6MMRC 2017 Week 12: Endurance Painting is a thing.

So greetings all this will be my 2nd post in a row that is on time let's hope this continues.  So this week I did not make as much progress on my mountain but I did get a significant amount of painting done.  Friday night was the date of the FLGS Iron Painter challenge.  Each contestant had 24 hours (6PM-6PM) to paint a GW start collecting box.  I chose Daemons of Nurgle to allow me to play a 1000 point Battalion of Chaos Daemons (it is the only Daemon box that contains two troops) when combined with the Daemons of Tzeentch box I painted for the Konor Campaign.  It was a very interesting experience.  I managed to finish mine in 16 hours.  I was one of only two contestants to finish their box completely.  I unfortunately lost to one of those that had not finished because the guy gimmick-ed his army up to check off the boxes in the judging rubric.  The last picture is the army that one please not the weathering powder on the boot of the Commissar you having seen the army in person those 3 are by far the best models in the lot.  he missed highlights and had paint cross over across piece on msot of the models but he had some free hand Icons and had converted a Taurox with one of the 3rd party kits.  To be honest I am a little bitter there were other Armies there that I would not have minded to lose too but that was not one of them.  I might be tempted to do it again but we will have to see.

On the older(ish) models I finished the Hellblasters and made some progress on the last six models of the Dark Imperium set.  The edge highlighting on the blue is very tedious to complete but I am very happy with final product.  Next week will continue with the Ultramarines finishing the 6 and Roboute Guilliman from the Rise of the Primarch Box.

I have definitely noticed the increase of motivation I get from seeing what others are doing on the challenge.  The times I did my best during the Iron Painter as also when I was working next to some one else and seeing there progress defiantly drove me on.  So to all the others doing the 6MMRC thank you for helping push me to keep going.  Until next week Happy Hobbying!

6MMRC 2017 Week 11: Back to the posting.

So I am back on my timeline for posts (at least for this week.)  Progress was a bit slow, most of the evenings have been taken up with storm recovery.   Also this was a new paint scheme on new models.  All of that said about 1/3 of the Primaris half of Dark Imperium is now complete.  I am very happy with how they turned out.  All the Icons/Squad markings are free hand which while these are a bit rough in parts I am still very happy with.  I have the the Hellblasters partly done as well.

This coming week will see me participating in a Painting challenge at a FLGS.  They are holding an Iron Painter Challenge with their one year anniversary.  It will consist of painting a  Start Collecting Box in 24 hours while in the store.  I have chosen the Nurgle Daemons box to add to my Chaos forces, though it was a close call with Mechanicum.  I am hoping to have my Dark Imperium Box finished by then as well.  The winner gets the price fo a start collecting box in store credit.  My (probably ambitious) goal is to take pictures by the hour as I complete my entry, then post one big write up.  Anyways following the others in the challenge is defiantly helping to keep me going.  Until next week Happy Hobbying all.

6MMRC 2017 Weeks 7-10: On Progress and Posts

So long time since I posted, but I have been keeping fairly steady progress with the exception of Week 7. So lets break it down week by week.

Week 7 saw no finished models.  I got the first 2 layers completed on the Paladins and Voldus and then all painting ceased.  The Honey Do list took precedence over painting for a couple of my last days of leave and then the final few were packed with last minute family events.

Week 8 saw the completion of the the Grey Knight models and a Space Marine Librarian on Tuesday in time to get the painting points for the Psykers of week 4 of the Konor Campaign it also saw the start of my Space Marine Bike squad, but more on those in a bit.  In the process of painting Voldus I decided I didn't much care for the green and cream paint scheme on my previous Grey Knights.  So slowly I have been repainting the others to match Voldus and the Paladins The new scheme is dark red and cream.  It is just enough different to my Space Marines and looks my "Grey Knighty" then the green did. I also finished up the 2nd Land Raider Crusader for my Space Marines since it was almost finished from week 3 of the Konor Campaign.

Week 9 was painful and while models were completed it was mainly because I had a 12 hour over night shift at work that allowed me to bring in my models and get some painting done with no distractions.  The main reason for my lack of motivation were the models themselves.  These were all part of a large lot of bikes I picked up off eBay.  I grabbed what I thought were 18 good bikes and three attack bikes.  None of them were good and I constantly found modeling issues that necessitated breaking off parts, replacing them, spot priming with Gesso and then repainted to the level of the rest of the model. Even with all that work I am largely unsatisfied with the final product. Also I have yet to locate my Bolter barrel drill bit.  Though as of Saturday's Hurricane prep I think I may have found the pin vise that had all the spares in it.  So two squads of bikes completed and one started, also it has driven hoem the desire to just sell the other 18 Bikes and Attack Bike from that lot instead of buidlign the entire 2nd Company with the Bikes Replacing Tactical squads.  If I do complete 2nd Company the rest will be a traditional Demi Company.

Week 10 was much more productive over all getting three projects completed.  First up was the last squad of Bikes, also on Memorial day I got some Airbrush work done on the Shadow War terrain and a set of Promethium Relays , I even had a helper.

The terrain went quick and I am very happy with the results.  I also managed to start and finish something not Warhammer.  I have always been interested in Malifuax and it was a very close thing between Warmahordes, Bolt Action and it when I was looking for games to move too after I slowed down playing 40k and sold off my Fantasy after Age of Sigmar.  Since the local group has been talking about trying it out I picked up a Rasputina Crew off eBay before the challenge.  I had also picked up a Blessed of December and Snowstorm form my old Hobby Shops going out of business sale.  I broke out my Basius 2 pads to add some texture to the bases since I wanted a Victorian Urban look to the bases.   Overall I am very happy with the results and actually feel renewed now to work on other projects.   

 So that is the progress, now on to posting and a bit of an explanation/rant.  It came to my awareness that most of my issues with getting posts out on time all stem form one source, my wife.  See every time I run a challenge my wife tries to do something similar with her crafting projects.  So far she is 0-3 for finishing her challenges. She has a lot of steam at the start but it peters out quickly.  How does this affect me and my posts.  Posts are actually the hardest part of doing the challenges for me.  We do not have a spot to leave the photo box set up or even all that many surfaces to place it on.  About the week she peters out all of those surfaces end up covered with per projects.  In the past I have managed to clear space on the floor and get the pictures this time the photo box itself was buried the project she stalled on, organizing the craft room.  In addition we only have one computer, so when she is going good we each knock out our posts and everything is grand.  When she doesn't have a post I have more difficulty getting the computer to do mine.  So what does all this mean to you the readers (what few of you there are right now.) Well I finally talked to her about it and we have come to an understanding this hopefully means fewer weeks smashed into one post.

Well that's all for this rather lengthy update Happy Hobbying all.

6MMRC 2017 Week 6: Projects on the Go.

So even with two trips out of town I still managed to get some stuff done.  I finished the Cyclone Missile Launcher Termies to finish out the squad of 10,  I also knocked out a Sergeant, Assault Cannon and one more Termie to finish out a squad of five. 

I also managed to get my Land Speeders striped down, rebuilt and painted as well assembling the one I got with the Ravenwing squadron box I used to do the Command squad.  I also got another 10 Terminators, and two land raiders base coated. to try and knock out before this Wednesday.

I have hopes to knock out a couple more units this week while I am still on Leave.  Next weeks Konor units are Psykers so I am going to see what I can knock out, I have a Voldus, some left over Grey Knight Terminators and a Magi Librarian to try to prime up and get started.

6MMRC Week 5: The Mountain is Crumbling Slowly.

So Bam another week down.  I managed to get all the stuff I primed and airbrushed mostly done this week.  I still need to do the bases on he Terminators and forgot to put the Dreadnaught in the picture but he is done. Also I am getting a little bit better at working the new camera at least with the light box.  I don't have any in progress shots this week, I didn't get much assembly done.  This weeks goal is two Land Raider Crusaders, another Dreadnaught with Autocannon Conversion, and a Land Speeder. 

So this will be a rough week for progress, as I am taking some vacation time and this week is very busy.  Next week I will have some more free time and hope to catch up then.  That's all for now and Happy Hobbying.

6MMRC 2017 Week 4: Keep Rolling rolling rolling...

So very successful week,  I completed the "Start Collecting" box of Tzeentch Daemons.  So that's 21 Models down.  Sorry for the Crappy photo, I thought I had the focus adjusted right but was just a little off and if I know if I wait to take another one that is in better focus I will miss my post.   I got my first game with them in today as well, we had a combination Fate of Kanor/Charity for a local gamers funeral expenses tourney today.  I finished dead last but mostly because of the Craziness of the Tourney.  You could donate funds to earn different advantages.  I had one player that had Added 500 points to his 1000 point list and another that combined Slannesh Daemons with Eldar.  It was still a good event and the money went to a good cause.

 



Now on to the stuff I got ready for next week, which for the fate of Kanor is Elites choices.  First u[p was the Bike Command Squad I started when I was on Temporary Duty in Guam back in oh about 2011.  So six years later I have finally finished the last 3 member of the squad, the Ancient, and the 2 veterans(previously planned as 2 Melta gunners but in 8th I can only do one and the other is a Sergeant now with a Power Fist.)  I also assembled ten of my AoBR Terminators and a Dreadnaught.  If I manage to get all of this done by next Wednesday that will give me 7 points towards the Campaign. 

 

After I got done with the tourney my Daughter had wanted to play in her pool, since I had to get the Air compressor out anyways and then needed to stay with her while she played I decided to prime and airbrush the first layer of them.  I broke my bottle of paint and it was at the end anyways so I primed up and painted the 2nd Whirlwind form the Suppression force I have had for about as long as the bike squad.  Lets see how much I can get done on them this week.

Until next week Happy Hobbying.

6MMRC Week 3: Change is coming...

So This was a very productive week for me. I finished the World Eater Squad and the last 3 primed cultists.  As of right now all 50 of my cultists painted (lets just leave out that some of them may need to be repainted.)  This is also a Milestone as I am now done with all of my World Eater infantry.  I may eventually add another Defiler and Hellbrute to the Army and I have custom built Hellbrute that may turn into a Mauler/Forgefiend if I can find a good deal on Dune Crawler legs but those projects are all way down the line.  The army is playable as is using two battalion detachments.

Since I am still waiting on some Macragge Blue spray to come in I decided to tackle another project that I have had for a little while and drug out my Shadow War Armageddon Terrain.  I have two sets of this and started assembling some the night I got it.  I had plans when I only had one set of magnetizing these. Now that I have 2 and looking at my time realistically this will never happen.  So I finished assembling them about they way the laid them out in the booklet.  Eventually I will assemble the other set differently.  I even managed to get a little paint on them.   I am putting off the finishing touches of these for a couple of weeks though because...

Fate of Konor rules dropped and the painting challenge stuff has been listed.  So for the next 6 weeks this stuff will be my main focus.  I did not have a "Start Collecting" box so I ended up using a Joker.  I decided to add some Daemon's because other then an old metal Blood Thrister and some Flesh hounds I don't currently have any.  Since they now have all 4 gods as a "Start Collecting" boxes we took a trip to the GW store next town over.  Taking a step back, I have been letting my daughter join in on the modeling and painting, (in fact she helped airbrush some of the Shadow War terrain.) I have been trying to more ways to keep her interested from us doing simple games of who roles the highest number and they win games, and she ahs some old Heroquest minis and some Battle for Skull Pass Night goblins she has painted.  So I lined up the 4 boxes and let her pick which ones would join my Chaos army. 

The guy at the store thought that was great and took the pictures and posted them on their Facebook page.  Once I got home she even helped assemble them by picking the parts to make up each model.  So they are now assembled and they will be up for painting this week.

Overall it has been a very productive week and hopefully I can keep the motivation going to get through this week at least.  Till next week Happy Hobbying.