Elven Heroes: Elladan, Elrohir and Glorfindel

The first real post of the year starts of in Middle-earth with three more mounted heroes for my Rivendell army. After finishing those, I also did some work basecoating five Knights and Elrond to lead them all. And I finished the three Questoris Knights and the Acastus Porphyrion for my Adeptus Titanicus / Legions Imperialis collection.

Pict 1698: Elrohir, Glorfindel, Elladan

Pict 1699: Elrohir, Glorfindel, Elladan

The first few finished miniatures of the year are these three heroes to lead my Rivendell Knights: Elladan and Elrohir, the sons of Elrond as well as the older sculpt of Glorfindel. It took me quite some time to finish them – somehow I found the brightly coloured horses difficult. I'm still not quite happy with Asfaloth, the white horse Glorfindel is riding. For now, it will have to do. But I might go back once I figured out a better way to do it with the newer sculpt and the two Arwen models on horseback.

Pict 1700: Rivendell Knights (WIP)

Next up will be some warriors for all these heroes to lead. I started with the first half of my Rivendell Knights and finished their basecolours.

Pict 1701: Elrond mounted (WIP)

And of course while I was at the basecoating stage with these five, I also did the same for the Finecast Elrond on horseback. I hope to finish this lot rather soon, so I can get to the other six Knights as well as even more heroes.

Pict 1702: House Procon Vi Questoris Knights

Pict 1703: House Procon Vi Knight Porphyrion

Lastly, I also finished up the four Adeptus Titanicus Knights I had finished at the end of last year. I'm really happy with the three Questoris Knights and the Acastus Porphyrion and I'm looking forward to using them in an upcoming game to stand alongside my Blood Angels and Legio Solaria.

The Butterfly's Hobby Tally 2025

Happy New Year! It took me some time to get this tally of my hobby activities together. But now I invite you to have both a look back and a look ahead with me!

Pict 1606: Legions Imperialis Blood Angels Army for A Sector Ablaze

The Hobby Tally 2025

As always, I will start by having a look at what I set out to do at the beginning of the year. I had three goals lined up: 

• Paint 2 pieces of terrain each for the SciFi and the Fantasy collection
• I did finish both the fallen head for my Amon Hen table as well as a Cottage made by ForgeWorld. I did, however, not paint any Sci-Fi related terrain. So halfway there!

• Once again paint more than 100 miniatures.
• Smashed it mate! The final tally stands at 219 finished miniatures. Quite an impressive number and the highest since 2020! One additional stat: I posted 169 pictures to this blog and of course took loads more.

•  And again, buy less new stuff, paint the stuff I have and most importantly play with it!
•  While I did buy quite a bit more stuff, I'll still count this goal as mostly fullfilled. Mainly because I really did paint a lot and because I'm happy with the amount of gaming.

Again, if you want so look back at my painting progress of previous years, here are the links to the tallies of the past: The Tally 2017, The Tally 2018, The Tally 2019, The Tally 2020, The Tally 2021, The Tally 2022, The Tally 2023, The Tally 2024

Looking back through notable projects of 2025

• Scenery: The two terrain pieces I finished this year: the head from Amon Hen and a simple Cottage. I quite like the both of them, but I yet have to play a game with them. I really should paint up the Amon Hen ruin and make a board to play the narrative scenarios!

Pict 1529: Amon Hen Statue Head

Pict 1560: Warhammer Forge Cottage

•  Legions Imperialis at Warhammer World: One of the highlights of the year has to be going to Warhammer World for the first time and playing in the A Sector Ablaze narrative event. Winning a trophy for my objective markes was the cherry on top!

Pict 1607: Legions Imperialis Blood Angels Army for A Sector Ablaze

Pict 1612: Legions Imperialis Forward Operating Bases and Trophy from Warhammer World

• Heresy at home and abroad: During the same trip to Great Britain, I also got to play in the Discordia narrative event in London. I painted quite a few additional Blood Angels both for this event and the tournaments and narrative games at home! I still have yet to try out Heresy 3.0 and my painting progress has stalled after its release. Right now, I'm focused on small scale Heresy to scratch that sci-fi itch however.

Pict 1617: Horus Heresy Blood Angels Army for Discordia

• DreadTober: Speaking of, this year's DreadTober project of two Reaver Titans and a bunch of magnetized weapon option fits right into the Epic Heresy. I feel like I stepped up my game, especially with the additional decals on them. I really should try and get them to a gaming table!

Pict 1664: Legio Solaria Reaver Titans

• Adeptus Titanicus: In addition to the two Reavers, I also did some good work for the Legio Solaria with four Warhounds. And I painted some of their retainers, the Knights of House Procon Vi with four Cerastus Lancer Knights and four Atropos Knights.

Pict 1535: Blood Angels Tacticals advancing with Cerastus Lancer Support 

Pict 1546: Legio Solaria Warhound Titan on the Prowl

Pict 1563: Legio Solaria Warhounds

Pict 1655: House Procon Vi Cerastus Knight Atrapos

• Ents: Lastly, for Middle-earth I painted two more Ents – one Birch and the third character, Beechbone. I played them in one tournament and had great fun beating up a whole load of orcs while doing so!

Pict 1579: Ent

Pict 1631: Beechbone

Hobby Plans for 2026

Looking ahead, I don't have a specific project in mind. But I want to try and focus on playing and reducing my backlog again. So the three simple goals are:

• Once again paint more than 100 miniatures.
• Paint the stuff I have and buy fewer new miniatures.
• And most importantly have fun and play with my miniatures.