ZandurOfBronte
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Its that time of year again.
Summer is here, the worldwide campaign is heating up, and... here comes the Golden Demon.
I will be entering in this years US Baltimore Gamesday. I entered in 2005 in the Youngbloods category; I got first cut. I entered the Youngbloods category in 2006 and got Bronze:
http://gamesday.us.games-workshop.com/GamesDay2006/Baltimore_2006/Coverage/goldendemons/cat8_page.htm
This year, I had hoped to enter a 5-strong unit of Adeptus Custodes Terminators in the Warhammer 40K Squad category. However, I realised that my skills are NOT up to painting what I had converted. I will refine myself over the coming year to enter them in 2008.
So, instead, I will be entering a half-complete squad of Orks that I origionally converted and started painting for a custom-rules-set game of Gorkamorka. I will be using 10 Orks (from both Gorkamorka mobs) and will probably end up entering them as \"Da Boyz\". Since they are not game legal, they will probably be going in the Open Competition category.
Here is how they stand now:
Display Base, with circles marked out for bases:
The unfinished and unpainted WAAAGH! banner that acts as base decoration:
Ork #1, a Stikk Bomma:
Ork #2, the Nob.
Ork #3, a Big Shoota boy.
Ork #4, Slugga Boy.
Ork #5, Shoota boy.
Ork #6, \'Ard Boy
Ork #7, Shoota Boy
Ork #8, Shoota Boy
Ork #9, Skarboy
Ork #10, Shoota Boy (How did I end up with so many of them?!)
Now, I seriously doubt I can place with these guys at their current level. I did not paint them to the absolute top of my skill - I meant them origionally only as very good tabletop models, going to great lengths to individually and uniquely pose each and every one. So, I will be painting large parts of many of them. The biggest thing im undecided on is the skin - It looks good at a distance, but up close, its not very blended.
So, I have - basically - 11 days to do this. Luckily, I like a challenge!
I\'ve reserved time out of my normal work schedule to spend about 3-5 hours a day on these guys. So, I would like you all to critique them - Nothin\'s too harsh, really, as this IS very serious competition
All I am regretful of is that I have slacked off most of the past year and stayed at the same skill level I was at when I placed in Youngbloods. Sure, I\'ve refined a few areas, but I have not spent anywhere near the amount of time I should have developing them. As such, I am up against the wall now after I realised that, at my current level, I had no chance of painting my Custodes to the level I wanted them.
So, while I seriously doubt I will place with them, I am mostly aiming to at least make first cut again.
Your thoughts, critiques, support, and hate mail are all welcome! (And yes, I am 16 at the time of entering this, and yes, I was 14 at the time of entering Roaric)
- Zandur
Summer is here, the worldwide campaign is heating up, and... here comes the Golden Demon.
I will be entering in this years US Baltimore Gamesday. I entered in 2005 in the Youngbloods category; I got first cut. I entered the Youngbloods category in 2006 and got Bronze:
http://gamesday.us.games-workshop.com/GamesDay2006/Baltimore_2006/Coverage/goldendemons/cat8_page.htm
This year, I had hoped to enter a 5-strong unit of Adeptus Custodes Terminators in the Warhammer 40K Squad category. However, I realised that my skills are NOT up to painting what I had converted. I will refine myself over the coming year to enter them in 2008.
So, instead, I will be entering a half-complete squad of Orks that I origionally converted and started painting for a custom-rules-set game of Gorkamorka. I will be using 10 Orks (from both Gorkamorka mobs) and will probably end up entering them as \"Da Boyz\". Since they are not game legal, they will probably be going in the Open Competition category.
Here is how they stand now:
Display Base, with circles marked out for bases:
The unfinished and unpainted WAAAGH! banner that acts as base decoration:
Ork #1, a Stikk Bomma:
Ork #2, the Nob.
Ork #3, a Big Shoota boy.
Ork #4, Slugga Boy.
Ork #5, Shoota boy.
Ork #6, \'Ard Boy
Ork #7, Shoota Boy
Ork #8, Shoota Boy
Ork #9, Skarboy
Ork #10, Shoota Boy (How did I end up with so many of them?!)
Now, I seriously doubt I can place with these guys at their current level. I did not paint them to the absolute top of my skill - I meant them origionally only as very good tabletop models, going to great lengths to individually and uniquely pose each and every one. So, I will be painting large parts of many of them. The biggest thing im undecided on is the skin - It looks good at a distance, but up close, its not very blended.
So, I have - basically - 11 days to do this. Luckily, I like a challenge!
I\'ve reserved time out of my normal work schedule to spend about 3-5 hours a day on these guys. So, I would like you all to critique them - Nothin\'s too harsh, really, as this IS very serious competition
All I am regretful of is that I have slacked off most of the past year and stayed at the same skill level I was at when I placed in Youngbloods. Sure, I\'ve refined a few areas, but I have not spent anywhere near the amount of time I should have developing them. As such, I am up against the wall now after I realised that, at my current level, I had no chance of painting my Custodes to the level I wanted them.
So, while I seriously doubt I will place with them, I am mostly aiming to at least make first cut again.
Your thoughts, critiques, support, and hate mail are all welcome! (And yes, I am 16 at the time of entering this, and yes, I was 14 at the time of entering Roaric
)- Zandur
