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So, I've just had my mid-semester holiday.

I'd originally had ~ 2 tac squads fully fieldable with their transports, LR and a 5-er of terminators, and a 5-er of sternguards with transport. not to mention some assault marines, a vindicator and a scout squad.

Y'know, a decent 1,750 point list.

Now, I'm looking at my progress over... 9 days, and I'm realising I've done alot more then I set out to.

Aside from a tonne of schoolwork and actual gaming/socialising, I've managed to get under my belt...

10-man tac squad with Heavy and specialist etc.
5 more terminators
2 [current project] Snipers
Finished painting all vehicles [4]
And, I cleaned up my family garage [I'm 15] and bought a table tennis table, which is conveniently 4' * 8', so perfect for gaming.

Finally, I managed to turn a box of command squad into 4 plasma gun vets a apothecary and a captain.

I managed to make all guns from conversions, and am rather proud of some of the work I've done. [to be posted.]

What've your accomplishments been, this holiday [or, over the past 9 days, I suppose.]

I started a fire warrior. So proud of myself...

Too busy with the new Mortal Kombat to paint

Holidays are when I stop painting!

R.

I'd like to paint some this weekend, but I'm busy uploading datacards for DP9...

Congratulations!

Post some pics in P&M!

I dug up some old junk I had lying around here, and built a Catachan mortar team, a Manticore, and built a cool wrecked landspeeder piece of terrain using a CD as a base, a busted old landspeeder, and some rocks from my driveway. Nothing too much since I've been painting a lot int he weeks before this.

I painted my count as Sergeant Kell, and a couple objectives.

I decided on a set color scheme for regular Cadians (pretty close to the official one) and painted up 53 guardsmen in that scheme in approximately 9 days. Now I'm doing the fine details, decals, and basing on them.

I pulled out the bits box and made a Khorne SM asp champ with 2 power fists...yeah its not 40k legal but it looks really cool.

The last 9 days?

Painted up three models.
I take the long view, myself. Sometimes quicker isn't better.

The last 20-something years?

12,000 pts of marines.
12,000 pts of eldar.
4500 pts of DH
3500 pts of guard.

Models 5 other game systems with armies no longer played.

Chrome, I wasn't trying to belittle anyone. I was just amazed how much I got done.

I didn't think you were.

Nor was my own post intended as a "grandstanding, 'hey look at what I've done.' post. It was my clumsy way of making a point about it not necessarily being all about who does stuff faster. Hare and tortoise - we know how that turned out, right?

It's just that I see younger players going hammer and tongs at the game, playing it for days at a time, and then burning out a year later.

The candle that burns twice as fast burns half as long, and all that.

I'm happy that you get stuff done fast. Other people (often older) have other priorities that means gaming stuff takes a back seat.

Moderation is important, but so are goals and objectives.

Just one Dreadnought's legs :(
Better get on with it.

@chrome, I had my school holidays, given you live in Australia, you'd appreciate it with the recent long weekend [I'd assume you went to school here.]

Now, while I never meant it in the way that I do work to fast [I've completed maybe 1000 points this year, including this.] Because, really, I don't.

And I'd hate gaming more then once or twice a day. its interesting, but too many games would ruin the special thing about having the odd game/gamesday. I think it'd be stupid.

But, alas, good work over your years. ;D

While sitting here in front of movies and forums, I managed to assemble my SW force. This includes clipping, cleaning and a warm soapy water bath to ensure all release agent was off them.

20 Grey hunters
5 Wolf Scouts
2 Drop pods
5 Long Fangs
5 TDA Wolf Guard (awaiting combi melta/cyclones)
Logan
Scibor Sci Fi Celt 2

Still many more to arrive once this lot is painted.

I've rebased 70 odd orks with another 40-50 to go. O_o
It's a job that's needed doing for at least 3 years, and I am not enjoying it. But it will be done. And then I will not touch them again.

I got my gaming stuff moved to the new house and got shocked at how much a Spyrer Matriarch went for on eBay. I haven't painted mine yet, so now I'm debating just pitching it up there and seeing how it does.

Of course, first, I need to get my furniture moved.

Damn priorities.

Last nine days...one ork boy, but he's a beauty if I do say so myself. I keep trying to do these guys more assembly line style, but I keep getting enthused about a particular one and paint them one by one.

squad of berserkers which I put up in the P&M, putting the final touches on an ongoing Kharn model, and got another squad of 7 zerkers half done. The core of my khornate force should be finished in a week!

Made a base for my shiny new forgeworld dreadnought! Of course, I am simultaneously out of glue, primer and money to get on with the project....

*looks at assembled, unpainted tau battleforce*

*looks at final exam schedule for next week*

So that will brings my total for the last 2 weeks, and the next week to zero. But wait until next week is over...

2 days ago i finished converting Chakax eternal warden.
Its by far my proudest conversion , now if i can just paint it properly -.-

Last week I was able to finish a Predator (See here: http://www.dakkadakka.com/gallery/213781-Predator%20Destructor.html?m=2 ).

This week, I've been shut in my room studying for Finals. Good thing they're on Friday.

So far this year, nothing......not a grot! BUT, I'm picking up some old skool Termies this Friday and giving over a whole day to those on Saturday. As long as my new copy of Mortal Kombat does not turn up that day

chromedog wrote:I didn't think you were.

Nor was my own post intended as a "grandstanding, 'hey look at what I've done.' post. It was my clumsy way of making a point about it not necessarily being all about who does stuff faster. Hare and tortoise - we know how that turned out, right?

Yeah, the hare was shot repeatedly by the tortoise's shell-mounted chain gun. (see avatar for details)

It's just that I see younger players going hammer and tongs at the game, playing it for days at a time, and then burning out a year later.

The candle that burns twice as fast burns half as long, and all that.

I'm happy that you get stuff done fast. Other people (often older) have other priorities that means gaming stuff takes a back seat.

Moderation is important, but so are goals and objectives.

I'm of the same philosophy and make sure that clients of my comission painting and converting service understand that it may take me a little longer than other folks that offer the same service because it's not my day job to paint. Well, actually, that's not quite true - I paint at my day job.

I've painted about half a dozen Sternguard, a Landraider Crusader, a Landspeeder Storm, 2 epic chaos titans, an epic seeker of Slaanesh, and 4 epic rhinos. I'm working on a counts-as Lysander conversion at the moment, as well as 3 epic chaos Predators, an epic chaos Landraider, and 3 epic hellknights. Then there's the 20ish scouts and 30ish sternguard that have some paint on them (3 color standard at worst, but I want my Fists army to be painted to a high standard before fielding them) but are far from finished; 7 Vanguard Vets, 3 Rhinos, a dakka Pred, a Predator Annihilator, and a pair of Vindicators waiting for primer.

Back to work!