Mournival Challenge - Sean Sullivan (February)

1. Paint a new 40k army

 have started to convert and make up my squat army for fields of blood gt. Thought it be a awesome challenge as these are some of the old original models though using genestealer cult army. Using conversions and all those cool things.

Made up and undercoated 1 squat biker unit and 1 cult squad and 2 characters.

2. Create a table of terrain to support a game

Have started making my own table at home but no process to show just yet

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

Unfortunately didn't take a photo but played up at Lakes of Blood

8. Build/Paint a Warcry warband

9. Organise a multiplayer game

10. Attend two The Long War events at the Warlords

Mournival Challenge - Lliam Munro (February)

1. Paint a new 40k army

Nearly finished 5 more Genestealers

Assembled and begun painting a Neurothrope

Working out how to create same colour scheme using dry brushing for hormagaunts

Assembled and undercoated 3 Warriors and 4 Hive Guard

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

Working on a Vyper and a Farseer on Jetbike for my Ulthwe

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

Hobby - Vallejo Metal Color Paints

 Where have you been all my life?

Over the past few months I have seen more and more painters recommend Vallejo Model Color paints as their metal paints of choice. I was largely unhappy with my Citadel (sans Retributor and Iron Warriors) and Vallejo Model Color paints, and ho-hum about the Army Painter metals.

So I went to Element Games and picked up five of these supposed fantastic metals. I chose:

• Gold
• Aluminum
• Burnt Iron
• Steel
• Copper

They are GBP 6 each (NZ 12) but you get 32ml in each bottle rather than the 12ml in Citadel. The paints can be used straight through an airbrush or applied by brush.

These paints are stunning. The opacity is phenomenal and the flow off the brush is fantastic. You put them exactly where you want them and they stay there, covering with a single coat.

You can blend them very easily on a dry palette and they stay 'wet' long enough to be used for batch painting.

If you want to up your "metal" game them I really think you should be using these. Having painted miniatures for over 25 years, I've never seen metals that come close to these.

Mournival Challenge - Sam Whitt (February)

1. Paint a new 40k army

Painted 10 Wolf guard and Murderfang in my grimdark scheme.

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

Went to Lakes of Blood tournament with an Emperors children/Daemon list. Went 3-2 and came 6th overall.

8. Build/Paint a Warcry warband

9. Organise a multiplayer game

10. Attend two The Long War events at the Warlords

Mournival Challenge - Jeremy Webster (February)

1. Paint a new 40k army

Some slow progress on my new GSC army but I've finally cleared the bulk of my Craftworlds backlog so I'm expecting to get a lot done in March. 

Most notable progress has been doing some conversions for my HQ characters. I'll be running this guy as my GSC Primus armed with a Needle Gun, Bone sword, and Toxin Injector Claw. Next step will be to decide on (and test) a colour scheme that looks good but doesn't take a million years to paint.

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

On my desk is a restoration job on an old Eldar Falcon Grav-Tank that I picked up in a lot. It was in pretty bad shape but I've made some progress stripping (and in some cases chiseling) the old paint/glue away and replacing some missing parts.

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 - Bruce Manning (February)

1. Paint a new 40k army

I added 2 new units to my Crons, one fun to paint the other was terrible , you guess which one!

2. Create a table of terrain to support a game

NP

3. Build and paint an Adeptus Titanicus engine

NP

4. Run a simple narrative campaign for the group

NP

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

NP

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

NP

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

Played a 2000 point game vs. Steve Hill's GSC army

Using fluffy Fields of Blood NZGT lists

Here is Steve explaining how the bikes can throw 5 Demo Charges at my poor destroyers.

It wasn’t pretty but you gotta love the new reanimation . I rolled 4 5s and 6s from 8 dice!

8. Build/Paint a Warcry warband

9. Organise a multiplayer game

10. Attend two The Long War events at the Warlords

Mournival Challenge - Steve Joll (February)

1. Paint a new 40k army

Progress on the Tyranids continues.

2. Create a table of terrain to support a game

NP

3. Build and paint an Adeptus Titanicus engine

NP

4. Run a simple narrative campaign for the group

NP

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

Added a Redemptor to the Space Wolves

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

NP

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

Played two games with Aaron Wilson but no pictures

8. Build/Paint a Warcry warband

NP

9. Organise a multiplayer game

NP. However did release multiple episodes of the 40K Gamechangers podcast (Pete: And very good they were)

10. Attend two The Long War events at the Warlords

Nothing started yet

Hobby - Posca Paint Pens

 Over the Summer I have been painting up my Adeptus Titanicus war engines. One thing these have is an awful lot of metallic trim. Virtually every panel has trim on it.

While on the Legio Vulpa Facebook page, one of the members posted that an easy way to do all this trim was to use Posca Paint Pens. I have tried paint pens before and found them less than successful, however this was generally to write script etc. The problem was usually with the flow - nothing or a flood.

So I was a little bit sceptical.

Posca Pens are carried by our local art supply shop - Gordan Harris. I ordered online and received two pens 4-5 days later. I chose the Bronze (link here) and the Ivory pens.

The pens are a little like Sharpies. You push hard down on the tip once and the paint begins to flow.

From there it is just a case of colouring in 😀. Coverage is great and you can paint and highlight over it. It is a great time saver, being much faster than tried to paint the trim with a #0 or #1 brush. My only downside was that I had done most of my engines before I discovered this.

Here is an example of the result I was able to achieve just by colouring in the trim.

These pens have enormous applications for 40k, especially vehicles and monsters (I'm looking at you Helldrake). I would also use them for terrain in future. There are a wide variety of colours so I'm sure there is a pen for most jobs.

Mournival Challenge - Louis Thomson-Gregg (February)

 1. Paint a new 40k army

Inspired by my pick for a character I don't own I have decided to do a CSM force, I have picked up some basic troops and will convert in a similar style to my abaddon conversion 

2. Create a table of terrain to support a game

No progress - I am looking at options for making my small amount of terrain more functional

3. Build and paint an Adeptus Titanicus engine

No progress

4. Run a simple narrative campaign for the group

Waiting till we aren't perpetually jumping between alert levels

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

 I have picked up Incubi, and a bunch of old metal wyches for my Dark eldar, not painted yet

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

I have started converting abaddon, inspired by the Lich King, waiting on some parts from a friend

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

I installed TTS does that count? 

8. Build/Paint a Warcry warband

Deciding which one, most likely Splintered Fang, I have a squig hopper one in my garage

9. Organise a multiplayer game

No progress

10. Attend two The Long War events at the Warlords

No progress, events haven't started

Mournival Challenge - Alistair Allan (February)

1. Paint a new 40k army

- maybe starting to lean towards converting Slaanesh Hedonites

2. Create a table of terrain to support a game

- in concept

3. Build and paint an Adeptus Titanicus engine

- have done a bit of window shopping

4. Run a simple narrative campaign for the group

- on pause, COVID

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

- onto start of highlighting stage for XV25s

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

- Xerxes counts surely, he can sub into 40K and AoS

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

- taught a new recruit to play AoS

8. Build/Paint a Warcry warband

- taught new recruit to paint my Squig warband

9. Organise a multiplayer game

- no progress

10. Attend two The Long War events at the Warlords

- no progress