(This is mainly copied and pasted from a post I made on Warseer)
I am a modeler/painter who plays a game or two once a week. I have a semi-large collection of models that.....aren't getting done very fast.
Its not that I don't work on them. I spend part of a day or so every week trying to get these done. Some of you may say this is enough. In all honesty it has been up until this point. I promised myself I would take the laid-back approach to this hobby and not worry too much about it, but one of my problems is that whatever I tend to go at, I tend to try to give my utmost. This goes for everything, (save video games, which I seem to have cured myself of this,) from writing to work to even cleaning the house.
I say this because, of late, I have been very dissatisfied with how slowly my vision of what my armies will look like on the table-top are coming to pass. I can proudly say that one army is mostly finished (Necrons, the love of my "gaming life" for this hobby) but even they are leaving me dissatisfied, for I get new visions of how they would look so much better.....in NMM, something I have been practicing of late and happily getting better at.
I have also been getting the strong urge lately to make scratch-build projects and sell them online. I realize there are many such people around, and that whatever I come up with will likely not be very successful. I believe I have an advantage, however, in that I seem to be able to find niches to fill in whatever I do. I can come up with new ideas or better old ones, and I believe this will give me an edge.
Thus the purpose of this thread is to make an attempt at a steady flow of models getting done, as well as scratch-build projects. Progress may be slow at first. I am hoping that some people can find my work interesting and help push me through with a bit of support.
Here is what I have that is *done* or close enough to being done to be happy with it, apoligies for how scattered it is, I will orginize it in later posts.
- 1 Bloodletter
- 2 Chaos Berserkers of Khorne (Bases need to be done)
- 1 Chaos Terminator Lord (Base needs finishing)
- 5 Space Wolf Blood Claws (need basing)
- 5 Space Wolf Wolf Guard with Jumppacks and Lightning claws. (need to finish basing a few of them.)
- 1 Space wolf Dread
- Njal Stormcaller (possible re-do, will ask your guy's opinion)
- A few Black Reach Ork Boys
- 2 Striking Scorpions (needs basing)
- 1 Dark Reaper (Needs basing)
Here are things that are finished (completely) but that I want to re-do:
- 4 Necron Lords
- 60 Necron Warriors
- 6 Necron destroyers
- 2 Necron Heavy Destroyers
- 1 Necron Tomb Spider
- 5 Necron Immortals
- 10 Necron Flayed Ones
- 10 (Older metal) Scarab Swarms
- 1 heavily converted Destroyer Lord
- 1 Monolith
- 1 Forge World Necron Pylon
- 1 Chaos Rhino (not happy with the patterning!)
- 1 Terminator Chaplain (Which marine army is largely undecided
Here are things that I started and need to finish:
- 1 Defiler
- 1 Soul Grinder (This is looking especially Nice IMHO)
- 1 Space Wolf Rhino/Razorback (almost done!)
- The rest of the 15 or so Blood Claws
- 30 or so Grey Hunters
- 2 Wolf Priests converted from SW bits and Legion of The Damned Models (Painting and basing only, very happy with how they are looking!)
- 15 or so Fenrisian Wolves made from the Dire Wolf Set and furred up with Green Stuff.
- 1 Killa Khan
- 1 Ork Battlewagon
- The rest of my Black Reach Ork Boys (I don't care about these so much, I have a Mek Ork Army)
- 1 Tower of Skulls (Need to buy Kits and finish building it - Currently only Tank made and partially painted)
- 2 Doomsday Monoliths (need to finish these separate scratch-build projects, each is different)
- 1 Ork Mek with Shock Attack Gun (I love this guy! Not much more work on him now!)
- About 22 Khorne Berserkers
- The rest of my 40 or so Bloodletters (used spray gun on them for basecoating and washing, saving me much, much time!)
- 1 Space Wolf Drop Pod
- 1 Space Wolf Bastion
These are models I have yet to paint (they are, however, built)
- 2 Killa Khans (Love these!)
- 20 Dire Avengers
- 20 or so Guardians (won't use 'em, save them for a rainy day or trade)
- 4 more Striking Scorpions (Having read the Eldar Book, I LOVE striking Scorpions!)
- Full Squad of Fire Dragons + Pheonix Lord (LOVE these!)
- Full Squad of Warp Spiders (Love these too! Where is my WS Pheonix Lord though?)
- Rest of the Dark Reaper Squad plus Pheonix Lord (love these too)
- All of the Ork Nobs from black Reach (don't particularly care to use these)
- 6-9 Black Reach Defcoptas (love these)
- 1 Black Reach Warboss (may not use him)
- 5 Ork lootas (love these, need to fill the squad out at some point)
- 10 old metal Daemonettes
- 10 new plastic daemonettes (wish they were the old metal ones!)
- 1 Bloodthirster (He looks much better than any pic I have seen of him...)
- 1 herald on juggernaut (need to find the rest of the parts for him and put him together)
- 1 wave serpent
- 2 Eldar Weapon Platforms (probably won't use these)
- 1 Eldar Wraithlord (I don't like the weapons the guy put on it but it was a steal so.....)
- 5 scouts with sniper rifles
- 6 flamers of tzeentch
- More that I can't remember right now, will list as I come across them
Oh, BTW, that's just 40K :D
FANTASY
Done:
- 1 Dwarf Cannon (will re-do)
- 2 Dwarf Thunderers
Need to finish
- The rest of my 40 thunderers
- Need to take apart my warriors and give them all Great Weapons or make them crossbowmen (about 20 warriors)
- 1 Organ Gun
- 1 White Dwarf
- 1 Runepriest
- This army isn't completely bought yet and is in progress.
- Scrapped an entire Vampire-Counts starter box (90 dollar one) I don't like the way it plays.
- 1 Vlad Model (love the way it looks)
Now, on to planned projects.
Projects for friends:
- 1 Avatars of War Chaos Lord with Sword and Shield
- 1 Plague Furnace
- 1 Screaming Bell (I believe that is right?)
- 1 Forgefather Vulkan Hestan
- 2 Doomwheels
- 1 GK's Land Raider Reedeemer
Resin Kits I want to make:
- Items in yellow can be done as moldable kits
- Items without a highlight are likely too tough to make into a moldable kit.
- Items in green are Superheavy/Titan projects which will hopefully yield a lot of money.
- Items in Red MUST be one-offs-no reproductions!
- Items in Red and with an asterisk MUST be one-offs and might be hard to do.*
- Items in Blue are planned projects to make into limited kits once enough experience in Kit-making is gained.
- · Warlord Titan
- · Chaos Warlord Titan (No Alignment)
- · Eldar Bastion
- · Tau Bastion
- · Dark Eldar Bastion
- · Daemon Spire
- · Necron Tomb Entrance
- · Daemonic Portal
- · Banelord or Khorne
- · Emperor Battle Titan
- · Doomblaster of Khorne
- · Khorne Lord of Battles
- · Nurgle Plague Tower
- · Silver Tower of Tzeentch
- · Slaanesh Subjugator
- · Defense Laser
- · Ork Pulsa Rokkit
- · Tau Landing Pad
- · Eldar Landing Pad
- · Dark Eldar Landing Pad
- · Eldar Indomitable Fortress
- · Dark Eldar Indomitable Fortress
- · Tau Indomitable Fortress
- · Daemon Fortress
- · Awakened Necron Tomb
- · Ork Indomitable Fortress
- · Tyranid Hive
- · Tyranid Indomitable Hive
- · Simple Eldar Scenery
- · Simple Dark Eldar Scenery
- · Simple Daemon Scenery
- · Simple Tau Scenery
- · Simple Necron Scenery
- · Simple Tyranid Scenery
- · Simple Ork Scenery
- · Ruined Monolith
- · Crashed Wave-Serpent
- · Ruined Land Raider
- · Ruined Ork Trukk
- · Ork Looted Wagon (each one must be unique)
- · Crashed Tau Piranhas
- · Crashed Tau Hammerhead
- · Dead Hive Tyrant*
- · Crashed Dark Eldar Raider
- · Dead Bloodthirster*
- · Dead Lord of Change*
- · Dead Keeper of Secrets*
- · Dead Great Unclean One*
- · Abandoned Leman Russ
- · Necron Dawn of War Lord*
- · Pillboxes