The future, in painting points.

I only returned to the hobby this year, after a long absence (10 years from GW, 6 from any kind of mini wargame) and I’ve found that blogging has added a new dimension to what I do, not least of which is sharing things with people online, and picking things up from them.

I wanted to make a post that went beyond my DH army and reassured anyone who reads my ramblings and looks at my figures that I won’t be stopping blogging once this army is complete, as I am nearing completion of the 1k points I started this blog to document.

Admiral Drax uses a “painting points” system and I believe he nicked it from someone else who may have kiced it from someone else etc etc. Needless to say lots of people use it Long story longer, I decided to add up my points for the year, this is apt to be scary as I’ve been very busy with this hobby since immersing myself back into it.

How this works is from the following tally –

- Infantry miniatures on standard round bases - 1 point
- complex infantry or equipment, bikes, horses etc. - 2 points
- individual minis (e.g. characters) and easy scenery- 5 points
- Walkers and medium-sized scenery - 10 points
- Tanks* and CoD ruins - 20 points
- Superheavies - 30 points

And each point is a pound the painter can spend. Now theres no way I can do that, because quite frankly I’ve painted a LOT this year. By my reckoning I’ve got 363 painting points. Ouch.

Just to make sure I’m right on this heres a list of what I’ve modelled and painted so far this year -

30 boys, 6 nobs, 3 deffkoptas, 1 warboss and a trukk a 10 man tac squad,a 5 man assault squad, a 5 man counts as sternguard squad, a dreadnought, a chaplian, a captain, a librarian, a razorback and 5 termies. (and on this blog) 22 ist’s, 4 acolytes, 3 heavy bolter servitors, 2 sages, 4 servo skulls, 2 chimeras and 2 elites. I’ve also built a table and created 4 barricades, 2 tank traps, 3 large ruins, 4 hills, 6 woods, 3 craters, 1 statue, a bunker and an ammo dump.

Phew.

Still on the table, as in I’ve got all the bits and am ready to go, are three more acolytes, my Lord, between one and three Daemonhosts, twenty guardsmen, a command squad, two more chimeras and two leman russes. I also Intend to make 5 meganobs and a mega armoured warboss for my orks and finish painting the aobr tac squad for my ultras. That makes -153 painting points, or a potential 153 more in the next few months.

I’ve also begun work on a 6`x4` cityfight gaming table which will have a huge amount of scenery on it.

Beyond that I do have plans for some Grey Knights and a valk, and maybe come GK termies for days when I leave the Daemonhosts at home, but I don’t have those models yet so I wont count them

sheesh it sounds like a lot when I lay it all out like that. regardless while this blog might become more about allies and aliens than just the DH it's been so far, it wont stop, in case you were wondering.

now to explain to my missus I am owed 363 quid's worth of models because of these points, hrm.

Second Elite =][=

I tried something on this guy I havent done on a mini before, only on vehicles, a weathering technique for distressing painted surfaces, hopefully it looks okay and isnt too subtle - we are used to neat, black outlined scratches these days after all.

That leaves two chimeras, three acolytes and my lord to do.

I'm romping through but I'm not sure what's wrong with me at the moments, I mean I'm happysih with the paint jobs(I think the speed shows, they look a bit rushed) but I seem to be just chugging on to get them done, I have done pretty much every one of these guys in a single sitting, some of them 5 or more at a time.

I'm going to have to kick back and take my time with something soon, just to prove to myself hat I still can.

as always cnc most welcome.

Squad Tertius.

Last squad done today.

after seeing how long I had projected for finishing this lot a few posts back, I decided to step it up a notch. this third squad leaves me with three acolytes an elite and two chimeras to paint to complete the 1k points or so of =][= I have built.

here they are.

Facial tattoos and wild hair mainly because this is the plasma aquad, and I wanted thier identity to be "the nutters" I'm going to also get them into a lot of CC for no better reason than that I've decided they are nutters.

Honour guard

These three are my Lord =][='s honour guard. they will represent heavy bolter servitors rules wise, but fluffily they are one member from each platoon chosen to serve as honour guard and carry the venerated heavy bolters.

or something.

here they are.
some rougher bits than i'd like, but long term i'm going to replace them with scratch build servitors.

so it's okay.

honest.

Chimera Secundus

I've got some paint on my second chimera, and the other two have arrived.

I'm trying to vary the urban camo a little, giving the impression that each crew approaches things a little differently, and i'll amp that up for the next two. now I've built and painted two I feel a bit more comfortable with the kit and will try and be a bit more adventurous.

Here she is, colours are a tad oversaturated on these pics, I thinks it's the preponderance of sunlight.



Hopefully more pictures soon, I've a platoon on the go and some members of the retinue almost finished. I might just finish this portion of this army sooner than I thought.