Stormy Teacups

When I stopped work on Thursday night I had 20 Daemonettes in various stages of completion. Yesterday I managed to finish them all off to a standard that isn’t too embarrassing which puts me neatly back on target.

They certainly aren’t going to win any prizes and I’ll definitely be tidying them up between the 4 Nations event and the ETC proper but:

1. They’re painted
2. The paint is very thinly applied so I can easily overpaint them later if needed or even just respray them

Girly daemons

Here’s a close-up, as you can see it’s predominately inks with some very basic highlighting.

Today I’m going to tackle the Flamers and the Screamers with the big paintbrush and stick the Horrors together. My plan is to try and get the units out of the way this weekend so that I can spend some time on the Heralds during the week.

Scores on the doors:

Points Painted Today : 270 points

Points Target Daily: 200 Difference: +70

Points Target Overall: 400 Difference: -130

Figures Painted Today: 20

Figure Target Daily: 10 Difference: +10

Figure Target Overall: 20 Difference: On Target!

Read the next update here.

Yesterday was spent mostly sticking stuff together and throwing inks at things to experiment. As a result I didn’t actually finish any figures yesterday so the stats for today will look quite bleak. Despite this I’m actually still on target as I got stuck into a block of 20 Daemonettes which should get finished tonight. If I can pull that off then I’ll be on target for the figure count even if the points target will be low still.

After spending most of the evening with my Dremel I’m seriously beginning to dislike the Tzeentchian daemons. I wasn’t overjoyed at the cost (25€ for three Screamers was bad enough, Horrors are likewise wallet-crunching given that you need 3-4 boxes for a useful unit) but the figures themselves are a right pain to stick together. Lots of very small contact areas on fragile pieces makes pinning an absolute requirement and much harder than it needs to be. I didn’t even get started on the Horrors as my Dremel needed recharging after tackling the Flamers and the Screamers.

Still I got a fair bit done on the girls. I had 8 Daemonettes that I’d used as a colour test that were about three quarters done so I sprayed up the rest of the two boxes, painted them white again (inks don’t like being painted directly onto primer) and slapped some watered down Leviathan Purple ink over them. I’ll detail them up tonight and then they’re done.

So to recap then, the current score is as follows:

Points Target: 200 pts

Points Painted: 0

Difference: -200

Figure target: 10

Figures Painted: 0

Difference: -10
Read the next update here.

So as it turns out I’m rubbish. I’ve been putting off my Daemon army for the ETC for too long and now I find myself with one week to go before the Four Nations warmup with a mostly unassembled let alone unpainted army.

My 2000 point Daemon army looks like this at present.

Deeply shameful

The only bright spot is that the General is already painted (the Lord of Change that you can see a few posts down).

So, having made my life significantly more difficult, I’m now faced witha challenge – to paint about 1400 points of Daemons in a week.

Here is the army:

General – Lord of Change (painted!)

Battle Standard Bearer – Herald of Slaanesh (will be converted from the Masque of Slaanesh figure)

Herald of Tzeentch (will be converted from a War Machine Skarlock Thrall miniature)

17 Pink Horrors with full command (which need to be converted)

14 Daemonettes with full command

15 Daemonettes with full command

6 Flamers

6 Screamers

That leaves me 1365 points to paint in 7 days which comes to 195 points a day. Alternatively that’s 60 figures required which need to be painted at the rate of 9 a day.

So here’s my target, to paint 10 figures and a minimum of 200 points a day. I have till next Thursday evening to get it done as I fly to Warrington straight after work on Friday. I work a full time day job and I can’t take holiday to cover this so I’m going to need to speed paint, however my pride won’t let me put down really bad paintjobs so there are two other stipulations:

1. The figures must be painted to at least a basic tabletop standard.
2. I must be able to revisit them afterwards and bring them up to my tabletop standard.

I’ll be doing updates every day with pictures so you can see the progress I’m making (or not). Tune in tomorrow to find out how the project is coming along.

Read the first update here.

So I’ve been invited to take part in the European Team Challenge as a part of Team Ireland in the WFB competition. This is an insanely competitive tournament where every member of the team has to have a different army. As the last guy on the team I got what was left and, not being able to take my Dwarfs I was looking at a new army. Chaos Mortals were my first choice as I have a lot of those unpainted already (won in a raffle at GW Blanchardstown), they were taken though and my second choice of Lizardmen was also gone. Looking down the list of what was left, I picked up Chaos Daemons as the one I wouldn’t mind painting up in time for August.

So it is that I find myself here. The Lord of Change was a present from an Irish friend who realised he would never paint it. It was quite old and partially stuck together but was otherwise pretty much untouched. I chipped all the old glue off it, attacked it in several places with my Dremel and then dove straight in. Continue reading