Backlog Busting

[Blissful Brushes]

Howdy hombres/hombrettes (I’m fluent in Spanishish),

 

As I’m sure we’ve all do every time we open that backlog cupboard we all wince a little at what could have been, should have been and may never be.

 

Now I am settled into my new house with a hobby room/office (my hobby room in which I have the misfortune to work), I’ve got all the bits and bobs that have been in my parents’ loft for the last decade and have had a bit of a stock check and it’s bad, not terrible but definitely not good.

 

The goal for the remainder of 2026 is to get this backlog cut down significantly so I don’t feel guilty if I buy more shiny stuff or get into the 3d printing side…

 

1k World Eater list:

• Lord on Juggernaut [Built]
• 10 Berserkers [Built]
• 10 Berserkers [Built]
• 10 Jackhals [Built]
• 1 Maulerfiend [Painting]
• 1 Land Raider [Painting]
• Khârn (Unowned)

 

Tyranids, ~1500 Points:

• 1 Winged Tyrant [Built]
• 1 Parasite of Mortrex
• 10 Genestealers
• 10 Hormagaunts
• 10 Termagants (Flesh Borer)
• 10 Termagants (Combat Patrol)
• Space Hulk Genestealers [Buillt]
• Space Hulk Brood Lord [Built]
• 1 Hive Tyrant (Metal)
• 1 Broodlord (Metal)
• 1 Zoanthrope (Metal)
• 3 Venomthrope

 

 

Genestealer Cults ~500 Points

 

• Magos [Built]
• 5 x Metamorphs [Built]
• 1 x Rockgrinder [Built][Painting]
• 30 x Acolyte Hybrids [Partially Built]

 

Imperial Guard ~500 Points

• 1 x Vostroyran Heavy Bolter [Built] [Painting]
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• 1 x Stormlord [Built]
• 1 x Baneblade [Built]
• 2 x Vostroyan Sniper [Unbuilt]
• 2 x Vostroyan Command Squad [1 Owned, 1 on Order]
• 3 x Vostroyan Squad [1 Owned, 2 on Order]
• 3 x Vostroyran Lascannon [On Order]

 

Luna Wolves - Primaris/HH

• 1 x Spartan [Built] [Painted]
• 1 x Command Squad [Built] [Painting]
• 50 x Marines [25 Built & Painting][25 unbuilt]
• 1 x Drop Pod [Built] [Painting]
• 1 x Sicaran Venator [Built] [Painting]
• 5 x Terminator [Built] [Painting]
• 2 x Contemptor [1 Complete] [1 Built & Painting]
• 2 x Predator [1 Built & Painting] [1 Unbuilt]
• 1 x Vindicator [Unbuilt, just found it]

Orks

• 3 x Deffkopta [Built]
• 1 x Killakan [Built]
• 1 x Boss on Trike [Built]
• 1 x Buggy thing [Built]

 

Misc

1 x Warhound [In bits :(]

1 x Cerastus [Built] [Painting]

1 x Pirhana [Built]

1 x Lizardman Spearhead

1 x Skaven Spearhead

1 x Stormcast Spearhead

 

 

Ok, so it turns out it is actually pretty awful. 
 

My goal for the rest of the year is to put a bit of a dent in this. I have managed to complete a Votann combat patrol so I haven’t been totally idle.

 

Priorities: 

1) World Eaters, as of 10th Ed that list is a clean 1k so completing that will at least let me play small games.

2) Lizardmen Spearhead (Heresy here I know) but it’ll open another game mode to me.

3) Luna Wolves, I’ve got about 25 marines half done, the drop pod is half done as is the Sicaran so if I can just finish what I started to paint I’ll probably have a reasonable force and as they’re primaris I can probably play them in both settings if I want.

 

The Vostroyans will arrive sometime in the next 4 months and I think I know I’m kidding myself if I want to do the warhound at the moment- I have a newborn so picking up a brush or sprue for a normal dude is a lot more viable lol.

 

 

Edited Monday at 03:06 PM by Blissful Brushes

[Blissful Brushes]

I have made a bit of progress this weekend, I’ve got a couple of layers of paint on the Land Raider. This’ll probably be the final layer of red and the two blank panels will be blue as an ode to the HH World Eaters. Hopefully some washes and weathering will make the red look a little bit less stark. I’ve converted the side Lascanonns to look a bit Chaosy so it’s not just a totally vanilla LR and I might add a few trophies when it’s done depending on how it looks. For now though I’m kind of sponging on the layers in different thicknesses to try and get across the idea that it might have looked nice and shiny when it was originally repainted red but those days are long past and it’s whoever happens to have been near the red paint when Khârn walked past who touched it up.
 

 

The long term idea is to have a legiony half of the army and a chaosy half - in the 1k that means Khârn, berserkers and LR vs Juggernaught, Jackhals, Maulerfiend. When I expand the list to 2k that’ll be a predator and terminator squad and I’m thinking of about 700 points or so of daemons for thematic purposes.

Edited Sunday at 08:43 PM by Blissful Brushes

[sockwithaticket]

That's a nice vibrant red. 

[Blissful Brushes]

On 6/23/2026 at 11:22 PM, sockwithaticket said:

That's a nice vibrant red. 

For now it is!

 

A bit of progress in mr Land Raider this week, I’ve got both sides to roughly the same state. I also realised I have no World Eaters decals except these old chaos ones from probably 05 or so and I don’t have a year to try and make a perfect circle for freehanding. I just have some streaks to do on the rivets and maybe some light grey/rust then I’m happy to call the red and blue done.  
I’ve used the texture paste from my bases on here but like a genius I’ve remembered that I paint the paste a darker brown so I’m not sure if the best option is to manually paint these or dust it with an airbrush and hope for the best.

Either way I’m hoping to finish it up next week and crack on a bit with the knight as I saw a good YT short for the skeleton and I’m feeling Knighty

Hope y’all aren’t melting as badly as I am!

[kabaakaba]

Looks great so far. Blue looks so deep in contrast with red hull.

 

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I don't like mood/dust. Could I? IMHO IMHO IMHO. Like it's need more colours/tones on it. Too bright, it's stealing attention from hull