The (Un)Impossible Dream

Wow. Over a month since I last posted an entry. Perhaps that’s because I haven’t done anything related to Warmachine/Hordes since my last entry on September 3rd. “Shame shame” I can hear you all saying, and I totally agree. The pieces of my female Brute Thrall conversion are sitting on the shelves next to my painting station/work desk/computer stand covered in a month’s worth of dust. I should be arrested by the M.P.A (Miniature Protection Agency) for my gross negligence.

I still made a point to visit the Privateer Press website and the Painting\Modeling Forums during my month long break, just to see what other people have been painting and to ogle the new minis that will be coming out soon. Some of the new and upcoming releases look really nice, even the ones that aren’t for either Skorne or Cryx. (I’ve got my eye on you, Nuala the Huntress!) This is why people with addictive personalities shouldn’t play miniature games – you eventually end up wanting to collect all the factions available for the game. Usually all at the same time too. God damn it. Anyway, on to my point. Back on October 25th, the Privateer Insider feature laid down the Impossible Dream Challenge. Basically the goal was to assemble and paint a 100 point army. Sounds doable, right? How about doing it all in just 4 weeks! Excuse me while I spit out my green tea in an exaggeratedly comical manner. A very aptly named challenge, if I do say so myself. A number of people people with questionable sanity, lots of free time, and (presumably) bucket-loads of expendable cash have taken up the challenge, posting their progress on the Forums.

Now, while there is absolutely no way that I could paint up 100 points worth of Skorne stuff in only a month (hell, I probably couldn’t do that even if I took a month off from work) the challenge did inspire me somewhat. I’ve set myself my own little personal contest – The (Un)Impossible Dream Challenge. Que thunderous applause. Thank you. Thank you. My goal is to assemble and paint a 15pt Archdomina Makeda list. So, without further ado, here is the list I plan to build and paint.

15 pt Archdomina Makeda Escalation List

1x Archdomina Makeda – +5 WB pts
1x Basilisk Drake – 4 pts
1x Cyclops Brute – 5 pts

1x Praetorian Swordsmen Unit – 6 pts
(Leader and 9 Grunts)

1x Venator Reiver Unit – 5 pts
(Leader and 5 Grunts)

Total – 15 pts (+5 WB pts)
Model Count – 19

It doesn’t seem like that much actually. Just 19 models. But if I pull this off, it will most likely be the largest number of miniatures that I have painted in a so short a time. Except for that one time long, long ago when I stayed up all night with my brother painting about a billion of his Cadian Imperial Guardsmen for some WH40K Bring-and-Battle event at the GW store in the Franklin Mills Mall. I couldn’t unclench my fingers for about a week after that night. And that only entailed slapping 3 flat colors so he wouldn’t be playing with bare metal minis. (As a total cosmic kick in the teeth, when we got to the event the next day, I with my nicely painted Dark Eldar and my brother with his painted Cadians, we found that 90% of the stuff other people had brought was unpainted. Some of the models weren’t even fully assembled. Disgusting.) The Skorne models I plan to paint this month are going to be up to the best standard I can manage (which can be pretty darn good, I’d say).

As a reward to myself if I finish everything by November 30th (and all contest have to have some kind of reward or else they aren’t a challenge) I plan to get something from Maelstrom Games. Maybe a Skorne Rhinodon. Or perhaps a Wolves of Orboros unit… I know I know! Those Wolves are from the Circle of Orboros faction. Not Skorne or Cryx. But I already have the Circle of Orboros Warpack, and if I add the unit of Wolves to the contents of the Warpack the total comes to exactly 15pts. Coincidence? Maybe. Will I get them anyway and add them to the (already massive) mountain of unpainted metal sitting on my shelves? Do you really have to ask?

Onward! To battle my trusty paintbrushes!

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