Morning/Afternoon & Evening all
First of all a big thank you to Curt for letting me in for my first ever challenge. The Analogue Hobbies Painting Challenge to date has been something mysterious that I'd read about and viewed from afar in previous years and am now really pleased this year to be able to take part this year and will give it my best effort. I feel fortunate to have sneaked in having registered quite late after listening to Curt talk to the Yarkshire Gamer on a podcast while painting.
I'm not so sure about hunkering down in the cold and getting the paints out because there's nothing else to do because I'm not in the top half of the world. In real life I'm a Welshman who moved to New Zealand in 1999 ( transporting 7 toolboxes of my much loved 15mm Napoleonics in the shipping container I would add!). Its actually Summer so a bit hot here you know, 32 degrees the other day so the Vallejo's a bit lumpy at times.
My wargaming or painting habit was once described as "all over the place" - which I actually decided to take as a compliment- OK I'm a butterfly, with a short attention spa... - Oh Look Shiny...- you get my drift?
In reality I think of myself as die hard Napoleonic - but not in a Bruce Willis sort of way though - I'd never shoot anybody for instance, but then I suppose I'd try my hardest to knock them out with a double six though. In the past few years I've wandered about quite a bit and well sort of got a little bit distracted and as a consequence have a little bit of not quite everything. I'm at the stage now where I'm finally managing to collect figures for those periods that took my breath away when as a young man I first opened those early editions of Miniature Wargames. The only problem is that there are so many!
Consequently my paintbrush might best be described as ill- disciplined - in that it wanders from one period to another, though at least that does at least keep me productive. That is what I suppose sums up my approach to the current challenge or my Project P - I figured as this is the 12th Challenge as a newbie I need to play catch up and produce 12 units.
I was painting some ECW Pike at the time so P for project, P for Pike and perhaps I was a little Pis.... at the time so painting 12 units with a connection to the letter P was dare I say err Procreated! ( Apologies - I'll get my coat)
So my project P - which hopefully will allow me to wander through my various projects and periods will be an attempt to produce at least a total of 1000 points worth of figures with at least 25 points of figures or at best a wargames unit in each of the following categories
1 Pike & Shotte
2 Parliamentarian
3 Pointy - As in Pointy Sticks
4 Peasants
5 Pious
6 Personality
7 Posh ( as in self important or gaudy posers)
8 Polished
9 Prancing (as on the back of an horse)
10 Pagan
11 Perry Miniatures
12 Plastic
Man, my indecision is killing me, I've been trying to keep my options open (Maybe I should have gone for Pandours, Prussian and Palestine WW1) but I hope I've been sneaky enough to leave myself plenty of options for roaming
So here we go
My first offering - my Peasants - these are Ratnik 18th Century Civilians - I hope this works ok - Thank you Tamsin for your instruction, I hope I have it right!