2017's "A Tale of Many Gamers Painting Challenge" - Part 1 - January to June - It Begins!

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**Archer**

So for January I will be working on 2 x 5-man Raptor Squads for my Alpha Legion, the super old batwing guys. Plus I want to get a Bastion done (with several weapon options).

**mould2k**

IN for this! I have an unpainted Skaven army from the Isle of Blood set I would like to complete. I guess timetable would be this:

January - finish Rat Ogres and Master Moulder
February - 10 Clan rats
March - 10 Clan rats and Weapon Teams
April - Warlord and Warlock Engineer
May - 10 Clan rats
June - 10 Clan rats

Order might change but that seems the most sensible way to get this army completed.

**Dysartes**

I'm away from my stuff at present, thanks to the Christmas break, but I suspect my January pledge will be to complete some Oathsworn figures.

I'll aim for at least four.

**CDShaddock**

Starting the new year off right by working on my reavers that are "counts as" world eater space marines for my January commitment. February is working on biker lord and retinue for same army

**ZergSmasher**

To start off with, I'll try to finish 5 Devastators that have been in painting limbo, partially complete, for like 10 months now.

**Polonius**

I enjoyed doing this last year, so I'm going to sign back up again!

My goal here is going to be simple: the bolt action Brits I got for christmas:

I have my main hobby blog, but I want to focus that more on my Praetorian IG, so I think this challenge will help me keep some focus on a secondary goal.

**sparkywtf**

So for January I am working on the Clancy Gang from Blackwater Gulch. Idea here is speed painting with washes. No time to go back and fix mistakes. That red wash that is on the neck? That's just a happy little glancing wound from a bullet!

3 hours and they are almost done, which means bonus gang for them to fight with!

Good Luck all!

**JoshInJapan**

First finished unit for January:

More here.

**Dysartes**

...I actually managed to put brush to model for the first time this year last night. Not at home, as I'm still tidying up my painting area, but at my NSLBFGS' Fridat night hobby evening.

Unfortunately, the night was cut short due to a staff migraine - which is fair enough - but I had managed to get a few bits done before then, namely:
* Highlighted Maverick Mike's "skin" with a mix of Beast Hide and Menoth White Base
* Basecoated the pages of the Mole Friar's book with Menoth White Base
* Basecoated the rope around the Mole Friar's waist with Rucksack Tan
* Basecoated the quilted armour on the Female Dwarf Fighter with VMC Scurvy Green

I also did a little research on French Napoleonic uniforms for Mike, how moles look (and realised I'd need to break out the Pink again), as well as pugs - I was about the basecoat the Pug Bounty Hunter's fur when the night got called off.

Still, some progress is better than none, right?

**Azazelx**

I've finished the first unit for the year. A small group fo 6 Vikings - probably Hearthguard. Kind of a "cheat" in that 5 of them were painted last year, but then I didn't give myself unit credit for them in any of last year's months since the 6th wasn't finished then, so swings and roundabouts....

More pics here

**Toxic_Toast**

Sign me up! I'm building a custom Space Marine chapter + allies for 40K and German and British for Bolt Action! Ill put my January aim to finish my command squad for my Space Marines

**Azazelx**

My next finished unit(s) for January. Two or three (depending on if I run 2 Regiments, or 1 regiment and 1 horde) units of Dwarf Warriors - originally from the Battle for Skull Pass box set.

They were planned to be my strong finish to 2016 in December, but that didn't happen, and so now they're a strong start to 2017 instead. More pics here.

**Dysartes**

Well, now I've tamed my painting table, I should crack on and get some stuff done.

On the outside change you might be interested, I've recently written a review on the new C'thu Prime figure from Tor Gaming.

Hobby evening at the NSLBFGS, so I'll at least be making some progress.

*EDIT* - Brackets in the link.

**Huginn**

Never been a fan of the skull pass dwarf warriors, but that paint job makes them look half decent. Well done!

**Azazelx**

Thanks - they're far from works of art, but they'll serve well as a not-flashy core of grunts.

**Paull**

If it isn't too late i'd love to join in with this. Anything that motivates me to put paint to brush. I only started again with 40k in December after about a 10 year absence.

Hoping to complete an eldar army so will be working on that each month.

My January aim is to finally finish my Fire Prism from the start collecting box

**Jamumools**

I'm up for this if it's not too late? Recently picked up some paints for the first time in years!! Going to be working on my Dark Angels - I have 1 terminator painted and have started a land raider. My goal for June - 2 tactical squads, deathwing squad, land raider, company master. Stretch goal would be to do the 2 rhinos for the tactical squads but we'll see...!!

I've attached a picture of the terminator I've already done... Not sure how to make him the right way up!!!

My January goal is a combat squad of tactical marines.

**Azazelx**

Nice work, mate. Is that a Scibor base he's perched on?

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My next finished unit for January: A dozen Legions of Steel "Nightmares" models. I'll probably use them with "Chaos Cultists" stats for my Iron Warriors.

More (and some background) here.

**ZergSmasher**

@Azazelx: I'd say you're off to a very good start! I wouldn't worry about the models having been mostly done previously-my first entry for the year will be some models that I mostly did last spring (they just need finishing touches).

@Janumools: Nice to see another fellow Son of the Lion getting some paint down! I think you make 3 of us in this challenge! Your terminator looks really good BTW!

**Llamahead**

Voodoo's first model done and here's where the collection stands now.

**Jamumools**

@Azazelx - yes mate, I went extravagant with Scibor bases for the whole army. I'm going to redo them - probably black marble for the faces and a sandstone-ish colour for the other bits on the base. My original plan was something simple so as not to detract from the model but I'm not satisfied as is. For now I'll just get some paint on the bases and redo later.

@ZergSmasher - thanks mate

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**Jamumools**

I know I'm supposed to be focused on this month's pledge - and I have painted 2 tactical marines - but I kinda got distracted when my mail order turned up today...

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Why do my pictures get flicked sideways??

**Slinky**

Got my first LOTR models of the year done!

3 Dunedain Rangers - pictured below in glorious blurrovision, sorry

**Dysartes**

@Jamumools - I think it is something to do with uploading images from a mobile device. Might be worth asking in Nuts & Bolts?

**ZoBo**

man, I don't think I've actually touched a brush yet this year

...combination of generally being a bit busy, and any hobby stuff I've gotten around to has just been prep-work...clipping/cleaning/assembling new models, and stripping old models...but I guess, once I'm done with all that, I'll have around 100 Mantic zombies for my nurgle chaos marines, and...actually I can't really remember, but probably around 50? old rogue trader "beakie" space marines, another 30-odd assorted metal space marines, and some fancy forgeworld models for my salamanders...so a good 200 models altogether, nearly all ready for priming and painting...

ohhh man...I now deeply regret thinking about that! - I am now keenly aware that I have a good 200 models pretty much ready to go!

...and that's really just the tip of my hobby iceberg too...I have a fair deal more marine stuff to get to, a load of chaos marines/daemons stuff, and...let's just not even bring up my orks. oh dear.

anyway, at the moment I'm kinda feeling like painting some zombies...so I might try and get a batch of them painted by the end of the month...let's say...10 zombies...hopefully as many as 35, for a max unit...but we'll see

**Polonius**

I'm going to likely roll my pledge for this month into next month, as I'm mass building all the bolt action brits at once. Building 50 plastic bolt action models is a solid bit of work, so I'm going to cheat, and make this months goal getting everything assembled. (Priming is weather dependent).

**Asmodai_00**

1/5th of the way there for January! I'd like to try and hold myself to the "one unit a month" minimum.

**Ssgt Carl**

I'll join. Need something to keep me focused on my Space Wolves project.

January will be to finish the Vindicator I just started

**CDShaddock**

Two troops choices complete for my chaos Forces.

**JoeRugby**

Beautiful job all

Progress has been made on my pledge and i should have it finished by the end of the week.