2014 Hobby Challenge - January Showcase Danger Zone!

Now is the time to put your judging caps on and become super critical about the work of amateur and semi-amateur painters!  Muhahahahahahah!

Just kidding.   But it is time to enjoy the hard work of our fellow players in this game.

First up is the finished work of Jeff  who has been quoted as saying "Needs more Blue" when referencing any space marine he sees.

Jeff's work on finishing up his Ultramarine's Chapter Banner Standard bearer ended up looking very nice.

He explained there are a few last final details he needed to put in but he was very please with the results.  I am too

Next here we have Michael "Da Warboss" 's Ork bikers

Again, fantastic work with both general painting, detailing and even basing.  Michael really set a standard in this hobby challenge. Sadly it was a very high standard.  Way to screw up the curve bud.

Because everyone seems to want to ride motorcycles right now,  Interrogator-Chaplin Ryan  sent in his work finishing up his Sargent on a bike.

Next up we have Tim's Bretonnian Archers!!!!

Tim finished them, but never sent me the picture.  Until he has it updates, This image will sit here in it's place. :)

The Hoffinator submitted these BlackTemplar that he had done last month and actually submitted for another competition. Him and Michael "Da Warboss" won the competition!   Thankfully the Hobby Challenge currently has no prizes other then a "Good job"  cuz I would be worried these guys would take the cake.

Finally I will leave off with my lone Ork.  Changed him around a little with some colors and some detailing.  I still didn't know what I wanted to do, but I did find that the yellow green and blue really just went went with each other. (I should really print out a color wheel for use at my desk instead of always re-discovering these things.

Febtober Hobby Challenge 2014

Oh the month of love has come around  again, it is time for us to put aside our anger and spend some time with romance on our minds. No one knows more about that then the followers of Slaanesh.

I just want to love, and be loved in return... now squeal for me.

This month is the same as last month, only a little bit louder and a little bit worse.

Hobby Challenge for Febtober:

We will have a minimum amounts of whatever you are working on but you can do way more if you want.

• One ten man squad of marines \ xenos (Or if you picked up the cheaper 5 man squad that.)
• One ten man unit of Fantasy troops (i.e. 10 brettonian archers, or 10 skaven warriors)
• Two  Clam pack Hero / HQ choice options   (I put a minimum of 2 cuz… come on.  You can do 2 in a month)
• One 40k vehicle, or Fantasy Large model (think Giant spider or steam tank)
• Any terrain  (but make it look gooooooood)

Note: I reference a lot of GW stuff, but it can be ANY model, from any game.  Just work with the concepts here.

Febtober Bonus Challenge:  Love!

Your bonus challenge is to some how incorporate love, romance, lust, even hanky-panky if you so wish into your modeling/painting.  Any Slaanesh are automatically considered to fall into this category, but lets be creative. Combat campaigns may have a heart as apart of their icon. I can't imagine there isn't an Ork with a heart tattoo that says "dakka" in it.

Be creative.  I'm not going to be critical of anything here, its just for fun.


I will be looking to get your initial picture entries by Friday, Febtober 7th.

Please send your pictures to me at  BadlyPaintedminis@gmail.com  ( look at me getting all fancy).

Just need a picture of your initial model or something showing me you are starting this month. Your name, and how you would like me to refer you as.  (  Jeff "The dwarf kicker" )
This way I can keep all the images together.


I'm still working on collecting the final pictures for January.  It should be posted in the next day or so.

2014 Hobby Challenge Lite

Below (slightly edited) is an email I sent out to a few people I know who love to hobby. Some of you reading this may think to yourself "Hey, I know that guy, and I also love to hobby. What gives? Where was my email?"    Well person who talks with the same voice I hear in my head, its simple.  I either don't have your email address, didn't think you would be terribly interested in it, or simply forgot. (Happens often to me).

Email below

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So this year I’m going to present a challenge for all of you.  A Simple, low requirement challenge that I think all of us can do to help us keep working on our forces and plan to play more games.

Each month of this year we will need to have something completed.  That is  Acquired / Built / Primed / Painted.

I know we are all busy with life so your monthly project requirements will be light.

We will have a minimum amounts of whatever you are working on but you can do way more if you want.

• One ten man squad of marines \ xenos (Or if you picked up the cheaper 5 man squad that.
• One ten man unit of Fantasy troops (i.e. 10 brettonian archers, or 10 skaven warriors)
• Two  Clam pack Hero / HQ choice options   (I put a minimum of 2 cuz… come on.  You can do 2 in a month)
• One 40k vehicle, or Fantasy Large model (think Giant spider or steam tank)
•  Any terrain  (but make it look gooooooood)

These are examples but you get the idea.  You are not required to go out and by new stuff for these monthly challenges, go through your stuff, organize it and figure out what you have.   1 month to get a 10 man troop choice done should be easy for us all to do.    You can do more though, just to show up your friends.  Jerk.

It will also keep our minds on our hobby a little more.

To start all you need to do is send me a picture of what you are starting with, and at the end of the month what you are ending with.   All of you have phones with cameras on it now.  #NoExcuses  Even if it’s a picture of a sprue.   All the pictures are going to go on my blog.  (This is a 2 fold resolution for me to keep writing btw).  I will simply refer to you by your first name (no details) unless you would prefer some kind of edgy pen name like “Magenta the Destroyer, demon of the dark”.  At which point I will do it and also ridicule you as much as possible.  But don’t let that stop you.

For whoever keeps up on it and shows the most progress in terms of things completed/attempted, and who seems to really be trying hard there may be a prize at the end of the year.

Let me know what you think, its near the end of the first month so if you can show me 1 model you can pump out in the last days I think we can accept Jan as a starter month. 

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Seems pretty simple hey?

I sent this out on the 16th, and have gotten a number of responses already that they are interested in doing it.  Only one image though.

Our first challenger is Tim one of my best gaming friends who submitted a group of Brittonian Bowmen.  He was already working on them and its a great way to get January into the bucket.

Tim's entry is a small unit of Brettonian Bowmen for Warhammer Fantasy Battle

My personal entry.  This is Gonk. Gonk is a Warhammer 40k, Ork "Boy". 

That is really that.

I'm expecting 4 possibly 5 more entries so I will be adding them as they come along.

If your interested in joining the fun message me and let me know. If you are unsure how to start I would love to help explain things.

Thanks for reading.

PROGRESS UPDATE  1/23/14

For right now I'm just going to update this post with more information and pictures as people submit them.

I have both another submission, and a mostly completed entry.

Jeff submitted an Ultramarine battle standard bearer.  Uh.."your arms off". 

I like that you are starting with a highly detailed single model to start off the year. There is no earning points for painting fast or slow. So go at your own pace

I on the other hand sat down tonight and cranked out Gonk.

Curse you wretched flash.   I didn't base him yet cuz I have no idea how I'm basing this army. I just wanted to get some experience painting green on green on green.

I went with yellow just cuz. Seemed to flow with the green skin well. Not sure what clan I'm going with though, any suggestions?  Yellow tends to be a pain in the ass to do. Orks can get away with "slopping" paint on though.

The skin was an Ork hide shade, then dry brushed Knarlock Green. then dry brushed Goblin Green, with a Thraka green wash.

Aright boys, lets do dis!

Update - 1/26

Our next entry was submitted by Michael "Da Warboss", who is submitting an Ork Warbiker mob.

He started painting them last week and as you can see, is no slouch in detail.

Git ova here litta 'hmie. I got sum'fin for yas.

I know, I'm working on my Ork Soccer hooligan speak, it will get better.  Now I feel my lone boy has been out-classed.  Only means i need to work harder now.

Update 1/29

My friend Ryan sent me some pictures of a Dark Angels bike sargent he just finished up.  Looking rather nice for someone who has only recently started his Warhammer addiction.

I have come to drive all over your rich mahogany!

Put me down said the Dark Angel, I do not wish to fall!

The second I get back on the road I'm going to cut down some mailboxes.

Yes, if you send multiple pictures I will post them with funny comments too.  I'm cool like that.

Keep up the good work guys, and remember send those pictures in.

You know what I hate? When people don't update their blogs.

Especially if I like what they write.

Yeah I got not excuse other then "life" "kids" and "winter".  My hobbies tend to slow down since all my stuff is in the basement.   I just don't have the drive to be in the cold.


Well, in the time since we last talked I have had a few very small projects started and attempted.

1) I tried to continue painting my bloodbowl team, that met with limited success.  I played a game of Bloodbowl with Jeff in November. Once that was done we talked about another game, but since it never came around I kind of just left the team on the table.

2) I bits ordered a Karl Franz, cut his legs off and started to put together a model of him standing up (instead of sitting on a horse).   So thats in a little bag that I will get back to

3) I picked up the Start Trek: Attack Wing, Smallworld, Takenoko, Unspeakable Words and Blood bowl Card manager.  I started in with board games lately, and with a bit of irony I typically can't play them because I don't have anyone to play with. (This often is from my desire to play stupidly complex games that my wife doesn't want to have to try and learn).

Current plan for projects / this blog.

Blog - I will try and be more active with my writing.  I think when I write and people post responses I tend to want to do more projects and updates.

Projects:

Currently I'm trying to figure out if I want to create a small Warhammer 40k project.
Two possible ideas.

A) Create a Word Bearers army.   Using the 6th edition starter box I have a great start.  This army would be used mostly against Jeff's Ultramarines.  Because that's how the story goes?

B) Create a Dark Angles Alliance force for my Space Wolves.   Of which I would make a fun little model depicting the ritual combat they have when the 2 forces meet. (I'm picturing a wolf just punching the ticket of an Angel)

Now that I posted, I will try to keep it up.  Once a week shouldn't be that hard, and it will help me focus.

Thanks again for taking the time to read my blog, till next time.

In lieu of a real post...

Hi...

yeah, its me.
Nope, no pictures right now.  But I'm just posting to make sure you guys didn't think I forgot about you.

This weekend I'm going to update my 80% completed winterguard images.
I'm also going to lay out my plans for a blood bowl pitch and a team (or maybe just painting my existing models).

In Soviet Khador, Warmachine plays YOU.

My gaming ADD is not about to slow down because I made a witty blog title, but I hope it helps me feel obligated to follow up with this a little.

As a start I picked up the battle box so I currently have pSorcha, a Juggernaut and a Destroyer.

Sorcha has been primed and has some red on her while the Juggernaut has been primed as well.   The Destroyer is currently pending arms.  I have been waiting to figure out if I wanted to just have the Destroyer, or if I could magnetize the arms and make it an optional kit.  Hoard 'O Bits of course would not have the Ripsaw (and I'm not going to order both piecemeal cuz I want to save on shipping). Cuz its either that, or pick up another Khador heavy jack box. Which would give me everything I needed. That being said, I wanted to actually pick up a Demolisher kit if I was going to pick up another Khador heavy.

The other thing I did manage to get was the plastic box of Khador Winter Guard. 10 ready soldiers of the motherland with 3 rocket launchers.  (A minimum unit costs puts me at 15 points, a solid starting step.)

I'm actually very excited about getting these guys together and ready for painting.

I'm just angry that I can't find the paints needed to do it.  Any suggestions?

How Time Flies...

You will notice from my previous post that it was week 1 part 1.
I was planning on writing a post for each day of games I played.   I didn't.  My attention failed me and after I would play my games come home. Most likely go to sleep.

I sadly did what I was trying not to do, I bought a bunch of models and rushed painting them in come cases, and in other cases just have them now.   I regret doing that.

This is me admitting what I did.

But I will post this week with progress on my new projects.  :)   Khador!