Byron's Challenge

I started this challenge wanting to bang out a whole lot of figures that I have had sitting around, I created a fancy spreadsheet and everything. I had also planned to get a figure in for every single theme week. Very quickly the planning went out the window as various things came up and as I got distracted by new figures, games, and video games.

I had however planned on that happening and set my goal at 1000 points even though I had about 2000 points laid out in my painting plan. While I didn’t get everything done, I did manage to get a large number of things done, and was able to beat the points goal I had set.

I forgot to include the ships that I had finished and the terrain pieces in the photo, both of which I was quite happy with.

I finished off a good bit of modern 28mm, a pile of new 28mm WW1 figures to add to my Through the Mud and the Blood games, more grey scale zombies for zombicide, and even another unit of French Napoleonics. So overall I am happy with everything I got done.

The two main things I did not finish, which I still need to are my Tau units (which got delayed due to waiting for a few more to come in) and another unit of Death Guard for 30k, which just got set aside for other priorities. Both of these will get done sometime soon though.

I had a lot of fun with the challenge and seeing all of the other great figures being done by everyone helped keep me motivated and painting over the winter, which is the whole point of it to me. So, I will be back next year and hope everyone else is as well.

Lastly, thanks to Curt for running this again (and to the minions who helped) and thanks to everyone else who entered for all the awesome eye-candy!

Byron

Phil's Challenge - Nothing Like Consistency!

Please find attached my Challenge group shots, with my 'winter tools'. A little host compared to most but I'm satisfied that I crept past my target, and am delighted that the Challenge served to get a whole bunch more of the Spanish Civil War project finished.

 My tally made it to:
15 SCW infantry
1 SCW cavalry
1 SCW crewed artillery piece
1 SCW Polikarpov I-16 (crashed)
3 Napoleonic guerrillas
4 Pulp cultists
7 GW Plaguebearers
...and 1 Curtgeld

All in 28mm - there's nothing like consistency!  

Best wishes,
PhilH

Iannick's Challenge

This hasn't been a very productive year for me, as I've been living in boxes and preparing to move in a few weeks. Numerous visits to our house, which is for sale, also meant I spent more time cleaning than painting!

Still, a little Oldhammer got done...

 A beast of Nurgle was raised...

 A new period (Sci-Fi) was started...

 and a first place was won in a Bonus theme round !

And, of course, I had to pay the piper...

So of course, my least productive year ever is the year Curt asks for a picture! I will oblige, but also cheat and include a picture of the finished Murawski's Baden battalion (researched and designed by yours truly) which was meant to be my last and most glorious entry of the year but missed the deadline by a few hours.

And here I am in front of my meager contribution.Yes, the Oldhammer painter is something of a nostalgia junkie...

It was once again a privilege to be a member of such an esteemed company of awesome, if a bit crazy, painters. Looking forward to crossing brushes with you all next year!

DaveB's Challenge - End of the Line...

Another Challenge winds down and I'm trading my brushes for boots and running shoes. 

I think I only needed two trays last year for what I completed, this year seen an extra tray to hold my accomplishments.

This also marked the first winter I did not feel a need for forest isolation as well, so I will take that as a huge win! 

The Snowlord's request for a photo got my middle daughter rather excited too. She snatched this shot on the way to her Cheerleading practice. This IS my smiling face too! ;)

I'm packing for Adepticon this morning. I may get some shots up on my blog as I've enjoyed 

Ray, Fran, Clint, Tamsin, and Lee showing all the cool stuff- and loot- from Salute.

I've still Orcs, Inquisitors, French Peninsular, ACW, Zombicide primed and ready for the brush. I will add to my pile for sure this weekend. I already have Counter Threat and Assassination Protocol from Megacon games which added 40 new members to the mountain of neglect! 

They all will wait for December as I have a garden to kickstart, training to perform and three 5k runs for April alone. Not to mention my brood of tween-agers that need sheltering from adolescent boys! My wee lad has discovered girls now too, it will be a long summer campaign keeping up with the 4 kids and making sure my wife remains happy! ;)

PS my email is darthbrom at G mail dot com...and I still have a Catachan tank commander that needs to get his immigration papers in order. Also for Curt expect a suprise sometime soon as we forest fellas just love suprises! ;)

Fran's Challenge Round Up!

It was mainly a tale of 15mm madness with a smidgen of 28mm thrown in, I enjoyed the challenge because it gave me a goal and in the end I didn't show everything I painted and even tried to try a sneak a scenery bomb past Curt but no dice.

It only happened due to no job yet and a lot of time on my hands (after the SWMBO has issued work orders) especially the dark winter months, 

I know a lot of people steer away from modern due to it still being a raw subject but I believe most periods were a raw subject too.

I try to avoid a lot of  it by using an imagination setting like Franonia and Rayonia and little else!

A man out standing in his field! 

Congrats to Curt and the other challengers, well most of them!

Sylvain's Challenge - The Man With A Plan

Above is a group shot of my painting booty for this year's Challenge. All the miniatures within the green line were painted since December 20th. The other miniatures you can see were painted just before. Actually, I started last Summer, prepping and priming most of the minis I wanted done for this Challenge. I was unsure I would have enough time to do everything in 3 months, so I started a month earlier. I revamped and re-painted miniature houses done by my Dad 40 years ago, I painted some Lizardmen, some Wood Elves war dancers and a dragon for Warhammer as well as a few D&D characters, all before the Challenge. Oh, and I also built a French bunker in Vietnam for Curt. All this pre-challenge activity, like a professional sport drug, gave me a tremendous momentum when I picked my brush on the official starting date of December 20th.

I finished the Breton on December 24th. I just could not believe it.

The Tau were done on January 1st.

The Viet-Crons were completed on January 4th. For both the Tau and the Viet-Crons, I kept the palette very simple, so I could do them very quickly. By January 4th, after only 16 days, I had already painted enough miniatures for 1102 points. But I did not want Greg to have a heart attack, so I delayed posting this army until the 15th of January.

It took me 13 days to do the Wood Elves (January 17th). I needed almost four times the colors I used on my WH40k armies.

On January 19th, I paid my dues to the Challenge organizer with a trio of rebellion leaders.

On January 28th, I finished the Royal Navy project. This was the most labor intensive of my projects because of the water bases. But I think it's totally worth it.

On January 31st, I finished the last project I had prepared: the convoy, that I posted as a bonus theme. At this point, I did not have anymore miniatures prepped or primed.  Prepping and priming is something I prefer to do during the Summer. I waited sometimes a few weeks before posting a completed project because I thought it was more pleasant to present one army at a time.

I must confess that I had a very detailed painting plan from the very start of the Challenge and that I scrupulously stuck to it, not diverging one bit. For each project, my paint jars were maniacally lined up for greater efficiency. I know that there must be a therapy somewhere for my case, but like Amy Winehouse, I say no, no, no.....

This is me in Norway encouraging non-believers to try "Sild" (marinated herrings, yummy!).

The Challenge provided me with lots of motivation to finish old projects and now the way is clear to do some more! Thank you Curt and the minions and thank you to all the Challengers for a joyous three months of painting. Enjoy the rest of 2016.

MichaelA's Challenge - Everything's Better with Dinosaurs

With Spring now officially sprung, lambs gambolling in the fields and an overabundance of daffodils lining the roads of this fair isle, it seemed a fitting time to stop and reflect on the hobby juggernaut that was 'VI Annual Analogue Hobbies Painting Challenge’.  Before I go much further, I must take a moment to wholeheartedly acknowledge the Herculean efforts of one man, the legend that is Curtis Campbell Esq. - editor in chief of  'Analogue Hobbies'.  

This year, ably assisted by a crack squad of hand picked Minions, the team managed to process an inordinate amount of entries, many breathtaking in their quality, ingenuity or simply scale - it really has been a feast for the eyes, thank you one and all.

For my own part, I thoroughly enjoyed this year's challenge, my fourth apparently, and managed to improve upon, albeit marginally, my tally from 2015.  Having declared that I wasn't going to get sidetracked by the bonus rounds, deciding instead to finish some long overdue projects, I was duly seduced by the wonderfully obscure titles - Epic Fail indeed, where does he dream them up from?  What was perhaps even more exciting for me was the standard of design, painting and execution that these bonus rounds now commanded.  Just looking back over the podium finishers they really were tremendous and special mention to Millsy for achieve a podium finish in each and everyone! 

So a final group shot of my efforts this winter and the obligatory mug shot, as decreed by our Snowlord and Master, after all, everything is better with dinosaurs!