As the Emperor Wills

2024 is only a few hours away as I write this and I thought I'd put my thoughts down in writing for what I wanted to do in the new year. 2023 has seen me paint 44 new models since this time last year. From a whole new army in the form of the Adepta Sororitas (or at least most of one), a transport, several units where I attempted to improve my painting skills and, to finish off the year, a hero model in the form of Captain Messinius. So, with all of that behind me, I wanted to go bigger for 2024. As such, the following, are what I hope to accomplish: Paint up my backlog Like many others that I've seen over the internet, I have my own backlog of models in need of painting. Some, like my Tactical Squad, have been partially painted. However, the vast majority of my outstanding models have barely been started (apart from a few primed Vanguard models). At the moment, my list is: 3 x Infiltrators 7 x Tactical Squad 3 x Eliminators 3 x Suppressors 1 x Attack Bike 1 x Uriel Ventris 3 x ...

For the past month, I've been working on Captain Vitrian Messinius, the model released earlier this year as the 2023 Black Library celebration. Since working on my Librarian, I've been burning through my Ultramarines Infiltrator Squad. Using the technique I'd practiced on the Librarian again on the Infiltrators, I'd managed to complete seven of the ten-man squad back-to-back (interspersed with the painting of my Sororitas Rhino). Now, I had planned to finish the unit in the lead up to Christmas but, with the realisation that I had a lot of presents to wrap for my kids, as well as a desire to paint something different, I decided to paint the last remaining non-Ultramarine miniature I had: Messinius (although, I do have a bunch of random models in various places, but I fancied started someth9ng from scratch). So, with the model having been previously undercoated with White Scar, and the paint list supplied by Citadel Colour's app, I got work. First up, following the r...