The Final Push - Lawnor approaches 100% painted

Models remaining:
Batch: 0, Normal: 17, Luxury: 7, Modular: 0, Bits Box: 6, Terrain sets: 12, To Ship: 80+

As I said, I got some building done before finishing off the varnishing.  I promoted a few pieces from the bits box, and some stuff arrived.  A while back a friend went to SteamCon and they had a sale on.  He picked me up a box of Masons to round out my team.  The plan was for him to hand it to me next time we saw each other.  We’ve met up a couple of times since then, but it was either straight from work, or he forgot to bring them.  Somehow 4 years has passed since SteamCon and I’ve just got my models!  They have been built, primed, and I’ve done the first three layers of the white with my airbrush.

I had two copies of the old Mantic Orx Marauders Command sprue.  I have a few old 40k Orks already.  Maybe a starter force, but perhaps something to add to a Start Collecting box one day?  One of the models clearly makes for a good painboy proxy, but the other I couldn’t find a direct analogue.  I do have a bunch of spare parts from 90s Orks, and from Deadzone Orx, so I got to work and I think I’ve made a couple of suitable Ork Warbosses.  Here’s a naked and a base coated pics so you can see the different materials to see what’s from what kit.

The Chainsaw is an alt weapon from Kulkva’s Hell Crusader II.  The forked sword is a part of the kit.  The other weapons are from Mantic.  The banners are old 40k parts.

That’s 4 models out of the bits box.

I also promoted 3 Walking Dead minis out of the bits box.  I don’t have the rules or cards for them and I’m not quite sure who they are, but I’ll work that out later.  I do have the core set and I do plan on trying it solo at some point.  It’s in my queue.  As less painting needs doing I do play more solo games.

We also unlocked another Gloomhaven character last weekend and he needs painting before next session.  This leaves just two unseen minis in the box.

I sold some of my bits box models on ebay recently.  The Goblin Wolf Chariot sold for more than expected, despite being missing the sword goblin (£27), and the Dreadball Convicts sold at the last moment for the minimum value (£1.50 plus postage).  I wasn’t convinced they’d sell at all, to be honest.  That’s 13 more models I can remove from my totals, which might be getting a bit squiffy right now.  I’m not 100% sure when I counted a ball as a model when adding everything up.

I also managed to get 7 games of Kingdom Death in this weekend.  I just unlocked The Watcher, and I plan on facing him this weekend. I have an unexpected twist though: Due to a sexy Stranger In The Dark all the men in town are too lovesick to go out and fight so I can only send women on the next hunt. Thankfully, my Twilight Knight is a woman, as are two of my four uber survivors.  I’ve had a bit of a population explosion recently and I’m thinking I can deliberately get a lot of them killed during the Watcher fight as each of them will become two endeavours.  Then once the fight is over I can send my Legendary Lungs survivor down that mine 50 times and instantly oxidise and upgrade all my gear before I leave town.

Mean?  Yes.  Practical and efficient?  Definitely.  Am I a psychopath in real life?  You be the judge.

I’ve got 11 Lantern years to go and, after abusing the time loop once,  I think I finally have a party that can take down the Gold Smoke Knight, although I imagine the RNG factor will have something to say about that.