From JeremyM: Challenge Wrap

 Hi All,

I am very pleased to present my finished challenge projects for this year. I still have so much I want to do...but isn't that the point of all this anyway. Besides one must keep a few things in your back pocket for next year...as well as our continued extra hobby time while we quarantine. 

I have sporadically been in a few challenges before this one, but have never progressed anywhere near this far. I was rather skeptical I would come anywhere near the point total Curt assigned to me, but to surpass it was a great feeling. I still have more aliens figures I need to paint (that collection keeps growing and growing), but I'm pretty happy I have a great start to an Imperial guard army from all this. Sometimes you just get in a rhythm and its good to stick with it when that happens.  Previous challenges I was derailed when life came along to throw a monkey wrench at me. This happened to a degree this challenge, but thankfully it was near the end and didn't last long. I have a couple project finished up but thankfully that is what the vaccination challenge is for! Hope to see several of you in that one as well (but let's hope for not too long!). 

From EdwardG: Final group photo

 Hi all,

It is already a week since the end of the Challenge and yet it feels like only moments ago. I am so glad that I was able to take part in the XIth Challenge and I cannot wait to begin the XIIth! Thank you to Curt and all the minions for keeping the Challenge going, and thank you to everyone for the inspiring photos of your painted minis and kind comments on my entries.  

This afternoon I managed to clear the dinning table and persuade my wife to help me take the obligatory wrap up photo. 

I have to say, I am amazed at how much I have managed to paint. Well over double my original target!! If I was able to keep up this level of productivity I would have very little lead pile left! Luckily (ish), I seem to have already slowed down a bit, so no fear of running out of fresh minis any time soon. Although, I probably should buy some more just in case. One can never be too careful. 

My two main projects have been nicely boosted thanks to the Challenge, with the 100 days Allied Army, 1 and a half divisions closer to being complete. And my DBA Romano British army has landed only 9 figures short of its total number, which I think is pretty good going! In addition, I found jumping (or should that be crawling) through the Chambers a great distraction, and a fun stretch at times to see which minis I could possibly shoe horn in with some lateral thinking. My Curtgeld mini is already in a box on its way to Miles, but I am not saddened by it missing the photo call, I am just thrilled that it is on its way to such an inspirational fellow. 

Hope everyone stays safe and well over the next ~268 days, 6 hours, 9 minutes, and how ever many seconds until the start of the XIIth Challenge! (I don't know what you mean I am not really counting...)

In the mean time, see some of you over at the Vaccination Challenge (or VacCha as I call it...no?...just me?...Ok). Living in Germany means that I run a high risk of still posting on that board when the XIIth Challenge is going. Fingers crossed, thumbs pressed, and timber touched, that it isn't the case! 

All the best,

Ed :D 

From ArthurS and SanderS: The Challenge Wrap-Up!

 Hoi,

Dear Challengers, that was humongous fun thanks for that! Both Arthur and me had a great time viewing all the excellent admissions and reading all the posts and comments to our own posts. Sadly it's all over for now, even though there's now a Vac Challenge for those of us showing withdrawal sympthoms.

As always, the "wrap-up post" is where we thank everyone who made this Challenge possible; all the old and new Challengers, the redoubtable Minions, Dear Lady Sarah who puts up with all of us claiming her husband as self-appointed deity of Snow and Sillyness and of course Master Campbell himself, thank you all!

Special mention should go to those not attending this year, they are all sorely missed. I personally miss MichaelA, Iannick, Fran and AnneO a lot but I am sure we will be seeing them again in the future.

If I have counted correctly, I am taking part in the Challenge since 2014, making this my 8th event and Arthur's 4th one. As each year, when making the pictures I always forget to put some in. This time we asked my wife to make the picture below.

Afterwards I noticed my Deathwing terminators were missing so I made this picture.

 

Only to discover upon clearing away some of the figures that I had omitted to include the Heroquest Golems and magical creatures...DOH! 

 I will try to keep painting and posting stuff in the Vac Challenge so perhaps I will see you there. Take care, stay healthy and till next year!

Cheers Sander and Arthur

 

From BenitoM: Photo Finish and Farewell

This 11th edition of The Challenge has flown away at the speed of light. I guess that lockdown and restrictions are not good to our perception of how time pass by. In any case, as in previous years I have really enjoyed being part of the community and having contributed my small part to the fun of the project.

The idea of the Island dungeon was bright indeed and added another layer of "challenge" (and fun!) to this edition, especially for historical-oriented painters like me... I'm left wondering what evils must be expected for the 12th edition.

In terms of goals, I feel enough satisfied with my scoring (515 points vs a 500 points target) and also the output. I'm a slow painter and feel no shame about it. Most important, this year I decided to take models from unfinished projects of previous years and happily I finished my Early Imperial Roman army for Infamy! Infamy!, reinforced my WW2 German unit with some early war sections and put the foundations for a Germanic warband.

 

 

The selfie I post below has a great significance: it's a photo I took in my last trip abroad (to freezing Chicago) in the last week of February 2020... who could have guessed that only a few days later after landing in Madrid we were going to be locked at home for 4 months.

 

This photo looks like an image from some forgotten times... I wish (more than hope) that these times will return again in late 2021 or 2022, but the feeling of being wasting part of my life and having thrown through the sink a couple of my life's years will not easily be forgotten.

Thanks Curt, Sarah and the Minions for organizang and helping with the Challenge, your effort is really appreciated.

To conclude, farewell fellow Challengers. Take care of yourselves and your beloved ones, I want all of you to gather again in 9 months from now

 

From TomM: the wrap up video

 And so it came to pass, the 11th edition of the Analogue Hobbies Painting Challenge, and the 4th one I participated in.

How fast those three months have gone by...

For me personally, it was yet another succesfull edition, though like last year I regret not being able to frequently comment on the magnificent work of the other challengers, as free time was more then ever a utopia this edition.

But even then, I managed to get my two goals: break the 1.000 points barrier, and finish the whole Chambers of Challenge route to the Altar of the Snow Lord.  This resulted in me totalling 1112 points this year, far off from my personal best but never the less a hefty total.

To reach this, I finished 25 entries, and that placed me nicely in the first half of the table again, ending at a 27th spot.

Here the progress I made for the chambers map and the followed route:

And a small clip showcasing all my entries of this edition:

It was great fun once again, and next year I`ll be back with a personal challenge, namely to try and enter (any maps if they are present permitting) solely with anime styled models, which i can pull from various ranges and boardgames hopefully to reach my goals then as well.

Just a small personal impression, maybe a points score for 28mm+ "Monsters" might be in order, they are often bigger then their sci-fi equivalent vehicles....

from Paul O'G: Challenge Wrap-up

It was great to be back for my seventh Challenge and to help out as a minion for the fourth time. For me it was a Season of two halves: a highly productive first period (while working from home in COVID quarantine) and then steady but stalling progress.

Not bad, but it always seems more at the time I find...

I set myself a target of 750 points and completed 863 points with key projects being Caesarian Romans and Warhammer Fantasy Beastmen. I set myself a 1k stretch goal but fell short at the end as I was renovating my grungy garage into a new gaming studio. Timing could have been better but the outcome is great!

All new lights, wall panelling, insulation, carpet and cabinets!

Overall my Minobus was probably my best single unit but I am most pleased with the way I started and completed the core units of my Caesarian Roman Army.  My most surprising project was my unplanned  monochrome Ninja experiment. Side challenge wise I was well down on skullz this year but still posted 159 noggins, and it was fun to grab 5th in the GW duel.  Best of all it was wonderful to complete the Challenge alongside Reilly and to encourage eachother along the way.

Blood for the Blood God!

Ready to Fight for Caesar!

I've now amassed just over 6000 lifetime challenge points and I'll definitely be back to add to that tally! Thanks Curt, fellow minions and everybody who contributes to the wonderful AHPC community.