I haven't been painting a lot of miniatures so far this year...
Partly this is because I've been a bit busy, having returned to school...
But also earlier this month I injured my shoulder and neck and that's made it pretty painful to sit and paint or assemble miniatures...
This is really kind of bumming me out as I was REALLY hoping to be playing Warhammer Quest: Darkwater in February, but I still have so many miniatures to paint still!!
On the plus side...
(this meme was probably funnier when a friend posted it on their discord just a week into the year!)
It's a bit more of an actual brag that I made it through January without buying any miniatures!
Especially considering Dragon's Den Games had three copies of Fury of the Deep and one copy of Warcry Heart of Ghur on their discount shelf at 40% off! The contents of Fury of the Deep I think I calculated to be around $500CAD now... and 40% off the original retail price put it at around $120...? At one point I would not have thought twice about buying that... do I NEED a force of Idoneth Deepkin or Fyreslayers?! Fuck no! But they would be FUN to have a paint up!
Realistically, I haven't painted more than a unit or two... or maybe a Unit and a character...? from the last three of those old battle boxes I've picked up...
(no... that's not true, I DID paint ALL of the Nighthaunt half of Arena of Shades! That's kind of how I ended up with a Nighthaunt Spearhead Army - after I bought a few more units...)
I DID pick up the new Nurgle Battletome... but that's about it...
NONE of the new Nurgle units or the new Nurgle Spearhead army, though! I'll probably pick up that new spearhead - just to get the units it contains (SO MANY NURGLINGS!!) for considerably less than the regular retail price of the individual units!
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But only AFTER I have ALL the other Maggotkin of Nurgle stuff I already have done (including the Warhammer Quest Darkwater stuff!)...
(which is four Pusgoyle Blightlords, five of the older Putrid Blightkings, a Harbinger of Decay, ten Rotmire Creed, a Sloppily Bilepiper, and the Feculent Gnarlmaw... and from Warhammer Quest: Darkwater; a pair of Cankerborn, eight Pestigors, fourteen Poxwretches, and maybe all the Sylvaneth stuff I have... If I add in the Sylvaneth, I have fifteen Spite-Revenants, two Treelords, and Drycha Hamadreth to finish up - though the latter is nearly done!)
I was pretty excited about the Tzeentch stuff presented at the New Years Preview. There wasn't much in terms of new miniatures - just faction terrain and a mortal infantry hero...
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The new faction terrain looks really interesting.
What also caught my eye was the Battleforce Box being released along with the new Battletome and the new Spearhead - all look fun. There is nothing new in either of those boxes. Just a lot of older miniatures all at deeply discounted prices!
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The Battleforce: Warpflame Cavalcade contains a Greater Daemon of Tzeentch, three Screamers of Tzeentch, three flamers of Tzeentch, an Exalted Flamer of Tzeentch, a Herald of Tzeentch on Burning Chariot, and ten each of Pink, Blue and Brimstone Horrors! A great big PILE of Daemons!
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The Tzaangor Warflock Spearhead is all Tzaangors - a Tzaangor Shaman leading three Tzaangor Enlightened, Three Tzaangor Skyfires, and 10 Tzaangor.
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So I'll probably pick up the Battleforce box and Battletome when they're released (as the Battleforce Box will only be available for a limited time) and then I'll pick up the terrain and the Tzaangor Warflock Spearhead when I finish the daemons in the Battleforce box (and... maybe the Tzeentch Spearhead I already HAVE?!)
Because, apparently, I need ANOTHER chaos army...
Hopefully none of it is released until later in March...
Maybe this will be the YEAR OF CHAOS!!
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A year of Chaos sounds fun......or does it?????
ReplyDeleteHa-ha! Maybe!? Thanks Ray!
DeleteBack to school? That sounds exciting.
ReplyDeleteAnd Year of Chaos is every year isn't it? I mean, more usually small c.
Isn't that the truth... I feel like for the last decade, at the end of each year I look back and say to myself; "wow... that was fucked up"... and the new year hears me and says "hold my beer..." This last year really took the proverbial cake... and if the first few weeks of 2026 are any indication of what this year's going to be like... I think it's time to distract myself with little plastic toys as long as I can!
DeleteYes... school... that's a long and convoluted story... and there is some potential there for excitement. It's not SUPER exciting right now, because it was kind of a last minute, half-baked decision to return in second term... so there wasn't a lot of classes that were of interest and available. The ones I was most interested in had term one prerequisites... summer and fall should be better.
I hope your shoulder and neck recover soon!
ReplyDeleteI haven't settled on what minis I want to paint next. I might just end up rebasing a few more sci-fi minis from some larger bases to slightly smaller bases to match up many of my other sci-fi minis.
Thanks! I feel like I'm at the age where everything takes twice as long to recover and get better... It has been feeling a little better the last few days. I might try some painting out in the next few days!
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