of little knights and whatnot, so the Tally actuslly stands at:

47 vs 309 = -262

What’s next? At least 5 more finished minis before New Year’s Eve I hope to hit that Challenge!

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Century: 2011

No, it's not an Alan Moore themed post, it's my 100th painted miniature of the year:

A generic sand monster! Originally a Mage Knight mini, lots of drybrushing took me up to a hundred painted miniatures for the year, ready to stomp all over prospective heroes. He's a bit boring though, so I painted a bunch more too:

A snake (originally a dnd prepaint), because Conan spends an inordinate amount of time battling mundane foes!

A giant frog, nature's deadliest predator! (hee hee, look at his funny eyes, and imagine that I'd managed to take a better picture that made the skintone look less flat...)

A Grenadier zombie that I picked up for pennies out of a little bucket on em4's stand at Salute!

A pair of zombies, taking my painted total to 74. The chap on the left is Ken, an old Partizan giveaway, and the surfer dude on the right is from Hasslefree. I like the fact that he's wearing a shark-tooth necklace that has obviously failed to protect him from shark attacks...

And last but not least, my favourite mini of this batch, a snakeman! Originally a Clan Wars Naga Abomination, he'll make a good Conan villain (even though fighting snakemen was always more Kull's thing, but hey, they had Thulsa Doom in the old Arnie movie...)

With that little lot added to the tally, we come to:

106 vs 285 = -179

Still no Mighty Zug (why do people keep bidding the amount he costs new on old grotty ones on eBay?) so no more progress on the Blood Bowl team, so I might see if I can get a Threshold team painted up for Strange Aeons. But, then again, every time I say I'm going to focus on a particular project the following blog posts are as eclectic as ever... And also, a series of Doctor Who has just finished, which is usually when I actually get Who minis painted...