Wow its been a year! And what a year it has been! CSM getting a reboot in the first quarter, and then 8th ed drops for Warhammer 40k!
I was just sorting out my photo album, well primarily trying to find photos to keep or delete and I was surprised what I have painted this year.
List of personal goals accomplished
1.) Buy something ugly on ebay cheap, repaint it, and resell it!  | |
| The BEFORE photo, bought them off ebay at $0.70 each! #ultramarines #ebay |
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| FINISHED as WHITE SCARS, and sold them off on #ebay and more importantly learnt a few techniques that I put to use on my #Deathguard. |
2.) Complete an iron Painter challenge
IronPainter was a 24 hour painting challenge, where you have to paint something in 24hours and present it at our local hobby store later on.
I managed to chart my progress on instagram which is also another big thing for me this year, as the lazy blogger in me, just preferred to snap a photo and upload it. Plus all the instant 'likes' can be gratifying.
Search for me! im 'hobbieswithmazz' on IG
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| and heres my squad of #DeathGuard legionnaires, completed at 2pm the next day. |
In hindsight it was really good fun, though the lack of sleep was really painful. and trying to solve a clogged airbrush at 3am was also another memory that I dont wish to repeat.
2017 was also a year for Netflix! My companion through all the long nights huddled infront of my wet pallet.
I think I have watched everything!
One of the few good offshoots from the IronPainter Challenge, was that I was inspired to paint and build faster. I have a habit of painting 40k minis in parts and then assemble them together, which takes just too long. At least for a few months, I was painting the models fully assembled.
I've since gone back to my old ways though =p
My Good Deed for the year!
2 weekends after the ironpainter challenge, Melvin invited me to join him in painting Andrew's Marines. Andrew's a friend of ours who has hoards of unpainted marines and we took it upon ourselves to help him reduce some of his backlog. Probably the most generous thing I have done this year!
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| Andrew's Dark Angels all painted for him! Really happy with the 24hour paint job too! |
My ork collection also received a minor boost this year, again inspired by the Iron Painters Challenge.
So I got off my butt and finished another group of orks. Figured in any list combination, I would be covered if i had at least 60+ boyz nicely painted ork boyz.
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| Boyz ready for the great waaargh of the 8th Edition! |
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| Wierdboy converted from a Warhammer Fantasy Savage Orc, added the trophies to give it a more 40k feel =) and plus to commemorate a great day of gaming, (see Ray's post of DP's 1k tourney) |
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| the Butt Shot. NSFW!!! Sorry couldnt resist this photo =) |
and so here rounding off the year is the mandatory family portrait...
Man! have the Deathguard legion grown! #DeathGuard #legionXIV
and the great waaargh just got more awesome too!
CHEERS TO AN AWESOME 2018!
M