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Hobby Thursday!

12/17/2010

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This week was relatively uneventful, considering I just got back into town after visiting the family for an early Christmas.  Anyway, I started my new "Hobby Thursday" off with some assembly.  Nothing major.  Cleaned and assembled the remaining two Razorbacks and my last Land Speeder for the army.  After building my Rhinos fairly sloppy a few years back, I now take significantly more time in the gluing process to ensure everything fits together flush.  Rubber bands are my friend in this respect.  Unfortunately, it also increases the assembly time dramatically.  I also picked up the last few Cadians Kasrkins I needed from my LGS, cleaned them up, and glued them to their bases.  I'll wait to prime all these until I buy that last Dreadnought. 

I feel much happier now that I'm pretty much done with the assembly process for my Black Templars.  Not going to lie, but I really, really dislike cleaning off mold lines.  The only thing really needed to do are putting together the future Dreadnought and gluing on the bolters/plasmaguns/lascannons after I'm done painting the models.  Then the only thing I'll have in my entire inventory to build is the metal and plastic LRC...but I have a feeling that its going to be sitting in its box for a really long time.  Maybe I'll get around to Ebaying it one day.

I've decided to go ahead with my "Crusade in 61 Days", so I need to have everything built and ready to go by January 1st (the day I'm starting it).  That'll give me a solid two months exactly to paint everything up.  I'm cautiously optimistic of my chances for success.  It all depends on my motivation.  Fortunately, having said that I'm going to go ahead with the project publicly should give me a kick in the rear.  In addition, Algesan has kindly volunteered to join the effort on his end.  The goal (for me at least) is to provide mutual encouragement so we stay focused on completing this project.  I'm not sure if he's going with project as I've laid it out, but even if he's not, it's nice to have a fellow player joining the fray.  It is, after all, for the Emperor.  :D

On the "Crusade in 61 Days" page, I'll have a daily progress update on what was accomplished.  To go along with that, I'll likely use the Hobby Thursday blog post to do a review on everything done that week so I can get comments, suggestions, encouragement, etc.  Should work out, I hope.  :)
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Loquacious link
12/17/2010 01:16:57 pm

Pictures! We greedy lot want pictures! =) please.

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Marshal Laeroth (Admin) link
12/17/2010 04:49:43 pm

Of the newly built Razorbacks and Land Speeder? Or my progress during the 61 Days project?

I don't really think you'd like a picture of basic gray, unprimed models. But I could be wrong. lol! If the latter, that was my intention. :D

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Algesan
12/18/2010 02:36:48 am

Reading your 61 Days page, you do realize there is no ending point listed. After all, it is a loooooong time until 31 Feb.

Heh.

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Loquacious link
12/18/2010 08:09:08 am

Why not both? =p

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Marshal Laeroth (Admin) link
12/18/2010 12:00:45 pm

Ending point for the painting challenge? I thought I did put it in there. I'll bold it in the rules section, just in case. Maybe I'm misunderstanding what you're referring to Algesan. :(

Haha. You win Loquacious. I'll get some pics up ASAP.

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Anonymous
12/22/2010 12:30:35 pm

"So the rules are this: I'm going to be starting January 1st, 2011 and the challenge will end 2 months later at 11:59pm CST on February 31st, 2011. "

You did put the ending point there, but 61 days starting on 1 Jan would be: 31 days for January, 28 days for February (it not being a leap year) for a total of 59 days, so to get the other 2 to make it 61, that would be 2 March. There is never a 31st of February, in 2011 or any other year. ;)

I've just setup a webpage on Weebly, but I need to sort it out, that way I won't be eating up your bandwidth and can post pictures over there.

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Marshal Laeroth (Admin) link
12/22/2010 01:24:42 pm

Durr...yep! I have nothing. Pure mental lapse there. lol! You in. :D Hmmm...I suppose I should correct that then. March 2nd it is.

Fortunately, I'm an "Pro" member of Weebly, so I pretty much get as much as I want as far as space and bandwidth. If it becomes a problem, I'll transfer all of the data and host it elsewhere (domain is through GoDaddy), but I don't anticipate it being so.

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Algesan link
12/22/2010 04:19:33 pm

Okay, set it up with the opening project set and some minor updates, including trying to keep you company into March as I expand my forces from 1k to 2k.

http://algesansblog.weebly.com/

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Marshal Laeroth (Admin) link
12/22/2010 04:39:45 pm

Bookmarked! I really do appreciate you taking the time to do this with me. :)

Perhaps I should invite others to do the same on B&C? Not sure how many players there have unpainted armies...but it might entice others to finish theirs.

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Algesan link
12/24/2010 08:39:37 am

If you want, I wasn't going to get that busy about it.

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Marshal Laeroth (Admin) link
12/24/2010 02:01:59 pm

Good point. Probably not a good idea. haha.

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