The 500: Day 19

Dec 20, 2014 10:31

Yours truly faking painting. 

Note the beverage of the gods.

Far Future Wants You! Time for the mid-season recap where we rehash old footage and bring new viewers up to speed!

To start at the beginning, I've been making hobby related New Year's Resolutions for a while now. This year I decided to paint units from my Flintloque and 19th Century boxes, which was pretty typical for one of these things. But in addition I decided to try to paint more than I purchase, to reduce the growth of the lead mountain.

This went relatively well until about last September when my resolve crumbled in the face of a large batch of second hand figures. It contained nearly 700 15mm figures, putting me squarely in painting debt.

I thought I was done. But I kept the count anyway and I noticed I was actually making a little progress anyway. Thus I calculated I still needed to paint a little under 500 figures in December to break even and keep the resolution.

Mr. G and Company And so this crazy project was born.

I've logged progress on every day (see the article list on the left) with pictures. We are currently over halfway done, but still with a lot to do.

A generous reader offered to donate to a charity if I made it. While this wasn't initially a charity drive, I decided it being the season of giving and all that to give everyone an opportunity to join in. We are collecting for the Red Cross Ebola campaign (see link below). To join in, just pop a message with your pledge to me. I'll post instructions once we are done (you will be donating directly to Red Cross).

And why do you do the mid-season rehash? In addition to the reasons outlined above, it's also because production schedule has fallen behind and you don't have a full new episode.

Nothing serious, I just only worked for two hours priming the remaining 15mm troopers.

Buggy Aliens I'll be giving them their base colors today. I just started my Xmas break, which means no work (the paid kind) for a week but on the other hand quiet time to be spent with the family, so probably painting-wise pretty much the same. With twelve days to go, we are not home free yet but well in schedule.

Tomorrow some actually new pictures, promise!

Figures remaining: 179

Hours Worked: 84

Total pledges: 30 GBP Red Cross Ebola Campaign

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