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2020 Monthly Painting Challenge - November


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Welcome to the 2020 Wyrd Painting Challenge!

This is the thread for the November Painting Challenge. I’m Caedrus, and I have the very great pleasure of being your host for 2020. While I am proud to be your host, this competition belongs to all of us, and if there’s anything that we can better to improve the Challenge, please do let me know.

The link to the painter spreadsheet is here.

The 2020 Wyrd Monthly Painting Challenge is all about:
  1. Having fun painting!
  2. Motivating yourself, and encouraging others.
  3. Being part of a great, friendly community.
  4. Giving and receiving constructive advice. And, finally:
  5. Getting some pigment onto plastic!

This is not a competition in any way.

The pledge categories are the following:

  • Minion: you paint at least 1 Soulstone worth of Wyrd miniatures each month
  • Enforcer: you paint at least 6 Soulstones worth of Wyrd miniatures each month
  • Henchman: you paint at least 11 Soulstones worth of Wyrd miniatures each month
  • Master: you paint at least 16 Soulstones worth of Wyrd miniatures each month
  • Tyrant: you paint at least 31 Soulstones worth of Wyrd miniatures each month

The rules:

  • The challenge started on January 1st, 2020. 
  • Models count for the month in which you finish them. You can finish painting a model that you started before the beginning of the month.
  • Everyone may fail to make their monthly goal twice and stay in the challenge. This is using a mulligan. See the Buy-Back rule, below.
  • You can choose to go down a pledge level during the year, but you cannot move up.
  • A model is considered painted if it is (1) based (even glued onto a black base counts); (2) tournament legal. That means that if it's a translucent, based model, it counts automatically. If it is any opaque material, then the standard is: Every part of the miniature painted, and three colours minimum.

A new rule for 2020: The Buy-Back

Everyone has good months and bad months. To encourage people to continue to paint, we will be trying out a new rule this year: the Buy-Back. In the past, if you have used your two mulligans, you’re out of the Challenge!

However, in 2020, you can buy your way back into the challenge. All you have to do is to undertake your normal pledge and paint for the month, AND undertake the pledge and paint from one of the months you mulliganed.

E.g.: Sarah is painting at Enforcer level (6SS/month), and she’s needed to mulligan for the third time. She announces that for the upcoming month, she’ll paint 12SS. If she does so, she’s back in the Challenge!

At such a time, it might be worthwhile considering dropping down a category, but that’s up to Sarah!

Miniature Values:

Malifaux

  • Almost all models count as their Soulstone value; but
  • Masters count for 15 soulstones.
  • Zero cost models count for 5 soulstones.
  • Proxies (constructed from Wyrd models) count for their proxy value.

The Other Side

  • Titans count for 25 soulstones.
  • Commanders count for 15 soulstones.
  • Adjunct models count for 5 soulstones.

Otherwise:

  • A 30mm base model is worth 5 soulstones.
  • A 40mm base model is worth 7 soulstones.
  • A 50mm base model is worth 10 soulstones.
  • Markers count for 2 soulstones if they're flat, or 5 soulstones if they're 3D and fancy

Terrain

  • ·       Scatter Piece (5SS): A modest piece of terrain, or a small number of scattered terrain pieces. These are the spray-can and dry-brush pieces.
  • ·       Focus Piece (10SS): A terrain piece that represents a focal point of pride in a terrain board. These pieces require a decent amount of construction and painting.
  • ·       Centre Piece (20SS): A terrain piece that is a significant centrepiece to the terrain. A handmade forest, a mausoleum, or a train engine.
  • ·       Masterpiece (50SS): A gorgeous, unique terrain piece that makes people wonder if you get out much.
  • ·       War and Peace (100SS): A complete, themed 3’x3’ terrain board.

My very best for November!

Caedrus.

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My work on "wall of shame" since September has been quite solid as this is what i've painted (well, three of the minis from the crossed out ones were sold unpainted but that's just a detail ;) ).

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For this month I plan to paint both Cassandra minis, Lola, and Effigy. That's plan minimum but I also want to get into my own Nightmare keyword + I've just assembled Hinamatsu.

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I'll be working on rounding out some Key words this month. I have a few piglets, the Sow and some Slop Haulers for Ulix and I should be getting some additional Journalist stuff for Nellie.  I need to pick one more crew for next month just haven't settled on what yet.

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I assembled Lazarus: it looks larger than I expected.

 

I decided to add a couple of figure to my november Pledge:

1. Kitty Dumont; I already assembled the mini. It'll be a nighmate to fix it to the base by foot tips; so I went after a different solution... see pic.

2. Candy from Pandora Box M2E. At present the sprue is beenig washed. No pic yet.

 

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Given the start of the month, I'm throwing a bunch of stuff at the wall and seeing what sticks by the end.

Finishing up the Nightmare keyword with the last Daydream, finishing touches on the Bandersnatch, and the Insidious Madnesses. And then on deck is most of the Woe keyword, and Vasilisa.

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2 hours ago, astapable said:

Also tried new back for photos. Better or not?

Not sure. It isn't too dark, which immediately makes it better in my eyes than blackest darkness possible.

In general I feel that a dark background makes the photo look better, though that doesn't always make for a true to life representation of the mini and paintjob. So personally I prefer the more midtone grey of your usual background, but you've managed to get a decent dark without it being pitch black. So you're good either way in my mind.

Maybe post your next few minis with the dark background and see if that gets you more upvotes on instagram:P

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2 hours ago, astapable said:

Also tried new back for photos. Better or not?

In my experience the background for photobox must be changed depending on the minis you are going shooting. Clear background on dark minis and dark background on clear minis works better as a rule of thumb. Then, some filters enabled on the cell camera can make the difference. Also, I must say that different cells produce own peculiar photos...... At present I own a Huawei where the dominant color is blue whatever filter or setting I tried to use.

 

As regard your last pics you should try to increase the contrast between the brass metal components and the base.... Just my opinion.

Great mini, perfect paint job and loveble palette anyway, I must say.

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I completed the assembling of Pandora Box M2E minis.

I also decided to add to my pledge a scenic element: a large city fountain.

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While the airbrushing of the scenic will be fart, the layering of water will take me a lot of time. 

I wood like to create some sort of falling water between the plates of the fountain. Any suggestion about the tools/stuff to get that effect with transparent, water-like medium (like Vallejo Still Waters, jost to name one)?

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On 11/1/2020 at 12:58 PM, astapable said:

My paint list for november:

1. Nellie

2. Allisson Dade

3. Lawyer

4. Printing Press

5. Miss Step

6. Dr. Sokolov

 

Well I have to change my paint list for November, due to importance of some models right now:

1. Guild lawyer (painted)

2. Miss Step (painted)

3. The jury

4. Pale rider

5. Sokolov

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Hello,

here is my mid-month update:

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First of all I have to thank @Caedrus for the link to running water. BTW, I knew that site because in the past I bought some molds from them....... And yeah, we could launch a challenge about the modellism stuffs we have stockpiled! :D

Now, the tutorial is very interesting but too much complex. So looking for an easier solution.....

As regard my pledge: I just primed the fountain. Lazarus is almost done, as Baby Kade. I'm going after Pandora and Kitty Dumont. I just primed Candy.

BTW, I'm waiting for water stuff I bought on line to work Lazarus' base and the fountain.

 

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