What does this mean? Well, like it sounds – finishing the unfinished project. A majority of miniature painters have these projects. They happen for all kinds of reasons – to advanced for the painter, loss of interest, life events occur, and so forth. I’m no exception to this; I started several projects and have them laying around unfinished.

Luckily I finished some of these projects and I am currently working on a few others. What caused these projects to become abandoned and unfinished in the first place? I’m going to talk about my own journey as not everyone will have the same reasons. If you find resonance in this great; if not that’s okay.

I’m going to start with the elephant in the room: The Cyclopean Raider that I started on this website. I worked on it and did some updates to the blog but ultimately stopped working on it. Officially I started the model around 4/2020. The reasons for this project becoming on the unfinished list came down to two factors. The first was time. I went from having time to having far less, which was a reversal of what a lot of people saw at this particular time period. The second came down to trying to do a project in such a way that made it more difficult to actually paint. It’s challenging doing a progressive and frequently updating a blog. This meant I painted and then wrote about it with attached pics. This ultimately killed my drive to finish the Games Workshop model.

That being said, I recently finished this model. I did have some adjustments to it. Originally I wanted to have magnetized heads and left hands. I was excited to do so – it was my first attempt at using magnets in a project. Turns out the left hand was not going to look right (hands would not sit flush) as I had set them up. I took out the magnets in the hands and chose one. However, I painted and used the heads just fine. Below are pics of the finished model.

Another project I finished recently consists of the old Citadel Woods set. I started a tree a number of years ago and put it off to the side. Why in this case? In truth it came down to two factors. First, I did not really have a good way to paint tree bark. Most trees are not just brown but more grey, green, and some brown. It took some experimenting to find a method. Secondly, time was a factor. The project seemed in my mind to require a lot of time. Once I started applying paint to model I found this to be false. The longest part being the initial base coats needed for the trees and base. Pics of this set of models below.

The next project I completed consisted of the terrain from Reaper Miniatures Dragons Don’t Share 2014. Gifted to me by someone very special that year. I know this one sits very firmly in the time category for myself. I felt that I never had enough to work on this set. However, my circumstances changed allowing more time to work on this particular project. Pics of the finished terrain below – a set that can be used as intended or for table top gaming!

Lastly, I still possess unfinished projects. It feels wonderful to get some of them off the table and in the done category. Additionally it fuels the fire to move forward on even more. Following completion of these projects I’m apt to do another blog like this one. Till next time.