My 2012 Output

Assassin

Servitors

Astropath

Scourged Forest Zuzzy Mat

Wounded City Zuzzy Mat

Graveyard trees

Mausoleum 1

Mausoleum 2

Mausoleum 3

Mausoleum 4

Graveyard Statue 1

Mausoleum 5

Graveyard Walls

Graveyard fences

Graveyard Gate

More Graveyard bits

Graveyard in situ

 

Riddick

 

Dark Judges

Lady Justice Malifaux Crew

Malifaux Objectives 1

Malifaux Objectives 2

Santiago Ortega & another creepy tree

Executioner

Robo Sheriff

Scales of Justice

Austringer

 

Veermyn

Veermyn Squad Leader and trooper.

Veermyn heavy weapon trooper and trooper.

Veermyn Commander

 

Space Dwarfs

Stormrage Veterans

Steel Warriors

More Steel Warriors

Space Dwarf Engineer

Space Dwarf Commander

Space Dwarf Artillery

10mm Evil Army

10mm Saruman

10mm Goblin spear unit.

10mm Nazgul mounted on Fell Beast

10mm Goblin spear unit 2

10mm War Trolls

10mm Mounted Nazgul

10mm Orc warriors

10mm Orc  & Goblin Heroes

10mm Goblin Wolf Riders

10mm Orc Stone Thrower

10mm Hobgoblin Wolf Riders

10mm Mounted Goblin Heroes

More 10mm Hobgoblin Wolf Riders

Blood Bowl Elf

Skeleton Robots

Cyber Reavers

Necron Scarabs

Chaos Android, Necron Warrior, Necron Warrior

Chaos Dreadnought

Terminators

Necron Lord

Fishmen

ALF

 

Thats my output for  2012.  Totals are ~104 miniatures (counting 10mm bases as one miniature) and ~55 terrain elements (which vary in size from a 28mm scale book to 6×4′ terrain mats).  It a little less than my output for 2011, but its still pretty good I think.  I reckon that I could push productivity up a bit more if I really tried, but then it might become more of a chore than a pleasurable pastime.  I suspect that future years will have about the same output, which really means that I should buy far, far fewer miniatures than I do currently.

My recurring late Summer-Autumn slump happened again this year.  Keeping this blog has made it apparent to me that the slump seems to be a recurring seasonal thing, which is interesting.  It also means that when it happens I now get a little less frustrated, as I expect it somewhat and have a rough idea of its frequency and duration.  Monitoring output was one of the goals in my blog mission statement when I started it a few years ago so this sort of information is interesting and potentially helpful I think.

My rough plans for miniature related things for 2013 will go up here soon.  Happy new year.

ALF

“Yo Willie!”

ALFs back, in pog form.  And more importantly, in 28mm miniature form.  

Fishmen from Space

Its astro-amphibians today.  These two fish-folk are Laserburn miniatures made by Citadel in the 1980s.  The first “Rogue Trader” edition of the Warhammer 40,000 rules spun out of the Laserburn rules in some respects.  A number of familiar elements like bolt guns and jump troopers made the leap to 40k and some others, like these fishmen, did not.  Mores the pity.

Necron Lord Hector Decimal

Lord Hector Decimal addresses his troops using traditional binary cant.

Hector is the leader of my skirmish sized Necron force.  I traded for the model which was originally supplied as part of one of the plastic croissant shaped Necron vehicle kits.

Terminator Necrons #2

The silver ranks of antagonistic anthropomorphic automata swell today with these Copplestone “Terminator Robots”.

Necron Middle Management

In between the more slight Reaper Cyber Reaver and the EM4 Skeleton Robot above squats one of the first official Necron designs that GW made.  The figure was given away free on the cover of White Dwarf in 1998 or so and after recent exhumation made it to the top of my painting list.

ED209. But its sort of a Necron. And a Terminator.

“Please put down your weapon. You have twenty seconds to comply.”

This rather dated and crude yet decidedly fun model is a “Chaos Dreadnought” released as part of the GW/MB Space Crusade boardgame in 1990.  I picked up a copy of that game in 1993.

T800 Terminators

Continuing with the Skynet-rons, todays bunch of bad ‘bots are the closest models that I have to the endo-skeletal bad guys from the Terminator franchise.

Necron Scarabs

These tiny robot drone guys are probably the easiest miniature painting task that I have had for a while.  They look kinda cute anyway I think, despite how straightforward they were to paint.

Plan view. Thats a 20mm base.

In 40k games scarabs are mounted in multiples on large bases to represent swarms.  As these miniatures are intended for use in skirmish games I mounted my scarabs individually.

L to R: GW Scarab, EM4 Skeleton Robot, GW Scarab, GW Necron Warrior

The design of the scarab is only vaguely insectile – more like some sort of generic robot drone thing really – so I can see these models with multiple duties.  They would be suitable as Mega City One Justice Department spy-in-the-sky cameras for example, which might be useful for a scenario some time.

Terminator Necrons #1

As noted previously, I have been experiencing a seasonal slump in my painting routine.  In an effort to jump start the process I decided to get stuck into a quickly painted, high turnover project starting with some Necron test pieces, followed by these ‘bots