Drew's 2023 Hobby Thread

[drew]

Ive been reading some other peoples thread and I've decided Im going to start my own. I'll have to update some totals after I sort through some projects but Im hoping to get around 6k points painted up this year. I managed roughly 4500 or so last year starting early in the spring, so I think I can pull off close to 6k at least

Original Goal: 6k (I'll definitely be updating this soon enough, I want to get a lot closer to it first though)

40k

Dark Angels: 4500 points approx **
Necrons: 1500
Chaos/Csm: 600
Other: 2000 *
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Current Totals:
Dark Angels: 2957/4500 **
Necrons: 0/1500
Chaos/Csm: 0/600
Other: 0/2000 *

** I managed to pick up a lot of assembled and mostly primed Dark Angels stuff recently so between those and the Leviathan stuff I had to bump my total a little higher to account for stuff I'll be working through
* Added an "Other" category for misc stuff I'll be working on, it'll get updated to something more accurate once I have more concrete progress

[drew]

Well... I've noticed I havent been active in this thread at all since I started it... but I have been working away at knocking down the largest of my current goals points wise. I'm working on getting some bases painted up currently so once those are done I'll start posting some finished projects (thinking I should have my first round of finished stuff up on here later this weekend, and I'll have some updated points totals and stuff taken care of as well then)

[Jack Shrapnel]

yay progress!

[drew]

As promised, some results:
990 Points of Deathwing Terminators (as of current 9th edition points)

imgur.com/gallery/BtMxdNZ

imgur.com/gallery/IU7qDZi

imgur.com/gallery/QZARLln

I've got a few things I'd like to improve on in the next round of models, but I think I've got the process down now. From here it'll be a matter of improving on my technique to create a better finished appearance. Still, I'm happy with how they turned out from a playable tabletop standard

[drew]

Jump Chaplain with Combi-melta finished up from late march (I was initially building him to run as an Interrogator-Chaplain, but realized he's on the wrong base size, so he'll just serve as a generic chaplain in my inner circle.

imgur.com/gallery/OhNoGtm

[drew]

Ravenwing Talonmaster ready to lend its firepower to aid the 1st company in their hunt

imgur.com/gallery/5DMD2xE

[drew]

Relic Tartaros Terminator squad ready as well:

imgur.com/gallery/OxMpYdK

I think next time I'll put some focus on adding checker patterns on the models (both red+black and black+white), but these will serve nicely as is. I'm looking at picking up some forgeworld transfers and giving those a shot at some point in the future, so these will be one of the first units to get those, but they're done until then

[drew]

I'll have at least one more finished batch I can post tonight, and I should have a few more models done between tonight and Monday so I'll be progressively more active when it comes to updating things here from now on

[Jack Shrapnel]

Well that's some great progress!

[brujonation]

wow I missed the 3 posts before your last one. that's a pile of minis, looking great.

[drew]

Apr 26, 2023 10:27:48 GMT -5 Jack Shrapnel said:

Well that's some great progress!

Doing my best to hit my goal and fly past it, still got quite a ways to go but I think I stand a chance

[drew]

Apr 26, 2023 12:15:14 GMT -5 brujonation said:

wow I missed the 3 posts before your last one. that's a pile of minis, looking great.

Thanks!!

[drew]

Some Bladeguard Vets I've had finished since mid-March. These were sort've a trial run to test the blacks for my terminator squads

imgur.com/gallery/ARrQLyn

[drew]

Ravenwing Black Knights I've had done for a little bit now and only just remembered to get photos of. These are cool models, but I burnt out so hard painting them over the last few months...

imgur.com/gallery/qIPictL

[drew]

Ravenwing Apothecary done as well.

imgur.com/gallery/nbjV5s3