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2024 - YEAR IN REVIEW KY'VASH RECON CADRE A whole lot of Tau. So, my first Call to Arms was productive! Pictured here are all the Tau I painted in 2024, all but the pathfinders and sniper teams being painted during CtA 2024. That's 1,550 points, and 63 models, including the first tanks I've painted since returning to the hobby in 2020. I'm quite happy with them. While most of these models have shown up on the B&C either elsewhere in my blog or on the CtA, I've pulled out a few that photographed nicely when I got them all out. Shas'El Ay'Va and her Breachers. Tabletop gaming is about infantry. Much about with tanks and walkers if you must - I've done a little - but it always comes back to some poor, doomed idiots with rifles. This army was designed infantry first, with a scheme I wanted to see on Pathfinders and Fire Warriors, which was later adapted for the bigger guns. 20 fire warriors, 10 pathfinders, three characters, and three sniper teams, and I think they look pretty OK. Painting Tau faces is interesting, though I've not entirely sold on doing their eyes in white. Shas'Els Ay'Va and Yr'Anto. Not a lot of conversion in this army. It was more about the scheme, but ultimately, I am a creature of habit, and that habit is kitbashing. It's mostly been kept to these two, and the snipers, at least for now. I have plans for some weird battlesuits some time in the future, but for now it's these 5. The big guns. Battlesuits and tanks. As fun as it would have been to just rattle off endless waves of pulse-rifle infantry I did want to try out something new. Shas'O Vioraan with his nifty little drone shield, and all the magnets I could find to future-proof these idiots for when they bring back points costs. Wahey. That Hammerhead was fun, too, and put in some WORK in the first game of our 2025 Crusade, of which I'll be posting soon. The camo pattern isn't QUITE as effective on the suits, but it works OK. I do like how the yellow pops on the missile racks and other weapons. I'm quite proud of how these all came together, and have already painted a pair of new models - tokens, but extra ones - in 2025!

In the end of this year, Orniris Terensi offers in PDf and free a new art books with illustrations created by him using as models miniatures converted and painted by the artist and players. It's the number 5, but he has more things to download in this link below: http://Orniris.com/downloads Enjoy

2024 - YEAR IN REVIEW SUMMARY - ALL FINISHED MODELS Oh, hi Goose! I’ve had a pretty good year for painting, and a decent one for actually playing some 40k! The Sin Eaters hit 2,000 points and finished up their Crusade, I started – and eventually completed about 1,500 points worth of – Tau, largely thanks to the Call to Arms, painted up a large BFG fleet, and started work on a second Xenos Army with my Eldar bikes. That is, for me, a LOT of models. 151, at current count, that’s a whole first-gen Pokemon game worth of little guys, girls, and robots. Mochi, too! You are all truly blessed. Yes, some of the stands for my Chaos fleet have melted in this unreasonably hot summer. I'm fixing them. I got some play in, but not quite as much as I would have liked. We had to end the Crusade a little early due to a baby happening – not mine, but our group doesn’t deal so well with a missing player due to numbers – and after that only actually got 3 regular games of 40K in through the year, which... I didn’t love? I’ve found that while I don’t mind 10th Edition, I strongly prefer the way Crusade missions work over the card nonsense. Anyway, it’s me, so I lost most of those games, but that’s fine. I had a good showing, and fully painted armies, which is what really matters. On the subject of painting, which will be the focus of following blog posts, I think I continued my steady development through the year. The Sin Eaters are basically a solved problem, I know how I would paint whatever new models eventually get added – probably some scouts, maybe some firstborn schlubs – and can now paint checkmarks like a pro. My freehanding continues apace, though I’m going to need to do a better job of brush maintenance, as I have a few models this year that probably deserved to come out better if I hadn’t been flailing around with a half-ruined detail brush. So it goes. I’ll be putting together more in-depth posts about the Sin Eaters and Ky’Vash Recon Cadre over the next few days, but for now, enjoy some photographs of the silly animals I share a house with. Unimpressed by the Sin Eaters. Dismissive of the Ky'Vash Recon Cadre. Need to actually upload the nice pictures of my other Badab nerds, huh?