Painting Challenge: Post-Holiday Round Up

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As some of you may have gathered from the recent lack of posts, I have been on holiday for a week. Surfing in Cornwall, in Polzeath to be exact.

A very pleasant week: although the waves were only good on two days, it was glorious weather throughout, so plenty of fresh air and sea, with some fantastic meals in the evenings.

I like Polzeath: very poor ‘phone signal so unlikely to get bothered by work in the few hours that I’m not in a wetsuit, small enough to lack any sort of night life (except for a couple of restaurants) and we’re lucky enough to stay somewhere that’s only a five minute walk from the beach.

And lovely to get back to a Painting Challenge inbox packed full of entries. I highly recommend everyone visits the individual galleries, and here’s a selection of work from this week’s entrants to encourage you to do so:

Painting Challenge: Post Weekend Update

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Rather than get overwhelmed by the backlog of entries that always seem to mount up against me, I’ve had a chance to process this weekend’s latest batch of entries to the Painting Challenge.

Please do visit each person’s individual gallery, but here’s a selection:

Painting Challenge Special: Matt Slade Catch Up

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Those of you who follow the Painting Challenge regularly will know that this year super-painter Matt Slade has so far been conspicuous in his absence: Real Life interfering with Wargaming Life.

Well now he’s back with a bang, with a catch up of his work over the last six months. Visit his gallery to see the full extent of his work, but Matt has knocked up just over 2,200 points already. Here’s a selection of what you’ll see there:

More for the Painting Challenge

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Morning all!

Almost a week since my last post: my apologies but the real world got in the way of wargaming! Trying to keep a company going during lockdown is a tough business and sometimes I just can’t face another session on the PC.

Anyhow, enough of my griping: time for another update to this year’s Painting Challenge. A bumper crop of entries this week, including the return of Ashley Pollard: someone who, after a good start back when the Challenge first began, hasn’t taken part for the last couple of years. Welcome back,and I love the colour scheme on the spaceships.

Make sure you visit everyone’s gallery, and here’s a sample of this week’s entries, one from each person submitting something.

TFL Painting Challenge: Another Bumper Crop!

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Here’s another cracking set of entries into the 2020 TooFatLardies Painting Challenge.

Make sure you look at the individual galleries, but here’s a selection from this week’s entries:

TFL Painting Challenge: First Update in June

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And don’t I wish I hadn’t left it so long: vast numbers of entries coming in!

Excellent work, everybody: some really good lock down painting going on. Make sure you check out everyone’s galleries, but here’s one entry from everyone who submitted this time round:

TFL Painting Challenge: A Week's Worth of Entries

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And what a week it seems to have been. Don’t know if it’s because it is half-term or what, but some of you have been very productive indeed.

Visit people’s galleries to see everything, but here’s a selection of this week’s entries:

Missed Four Entries

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Whoops! Missed four entries off yesterday’s Challenge entries: some lovely terrain from Carole, ECW from Mr Helliwell, more Gangs of Rome from Chris Kay, and more re-basing from Stumpy. All galleries and the Scorecard now updated, and here’s a special four-person gallery of some of what I missed:

Lockdown Painting Challenge Update 3

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Well it seems as if I am not the only one taking full advantage of lockdown to paint little soldiers: a huge number of entries into the Challenge since the last update a week or so ago.

I encourage you all to visit the galleries to see what people are producing, but here’s a sample from everyone who sent something in:

Big Painting Challenge Update

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Well it seems as if many of you are getting into your lockdown painting stride, with loads of entries into the Painting Challenge.

In today’s batch we have the following:

There are many more photos to see in the individual galleries, so make sure you take a peak there as well.

Right: off to the painting table myself now!

Painting Challenge: A Lockdown Update

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Good to see that the entries are still coming n for this year’s Painting Challenge despite the problems of lockdown: hard to replenish your painting supplies when you’re not allowed out!

Here’s a selection of today’s entries: make sure you visit everyone’s galleries as there’s a lot to see:

Painting Challenge Update

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Hello All

Yes, I am still alive!

It’s just that the coronavirus situation now has me working from home and, this week at any rate, I have been busier than ever with no time to post anything.

That, however, is if there was anything to post. The fairly regular flow of AARs has now dried up: presumably either because of the closure of most of the places where people meet to play, or people avoiding playing in case they get a case of CORVIDs across the tabletop.

So a huge annoyance really: no commute, so technically plenty of extra time…but that extra time taken up with extra work to get the business done remotely…so no painting done…and no gaming either because of social contact restrictions.

But let us not despair: there’s still the Painting Challenge to enter.

Here’s a sample of the latest batch to hit my inbox, and a very impressive latest batch it is too. Check out the individual galleries too.

Stumpy Returns

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Another great week for the Painting Challenge, with loads of submissions coming in, including one from long-time participant, Stumpy.

Stumpy has taken the Challenge every year since it first started, meaning that this is his seventh year of entries, and with an average annual points score of just over 2,000. Impressive.

Here’s his first entry of the year: an LRDG Jeep and an M8 Armoured Car:

Lots of other entries as well. Here’s a little pictorial summary, but I do recommend that you visit people’s individual galleries as well:

Scorecard will be updated in due course.

Keep ‘em coming!

New Month, More Entries

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Another set of magnificent entries into this year’s Painting Challenge.

Here’s today’s album:

Quick Painting Challenge Update

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Some lovely entries to the Challenge this week.

Here’s a pictorial summary:

Don’t forget that there are plenty more to see in the individual galleries!

One More for the Challenge

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Tanks for the entry, David!

A big welcome back to David Scott, who sends in his first TFL Painting Challenge entry of the year. This is David’s fourth year, and he opens the batting with some rather nice 15mm Soviet armour.

This week, we also have more from Carole, Mr Luther, Joe McGinn, Chris Kay and, of course, Travis.

Scorecard is updated and more pics appear below. Can you match them to the painter? Have a go and then check out their gallery to find out if you are right.

More for the Challenge

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Another six year veteran returns for his seventh outing on the Painting Challenge: Andy Duffell. His first submission of the year is goblins, ghosties and a couple of menacing looking statues. Featured here is the Goblin Ninja, if that is a thing!

Andy’s first entry of the year is accompanied by lots of second, third and even fourth submissions from other participants. Today we feature entries from Carole, Chris Cornwall, Joe McGinn, Mark Luther, Steve Burt, Bluemoose Ken, John Emmett, Lloyd “Aztec Hat” Bowler, and Mervyn Douglas.

Something from each is featured below, but I’d recommend visiting their galleries for the full portfolio.

And Another For The Challenge

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Doug Melville is back! Another long-term veteran with entries in every one of the six years since the Challenge began.

Doug has been building jungle, enormous amounts of jungle. To be exact (in inches) 20 x 12 x 6 (in 3 full & 1 ¾ full box so 3.75 boxes)  =   5,400 cubic inches. In metres, about 8.43 cubic metres.

I have scored this as fifteen pieces of terrain, so lots of points: but worth every one as I know how much time and effort goes in to creating this stuff!

We also have new entries from Melvyn, Ralph, Travis, Mark and John, some examples of which appear below..but I’d encourage to visit the individual galleries to see everything that’s been done.

Scorecard will be updated at the weekend.

One More for the Challenge

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Sapper makes a welcome return to this year’s Painting Challenge. This is his sixth year of participation (he missed out on year one) but with an average score of 2,129 per year, I think we can forgive him for that.

Sapper’s first offering of 2020 includes a rather smashing unit of 28mm pikemen:

Also adding to their scores today are Carole, Travis and John. By now you should be able to recognise their painting styles, but I’ll caption the photos just in case!

Incidentally, this post means that I have posted something every day in January. That may not sound like much but, given that I’ve never been able to do a whole month complete before in the six years that this website has been going, that, to me, is quite an impressive achievement.

I’m fairly sure that I can’t keep it up, but do promise to bring you as much great new content as I can manage, so keep checking back on a regular basis. I’m also very happy to receive AAR from any company-sized Lardy games (IABSM, CDS, Q13) or anything else that fits in with our general theme. Submissions to the website address on the right.

PS Actually I’ve managed to post every day since December 20th!

Three More For The Painting Challenge

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Three more entrants for the Painting Challenge today.

First up we have Bluemoose Ken (Ken Eckhardt) returning for his third consecutive year. Ken always has a wide variety in his offerings, and today is no exception: we have some Spanish men and a donkey.

Next we have Fred Bloggs, returning for his sixth year (he skipped 2017). Fred’s entries are always an eclectic mix, but here are some pretty normal pikemen from Newline Design.

Finally in newbie-ville we have Mervyn Douglas, who is only a newbie to this year’s challenge as he has actually entered every year since we began. That makes this his seventh year and, with an average points total of 2,198, six good years under his belt so far as well.

Mervyn starts this year’s challenge with some figures for Mortal Gods:

It’s also been a busy week for two other people. Joe McGinn has sent in some more of his lovely Napoleonics; and Travis has been painting naked Celts…

Keep them coming!