New Year's Honours List

End of the year. Time to do my Lead Taxes.

I don't know if 'inspired' is the right word, but General Stylus's Project Micawber post last year certainly stayed with me. 'Haunted', that's the word I'm looking for.

In brief, the idea was to make sure you painted more than you acquired over the year. Let's look at the figures.

(by which I mean the numbers, not the actual models, even though that would be more interesting)



Gross Income
Citadel Wood (4 pieces)
5 Putrid Blightkings
5 Marauder Horsemen
5 Chaos Knights
The Reaper Bones II Kickstarter box - 192 I think
Dungeon Saga plus Kickstarter Models plus Expansion Packs - 130
[A second copy of Dungeon Saga for General Kas - 93]
10 Chaos Dwarves
3 Obsidian Golems
10 Harpies/Gargoyles
1 Chaos Dwarf Sorceror on Lammasu

Scenery Painted

Citadel Wood (4 pieces)
3 Field Inserts for the Wood
Garden of Morr (minus one of the sepulchres - about 15 bits I think)
A Celtic Standing Stone
2 Reaper pillars
A Reaper ruined tower (5 piece set)
2 Crates
1 Barrel
1 Pile of Sacks
1 Ancient Barrow
1 Ruined Hut
2 Broken Statues
1 Complete set of Dungeon Saga furniture (29 pieces, including a couple of extra Heroquest bits)
12 Piles of Bones
14 Trap Tiles
1 Teleport Beacon
Subtotal - 80

Warhammer Painted

20 Wych Elves
Wych Elf Priestess thingy
20 Corsairs
Fleetmaster
12 Cold One Riders
1 Cold One
5 Marauder Horsemen
5 Chaos Knights
Repaint of Phlothos
General Palafox's High Elf Army (Total model count = 66)
1 Chimera
5 Putrid Blightkings
2 Dark Elf Shrines
3 Beastmen
1 Nagash
2 Dark Elf Chariots
Subtotal - 146

40K Painted

2 Dreadnaughts
2 Hellbrutes
1 Land Raider
41 Tac Marines
3 Chaplains
3 Rhinos
1 Librarian
1 Land Speeder
1 Dreadknight
19 Cultists
9 Genestealers
3 Ripper Swarms
4 Genestealer Egg Clutches
1 Broodlord
1 Terminator Apothecary
5 Space Marine Bikes
1 Space Marine Assault Bike
21 Terminators
15 Chaos Space Marines
3 Terminator Librarians
5 Khorne Berserkers
3 Space Marine Captains
1 Vindicator Tank
1 Predator Tank
1 Techmarine
10 Devastator Marines
1 Apothecary
5 Space Marine Veterans
2 Marine Familiars
Subtotal - 166

Dungeon Saga/SAGA/Reaper/Mierce/Other Painted

1 Black Dragon
1 Reaper Viking Lady
1 Dwarven Ranger
1 Red Dragon
1 Desert Horror
1 Dire Wolf
1 White Dragon
1 Viking Warlord
1 Viking Warlord on Horse
2 Trolls
1 Tzeentchian Daemon Prince
28 Viking Warriors
1 Undead Lord on Throne
1 Monk
2 Thieves
2 Dwarven Priests
1 Lizardman
1 Sea Priest
1 Grisk
1 Land Shark
1 Brass Bull
8 Bugbears
1 Halfling Rogue
2 Barbarians
1 Summoner
2 Necromancers
1 Undead Scarecrow
1 Ghoul
1 Mr Bones
1 Zombie Ogre
1 Greater Daemon
1 Halberdier
1 Satyr Archer
2 Elven Archer Heroes
1 Templar
1 Mummy
9 Skeletons
2 Obsidian Golems
6 Zombies
6 Skeleton Warriors
3 Skeleton Archers
3 Armoured Zombies
1 Wizard
1 Dwarven Barkeep
2 Dwarven Heroes
1 Banshee
1 Dwarven Wight King
3 Dwarven Revenants
3 Ghosts
3 Zombie Trolls
1 Predator Hero Dude
1 Zombie Troll Shaman
Subtotal - 112

Grand Total Painted- 504
Of which owned - 211
Total New Models Obtained - 365 [458 if we count the second Dungeon Saga box, so let's not]
Net Lead Gain - 154

It's a win for lead. Again. Always.

That's some heavy numbers, right there. My lead pile swelled by enough that I needed to paint one model a day just to break even! Which I easily managed, in fact, but a lot of that effort went into commissions, leaving me with a bunch of stuff to do next year.

That's fine, I can handle that. There's not so much incoming next year, at least until I check Kickstarter again, so I ought to hit my target for the end of 2016.

That target? To have a fully painted collection.

That's a New Year's Resolution right there, this I swear. Stay tuned to see how far short I fall. Happy New Year, Leadheads, Kraken out.