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Mayday! Mayday!

Everybody's vow this month should be 'finishing dat Tau Riptide!'

haha j/k

I don't have anything planned in particular yet... give me a couple days...

Lets hear what ya got!

Complete Deathwing Termy squads and HQ...

Prime & Base coat 24 genestealers and BL ...

Glue a heap of laser-cut board pieces together and prime them...

even if it kills me.

This I vow.

going to keep it simple this month:

1. assemble, magnetize and paint stormtalon
2. assemble, magnetize and paint predator

stretch goal (really unlikely):

1. assemble, magnetize and paint drop pod

A simple one here...finish painting my helions.

I'll have my first 1200 or so points of Tau (including a Riptide) painted by the end of the month, I think.

In a broader scope, and extending well beyond May (although the plan was formed at the beginning of the month, and priorities set), my vow now is to do at least an hour's painting a night, until I get this:



fully completed. I'm roughly guessing at around 5 years til it's done, if I can keep on task.



I have about 16 years of GW accumulation to get painted up.

To paint my incredibly old minis that I've had since the 4th grade. I have Bugman's Ranger Dwarves from what I think might be the late 80s.

Here's what I want to get done in May:
1. Convert and paint my DV Terminators
2. Convert my DV tac squad into stern guard and paint.
3. Take old metal Dark Angels characters, Ultramarines honor guard veterans and standard bearer, and old metal apothicary and convert them to a cohesive Doom Eagles command squad.

The May board:


That may end up being plenty of pain for 1 month, but as a stretch:
4. Sculpt some Rhino doors, front panel, back door, etc... And maybe do up a full conversion for what will be my standard Rhino look.

1- Finish Marine Cpt
2- Tyberous the Red Wake
3- Re-finish the four legged Hive Tyrant.

Simple task to get me back on track with painting.

1) Finish my Valkyries finally (almost there!)
2) Paint 10 man squad (be it DA, BT, or IG)
3) Assemble, prime, and paint 2 Blackwater Gulch gangs. (Have them almost assembled. Down to 4 small bits)

Goal 3 will have a few subgoals with it.
1) Get the hang of pinning (have one pinning done)
2) Find a better primer
3) Try a new technique for painting

1) Finish 1hand/shield Chaos warrior unit.
2) Get started on Halberd Chaos warrior unit.


Goals
Consider new paint theme for Halberd unit

1) Finish painting Alice in Wonderland figures
2) Finish painting Aspiring Champion
3) paint space marine squad with son
4) finish cyber grot kit and prepare for casting

Ugh...

I am still trying to finish my three IG Vendettas.

They are base painted, have the decals well applied, and had basic battle damage and weathering. Now I have to start on the advanced weathering with pigments...and do something with their bases.

 JB wrote:
Ugh...

I am still trying to finish my three IG Vendettas.

They are base painted, have the decals well applied, and had basic battle damage and weathering. Now I have to start on the advanced weathering with pigments...and do something with their bases.

I am essentially in the same boat. Waiting on my bases from dragonforge (should only be another week!). Then replacing the mounts with dragon forge mounts, getting the mounts to match the rest, and then paint bases and weapons! It feels so cool since its been over a year since I bought these things, I wanna play them!

1. Get my Forsaken models painted up and based
2. Get ISS MERCS starter models painted up and based
3. Get my NOMAD models painted up and based
4. Get my Runepriest in PA painted up and based.
5. Finish construction of 3 Long Fangs w/ MLs (just waiting for parts).
6. Get what Space Wolves I have based and primed

predator.

plague marines.

GO TEAM

Want to get done.
1) The 9 chaos warhounds (fantasy dogs) that are already painted on finished bases.
2) The 8 hounds that are primed, finish painted and on bases.
3) Put together 23 hounds and get them primed.

Like to get done.
1) Finish modeling daemon prince and prime it.
2) Convert 2 hellslayer chariots into khorne cannons.

sparkywtf wrote:

 JB wrote:
Ugh...

I am still trying to finish my three IG Vendettas.

They are base painted, have the decals well applied, and had basic battle damage and weathering. Now I have to start on the advanced weathering with pigments...and do something with their bases.

I am essentially in the same boat. Waiting on my bases from dragonforge (should only be another week!). Then replacing the mounts with dragon forge mounts, getting the mounts to match the rest, and then paint bases and weapons! It feels so cool since its been over a year since I bought these things, I wanna play them!

Those 120x95 bases look pretty cool. Which theme are you using or are you mixing a few for variety?

I plan to just decorate my own.

Since the local GW store (the nearest FLGS is 3 hours away and the crowd at the GW is good) started its "Let the Galaxy Burn!" campaign, I`m vowing to do a squad of Fire warriors by the end of May. Their cadre fireblade is done already and has a nice place in the showcase.

5 seekers, 3 screamers, nurgle soulgrinder, 10x plague bearers, 6x Nurgling bases, Skull cannon........think I'll leave the burning chariot thing unmade for now

 JB wrote:

sparkywtf wrote:

 JB wrote:
Ugh...

I am still trying to finish my three IG Vendettas.

They are base painted, have the decals well applied, and had basic battle damage and weathering. Now I have to start on the advanced weathering with pigments...and do something with their bases.

I am essentially in the same boat. Waiting on my bases from dragonforge (should only be another week!). Then replacing the mounts with dragon forge mounts, getting the mounts to match the rest, and then paint bases and weapons! It feels so cool since its been over a year since I bought these things, I wanna play them!

Those 120x95 bases look pretty cool. Which theme are you using or are you mixing a few for variety?

I plan to just decorate my own.

I got one each of the urban wasteland 1 oval bases. Eventually I will get matching bases for the squads I haul around in them, if I ever get around to the FW order (or still play). I was going to do my own, but I couldn't think of a theme I liked, and my mounts for the GW stands were falling off the vendettas (bad glue), so I decided to go with a system to mount them that I like better.

Good morning all, my Goal for May is an easy one:

Finish painting this group of Command figs and these 7 banners.




My stretch goal is to get out all of my WFB figs and update/touch up/complete the bases.

May:
Fantasy - touch up the 30 man Regiment of Altdorf (Halbardiers) then dip and base.

Touch up the 12 man Blood Bowl barbarians that were converted to a H2H unit, then dip and base. Most of their weapons and all of their shields came from the Mordheim buildings and infrastructure. Then get started converting 12 more BB Barbarians to H2H fighters.

Dip and base two cannon crews and cannons.

Finish 4 Forest Rangers, including a musician.

SF - base colors on 23 Forge Fathers.

Make a light box.

Starting my first serious conversion!

djphranq wrote:
2. Get ISS MERCS starter models painted up and based

Make sure you get some pictures of those up. They just might be my favourite MERCS faction.

Well two thirds for the month completed.



yeah I put no effort into this pic at all.

But it is stuff that I actually finished and done work is good work that can get shelved away.

 angel of ecstasy wrote:

djphranq wrote:
2. Get ISS MERCS starter models painted up and based

Make sure you get some pictures of those up. They just might be my favourite MERCS faction.

Sorry bror! Got too busy this month with mundane things... ISS are going to have to get done next month.

I'm not having a good month either, 0 progress for two weeks...

Bases and Vendettas are done!

It only took me a month longer than I expected.




More pics in the gallery.

I'm moving over the next two weeks (packers show up tomorrow), but I am keeping enough paints, brushes, and other tools out in order to paint Sly Marbo. He's been waiting more than three years to be finished. He's in the pic below at left while pistol-shooting-commissar is the snowy white guy on the right. They are both watching Master of Ordinance get painted ahead of them (MoO was finished in July of last year). MoO is lucky they didn't kill him on the spot.

I was making good progress until I went on a Game of Thrones watching binge Finally ran out of episodes to watch and got another mini finished this evening.

Ha ha, Arctic Dragon, that happened to me too! I watched all of season two in about three days while my Lovely Bride was out of town...when I should have been painting!

Did some work yesterday, will be doing some more today.