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It took a bit of effort but I managed to complete all of my UNSC for Halo this week, 52 models all up. I went for a battle worn white scheme, simple but looks good at a distance. Picture below.


We got a game in this week, it plays quite nicely. The usual Spartan Games mechanics are in there, the exploding dice are kept under control though by preventing adding more dice. This makes the big ships really hard to take down without concentrated fire. Every ship base has 3 hit points which makes the number of tokens on the board nice and small. We played an intro game which skipped some features, we will add them in as we play a bit more.

Day 283
364/283 Painted/Days passed
Goals:
Commission models - 18
3D printed models - 15
Paint remaining Zombicide zombies - 19/19
Build and paint a full Malifaux crew - 7/4
Finish Zombicide survivors - 30/30
Finish Halo Covenant - 28/28
Finish Halo UNSC - 52/52
Finish Zombicide zombivors - 27/33
Mercs: Recon - 68/142
Dystopian Wars Prussians - 48/164
Finish painting Infinity Morats - 0/1
Paint all DZC Scourge - 43/62
Build and paint remaining KOW Elves - 0/15
Onslaught miniatures - 11/54

The Halo Covenant have been completed. That is the last 5 ships done, so that I can now move on to the UNSC ships. This coincided with me receiving a shipping notification for my DropFleet Commander, so I really need to get a move on and try out this game before it (potentially) gets shelved for a long time...


I hope to finish up this years models in the next couple weeks, which frees up my time for other projects like terrain and the garage, in between commission work. A large portion of those will be UNSC ships I hope, there are a lot of little frigates and I have a couple more Mercs civilians to do to round it all out.

Day 276
312/276 Painted/Days passed
Goals:
Commission models - 18
3D printed models - 15
Paint remaining Zombicide zombies - 19/19
Build and paint a full Malifaux crew - 7/4
Finish Zombicide survivors - 30/30
Finish Halo Covenant - 28/28
Finish Halo UNSC - 0/52
Finish Zombicide zombivors - 27/33
Mercs: Recon - 68/142
Dystopian Wars Prussians - 48/164
Finish painting Infinity Morats - 0/1
Paint all DZC Scourge - 43/62
Build and paint remaining KOW Elves - 0/15
Onslaught miniatures - 11/54

I got the first batch of the Halo Covenant ships done today, for a total of 23 models completed. This was mostly the small ships with one medium ship. I've gone for something quick so that I can get them on the table, but it is also fairly effective in its simplicity I think.


There are empty flight pegs in there waiting for some of the larger ships. I have 3 medium and 2 large to go for the Covenant. And a big pile of ships for the UNSC, as they tend to come in twice the quantity. I still have about two dozen of those to undercoat first though, but I am thinking that they will have a similarly simple scheme so that I can test out the game with painted models soon.

Day 269
307/269 Painted/Days passed
Goals:
Commission models - 18
3D printed models - 15
Paint remaining Zombicide zombies - 19/19
Build and paint a full Malifaux crew - 7/4
Finish Zombicide survivors - 30/30
Finish Halo Covenant - 23/28
Finish Halo UNSC - 0/?
Finish Zombicide zombivors - 27/33
Mercs: Recon - 68/142
Dystopian Wars Prussians - 48/164
Finish painting Infinity Morats - 0/1
Paint all DZC Scourge - 43/62
Build and paint remaining KOW Elves - 0/15
Onslaught miniatures - 11/54