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Monthly painting challenge - January


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Happy new year!

I've just realized I should have opened this thread earlier. I'll certainly insert more text once the effects of alcohol will be dissipated. For now, you can start posting what you want to paint in January.

Enjoy this new challenge as well as the rest of the year!

Edit: Here are the details about the rules:

The idea of the challenge is a motivational one. It is simply a friendly painting community---not a competition---that we use to find motivation to finish painting our Malifaux miniatures. You pledge an amount of soulstones that you will be painting each month of the year 2018. To enroll simply let me know in the enrollment thread which category you want to belong to and I'll consider you:

  • Minion (from 1 to 5 soulstones)
  • Enforcer (from 6 to 10 soulstones)
  • Henchman (from 11 to 15 soulstones)
  • Master  (from 16 to 30 soulstones)
  • Emissary (More than 30 soulstones)

The thread to enroll is the following:

I'll use the following spreadsheet to keep track of each one's situation: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1zYYugrSGk_4GTo8OjHjyfI_ruYWYOSnhy7U2ivbgfZ8/edit?usp=sharing

Some specific rules:

  • At the START of the month: post a photo of your unpainted minis and any plans for them you have.  In the MIDDLE of the month: post work in progress photos if you want, or just banter about ideas.  At the END of the month: post your finished models and the Soul Stone Cost painted, and I will get this on the tracking sheet.  Post this by the end of the month.  And include the total soul stones painted. 
  • Models count for the month in which you finish them. 
  • Everyone may fail to make their monthly goal twice and stay in the challenge.
  • You can choose to go down in the pledge hierarchy during the year, but you cannot move up.
  • You may choose to sign up during a later month for the challenge but this means that you'll have to use one or two of the aforementioned mulligans: e.g. if you start in February, one mulligan will already been used; if you start in March, two mulligans will already been used; you cant start in April.
  • Masters count for 15 soulstones
  • Zero cost models count for 5 soulstones
  • NEW: we start considering terrain this year. Terrain must be painted and is treated like zero cost models (i.e. count for 5 soulstones). The piece of terrain must be significantly largert than a 50mm marker.
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Happy New Year, fellow painters and gamers!

It's my very great pleasure to paint alongside you all. I wish you the very best with your painting this year.

For my Minion level pledge, I shall start with the cheapest of them all. Behold 2SS of Primordial Magic. Maybe I'll add something else as well from the Neverborn to keep him company. Perhaps even a pretty base for the pukesnake. We'll see.

 

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Happy new year, everyone :)

My first model of 2018 and the very first model of my Monthly Painting Challenge adventure is going to be Will o' the Wisp (3 SS) with a simple custom built base that has been sitting on my table half-painted for 6 months or so.

My plan throughout the year is to finally finish all the assambled/half-finished models that I have:

  • Zoraida
  • 3 Will o' the Wisps
  • 3 Waldgeists
  • Puppet Wars Nurse
  • 3 Stitched Together
  • Miss Erry

That is 12 models, one for each month, but there are also some models that I would like to purchase - Mysterious Effigy, Mr. Graves, Adze and maybe McTavish.

I would also like to start to pay more attention to bases - make custom ones that tell a story and complement the model.

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Happy New Year fellow hobbyists!

This month I will pledge Mr. Cooper (alt. Colette du Bois) for 15ss. 

My first goal will be to finnish the whole Dark Carnival box, but I have a bunch of Neverborn lying around gathering dust which I want to finish as well. 

Good luck everyone, and I wish you all a very productive 2018!

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Starting out slow, partially because this is my first time doing the challenge and partially because I know I won't be making any progress for at least a week.

My january pledge will be this unappreciated sod, aka. one Monk of High river (6ss to just make it into Enforcers)

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I am going to start 2018 by trying out the SS assigned to terrain.  Need to make some progress on the spider factory board.  The transfer pipes are WH40k, and the chemical plant is from Pegasus.  I am going to turn the chemical plant into 2--3 smaller pieces so different than what is on the box.  I will measure the pipes and try to assign values for challenge.  The other will need to be assembled before I can try this.

Happy New Year everyone!

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Happy New Year! Thanks again to @Franchute for taking this on and a big thanks to @prof_bycid for running 2017.

I need to get my Cherub and Beckoner done for a tournament coming up in 2 weeks. Beckoner came to me headless in a trade so I'm going to have to figure something out for that. Once these are done there's a lot of ways I might go. Possibilities include Barbaros, 2x Stitched Together, 2x Waldgeists, or stripping/repainting Lucius who I got in trade.

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Hi there!

A new monthly painting challenge, yesss! I'll update later this post with pics, but my intention for this month is to complete the following list:

* Malifaux Child - 2 SS

* Student of conflict - 4 SS

* Tara - 15 SS

* Rusty Alice - 10 SS

* Rat Catcher - 6 SS

* Rat king - 8 SS

* Stolen - 2 SS

For a total of 47 SS.

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4 hours ago, Kogan Style said:

Great idea! Once I know the rules I will post up what I have to paint. I'm building the Nightmare Hamelin crew and guests, and this challenge will help keep me motivated through the hideous job of painting rats and cats! 

You can always check the enrollment thread. It has the rules too:

 

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I'm looking forward to being an official part of this challenge! 

For January my pledge will be the Herald of Obliteration (Nightmare Edition) crew box! 

  • Tara (15 SS)
  • Karina (5 SS)
  • Nothing Beast (10 SS)
  • Void Wretches x 3 (12 SS)

That's a total of 42 SS for the month.  Here's the grey plastic pic: 

 

 

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Getting things started this year with the remainder of the Arcanist masters I haven't touched yet. 

Ironsides and Johana are the for-sures for January, then I'll see what strikes me from the giant grab bag of primed models (includes Marcus' crew box, Winter Wonderland, Seamus' crew box as a late present for a friends,  vintage Raspy, unfinished Tanuki, and a smattering of other things).

 

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My pledge for January: one Freikorps Specialist (8ss). I'm gambling that the January errata makes him playable. :) If we get the errata within the next week or so and he isn't fixed, I might swap him for something else.

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I also have a Nothing Beast in progress. It's a big model with a lot of blending, so I've just been working on it as a break from 30mm humanoids. I'm not going to pledge/claim it for points because it's half done already but I'll post WIP pictures anyway if I make any progress. The front and arms just have color blocked in. The back is about 2/3 complete. 

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