Analogue Hobbies 4th Annual Painting Challenge

A few days behind, but yeah, I went for it.

I watched from the side lines last year and was particularly impressed by Tamsin's herculean output. So much so that I started a grandiose project, which I of course didn't complete.

When I saw that the rules were changed to include fantasy and sci-fi this year, I couldn't sit idly by and let this opportunity to get into high gear pass me by. So let the hand wringing commence. I have sorted all my 28mm today and found that I have quite  bit of stuff that is already primed. I also have several that have been started to some degree but I'm wondering if white primed figures with metal bits painted black count as started or not. Technically speaking one could consider it two undercoats, one white one black. I'll ask for clarification.

Add to this that I'm in the middle of crash painting 50 some odd figures for a battle I need to play out this month and I'm getting myself wound up.

I really like what Loki did on his page here and I will attempt to emulate that. I also like his painting page, but am ashamed that many of my figures were purchased in 1990 and are only primed or even still in the blister.

Here's my running 28mm list:

Figure	Scale	Material	#	Notes
Orc Sword	28mm	plastic	10	primed on base
Gob wolf rider	28mm	metal	19	8 mostly unprimed, 11 started
Gob foot	28mm	metal	9	9 on base, 6 primed
Black Orc Foot	28mm	metal	12	All primed and on base
Orc Shaman	28mm	metal	2	On base, started
Gob foot	28mm	metal	40	21 started, 18 bare, 1 primed
Gob bows	28mm	metal	29	15 started, 14 primed, on base
Gob bows	28mm	plastic	10	6 primed, 4 started, on base
War Wolf	28mm	metal	1	bare, no base
orc foot	28mm	metal	10	finished, rebase?
half orcs	28mm	metal	2	color blocked, on base
orc bows	28mm	metal	16	color blocked, on base
orc foot	28mm	metal	24	finished, rebase?
orc foot	28mm	metal	4	bare, on base
orc bows	28mm	metal	3	color blocked, on base
human bows	28mm	metal	5	started, on base
human foot	28mm	metal	5	started, on base
human wizards	28mm	metal	4	started, on base
gob fanatics	28mm	metal	2	1 started, 1 primed on base
elf bows	28mm	plastic	5	started, on base
trolls	28mm	metal	2	finished, rebase?
Gob wolf rider	28mm	metal	1	started, on base
orc foot sb	28mm	metal	2	finished, need basing, broken.
orc chukkas	28mm	metal	3	full sets, in box
skull crusher	28mm	metal	2	full sets, in box
Man mangler	28mm	metal	1	full sets, in box
Orc Boar riders	28mm	metal	2	in box
Orc Archers	28mm	metal	4	in box
Orc bosses	28mm	metal	2	in box
Gob chariot	28mm	metal	2	in box
Bret mtd lord	28mm	metal	1	in box, plastic horse
Dwf Cannon	28mm	metal	2	in box
Chaos Centaur	28mm	metal	5	in box
Chaos Cav	28mm	metal	6	in box
chaos steeds	28mm	metal	2	loose
chaos knights	28mm	metal	2.5	loose
bret knights	28mm	metal	4	loose
Gob chariot	28mm	metal	1	loose
orc Archers	28mm	metal	3	loose
human cas	28mm	metal	1	loose
human bows	28mm	plastic	2	loose
chaos warrior	28mm	metal	1	loose, broken, repaint
skaven foot	28mm	plastic	10	loose,no head
dk elf xbow	28mm	plastic	10	loose, no head
dk elf head	28mm	plastic	18	9 helmet, 9 bare
dwarf head	28mm	plastic	9	4 horned, 5 plain helm
gob head	28mm	plastic	10	4 helmet, 6 bare
orc head	28mm	plastic	10	5 helmet, 5 bare
xbow	28mm	plastic	18	10 white, 8 black
cleaver	28mm	plastic	6
hammer heads	28mm	plastic	10
wagon wheel	28mm	plastic	8
evil shield	28mm	plastic	51	tab slot
elf shield	28mm	plastic	5
fighter shield	28mm	plastic	10	tab slot
generic shield	28mm	plastic	27	hole slot
moon shield	28mm	plastic	20	flat back
cap horse	28mm	plastic	4	one miscast
horse	28mm	plastic	4	missing one tail
human halberd	28mm	plastic	20	color blocked, on base
elf spear	28mm	plastic	5	color blocked, on base
dawrf axe	28mm	plastic	10	color blocked, on base
orc art crew	28mm	metal	10	bare, no base
human xbow	28mm	metal	4	bare, no base
orc Archers	28mm	metal	1	color blocked, on base
chaos ft knights	28mm	metal	2.5	bare, no base
evil gen shield	28mm	plastic	2	hole slot
slotta base	20 x 20	plastic	23
slotta base	25 x 25	plastic	27
slotta base	25 x 50	plastic	8
orc champ	28mm	plastic	1	color blocked, on base
rat man	28mm	metal	1	bare, no base
celtic warriors	28mm	plastic	10
norman foot	28mm	plastic	44

Wow, pasting that in was kind of a pain. I think I changed my terminology part way through so some of the ones early on that say started might be either color blocked or have the black accents.

Anyhow, I'm trying to resist just saying 500 points and then dealing with it later. I want to try and prep everything to start with.

I'm also having trouble looking for figures for the entry. I haven't seen The Wild Bunch or Cross of Iron in ages. Anyone have a line on a figure that looks like Kris Kristofferson?

And on a blog note, my views have gone through the roof over the last couple of days. Over 400. My usual is about 150 per day.

Apparently you all like tits.

Or maybe there are just a lot of Zardoz fans out there.