Lord Aldades journeys to the Grey Mountain - BATG 2025

After barely surviving, but succesfully defeating the Medusa in 2024, the next leg of the journey brings our noble lord to the caverns of the Grey Mountain.

And joining in the Battle Against The Gray once again this year, we are standing in front the entrance of the mythical temple of “Pile of Shame”, where sacrifices have to be made to the Gods of Gray.

With a year in front of us where we set a big heap of hobby goals, namely painting up forces for about 7 different armies to get them to a level to attend competitive events with a casual mindset (aka, paint and play what I like, and f*ck the meta), the goal is to smash all this year to the Blackshard badge!

Yes, painting 200 more models then we obtained is the goal of the journey, and somehow it will still feel like a wet slave thrown on a hot furnace, but off we go on the journey and explore the caverns formed amongst the gray piles.

January:
Bought: 61
Painted: 19
Result: + 42

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The final numbers
Bought: 61
Painted: 19
Sold:
Result: + 42

May the furnaces burn the nightly flames as the brushes of Hashut stroke away!

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And making use of the last day of holiday before the night shifts starts again, I can kick off the year with the completing of two failry simple models.

Well, not so simple drawing all those lines on the smoke, but this Endless Spell has been drafted into to the Old World “vortex” department, in case my wizard would roll up the “Summon Elemental Spirit” Elementalism spell.

And of course, you can’t fantasy solo game without the most common of enemies, the Giant Rat…

And so we are off, hopefully towards a big score in 364 days…

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As the Escalation League, for which I started painting in the 2024 edition of BATG, has officially started, I completed already some “round 2” models. Both the small Halberdiers and the Greatsword units will be bolstered by command groups from the Warlord Games P&S range.

Banners are repainted print out’s from Foundry’s free flags downloads to suit my Marienburg colourscheme.

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Long live the night shift life. Now that I switched jobs in the medical centre to man the night reception (read: be paid basically to just stay awake and answer like 3 phonecalls per shift on average), grey mountain can be tackled in earnest.

I can now assemble and undercoat figures en masse at work (here a picture of a typical work night… tablet streaming anime or movies fell of the picture though)…

… while spending the evenings (I start at 23.00) can be used for painting as the little man is vast asleep then.


So that means another small unit done, in the form of a 47mm FRC anti-tank gun with it’s crew for my latest project, Bolt Action (Belgians of course)

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Because it’s a period of resolutions and lists on YouTube, I did one myself as well yesterday. And that will of course give an idea of what additional projects I’ll try to be painting this year apart from the regular ones.

But now, time to prepare some Chaos Dwarf units as well for painting, as I enlisted for a tournament in april out of the blue.

And it lasted 8 days, but the first purchase has been made (and more comming this weekend)

One cheap Vinted found Akhelian Taskmaster for the gray pile

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And let’s bump the mountain upwards…

A club member sold boxes of Oathmark Orc infantry, so of course I needed more slaves for Hashut. Now, I bought his full series of 6 boxes at 18 a piece, but I’m keeping only 2 for myself to include in the force.


The other four will end up on some BnB to try and basically get my own for free, but like I did with the Underworlds lot last year.

And more will come, because at a tournament next week I’m taking over a whole collection of Runewars, to sort out what I can use myself and what to sell on as well… but january will have a very hefty increase in models, and then the Warlord Mystery box still needs to arrive, oops…

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Every battlefield needs his scenery to fight over, and to that end this 3d printed ruined church has been finished.

Using craft paints, which are excellent for these sort of things, it was a nice night shift of drybrushing and in the morning one building was ready.

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For my Escalation League second round, my budding Empire army receives a “true” general for the force. And which model is more foppishly suited for a Marienburg army then the classic Warhammer Quest Imperial Noble

Apart from him, I also began the first tiny step of building a new force for MESBG, with a lonely Lothlorien spearmen to test the colour scheme.

Next on the to paint menu, a unit or 3 of actual Chaos Dwarfs!

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