[WM] Tale of x gamers... (any interest?)

[pw]

Hi, having stalled after painting a single strip of Empire Halberdiers I'm thinking that I need some extra motivation if I'm ever going to get an army painted and I'm wondering if anyone on here might like to take part in a 'Tale of X gamers' style thread to keep me company?

The 'rules' can be sorted properly if there's any interest but I'm basically thinking that painting a single army selection each week and posting some pics would be about the right pace. By my reckoning that'd be a 1000 point army in about three months and 2000 in six if it keeps going that long.

So, anyone up for it?

[Carrington]

I'd love to do it, but I don't think I'll be able to make that kind of commitment until '10.

[azrael71]

I'm in.
Got CD, Albion or Orcs and goblins to to do allong with 4k points of chaos but these are not a legal force.
Let me know what rules you are thinking of using.

[pw]

Excellent, glad to have some company. Although at the rate you seem to paint I may end up looking rather sluggish!

As to rules, well, let's give it a day or two to see if anyone else fancies joining in and then see what we fancy doing as a group. Anything that'll get me to paint around four detachments a month will suit me.

[jchaos79]

I dont understand anyting ... but looks cool!! 

Is this some sort of challenge to paint every week or something?

maybe I could be in,

[pw]

It's based on a classic (and oft repeated) White Dwarf article in which a group of gamers (usually four) commit to build and paint a certain amount of figures each month, the idea being that it motivates everyone and generates lots of nice pictures and hopefully a finished army by the end of the process. I've seen it done on various forums with various 'rules', but basically the key is having to post pictures of your painting at set intervals and to aim to have completed a set amount.

My initial thoughts are:

1) Pick an army. It'd be nice to have each painter working towards a coherent force if possible.
2) Paint one detachment or character each week. This amount could be scaled down if that seems too much, but I'm imagining using characters as a delaying tactic, effectively giving me extra time to spend on the rank and file.
3) Everyone involved posts their pictures in the same thread (but there's no reason why people couldn't maintain their own threads too). This could be a single thread for the entirety of the project or it could be a fresh one for each month. On busier forums there tend to be seperate threads for comment etc but while this board is fairly quiet I can't see a thread becoming too unwieldy (worth discussion though).
4) We all offer criticism/comment/praise as we go along.
5) We pick a set period for the thing to run (6 months should have an army done?)

Oh, and Carrington, come on join in! Paint those Nuln guys up!

[jchaos79]

Im gonna to love it!! (my girl is gonna hate it  )

Is there a limit of points to paint? or all memebers have to take the same number of units? or the goal is raise an army whatever the size?

[Rolgan]

Considering this was what pushed me over the edge to register, I'm in!

However, does this have to be "legal" warmaster lists, or are the trial ones okay, also what about pseudo WM lists such as WM-ME or WM-Hyboria?

Regards,

~C

[pw]

Hi Rolgan, welcome aboard!

I think any 10mm army that uses the WM system should be fine, the more variety the better.

[azrael71]

I think the new trial lists should definitley be allowed 
As for the characters bit- this is blatant cheating  as I have already painted most of mine up. Only joking.
I would like suggestions from the 'audience' as to what I should paint.

The options are:
2k of Albion - need to purchase chariots
2k of Chaos Dwarves - need to buy army
3k of Orcs & Goblins
2k of beastmen - need to buy army
2k of mortal chaos - will just be knights, warriors, marauder hores & foot plus an alternative chaos spawn.

[jchaos79]

I would like suggestions from the 'audience' as to what I should paint.

The options are:
2k of Albion - need to purchase chariots
2k of Chaos Dwarves - need to buy army
3k of Orcs & Goblins
2k of beastmen - need to buy army
2k of mortal chaos - will just be knights, warriors, marauder hores & foot plus an alternative chaos spawn.

It will be great to see 2k of chaos Dwarfs! (by the way 3k of greenskins could be astonish too  )

[pw]

I'd like to see the Orcs, it might just slow you down (I've seen your posts over on Warseer!), but then Chaos Dwarves would be really great to watch too.

As you've no doubt guessed, I'll be in with my Empire army, aiming for 2000 points (with a bunch of Knights to buy and possibly a hero on Griffon to give me an extra week of cheating!)

[jchaos79]

I am in an undead project, so I will be with the skellies. I think I will go for 1,5k or so. Just to have painted enough material to make differents configuration about 1k

[Rolgan]

Orcs are my intention, although not 3k of them, so I'll vote chaos dwarves as well

~C

[Pugwash]

Sounds cool, nice idea pw, so count me in .

I've already started my Dark Elves, but I'd be happy to switch to 2k of Araby for this project.  How about we start with a bare-metal/undercoated picture of the forces we're talking about?