Fifty shapes freed [BATG 2024]

[Jasko]

We have come to the final act in the Fifty Shapes trilogy. The first one was a surprise hit. I painted a mid-sized Big Hat army, finished my Night Goblins and got into Warhammer Underworlds. Elated by the unexpected success, the producers quickly announced that a sequel was in the works. Like in any trilogy worth its salt, the sequel fell short of the expectations. They thought they had the formula cracked, but the magic wasn’t there. What before was fresh and exciting, became a shadow of the former glory. The story was predictable and derivative. Instead of being pushed forward and extended upon, the main arc cralled along and lost itself in side arms and dead ends. And everyone knew it was only there to set up the finale in the third act. Only in a few scenes it felt like those warm summer-evenings of the original had never ended. I un-finished and subsequently re-finished my Night Goblins, added new Underworlds warbands, painted some lone models and started with my Blood Bowl Team.
It’s up to the third one now.

BATG 2022 score: -101
BATG 2022 score: +47

Current score

Additions to the pile: 130
Painted models: 10
Models sold:
Total count: +120

To-Do List

1. Chaos Dwarf Blood Bowl team (27 models)

• 2 Bull Centaurs
• Minotaur
• 7 Coaching staff models
• 9 Star Players
• Greebo Gargoyle
• Markers (7 models)

2. Warhammer Underworlds (32 models)

• Hexbane’s Hunters (6 models)
• Mollog’s Mob (4 models)
• Spiteclaw’s Swarm (5 models)
• Thorns of the Briar Queen (7 models)
• The Skinnerkin (5 models)
• Brethren of the Bolt (5 models)

3. Terrain

• 32 Tablescape Tiles “Rolling Fields”

4. Dwarfs (360 Models)

• 21 Hammerers
• 21 Longbeards with Great Weapons
• 2x 21 +1 Longbeards with Hand Weapon & Shield
• 40 Ironbreakers
• 20 Irondrakes
• 10 Miners
• 2x 16 Quarrellers
• 40 Slayers
• 3 Thunderers
• 20 Thunderers (AoW)
• 2x 20 Rangers
• 40 Hammerers (AoW)
• 6 Gyrocopters
• 2 Gyrobomber
• Grudge Thrower (crew only)
• Lord
• 5 Thanes
• 2 Runesmiths
• Belegar Ironhammer
• Grimm Burloksson
• Gotrek
• 6 Daemon Slayers
• 2 Engineers
• Kharadron Bugmann
• Dwarven Airship
• 36 Dwarf Warriors
• Goblin Hewer
• Youngrim
• Handgun-Thane
• Lord on Shieldbearers
• Cannon
• Organ Gun
• 4 Doomseekers

5. High Elves (361 Models)

• 60 +3 Spearmen
• 2x 21 +2 Archers
• 15 Silver Helms
• 2x 5 Ellyrian Reavers
• 30 Lothern Sea Guard
• 24 +6 Swordmasters of Hoeth
• 27 +3 White Lions of Chrace
• 27 +3 Phoenix Guard
• 10 Dragon Princes
• 2x Lothern Sky Cutter
• Lion Chariot
• Tiranoc Chariot
• 17 Shadow Warriors
• 23 Sisters of Avelorn
• 3x Eagle Claw Bolt Throwers
• Frostheart Phoenix
• Flamespyre Phoenix
• 2x Great Eagle
• Lord and High Mage on Dragon
• Lord on Griffon
• Lord on Steed
• Alith Anar
• Alarielle
• Korhil
• Caradryan
• 3x Mage
• 5x Noble
• 2x Lothern Sea Helm
• Handmaiden of the Everqueen

6. Legion of Azgorh (233 Models)

• 38 Infernal Guard with Hand Weapon & Shield
• 30 Infernal Guard with Fireglaives
• 21 Infernal Guard with Great Weapons
• 30 Infernal Guard with Blunderbusses
• 20 Hobgoblin Cutthroats (Hobgrots)
• Chaos Dwarf Slaver unit filler
• 21 Infernal Ironsworn
• 6 Bull Centaur Renders
• 8 Bull Centaurs (LKM)
• 6 K’daai Fireborn
• Iron Daemon
• Magma Cannon
• Deathshrieker Rocket Launcher
• Dreadquake Mortar
• 2 Hellcannons
• K’daai Destroyer
• 10 Hobgoblin Wolf Raiders
• Drazhoath the Ashen
• Sorcerer-Prophet on Lammasu
• 2x Sorcerer-Prophet
• 4x Castellan
• 4x Daemonsmith Sorcerer
• Bull Centaur Taur’ruk
• Chaos Siege Giant
• Black Orc Boss
• Black Orc Mob (20 Models)

7. Ogre Kingdoms (92 Models)

• 18 Ogre Bulls
• 48 Gnoblars
• 6 Leadbelchers
• 5 Maneaters
• 4 Mournfang Cavalry
• 2x Ironblaster / Scraplauncher
• Sabretusk
• Thundertusk / Stonehorn
• 3x Bruiser
• 3x Butcher
• Hunter

8. Necromunda (26 models)

• 6 Escher Gangers
• 2 Wyld Runners
• Death Maiden
• Khimerix
• 2 Phyrr Cats
• 4 Phelynx
• 4 Escher Cutters
• Scrutinator-Primus Servalen (2 models)
• Apprentice Clan Chymist
• Ammo Jack
• Rogue Doc
• Shivver

9. Night Goblins (25 models)

• 5 Fanatics
• 20 Shootaz

10. Miscellaneous (4 models)

• Lion El’Johnson
• Sister Superior Amalia Novena
• Legiones Imperialis Rhino
• The Commissar’s Duty
• Hernkyn Yaegir

[Jasko]

Additions to the pile: 3
Total count: 3

Foiled again by my inability to pass on a good deal.

I fear there’s a good chance I’ll be getting issues 2 and 3 as well, and maybe select other issues if they keep getting sold in the wild.

[Jasko]

Painted models: 8
Total count: -5

Finished the players and some markers for my Blood Bowl team. Negative score, woo-hoo!

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[BB] Hard Knocks - Blood Bowl in the Dark Lands [2024-01-17]

Coming to the big guys. [2024-01-17 14.08.58] Can’t have a Chaos Dwarfs team without some Bull Centaurs and a Minotaur. Decided to go with a flesh colour for the Minotaur skin, for the rest I pretty much followed the recipe I did for the other models. As a nice bonus, Greebo also supplies marker for prone/stunned Bull Centaurs and Minotaurs, as these models are a little big to lay down anyway. [2024-01-17 14.11.18] [2024-01-17 14.11.39] It’s also time for the team photo. I still want to…

[Jasko]

Painted models: 2
Total count: -7

Cheaky -2 but I’ll take it.

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[BB] Hard Knocks - Blood Bowl in the Dark Lands [2024-01-19]

The team icon and the re-roll marker [2024-01-19 18.05.51] Can’t say I was particularly motivated to paint these two so went very quick and dirty.

[Jasko]

Additions to the pile: 22*
Total count: + 15

Dear God, I really am the worst hobbyist.
Instead of making a dent in my PiLe Of OpPoRtUnITy (no reason to be cute, it’s a pile of shame, my shame, I’m ashamed) I didn’t paint shit since January and now - again - fell wallet first into some models.

Warhammer Underworlds keeps being my undoing and I got the nice Black Orc Boss for my Chaos Dwarfs. I also un-finished my Night Goblins. Again. The meta pushed me to get another 5 Fanatics (that was planned since before TOW, though, as they are also the last of the newer Gloomspite models I didn’t have. At least from the ones which are backwards compatible with RHFB)

*I’m not counting Zarbag’s Gitz as I already have them, have no desire to paint them again and will sell them off. I might also get rid of Spiteclaw’s Swarm and Thorns of the Briar Queen but maybe not so I’ll count them.

[Jasko]

Additions to the pile: 26
Total count: + 41

About time I put some work into the BATG again!

sigh

[Reaver]

Pull up a hobby hang sometime! I need to get back to the grind too.

[Jasko]

Let’s do it! Next week is looking good here.

[Jasko]

Additions to the pile: 37
Total count: + 78

[Jasko]

Additions to the pile: 2
Total count: + 80

Sometimes I like to think back to when @chitzkoi asked whether I’m worried about my BATG because of TOW and I said “Not really”. LOL

[Reaver]

Says right on the packaging. You’re meant to buy 15+ of each blister

[Jasko]

Lol, 15 Youngrims as your slayers and 15 of the Thanes as Quarrelers. That’s a college fund right there.

[Jasko]

Additions to the pile: 20
Total count: + 100

Really can’t expect to offer me 20 Night Goblins for 11€ and me not buying them immediately.

[Reaver]

[Jasko]

These make it all worth it

[Jasko]

Additions to the pile: 7
Total count: + 107

Not counting the Lord on foot for the moment cause I already have a bunch of Thanes and Lords on foot and might not even build him. Will count if I do

[Reaver]

@Jasko

might not even build him. Will count if I do

Sounds like good fodder for a chorf conversion!

[Jasko]

That’s true! Never did a classic Dwarf → Chaos Dwarf conversion. Maybe I should do that rite of passage at some point

[Jasko]

Additions to the pile: 12
Total count: + 119

Oi, completely forgot to post my haul from Essen SPIEL! Doing it now together with my acquisition of Wintermaw, the last Season of Warhammer Underworlds first edition.

So, GW had a huge Event store at Essen SPIEL. You got 10€ off from when signing up for the Newsletter, but FLGS prices would still beat that - so I went for the Hellcannon, since products in FW resin are usually not stocked by FLGS, at least not in Germany. 10€ off meant I got it for 54€. Acceptable. Really curious to see whether they retooled the whole thing, because the version in Finecast has an abysmal reputation.
I didn’t like either of the current event exclusive models (that Steel Rook and some Kroot hunter), but there was a special section of the store where they kept the real good stuff under wraps (they had a freaking Tau Manta and multiple Warlord Titans) and they guy chatted me up and showed me the excellent Kommissar. And since I have notoriously low discipline I caved and got him. But since I’m also a sneaky little git I went to another check out, dangled by subscription confirmation in front of the guy’s face and got the 10€ off again. At 18€ I don’t mind that little Kommissar at all. Cool model.
Now I hadn’t really planned on getting Wintermaw, I was hoping we’d get a box with a new Chaos Dwarf warband. But now with Embergard launching second edition, I felt like I had to pull the trigger on it, as I’m only part-owner of Nethermaze and it’s usually not at my place and I would like to be able to play all my warbands in their original state whenever I want. Plus we really needed a second set of boards and the rules in their updated form. And the warbands aren’t too bad either.

[Nicodemus]

I feel better about my lack of BATG productivity this year after seeing everyone else adding new stuff to their collection Need to see more painting tho now

~N