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Hey Az, I would like to join as well. My army will be pre-heresy 30k marines.

I would like to get done at least one squad 5-10 marines or one character a month.

Trying to figure out this camera I haven't used in like 6 years so I can take pics again.

This should be fun

I'm up for it. I have two Dark Angels armies I'd like to work on, Ravenwing and a Lion's Blade with +10 vehicles and +60 infantry.

I promised myself that I would join in for round 2 to get myself to actually paint, and I meant it!

I am in. The real question is what army I should work on... Nids, Brets, 30k, LotR... Considering I have a (supposedly) active blog for my 30k Raven Guard, I guess I should go with them.
My pledge will be 10 tac marines and 1 "other" each month. That will at least keep me busy until October.

First up will be 10 marines and the chaplain.

So... planning phase.

I've decided that I'm going to start off working on the figures from the Iron Kingdoms Unleashed Roleplaying Game Adventure Kit and Super Dungeon Explore: Forgotten King as my initial two games. I figure getting one "set" of fogires out of the way for each in a month is a reasonable goal.

For those who aren't aware, here's what is in each box.

Iron Kingdoms Unleashed:


SDE: Forgotten King:


July is a bit of a short month for me, as I'm away for a week at the end of the month. As a result, I'm not looking to be too ambitious in the first month of this Tale. As a result, I think my initial goals will be:

IK: Unleashed - 2 Razor Boars
SDE: Forgotten King - Either the Old-Growth Hollow Spawning Points or the Trasure Chests, once I've had a better look at the Spawning Points. If I do the Treasure Chests, I'll also bundle in the one I have from a metal SDE Dwarf, and possibly the ones from my SDE 1.0 set. Pretty repetitive work in that case, but it'll bulk them out a bit.

This is the first time I've worked with the IK board game plastic, and I can see it is going to be more of a pain than the plastic kits. There are clear injection sites on the back of the bases for the Razor Boars, but attempts at cleaning them up with clippers (for the big bits) and a file don't seem to have worked. Time to break out the modelling knife, methinks...

The IK:U figures are also fairly shiny, making me suspect the presence of release agent, so they'll be getting a warm water bath before basing/undercoating. The polearms for the Slaughterhouses will need straightening out as well, and I may need to break out the Liquid Green Stuff for a couple of gaps on some of the figures.

Anyway - why am I doing the Razor Boars first? Well, this won't be the first time I've painted Razor Boars, though obviously these won't be metal. In fact, I'm now wondering if I got the heads on my metal ones the wrong way round. Fortunately, it means I've got a pretty good idea what I need to do to get these painted up - I figure I have a reasonable shot at getting the pair done in a week, once the prep work is done...

I'll put in my pledge for the coming month while I'm at it: more tanks!

On the bench right now are a pair of Leman Russ tanks, a half-done Stormsword, a new Vanquisher turret for my ace, three tank commanders and various smaller bits and bobs like banners and the like to make these boring slabs of grey armour pop a bit more.

I'm hoping to at the very least get the two Russ tanks done, along with one of the tank commanders.

I'm starting with... well, a whole lot of things that have been rudely shoved aside as I focused on Skeletons and Gondor to the exclusion of finishing other models.

I've just started working on a trio of push-for CSM in Iron Warriors colours from the Assassinorum: Execution Force boardgame. I'll try and get that first bloody Minotaurs SM squad done (4 models to go), and I've got another dozen Zombies on the go as well as another unit of a dozen Brigade Models' skeletons that I've just sprayed bone over the past few days. Along with 9 Reaper Bones Skeletons from Bones II.

Dunno how much of that I'll get done in July. I'd like to get all of it, but hopefully at least a few. I'm hoping my more eclectic approach to round 2 will keep me from getting bored as I did in the first challenge.

Well, if we're announcing our July goals, then mine is going to be Deep Wars. My goal shall be to complete at least five Dark Mariners. Basically, I'll be finishing my Dark Mariner Shadow Sea starter set, which has three of the four figures left (I finished the Cavern Crawler a long while ago) and I'll try to do two additional blisters. Should be fun painting them again, though I don't look forward to the Dagathonian.

I'm in ill be posting renegade militia

I'll be doing a unit of 30 Stormvermin and a Grey Seer as my base pledge, and as stretch goals a Farrow Razorback Crew and an Exalted Deathbringer with Impaling Spear.

If you're looking for a specific goal for July, I will try to get a Pathfinder team done for my Tau.

Posting here so I can track the topic again. Was great motivation the first half of the year so here is to knocking off some Bretonnians and moving into 40k again.

I would like to participate in this! I would like to paint a 40k Space Marine army. They'll be of a chapter of my own creation: The Storm Guard. For July I'll paint and finish a Rhino.

The end goal is a 2000pt Gladius Strike Force army.

My July goal will be my Panzer Grenadiers. 3 squads and a command team, 26 models in all but I may throw in a couple of extras.

Might as well make my pledge for July, I'm planning on doing a handful of skirmishers and their officer. Plus I have everything I need for the mystery project so hopefully I will find time to do that too.

Given we're in July now, I guess it is time to get to work...

*sounds the shift change bell*

Quite right! I failed to get anything done in June, July must be different!

 Dysartes wrote:
Given we're in July now, I guess it is time to get to work...

*sounds the shift change bell*

Righto!

Just reminded myself to subscribe to help me remember . Zombies are already lining up for painting .

I will work on my Imperial Fists. Every month, I'll paint one squad, or one vehicle, towards that goal.

Time to reveal the mystery project. I spent this evening working on the early stages of my new portable game board. It's 75cm by 50cm, perfect for taking a game designed for 28mm scale minis and inch based measurements and scaling down to 15mm scale or below and switching to centimetre. For example the Sharp Practice stuff I'm doing at the moment.

So here's the step by step so far, step 1:

Get a piece of MDF, I got this cut to size for free at B&Q saving me a job I'm useless at. Thanks tiny B&Q employee (seriously she was like 4 foot tall at most).



Step 2:

Stick some cork to the top, this will help deaden the noise made by rolled dice and things like that. I used spray glue (the sort you'd use for car headlining or something like that) as it's quick and easy.



Step 3:

Glue your chosen ground cover on top of the cork, I used the sort of flock covered roll normally sold to railway modellers. It's cheap stuff and it will wear out eventually, on the plus side though it's nothing that can't be fixed with some glue and flock. I used a combination of glue and staples to hold the edges on the back of the board. Looks messy but it'll keep it in place. Most of it will be covered with the edging material though.



Next step preview:

So next I will be cutting an edging material to size (need to borrow my parents mitre saw for that), staining it a nice colour and nailing it to the board.



So yeah that's my mystery project revealed.

Pretty cool looking project .

That table is brilliant. I look forward to more WIP pics.

I would like to join this as well as this will help keep me motivated.

I'd like to do Heavy Gear Blitz and Infinity as my two games. I'll start with a squad of Gears and a couple of Morats.

Theophony wrote:Pretty cool looking project .

JoshInJapan wrote:That table is brilliant. I look forward to more WIP pics.

Thanks chaps, I'm pretty happy with how it's turned out so far. Now I just need to make sure I don't feth up the edging.

Hi Az.

I am a bit ashamed of dropping out last time round. I had a pretty huge RL load (annual job assessment, job interview, new job and Masters dissertation) culminate in the last 3 days and I now have time to think (and more importantly hobby!).

Please feel free to tell me to get lost, but if you'll have me I wanted to have a more focused pledge for Space Hulk.

I figure it's a clever setup because I will pledge to complete the 23 Genestealers (incl Broodlord) over the six months with the remaining 225 (if I counted right) elements (door edges, termies, tile edges counter edges, door bases, dead termie, chalice and C.A.T.) that I have not finished yet counted as stretch goals.

That works out as 4 stealers a month plus whatever else I can get done.

Does that sound ok?

I'm in again. My two biggies are to finish space hulk (really need to get my thumb out on this one) and execution force. If things go well, I'll make a start on DW:O as stretch goals (and presuming my bases ever arrive from Waylaid Games)

Ok so shamelessly switching topics for my entries... gonna switch to small squad/team/warband/unit/etc's every month. Ideally what I'll do will range from minimum:squad (3-5 minis, whatever actually makes a squad of the thing I'm doing) to maximum:faction (involving a squad or two, plus independent support figures, or possibly 10-15 loosely collected minis making up a TNT warband or Infinity force).

I want to focus on things that look at least somewhat at home in a ruined city because I've got a 4x4' board worth of battle systems coming in a month or two (or three?)

Probably work on the additional figures I've gotten for my USAriadna Ranger Force, maybe my Morats, possibly my Get Started: Tau, and so on. We'll see what I can do.

I also want to try to do at least one small-medium piece of scenery each month that either fits the theme of the group I'm doing, or that fits a secondary theme: deadzone demo kit. If I can finish 4 forge father models and get enough painted terrain for a 2x2' deadzone board, I'll have a nice compact demo kit I can lug around to show off deadzone. So any time I can't think of a suitable terrain piece for the faction I'm building...I'll just work on one for my demo kit.

Stretch goals will likely include additional scatter scenery to go with the post apoc city terrain, unaffiliated survivors, and zombies.

Wish me luck because finding time to paint is like pulling teeth right now

Love the idea and I'd love to be a part of it.

I'll aim high and list two projects.

I'll be starting an Ultramarines 4th Company and finishing off a Genestealer Cult.

For the First month I'll aim to round out some troops. I'll look to finish a Tactical Squad and an Infantry Squad.

OP updated with new participants. We now have 32, so I'll be closing it shortly, though reserving the right to add in any participants from the previous challenge and anyone else I decide is a special snowflake.

The board is looking sweet, Nick.

TP^DC - no problem mate - gak happens in life, after all. It's much more about people who sign up and then are never heard from again.