Hi Folks,

As I am looking to a good way to maintain my motivation, it looks like the 12 Months of Hobby Challenge is an kind of answer to it.

Getting to stick to monthly objectives, with 12 small or limited projects and the option of 2 big ones might be a good structure to keep on cleaning the remains of my Pile of Shame. Which might eventually, although haviong shrunk a lot lately, start to grow again.

Shall we put it into perspective with what remains for my Pile of Shame and my 2024 WishList, I guess the firsts months will be structured around what is already waiting to be painted.

I have some choice here:

• 3 IG heavy weapon teams
• 5 ooP Rhino Chassis
• Some left spore mines
• One kit bashed Carnaudon
• One kit bashed LR
• 2 ooP EPIC titans
• some ooP EPIC SM Legion Boxes
• 1 ooP EPIC Levithan
• some ooP EPIC Squats Boxes
• 1 Engine Seer

The Carnaudon needs its turret to be redone fully and the kit Bashed LR looks dull, so it has some huge Plasticard work to start to look like something shoeboxed (yes, it can be possible getting a LR shoeboxier than the genuine shoebox). Might be a perfect pollding/6 month a project for later in the year.

EPIC... Well, I am not convinved by my paint schemes and habilñities at this 6 mm scale. I still need to practice a little bit.

As I have some projects in mind for the Seer and the HW, it leaves me ATM only the Rhinos.

...Interesting selection process...

We played heads and tails with my daughter so that she innocently selected the models to forego the repainting/transformation first. From these 5 chassis, it left apart (for the moment) the Vindicator and the Predator, as well as the oldest Rhino (the first mini I painted ever for 40k). I will start with the 2 remaining Rhinos, which by the way, are tooled up in the same way.

Here are the starting pictures of these 2 models, base coated in grey. Let´s go with my standard paint scheme for SW.

More to be shared later, once some progress will be achieved to be worth being shown. 

 PS: Oh! And of course the required pledge:

I, Bouargh, embark on the 12 Months of Hobby Challenge, and for the month of January 2024 pledge to complete 2 Rhinos by month's end.