So things are starting to get a little crazy and I need to
get caught up with my painting. Im attending the Caledonia Carnage Team Doubles
tournament (hosted by Trev and Ryan at Common Ground Games) with Mike as
bestest dice buddy and can’t wait. Unfortunately I need to paint 1200pts of
Empire in just over a month (well 3 demis and stank are done lol) so with this
in mind I thought I would set out a plan to get this painted.
In case you haven’t noticed im a big fan of plans (#OCD) as
it helps keep my tiny, scatter brained mind in some semblance of order.
Personally I use google calendar to layout a plan and set deadlines (use Microsoft
calendar for work and my OCD doesn’t like mixing lol). I find this really helps
me as I can see where I am against plan and if I need to put in extra hours to
meet the deadline. I’m a big believer in front loading projects and breaking
the back of it early so I don’t need to stress later on.
So here are my 1 month (ish) plan
17th April: Spray paint based army and applied
PVA sealant paint mix. (WIP shots below)
18th April: Assemble Halberds and Knights
19th April: Finish 2 Wizards
26th April: Finish 3 Demigryphs
4th May:
Finish 4 Knights
11th May: Finish 4 Knights
18th May: Finish 2 Knight and a Witch Hunter
20th May: Spray Movement Trays
23rd -24th May: CALEY Carnage!
After this I need to get another 6 Demis, 50 Halberds, 20
Archers, a cannon and 23 Spearman painted for August ish which might be a tall
ask with my wedding coming up! Also want to do a few wee 40k models (in
particular my inquisitor scale space marine). Going back and forth on my Grey
Knight colour scheme and I am kinda thinking I might paint them as 1st
company Ultramarines so I can dual use them to get more variety out of the
army. Saw some amazing dark blue and NMM gold marines on twitter (pics below)
which I want to emulate. After painting the Demis with the NMM blue I really
think I could pull off a very cool GK/SM army….
I guess like everyone I have been a bit in limbo over 9th
and as such I haven’t felt the drive to paint up a 2400pt army to my highest
possible standard. That said painting has always been my primary driver and I
painted for 2 years before I even played actual people lol! Anyway hopefully
will have some finished pictures of my wizards this weekend, have been
pondering up some fluff for them as a brother and sister story! Oh and I need to finally write up my arena of death ruleset for 5 man 1000pts character warhammer games!
Rich
Good luck with this! I know what its like painting to a deadline. However I think this kind of limbo between additions is a good time to get stuff finished. I'm going to get back on the Wood Elves now I think.
ReplyDeleteCheers Steve! Would love to see your wood elves one day! You really must come up north for a tournament one day :)
ReplyDelete