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I said I'd do orcs, I'll do orcs. Three more units should be no problem. Don't wanna rush warbands anyway.

Great work guys!

Puffin - remember - it's about finishing units. Sometimes that might only take one or two models. Or an hour's work on a unit for the final touches. It's not a "start-to-finish, show off your unpainted models with the date behind them"-type painting challenge. There's plenty of those out there and they're fine and fun to have, but this one is about getting stuff finished and (in theory) onto the table. Even if you started them a decade ago... (and yes, all these criteria fit me to a T - that's why I made up the rules this way!)

Weety - figure cases as a storage solution? Then you can rotate what's on display like a museum. Depends how much you'll be gaming with the various models, I guess.

Nick - looking forward to seeing them!


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 GrimDork wrote:
I said I'd do orcs, I'll do orcs. Three more units should be no problem. Don't wanna rush warbands anyway.

Work on 'em slowly in the background, as a palette cleanser.

 Azazelx wrote:

Puffin - remember - it's about finishing units. Sometimes that might only take one or two models. Or an hour's work on a unit for the final touches. It's not a "start-to-finish, show off your unpainted models with the date behind them"-type painting challenge. There's plenty of those out there and they're fine and fun to have, but this one is about getting stuff finished and (in theory) onto the table. Even if you started them a decade ago... (and yes, all these criteria fit me to a T - that's why I made up the rules this way!)

Handy milestones are handy

This thread has already seen me paint stuff that I undercoated with the best of intentions 2 years ago...

John Wirral wrote:
My February Commitment:
Minimum 10 Bloodreavers

February done!

Need to just neaten up the edge of the bases, but other than that I am happy with them!

Nice Blood Reavers , would definitely hate to meet them in a dark alley.

very nicely done. love the more natural skin tones

Those are fancy. Are they a new WHFB/AoS marauder unit type, or something inbetween that and chaos warriors? Look awesome, great job!

I really like those Blood Reaver models, and that paint job is pretty darn sweet.

I've gotten my February goal done, but I can't remember whether I'm supposed to just post one pic in this thread or many. I'll start with one and edit this post with more later if desired.

Many more pics of this thing will be found in my Stormsurge blog!

Azazelx. The only game we actually have room to play is adv heroquest or DnD, so all I really need to access is a small selection of fantasy monsters and heroes. But I like to collect and I've got well over 300painted figures rammed into a display case! At my rate of painting it was inevitable I'd get to crunch time soon. Better start looking into the foam storage. Even so the plaguebearers must go once painted.

I love the blood reavers! they look nasty...

Some amazing work going on in these pages and definitely keeping me accountable for my own progress. Very much enjoying it even if I get stressed towards the end of the month.

So after an epic painting session with a mate on Saturday night (only got home at 4am) I have managed to throw this together for my February pledge............



Happy for this photo to be my "official" one for the month. When I get more time I will also do a more in depth photo shoot on my blog as usual. Just under the pump at the moment so this is all I have for now.

Next month will be more of the same. Unfortunately I won't achieve the Nids in 3 months, underestimated how many of these Termagants I needed to support the Tervigons, but better to have too many than too few. Plus it buys me more time to try and get some now out of production Tomb Kings model for the other army I had planned to do.

Oh I should mention February consists of 20 Termagants, a Tervigon (with a converted Norn Crown) and a Tyrannofex with a Rupture Cannon.

Not had the chance to photographs febs work yet. Will do once I get a chance.

Thanks for the kind words on my models - they are the basic models from the Age of Sigmar set.

They were actually pretty easy to paint -
black undercoat sprayed.
then white sprayed from a high angle,
then some washes - just over the white/black,
then some block colours,
then a few last washes.

the bases all have some details from the citadel warhammer basing kit (which I have been meaning to use for ages), or some of the unused bits from the bloodreaver sprues.

This thread has really helped me focus my painting / hobby time!

Mission accomplished.

Start Collecting Khorne and Skarbrand completed!



I still need to base a few Bloodletters. I ran out of glue.

Got those darned Bloodcrushers all wrapped up.



And well into my stretches for February... but that's because I started them in the middle of the month as I was getting sick of painting various shades of red.



I think March will be my time to finish up my Start Collecting Tau, and then it's on to character models for a bit. Maybe some undead stuff. Possibly a few random Brimstone figures.

Nice Khorne army there highlord

I decided to take the morning of the leap year to add a few to my model count.

4 bookcases, 3 tables, 2 podiums and 2 fatty walkers. Not bad for an uninterupted hour or 2(doesn't happen except every 4 years).

Taking a break from painting Epic for this month and moving onto my 30 kmechanicum.

Got to paint;

9 thallax
Character
Thanatar
3 vorax

All assembled and based just need painting.
Do need to bend and fit the ammo feeds for the vorax however.

Goal wise I want a unit of 3 thallax done minimum.
Hoping to get a second done or maybe the thanatar aswell.

Taken last minute, so excuse the awful pictures, its been an exam month (well, most are, but Feb is specially crazy ).




So, blondie carrot, snippey, token female and token black guy.

I think March is going to be paras for a change.

One last wee stretch goal fig. Finished him up yesterday but after 8 hours of painting was too pooped to bother with photoing!! Sgt Lorenzo come on down! Gonna get proper photos of everything down later today.

Just wanted to say thanks again to Azazelx for setting this up and getting so many people motivated to paint up the boxes of misfit toys that have been sitting around for so long. It has also brought even more plogs into my view and made me feel better knowing I'm not the only one out there with a get everything I buy painted disorder .

Wow great work everyone!

Right - proper photos finally all taken and sorted. Spoliered them as there's a fair few and they're kinda big



So there we go, February done. Quite happy what I got done in 10 days. March goals up soon

Sorry, had posted this earlier in the thread and then been too busy to repost:

Lovely stuff again!

Januine - Where did you get the base for Lorenzo? Looks nice

My target for March is to paint these happy little fellows:

@ Slinky - I bought a whole pile of them from Fenris Games so can base all of the Space Hulk Termies properly. ABout 11 quid for 16 of them. Very nice bases - perfect casts and a pleasure to paint. Did take a while for delivery mind. Here;s the link:

http://fenrisgames.com/shop#!/FGCBSUL40-40mm-round-Sulaco/p/12651160/category=6759449

They are nice, I am looking for something to base my SH minis on, will add those to the list

Yea - they're definitely worth it; gorgeous figs sure deserving of some decent bsing. Still cant figure what they were thinking putting such top notch figs on such gakky moulded bases. As the lady says......

 Slinky wrote:

Ahh! classic grots. Those spiked helmets always hurt like hell when stood on accidentally...

Yep, painful - Though nothing can ever beat the pain inflicted by the 4th ed Warhammer goblins with spears

You guys are making my feet hurt with all the nostalgia . Think I still have a few of both of the goblin units laying about somewhere.....

Just finished priming Wrath of Ashardalon. Looking forward to painting it up - will put a group shot of the whole pledge up here shortly.