Rangers of Shadow Deep - Ninjilly's DayKnight 30 Day Project

A new project at work launching in the same week as tree week proved fatal to progress on this final stretch. I spent most of my evenings working late or working from home and the trees demanded a lot of time I just couldn’t give them… and when I did I discovered that I find making wire armatures for trees mindbogglingly boring!

I also knew that I had another project getting ready to go but more on that after some photos…

In total I painted 14 zombies, 5 heroes, 3 pieces of scatter terrain and built 6 papercraft buildings. Without word of a lie, that is the most I’ve managed in that kind of time frame since starting in the hobby.

The whole point of this project was to get everything done for less than the cost of the Rangers of Shadow Deep pdf, $20.

Breakdown:

Pumphouse model 0.95

Apothecary 2.95

Ravenfell set 3.99

Cardboard 3.21 (£2.50, converted via Google)

Wire wool (for the trees that didn’t happen) 2.62 (£1.99 converted via Google)

Total = $13.72

Budget remaining = $6.28

The remaining budget would have gone on extra flock for the trees but I’m still very impressed with how easily this project came in cost wise. It meant that I had to make some compromises along the way but the tightness of the budget and the time frame definitely helped with the sense of hard graft = good work.

I’m very happy with the way this turned out. The structure of the project made sitting down to hobby so much easier because I didn’t spend time faffing about, I knew what I needed to achieve each week. The next project I have to launch (coming Wednesday) is going to build on this even more and it will be something I implement on most things going forward.

The hobby log also helped to keep me feeling accountable and the messages gave an extra little push to keep going so thank you to those who commented.

I’ll probably add more comments here but I need to leave for work right now 🙁