Mournival Challenge - Jasper Ford (January)

1. Paint a new 40k army

Working on fixing up my white scars that I stripped down from 3 colour minimum - I tried to go for an old gold and steel look on the judiciar to make his big sword look nice and beaten and brutal and chucked some cross hatching on his cloak to try and get some texture which is something I haven’t tried before. 

The assault marines are the 4th combat squad in the army; I’ve just finished off glazing their reds and am moving on to chipping, weathering and freehand now. Hopefully blade guard and some basic intercessors to come next week.

2. Create a table of terrain to support a game

3. Build and paint an Adeptus Titanicus engine

4. Run a simple narrative campaign for the group

5. Add two new units to an existing 40k army

6. Paint a 40k hero from an army you don’t own

7. Play a game a month and post a photo of it

8. Build/Paint a Warcry warband

9. Organise a multiplayer game

10. Attend two The Long War events at the Warlords

Mournival Challenge - Pete Dunn (January)

1. Paint a new 40k army

Purchased codex, datacards and models for Death Guard army.

Constructed army list for 2000 points

Mortarion's Anvil Lord of Contagion Malignant Plaguecaster

1x 7 PM (HtH focused)

3x 7 PM (Standard)

1x 7 Blightlords

1x 3 Deathshroud

Plague Surgeon Tallyman

Putrifier

2 Plagueburst Crawlers

Theme is WWI trench warfare. Purchased trench bases from Elrik's Hobbies

Decided on colour scheme and purchased paints to paint it.

2. Create a table of terrain to support a game

Still working through my Citifight table, adding 16 new tiles.

Had above table lighting installed.

3. Build and paint an Adeptus Titanicus engine

Major effort has been on my Legio Vulpa. Painted 2 Warhounds, 2 Reapers and half a Titan. I have one more Titan to paint. Then it is weathering and transfers.

Purchased Gamers' Grass Badland bases (need one 40mm round if anyone has one spare) plus picked up some Epic vehicles. Purchased custom templates from Laserforge

4. Run a simple narrative campaign for the group

Not started

5. Add two new units to an existing 40k army

Not started

6. Paint a 40k hero from an army you don’t own

Not started

7. Play a game a month and post a photo of it

One game with Sam - Harlequins vs. CSM

8. Build/Paint a Warcry warband

Not started but looking at The Unmade and Khainite Shadowstalkers

9. Organise a multiplayer game

Not started

10. Attend two The Long War events at the Warlords

Not started

Mournival Challenge - Alistair Allan (January)

1. Paint a new 40k army

Not started

2. Create a table of terrain to support a game

Not started

3. Build and paint an Adeptus Titanicus engine

Not started, may not start

4. Run a simple narrative campaign for the group

Started Crusade with Sean, Jordan and Rhys

5. Add two new units to an existing 40k army

Added 3D print proxies for Remora and Stealth team to my T’au. Have added two stealth teams to my T’au

6. Paint a 40k hero from an army you don’t own

Not started

7. Play a game a month and post a photo of it

Played three 50 PL games

8. Build/Paint a Warcry warband

Painted Slaanesh warband from Direchasm and will expand on this

9. Organise a multiplayer game

Not started

10. Attend two The Long War events at the Warlords

Not started

Hobby - 2021 "The Mournival" Hobby Challenge

 A couple of years ago I set up a Facebook group for local 40k gamers to share hobby and comment. It's a private group called "The Mournival" - after the Warrior Lodge in the Sons of Horus. This is the successor to a previous forum incarnation aimed at the same output.

I have seen other hobby groups come up with a set of resolutions/challenges to encourage the hobby output of their groups.

For The Mournival, I have come up with a series of ten hobby goals that members might like to complete this year. They are designed to target a variety of hobby aspect. The intent is that people can do whichever they want to do - "You are in charge of your enjoyment".

Members will where they want to participate and at the end of each month send their output to me to publish on this site.

The challenges are:

1. Paint a new 40k army

2. Create a table of terrain to support a game

3. Build and paint an Adeptus Titanicus engine

4. Run a simple narrative campaign for the group

5. Add two new units to an existing 40k army

6. Paint a 40k hero from an army you don’t own

7. Play a game a month and post a photo of it

8. Build/Paint a Warcry warband

9. Organise a multiplayer game

10. Attend two The Long War events at the Warlords

The following people have signed up: Me

Sean Sullivan

Aaron Wilson Sam Whitt

Louis Thomson-Gregg

Jasper Ford Steve Joll

Rhys Chadd

Alistair Allan Jeremy Webster

David Hodgetts Lliam Munro I'm happy to add other people to both the FB group and to the Hobby Challenge. Check back in the next week for the end of month update.