Results from the 2024/25 Hobby Season

 

And we've come to the end of another hobby season.  In fact were a couple weeks into the next season, but never mind that.  Today I'm talking about the 2024/25 season. Here is the To Do list I started with last season:

The Horus Heresy

• Complete two Dark Angels Legion Characters
  
• Complete Dark Angels Legion Command Squad
• Complete a Dark Angels walker unit (DreadTober!!)
  

Warhammer 40K

• Complete two Terminator Characters
  
• Complete unit of Deathwing Knights
• Complete unit of Terminators
  

Adeptus Titanicus

• Complete Legio Tempestus Warmaster Iconoclast Titan (Monster March?)
  
• Complete some more weapon options
  

Aeronautica Imperialis

• Complete Adeptus Astartes Thunderhawk Gunship (Horus Heresy)

Legions Imperialis

• Complete four infantry detachments
• Complete four support detachments
  
• Complete four vehicle detachments - partial
• 1 detachment of 4 tanks completed 

Bonus Projects:

• Complete unit of Deathwing Companions (30K)
  
• Complete Lion El'Jonson (40K) - partial
• Complete unit of Inner Circle Companions (40K)

 I cannot say that I was overly focused on my initial to do list for that 12 months. But here is what DID get completed that was not on the list:

Warhammer 40K

• Completed 10 additional terminators for a total of 15 for the season
• Completed an Invictor Tactical Warsuit for the Blades of Vengeance (DreadTober)
• Death Korps of Krieg Heavy Weapons Squad (stubbers) 

Well, that's not a lot.  But it is not nothing either! :)  I don't generally consider built items as part of the season, but this season it is worth noting that much of the lack of painting production was due in large part to other hobby activities. The following list includes those things built in addition to what was built and painted last season.

For Legions Imperialis, I assembled:

• 53 Mechanicum models (a mix of bases, vehicles, and knights)
• 18 Solar Auxilia Tanks
• 8 Space Marine tanks 

For Horus Heresy, I assembled:

• 10 man Dark Angels Cataphractii terminator squad
• 10 man Dark Angels Seekers in mkVI armor
• 5 man Dark Angels Heavy Support squad in mkVI armor w/lascannon
• 5 man Dark Angels Legion Recon squad
• 1 Sicaran Battle Tank
• 5 man Dark Angels Command Squad in mkVI armor
• Dark Angels Legion Praetor in mkVI armor with Power Ax 
• 4 Rapier weapon platforms
• 4 Tarantula weapon platforms
• Dark Angels Centurion in mkII armor
• Dark Angels Praetor in Saturnine armor 

For 40K, I assembled:

• 1 Dark Angels Primaris Impulsor
• The Lion
• 5 Dark Angels Desolation marines
• 10 Dark Angels Assault Intercessors w/Jump Packs
• 1 Dark Angels Gladiator Valiant tank 
• Corsair Voidscarred kill team
• Ravenor Kill Team and Hormagaunts 
• 10 Death Korps of Krieg Engineers and their Cyclops weapons
• 1 Death Korps of Krieg Artillery Piece
• 5 Death Korps of Krieg Death Riders. 
• Lord Marshal Dreir and a 5 model command squad

And the Just Move! statue, for good measure.

I think that's 196ish models of various sizes built all told, in addition to what was built and painted during the season. So I was not idle at all.  I also added an IKEA Milsbo display cabinet to join the Detolf cabinets and rearranged a big part of the collection to make use of it. And I primed my entire collection of First Legion infantry, very close to 200 infantry models.

With all of that out in the open, I can safely say that I'm not at all disappointed with the season. In past years, I have pushed myself to focus on painting which has produced many fun models for my collection.  But I'm not at all sad having built more than painted this year.  I love building these models. I speculate we're at the end of Legions Imperialis, so I'll be assembling less tiny stuff during the current season. There is no telling where Horus Heresy is going, I suppose.  But I have six Saturnine Terminators almost complete and 40 marines and the dread waiting in the wings. I'm not holding back any 40K models at this point, but I'm certain to build SOMETHING form that line as long as the cool stuff keeps killing the hobby trough.

I'll post a new to do list with goals for the 2025/26 hobby season.  But for now, I'm content to sit back an enjoy what I have here.

Cheers and Happy Gaming! 

 

On the Workbench [May] - Marines and stuff...

 

Hello and welcome back! While puttering away on the Death Korps of Krieg heavy weapon squad, I have been assembling various other nice-to-haves for my 40K Dark Angels collection.  Here we have a Gladiator Valiant tank.

It was just a stock build with some Dark Angels bling added on, but will paint up nice. Next I added five more assault intercessors with jump packs to bring an initial squad of five to full strength.

Then out of the blue I chose to assembled the 'Corsair Voidscarred' kill team. You just never know when those evil Xenos are going to make an appearance...

All joking aside though, these are fantastic Aeldari models. Very characterful models, I thought.  I mounted mine on 32mm Sector Mechanicus bases I had in the bin.  Larger than the 25mm bases they come with, but more interesting (and stable) for kill team games.

Not done with the building itch, I also put together an Acastus Knight Porphyrion I picked up on eBay by mistake (I can't count apparently...). And then two Acastus Knights Asterius. The heat sinks (?!) are left off the weapons for future painting.

I have these knights in resin already in my Adeptus Titanicus collection.  However after some thought I felt it might be nice to have a couple for Legions Imperialis to support the Mechanicum. And of course that meant I needed some Cerastus Knights Atrapos.

The Questoris Knights box is still awaiting assembly to fill out the household. Though I haven't decided just what household that will be. It will likely be something other than House Taranis which I chose for my Adeptus Titanicus collection (not that I've put paint on any but a couple Questoris knights there yet...). It will be nice to have a different paint scheme to work on for the experience.

So anyway, that's what I've been working on from late April into May while not painting. I very much enjoy the process of snipping, cleaning and assembling the models - probably more than painting them if I'm being honest.  I'm definitely more deliberate these days as to what I assemble, but it's still hard to keep up. :)

For me, the goal is to hobby in general, not arrive at any specific set of painted miniatures.  Assembly for me is every bit as important as the painting, Maybe because I grew up with loads of unpainted green plastic army men?? At least I matured past lighting them on fire with loads of plastic cement and detonating them with firecrackers. The flamer dudes always got the upper hand in my games as a kid...
 

Cheers and Happy Gaming!!