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Aaaah, finally put together my five marines again after a catastrophic date with the gaming board(it seems the glue I used was extremely weak and they just fell into bits as soon as they touched the board). Stronger glue purchased and now, finally, on to the painting!

:) What the... This is amazing work / speed! It looks awesome HJL. Look at all the detail on it! Beutiful model too...

 

 

 

Any chance of a before pic? and I could do witg more "after" pics as well! :)

HJL, that's beautiful! Awesome work.

 

Captain Semper, would it be possible to make a vow for terrain (e.g. an Aegis Defence Line)? I should have my Sternguard done this week and an Aegis set is about the only other thing I have that I can make as a third vow for Chaos once they're done.

thanx for the comments guys

zyl@ there are indeed patches of none lava on the sorpion "defiler" as i didnt want to cover it all ,instead trying to look like the plates were in a constant shifting form of breaking up and reforming

heres the before pic of the prince of nurgle

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y30/daemonclaw/DSCN8013.jpg

and HJL that is one speedy paintjob and verywell done as well

OK this is it! I'm starting a Chaos army once the ETL is over! These are truly inspiring stuff guys! Good luck deamonclaw!

I thought that's why we all played chaos in the first place. The sheer spectrum of conversion work available to us is by far the greatest, be it Fasha's idea with the bitz box and rubber cement, or a fully customized Black Legion rhino. It definately wasn't because I thought it was the codex containing the best army setup.

 

On topic, I have at least a base coat on my entire prince by now, but I want to 100% it before posting my declaration of completion. I'd say mid week I'll have it done, which means it's time to think on another vow..

Hey Kierdale, I have been asked this question before and I'm reluctant to alter the rules at this advanced stage of the ETL. So I'm afraid the answer is no fortifications and no allies.

No problem :P Thanks Captain.

Should have my Chosen finished this week anyway.

E TENEBRAE LUX – 8th WEEK UPDATE







Eight weeks into the challenge and the B&C community has painted in excess of 54k pts with the last week adding 12k pts a 50% rise compared to the previous. Interestingly new vows amounted to 7.5k continuing to add to the total points vowed that now approaches the 200k pts mark! The average completion rate kept climbing to 28% from 22% in the end of Week 7 while the value of the average vow was moderately trimmed to 500 pts from 512 pts the previous week.

Next week we are going to be 2/3 into the competition. Things are getting serious, and frankly time is now an issue! So finish up your current projects and look around to see what else can you do for your faction! Just finishing your initial vow won’t be enough...

So here’s how things look at the end of week 8:

E TENEBRAE LUX – 8TH WEEK UPDATE
Black Templars 86 36,246 421 10,109 28%
Blood Angels 54 27,737 514 6,095 22%
Dark Angels 79 40,267 510 7,980 20%
Codex Space Marines 54 33,487 620 7,795 23%
Space Wolves 47 32,017 681 9,788 31%
Chaos 51 20,197 396 8,250 41%
Ordos Inquisition 21 5,921 282 4,008 68%
Total 392 195,872 500 54,025 28%
Index Astartes 28 16,255 581 6,085 37%
Liber Astartes 14 9,663 690 825 9%
Ultramarines 12 7,569 631 885 12%


Comments:

The Dark Angels Recovered some momentum and raised their completion ratio to 20% - still lower than the average of 28%. However the 20% completion rate correspond to almost 8k pts which puts the leading forums within their sight! What they need now is a couple of really large vows (1k+) complemented with an array of smaller vows before we enter the last month of the E TENEBRAE LUX. Not that difficult in principle since we already have a good 2 months behind us. Frankly the more completions we get this week the more our hands will be freed to paint small but point-rich vows as we approach the finishing line. Guys, we really need some really big vow done this week...

The Wolves. One might thought that fatigue would have crept in by now but one would be wrong! The Wolves delivered a strong 1.8k of new completions this week securing second position with only some 300 pts behind the BTs that still lead the ETL. Furhtermore they have pledged another 1.8k pts of new vows declaring their strong commitment to win this! Their Completion rate is unavoidably higher than average though at 31%. Not that much I hear you say... Well, given the small amount of participants, the average pts/ participant is by far the highest in the competition at 890 pts (!) Good luck – that’s all I have to say. You’ve made it thus far, can you keep up for the next month? As I said before, if not the Wolves then who?

Blood Angels with 1.2k pts completed this week, their overall performance should be considered anemic at best. The BAs have a decent amount of participants and a decent mix of high/low value vows… So what is going on? Procrastination is going on. Taranis is a shining example among the Angels of Blood, pledging his 5th vow already but really guys this week should be very productive for you to get back into the game. Remember: Completing your first vow on time might not be enough! Your 22% completion rate may seem OK at face value but you’re kind of left behind in total points pledged. And the only way to increase that is to vow again – which is only possible if you get some completions underway! Right now you are last – the worst performing forum (excluding the Ordos that are somewhat special). Would you let that pass?

Black Templars completed roughly the same amount of points as last week and retain first position. However, the strong performance by other forums narrowed the gap significantly, with the Wolves being only 300 pts behind! One might say that the Templars suffer from fatigue but the addition of 6 more vows worth 2.3k (their weekly completions were 1.3k) underlines that the commitment still burns in their souls! They are the first forum to cross the 10k level of completions and still seem the favorite to win. A word of caution: you need to get some high pts vows done from your First Vows stock because the Wolves have tons of points coming your way... The odd Marshall or Emperor’s Champion won’t save the day for you. Bring in the big guns!

Codex Forums seem to getting mobilized. Some more completions from the IA, LA and UM forums this week which is good news. However 68% of the completed points come from one person: Arizonajirt who 1) can’t win this on his own, and 2) he’s done with super vows (after three consecutive ones!). So it’s time to assume responsibility and start delivering large, medium and small vows to fill the gaps before things are irreversible. Because on paper they are not. You still have the completions to keep you in the game (compliments of Arizona) and you can challenge the first position – all you have to do is keep painting!

Chaos has an exceptional performance! Although only 530 pts added this week and a very high completion rate of 41% the Chaos faction is keeping 3rd position! However the gap with DAs that have 4th narrows and although Chaos makes new vows these are not large enough to create confidence that they’ll defend their position successfully. Their average vow dropped (!) this week to below 400 that compares unfavorably with the 500 pts average of the ETL. So as was the case in the previous week, you guys got to lower your completion rate while increasing completions – i.e. increase your denominator more rapidly than you increase your numerator... Good luck with that!

Ordos Inquisition moved their completion rate from 61% to 68%! The completion rate of their first vows is 74%!! If those percentages were even remotely approached by any other forum… well you do the math! Keep going guys you’re doing an honorable and inspiring effort here!


Until the next weekly update, farewell and good luck to all!

Alright vow complete! took a little bit of time, forgot how much i dislike painting infantry. all that trim haha the pictures are not that good, i need to dig out my camera. my cell has a great mp rating but no steady-ing device type thing. haha

the full picture

http://sphotos.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/s720x720/532156_10151073411714467_1567163164_n.jpg

4 characters

http://sphotos.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-snc7/s720x720/602261_10151073411769467_53305896_n.jpg

stabby chosen and nurgle raptors

http://sphotos.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/s720x720/556391_10151073411824467_325915323_n.jpg

staby chosen lascannons and some of the bezerkers

http://sphotos.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/s720x720/376247_10151073411874467_995777524_n.jpg

the rest of the bezerkers, the havocs again and the shooty chosen

http://sphotos.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/s720x720/553167_10151073411929467_1464842898_n.jpg

khorne bezerkers

http://sphotos.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/s720x720/388988_10151073412049467_2115749810_n.jpg

 

im off to take pictures of my next vow! this one is from chaos demons codex.

I, steve shields, answer the challenge of the Unforgiven and vow to complete 7 nurgle demon princes, 1 mammon demon prince, and one bloodthirster from Codex: Chaosdemons of total value 1855 points on or before August 15. Success will bring eternal glory to the Iron Hounds and failure will doom me to bear the sign of damnation until the year-end.

 

7 nurgle princes

wings

iron hide

nurgle

1400

 

mammon

185

 

blood thirster

death strike

270

 

 

demons!!!! (the purple ones are gonna get primed black so they are not really started yet)

http://sphotos.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/252616_10151073435014467_1496153778_n.jpg

In what will likely be my last vow, I will up the ante once more. This time with a blaze of glory (compared to my current vow values).

 

1 chaos sorc in terminator armor, familiar, mot

1 term cham 2x lightning claw

3 term chainfist, chainfist, combi, combi

1 landraider with pintle bolter

 

totaling 605 points

http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u75/bloodlife72/105_7437.jpg

Guys that's fantastic! You know what? CHAOS IS NOW LEADING THE ETL!!! :) It's true - well done!

 

@ Steve: you've painted so far stuff that others (me included) will take years to paint! Bravo! Now regarding your new vow, make sure you represent the iron hide somehow. Add metallic to your paint job would be enough but it's up to you - I just need to see justigfication to award the points. Also (since I'm on holdays and therefore away from my personal black library) could you remind me what is the deathstrike? Remember only items that can be physically represnted somehow wiil earn you points.

 

@ zyl-: This is some Slaaneshi Deamon Prince alright! ;) Good luck with your termies - judging from your work so far, I just can't wait! ;)

hey captain semper could you add me one finished vow dp nurgle plus wings

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y30/daemonclaw/DSCN8048.jpg

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y30/daemonclaw/DSCN8049.jpg

thinking of another vow though nowhere near the steve shields (i'll win the competition on my own :lol: )damn man you are a painting machine

OK, my vow is nearly done, I just need everyone's advice on one last detail.

 

I've gotten this far, but I have NO idea what colour to make my Tzeentch Sorceress' hair! (Other suggestions: one for 'blonde', one for 'green with blonde and black streaks').

 

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v205/KaguraHakubi/IK%20and%2040K/My%20Projects/AeroComp.jpg

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