Well, we all promise ourselves every year that we will paint some of the colossal piles of bare plastic and metal we have lying around the place.
So I'm blatantly stealing the idea for Tale of Painters from Warseer (props to my homies on Warseer). I've even just copied and pasted the text. Names and dates are changed though
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THE TALE OF Mongoose PAINTERS
The aim of The Tale of Painters (TOP) is to help motivate those involved to start and complete a 2000 point army in the next twelve months.
The painters involved have made a commitment to paint and post, by the last day of each month, approx 200 points of their chosen army. They do this each month for the next 12 months. Starting with the last day of January 2008.
However, because people have real lives with exams, holidays, honeymoons, new babies etc, etc. They get two 'Jokers'. For two months within the year you can ‘play a joker’ and rather than post an update they can post saying "sorry guys couldn't get it done this month. Real life got in the way." But the other 10 Months they have to come up with (approx) 200 points of painted and based figures. 200 points for 10 out of the next 12 months.
In twelve months time we will all end up with a finished 2000 point army.
All chat, questions, discussion, WIP, painting advice, encouragement, tutorials, etc, etc, should be on this thread.
(or in individual painters own project logs).
A new thread will be opened on the last day of each month (and will remain open for a week) for each painter to post one, and only one post with the next 200 point ‘update’ for the army they are painting and a picture of the army to date.
(OR one post for EACH army for those nutters painting more than one army!)
For ActA players 1 War point per month.
I will just take this opportunity to thank all the painters who have signed up for their interest and enthusiasm and for their ideas that have helped shape this project. I wish you all the best of luck and I hope this project is a big sucess for everyone involved. I also hope 'the viewers at home' enjoy this results of all the work of the painters involved.
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So basically everyone picks an army (or two for 2 x 1000 point armies, or 2 x 5 war point fleets etc) and posts their choices for armies/fleet by Jan 7th, and the first 200 by the end of the month.
At the end of Jan I'll open a thread to put the first 200 points in, and people put a pic of the unit/s or ship/s or tank/s walker/s etc in and a picture of the army so far.
If you do a unit bigger than 200, which is pretty easy with MI or elite skinnies, then post by unit and try not to make people feel bad with your big points totals, you horrible marauder/exo suit/venerable player.
Anyone interested in doing this? One way to get armies together and painted for SST:2nd ed and World at War.
So I'm blatantly stealing the idea for Tale of Painters from Warseer (props to my homies on Warseer). I've even just copied and pasted the text. Names and dates are changed though
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THE TALE OF Mongoose PAINTERS
The aim of The Tale of Painters (TOP) is to help motivate those involved to start and complete a 2000 point army in the next twelve months.
The painters involved have made a commitment to paint and post, by the last day of each month, approx 200 points of their chosen army. They do this each month for the next 12 months. Starting with the last day of January 2008.
However, because people have real lives with exams, holidays, honeymoons, new babies etc, etc. They get two 'Jokers'. For two months within the year you can ‘play a joker’ and rather than post an update they can post saying "sorry guys couldn't get it done this month. Real life got in the way." But the other 10 Months they have to come up with (approx) 200 points of painted and based figures. 200 points for 10 out of the next 12 months.
In twelve months time we will all end up with a finished 2000 point army.
All chat, questions, discussion, WIP, painting advice, encouragement, tutorials, etc, etc, should be on this thread.
(or in individual painters own project logs).
A new thread will be opened on the last day of each month (and will remain open for a week) for each painter to post one, and only one post with the next 200 point ‘update’ for the army they are painting and a picture of the army to date.
(OR one post for EACH army for those nutters painting more than one army!)
For ActA players 1 War point per month.
I will just take this opportunity to thank all the painters who have signed up for their interest and enthusiasm and for their ideas that have helped shape this project. I wish you all the best of luck and I hope this project is a big sucess for everyone involved. I also hope 'the viewers at home' enjoy this results of all the work of the painters involved.
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So basically everyone picks an army (or two for 2 x 1000 point armies, or 2 x 5 war point fleets etc) and posts their choices for armies/fleet by Jan 7th, and the first 200 by the end of the month.
At the end of Jan I'll open a thread to put the first 200 points in, and people put a pic of the unit/s or ship/s or tank/s walker/s etc in and a picture of the army so far.
If you do a unit bigger than 200, which is pretty easy with MI or elite skinnies, then post by unit and try not to make people feel bad with your big points totals, you horrible marauder/exo suit/venerable player.
Anyone interested in doing this? One way to get armies together and painted for SST:2nd ed and World at War.
