Scott's February Challenge

OK, so here goes. Posted on the Privateer Forums for the painting challenge, might as well post here and keep track of what I am doing.

Gravus (2)
Vengers (5)
Idrians + UA (12)
Aiyana & Holt (2)
Eiryss (2; both versions)
eEiryss (1)

and the Cygnar Commission work:

Sword Knights (10)
Trenchers + UA & SWA (13)

To my credit or dementia, most of these have been base coated, some have even been inked. The goal with the Protectorate models is to have them done by the 15th of the month so I can go fully painted into a 750 point Steamroller tournament. Kenny's Cygnar is going to be my break in between my own models, or maybe I bust them out and try to get more done. Not likely with 47 models on the docket. I will post pictures as I get things done, and hopefully get better at updating my progress.

February Challenge ~ Day 1

Or "How I stopped worrying and learned to hate the Halberdiers."

Got all 10 of these suckers painted in 5.5 hour last night after the Super Bowl. I was pretty happy. It was a long time in the painting chair, but I wanted them out of the way so I can focus the models I want done for Templecon.

I kept track of my progress when I was painting the Steelheads, just because I was curious to see how much time I was spending on the various parts of the models. All times noted in 24-hour time.

2236 - Start painting Steelhead Halberdiers. The intent is to stay put until they're painted. Starting after 10 p.m. may be a mistake.

Assembled and primed courtesy of Scott.

I should note at this point that these are the single most annoying models to assemble. If they weren't my models, the would have been Airborne Halberdiers. I got three dudes assembled, plus the leader. Too many fiddly bits. But they painted up amazingly fast.

2317 - Finish up with Chainmail basecoat. Hooray for metallics.
2352 - Finish up with Dwarf Bronze. It's a nice Merc color.
0018 - Finish up with Pig Iron. Successfully thwart several attempts by felines to halp me paint. Canine looks depressed. Male feline picks on canine. Female feline sleeps until male feline picks on her.

Yes, metallics paint up very, very quickly. We like this. A lot.

0030 - Finish up with Exile Blue. All Steelhead Halberdiers can sleep in comfort with a nice, scratchy blue blanky.
0102 - Finish up with Traitor Green. I haven't used this color much, but will be using it more and more I think.
0148 - Finish up leather bits with Bloodstone. There were a lot of leather bits. Too many leather bits. That part where I said they paint fast did not apply to anything requiring leather. Ugh.
0201 - Done with Bootstrap Leather for their gloves. I was going to paint them metallic, but that didn't make sense for gloves. They wouldn't have gauntlets, they'd have gloves. So gloves they got.

Hey look! Basecoated except for skin.

~ break ~

I took the opportunity to download and install the most recent version of iBodger, which kicks amazing amounts of ass. And I wandered the forums and got back to painting at 0231.

0250 - Finished with magical Armour Wash.
0258 - Quick run with Citadel Thraka Green Wash over the Traitor Green bits.
0315 - Finished with faces, hair and eyes. I would say at this point that I don't recommend painting eyes after 3 a.m. Out of 6 dudes with faces, I only had to redo 2 sets of eyes. Not bad. But still difficult to keep hand steady at that hour.

One last stat: I got through 92 songs on a 100-song genius playlist. Pretty scary.



And there they are. And there was much rejoicing.

Another test

So it looks like I can text a picture to my email account and forward the whole thing here with text. Interesting.

January Challenge ~ The End

I got the Stormguard done in time... you'll have to take my word for it until I get the pics taken and posted. So, that leaves me at 53/69 or 76.8% complete. I'm not going to call it a total failure; if we were grading on a curve, I'm sure I'd be in the low B range, definitely a C and passing.

Still, 53 models in a month is A LOT. I would've gotten it all done if I had managed my time better, and hadn't gotten sick. I think 40 models/month is reasonable, will focus on that for March.

I still have a shit-ton of stuff to paint by Wednesday. I've got Wade's 10 Steelhead Halberdiers (grrrrrrrrr... love the abilities, hate assembling the bastards) and about 30 more models to be fully painted for TC. We'll see what gets done. I'm close on both units of ATGMs and my 3 Stormsmiths. The jacks will take the most time; Rowdy and Thunderhead Mk II take priority, then it's the Vanguard and 2 Sentinels.

In any event, I have to get up way to f'n early to be at work, so I'll end here.

Hmmm...

So if I'm going to blog from Templecon, it looks like it'll need to be a two-pronged assault: Use the phone for pics and then go in and edit the entry with the iPod. I despise the crap that shows up on the picture messages from the phone and would rather go in and clean them up.

But, at the same time, it lets you, my handful of readers, know that I'm posting while AFK. I like the emails sent from the iPod because it tags it for you. I'll go back and try and edit the last post with the iPod and see how much of a pain it is. :P

From my phone

And here's a shot of the river city warmachine sweatshirt i had made to see if pics from my phone show up ok. entries sent from phone will lack capitalization - and paragraphs!

Edit: looks like I can edit while I'm in HTML mode but not preview. Makes sense I guess. Now the trick is to learn more of the shortcuts with ye olde iPod touch...

Testin

Trying to see how this email posting thing works, just in case I have
time to blog ffrom Templecon next week.this assumes I'll have wifi
access too.

Next up: test from the cell phone.

Sent from my iPod