I'll be doing a Clan Pestilens themed Skaven army centred around a Plague furnace (or maybe 2 i haven't fully decided yet).

My December/January project will be a Plague Furnace and the Plague Monks that will be pushing it.

At the moment i'm just picking things i like the look of, I'll worry about making it a bit more competitive when we reach the 'having to play games' part of the challenge.

Hi all,

OK so I was thinking of doing Skaven, although it seems as though there are a few of us doing them, none the less i have bought the codex and am thinking of writing a list. I have a feeling that painting stuff in a month is quite a big ask (depending on how much people work in normal lives) so no sure if i'll be racking up many points that way, and I also want them to be abit better than a 3 colour min especially if going to a GT.

Anyway hopefully by tomorrow i might have a list to start to put together.

WIP - Snow Elves!

Well, snow bases anyway!

Some of you may be surprised to know that I'll be using white quite heavily in my colour scheme...

Adam Flello - Vampire Counts

I will be doing a magic heavy Vampire list (suprise suprise).

For our first section I will be doing 3 boxes of skeletons and 1 box of ghouls. This makes £48.

In addition to keep up with my army i will also do a box of zombies for raising.

Also some form of Battle Standard Bearer for the modelling project. I'm thinking a heavily converted Strigoi Vampire for that, but we'll see :)

Adam

Adam Flello - Vampire Counts

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Couple of questions jimbo.

Is the modelling project to be within budgets or surplus?

And being a vampire for april I have no war machines... It could be a corpse cart or black coach? Thats as close as they get.

I have worked out that my 2000 point list will be done come half of aprils budget, but being vampires I need another half an army too raise, so I may throw in more stuff along the way, but I will inform you of extras as you've stated above.

Adam

Gareth Morton - Skaven

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Doing Skaven!!!

Due to the fact that 2000 points equals 500 Clan Rats or 1000 Skavenslaves i have already gone way over-budget for month 1, lol.

I have so far bought 3 boxes of Plague Monks, 3 boxes of Clanrats and a Plague Furnace which comes to around about the £150 mark.

If i have the Furnace and the monks as my Month 1+2 projects will that be okay?

Posting

Ok, just realised no-one can post unless I authorise them as Authors (doh!)! Can you send me your email address if you want to be able to post and I'll add you! Cheers

In the meantime you can Comment...

James Seals - Dark Elves

So, thought I'd better be the first, this being my baby and all...

I'm going for Dark Elves, with a focus on magic, and Executioners (I'm still pissed off that I can't take a Lord with The Executioners Axe in my Executioners unit, but I'll get over that...).

I didn't want Corsairs so I didn't get the Battalion box. Instead I bought 2 boxes of Dark Elf Warriors and 1 box of Dark Elf Cold One Riders. Total £48 which is the same as the Battalion, although I got more Warriors and better options for them by the looks of things.

Right, time to get building!!!!

James

A Tale of 1 GW Manager, 2 Ex GW Managers, and 1 Ex Staff Member (or 4 Gamers - you decide)

Actually, the way things are going, it's more likely to be the tale of 23 gamers but there we go...

So, after much discussion, pondering and wondering it is now almost time to begin our tale. Effectively the plan for us all to get painted a 2,000 point fantasy army in a reasonable time by providing each other with some moral support and gentle prodding to get it done. Similar to the series that has been run in White Dwarf from time to time each Gamer will have a monthly budget to spend on shiny new toy soldiers. They will be tasked with building and painting those models within the month. Points will be awarded for completion of said task, with bonus points for mini-modelling projects along the way, and also for games played in the month. At the end the person with the most points wins all of our admiration and respect. Easy peasy!

For the first 2 months we'll have a combined budget of £50 which represents a battalion box (although most of us aren't buying a battalion box and just getting an equivalent value of models). After that each month the budget will be £30. Each person should go onto this blog at the beginning of the month and list the models they've bought. At the end of the month you need to post pictures of your (hopefully) completed models. Each month will also have a modelling project - you should post pictures of this as well then we can vote on who's is the best. Also, from month 4 onwards, you can get points if you've played any games - only the best result counts though. Please provide a battle report (doesn't have to be long).

Sam (who is taking Skaven and so can be forgiven) has brought up the fact that some people will need to spend more than £30 per month to get their army done. If you're going to do that please tell us all of the models you're going to buy at the beginning of the month and you'll be judged on finishing all of them - only fair really.

The points will work as follows:

All models built - 1 point

All models painted to '3 colour standard' - 3 points

All models based - 1 point

Modelling project attempted - 3 points

Best modelling project - 3 points

2nd best modelling project - 2 points

3rd best modelling project - 1 point

Lost a game - 1 point

Drew a game - 2 points

Won a game - 3 points

Battle report - 1 point

The modelling projects will be:

December/January - Standard Bearer

February - Hero or Lord

March - Wizard

April - War Machine

May - Monster (with or without rider)

I think we should aim to have a 500 point army by the end of February, 1000 by the end of April. That way we could get together for a Doubles Tournament or something in May. I think some of us would also like to consider going to the Grand Tournament for Fantasy next year with our army - it'd be cool if we all went for the same heat...

So, without further ado, please consider this competition OPEN! Get posting with your purchases for month 1&2 and then get building and painting. Good luck!