Byron's Pirate Eldar - mulligan post (zero points)

 Ooof. After four complete OWACs I must take my first mulligan without a single complete model to show for it. 

I'll share the progress I made up until we had to start packing and moving to another house around mid-month. You can't do everything.

First is my cargo drone. This is a heavily converted wraithlord. The thighs and upper arms have been swapped to make him shorter and with a longer reach. His left hand has been replaced with a stand from an eldar weapon platform; I thought it looked more mechanical and clamp/forklift adjacent than the hand. His torso is backwards and leaned forward with a plastic spoon glued on as a sort of dump truck/ bed to store things as he moves about. To make the spoon look more eldar I added some jetbike and weapon platform bits to it. The final touches were green stuff tubes between the joints - this works both as an eldar motif (they have these tubes on their guns) but also as a structural stupport. Basically, it's a long external pin to add to the internal pinning between the joints. 

I followed the color scheme for the rest of the army, except I added a lot of scuffing. This was achieved with a sponging of dark brown and then a stippling of bright silver. It's my first attempt at a battered look and I think it looks pretty good. Maybe I over did it a little. 

Importantly, for the mulligan, his basing is not complete. 

I have yet to use it in a game with my kids. But I am thinking I would start with Wraithlord stats and then downgrade them and remove the swords and guns to reflect his more menial status. 

Next, pics of my stevedores. This pic captures the vibe of most of them, but it was taken before I packed them away for the move. I was able to finish the eldar cargo doodads on their bases too, but just didn't finish the bases. The stevedores are all blood bowl elves. I put doodads in the hands of the catchers/receivers to make it look like they were moving cargo around. 

One of the bloodbowl minis has a whip. This was taken from a 3rd ed Dark Eldar Syberite. I am using him as an Exodite beastmaster - that way I can use my wood elf beasts in Fantasy and 40k. 

Progress on the hover truck has been slow. 

I will aim to finish all of these minis and then some for the next month. 

I am thinking another trash-made tank, a jeb bike gang, or some close combat guys with dual pistols. 

On a less dour note, I attended an Oldhammer convention in Portland in early May and got to use my Pirates in some games.

Pokrzyw's Sisters of Battle - Month 5 - Mulligan

This is my first Mulligan in three challenges that I participate - live was catching me.

I planned to spend whole May in my summer house far away from regular flat. Plan was ambitious - Arch-confessor Redemptor Kyrinov with two inquisitors each with its own retinue of five hanchmen.

Models was stripped, based prepared and all was preshaded.

And after it I have to return for three days to Wroclaw. I left paints in summer house. Unfortunately I was able to return back over three weeks later due to family responsibilities. 

Finally I finish May without one ready miniature..

In next month I planned to complete inquistorial gang plus HQ.

Nicolas' Daemon Legion of Khorne - Month 3 - Mulligan

 March - Chasing my tail like a dog

Sadly I have to mulligan my month of March... Too much overtime and home improvements... so when I realized I was cooked, I decided to go all in to finish the infamous Chaos Hounds of Slaanesh unit that got me out on OWAC 6.  It feels nice to finaly get a sence of closure on this project! The original idea was to have hounds that would both match my Slaanesh and Tzeentch army, I belive I'm spot on!

I only had to touch up highlights and do the basing. But the effort needed to get variety out of the 3 Dark Eldar Warp Hounds was pretty intense back than and I'm really glad I went trought it.

Special love to my "demogorgon" from Stranger Things made out of a tyranid spore mine.

And just for the record, the original material I worked from...

Nathan’s mulligan month

I had to take my mulligan in February as I didn’t get my leaders finished. So why would I have anything to post you ask? Well I thought I would share with you good people some pics of khorne figures I painted up over the last few years that my current work will join. Here they are:

Samuel’s Empire - Grand Army of Nuln - Mulligan Time

 Everything was going to schedule and then it wasn't. Family holiday into a Corona and I'm out of action. So a mulligan for me this month. Good head start on next month though.

Peace

Samuel

PaulM - Mórr's Wild Hunt - Mulligan

Well, this is all starting to become rather familiar isn't it? Another month whereby I moan about not having enough time and only managing to finish by the skin of my teeth...except this month my teeth are, eh, skinned...

March has been a bit of a drag; due to work, and a family holiday, the paintbrushes didn't get picked up until the 22nd, a full three-quarters of the way through the month! With me promptly getting sick 6 days later. So the fact that I finished my tribute and got 99% of the way there with 5 Glade Riders is still something I'm quite proud of if I'm honest (considering my pace is glacial on a good day). Regardless I'm in the position, last minute, of having to take my mulligan/wildcard month for Month 3. 

Now, cards on the table, I had actually planned April in for this as an opportunity to get the remainder of the force built, based and undercoated in preparation for the final two months (and maybe getting a bit of terrain done too whilst I was at it). Which, admittedly, is something I should have done last year. 

Anyway, I did at least achieve some things this month. I got my Glade Guard to the state below:

...and managed to get my tribute painted to my best approximation of the recipient's style:

And, as an added bonus, I received the following from the OTHER PaulM. Rather lovely he is too and will go on to join my scouts eventually. Paul also added some extra treats to the package which was a lovely surprise. Must by psychic as I love a Double Decker. Unfortunately I won nowt on the scratch card. Thanks Paul!

So what are plans for April then? Pretty much unchanged if I'm honest. I have a few days work on the Glade Guard and then will look to getting everything else prepped for the final push - that being basing and undercoating my Characters and Warhawk Riders. I would also like to get at least one Treeman done. Basically as much as I can fit in. Let's see how it goes eh? 

Ian's Mordheim - Disciple of the Void (Wild card)

"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."

- Edmund Burke

This is my June's production:

I would have loved to paint a bad ass miniature or a few other poor victims of the City of the Damned to add to my Mordheim's warbands. But life was pretty stressful during June with another big project I worked on for the last 10 months, not at all related to miniatures, the end of the school year (I'm a teacher) and two trips to plan for this summer (leaving on June 30th for the first one). Unfortunately I couldn't find the time and/or motivation to paint anything related to the Challenge for this last month. I finished 30 skeletons and 15 night goblins though that were all over my painting space for the last 6 months...

Wrap up will be coming in July with a few extra pictures of my whole OWAC VI Mordheim's production.

Sorry guys.

Sybou's Mulligan by M. Freeman

Hi everyone,

I'm Morgan Freeman. This month i have the honor to introduce you to Sybou's Mulligan.
At first, i asked myself what the hell is a Mulligan? And what shall I do ?

Then I understood, Sybou was too ashamed to talk about his efficiency during June. June, start of summer, lots of stuffs to think about, like getting your vacations ready or gathering more armies ...

I mean what's wrong with you people ... starting a new army you didn't even finish one ...

I mean look at ... This Greyhald Baronny army got a unit of 20 flagellants half done since last december ... And don't talk about the regular chaos army that's taking dust for 1,5 years.

The eternal painting queue 

So the lad was willing to paint 50 zombies in one month ... I mean 50 zombies and no monobloc one sculpt zombies, ... no, like 50 different ones, from Adams and Morley ... and even a plastic heroquest one for nostalgic reasons i ve difficulties to understand...

Oh this is harsh ... this Vampire didn't even have his black done

I mean, it s a pretty time consuming hobby and it's something that many of you meet during hobby time. Sometimes, you're on something then the next day you're finding energy for something completly different. The main point is to keep motivation and energy for all your projects, sometimes you go until the end and sometimes you don't.

Win some lose some

Owac, according to Sybou, seemed to be a heck of time. It helped to progress on this mountain of lead that each of us gather patiently and the month of July shall see the conclusion for all of you. 

Talking about that, it will be the month for the army photoshoot. I bet this will be grand.

Take a look at this army, man

Jeff's Dark Elves - April (0 Points)

Out with a whimper instead of a bang, I fear.  I'm using my mulligan this month.  Long story short, (and without putting too many personal details on the internet) real life happened, emergency surgery was involved, and everyone is fine now; but I've not put paint on a miniature all month.

Ed's regrettably throwing in the towel (or maybe not after all)

Hi everyone. I regret to inform you that unfortunately I will have to call time on my old world army challenge.

 I'd have to say my work being increasingly busy has played the biggest part in this decision; I have been working every day recently and have been too drained to pick up a smaller paint brush in the evenings.

 Secondly, my final installment has been looking doubtful as a) I haven't even managed to buy all the figures for my dwarf unit and b) I haven't even decided on which figures to use for my cavalry, let alone buy them.

 Finally, I have to admit that I'm feeling pretty burnt out with painting Empire right now. I think the unit of halberdiers last month brought that on. I didn't want this project to end up rushed and a chore.

 It's a real shame I've had to come to this decision when the end is in sight. I must look at the positives on the other hand. I had planned on starting a Border Princes army last year anyway and had it not been for the challenge I confess wouldn't have got as far with it as I have done, I know what I'm like and I'd have probably painted half of what you've seen before taking a break from it and tackling something else.

The challenge is indeed just that. It takes commitment and a lot of focus and I've been mightily impressed at the efforts of you guys! It's been a massive success and you all deserve the praise you get.

 I wish you all the luck to get yourselves over the finishing line. You can do it!

Note from the Challenge Overlord : After discussing with Ed, I decided to let him stay in the challenge, even though he's used his mulligan already. So close to the end, and Ed have produced such brilliant work, I felt it would be a shame for him to drop out at this point. I suggested that he stay in, and he accepted. Consequently, Ed will produce one last entry for us in April, and obviously be allowed to post his wrap-up post, with his completed army. 

Whitehorn's having a bad time

I made a start on some zombies at the beginning of the month.

Then my girlfriend declared the house we wanted to move to was ours for the taking.

So I spent some time sorting stuff from our current home, selling stuff, planning.

I got ill, but soldiered on.

Then we split up.

Now the month is over.

And I hope April treats me better.

From SeanS - March is for Mulligan

Well,

Best laid plans and all. I could give you some sob story, or tell you that the one figure I painted is worth 200 points, but instead I'll just take a mulligan and try to get these knights and artillery painted up.

I thought I could wrap things up with the day off yesterday and a quick track meet this morning, but I had to stay all day to cover for someone and frankly I'm tired after 9 hours out in the sun.

So should be smooth sailing to finish the lot for April and hopefully have some more terrain to take a bitchin army shot.

Thanks if you read more than the title.

Rochie's Mulligan Post

Really wasn't planning on taking a mulligan at all during this challenge, but this month has seen me more ill than I've ever been, swollen joints have me crippled.

So, unfortunately I have to call this month a fail and hope the test results come back in time for treatment to start so that I can finish strong next month, so until then well done to all my fellow participants and here's to the grand finale!

A picture is worth 1000 words --- Ben's March Mulligan

I haven't done a damn thing all month. Not one single thing associated with the challenge or the hobby in general. In case you don't recognize the pic above....

Relax Mulligan.

Ruerhl's mulligan

Morrslieb is at its highest in the sky. Leading everyone who wanders at night to unknown paths.

Next month more time for me.

BulldogLopez and his Rock Hard Mulligan!!

Petrified by my cockatrice!!

Wuddup wuddup!! I got bored of painting rank and file troops this month and decided to use my mulligan month to paint up a monster. I've had this cockatrice laying around the leadpile for a few years and I decided it was time to get him painted!

Blue's Shame...Unplanned Mulligan...

Well, time to face the reality that I'm taking my Mulligan this month. 

Go ahead....heap on the shame...I can take it...

The month started off very promising and I got a ton of work started on a whole bunch of figures.  But as crunch time approached my house was visited by Papa Nurgle and I've spent the last week either taking care of sick family members or being sick myself.  It couldn't have happened at a worse time for my painting.  everything is 95% done...but I just couldn't get the last few layers applied or the bases done in time...

Sigh...

Here is where I left things...

...Close but no cigar.

Next month should be a breeze though...:)

Cheers,

Blue

Dave's February Mulligan

As mentioned in my previous post, my plan from the beginning was to use February as a mulligan month to get a head start on March, which will have be the month I paint the largest unit in my army. You will see by the end of March that this regiment is really not that big at all, in comparison to a lot of the other armies on this blog, but I am a very slow painter indeed and thought it best to be as cautious as possible with my March deadline.

I have actually run into an odd problem with my plans for the final two months of painting. Neither March nor April will quite add up to 200 points! This is simply because I had a few higher-point units in the earlier months and this left too few points for the end of the competition. I may end up painting some "extra" models for March and April that aren't really in the army to try and meet the 200 point threshold, including perhaps the alternate Sorceress that I was thinking of using. We will see... it will be a little surprise treat for the final months.

Now, I had every intention to show you this month a lovely work in progress picture of the entire force so far. That is, until I unpacked the models from our recent move... yes, you guessed it, approximately a third of them have been damaged from the move to the new apartment! Tragedy strikes! Luckily, no real irreparable harm was done, but to put them in order again will take a few days of gluing and painting touch ups here and there. The Dark Elves will ride again!

Mike's Waagh Grogguzzler

I thought I could get by without using it...... but I did. The shame, the defeat, the not so silent judgment of my peers. I choose to use the mulligan.......

Well I took the mulligan, such a short month and I really didn't get motivated to get much done other than a goblin shaman, which wasn't in my list or 200pts (though I suppose I could have loaded him up with war gear...) But hey that's what a mulligan is for, making up for doing nothing important. I sometimes suffer, as I'm sure we all do the urge to paint anything that isn't what I should be painting. Like that big box of chaos with its siren call or the dwarves in cabinets. But now thanks to the mulligan I can relax for a few hours then prepare to paint my one of my least favorite model types to paint, cavalry!

Your Overlord takes his mulligan...

Well yes, I'm taking my mulligan. It comes with the appropriate level of shame. Although, I have to be honest : it was always in my plans. I knew I would need a month off to tackle the big infantry regiments. I'm working on a big 30 figure Goblin unit, plus I'll need to add something else to that to round up my points, and I also have to submit a monster for another challenge I'm part of!

So I did paint a lot this month, but not enough! 

See you all in the end of March!! I'll be ready.