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Offline loydb

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Welcome to Month #3 of the Winter of Discontent Painting Challenge. The goal of this challenge is to get some of that unpainted lead that most of us have laying around table-ready. At the start of each month, participants pledge to have a squad painted by the closing date. For month #3, the closing date is Sunday, February 19.

A squad, for the purpose of definition, would be anything that counted as a troop choice (e.g. HQ, Elite, Troop, etc.). This includes retinue for the independant char (e.g. familiars, bodyguards, etc.). I'd personally like to see multi-model squads -- the purpose of the challenge is to get a bunch of lead painted in a 3-month period -- but maybe you're planning on doing a kickass conversion/paint job for an army leader, nothing wrong with that.

Month 3 Vow Keepers
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 ;D Finished ;D Archonbjorn - Grey Knight Terminator Squad
 ;D Finished ;D Rookyboy - 5 Warp Spiders w/ Exarch
 ;D Finished ;D loydb - Finish 10 Fire Dragons from last month, plus 3-man Ranger squad.
 ;D Finished ;D Marshall George Timson - 5 Assault Marines
 ;D Finished ;D Hyrodan - 5 Imperial Guard
 ;D Finished ;D Drazz - 20 Kroot (inc. 2 shapers)
 ;D Finished ;D Yamato - Wood elf treeman and last scout of 5-man scout group.
 ;D Finished ;D TheDean - 3 Fell bats, 10 Dire wolves and a banshee.
 ;D Finished ;D custardcrusader - Finish 33 Guard, 1 Chimera, 1 Leman Russ, 2 Bunkers and a ruined building, and an inquisitor.
 ;D Finished ;D Khorne Balthraka - 1 squad of Wyches, 1 pack Warp Beasts w/Beastmaster
 ;D Finished ;D SeriousCallersOnly - squad of my Angels of Vengeance Deathwing
 ;D Finished ;D JelloBiafra - Wave Serpent, 4 Howling Banshees, 5 Ulthwe guardians, wraithlord

Oathbreakers
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mrspungebob - 8 spinegaunts
Bob the hungry hobo - 30 Necron Warriors (!!)
hobbytips - Black Templar Initiate Squadron
Yentz - 10 Menoth Zealots (go Menoth!)
Blue Tiger - 12 Fire Warriors + Crisis Suit Commander
Fold - 10-man Imperial Guard Hardened Vet squad
Brother Frag - Sister Repentia squad
Lord Epistolary Kashak - 5-man Marine Tac Squad
Abarai Renji - Demon Prince, 2 Warjacks
Jonik - Eldar Falcon
GabrielAngelos -  Tactical Squad Vegius ( 7 man)
The Solitaire - posessed marines (number?)



Month 2 Thread: http://www.40konline.com/index.php?topic=106494.0
Month 1 Thread: http://www.40konline.com/index.php?topic=104115.0

Month 2 Vow Keepers
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Yentz - 2 Berzerkers, Behemoth
Slann - 5 Blood Angel Assault Marines
Hobbytips - 3 marine scouts
Marshal George Timson: One Terminator chaplain
Bob the hungry hobo - 6 Man Marine Tac Squad
Eternal Novice: 6 Fire Warriors
jelloBiafra - 4 Fire Dragons + Exarch
Vero - 5 Termies, Land Raider
Lord Epistolary Kashak - Black Knights

Month 1 Vow Keepers
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Drazz: Full (20 fig) Kroot Carnivore squad
Dun-Rite Craft World: 20-man Eldar Guardian squad, 10 Howling Banshees
JelloBiafra: 16-man Eldar Guardian squad + Warlock + Platform
loydb: 10-man Eldar Striking Scorpion squad
Marshall George Timson: Terminator Assault Squad
Rayzus: 10-man Imperial Guard squad
Vlex: 6-man Space Marine Devastator squad
« Last Edit: February 28, 2006, 09:36:49 PM by loydb »

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Re: Winter of Discontent Painting Challenge! [Month 3! Make those vows!]
« Reply #1 on: January 18, 2006, 11:32:33 AM »
I vow to finish the 9 man Eldar Fire Dragon squad + Exarch that I failed for month 2, and to do a 3-man Eldar Ranger squad.

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Re: Winter of Discontent Painting Challenge! [Month 3! Make those vows!]
« Reply #2 on: January 18, 2006, 11:42:00 AM »
I vow to do at least half my assault marines (5), as time might not permit me doing the whole squad, as I haven't bought half of them.
Reset my counters in prep for 6th:
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Re: Winter of Discontent Painting Challenge! [Month 3! Make those vows!]
« Reply #3 on: January 18, 2006, 11:42:22 AM »
I vow to do at least 8 spinegaunts, and only hopefully 8 more gaunts with various armaments
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Re: Winter of Discontent Painting Challenge! [Month 3! Make those vows!]
« Reply #4 on: January 18, 2006, 11:58:31 AM »
I Vow to complete 30 Necron warriors! They wil have atleast 3 colours on them(so not just painted silver).


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Re: Winter of Discontent Painting Challenge! [Month 3! Make those vows!]
« Reply #5 on: January 18, 2006, 12:09:16 PM »
I vow to finish the 9 man Eldar Fire Dragon squad + Exarch that I failed for month 2, and to do a 3-man Eldar Ranger squad.

You're double posting...



Any way is 2 of my black templars sword brethren and maybe a squad of black templar initiates ok?



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Am I bothered? So... guard are crap! Go with ogres, they'll make you throw up more easily?

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Re: Winter of Discontent Painting Challenge! [Month 3! Make those vows!]
« Reply #6 on: January 18, 2006, 01:00:15 PM »
I vow to finish my buddies squad of 10 Menoth Zealots.

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Re: Winter of Discontent Painting Challenge! [Month 3! Make those vows!]
« Reply #7 on: January 18, 2006, 01:02:51 PM »
By the way, congrats to Marshall and Jello, the only two who made it both months!

re: double post
The first post is in my official capacity as contest organizer, the followup is in my individual capacity as participant.

Nitpicky b*****d. :)

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Re: Winter of Discontent Painting Challenge! [Month 3! Make those vows!]
« Reply #8 on: January 18, 2006, 01:29:29 PM »
By the way, congrats to Marshall and Jello, the only two who made it both months!

re: double post
The first post is in my official capacity as contest organizer, the followup is in my individual capacity as participant.

Nitpicky b*****d. :)

But anyway is 2 sword brethren ok?

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Am I bothered? So... guard are crap! Go with ogres, they'll make you throw up more easily?

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Re: Winter of Discontent Painting Challenge! [Month 3! Make those vows!]
« Reply #9 on: January 18, 2006, 02:06:00 PM »
Is 4 terminators in full grand fleet colours ok?

by the way, this is the best thing the world has ever seen, short of chocolate!

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Re: Winter of Discontent Painting Challenge! [Month 3! Make those vows!]
« Reply #10 on: January 18, 2006, 02:36:31 PM »
I vow to convert and painting 20 Imperial Guardmen. And eat less candy and ........
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Re: Winter of Discontent Painting Challenge! [Month 3! Make those vows!]
« Reply #11 on: January 18, 2006, 03:32:28 PM »
I pledge to finish in the first month: Twelve fire warriors, one crisis suit commander.

As I purchase more models, I may add another FW squad and a hammerhead in month two or three, but for now the above.
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Re: Winter of Discontent Painting Challenge! [Month 3! Make those vows!]
« Reply #12 on: January 18, 2006, 04:13:22 PM »
I vow to paint a squad of Deamonhunter grey knights termies by the end of the month.

I am currently working at it anyway so what the heck why not :P.

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Re: Winter of Discontent Painting Challenge! [Month 3! Make those vows!]
« Reply #13 on: January 18, 2006, 04:18:43 PM »
But anyway is 2 sword brethren ok?
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Does it count as a unit choice in a tourney game? If so, it counts. If not, no.

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Re: Winter of Discontent Painting Challenge! [Month 3! Make those vows!]
« Reply #14 on: January 18, 2006, 05:10:00 PM »
Erm, well if you're still running it, I vow to paint a 10 man Imperial Guard hardened veteran squad and their chimera. Actually I'm going to do this whether the contest is on or not but what the hey...

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Re: Winter of Discontent Painting Challenge! [Month 3! Make those vows!]
« Reply #15 on: January 18, 2006, 05:53:51 PM »
Vows updated. I don't see how you guys who do 20-30 figs pull it off. Doing 10 strains me to the edge of sanity :)

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Re: Winter of Discontent Painting Challenge! [Month 3! Make those vows!]
« Reply #16 on: January 18, 2006, 07:32:17 PM »
This time I VOW to finish my sister repentia squad!

good luck to all!
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Re: Winter of Discontent Painting Challenge! [Month 3! Make those vows!]
« Reply #17 on: January 26, 2006, 10:28:15 AM »
Wow, we're back. Here's some progress pics. I've gotten the orange glaze down on all the dragons, and have put down a brass coat on 6 of the weapons. I've also basecoated and shaded the purple on the rangers. Instead of doing just 3, looks like I'm doing 6 of them, so 2 squads, yay.




Oh yeah, all bases basecoated as well.

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Re: Winter of Discontent Painting Challenge! [Month 3! Make those vows!]
« Reply #18 on: January 26, 2006, 11:16:34 AM »
loydb, picked up my pledge, as it isn't in the listy

(4 termies for my command squad)

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Re: Winter of Discontent Painting Challenge! [Month 3! Make those vows!]
« Reply #19 on: January 26, 2006, 11:48:21 AM »
Vows updated. I don't see how you guys who do 20-30 figs pull it off. Doing 10 strains me to the edge of sanity :)

Well my painting isn't really that great anyway, so I'm able to do a bit more. I do try and improve and made some progress, but I keep getting finished quickly?

Back on topic. My Update...
All 30 Made.
15 Without Mould Lines and ready to Spray!
15 With Mould Lines and taking ages to get done  :'(

Seeya Later Dudes!

 


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