Urkh

Financials keep me from getting anything ATM, but I think my luck may be turning around soon. As is, I am working on getting one box of each datasheet painted, and once wave one is up to that goal, I'll hopefully be in a position where I can buy one box at a time and paint them up and not get a big army of unpainted models again.

Here, have a saggitaur! Up next, Einhyr hearthguard!

It's craft world etruria in the eldar forums here if you want to check them out. I haven't painted any eldar since I started Votann, so I'm probably a few pages down.

you make me regret painting my eldar orange, making it so I couldn't paint my Votann orange.

both those photos are straight death. real grudgin' happenin' 'ere.

Berserks completed! And this completes the combat patrol!

I think the only disappointing thing about this release is that our only actual new "squad" is a 3 base unit. Other than that it's a vehicle and a single base mortar unit we're unlikely to move around much. Something like the jump pack kin are sorely missed in this release, I think. Other than that, I'm all hype.

Kahl Complete! I will say this guy was very frustrating. I started painting him a long time ago with brushes that were at the end of their life, and he ended up just looking like a mess, while not being fun to paint. After getting new brushes and coming back to him, the cleanup now was still a nightmare. The paint got super thick on him and some details were hard to restore. Eventually I got to the point where I needed to just make him "good enough" and just accept that the next kahl will be better. Next up, hammer berserks, to finish the combat patrol!

Thank you everyone for the replies! It really helps me keep going! As for assembly and painting: assembly I thought was pretty easy, except for removing the mold lines around the mag disks. That was pretty frustrating. Painting wise, base coating with them fully assembled was the real nightmare. Like you said, those nooks and crannies really make it hard to get a brush into some places, especially behind the back two mag disc chassis. Future me will definitely leave those to sub-assembly next time. Other than that, the models are quite busy and figuring out what needed to be what color for maximum readability was a bit frustrating, and mentally draining. Once I got to the layering step, however, that all went away and I felt I made great progress. My last qualm is with the fact that they all broke off of their bases. I didn't want to be handling the bikes themselves, but them on the bases the way I wanted would make painting the bases difficult if I did them after the mini like I did l with the champion and the warriors. So for them I had to complete their base first, then glue them on, then do the layering. You live and you learn! The bases are also mostly Duncan Rhodes mars base tutorial on YouTube. I just changed karak stone to the rust dry brush paint and did a final light wash of reikland flesh shade.

You started that thing back when I first started the hobby at all! And now it's finished! Good job. It looks fantastic. You should be proud of yourself.

The promised pioneers! I don't think these are the best pictures I could have taken of them, but they are done!

Finished the warrior squad! Next up, pioneers!

All the minis Im working on right now are past the point of being able to vow them for this, so I guess I'm passing this year.