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Foehammer’s 2019 New Year’s Resolution

Foehammer’s 2019 New Year’s Resolution

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About the Project

Half way through 2018, after over 10 years in my previous house, my family and I moved to a newer, bigger house, driven mostly by the increasing size of offspring. However, a side effect of moving (particularly packing and unpacking) was the realization of just how much gaming/miniatures stuff I have, particularly of the unpainted variety. Fortunately this pile of hobby stuff didn't significantly increase over the holidays. Thus my mission: New Years Resolution - make a significant dent in my pile of unpainted minis. The reason I chose to do this as a new project is there is going to be no consistent theme to these painting completions. No single game system. No single army. I'm just making it a goal to paint some more of something every day. If I get tired of painting 1 thing, I will jump to another. Some days, I plan to just randomly reach into my pile of stuff, no peaking, pull something out, and paint it. Lets see how it goes.

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Johnny 5 is Alive

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This is a model my son got for Christmas for his British Airborne K47 army. These are Automated Mobile Platforms. They are light vehicles/walkers that provide some additional firepower to British forces. While very light on armor, as can be seen by the last picture, they pack A LOT of firepower for a model of their size, having either

  • 3x 50cal machine guns
  • a Medium AT gun
  • A light howitzer

Overall the miniature was nicely detailed, came in only 5 pieces, and painted up very quickly. I think I need to add 1-2 decals to break up the green and I can call it done.

Johnny 5 is Alive
Johnny 5 is Alive
Johnny 5 is Alive

Snake-Man

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So, lets get started. In the future I hope to have more in-process shots, but the first few will be minis that I painted towards the tail end of my Christmas Holiday break. During that break I randomly reached into one of my Target plastic storage cabinets and pulled out the following miniature. Its a snake man from the original Shadows of Brimstone Kickstarter. Its not the most detailed miniature ever, maybe a good half-way between a board game miniature and a good Wargaming miniature. However, it was something very different from my usual miniatures so was fun to paint.

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I still need to complete the base, and do some form of dry brushing to bring out the details in the scales. I might actually paint some kids of spots/pattern on the back scales to make it so its not all universally one color.

Thoughts?

Ok, Lets Get This Rolling

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As it says on the tin, my goal with this project/New Years Resolution to start making a dent in my massive pile of unpainted minis. I hope to grab something every day, and try and make some progress. If I find something in my collection that I absolutely can’t bring myself to paint, then I guess its destiny is the trash bin or Ebay.

I’m looking to you, the fantastic BoW/OTT hobby community, to help keep me motivated with comments/critiques/constructive criticisms. Are you up to the challenge?

 

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