Vaiuri Posted February 2, 2016 Report Share Posted February 2, 2016 Hi Everyone, As there's been some interest in continuing the painter challenge set up by Jaxx23 last year, I thought I'd start the ball rolling and see how much interest there actually is. I'm hapy to take score and keep track of how much everyone has done and suggest the following format: Category Minion - paint between 1 and 5 stones a month. Enforcer - paint between 5 and 10 stones a month. Henchman - paint between 10 and 15 stones a month. Master - paint between 15 and 30 stones a month. (UPDATE) 04/02 Avatar - no limits, anything over 30 stones! Declare which category you with to enter when you sign up. You can drop down during the year, but not up - so be ambitious! Submissions At the start of each month I (or anyone who gets tired of waiting for me to do it!) will start a new thread that will contain all the WIP photos and banter for that months entries. Use these threads to chart your progress, offer feedback, ask questions and enjoy the journey! At the end of the month, update the thread with a picture of what you have completed for the month with a stone total and I will add it to our tacking sheet. Mulligans As we all know, life gets in the way sometimes, and it's not always easy to live up to hobby commitments. Everyone gets 2 mulligans - that is, on 2 separate months you can declare the use of a mulligan and your score will be 0 for the month. You are allowed to carry over part finished models from one month to the next. UPDATE 04/02 Ruling on stones value for Master models: Master models count as 15 stones worth. I propose we start the next painting challenge in March. This gives us time to round up a good group of painting enthusiasts and gives me time to set up a tracker and organise things. If we dont get many sign-ups we can still run the thread, but I wont bother to get a tracking sheet together. Please let me know your thoughts below and use the poll to register your interest. Thanks! Vai UPDATE 03 Feb Someone has asked about TTB models and terrain - I'm game for including these, but any thought on how to point cost them? RULING - no terrain, but TTB models can be submitted as a 'counts-as' eg. Gunslinger, Witchling Handler etc... Also, any ideas on how best to cost Master models? I thought maybe count it as your submission for the month, so if you're on Minion level it counds as 5, Enforcer counts as 10 etc... What do people think? RULING - Masters to be counted as 15 ss. CLARIFICATION 17 Feb Carrying-over partly painted models. Sometimes we want to take some extra time and care on a large or favourite model. If it takes you longer than a month to paint something, that's fine, but it will only count towards the month that you submit it in its finished glory. Please try and finish painting something each month, but you can mulligan if you need to - remember though, you only get 2 'free' months! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bengt Posted February 2, 2016 Report Share Posted February 2, 2016 Still wondering what the categories actually do. E.g. if someone signs up for Master and only paints 10 SS a month, do they get disqualified or something? What if they paint more? 7 hours ago, Vaiuri said: You are allowed to carry over part finished models from one month to the next. Are you not normally allowed to do this? I pretty much always have something half finished at the end of the month. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vaiuri Posted February 2, 2016 Author Report Share Posted February 2, 2016 They don't really do anything but offer bragging rights to the people who actually see a pledge through to the end I don't think it's helpful to DQ people, but if you don't keep up the pledge, you can't count yourself a Master level painter. If you paint more, great! The idea is to get people painting, at whatever skill level. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prof_bycid Posted February 3, 2016 Report Share Posted February 3, 2016 I've been thinking of joining in something like this to give myself a hobby goal. This will make it that much more enjoyable. Signing up at enforcer level. Thanks Vaiuri for doing the work. Looking forward to painting alongside everyone. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vaiuri Posted February 3, 2016 Author Report Share Posted February 3, 2016 I am going to declare myself as a Minion - I have a terrible tendancy to get distracted! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Treemonkey Posted February 3, 2016 Report Share Posted February 3, 2016 I'll sign up at the Enforcer level. I've got lots to paint! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ghostcopy Posted February 3, 2016 Report Share Posted February 3, 2016 I'm going to start at the Master level I may run out of them, although with my purchasing habits that's not likely and I can always drop down to another level to work on all the other unpainted models! Such a great idea. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Squirrelich Posted February 3, 2016 Report Share Posted February 3, 2016 Going to be optimistic and sign up for Masters... I got the models for it, we'll see if I got the ambition/time/skill. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guildenstern Posted February 3, 2016 Report Share Posted February 3, 2016 Hum well this is interesting but I dunno. I tend to bounce around a lot in what I'm working on (Malifaux, Warhammer, 40k, just miniatures, terrain, etc). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LordZombie Posted February 3, 2016 Report Share Posted February 3, 2016 Why not count masters as 15ss as in the Shifting Loyalties book, as well as the 13 minus cache rule for 0 cost henchmen? Count terrain as 20ss regardless of size, except scatter terrain and that could be 10ss. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LordZombie Posted February 3, 2016 Report Share Posted February 3, 2016 I will join in at Master level. See how long I can keep that going. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gatti Posted February 3, 2016 Report Share Posted February 3, 2016 I'm down, I definitely have the models to paint! Sign me up for masters, I aim to get at least 1 model finished/week so that should work out to about 15 SS/month. EDIT: How are we counting masters in this? Or other models that cost 0 SS like Ikiryo or Shishin? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bengt Posted February 4, 2016 Report Share Posted February 4, 2016 After thinking about this a bit I've come to the conclusion that the suggested categories would seriously impair my productivity. So I'll be in the "No limits" category. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vaiuri Posted February 4, 2016 Author Report Share Posted February 4, 2016 4 hours ago, Bengt said: After thinking about this a bit I've come to the conclusion that the suggested categories would seriously impair my productivity. So I'll be in the "No limits" category. Perhaps call this 'Avatar'? I'll update the first post with ideas for Masters (really like the 15 stone idea), but I think terrain will have to be excluded simply bacause I can't think of any way to grade it fairly - perhaps someone else wants to start a terrain challenge? As for 0 stone models, I'm unsure. I'm tempted to call them 5 stones as that seems like a fair amount for the amount of painting required. I'll leave this point open to discussion. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bengt Posted February 4, 2016 Report Share Posted February 4, 2016 1 hour ago, Vaiuri said: Perhaps call this 'Avatar'? Well it's not only about painting more (which I would only do occasionally anyway) but also things like concentrating on one game at a time instead of painting a little for several games every month to hit a minimum. In addition to ~150 SS of unpainted Malifaux (and my eyes on ~100 more in the recent or announced releases) I still have a fair amount of unpainted DZC I want to get done this year and I did a Commodore pledge for DFC so I'll get a sizeable pile of space ships to paint in the summer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Icarius Posted February 4, 2016 Report Share Posted February 4, 2016 Sign me up! Enforcer Thanks! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shadowfane Posted February 4, 2016 Report Share Posted February 4, 2016 Well, I'd better sign up for this, or I'll never hear the end of it every weekend for the next year..... I'll go with Enforcer - should be enough to let me knock out 1 or 2 models a month whilst also fiddling around with Batman and 40k painting projects (I've spent about 2 years religiously painting just Malifaux, my brain can't take it anymore, I need different projects!) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nothingatall544 Posted February 5, 2016 Report Share Posted February 5, 2016 I'll go enforcer to force me to put up my painted stuff online 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Franchute Posted February 5, 2016 Report Share Posted February 5, 2016 Sign me up as a minion guy please. Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMK Posted February 5, 2016 Report Share Posted February 5, 2016 I'll be a henchman. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RikLok Posted February 5, 2016 Report Share Posted February 5, 2016 Master category Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gauner Posted February 8, 2016 Report Share Posted February 8, 2016 Going out on a limb at the Master level... I have way too much stuff to assemble and paint. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vaiuri Posted February 9, 2016 Author Report Share Posted February 9, 2016 This is a great response all round 15 sign-ups now, lets keep the ball rolling and see how many more people we can get involved! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CloudFang Posted February 10, 2016 Report Share Posted February 10, 2016 I'm in for minion. Need to ease back into malifaux. here we go! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EyeThief Posted February 10, 2016 Report Share Posted February 10, 2016 Count me in for a Henchmen pledge got loads to paint and this should help motivate me to crack on Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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