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How do people feel about doing a "slow grow" for 2024? Pick a system and build / paint a force for that system. A unit a month for something like 40k, or a smaller commitment for something like Infinity, which could be a couple of minis per month.

There has been a long running joke in our family every Christmas and birthday. Whenever my eldest daughter receives a gift she tries to guess what is is before unwrapping it. No matter what shape the gift is, she always guesses “Star Destroyer”. Last Christmas, I gave her a star destroyer model kit, surprising everyone. She was never going to build it, so I put it together and am painting it up for her for a second round of the same joke.

"WHEN DO WE EAT?" Passes the Rule of 3ft so I'm happy enough! I keep telling myself I'll sit down and really properly do a highlight pass with "same shade + a bit of white" but it never happens 😛

I haven't posted in a while, but I have been busy. Dread Knights: And all the furniture: And some closer pics: I really enjoyed painting the furniture, probably the most fun painting I've had in while. Just going with what I felt like and seeing what worked. I've also got a new fancy camera that I'm getting used to, and I used a velvet blanket for the backdrop, which maybe wasn't the best idea.

Progress report. I bit the bullet and ordered the neoprene mat I want for this project. Painfully pricey, but an excellent product with years of use ahead of it. The mat is 4x6, but in this pic I've folded it over so we are only dealing with 4x4. Clearly I need about twice as many buildings, but I reckon I'm in pretty good shape for scatter terrain. Not because of what's in the pic, but rather because I have loads of useful scatter/walls in storage back in Canberra.

Thanks! I did want to use this pic, but it was too much to shrink to such a small size.

- Take a before and after pic - have fun - aim to finish by 29th November

Sabine’s Star Destroyer

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Superb painting, as always. I particularly like the framed picture of Skeletor.

Found my slow grow project: Olley's Armies Texan Scrunts. These are ZZ Top dwarves with modern weapons sculpted by Bob Olley. The Royal Mail postmark on the padded bag was 23 June 2008, so I have been failing to paint them for 15 years. The basic infantry and heavy weapons dwarves will be used for a variant of Space Crusade. Add in the support vehicle that was part of the set and they are also useable for Firefight and Xenos Rampant. There's a good prospect these figures may finally see some game time! Now I need to source a close approximation to the band's distinctive vehicle. 🙂

I have a sorely neglected 15mm WW1 pile of opportunity. I am going to commit to having two playable, painted forces by December 2024. My method is always batches so I am going to try and get a batch step done each by each month. Steps - mold lines / base up / terrain grit / undercoat / colour pick 1 / colour pick 2/ colour pick final / wash or contrast or dip / basing. I'll set a monthly alarm on the Google calendar to poke me.

I plan to join in, but probably won't start until March or April (as I have a 1:1 scale house to get done first)

I like it. It will be like the other slow grows I sign up to and achieve nothing for 😄

Had a game with my brother yesterday, one page rules grimdark because we're too lazy to use GWs sprawling ruleset. Three platoons of Guard make a valiant stand against the onrushing tyranids. Ignoring orders the lone APC driver shoots forwards to try to buy the infantry more time. Oh dear, shouldn't that thing be the other way up? asks the stormtroopers. But they haven't got long to worry about it... before being devoured by a Big 'Orrible Thing The heavy bolters lay down streams of (ineffective) fire But then the enemy command a dreaded Winged Gribbly comes from the skies and assaults their position! By some miracle (namely all three gunners turning towards it whilst still holding the firing stud) the Winged Gribbly gets beaten off and destroyed by a mere support squad! The commissar bravely demands his men hold fast against the Big 'Orrible Thing that has been scuttling across the board all game, spitting acid. Predictable results ensue when it finally mounts the barricades. With positions overrun a lone Salamander armoured vehicle gets to the battle, takes one look and stops to pick up the heavy weapons before NOPEing out of there. Leaving the French to form a bristling wall of steel and bravely get eaten in a delaying action.

I look forward to committing and not achieving 👍

My money is on the ammo crates...

For next month, I will be painting a Star Destroyer.

Well smashing on yellow first I thought "ugh that's way too garish" but then with the orange contrast over top it's perfect!

The Tfex is progressing, but I kind of lost steam a bit after it got nerfed into the ground. Finished a couple of Zoes though…

More swordies…

Hey all, getting in early so people have time to plan and prepare (or do it last minute anyway, like I'm prone to doing). I'd like to keep it all in one thread as this isn't a strict competition, more a get stuff done kind of done in a vaguely competitive way. Rules: - You can do any game system you want - There's no minimum or maximum to do each month, but ideally you'd be setting yourself a goal each month. For example, "I'm going to paint a unit of space marines this month". Or a character, or a lance of mechs or a block of infantry" etc. Try and make your monthly target reasonable to your chosen game system. - nothing stops you from doing more on top of your monthly goal. So set yourself a smaller goal, then anything on top of that is a bonus. - towards the end of the year (2024), depending on how things are looking, I'll look at organising some prizes for participating as a bit of a reward for making an effort.

I was looking for something I could play with my family, and this seemed perfect. We've had a couple of games so far with my 2 boys (10 & 12), their mum and me, and it's been fun. My eldest insists on being the dungeon master, and it's been good to see him learning to focus on making sure everyone has a good game, rather than just trying to crush his opponents. Firstly, I needed to sort out the case situation. The models come held in this weird plastic tray that grips them in a sort of pinch, warping them and generally just being no good for anything. So I ordered some cheap pluck-foam trays from ebay, and some foam sheets for the top and bottom. After some faffing about trying to figure out the correct layout to fit everything, I plucked the foam and glued on the base layers. I think they turned out rather well: Here they are fitting in the box, my plans all falling into place: Now to the miniatures. The models are, IMO, really cool sculpts produced in some really crappy plastic. A lot were bent, which I was mostly able to fix using hot water. But try as I might I can't remove the mould lines without making a mess of the details. The usual hobby-knife trick just doesn't seem to work with this plastic, and filing or sanding just smears the surrounding details. This has made me decide two things: 1. Screw the mould lines, they'll have to stay 2. This will be a speed-painting project. It doesn't seem worth it to spend a lot of time on warped miniatures with irremovable mould lines. So the plan is a base-coat of Wraithbone, no Zenithal priming or other such tomfoolery. Then contrast paints, and regular paints just for metallics and maybe some highlights if needed. So far I've done: The Heroes And a couple of Mummies: Next up will be the zombies and skeletons.

A long overdue update for the high elves.

My painting has been sorely lacking over the last couple of years, but it's time for that to change. With the release of Legions Imperialis, I think I'll have to slow grow a Salamanders force. A mix of the main boxed set models with some 3D printed ones and, hopefully, I can finish 2024 with a sizable army.

In. Battletech. x4 models p/month (Ie a lance, but leaving space to do infantry/vehicles ).

Heh - Yesterday I order another KR Multicase specifically for all my Battlemechs. 122 compartments *ought* to both cover and future-proof it 🙂

I'm getting a boat load of mechs next year from the Mercs kickstarter...I possibly overcommitted

Sad news. 😞

Could even use models you already own, but just haven't painted yet. The idea being to try and get a finished force.

Whatever you feel like 🙂 No need to be the same game system as anyone else either.

I have to say we’ll done that man, your mastering of the resin printer has given you a world to explore and create, champion! I must ask when you get ‘a fail’ what are the causes, running out of resin, power, printer fail etc?

That setup is *chef kiss*, pics with games or gtfo

Fighting over who gets painted next...

Hmmm I kind of like the idea. Perhaps the ‘nozzle’ of the fusion gun could be a bone (wraithbone) with a heavy drybrush of brown/black to imitate scorching?

I feel like each month we ought to have a virtual fight between everything everyone has painted to determine a martial winner, though of course we'd have to settle on a ruleset to use and unit profiles!

I'm going for more of a jungle feel 😛

Thats what I've got in my shed, but normally for the roof you'd install it over the battens so was just thinking of something that could fit in between them rather than messing about removing the roof If you're lining the ceiling though that's less of an issue, or you could just get some regular insulation batts, use strapping to hold them in place (like what you do for underfloor insulation), then put the ceiling in.

Yeah, we were thinking something like that product. We're considering attaching this stuff to the battens to line the roof, so putting polystyrene or triple board in under it will work. unfortunately I've discovered I suck at plastering, so I intend to sand the whole lot back and try again over cup weekend.

Love that someone had an old inquisistion walker. I still have to paint mine.

Noooooooo! Don’t call it now! I’m not in this for the money. The main reason I enter each month is to help keep this challenge going - I want to see what everyone else paints. The bale eye is red. I will see if I can get a better photo of it.

Commissar Yarrick finished.

I had a game at PAX AUS last weekend and was really impressed with the rules. I've not played much of anything for a while, but Warmaster might just drag me back into the hobby. *Edit* Wow, talk about threadomancy - I read the initial post date as August and missed the 2020 bit.

Latest WIP of my printed buildings. As you can see one of them still needs its roof printed, but that'll have to wait as I have a hole in my FEP. You can probably also see where some of these were actually failed prints that I've 'fixed' using green stuff, odds and ends from Mantic terrain crate and - of course - coffee sticks. I still need to go through and add some colours/pick out detail, but I am not going to go hard on details. I also need to 'flock' the edging, but that'll have to wait until I decide on and buy a gaming matt so I know what I need to match.