Finish It Complete! All Painting competitions finished!

It is done!  All painting competitions are one hundred percent complete!

This has been a long time coming.  So many things to paint.  There were a lot of difficulties, like the tiny details on all the Legion minis, the colors on the Necromunda girls, and the sheer volume of the Orks.  But I worked hard and budgeted time, and it paid off.

Without further ado, here’s the final project: The Nicassar Dhows!

These Dhows are painted in the same color scheme as the “official” scheme shown back long ago when GW sold these, but elevated with Turbo Dork paints. They don’t photograph well, but let me assure you they are SHIMMERY.

Of course, these Dhows are magnetized to their bases to allow them to do… this!

Adding the Dhows to the Orbital I painted previously lets me field a Caravan if I wish.  Basically a much worse version of the Blackstone Fortress, but also cheaper.

With this, the Finish It competition is complete!

Here is the whole Finish It challenge.

Wait a minute… that’s not my normal work table.  That looks like…

WHOA!  That’s a lot of minis!  In fact, it’s ALL OF THE MINIS I PAINTED THIS YEAR!

Oh, yes, this is pretty far away.  Zoom and Enhance!  (or just take more pics)

Here’s Q1.  The Space Marines are: Chapter Master Perseus (painted BEFORE the competitions but during January), Captain Valerien, a unit of six Intercessors, and a Redemptor Dreadnought.  Above them, a Warboss in Mega Armour, five Meganobs, Ten Ork Boys, and a unit of Squighogs plus a Trukk that should have been in Q3 but looks better here.

Q2 starts in the middle with the Necrimunda Escher gangers and friends, then above with the Orks, a Beastboss, ten Beast snaggas, eight Lootas with two Spannas, a Deffkilla Wartrike, three Warbikers, and a Trukk.  Below, from Q2 orks, a Shokkjump Dragsta, 10 Nobs, a Big Mek with a Shokk Attack gun, 20 Gretchin with two Runtherds, and a Trukk.

This is Q3 with the first 1/2 year competition.  Above, 10 Flash Gitz, two units of 5 Stormboys, and 10 Kommandos.  In the middle, the All the Same competition Minotaur, the Color Competition Lieutenant from the Star Cyclones, and the Carthaginian Elephants.  Below that, the 1/2 year competition Legiones Astartes Sons of Horus, consisting of two sprues each of: Infantry, Support, Fast Attack, Rhinos, and Kratos tanks.

Finally, here’s Q4 and the 2nd 1/2 year competition.  The orks were seen better above.  The Finish It competition is eight Tau Wardens, two Tau Messengers, eight Tau Transports, a general purpose Orbital, an Air Caste city, an Orbital with four Gravitic Hooks which can be combined with four Nicassar Dhows to make a Nicassar Caravan, and of course the Dhows and their magnetic bases.  Below that, the 2nd 1/2 year Solar Auxilia, which consists of two sprues each of: Infantry, Support, Dracosans, Leman Russ, and Leman Russ Exterminators.

There you have it!  That’s a year of painting!  Slightly more if you count Perseus.  Am I done?

HAHAHAHAHAHA NOPE!

There’s a super secret project I’m working on! (don’t get hyped, it’s small, but it is secret!)  Additionally, I am planning out next year; this won’t be at AFK, as my pile of gray doesn’t line up with the competitions anymore.

Speaking of AFK, here are the minis due by the end of the year in the cases, ready for judging:

You’ll notice that the Orks are so numerous they don’t fit on one shelf!

Next, the Super Secret Project, and a timeline for 2026, in which we will celebrate the 15th anniversary of Fourstrandshobby.com!