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Hi, just noticed that my pledges for this month haven't been added to the OP. Would I be able to get those put in please?

No problem. I tend to do the current month about once a week. Pretty much when I get around to updating/maintaining the thread which will usually be sometime on the weekend. Sometimes I might not do them at all for a week or two - the main focus is to have them all up at the end of the month rather than in the OP immediately. There's been a couple of months when I've only put them all up at the end. It's nothing personal, you'll notice that neither of my own pics for this month are in the OP yet.

Ah ok, I understand you. Thanks anyway, really appreciate what you do running this!

I have done a lot less than I had hoped to do this month but I have at least done something....


Capitol Light Infantry. I have nearly finished this army now, I am half way through my Banshee Linebreakers so I will get them finished this week. After that I have either another squad of Light Infantry or some Purple Sharks to paint. I already have the Sharks but I'm not sure what condition they are in....



Epic Ork Boyz and the Nobz stand I painted last month. I have 1 more stand of Boyz to paint and that will be me finished all the infantry I need.

Nice work, Puffin. Another unit is still a good thing!

I've updated the OP with everything I'm aware of - as always if I've missed anything please LMK. It's time to start wrapping up May with photos and such as we head into the final month of this first Tale of Gamers that I've run here.

I do intend to run a second one in 2016, from July-December. I'll post it up in the last 7-10 days of June, so please wait until then to state your interest. It'll essentially be much the same as this one, but it'll give people a chance to change armies and will probably have slightly fewer signups - (though probably the same number of active participants!)

Well I've got a dragon turtle painted already. I just assembled and primed a slightly modified orc gore rider to serve as a rider for the turtle. So I'll have a bit of a ramshackle krudger on slasher for the month. If I can paint one orc in the next few days. With Monday off for the holiday... maybe I can get that done.

It's not that I haven't been doing anything, just not much. Finished 9 barbarians(ish) to use as tribals for a TNT warband just now, but they aren't the theme

I think I really need to do a block for the final month's entry though. Right now there's one regular infantry block, a block of cavalry, two mini blocks of swarm chaff, a foot character, and soon to be a monster mounted character. Maybe if I could get the trolls done. Or the orc archer unit that's primed and I started. I couldn't get into the goblin archer the first time I tried but we'll see.

Torn about the next competition. I started out pretty strong with the orcs but fell behind pretty hard. Not sure if it's really them or not. I'd like to have my first finished fantasy force in forever (my empire and skaven have fallen to ruins and no longer count as nearly complete) but if I define a looser set of parameters I may be able to tough out stronger results. Something like a batch of Infinity or a TNT warband a month. I'd have to pick one, of course, but still.

Really nice work lately guys, this is an inspiring group project.

I'm in a similar boat. I've managed to get something done each month for both Undead and Gondor, but I'm getting sick to death of both of them, as much as I'd like to have all of the figures painted. I think for the second half of the year I'll aim for one of either rather than one of each. I'll still go for a unit of something else as a monthly stretch aim, but if I open it up I'll be able to have a lot more fun painting.

My Tau Piranha is nearly done, I should have a final pic for you by the end of the month.

The WIP of it is looking great.

I'm going to throw this guy in as a stretch goal of sorts - As a Daemon Slayer, he's a hero model, so he counts all by his lonesome. And I will get Dwarves up and running at some stage...



More here.

Happy Memorial Day everyone. Thanks to all the veterans out there who have given their lives, bodies and time in service to our country.

Well May.

I've gotten 4.......4 models done




But on the good side, if there's not an hospital trip today for either of my parents that will be the first time since June of last year that we've gone a whole month without an overnight stay .

Just in the nick of time for may - genestealer hybrids the next generation -

Another set of winners, Weety!

Made it by the skin of my teeth (again, seems to be a regular event for me). But here is my addition for May and the first addition to my Bretonnian army. A unit of Knight Errant.

Lovely stuff Archer and Weety, got my GoA stuff done just a few minutes ago, so here are the 12 miniatures. The tale has been a great motivator, otherwise I would have painted very little this month.

Namely a Concord Mandarin NuHu (with Nano Probe), Concord Strike Squad and a Algoryn AI Assault Squad:

Excuse the dull pictures, it has been very overcast today:



More spoilered to not clog up the thread:



I will be considering June's entry models in a few days. Good luck to any last minute entrants.

Your stuff *almost* makes me want to pick up some Antares stuff Thraxas. Very nice. Liking the floaty guy especially.

I guess I'll do a last minute post of all the stuff I painted this month. I think it was chaos stuff. I think I did the Varanguard back at the beginning of the month.

I'm going to try and finish the entire Bloodbound unit before Friday. I think I can do it!

I started the bulk of them this weekend, but the ones that were further along than the rest were all painted this month as well.



Friday is my deadline because I'll be on the plane that morning with no access to painting tools or toys for the next month, so I think I'm going to have to sit out June (but double down on July!).

Everything looks great. I'm particularly impressed by the Gates of Antares stuff.

I didn't finish as much in May as I had hoped to:


More here. I think June will be Deadzone month for me.

Here's my final May submission. Neferata, Vampire Lord and her cat, Bastet.



Just getting this one up now before I go crash into bed. I'll be back tomorrow night with comments and feedback for others (hopefully)

Some great output there Highlord, I found all the skin on the Bloodhound a pain to pain but it is a great looking unit and it looks like you will have them all done in short order.

JiJ: That is near as damn it a miniature painted every two days, most painters would be stoked with that. I like seeing your historicals as it is an area of wargaming that I know nothing about, nice work on the KOW Ogres too.

Az: Good to see that you have been able to get back to your brushes, your stretch goals are especially good this month.

Hope to see a few more entries for last month trickle through.

@azazelx I failed to finished the 12 models I had in progress last month. I will battle on to finish them and post when done. For June I am going to make a start on my Doctor Who figures with Davros and some Daleks. Well, that's the plan anyway

I'm late, I suck, I know!!!! Here's May's completed stuffs!!
1 Thanatar Siege Automata, Hlaine 'Mad-as-feth' Larkin' in a scene from one of the Gaunt's Ghosts stories and..........20 doors!!!!!! Yup......20 bloody (well...some bloody, some alien gore(y) ) doors from Space Hulk.....my main goal is to finish painting the SH boxed set by the end of the Summer so this is definitely progress......of a sort

Wow! All of that is wonderful - How did you do the alien gore?

Great work Januine that Thantor is still shear awesomeness.

Cheers lads. For the alien gore I used the 'majortom' method. Hot glue stretched from point to point and the whe cooled, paint over it. Can be a bit fiddly but comes out nicely

Failed again this month:

Challenge was 5 Chaos warriors and 6 Bloodreavers...

Bloodreavers were ok:



Chaos Warriors not quite done.... I finished one to show what they will look like...

Chaos guys look nice. At least you've started your Blood Warriors- that's more than I can say for myself!

Big fan of the bones littering the bases. Going to need to find me some bone pieces to litter my bases with. What do you suggest?

My bases each have one of the resin pieces from the gw warhammer basing kit. I guess it would be fairly easy to get the same effect with skulls / bones from your blitz box.

June's mission - get this 'next to be painted/in progress shelf' cleared. These guys been hanging around for ages. No more big fancy projects of whatnot till these folk are totally sorted and done!!

My goal for June is going to be to get the damn airships done. After that, Raging Heroes and if I have enough drive to get through those, I'll try to work on Mercs Recon stuff.

My goal for June is to get my Targ done for Hordes (first of the Piggies yay!) finish my Malifaux crew, and make a start on the termagants that I've been putting off all year

My goal for June is to try not to order *too* many new figures while I'm not home.

I'm afraid two days in I've already failed that goal...