2023/12/31

2023 Crafting challenge wrap-up

If you were looking for the 2023 crafting challenge write up, you've come to the right place. Otherwise, well, I'm afraid you're lost. For the second time evar, I hit the magic 365 painted figs a year mark and I have to say that without the big batches of non-bangers, that would have been even more soul-crushing than it otherwise was.

Week 1: Galaad Kitsune Ranger high quality #1, Crippled God Foundry City Guard Elite Captain, D&D is a Woman Curiphaias Dragonborn Sorcerer, Artisan Guild Dragon Guard Lady E high quality #2 and Dragon Guard Lady F high quality #3

Week 2: One Page Rules Saurian Warriors x5, Saurian Veteran, Saurian Gecko Priest

Week 3: Titan Forge Stranger, Bones 4 Adowyn Iconic Hunter, Vae Victis Half-Orc Wizard, Twin Goddess Aileen, Celtic Wizard, Wrath of Kings Shael Han Za'Ken, Printed Obsession Tabaxi Assassin (Asha the Rogue)

Week 4: Blacklist Fantasy Series 1 (heretofor blf1) oozes, mist snakes, spirits, banshees

Week 5: blf1 air elemental, water elemental, fire elemental, earth elemental painted as a magma elemental

Week 6: blf1 trogolodytes painted as magma trogs

Week 7: vintage Leading Edge Games Lawnmower Man figs

Week 8: vintage Ral Partha 11-103 Demihuman Vampires, vintage RAFM Manipulators

Week 9: vintage Ral Partha Maria Mercurial and Kyle Morgan, vintage Laian and Tammis from Mekton

Week 10: vintage Ral Partha Dae-Shiru Commanders and 02-132 Dae-Shiru Regulars

Week 11: Velrock Leonin Tribe

Week 12: Reaper Bones Avatar of Courage, Comet Lord Miniatures Kyros, Lionman Priest, Galaad Leonin Ranger, Printed Obsession Leonidal

Week 13: Titan Forge Cursed Sands Lionness, Reaper Cheetah Girl high quality #4, Wrath of Kings Hu-Ren, Artisan Guild Rakshakin Headhunter - Moduler F (Lady)

Week 14: Reaper Lion Man high quality #5

Week 15: assorted Dungeons and Lasers floor tiles

Week 16: blf1 giant spiders

Week 17: blf1 giant rats

Week 18: blf1 wolves

Week 19: blf1 werewolves

Week 20: Vae Victis Orc Thief high quality #6

Week 21: Hover Truck

Week 22: Bones 5 Gon'Tarr Orc Shaman, Bite the Bullet Gara, the Half Orc, Twin Goddess Guldra - Orc Warlock

Week 23: Vae Victis Elf Bandit high quality #7

Week 24: Crippled God Foundry Romud, Cleric, Galaad Dwarf Female, Glavier from Chainmail Starter Pack, Artisan Guild Human Fighters Guild - D (Lady) Modular

Week 25: Wrath of Ashardalon Board Game (heretofor woabg) grell, Castle Ravenloft Board Game (heretofor carabg) gargoyles, Temple of Elemental Evil Board Game (heretofor toepbg) rock elemental

Week 26: blf1 imps and gargoyles

Week 27: blf1 purple (rainbow) worms

Week 28: Bones 4 Devils (sans Succubus), Nolzur's Griffon

Week 29: Bones 5 Wolf Dragon (no link) large #1

Week 30: blf1 gnolls

Week 31: blf1 goblins and kobolds

Week 32: blf1 orcs (as hobgoblins) and bugbears

Week 33: Bones 4 Hill Giant Huntsman's Dire Lion and Frost Giant Raiders' Giant Wolf (no link), Bones 5 The Thing From the Well (no link) large #2, Nolzur's Adult Remorhaz large #3, blf1 dire bear, Bones 4 Chaos Toad Savage

Week 34: blf1 fire beetles, Bones 4 Giant Rhino Beetle, blf1 constructs

Week 35: The Printing Goes Ever On Southern Archer (part of D&D is a woman), Galaad Female Ranger, Galaad Rogue, Goonmaster Human Rogue 1, Titan Forge Bodyguard, Reaper Bones Lanelle

Week 36: Artisan Guild (fighters guild) Fighter A Male, Fighter D Lady, Brent of Goobertown, Fighter C Lady, Sigfrido Dragonsbane, Morgana the Ascended

Week 37: blf1 dire boars

Week 38: carabg wraiths and skeletons

Week 39: carabg air and water elementals, blf1 ghouls cosplaying as demons

Week 40: carabg blazing skeletons, Bones 5 Grave King (no link)

Week 41: toepbg fire bats, Bones 4 Dire Crab, vintage Ral Partha Gorgon

Week 42: Galaad Princess Knight, Hero Forge Essith and Hinako, 

Week 43: Titan Forge Earth Elementals, toepbg Gold Dwarf Cleric, Legend of Drizzt Board Game (heretofor lodbg) Bruenor Battlehammer, woabg Orc Smashers

Week 44: blf1 cultists, woabg Cultists

Week 45: blf1 bandits, Jaxius (Duncan Shadow Otter Kit)

Week 46: Vae Victis Giant Rats, Oshounaminis Monolith Bots, Crippled God Foundry Giant Scorpion

Week 47: Bones 4 Merowyn Lightstar and Blink Berenwicket, Vae Victis Woman Pirate, Crippled God Foundry Dame Teuta and Lucius the Templar, blf1 dwarf barbarian, dwarf bard, dwarf ranger, dwarf druid, gnome cleric, halfling bard, dwarf fighter, dwarf wizard

Week 48: Bones 4 Shandra Iconic Shaman, Enora Iconic Arcanist, Taroya, Reaper Bones Avatar of Courage, blf1 human wizard and elf monk, woabg Talon Human Ranger, Galaad Knight 05, Tiger Skull Hunter Oathenshard, GloomyKidMinis Muriel Druid of the Plains, and Master Forge Lizardfolk Ranger

Week 49: Bones 4 Willow Greenivy Witch, Jahenna, Talnyth Female Elf Barbarian and Nemesra Dancing Girl, blf1 elf barbarian, female dwarf cleric, female human rogue, male gnome rogue, female halfling fighter, male halfling ranger, female gnome paladin and skeletons, lodbg Regis, RNE Studio Levita, Crippled God Foundy Eye Terror

Week 50: 9x vintage Mekton metals

Week 51: woabg duergar guards, carabg Gravestorm Dracolich, Athrogate Dwarven Battlerager and Wulfgar, blf1 female gnome druid (high quality #11) and female elf cleric, bones 4 Hakon, Iconic Skald (high quality #12), Isobael the Bard & Rufus, Arnise Elf Deathseeker, Khuttal Half Orc Ranger from DnD is a Woman, blf1 half orc paladin, female half orc rogue, male half orc ranger, knee- or chest-high walls ("complex structure" #1)

Week 52: blf1 mummies, unholy knights, harpies, zombies, naga.

Bonus Week 53!: bones 4 Mystic Portal, Rivani, Giant Crab Man, bones 5 Grim Reaper, Loot Golem, Runewars Outland Scouts

Final tally:

  • 373/104 total figures painted
  • 12/10 high quality
  • 7/2 large figures/busts
  • 1/1 structure






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