SIXTH ANNUAL ANALOGUE HOBBIES PAINTING CHALLENGE

For the last few year I´ve been following the blog Analogue Hobbies and it´s painting challenge. For the last year I´ve been really busy and I left the blog a little bit dead, but I´m ready, I´m in for 500 points, the 28mm models are 5 points for each infantry I paint, 10 for the mounted or crews and 15 for the vehicles, my models are usually 28mm so I have to paint around 80 infantrymen and some vehicles, in like 3 months... For me the hard part is not to find time to paint, its more difficult to find the moment to make proper photos and sit down to write, but this time I´m ready.

On my desk:

The tempestus scions primed and ready to be painted, they are 45 troops,4 Valkyries and a Knight.

Lord of the Rings hobbit army plus the grey company (aragorn and some friends).

Russian army for bolt action.

Skaven warband for mordheim.

Chaos army for warmaster.

Chaos warriors for Age of Sigmar.

Viking warband for saga.

I have more around the house and more ideas but I´m gonna try to focus to achieve at least the tempestus army, the skaven and the vikings for saga, with this i would have more than 500 points and I really want to get into the bonus rounds, this year the challenge goes around the risk takers, gamblers and daredevils and the bonus rounds are:

• January 3rd: Nostalgia 

• January 17th: Epic Fail 

• January 31st : Defensive Terrain 

• February 14th: L'amour 

• February 28th: Nautical 

• March 13th: Gambler/Risk-Taker

 Im gonna start assembling and priming the first 500 points and buying a nice table with lights for the photos...

FIRST UNIT FINISHED, LETS GO WITH THE CLANSMEN

 

As you can check the first unit is finished, this tunnel fighters are ready to cut in thin slices some grobi or skaven... and occasionally some elves just for fun. This will be the main unit in my army, well it might be cause it worth 400 points!!! and without the hero that is gonna be included...

In paint terms I went really easy, just some dark metal colours and some colourful beards and shields to contrast, so as always I'm painting grim even when tried to go more lightful, happy and oldhammer style... but i can´t... no unicorns and candy in my mind, just dark things.
 
The next unit, that is almost finished (something really hard to do cause actually I'm my own slave at the office...) CLANSMEN, this plastic models where the first ones I´ve bought for games workshop back there in the nineties, I have no command for this unit but in a lot there was this standard bearer made with the frame and two axes, so if the last owner thought it was a good idea, ill buy it.


Well next unit will be a cannon and probably a unit of thunderers.

Cheers

IRON BREAKERS WIP

Just a little update in the dwarf army, here they are on the bases I made with some slate, it´s a little, very very little progress but keeps being a progress.

Cheers

A TALE OF SEVERAL GAMERS

During my first days in this hobby, when I was at the end of the month waiting for my white dwarf, I founded a series of articles of four guys whit a monthly budget for collecting a new army, so they buy, assemble, paint and play with this armies, this was my favourite series at this times, and after that I did this with friends, but never checked with photos, or writing about it.


A couple of nights ago I´ve founded this blog, so after a short talk with richard he invited me to this challenge, so here I am and this is my first entrance, a unit of iron breakers, well as you can guess i´m gonna paint a dwarf army and now i´m working in the background, I have a huge leadpile of marauder dwarves so I don´t really think I´m gonna need to buy a lot of "new" models, but who knows I have issues... hehehe.

This is my project for february and I hope I´m gonna be able to finish in time.

cheers