Thursday 6 December 2012

A blast from the past, becomes inspiration for the present and maybe even an army for the future.

A while back I was engaged in (and lost) two painting bets with my buddy Darren.  As Darren and I are both men of wealth and taste we choose not to bet things as vuglar as money and instead our currency is a mixture of shame and servitude....

....okay, but seriously.  Darren and I have undertaken some speed painting "bets" in the past where the stakes are that the loser (or losers when there are more participants) will paint a model for the winner.  In one of my lost painting bets we were each painting the contents of a Last Night On Earth board game and Darren managed to beat me by a few hours in our other painting bet we were each painting a Warmahordes force, along with our mutual friend Carmin and Darren was able to use Army Painter's products to get his entire force done in 3 days while my Cryx were less than half done at that point.

As my payment for losing Darren sent me 2 of the awesome Space Hulk Blood Angel Terminators to paint for him.  I recently got back into painting 40K models and another friend Mark came through like a champ and gave me a full set of the Terminators from Space Hulk for my own collection.

I got Darren to send me pics of the two figures I painted for him so I can use them as a template for painting my own models.  Now if I can just stay focused for a few days.....

-Jay

For the Emperor!
 

6 comments:

  1. anyone want to enter a speed painting contest with me. I have more space hulk miniatures that need painting.....

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  2. I was thinking you, Carmin and I and anyone else who wants to join us should go another round next year.

    What are you guys hoping to paint/play next year?

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    1. Next year is about finishing a bunch of started projects for me.
      1. My lender Norman force for SAGA has been dragging on
      2. My bolt-action army, so I can give the rules a shot.
      3. Cthulhu RPG figs various stuff.
      4. 20 more Grave Guard (Using Mantic Revenants). And finish magnetising my VC.

      And what could be the contest.
      5. I need motivation to paint my 3rd 50rat unit for my Skaven.

      Maybe we could make the next challenge; paint 50 rank and file figs.??

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    2. I could definitely use 50 more skeles.

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    3. carmin said he needed some cultists for his 40k force, so I think he is down.

      we should aim for late Jan early Feb

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    4. Hmmm...okay if we're going to do 50 rank and file not system specific and not until early next year how does this sound:
      -Darren; 50 Skaven
      -Carmin; 50 Cultists
      -Me; 50 Hobbit Goblins
      We can hit all 3 GW systems that way.

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