Cave Challenge: Week Two Wrap-up

We are 14 days into the Cave challenge and the trend of superstars, slackers, and tweeners continues. Sadly I fall into the slacker category. I have finally finished the wracks but they are the only minis that I can say are 100% finished. I posted a photo of them the other day. I have Reznik at ~95% done only needing to put the metal on all those little nubs and attach his spare wrack. I did get the two vassals closer to finish status as well but, after looking at the art in forces PoM, decided to try a few new things on these guys. I am painting a red stripe on the bottom of the robe to give it a little more pop and also red sleeves on blondie.

I also took a little time to start painting the choir not too much to show but a little paint. I also sprayed the metal basecoat on the steelheads. I need to pick out a panel or two on each mini to paint yellow metal then they will be ready for their wash. I am hoping this unit will help me pick up my pace a little. The real make or break is going to be the three 'jacks.

Oxyguy had a hit or miss week and showed the is an uber klutz. We will start with the hit part of his week. Oxyguy was able to get Grayle and his feral warp wolf painted so we are looking at a solid 14pts (counting the 'lock as 5pts) and now for the misses. Oxy has been wanting to work on his bloodtrackers but....after he sent me the initial shot he tripped and dropped them needing to reassemble them. During the week he rushed home on his lunch break to prime then and when we was walking in from outside tripped and dropped them needing ot reassemble them. So he was tacking the freshly re-re-assembled and prime bloodtrackers to his basement to paint and guess what happened? DING DING DING he tripped and slammed them into a wall. Look on the bright side Oxy 3rd time is the charm.

DieselDM finished up Beast-09 to go along with his eButcher 5th Border Legion scheme. The narrative continue over on his blog and is really fun addition to the painted photos. He is concerned he is falling behind but I have confidence he can get it done.

PG_Evicerae came off a monster week last week in which he painted 17pts and followed that up with an additional 5pts this week. I don't have the shots of his current work while I am writing this but I know he was painting 'cause all day Saturday when I was playing a practice Hardcore game with PG_Z1G1 Evicerae kept calling out letting me know he was painting at the FLGS and not "wasting time" playing games. Now that is true spite showing up at the store just to paint and rub it in :) Well played Sir.

I posted a picture of PG_Z1G1's work the other day but seeing as he fully painted a Conquest in less than a day I will re-post it here. Conquest is part of his Hardcore list for GenCon which is actually a twist on the list played at Templcon 2012 Hardcore but I won't spoil his list until after GenCon.

The last painter is Mr Scudo I haven't heard from Dave since I saw him at the store Saturday. He has done solid work on a full using of tharn with UAs and started his fulcrum. Scudo is also heading out to GenCon so I don't expect to have update photos from him until next week.

So there you have it week two in the books. I am starting to sound like a broken record but damn I need to pick up the pace. Safe travels to GenCon gentleman and bring back some sweet swag.

The Cave Painting Challenge

The other day I mentioned that I am doing a painting challenge to try and get 35pt done in a month. I also mentioned a couple of my locals were planning on joining me. Well the number of locals has increased. I am going to have the guys give me weekly updates and I will then post them here for all to see. Hopefully we can all make it. Now that I am getting a few more guys to join in I might have to come up with some prize(s) at the end. hmmmmm.

The first guy to jump in and say he would join me on my adventure was Oxyguy who is a regular commenter here on the cave. Oxyguy is also the gentleman I painted Carver for at the beginning of the year. He is going to be painting up some Circle of Orboros:

Grayle the Farstrider (*6pts)
* Argus (4pts)
* Feral Warpwolf (9pts)
Shifting Stones (2pts)
Tharn Bloodtrackers (Leader and 5 Grunts) (5pts)
* Nuala the Huntress (2pts)
Blackclad Wayfarer x2 (4pts)
Lanyssa Ryssyll, Nyss Sorceress (2pts)
Lord of the Feast (4pts)
Rorsh & Brine (9pts)

Oxyguy's first list was a few point short as he forgot warbeast points when he sent it to me (senior moment?) but he added a few minis and is good to good. His original plan was to paint pKaya but he had a hard time stripping the paint from his son's original paint job and changed plans. It will be nice to see him playing a different faction (primary faction is mercs).

Next we have PG_Evicerea who is going to be painting up some Retribution of ScyRAHN! As previously mentioned he has a really nice Skorne army which was seen on the PP forums.

Adeptis Rahn Shyeel (*6pts)
* Chimera (6pts)
* Sylys Wyshnalyrr, the Seeker (2pts)
Dawnguard Sentinels (Leader and 9 Grunts) (9pts)
* Dawnguard Sentinel Officer & Standard (2pts)
House Shyeel Battle Mages (Leader and 5 Grunts) (5pts)
Stormfall Archers (Leader and 3 Grunts) (5pts)
Stormfall Archers (Leader and 3 Grunts) (5pts)
Eiryss, Angel of Retribution (3pts)
House Shyeel Magister (2pts)
Mage Hunter Assassin (2pts)

This is a pretty ambitious list consisting of lots and lots of infantry. Compounding the difficulty is the fact that one of the units was still not fully assembled at the time of this post. Word on the street is Evicerae didn't think it was enough of a challenge and he has thrown a second caster into the mix.

The third player to jump in was DieselDM. As some of you might remember he was kind enough to ninja shop for me at LnL and bring back the SoB a month before release. You can check out Diesel's other work over at http://handcannononline.com/ and his blog http://www.dieseldm.com/ On this challenge he is two timing his beloved Swan in favor of the Motherland.

Kommander Orsus Zoktavir (*6pts)
* Beast-09 (11pts)
* Kodiak (8pts)
* Spriggan (10pts)
Doom Reavers (Leader and 5 Grunts) (6pts)
* Greylord Escort (2pts)
Greylord Ternion (Leader and 2 Grunts) (4pts)

Keeping with "for the Motherland" is PG_Z1G1 workin on some of his Khador army. When you look at his list it looks a little wonky and that is because he made a list of minis he wanted/needed to get done prior to Gencon (most of his Khador army is fully painted). Oh by the way, in case you didn't know, he is the back to back to back Gencon hardcore limerick champion ;) He will be painting up a colossal which will be sweet. While he is not willing to say it's "muh favorite" he really likes it... and that is important for later. The to be painted list:

Koldun Kommander Aleksandra Zerkova (*6pts)
*Conquest (18pts)
Iron Fang Pikemen (Leader and 9 Grunts) (8pts)
* Iron Fang Pikemen Officer & Standard (2pts)
Sea Dog Crew (Leader and 9 Grunts) (8pts)
* Mr. Walls Sea Dog Crew Quartermaster (2pts)
* 3 Sea Dog Crew Riflemen (3pts)

Mind if I crash this party too?

Last but not least is our shortest participant....none other than Mr Scudo (damn you Scudo....just cause). He will be workin' on more of his beloved Circle army.  Similar to Z1G1 Scudo has a mostly painted faction also his list consists of models he is trying to finish up to get the faction to fully painted. He too will be breaking out a huge base mini which is nice. Here is what Scudo (AKA Macguffin on our forums) will be painting:

Baldur the Stonesoul (*5pts)
* Winter Argus (5pts)
* Woldwarden (9pts)
Celestal Fulcrum (9pts)
Tharn Ravagers (Leader and 5 Grunts) (9pts)
* Tharn Ravager Chieftain (2pts)
* Tharn Ravager Shaman (2pts)
Gallows Grove (1pts)
Tharn Ravager White Mane (3pts)

I am interested to see how he goes about painting eBaldur as I am also in the midst of painting him myself.

There you have it our brave painters coming along on my wild ride. I am really excited to get this rolling. Good luck to everyone and hopefully in one months time we all have a lot more painted minis. Once again good luck and the clock is ticking.......