cybersquig
Dangerous when wet
I\'ve started now for GDUK09...
when do people start to prepare for Golden Demon?
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rocketandroll
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As much as I try to plan a year in advance, I always fail to end up entering what I had planned to because your interests and even your skills can change so much through the year.
I always find I\'m really inspired just after GD each year so I try to use that feeling of inspiration to drive me to get some cool models done.
Last year I missed GDUK but was really fired up after seeing pics of the winning models so I immediately set out to do the Vanquisher which won this year... though it was actually finished for GD Spain back in February.
I find I do my best work when I\'m inspired, not when I\'m forcing myself to finish something for a deadline. Often I get inspiration for something just prior to a competition (my demonette this year for example) but I can\'t force myself to paint if I\'m not into it.
I am gonna be starting on an open entry this year though which is gonna need a good 200hrs+ to complete so that is going to be a \'start in November, finish it just in time for GDUK in Sept the next year\' job.
Depends what you\'re entering I guess... if you do your single mini entry now, you\'ll probably not be so keen on it by mid next year and will want to do something else
Ben
I always find I\'m really inspired just after GD each year so I try to use that feeling of inspiration to drive me to get some cool models done.
Last year I missed GDUK but was really fired up after seeing pics of the winning models so I immediately set out to do the Vanquisher which won this year... though it was actually finished for GD Spain back in February.
I find I do my best work when I\'m inspired, not when I\'m forcing myself to finish something for a deadline. Often I get inspiration for something just prior to a competition (my demonette this year for example) but I can\'t force myself to paint if I\'m not into it.
I am gonna be starting on an open entry this year though which is gonna need a good 200hrs+ to complete so that is going to be a \'start in November, finish it just in time for GDUK in Sept the next year\' job.
Depends what you\'re entering I guess... if you do your single mini entry now, you\'ll probably not be so keen on it by mid next year and will want to do something else
Ben
cybersquig
Dangerous when wet
well I\'m pretty bouyed up by this year\'s competition, and I\'ve spent the past 6 months trying not to get distracted from my entries, so I figure if I start now I can just chill a little and work on it when I\'m inspired rather than later when I need to if I want to enter. lol! I was so stoked by that day that I want another one, maybe 6 months away, not 12, so I can have another go!
James
James
demonherald
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basic answer is all the time..... I\'m always thnking of iideas , testing out and playing with ideas for GD.. I have ideas I am playing with now which won\'t probably se ethe light of day until 2010.
The duel was in mind since before last years GD but I never got around to doing anything then started the bae in Junish . Left it alone and didn\'t revisit until last week in August when I cracked on with building the models and painting the thing.
What Mr R&R says there is the key thing it\'s all about feeling the love for it and the inspiration needs to be there otherwise there just isn\'t any point..I\'m currently on fire with ideas and have bought most of what I intend on entering next year ..Hopefully in Spain and France also just waiting for date confirmations there.
Actual knuckling down usually begins in July/August and if I am nowhere near by then ..well the fan is covered in brown stuff..:beer:
At Ben ... just off the top of my head ...
2000 hours , thats 8 hours a day for 250 days , 35 weeks...... that\'s with no weekends off no holidays or breaks......
good luck....Far more of my life than I\'d ever be willing to put into a GD entry.....:beer:
EDIT.......just read again.. 200 hours... That\'s ok your not as mental as I was worrying......... phew.....
The duel was in mind since before last years GD but I never got around to doing anything then started the bae in Junish . Left it alone and didn\'t revisit until last week in August when I cracked on with building the models and painting the thing.
What Mr R&R says there is the key thing it\'s all about feeling the love for it and the inspiration needs to be there otherwise there just isn\'t any point..I\'m currently on fire with ideas and have bought most of what I intend on entering next year ..Hopefully in Spain and France also just waiting for date confirmations there.
Actual knuckling down usually begins in July/August and if I am nowhere near by then ..well the fan is covered in brown stuff..:beer:
At Ben ... just off the top of my head ...
2000 hours , thats 8 hours a day for 250 days , 35 weeks...... that\'s with no weekends off no holidays or breaks......
good luck....Far more of my life than I\'d ever be willing to put into a GD entry.....:beer:
EDIT.......just read again.. 200 hours... That\'s ok your not as mental as I was worrying......... phew.....
cybersquig
Dangerous when wet
Demonherald - when I look at your model I get vertigo! awesome! Any feedback on my dwarf (large scale model) that you or Ben have would be most sincerely appreciated (I don\'t have any pics other than the ones on the GW GD website coverage which I can\'t lift)
I\'ve got 6 entries planned, and two of them well on the way to completion...
I\'ve got 6 entries planned, and two of them well on the way to completion...
cybersquig
Dangerous when wet
and Ben, (I think it was you with the chaos ogres) - I took your advice and 2 mins ago I recieved a big ol pack of teeny tiny leaves and vines from Antenociti\'s Workshop
alextheartist
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bastard... lol
cybersquig
Dangerous when wet
agreed! lol
When I get inspiration.
This year my 40K figure was decided upon two weeks before GD.
This year my 40K figure was decided upon two weeks before GD.
Joek
New member
I\'d go along with Dragonreach and say when the inpiration hits. However, this has been a very odd year for me - having started back up again at the beginning of the year after a HUGE gap, and steadily gaining more confidence to end up as a finalist (and my first pin!) at GD was an amazingly good feeling.
The irony is that the piece which got the green sticker was the one I entered without any thought it would get anywhere and out of all the ones I did was the one I spent the least amount of time on!
I think you go with the flow really - if it clicks, then that\'s great and if it doesn\'t (and boy, are there many times it doesn\'t!) then I usually can take something positive out of it!
Currently I\'m stepping back from the bigger ideas and going back to do single figures and attempting to improve techniques a little - hence my copy-cat approach with my current crop of figs.
I do have one major idea for the next few months, and it might be ready for GD...we\'ll see
The irony is that the piece which got the green sticker was the one I entered without any thought it would get anywhere and out of all the ones I did was the one I spent the least amount of time on!
I think you go with the flow really - if it clicks, then that\'s great and if it doesn\'t (and boy, are there many times it doesn\'t!) then I usually can take something positive out of it!
Currently I\'m stepping back from the bigger ideas and going back to do single figures and attempting to improve techniques a little - hence my copy-cat approach with my current crop of figs.
I do have one major idea for the next few months, and it might be ready for GD...we\'ll see
rocketandroll
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Yeah, 200hrs, not 2000
oh... and I don\'t have any chaos ogres, but I did post something about tiny paper leaves recently, so dunno if that was me
And we all wish we could be as awesome as Nigel... I heard he just eats greenstuff and drinks paint for the week leading up to GD and the he just poops out demon winning models the night before.
Ben
oh... and I don\'t have any chaos ogres, but I did post something about tiny paper leaves recently, so dunno if that was me
And we all wish we could be as awesome as Nigel... I heard he just eats greenstuff and drinks paint for the week leading up to GD and the he just poops out demon winning models the night before.
Ben
Avelorn
Sven Jonsson
I always finish my miniatures at the hotel room. Kind of a tradition now...
I tried last year to start on a diorama in November... didn\'t work out. I actually only get things done when I have a deadline and then barely so. But I won\'t give up the dream of starting and finishing in time...
@Nigel: Was that bronze in dual this year? Hm yeah. not saying that Rob kicked your a*se but... yeah he really did. :innocent:
I tried last year to start on a diorama in November... didn\'t work out. I actually only get things done when I have a deadline and then barely so. But I won\'t give up the dream of starting and finishing in time...
@Nigel: Was that bronze in dual this year? Hm yeah. not saying that Rob kicked your a*se but... yeah he really did. :innocent:
Talonicus
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@Sven
Shhhhhhh!!! Keep your voice down, I was hoping no one would notice.
Me an Rob should compete next at GD Spain and Salute. If he beats me again Ill go on a diet...(probably)
I am in fact incredibly slow at painting etc.
I have my 09 gd entry sort of started.
I also have GD Spain and Salute entries on the go.
All god fun.
Nigel
Shhhhhhh!!! Keep your voice down, I was hoping no one would notice.
Me an Rob should compete next at GD Spain and Salute. If he beats me again Ill go on a diet...(probably)
I am in fact incredibly slow at painting etc.
I have my 09 gd entry sort of started.
I also have GD Spain and Salute entries on the go.
All god fun.
Nigel
Aliengod3
Active member
For me it depends on how ambitious a project I am working on is. When I entered a mini that was 80% sculpted I started working on it about 10 months before the competition. But my vostroyan command squad was done a couple weeks before the competition. I am also pretty lazy and procrastinate.
Roger Bunting
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I\'m currently prepoaring my GDUK 2052 entry. I might just finish by then.
GunjiNoKanrei
New member
alway too late ...
since my return to the hobby i havent entered anything as yet, but the ideas are coming all the time.
I think im going to just paint until im around the june period then start work on them, need to practice a few bits before i let myself loose on entries.
But i guess it depends on a few things, inspiration, motiviation and how much time you have aside in life for painting.
I think im going to just paint until im around the june period then start work on them, need to practice a few bits before i let myself loose on entries.
But i guess it depends on a few things, inspiration, motiviation and how much time you have aside in life for painting.
D
donga666
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My Gold winning Diorama took two years to build, the initial drawings were done a year before that. (350-500hrs)
This years was started BEFORE last years GD, less time no demon (300ish hrs).
Next years was started in september, converting figures, producing drawings and I have just finished the first working model. So a slow start really ???
Already dedicated 30 odd hours to it.
Obsessive, Much!
This years was started BEFORE last years GD, less time no demon (300ish hrs).
Next years was started in september, converting figures, producing drawings and I have just finished the first working model. So a slow start really ???
Already dedicated 30 odd hours to it.
Obsessive, Much!
