2025 Year in Review

Art vs. Artist 2025

Happy New Year! Yes, another year comes to a close. This year in my life wasn't as crappy as the last year. My health has been relatively stable and I have been much busier as a result. 

As far as this hobby is concerned, I have managed to complete a lot of units for The Old World armies I have. This is mostly thanks to my growing comfort, confidence and competence with using Contrast Paints,  which I think have radically sped up my ability to complete units. The Old World has dominated my hobby focus this year. I attribute this mostly due to some of my favorite 40k  players moving out of the area last year.  As a result I only finished only one 40k model this year and probably wouldn't have done that if it wasn't for Dreadtober  pushing me to do so. I have decided to change that this year and try to get some more Tyranids and Ultramarines painted in 2026. Saying that,  I'm still feeling very passionate about TOW and will continue to complete models for that game as well.  

Anyway, here are the models I finished in 2025 with links in the titles. There are definitely a lot more models that I have worked on but didn't finish, which,  hopefully, will be completed in the New Year. 

Spirit Hosts. 

Skull Pass Miner's Cart #1

Hail to the Queen

Wailing Banshee. 

Thunder struck. 

Bones with spears. 

Saving the Cygor. 

Hobgrots on squares. 

Black Coach. 

Armored Skeleton Warriors

Swordmasters Unit 1. 

Dwarf Cannon battery

Swordmaster Unit 2

Loremaster.

Eagles Claw Reapeater Boilt.hrower #1

Celestial Lions Boxnaught

Black Orcs

Hobgoblin Khan on wolf.

Black Orc Warboss

Dwarf Organ Gun

And that concludes the year. I don't think I have missed anything... but if I have they were likely "Battle Ready" units which I don't count as finished. There are definitely a lot of units nearing completion which I hope to finish soon.  I feel like this upcoming year will be one of change. Lots of change...

 See you in the New Year!!!

-Joel

2024 Year End Review.

 

#ArtVsArtist2024

2024...*sigh*

What a crappy year, but at least I'm alive and (mostly) well and I managed to paint some stuff. What is presented here are the projects I completed this year. I have worked on a lot of other models and miniatures that did not get finished but those will not be discussed here. Perhaps next year? I tried to put these in order of completion. 

Leviathan Terminator Librarian

Worldeaters Terminators

Primaris Lieutenant with Stormshield

Primaris Lieutenant Titus. 

2nd edition era Whirlwind (update).

Assault Intercessors squad 2

Primaris Ancient . 

Librarian in Phobos armor and Eliminators. 

Blood Axe Kaptin (ork warboss)

Dark Eldar Venom #2

Primaris Lt in Phobos Armor

Dwarf Warriors. Repainted and ready to storm the Old World. 

Krak Shot The deadly objective marker of mirth and mayhem! 

Redemptor Dreadnought. Dreadtober 2024! 

Thane.  A stunty leader with a fresh repaint. 

Celestial Lions Chaplain. Scream loudly and attack with your beat-stick. 

The Battlemasters tower is finally done and ready to grace a tabletop some day soon. 

And I think that's all, I don't believe I missed any finished models. Note that I didn't include the models I consider to be "combat ready". An example of that would be the 20 Termagants from the Space Marine II board game. 

In 2025 I hope to be able to finish some of the projects started last year as well as do a few new things that appeared on my hobby radar. I would discuss this more, but why jinx myself? Als0, I am quite exhausted from this holiday season and I seriously need to rest, But anyway, have a happy and safe new Years, and thanks for reading this and following my blog. 

2023 Year End Review

 It is 2024! Let's review what I finished in 2024! 

#artistvsart2023

I'm going to let the pictures do the talking. Each title is a link to the finished project where you can find all you might want to know about how I painted these things and the processes that got me there. As I usually do I try to list these in order of completion. 

Deathwatch Veteran Bikers

Worldeaters Master of Executions

Kharn

Technically Kharn was done a few years ago, but his expanded base was enough of an upgrade that I felt he deserved to be on here. 

Nurgling Ripper-rider-objective marker.

Classic Screamer Killer

Ripper swarm. 

Ten Termagant

'90s Space Marine Challenge.

Inquisitor Alpha

Original old one eye.

Deathwatch Dreadnought

Voss Prime Skitarii

Voss Pri me Dominus

Ultramarines assault intercessors.

There were plenty of models started or worked on in 2023 that I did not get finished. I did not include 'battle-ready' models on this list either as I don't regard them as done by my standards. 

Most recently  the Ultramarines Librarian who spent the last day of 2023 being reglued after a CATastrophic event from the day left him separated from his axe.  I will expand upon this event more on the next update regarding this model. And yes, the cat still lives...

Axeless.

As for hobby goals in 2024 goes, I have a few. I want to do more with my Primaris Ultramarines and get them to at least 1k points of painted models. Then I plan to return to the Tyranids. My family will be moving to a new location in the Spring (if all goes well) and I hope to be able to start working on terrain for my home table as well as the big homesteading project: orks! With the old world returning I'm excited about the prospect of finishing my Orcs and Goblins army and who knows what else that could lead to... Empire and Bretonians maybe? I am excited for the new year ahead, even if only a fraction of these projects get done I am still hoping for some good fun to be had!