Paintathon 2019
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About the Project
What's that supposed to be, a "paintathon"? The paintathon is a painting offensive. I want to use my free days and the evenings after work in October to get something done, getting paint on minis. My minimum goal is to paint 42 miniatures (following the km of a marathon) ready to play. The goal is deliberately set so low. This was started by Tom of Magabotato.de in 2016 and happens annually. Join me! Let's see if I can make it this year.
Related Game: Judge Dredd Miniatures Game
Related Company: Mongoose Publishing
Related Genre: General
This Project is Completed
Getting some minis out
So of course there had to be Star Wars Legion minis. Did you really thing you’d get away without them? 😉
But of course those aren’t enough so I’m digging through my POS (pile of shame) and dough out an old Kickstarter… you may have heard of this before. 😉
Prepare the troops!
A bit of priming goes a long way… at least until the can runs out… DOH! But I managed to get the fist batch paint ready.
And now a minute of silence for the fallen brother. The last of my GW rattle cans from back in the days.
Chaos BlackDay 1
Literally not a drop of paint painted, because with all the preparation I have forgotten the most important. A) the terrain has to be ready by November and B) space for painting had to be created.
So I spend the evening cleaning the workspace and especially the floor around me. Then paint tomorrow 😉
Day 2
I hat metallics! They take forever. I hope the difference is visible. And I need to go back to the glow effect on the generators, I totally screwed that :S
Here’s a picture, enjoy 😉
Day 5
Yes I skipped Day 3 & 4 because… reasons. One was because we have an annual fair with rides and snacks in town and I went with the family. The other one was the same but I went with some co-workers and we had a few beers.
But today I did stuff. First of I but wash over the 3D printed terrain but somehow I mixed up the mix so it looks spotty but it kinda works for the overall theme of the table.
Maybe I’ll revisit it sometime after the tournament.
And then I actually started on those minis that where meant for the paintathon. Some browns and blacks on the primed minis… next time I’ll prime grey again…
Day 6
I’m really tired and I really regret building the Legion models before painting. Next time I will switch back to my way of “part assembly”. This slows painting so much down… well can’t be helped now. So I only got 4 guys with some bone colour.
Day 7
And after the last 3 Shoretroopers had one coat of bleached bone every one of them got a second coat. They star to look like something.
Day 8
Well the last details went quicker than expected. So the shoretroopers are finished. (Sans matt varnish, that will be done with all other minis at the same time.)
Behold!
