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So if you don't mind, how big is the hunter? The price they recently deployed for those on their website is pretty darn competitive, even if it only fits a 40mm base, but I don't think I've seen too many comparison shots in the wild, as it were.

Those Algoryns are looking awesome.

I guess we can call this a "stretch goal" if you want



I need to finish up his skelebros and then I can get on to some Orcs (or maybe Infinity... but I'd like to do orcs).


So I bugged Azazelx and he's shooting for a round 2 for the second half of the year. Anyone thought up some projects already? I'm torn myself, I'd like to continue plugging away at one concrete "army" sized project (could even still be orcs!) but the 'new faction every month' approach people have been doing is cool and could really push me to finish some Infinity or knock out some TNT warbands.

2nd half of the year would probably be my GoA Concord, failing that I still have a few Stormcast Eternals to paint up.

I've still got more than enough Ogres to go a 2nd round. Still plugging away on this initial batch. At least I've almost got my first Mournfangs done.

I think round 2 for me is getting lots of DeepWars and ShadowSea stuff finished...

....and then I'm thinking of randomly pulling a handful of random Bones models out to paint for skirmish games. Maybe every 5 or 6 models has to constitute a new warband?

Edged 10 Space Hulk floor tiles last night. The collage shows the stack before painting, the difference with and without paint and then the ten all painted up:

I suppose this is my official stretch goal 1 because it's actually completed. The two models are still ongoing.

Sorry for sort of photo-dumping, just finally found a way to keep my motivation and productivity with the hobby up. I sometimes find it hard to do work on a model of an evening, but edging a couple of tiles is far more manageable and I am reducing the amount of stuff that I need to get done

 GrimDork wrote:
So if you don't mind, how big is the hunter? The price they recently deployed for those on their website is pretty darn competitive, even if it only fits a 40mm base, but I don't think I've seen too many comparison shots in the wild, as it were.

Hey, sorry for delay, been very distracted over the weekend. The Hunter is only a little bigger than a SM Terminator. Here's a photo for scale:

Well here is the update for today.

That's the last of my 2000 points for this army. I still need to re-address the giant, which I have an Idea about, but otherwise thats 27 models in a month. More of these will be next as the stretch goal.....just as soon as I find where I put them . But my goal for April was to complete my first ever fully painted army (2000 points). Done. 30+ years of screwing around has come to a close. Now there's still base work that can be done for these guys, but I consider them done to tabletop standard right now. I have a cunning plan for their movement trays, but that is another story, which might be completed by the end of the month, but could also just play with these riding on the green GW trays till then.

completed army shot.


Onto some stretch goals

Nice stuff guys!

That hunter is enough bigger than the terminators and has enough extra parts that $10 for one isn't too bad. Thanks for the photo.

Nice stuff, guys, and congratulations Theo on getting a whole bloody army done!

I've come up with a cunning idea for myself for the second round. Neither the Gondor nor the Undead will be finished by then, but I find I keep getting out other interesting models and units out to paint when I finish the "pledge" for the month, only to have to shove them back into the background as the months speed by to concentrate on the "pledge" topic again.

The Gondor figures have an actual end in sight. There's still quite a lot of them to go, but it's still quite achievable. The undead.... well there's a real serious lot of them. Hundreds and hundreds. Not a short-term project, and I may easily join them in death before they're all done (seriously - because there's a LOT of them).

SO, for round two, I'm going to go for "Gondor+1". Which reminds me of that South Park episode "Faith+1" every time I say or think it. The plan will be that I finish at least a unit (or hero, war machine, monster, etc) for Gondor each month, plus one unit (or hero, war machine, vehicle, monster, team, warband, etc) for any other force from any other game. This will motivate me not only to finish the next unit of Gondormans each month until they're all finally bloody done, but it'll also incentivise me to finish the Night Goblin Netter/Clubbers, and the Skaven Plague Censer Bearers, and the Viking Hearthguard, and Be'Lakor, and the Marauder Giant (remember those two?) and the Minotaur Tactical Squads, and anything and everything else that's slowly clogging up my desk without getting completed. I might even do some more undeads.

As long as I finish at least one Gondor unit, and something that can legitimately be considered a "unit" of any kind for another game (especially KoW, 40k, SAGA, SBG, etc), then I'm good. This is just enough structure so that I can't finish off a single Plague Marine and call it a unit. Or a random Moria goblin or and claim it as "a unit for SOB&H". Even though it probably could be.

That's a great and cunning plan to get one army completed, just don't let the other model trick you into painting them first.

 TP^DC Deputy Manager wrote:
Edged 10 Space Hulk floor tiles last night. The collage shows the stack before painting, the difference with and without paint and then the ten all painted up:

I suppose this is my official stretch goal 1 because it's actually completed. The two models are still ongoing.

Sorry for sort of photo-dumping, just finally found a way to keep my motivation and productivity with the hobby up. I sometimes find it hard to do work on a model of an evening, but edging a couple of tiles is far more manageable and I am reducing the amount of stuff that I need to get done

Now that I see this I look to my giant box of Space Hulk tiles....

No... I just...can't...

 DarkStarSabre wrote:

 TP^DC Deputy Manager wrote:
Edged 10 Space Hulk floor tiles last night. The collage shows the stack before painting, the difference with and without paint and then the ten all painted up:

I suppose this is my official stretch goal 1 because it's actually completed. The two models are still ongoing.

Sorry for sort of photo-dumping, just finally found a way to keep my motivation and productivity with the hobby up. I sometimes find it hard to do work on a model of an evening, but edging a couple of tiles is far more manageable and I am reducing the amount of stuff that I need to get done

Now that I see this I look to my giant box of Space Hulk tiles....

No... I just...can't...

Go on, you know you want to

I am pretty certain I am going to move onto Bretonnia next. Have had a lot of success from home town gamers contributing to my army plan and almost have enough of the models I need to do both of the Bretonnian armies i wanted to do. Just need 14 damn horses.......

So what that means is once the Nids are done I will do oone of the Bretonnian ones. Open to voting on which one first.

What's the difference between them?

Bretonnian Army - Baron Reinholf’s Household
Bretonnian Army - The "Vain" Quest for the Grail, the 11th Crusade of Araby

Ah, Baron Reinholf's Household is a Peasant that has somehow managed to be elevated to that of a Knight so its his budding fiefdom, not many Knights as no noble would be seen dead with him, so heaps of peasants (Men-at-Arms, Archers, Mounted Yeoman etc). The Vain quest is a crusading force so lots of Questing Knights and Knight Errant.

I think I'd like to see lots of knights for your first Bretonnian force.

first stretch goal of the monthfor me is completed, introducing the Avatar of the Abyss (counts as mammoth with balista)





which brings me up to the current state of the army.

The flaming Monkey is looking more and more out of place next to these guys, he'll have to be allied in or something

about 2200 points of Kings of War Ogre counts as.

I finally have an update to share:



more here. I actually finished these guys on Monday, but haven't found time to photograph them before now. Sorry the photos aren't better...

Cool! I have a whole box of those on the shelf somewhere gathering dust.

April done! Deathwing terminator squad from dark vengeance. I painted these with selling them in mind if anyone's interested:



Small pic:

Last weekend, I noticed that a unit of spearmen just needed command to be finished. I'd had a pair of normal spearmen in the front rank who had been removed in order to make a horde-sized unit when KoW went to second edition, and the unit had just been sitting there with a big hole in it ever since. So I grabbed out a command pair and got them painted!



Which in turn completed this unit!

Looking good - I like the blue edging on the shields, gives a very nice effect!

Unfortunately I haven't had the brushes out this month yet, I was struck down with the flu, and now I have to prepare for impending building work on my house - Hope to get back into the swing of it next week...

They look great all together, can't wait for the full army shot. I like how the commander got a little bling without it being too ornate.

Sorry guys, due to constant issues and hospital visits/stays I'm falling behind this month.
Have made progress on the thanatar but will struggle I think.

My haul from Salute so for next month I will aim to do the Warzone stuff and make a start on the Panzer Grenadiers. I'm going to wait until I get an airbrush before I paint the vehicles though.

This month I have painted a single Nobz stand for my Speed Freaks so not even worth taking a photo

Still got the better part of a fortnight to get some more Orkses painted, Puffin.

And that's an impressively restrained haul from Salute, I must say.

 Dysartes wrote:
Still got the better part of a fortnight to get some more Orkses painted, Puffin.

I have a nasty exam on the 29th so I will be unfortunately busy.

My April pledge is all finished up. I present 5 Pytheus class small flyers for the Covenant of Antarctica.



I've split the Airfleet box, so next month I'll be doing the battleships. I wanted to focus this month on working on my backlog more than anything, so I should hopefully have a lot of stretch goals this month. I've already completed the first one, the Proteus combat mech.

Progress of this month's stuff. Ruststalkers nearly finished. Termies..... Underway. 'Stealers.....getting there and annoying part done. Tech priest needs some love!!

Wrapped up my 30k Heavy Support Squad today, and I have a lot more planned for this week. Tomorrow I'm priming and starting work on 16 Tactical Marines, the Imperial Space Marine I grabbed on the weekend, and my Bane Thrall Officer and Standard, and hopefully getting at least the marines close to done. Once they're finished it's onto the Thralls and Warwitch Deneghra, and after that finishing up as many Skaven models as I can (the Skaven are mostly just basing jobs, although my Clanrats are not going to be based anytime in the near future due to the sheer amount of them). Pics will definitely be up by Sunday, although how much I will get done remains to be seen.

I hit another stretch goal today, the Condor Heavy Lift VTOL from Clearhorizon Miniatures.

I've been slacking this month. Just haven't found the time to do as much painting as I'd like. I'm hoping to find a few hours later this week, finish up some Tyranids.