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I'll call it a full month if I can continue my zombie horde. I'd ideally love to finish way before July, but that is a good target date. Especially if I disappear for 6 months again.

Well the idea is really just something to help us with motivation to get stuff finished with a bit of focus along with a bit of fun - I'm more than happy for people to continue working on projects and models that are already started. Besides, if you call your project "Zombicide" you can add in the survivors, zombivors, appropriate scenery (barricades), model cars, Black Plague/Hasslefree/Studio/Heresy models, buildings, etc - anything that fits!

So if people would like to call the rest of Jan a full month or a half-month, I'm fine either way.

I just did a horde of zombies so I'll have to sit that out!

A very well spent year you've had Azazelx. Lovely spartans too. Ancient armies are fun. I have a yen for the historical and really wanted to get some samurai this year myself.

Thank you, Weety - though you'd be more than welcome to join in.

I don't mean that it wouldn't be one "Zombies" project for all - just that Theo might choose "Zombies" or "Zombicide" as his project while mine might be "Gondor" and Grim might do "Infinity" and Josh Might do "Dwarf King's Quest".

You might choose "RT and 2nd Edition 40k Orcs and Gobbos" or just "40k Greenskins". Or anything else that you like.

Incredible reading what you did in 2015. Impressive, most impressive.

The Spartan dudes are looking cool.

EDC

Me and theo are working on zombicide it sounds like a few people are working on dungeon saga. Could have something along the lines of a tale of 6 board games

Just throwing ideas out there.

I'm working on Space Hulk but probably not till the end of feb :(

Thank you, Evil Doctor.

Jan - That works. Start in February!

5 'stealers down and a hulkload more to go!

I could well be interested in joining in - Maybe focussing on getting some more of my RT/2nd ed Orks done.

 Januine wrote:
5 'stealers down and a hulkload more to go!

Sounds like you've already started!

You're more than welcome to, Slinky!

I have 4 more Orks on the painting table at the moment, so I can say that I have already started!

Is there going to be a separate thread for this?

Yeah. Since it's looking like it'll actually become a thing now, I'll probably post it up tomorrow around noon with the "rules" and such since it's 10:30pm here now and I've gone some stuff on early in the morning.

 Azazelx wrote:

 Januine wrote:
5 'stealers down and a hulkload more to go!

Sounds like you've already started!

You're more than welcome to, Slinky!

did the Broodlord and 4 pals a few months ago to try out a possible colour scheme. Now I have to find the bloody recipe I used (if I even wrote it down >< ) for the rest of them

Oh I think I will be in as well pending what you decide on for the challenge. Looking forward to making my hobby even more social.

Awesome stuff, Jan - very stark and nasty.

Archer - I think I'm going to go with something loose enough for people to choose their own wargame faction or boardgame and run with it. We can see how well it goes, and do another one starting in July based on how it turns out, and work out of we want it more or less prescriptive.


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I'll add it to my sig tomorrow. Now I'm going to bed. Need to get up early tomorrow.

Hat is in the ring, thanks for sponsoring the event

Great idea, I'm in. I need motivation!

I'm game as well , and subscribed or I'll forget

Damn it, guess I'll sign up for a public shaming as well then.

Well, now that the paint challenge is definitely a thing, I need to work out what I'm going to paint for it. I've narrowed it down to three choices, each with their own pros and cons:

Gondor

Pros:
Defined ending/most complete-able - I have a limited number of models to go and don't intend to buy any more. - When it's done it's done - unlike both of the others.
Pretty easy to paint in general.
Looks awesome on the table.
I can work on them at work.
Marouda can help a bit.
I use them for Kings of War which I'm (theoretically) playing as well as SBG, etc.

Cons:
Kinda boring to actually paint.
Cloaks and flags can be very fiddly if I paint the White Tree on them.


Undead

Pros:
Pretty quick and easy to paint in general.
I enjoy painting bone.
I can work on them at work.
Marouda can help more. Encouraging/teaching her to paint is a good thing.
Zombicide Black Plague figures can count.
A good mix of simple models, intricate models and big cool models.
Can (later) be split into Generic Vampiric Undead and Tomb Empire of Dust Kings
Kings of War again.

Cons:
It's an army for Marouda
So, so very many figures to paint. Way more than Gondor.


Iron Warriors

Pros:
40k. I haven't painted 40k in ages.
I own lots of models and parts to choose from - modern plastics, RT metals, Forge World, Puppetswar, upgrade packs, plus vehicles
Mix of 30k and 40k models
Enjoyable to paint.
Fewer(?) models per unit to make a "legal army?

Cons:
Much more work per individual model than either of the others.
Marouda probably can't help much - more advanced project.
No defined end point since I have so many marines and marine parts. Way more in turn than Undead
40k. I haven't played 40k in years now and may not at all this year.



I should have some actual painted models up a bit later today, I got some painting gifts finished last night that went out this morning. In the meantime I need to finish the last of those Spartans and mull over the three options above. I'd be happy to see what people's thoughts are, though - since I could easily see myself doing (and enjoying) any of the three.

What models would you be using for undead? GW or WGF naked skeletons would be fast but boring; Mantic ar more interesting visually but take longer to paint because of their armor/clothes.

If I went with undead, I've got some started stuff that would be first up to finish - Undead Ogres, Dracoliche (Undead Dragon), Bone Giant are all clogging up my table with their unfinished-ness. Then I've got a bunch of those Brigade Models single-piece metal skeletons - archers with flayed clothing, warriors with sickles and shields.

Then pretty much almost anything. TK Warriors, Corpse Carts, a Black Coach, GW and Mantic Cavalry, Mummies, 2x old-school Screaming Skull/Skull Chukka, the new TK Screaming Skull, GW Vampire Knights or whatever they're called, old and new GW skellies and zombies, Mantic skellies, zombies and ghouls, Vargheist, a million Bones models, a pile of random GW metals and heroes, the entire Plack Plague box....

Like I said, there's easily enough for two (or more) pretty big armies here, and it'll eventually be split into Undead and Not-TK once enough numbers and faceless troops get painted.

In that case, I vote for Minas Tirith first. I predict that, when you finish off that army entirely, you can ride the wave of satisfaction through at least 100 other models.

I'm all for Undead/Zombies. I'm a little one tracked mind with them at the moment, so they take the stage for me. Though I am also an Iron Warriors fan and would love to see what you could do with those, but like you I have no 40K urges right now.

While I find Gondor a bit boring, your guys look great ranked up and I can imagine it's a very visually pleasing army on the table.

Undead is more "fun" and you seem to have a lot of interesting models for it, but I wonder if the nature of the models might lead to a bit of frustration due to their complicated nature in some cases (stuff like the Corpse Cart looks really cool but might be a pain to paint to your high standards and with your "clean", crisp painting style, for example).

I've no interest in 40K stuff any more (my Word Bearers project stalled completely dead with the release of 7th edition and I haven't touched it since) so I'd pick one of the two fantasy options if it were me. Probably Gondor to get something actually "done", which always a nice feeling.

My vote is split between Gondor and the undead. If the Gondor are significantly lower in number maybe do those since it's something you can definitely finish.

Hmm a challenge is meant to be a challenge isn't it. So I'd go with Iron Warriors as it'll force you to do something you've been putting off!

I would say Gondor or Undead. I find it difficult to get excited about space marines anymore.

Would it be worth splitting them into Not TK and Generic Undead before you start painting them in order to have the more manageable goal of painting only one of those forces instead of both?

Llamahead - I've been putting off so, so much. I'll enjoy painting the Iron Warriors more than a lot of the Fantasy stuff, though - so I think I might keep them for the second half of this year. I tend to get into a bit of a painting (and general) funk around September-October, so if I'm concentrating on IW it'll be a nice reward for the top half of the year.

For the moment, I'm seriously considering going with something a bit silly, and trying for dual Gondor and Undead. I do have a rationale, though - Both armies can be worked on at work (I have criteria of a very limited palette and nothing too tricky for work - skeletons and plastic Gondormen fit that well). I've got 2 units for Gondor well on their way to completion. 4 if I count heroes. I've also got 3 units for the Undead well on their way, also clogging up my table. All of these models have been hanging around for months and bloody months, so maybe I can actually get the lot of them off the table. I'll naturally be painting more than just challenge miniatures as well, so this also gives me the chance to mix things up and keep myself interested while also having a deadline to get MOAR STUFF painted instead of, say, 24 Men of Minas Tirith followed by another 24 Men of Minas Tirith because

I'm happier to keep them in one undefined blob for now, Carlos. Either way they're not especially manageable at this stage anyway - so a bigger variety gives me more choices to keep myself interested painting them.