Retrospective IV: 2022

This should actually have been the previous retrospective, but I misread the year of Retrospective II. Woops. Anyway, here's what I painted in 2022:

Scatter terrain!

Trukk boyz!

More trukk boyz!

Some kannonz (I still need a third one of these to complete the battery)

A Big Mek (with Kustom Force Field)

A Gorkamorka runtherd (lightly converted) and a bunch of 2nd edition Grotz - including Makari!

A huge mob of 'Ard Boyz with shootas!

Da Warboss (centre) and two of his bodyguard - again, I still need some more Meganobz to complete this unit

Battle for Skull Pass Thane and Slayer

BfSP cannon and crew

Ammunition crates

Water barrels

Nearly a whole unit of Warriors

A shipping container

A unit of Thunderers! (these are BfSP again)

A unit of Quarrellers that had languished, unpainted, in my pile of opportunity since their initial release in 6th Edition

Runesmith

BfSP miners (these chaps are great)

Grombrindal, the White Dwarf! I got this one free with the 200th issue of the French White Dwarf, purchased in Paris GW many years ago on holiday.

More Thunderers - I use these to replace the command group in case I want to run a cheaper regiment, or I can add them to the unit to make it bigger.

I didn't paint these this year. The ones on the left I painted in 1995 when I was 8 and they are all that remains of my very first box of GW figures I ever got - my Mum bought them for me when I was ill. £5 for 8 plastic monopose Dwarfs, if I remember rightly. A lot of money back then! The one on the right is a Wargames Foundry mini I got somewhere, somewhen, and painted in my early teens. All I did in 2022 was rebase them to fit the warrior unit you can see above.

What Dwarf army is complete without a Gyrocopter?

Two more Thunderers, giving me a total of 15 (quite robust in hand to hand, even, if you form them up in three ranks)

Sudden change of pace with a whole bunch of batch-painted Tyranids.

And now, the general of my Age of Sigmar Daughters of Khaine army!

I'm really proud of this conversion

I didn't like the big mirror thing it's supposed to have, so that wasn't used

How would it move? Well... dinosaur! Adding the chains to attach it to the beast was... interesting

Close-up. She's very much A N G R Y

Bodyguard - the only albino in the army, replacing the two Witch Elves that normally stand here

A second unit of Blood Sisters. The unit leader is from the Underworlds range.

MkVI armour Marine. I got this one free as a "mini of the month" and painted it as an Alpha Legionnaire

How can you tell it's an Alpha Legionnaire? Well, there's no markings and they're entirely camouflaged!

Aggressors and Reivers painted as Palmyrene Spears

Hellblasters and Techmarine, Palmyrene Spears

The resulting army shot - these are all in the process of being rebadged to Raptors and then sold off, now

Kommandoz, of the Blood Axe variety

Bomm Squig. One day I'll get some Tankbustas to go with it.

Big ol' magic snake made of blood

Blood Slaughterers

A champion - I forget the proper name. She goes with the Blood Slaughterers

Two points of Jade Falcon Falcon Guards elementals. No camouflage here, just flat green and some hazard stripes on the SRM launchers.

Falcon Guards Timber Wolf (l) and Executioner (r)

Falcon Guards mechs. I forget the name of the one on the left, but the centre is a Nova and the right is a Puma

Technically she's not a Melusai, she's a Witch Elf Priestess, but she's blue so the counts-as is easier for my opponents. A conversion made from a spare snake lady and one of the Underworlds miniatures. Yes, her top is mesh.

Second unit of Blood Slaughterers.

Two more warriors to bump up the regiment painted earlier this year to 20.

A crane! This one was missing a part (you can see the hole on the engine block) but I later got the piece and fixed it

Phyrr Cats for my Escher gang

Fancy Fliss, my Gang Queen (irritatingly the power axe isn't a legal starting piece, so she has to pretend it's a chainaxe until she can find one at the Trading Post)

Phelynxes - painted to look like sphynx cats

Losse de Grey, Death Maiden. She's a real terror, as it turns out!

Roxy Danger, a Wyld Runner

Monika per Escher, House Agent (the Genestealer Cult Magos is SUCH a good miniature to use for all manner of conversions)

Bo'sun Jones, late of the Imperial Navy, now a Cold Trader's bodyguard

Bo'sun Tsunji, always a Cold Trader's crewwoman since birth. Mini from Bad Squiddo Games

Lady-Captain Gelila, Cold Trader. A converted vampire from Age of Sigmar, she's VERY tall (as befits a voidborn). And yes, that is a Shuriken catapult...

3N-8Y, an Ambot. Painted quite generically so any gang can use it

Parra the Medic, Rogue Doc, Escher citizen

And I finished the year with a commissar for my putative Paradisan LXIX Infantry army, which I'm making using the new plastic Cadians and some heads from Anvil Industries. This is a straight unconverted GW miniature though.

And that was it! 255 Painting Points' worth of miniatures (And some big-i-atures) painted in that year. Hope you enjoyed and I'll be back on Sunday, I expect!