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Recently completed my run of painting the complete marvel zombies Zombicide Kickstarter set, and here are my progress pics on painting the 2 for tall Galactus.

Completed pics first, with a bunch more at the end. It was the second time I used an airbrush. Wish I had more practice, but it was fun. Happy to be finished with the project and pleased with the result even if I think I could do things better.

This took me about 2 years. Would power through a few dozen minis over a couple weeks free time, and then take a break for a bit. The longest being after I first did all the shield agents. Got real burnt out on those and didn't touch anything for like 6 months. Wouldn't let my friends play it until it was painted and after some pestering I finished the base set. Then once we started playing every other week they're was the pressure to have the next expansion done before we finished the current one. Most of my free time in 2025 was painting these ministries, finished all but Galactus just before the new year. Galactus I just finished last week and then spent about 8 hours putting these pictures together.

I used all army painter paints. First the old ones, and then once I started needing to buy new bottles I bought the whole fanatics line, and then a bit later the speed paints line.

Carnage, the sentinels, the Hydra agents, Maddrox Variants, Brutes, and Runners were all done with speed paints. The Hydra agents were the first zenithal priming I did with speed paints and where I learned not to use black.

Everything else was primed, painted with a base coat, applied a wash, and then die highlights by stroke or dry brush. Not the most complicated procedure, but I was painting to play not display, and my talents are pretty basic. Mostly self taught, but I took a few classes at gencon and adepticon. Mostly reinforced what I was already doing, but did learn a few good things.

Galactus was painted with an airbrush. My second figure that I painted with one. It's the only figure where I didn't use a wash. Did three tones for everything using the army painter triad set. Wish I would have practiced better on trigger control and had better lighting when I did the highlights and miss tones, but still really happy with how I spent these 800 hours estimated painting.

I also used the florescent effect paints from army painter, and had a black light pointed at the figure when I took the pictures. The green is supposed to be yellow. Not too impressed, but not going to change it. Am interested to see what my bottle of green florescent will look like now.

Not really artistically minded, contrary to what it may seem, I just tried to replicate the card art, and reference photos from the Internet. There were a few figures I couldn't find much on, so I wanted to get mine out there and hope that it helps someone else in the future.

I have a group a five friends and myself that meet every other week to play. We've got like 5 missions left on zombie mode before Galactus, and then we're going to play all the hero mode scenarios, and the VS scenarios.

It's been a blast, but super happy to be done. This project doubled the number of minis I had painted, the rest being D&D figures, mostly bones, and some Wizkids. I actually have 105 bones figures left from a box that was gifted to me 7 years ago that I'm trying to finish before my next Kickstarter arrives (Gloomhaven, with like 650+ figures, save me from myself please).

Thanks for looking, and thanks for reading. Would love to hear any feedback and will exchange at least an upvote for it ;)

*Full disclosure because I hate generative AI, so I wanted to be upfront that my friend made an AI script with the server at his job to crop and stitch together the individual photos. No other edits were made.

Hello, I participate In TSP through the USPS.

I currently have my TSP contribution set at 5% which is what they match. I recently changed out from 7%, and shifted that 2% to my Roth IRA contribution since that wasn't maxed out.

I have the TSP 100% set to a target year that will coincide with when I'm eligible for my 20 year pension.

This will be 7-8 years before I'm eligible for Social security and Medicare. The idea being that if my body isn't holding up I can get out at 20, and try to get by in something else that last decade.

Is this a good plan or should I change my target year to match my 30 year pension?

Additionally, I see a lot of people commenting about their own mix of funds, and trying to avoid certain things to maximize growth and security. Would that really be any better than using the target year mix? It says I'm a little over 10% return for the year.

Lastly, is there any way I can use my tsp to invest in ETFs?

Thanks!

I just received a cgc comic I ordered that was packed with these inserts. Box felt light, and while I didn't think to stress test it, the slab inside arrived in tip top shape.

Was wondering what other people's experiences were before ordering a starter kit for myself. I don't ship slabs very often, but the stuff would be useful to have around when I do I think.