2012 Hobby Challenge Q1

**SalamanderMan** · 8th January 2012 06:45

Originally Posted by SalamanderMan

Post!
Caestus count as next?

You know you are a 40K nut when your phone autocorrecrd, does this, with Caestus!

**uthaze** · 9th January 2012 09:53

Since I hope very much this will inspire me to actually finish something I will join in this Hobby Challenge:

Goal:
Complete all my currently built/in process of building marines, I need 20 custom shoulder pads, 20 bases and 2 full models.
Finish my scratch-built Chaplain

Nice-to-haves:
First Assault and Devastator Squads Started
Punishment:

**daddy4count** · 16th January 2012 20:36

Originally Posted by Lelnar

If I fail:
d4c can pick my punishment in the form of a sig and avatar.

Oh baby... I can kiss that Friendly award bye-bye

**Lelnar** · 17th January 2012 00:43

Originally Posted by daddy4count

Oh baby... I can kiss that Friendly award bye-bye

Well, as my vehicle painting skills are sub-par, I may not make this deadline. I am attempting to get an airbrush to make my monolith easier. Well d4c lets hope I am not proclaiming my love to any thingtoo crazy

**The Dark Pwner** · 23rd January 2012 13:56

Update!

Based on what my play list is. it has changed slightly, but only by about 5% (though... because i said its basicly my play list in my vow, i think this should still count without any problems):
Done 1/2 Leman Russ Battle Tank
Done 5/28 Imperial Guard Standard Infantry
Done the Earthshaker Platform, I even based it! (Basilisk Conversion)
Done the Hellhound
Done the Sentinel
Done Epic Marbo (Cadian Conversion)
Done Epic Tank Commander (Conversion, no in game value)

Although not in the list any longer i still intend to do the other 2 sentinels.

**The Dark Pwner** · 28th January 2012 19:29

While the list has changed slightly this is pretty mich the jist of it.

**sneggy** · 30th January 2012 16:02

My hobby challenge is completed. Will post pictures when i find the camera.

I am now setting myself a new hobby challenge. 1000pts worth of my new army to be completed within the alloted time. Punishment remains as previously stated.

**Baragash** · 30th January 2012 17:59

I set myself a simple goal this year of painting 150 unspecified models, which is 37.5 models a quarter. So far this quarter I have painted 4, nearly finished a further 1 and have 2 units of 20 half done, which means I'm nicely on track.

Fortunately I made this pledge on the 2nd of January so I think I qualify

**Lelnar** · 11th February 2012 08:04

As I will be having surgery with in the next 2 weeks and then going to be unable to sit or stand for about 6 weeks afterwards I am unhappily going to withdraw from this quarters challenge and take my punishment until I recover enough to complete a challenge. So d4c, please let me know what my avatar and sig willl be for the next few months.

**daddy4count** · 12th February 2012 12:58

@Lelnar - get well, man!

Come back healthy next time. If I kill your avatar I prefer you be on your feet, facing me when I do it.

**Lelnar** · 12th February 2012 17:24

Originally Posted by daddy4count

Come back healthy next time. If I kill your avatar I prefer you be on your feet, facing me when I do it.

Im not gone yet, still have 9 days until then. And I will be healthy. Just can't sit up for awhile. lol

**daddy4count** · 13th February 2012 15:29

Originally Posted by Lelnar

Im not gone yet, still have 9 days until then. And I will be healthy. Just can't sit up for awhile. lol

LOL... figure out how to paint lying down and you're back in!

**Brother-Captain Sharp** · 31st March 2012 23:15

Last day for painting, gents. Make sure you get pictures posted so you can join the Honor Roll!

**Omega1907** · 2nd April 2012 08:11

Looks like I failed the challenge once again

So, I'm ready for my punishment, who finished this challenge first? I need a new avatar

**Brother-Captain Sharp** · 2nd April 2012 09:08

And remember the formatting to use when reporting completion. Quote your vow and then include at least one picture of each model in the vow. As of yet, no one has officially completed.

**scythes** · 2nd April 2012 16:03

I failed mine miserably, but I did get a lot of other things completed, that should count for something.

I forget who ai said could change my avatar, but have at it.

**edmundblack** · 2nd April 2012 16:08

Originally Posted by Omega1907

Looks like I failed the challenge once again

So, I'm ready for my punishment, who finished this challenge first? I need a new avatar

Really? OK then.

Your choice. Enjoy.

(just two suggestions if no others are forthcoming)

**Omega1907** · 3rd April 2012 07:58

Originally Posted by edmundblack

Your choice. Enjoy.

I'll wear that avatar with shame, as I deserve it :/

(Cold, dead and sparkling men are not soo bad for a DE

)

**Ann** · 3rd April 2012 17:29

My 2012 Q1 Challenge:

Originally Posted by Ann

Assemble and paint three killa kans, one trukk. Paint one squad of 20 grots with two runtherds. Assemble and paint one SU-122 Russian tank destroyer to be a looted wagon. Paint one mob of 10 nobz. All to what I would consider a tabletop standard for my own game play. Paint a lobba and two grot crew. Assemble and paint a Big Mek, Weirdboy, a War Boss, and a Deff Dread.

Bonus Points: Assemble and paint a squad of 30 boyz or my 10 stormboyz mob. Flocking is optional but will be a bonus. I'm still undecided what kind of flocking theme I want to use. Assemble and paint two more lobba and crew to complete my big gunz unit, if they come in at the game store in time.

Here is my kanz squadron. I used a dark eldar prow I found in a store's bitz bucket for the metal-colored kan'z DCCW. I had no idea at the time what the thing was but it was pointy and looked like it had killy potential. I suspect that is how ork meks approach most technical problems.

A close-up of a random killa kan.

This was my first time working with magnets. I might have gone a little over-board.

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My miserable, prone-to-blowing-up-and-randomly-exploding-in-the-middle-of-some-poor-sod's-army trukk. I magnetized the ork with the rokkit so I can switch him out for an ork with a machine gun, and use the rokkit guy in a boyz or tankbusta squad or whatever. The reinforced ram is also magnetized, though I've learned from hard experience not to take it off very often. I might paint the metal bits on the tires when I get the inclination.

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Annagrod Grotsquig, the big mek and "da brainz beehined da seenz" of Waaagh!: Hungry occasionally gets warped back via shokk attack gun-based snafu's to an alternative version of WWII and invariably ends up in the Soviet Union, where they anticipate her arrival and treat her as an old friend.

She fixes up some of their stuff good and proper for them and in return they give her vodka and other presents for her return trip through the warp. One time she showed back up with a Soviet SU-122 which she incorporated into her little Waaagh. The model is 1/48th scale and is a bit lower but almost exactly the same length as a rhino. Any advantage (and one has come up yet in my games) I might achieve with a low profile is certainly countered by the fixed boomgun.

The cannon is a bit small for a boomgun, despite being a pretty heavy duty piece of ordnance for our friends the Soviets. Still, you can juice things up a bit when you rig the thing up to fire grots and smallish orks using shokk attack gun technology! When I want additional weapons I just stick a boy on the back and call it good. In this picture I'm using the same rokkit ork as was on the trukk.

I might re-do the treads but in truth I probably won't get around to it anytime soon. The ram on the front is firmly in place. You'd have to be even crazier than an ork to neglect those particular 5 points for a looted wagon!

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Hungry the cowardly warboss and some psychic snake in a bucket that has an enslaved nob to drag him around from place to place. The snake is particularly fond of teleporting mobs of 30 boyz hither and fro during their battles. He especially finds it the height of comedy to do so right at the split second they are about to break into an enemy line in the middle of an assault.

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My much-hated nobz. I'm rather pleased with them, especially because I gave seven of them differing options because I thought it would be neat and useful, before I had any idea about wound allocation shenanigans. Some of them are magnetized. I wish I had given them all cybork parts though because I later found that the entry in the codex is commonly interpreted to mean "all or none" rather than "all or some". Oh well, they still do really well even if they aren't perfect ... but then who is?

A klaw I made out of the spiky bits from a dozer blade like the one I put on the SU-122. Thank you very much to my friend, Mike, who lets Annagrod rummage through his bitz boxes whenever the mood strikes her.

A nob with a combi-flamer. Needless to say he is usually the first guy off the trukk in any assault! He might be a good, future candidate for this.

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Big Mek, Annagrod Grotsquig sporting a magnetic circular saw cybork arm and the BFG-Illudium-Q-63 Space Modulator or "Shokk Attack Gun".

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Annagrod and her grot living ammunition cache/hecklers. She'll have to find something else to threaten them with now when they are acting up other than a "good flocking".

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I magnetized the two bottom arms on this guy. Usually I run either twin flame throwers or twin big shootas. I've tried four DCCW's but that makes him sort of expensive by ork standards and he has an annoying habit of running uselessly around the battlefield, failing to catch anything but looking really scary doing it or hiding behind stuff because he has a razorback phobia.

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Until next time ... "Everyone fears the mighty lobbas!"

Thank you very much for doing the quarterly challenges. They are helping me stay focused on painting up certain units rather than just being unfocused, plus the challenge is a lot of fun.