Aiming for 1000 28mm figures in 12 months....Brother Maynard better bring up the holy painting grenade of antioch, because I'm going to need it. Hail, lizards and friends of old, and welcome to this blog. I'm posting this a few days early from the turn of the year, as is tradition. Any further 2026 painting prep will be posted here, although models finished before end of year will be added to the 2025 thread. As you may well know, I log my painting progress each year and this main post becomes a list of everything I've painted. I assign points values based on size and complexity as a form of inspiration to continue to paint. My goal is normally 365 miniatures or equivalents per year. My initial goal this year is up to 1000 infantry 28mm figures. To stand testament to my progress, my tracker and self imposed rules are below, to be edited as necessary. Wargamers Challenge 2026: Main scales - 28mm+ = 74 Grand Scales - 10mm = Rules: Main scales are 1/72 and 28mm Smalls encompasses anything smaller than 20mm (1/72) plus starships Standard infantry count as one for painting Cavalry count as two for painting ogre sized models count as two for painting. This includes arguably ogre sized infantry models such as primaris and stormcast. Monsters count as anywhere between 3-10, depending on size (see below) Chariots count as 5 for painting Transports count as 5 Battle Tanks count as 5 Behemoths for AoS start out at 5, more if justified. Fliers/aircraft count as 5-10 depending on size. Larger models determined on a case by case basis RECORD OF MINIATURES PAINTED: Grand Alliance Death: Grand Alliance Destruction: Grand Alliance Order: Grand Alliance Chaos: 40k/grimdark future: 5 Termagaunts 1 ripper swarm Kings of War: Dungeons and Dragons Historical: 28 Palatina late Roman infantry 16 eastern limitanei swordsmen 24 Limitanei swordsmen Grand Scale 10mm All Scales MISC: Commission pieces:
Thank you for the confidence, my friend. We need tp catch up sometime. Plans for 2026: I'm opening 2026 on the first at midnight with 10 Late Roman Palatini troops and one to five randomly chosen Tyranids from my box of bugs to work on. The plan for Friday is to work, and then when I get off work paint 10 Limitanei with Spatha and shield unit. After this the weekend is going to either be spending time with my family or Working on more limitanei OR cataphracts. I'll also filter in tyranids in between these. I also need to put time into my Feathered Serpent entry. I was going to do a roman legionary Aquilla standard, as arguably it is a totem of power in that the legions would swear their oath to the state while looking at it. I may have to settle for an Ossiarch Bonereaper terrain piece I've had sitting unopened for a long time. We'll see. Going forward: 2026 is going to be the year of romans, with the project receiving quite a bit of my attention. I'll also be working on cleaning up my office and sorting out more of what I need to sell, because I need to reduce and make some space. To this end I may or may not attend a local wargame show at the end of April in Orlando and rent a flea market table. More info will be forthcoming if that materializes. Anything that can be sold on mcdougalldesigns3d.com will be so. other than that, my hobby plans are open ended and see where inspiration strikes though i may make further plans. I'll keep you all posted.
Last night's build, in addition to some tyranids that showed up today. I got this lot for roughly $100, which I'm quite happy with. GW is expensive, but you can get some good deals online.
I have finished the remaining models on my painting desk, and have updated my previous thread with the final totals. I have moved 10 models over to the painting desk in preparation for tomorrow at midnight. Tomorrow I will swap water and then we wait.
Two termagaunts for the hive Fleet. And basing has progressed on the Romans. I also have eight further Romans roughly a third of the way done.
Got these done last night. This photo is actually out of date, because the basing is done and they are currently sitting on the display shelf.
I've just built eight more palatina legionaries, in addition to prepping more Shields for priming because I had the time. I've also made progress on three more termagaunts, And will be pushing forward with another historical unit after them.
Current status on the Eastern Limitanei. Eight done, not including limited facial hair which I will take care of in the next hour or so. I have to add chiro's to the shields, but otherwise they are done as well. The remaining eight for this subunit are also in progress.
Wow! You have been on a running start for this year!! Good pace and great painting Nice vibrant Nids and I love your Roman army progress Keep up the great work. Grrr, !mrahil