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Beware the vows of March! So let's have 'em--what are your painting commitments?

For me it'll be the following:
1. Paint the 11 remaining England Invaded figs (already based and primed)
2. Clean, base, and prime 5 Copplestone Castings Cavewomen
3. Clean, base and prime a box of Skorne Venators (6?)
4. Clean, prime and paint my new Martian flying boat

Those are for sure. I'm debating also finishing off my other driller, blaster and gunner, or working on my Drazen's Horde Chainmail figs. So we'll end up seeing which direction I go.

Note that I'm putting off working on my 24 Kroot/Venusian Parrotmen project. Part of that is a question of basing (though I'll probably just use the GW bases, since my ACW and England Invaded figs use 20mm rounds anyway), but part of that is just the intimidation at painting 24 of one kind of figure. It's been a while since I've tackled a 40k sized project and I'm not looking forward to it...

I have a Hordes tourney I plan on attending and getting my ass handed to me in, so I need to get some stuff in gear.

So far I have:

1 Vayle

1 Seraph

2 Nephilim

1 Forsaken

1 Swamp gobbers unit

1 Totem hunter

Assembled

I have 5 raptors, 12 archers, 10 swordsmen, 1 carnivean, 1 forsaken and 1 angelius that need to be assembled still. I have the next 5 days off, so I think I can get the majority of this assembled if not all of it, with a decent jump on the preliminary stages of painting.

So I think the majority of this month is going to be modelling, but I will try to get some painting in as well, with luck.

- Dakka Painting Challenge Entry. I still haven't figured out what I'm going to enter ^_^.

- Depending on time, I might start working on my IG Stormtroopers some more. At the very least get the cloth work done on them all.

I think I'll just make the list of what I have to do, in order of importance, and then work my way down the list!

- finish my last ten gaunts (shouldn't take so long since they're almost done except for details and basing)
- finish building two ruins (one already 80% done)
- paint two miniatures (old man and old woman) as best as I possibly can, they'll be part of a wedding gift
- paint 12 genestealers

I'd be very happy if I manage to get all that done, but I doubt I'll get the stealers finished this month. On the other hand, if I do, I've only got two large creatures and a couple weapon arms left to paint and I've got my 1.000 point nid army done. Hmmm...

This will be a busy month for me in the real world, so I doubt I'll get much done.

I've got to finish what I've got started, including...

Finish putting glossy on the snow.

Paint my 3 obstacles (crates).

Complete and paint my 2 ruined houses.

finish a bunch of half finished stuff, including, unfortunately, my February vow.

Properly pin and base my Hordes stuff and put the finishing touches on the terrain I have. Stuff I've been putting off for ... for as long as I've been gaming/ studenting, basically.

After that April will probably be painting Hordes stuff, wee.

Finish three Tau Sniper Drone Teams.

Finish the Shas'el (Tau Crisis Commander) that I assembled and primed.

Maybe I'll paint something.

My March vows will be:

Finish my DA HQ unit from Feb.
Finish building/converting 2x Ravenwing attack squadrons, undercoat and paint (incl. chaplain)
Finish the GS on my BL squad and paint.
Finish Abbaddon's retinue conversion and the man himself. Then paint.
Finish BL rhino (GS the gaps from having to cut up plastic doors to make the FW ones fit/size better... )
Paint FW dreadnought base for WE dreadnought and add final highlight and brass etch (which will also be painted)

I've not touched my DA Dev squad from last month or the LR's and rhino's i had intended to paint as I've decided to get an airbrush and basecoat the DA green on to speed things up. I'll do these towards the end of the month once I've done the above squads.

That'll do for now. I'm fully expecting to have this all done early as it's mostly black stuff which is way easier/faster for me to paint. As usual though, I'll probably deviate a bit so that'll do!

malfred wrote:Maybe I'll paint something.

I saw this, every bone in my body wanted to make a snarky retort. Something along the lines of "Aim High, Malfred!" or some such.

Then I realized how little I paint anymore...and with a grimace on my face, and a tear in my eye, I peed in my pants a little.

Incontinence for the win!

I am going to paint up my zuzzy mat this month and the citadel terrain stuff I got for Christmas. I will also finish assembling my Khador stuff.

I missed out on Feb, but am jumping in for March:

I'm going to be painting:
12 Gondor Warriors
20 Uruk Hai (pikes, warriors)
possibly for the Baltimore GT (yes, I'm not going to play 40k, if I go, it'll be LOTR)

Touching up:
4 Battlefleet Gothic Cruisers
a bunch of escorts, and some ordinance
for a campaign I'm currently running

Basing:
My Bretonnian WFB army
one unit of Austrian musketeers, one unit of Croats, and an artillery piece for Might and Reason (10mm)
for a campaign that is waiting for more models to be painted

I deffinately need some inspiration so here we go.

My March Vows will be:
Finish the 12 marines I've been working on.
Finish My Revent Crew conversion
Finish my Rengrave conversion
Work on the Warhounds some more.
Maybe even start finishing my Terminus.

I've been listening to the Warmachine pod casts alot lately so its really been reviving my interest in my Cryx and Khador. Since my cryx are almost done I might as well finish them.

Got a decent jump on Vows today.

Finished cleaning flash, pinning, assembling and greenstuffing:
1 Forsaken
1 Raptor
1 Saeryn proxy (W. Klocke reaper mini)

Cleaned the flash off of 4 other Raptors.

The Raptor I did finish was a huge pain in the butt, taking the majority of the day to complete due to greenstuff. Blending the fur with GS to make the head seem part of the model was tedious.
I guess thats the thing with PP models. Great molding, little flash, but.....a huge pain to assemble and make them look like they should.

February was marginally productive. Did more flash-trimming, assembling and priming than painting, despite all of the primed stuff I have on my desk. I *did* get some of the little jobs done though (like finishing trimming/carapacing 3 genestealers, finishing highlights on zealots).

March vows:
Finish highlights on 10 Bile Thralls
Finish painting Typhus, PM Champ, 2 Deathguard Termies
Paint 7 Plaguebearers + Warp Gate
Paint Severius, Skarre, Gorman and Eiryss

maybe get a start on painting 10 IG jetbike roughriders. (Painting bikes and riders separately)

Finish magneting and nurgle-ing Chaos Predator.
Finish magneting and converting Flyrant.
Test-conversion of (metal) Chaos terminator combibolter to combiplasma using plastic Chaos Plaspistol. If successful, repeat x13.

-S

today was the first day i've painted in weeks, but i did get my apothecary almost done. My goals are

1. Finish apothecary(just baseing and varnish)
2. Paint librarian, this will finish my command squad.
3. Paint my land raider. Command sqad needs a tricked out ride!

Doesnt seem like much but I'll be hard pressed.

Jedi76

Assuming my bits orders arrive soon, my March looks something like:

Continue work on the Biker Boss build

Convert Deff Choppa pilots

Base and Paint Deff Choppas

Assemble/convert 15 Lootas

That's the official list. If I have time between the loota mold lines (shoot me please, D3 times per turn) and painting the choppers, I'll start on my Sproingboys.

(suddenly I get the feeling I've over-vowed again...)

February was a bit of a flop, ended up spending the month building ogres for the most part. Now it's time to really get some mileage, particularly with APOC III looming March 15th.

Painting CSM to 2000
- 1 demon prince
- 1 dreadnought
- 1 land raider
- 3 terminators

Building Ogres to 2000
- 1 slave troll
- 1 tyrant

The giant troll (dire troll blitzer conversion ) will be done tonight, but otherwise I intend to grind the termies this week. I'd love to do the dread next week and have it ready for APOC III, but it's been 2 months and no word from FW ...

- Salvage

March is a busy month for me, but I'm always up for a challenge. I'm a slow painter, so I'll go with painting a 15-dwarf warrior from the BoSP set.

I upped it to 15. Twelve is a stupid number for a unit

MOW Demo Corps x4
MOW Shocktroopers x4
Dakka Painting Challenge!

Not much stuff? I'm a realist!

Hellfury wrote:Incontinence for the win!

That scare the poop out of me. Literally.

Oh, and I pledge a Gorkamorka gang, or something.

And I blame Malfred for my messy pants.

Hellfury wrote:

malfred wrote:Maybe I'll paint something.

I saw this, every bone in my body wanted to make a snarky retort. Something along the lines of "Aim High, Malfred!" or some such.

Then I realized how little I paint anymore...and with a grimace on my face, and a tear in my eye, I peed in my pants a little.

Incontinence for the win!

I said MAYBE, so therefore I am aiming high.

Work has been a drag. My computer busting has been a drag. Family
stuff has been a drag.

(My outfits have all been in drag...wait what?)

I haven't been motivated for various reasons; I won't bore you with
the details. Right now I just feel like I'll paint something when I
paint something.

It is fun seeing what you guys put up on the boards, though.

I'll be finishing my Avengers and at least one more unit of jetbikes this month, and will primer all the older-edition figs that I intend to use in an Apoc battle later in march. I vow to not use bare metal at all this month, no matter what that may cost me tactically.

Paint the boxes of Armorcast terrain I got on clearance, finally put together those spawn I bought when they came out.

My goals....

1) 5 more traitors constructed and customized along with 3 heavy weapons.

2) Then have all 30 traitors and heavy weapons painted to at least tabletop quality like my sentinels.

3) at least start on the base colors of my bubble headed leader.

4) detail and rebase all my green muties to better fit with my traitors including making sure that they have appropriate weapons.

5) umm... probably won't get this far.

Didn't get a whole lot done today. Car troubles. Boo-hoo.

But I did manage to get basing materials sorted out and bought some P3 Legion paints.

I started to work on some Incubi, but only got as far as removing the flash and dry fitting the models.

Busy day! I finished flashing, pinning, assembling and greenstuffing:
5 Incubi solos
4 Raptors
2 brand spanking new Shepherds.
as well as starting on the basing for 23 models.

So the assembly count completed so far is:

1 Vayle warlock

Saeryn proxy warlock (W. Klocke reaper mini)

5 Raptors Light calvary

1 SeraphLight warbeast

2 Nephilim Light warbeast

2 Forsaken solos

5 Incubi solos

2 Shepherd solos

1 Swamp gobbers Minions unit

1 Totem hunter Minions solo

Just in time for my very first hordes game tomorrow. I am psyched.

I've actually been working on my stormtroopers x.x. As well as getting The Painting Corps back up and running. This has been a hell of a productive week so far for modeling.

Been a good week so far:
14 Uruk Hai about 60% done
8 more Uruk Hai drybrushed armor

Based 60% of my Bret army (just a basic flocking, nothing fancy) - should be done them all by the end of the week.

And I went beyond my vows to put up 5 space marines in the Modeling Forum for C&C.

Unfortunately, I'm all over the place, but at least stuff is getting done...

Finished my terrain stuff I wanted to get done, sorted out my Hordes stuff and now I'm staring at my painting stuff.

I'm in awe of Hellfury's assembly line.