You guys must have no life at all…
Over two weeks since I posted an update on my (Un)Impossible Dream Challenge, which is turning out to be impossible after all. Of the 19 models I needed to paint for my 15 pt Archdomina Makeda list I have finished a total of…
wait for it…
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1 model. Just one model. And that is the Basilisk Drake who was already finished before I started my little challenge. So, basically there is no way that I can finish all 18 of the remaining models before November 30th. Not unless I take the remaining 6 days off of work and spend almost all of that time painting (which I honestly wouldn’t really mind doing). I don’t know how anyone could possibly paint 100 pts worth of models in only 30 days.
Wait. Let me correct that. I don’t know how anyone could paint 100 pts worth of models in only 30 days and be proud of the paint job they did. As I said in my (Un)Impossible Dream post, I planned to paint these models to the highest standards that I could manage. I don’t like looking at something I made and knowing that I could do better. It bugs me. However, looking at some of the pics of the models posted in the Impossible Challenge thread of the Privateer Press Forums, it is painfully obvious that not everyone feels the same way. Some of those models looks like they were painted with a friggin’ paintball gun, or simply took a bath in the paint pot.
Just an aside here, I am not trying to be a jerkoff when I say that. I realize that not everyone is a master painter, nor even a good painter for that matter. Some of my first models actually did simply take a bath in the paint pot (though it embarrasses me to admit that). I am not trying to make fun of anyone or ridicule their painting skills. There are loads of mini painters out there (a fair number on the PP Forums too) that make my stuff look like 2-week old garbage. If you can look at the model you just painted and honestly say to yourself “I am proud of that.” then I congratulate you. Whole heartedly. However if you just slapped paint down in an effort to cover up the bare metal on 100 pts worth of models in a month, then I have no problem making fun of your so called “skillz”.
Anyway. Anyone who managed to paint 100 pts worth of models to a respectable level in only 30 days must have no life. Or they work for Privateer Press and had their job on the line. Heh. I didn’t paint as often as I could’ve I suppose, but I wasn’t going to force myself to paint either. That was a sure way to have my stuff come out looking like crap. So even though I seriously doubt I will even be close to finishing, here is the state of my models.
1x Archdomina Makeda – gold armor trim and skin finished, red armor basecoated
1x Basilisk Drake – done (from before the challenge)
1x Cyclops Brute – red armor basecoated and highlighted
1x Praetorian Swordsmen Unit – 6 out of 10 red armor basecoated and highlighted
1x Venator Reiver Unit – 5 out of 6 red armor basecoated
Apart from the 4 Praetorian Swordsmen and the 1 Venator Reiver that are simply wearing a black undercoat, the models don’t look all that terrible. Roughly 75-90% of the surface area of a Skorne model is it’s armor, so once that has been laid down the model looks noticeably better. I should at least have all of the models armor done by the time next Tuesday rolls around. I won’t have met my (Un)Impossible Dream Challenge, but I will be satisfied with what I did manage to achieve.
