Here’s another batch of last-minute entries into the 2020 TooFatLardies Painting Challenge. As usual, I recommend visiting the individual galleries, but here’s a selection to look at for a bit of instant gratification:
Still plenty of time to get your last entries in!
Well I’ve finished work for Christmas, so that must mean that it’s also the final stretch in this year’s TooFatLardies Painting Challenge.
As you gird your loins to paint, photograph and send in your final entries, the latest batch of other’s people’s work has now been posted. Make sure you check out the individual galleries and Scorecard, but here’s a taster:
Who would have thought that it is December already, with only a few weeks to Lockdown Christmas 2020.
I know some people who have realised that the year is almost over: the people who have sent in another weighty set of entries for this year’s TooFatLardies Painting Challenge.
Make sure you visit the galleries to see the full cornucopia of submissions, but here’s a taster:
I see you all took me at my word and have done your best to paint as much as possible over this second lockdown period.
Make sure you visit the individual galleries listed in the NavBar above, but here’s a selection from the entries from the last two weeks:
Time for a Painting Challenge update, and some of you have been using the new lockdown wisely!
Check out the individual galleries for a complete look at what’s been submitted over the last couple of weeks, but here’s some highlights:
Keep them coming: only a few weeks until the end of the year and thus the end of this year’s Challenge.
Those of you who are regular readers will know that I ordered a whole load of lockdown supplies on the first Sunday of the new restrictions, and we’ve been keeping tabs on how the eight or so people I ordered from have been doing.
Wayland Games were the next supplier to deliver, coming in in sixth place with an envelope containing basing materials and flock. It’s all still pretty impressive stuff as I can remember the time when it was “allow 28 days for delivery” and you were lucky if it arrived then!
So far, therefore, we have:
1. Boontown (3 days)
2. Warbases (4 days)
3. Magister Militum (5 days)
4= Games Workshop (6 days)
4= Museum Miniatures (6 days)
6. Wayland Games (10 days)
I’m not very happy with the news that the UK is about to go into another lockdown. No martial arts clubs open, no wargamers allowed to travel/visit to game and, what’s worse, daughter#1’s boyfriend is stuck up in Edinburgh and also unavailable to either hold the pads or play a wargame!
It may also put the final nail in the coffin of a load of businesses, maybe even the one I work for. When I said I wanted more time to train and game, I hadn’t meant it quite like that!
The only good news is that I used the announcement as an excuse to order another 15mm army to console myself. I’ve gone with Museum Miniatures CAD designed Classical Indians. I loved their CAD designed (what they call their “Z” ranges) Sumerians, so if the Indians have the same quality of sculpt and cast, I shall be very happy indeed. That meant, of course, that I had to re-stock on all my paint and basing supplies, as you can’t guarantee what can be available in lockdown. Forget hoarding toilet paper, I’m stocking up on Stirland Mud and summer flock!
We could all do with a bit of pre-lockdown inspiration, so here’s a selection of this week’s entries into the Painting Challenge. Full collection in the individual galleries (see the NAVBAR), but these give you an idea of the quality and quantity of what’s been submitted.
So, my fellow wargamers, grit your teeth and gird your loins: it’s only a month. Let’s see how much we can all paint in that time…
Lots of entries from the “hard core” of Painting Challenge participants…so let’s see if those of you who don’t submit very often can get organised and send in your entries. After all, it will soon be Christmas and the end of the Challenge for another year!
Make sure you visit the individual galleries (links above in the NavBar) but here’s a selection from today’s entries:
Lots of business occurring since the last update!
Please do visit the individual galleries (accessed vis the Nav Bar, above), but here’s a selection of this fortnight’s entries:
Some very nice examples of our craft submitted over the last couple of weeks.
Make sure you check out the everyone’s individual galleries, but here’s a selection:
A little bit slower this week, probably because the summer holidays have ended and it’s back to work time!
It’s still, however, an impressive collection of entries this week. Visit the galleries to see all, but here’s a snapshot of what’s been sent in:
It’s time for another Painting Challenge update, and today we have some really lovely entries coming in.
Make sure you look at the individual galleries (accessed via the nav bar, above) but here’s a selection…
It’s another sweltering hot day today in the UK: going outside is like walking into a wall of heat.
Unusual distribution of entries into the Painting Challenge this week: lots of entries but from a small number of entrants. Must be the weather!
Here’s a sample of the work of everyone who submitted something this week. Make sure you check out their full galleries: some inspirational content there.
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:
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:
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:
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.
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:
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:
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:
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:
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