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It's been a hairy few weeks at work, and I haven't gotten much done with my miniatures lately. I had to cancel my Sunday games last week, so don't even have a battle report to file. The good news is most of that will be wrapping up tomorrow, and I'm starting to be able to see road out in front of me again.

With some more free time, I'm trying to get back into some kind of routine with my painting. Lately I've been in "burst mode," going a couple weeks without doing anything, and then painting up a warjack over the weekend. It's been great for getting some of my heavies finished and on the table, but it doesn't work at all for finshing units. I'm not quite ready to start setting painting goals in terms of models finished, but I am going to try to make sure I set aside at least 45 minutes to an hour each night (at least most nights) to get some work done.

I've got several full units that need be painted, and to ease back into the swing, I'm going to start by finishing up some of my partially-complete units. Back when I was first starting the game I was just buying enough models to put together 500 pt. lists, and I ended up with some 8-man units. My sword knights are one of these, and now with the UA I've got 8 painted models and 4 primed models. That won't do at all.

The Sword Knights get the brush-love.

Obviously these are a work in progress - I'm just in the "blocking in" stage - no washes or highlights added yet. Oh, and if your are wondering why I haven't painted the swords or the standard yet - it's because my giant meat-fists need something to hold onto while I paint!

Notice the lancer... A long time ago I bought a second Lancer, figuring Haley or Nemo with two lancers wasn't the worst idea... But then Thorn came out, and ended up filling that need, so I've had this lancer laying around in the top of my closet for months. Over the last few weeks I have had such good luck with my Sword Knights that I decided to reward them with their own custom 'jack to marshal - a Lancer fully decked out in unit colors! I'm actually really happy with how it is coming along, and surprised at how well the color scheme works with the model.

The Sword Knights get their own lancer.
Now he just needs a name...

Next up I'm going to take on the trenchers. I've got a full unit of 10 already painted, plus the grenade porter, but the UA is unpainted. Finn is also unpainted, and he's basically a second UA, so he needs some attention. As I was thinking about painting them up, I got kind of interested in building the trencher-themed list (it's a Cygnar right of passage after all) so ended up I buying a bunch more crap: two chain gun crews, a cannon crew and a grenadier. I suddenly have a lot of trenchers to paint...

Labels: miniatures, wargaming, Warmachine