Time for an update to this year’s TooFatLardies Painting Challenge.
Lots of entries but still from quite a small pool of people. Where are you, regulars? Time to get back in the swing of things after lockdown and COVID!
Anyhow, please do go to the various galleries to see the full cornucopia of entries that have been sent in, but here’s a selection to whet the whistle:
A quick update today to bring January to a close. A fine start from some people!
First up, we have Sapper’s first entries for the year. Sapper has taken part in all but the first year’s Challenge, so start’s his eighth year of participation. With an average score of 2,186 and a personal best of 2,591 (achieved last year), he is a prolific painter.
Otherwise, today we have more entries from Lloyd, Andrew, Mervyn, Carole and John. Do visit the individual galleries, but here’s a taster:
We have some more galleries opened this week, and the second or even third submissions from some of the early birds.
Opening her score for this year, Ashley submitted some sci-fi infantry. Ashley has entered six of the last eight year’s of Challenge, with a very genteel average of 171 points per year.
Also new into bat this year is Carole, who began this year’s Challenge campaign with some WW2 Soviets…a whole platoon of them in fact. Carole has been present in each of the eight year’s that the Challenge has run, with a very strong average score of 1,553 per year.
Our third re-starter is Stumpy: a prolific re-baser of already-painted figures (an achievement in itself given how much most people detest basing). Stumpy is also an eight year veteran of the Challenge, with an average score of 2,106.
Finally we have John Emmett, who has been with the Challenge for the last three years. His first entry includes, but is not limited to, an entry from last year that I missed. Over the last three year’s John has amassed an average score of 893 points, and I recommend a visit to his galleries to see his work.
On top of the above, we have another entry from Lloyd this week (some weird looking aliens from Khurasan).
As always, do visit the individual galleries on show: plenty of inspiration to be had.
Egyptian Officer from Stumpy
Three more “regulars” back for the Painting Challenge.
First up is Steve Burt, who has participated in every year of the Challenge since we began, making this his ninth consecutive year. Steve has averaged 1,238 points per year, with a personal best of 1,716 in 2016.
Next is Andrew Helliwell, a prolific painter, who missed the first year of the Challenge but has been a steady participant ever since. Andy’s average is 2,329 per year, with his last two years both being over 3,000 points.
Finally in this set, we have Nick Cooper, who starts his second year of the Challenge. last year Nick managed 1,536 points: a very respectable first outing!
Already registered Mervyn and Lloyd also sent through a second set of entries this week. Do check out the individual galleries, but here’s a taster:
It’s that time of year when I have to build all the Painting Challenge galleries for the 2022 event, so lots of short posts rather than a bi-weekly long one.
Today we welcome back Lloyd “The Hat” Bowler for his eighth year of participation in the Challenge. Lloyd is a prolific scorer, averaging 2,887 points per year, including a personal best in 2020 of 3,709 points: an extraordinary achievement.
Today he submits some 15mm sci-fi: bugs and a couple of buildings from Khurasan’s range.
Next up is Mervyn Douglas, who has gone one better from Lloyd and been with us right from the start: this is his ninth year of taking part in the Challenge. Mervyn’s average score is 2,352 per year, setting a personal best last year with a score of 3,006.
Today Mervyn submits more 28mm Ancients: some Persians and Greeks.
You can see the full pictures of their submissions in their individual galleries: use the Navigation Bar at the top to find them. You could also look at their previous work, grouped by year, also available from the NavBar.
Only today and tomorrow to get your last few entries in for the 2021 Challenge…although, as usual, I will accept a few post-new-year stragglers.
I shall also be running the Challenge next year (the ninth consecutive year, with all previous years’ galleries still available) so start planning your painting now.
Today’s entries are from six people who have been participating all year, and one from Mr Scott, who’s obviously been saving up all his work for just one December entry. Just goes to show that it’s never too late to take the Challenge!
Do visit the individual galleries (use the Navigation bar, in black, above) but here’s a selection of today’s entries to get you started:
Finally, make sure you visit the site tomorrow when I’ll be posting a review of my wargaming year…
I’ll be doing at least weekly updates for the Painting Challenge in December: means I can keep on top of the entries that always flood in at this time of year!
As always, I recommend you look at the individual galleries but, just before we get to the usual whistle-whetters, here’s a couple of pieces sent in by John Emmett: absolutely lovely. I don’t usually pick out individual pieces, but these two were just too good not to highlight.
And here’s a selection of the other entries received this last week:
The first batch for December as people start that final push for points before the end of the month and the end of this year’s Challenge.
Plenty of time to get you last entries in: so get painting and photographing!
Please do visit the individual galleries, but here’s a taster to whet the whistle:
Activity levels are rising as people try and get their final entries in for the year!
Make sure you visit the individual galleries to see all the goodness, but here’s a selection to whet the whistle:
Half way through the month and I’m only just getting around to an update: shows how busy I am with real world work…well, that and getting Norchester published.
And there’s only about six weeks to go before the end of this year’s Challenge: so those of you sitting on vast numbers of entries need to get them to me before December 31 to make sure your scores are recorded. We have 24 people who’ve sent in entries this year: two newbies and then fourteen under their last year score and only eight over their last year score.
But there’s still plenty of time for the fourteen to make up the difference: so here are this week’s entries to encourage you to pick up a brush and start painting.
Morning all, and here’s another Painting Challenge update.
Lots of entries, but all from the usual suspects. Quite a few of you must be sitting on piles of painted figures to be photographed and sent in!
Do visit the individual galleries, but here’s a selection to whet your whistles!
I’ll update the Scorecard at the weekend.
Quite a slow month so far, but still plenty of entries flooding in.
As always, please do check out the individual galleries, accessible from the NavBar, above, but here’s a taster to keep you going:
Lots of entries this post as people rush to get in before the end of the month.
Please do make sure that you visit the individual galleries (navigate there in the bar, above), but here’s a taster:
Is it really the end of August already? Where has the year gone? It was my birthday recently as well: 55 years old…how did that happen?
But enough of the negative vibes, man, time for some positives: it’s another Painting Challenge update…and there are some really nice pieces of work on show this time. Check out the individual galleries, but here’s a taster:
Not much else going on at the moment wargaming-wise (although I have a big game this weekend) so I thought I’d update the Painting Challenge after only a week rather than the usual two.
Plenty to see even after only seven days, so do make sure you visit people’s individual galleries, but here’s a taster:
The sun is finally shining, August actually now looks like August, and it’s time for another update to the TFL Painting Challenge.
Do please visit the individual galleries (you can do so from the NavBar, above) but here’s a taster to get you reaching for the paintbrushes yourselves:
What is happening with the weather at the moment? One moment it’s sunshine so hot that you can’t go out, the next it’s raining hard enough to drown an elephant!
Whatever it is, it’s excellent weather for painting minis, and that’s what many of you have been doing. Some lovely entries into the Challenge this week, so make sure you visit all the individual galleries to check them out.
In the meantime, here’s a selection to whet the whistle:
Things have slowed down a bit on the Painting Challenge front, with only six entries in the last week or so. Must be a combination of the summer weather and coming out of lockdown.
No matter, those who have submitted have been uploaded. Check out the individual galleries, but here’s a taster:
Not quite sure how this happened but we’re now into the second half of 2021 and therefore into the second half of the year’s TFL Painting Challenge.
It would have been quite a slow couple of weeks since the last update except for a truly colossal catch-up from Doug Melville, with his first entry of the year hitting over 2,300 points in one go! There’s some lovely work on display from him, so do make sure you visit his gallery.
There’s also a first entry of the year from Chris Stoesen, and entries from Ashley, Sapper, Travis, Mervyn, Carole, and Coop.
As above, do make sure you visit the individual galleries, but here’s a selection to whet your collective whistles:
Keep them coming!
A fairly quiet week this week, with just a steady trickle of entries coming in.
Please do visit the individual galleries, but here’s a selection of what people have submitted:
I’ll update the Scorecard when I have a moment!
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