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Hi Folks, 6 weeks and 7 units painted. Considering almost 2 weeks hiatus due to family business and some welcomed holidays, it is not that bad. But, wait a minute… 7 Units? Let’s check: - One Archon (kit bashed) - One Raider - Two Venoms - Ten Kabalites (Hand of the Archon) - Ten Witches - One Succubus That’s a confirmed 7 counts. Which also means that my first pledge for CtA25 is now complete! Hooka Hey! Let’s see own it looks with the latest completed units, a.k.a. Witches and Succubus. I am not that pleased with the final quality. I will say it is tabletop OK but within the lower range of my latest paintjob. I would say that I do not paint skin properly and it is quite visible here. The spikiness and complex shapes of the models (specifically the Succubus) neither helped. But I will get satisfied enough with that atm. The rest of the pledged models can be found in these Blog entries: CtA25 - Vow 1 - Week 2 progress report - Pointy and Spiky - The Bolter and Chainsword CtA25 - Vow 1 - 3rd week progress report - Pointy and Spiky - The Bolter and Chainsword Now, what about a second pledge? I have plenty of options such as: - 30 kitbashed GSC into a house made IG regiment - Some 10 Spore mines and a set of 5 GSC hybrids - 10 CSM and a converted CSM captain from an old Dwarf Thann with Ork Rokkits as a jet pack - Enough genuine Corsairs and left over Guardians bodies to kitbash even more Corsairs (up to 30 grand total maybe) - More AdMech weirdoes (2 Ironstriders, some Characters (4), Sulphurhounds, Pteraxii and Sicarans boxes and the KT Servitor clade set) - Crafworlders (Converted Autarch, Rangers and Shroudrunners boxes, 2 Warwalkers, War spiders, a Spiritseer and eventually 2 kitbashed Warlocks and 10 more Guardians) - Half finished Scenery from bits and scratches. - A huge amount of tiny marines and squats from ooP Epic. Too big to be numbered. When I compare the list now and before starting the challenge I can only admit that I bought again too much stuff. My Pile of shame is therefore rebuilding itself slowly but surely as I bought more than I can paint, knowing that I have also a huge backlog in Warhammer the Old World… It is therefore time to make some decisions and select wisely. We will see if thinking it over one of two nights help me making a decision between potential Challenges objectives in terms of completed points in a faction or painting yield by doing more models more easily painted but spread over different strongholds… Let’s talk about it again in a few days.

Hi folks, The announcement of a resuming of the Call to Arms’ challenge for the third consecutive year has set my mind in turmoil. Every year this event is a key incentive to reach new milestones in completing assembly and painting of these numerous minis stuck in Piles of Shames. For me 2023 has unlocked a very serious progress: I resumed an Aeldarii project stopped at least a decade before Crafworlders changed from Eldars to Aeldarii. This cleaned part of my backlog and allowed a revival of this first (second in fact) love (once the concept is applied to 40k factions). Additional entries for the Imperium faction helped progressing on my 2023 New Year/New Army (AdMech) and cleaning down remaining ooP SW vehicles. 2024 also contributed to reduction of my carry-over but in a lesser extend: the challenge allowed me to complete my AdMech Force with lesser investments. It also included some Scenery and a few Drukharii bought to complete the Ynnari orientation of the Aeldarii built in 2023. But volume was lower; My consolation is that quality increased. Or at least it is what I like pretending. Biggest lies are the ones you address to yourself. But I clearly progressed if one compare with my early (90’s era) works (now largely cancelled/repainted. 2025 is going to be very similar to 2024 I guess. Mainly because I have less time and less minis in the queue. And also because what remains is still related to Pointy ears and AdMechs. Let’s check the inventory I made. It covers most of my 30k/40k back log once excluded a kitbashed LR, some hacksawed metal models and a serious amount of ooP EPIC squats and SM. UNIT FORUM SUBFORUM HEADCOUNT POINTS PER HEAD SUBTOTAL Corsairs Xenos Aeldarii 10 1 10 Corsairs - kit bashed Xenos Aeldarii 10 1 10 Corsairs - kit bashed Xenos Aeldarii 5 1 5 Succubus Xenos Drukharii 1 5 5 Archon Xenos Drukharii 1 5 5 Kabalites Xenos Drukharii 10 1 10 Wytches Xenos Drukharii 10 1 10 Raider Xenos Drukharii 1 5 5 Venom Xenos Drukharii 1 4 4 Rangers Xenos Aeldarii 5 1 5 Ghostwalkers/proxy Rangers Xenos Aeldarii 5 1 5 Icon Xenos Aeldarii 1 1 1 Shroudrunneurs Xenos Aeldarii 3 2 6 Neophytes Xenos GSC 5 1 5 Spore Mines Xenos Tyrannides 10 1 10 Autarch Xenos Aeldarii 1 5 5 Wayseekers/Warlocks Xenos Aeldarii 2 5 10 Serberys Sulphurhounds Imperium AdMech 3 2 6 Sicarians Imperium AdMech 5 1 5 Pteraxii Imperium AdMech 5 1 5 AM HQ Imperium AM 5 1 5 AM HQ Imperium AM 5 1 5 Skatros Imperium AdMech 1 5 5 Axiarch Imperium AdMech 1 5 5 AM Squad Imperium AM 10 1 10 AM Squad Imperium AM 10 1 10 AM Squad Imperium AM 10 1 10 Carnaudon Imperium AM 1 5 5 Nemesis Claw Chaos CSM 10 1 10 Necromunda Siberlant / Proxy Manipulus Imperium AdMech 1 5 5 Ghostwarriors Xenos Aeldarii 5 1 5 .xlsx is my fav list making tool… It brings me to a split into forums that makes the Xenos faction ahead with a total of up to 106 pts available for being painted. Aeldarii and Drukharii can combine nicely in a global Ynnari series of vows, maximizing the potential point value that could be harvested if I can paint all of that. GSC and Spore mines are the (xeno-infected) cherry on the cupcake. Imperium is a tad behind with up to 76 points available. Yet AdMech is still representing a backlog of about 31 pts, which is not that far from Drukharii. And I paint now AdMech faster than before. So it remains a good second family of vows. Trick is that many minis require being built or kit bashed. All of the Astra Militarum must be kitbashed from GSC. On the first hand it is a lot of insigne cleaning and head swaps over 30 footsloggers and one vehicle on the waiting room. Corsairs and Proxy scouts also represent, on the other hand a similar amount of infantry models to be kit bashed. So, it is a lot of work to be done before the launching day. I will definitively start with the Pointy ears, but first step is to get the slottabases. I have just placed the order for the 28,5 mm bases I need for getting all these kit bashed Corsairs properly built. I couldn't have anyway used the original 25 mm bases I had with the Guardians as I lost these... Next update will therefore be focused on that point: kit bashes See you once work will be worth being reported.

So one of my Favorite Xenos figures of all time was Lelith since her intial release back in 3rd editon. I never got around to buying any of her models. With the upcoming Pain and Peity box release, I finally decided to build my Cult of Strife army for 9th edition. So I went to my local Warhammer store and Purchased the Start Collecting : Drukhari box Friday. After a few hours here is where we are at. More Photos can be found in my Main WIP THread