ETL VII +++Space Marines Outpost+++

[Burni]

Yep total failure for me. Enjoyed painting my AdMech last year and titans earlier this year so thought it would be easy to translate that to Primaris. But I discovered I don’t enjoy painting SM and since my hobby time it limited, I decided to focus on stuff I do enjoy (painted 8 AT knights,various AT weapons and my AT scenery during this ETL...). Great work by everyone who did complete, some impressive work all around and sorry for letting the side down!! Will wear my cone of shame without complaint.

[Oxydo]

I, Oxydo, rise to the challenge of E TENEBRAE LUX on the side of the Adeptus Astartes and vow to complete one 10 man Reiver Squad with Grapnel Launchers and one Primaris Ancient for a total value of 269 points on or before September 1st, 2019. Success will bring me eternal glory and failure will doom me to wear the Badge of the Oathbreaker until the year-end.

 

 

First and only vow complete. 10 Reivers with grapnel launchers and 1 Primaris Ancient. Don't mind the grav fins, since I forgot actually add them to my vow in the first place.
 

 

Still need to varnish them some more before I can play with them, but I ran out and the swedish postal system is currently  awful so my order hasn't arrived yet.  

 

[Captain Semper]

They look magnificent Oxydo! :o Wow! 

 

Congratulations for your completion! 

 

UPDATED TO THIS POINT!

[Halandaar]

The Chaos Marines forum have now pulled ahead of us, so now is the time for some last minute completions!

 

Edit: And actually, DAs have moved ahead of us as well, but it is still so close. We still have enough (even discounting the Fraters who've already said they won't finish) that we can win the ETL. If you're still painting, KEEP GOING!

[Ultrad81]

Phew. Vow completed.

[Captain Semper]

These are amazing Ultrad81! Well done sir!

 

UPDATED TO THIS POINT!

[Toxichobbit]

Picture time! Also, vow complete.

Another angle.

And for completeness sake, the ones from earlier in the thread.

[War Angel]

Good job on these last minute completions. I’m especially proud that everyone who made more than one vow finished everything.

 

For everyone who had RL get in the way, sorry to hear about that. Might I suggest in the future only putting a squad on the table at a time. It’s alot harder for RL to stop you from painting a model than it is for it to stop you from painting an army.

[Captain Semper]

3HRS TO GO!

[Captain Semper]

Beautiful completion there Toxichobbit - great work on the tone of blue and a very clean job overall! :tu:

 

UPDATED TO THIS POINT!

[Halandaar]

It's still so close, even with just 20 minutes to go...

[Captain Semper]

Actually, about an hour... GMT and UK time have an hour difference during summer... ;)

[Malus Trux]

Sadly, due to unforseen events I won't be able to complete my vow this year. It was fun and a good motivator so I don't regret participating, only being unable to finish. Well done to all my frater who were.

[Captain Semper]

ETL VII IS OFFICIALLY OVER!

NO NEW COMPLETIONS WILL BE ACCEPTED PAST THIS POINT!

 

That was the most SAVAGE ETL that I can remember!!! 
 
Now I will go through all the Outposts to make a LAST UPDATE later toady. After that, I need to compile the results and present them in a meaningful manner in the Final Report. This will come in a couple of days along with the relevant badges. 
 
What I need is, after the LAST UPDATE, for each participant to check his/her status in the first page of his/her Outpost and notify me if there is something amiss so I can correct it. Do that publicly in the Outposts as my inbox is filled and I have no time to clean it up. 
 
Once you check your status lay back and wait for the final report. If you have any questions feel free to raise them. You can freely discuss the event in your Outpost, post pics of your vows and generally have a great and relaxed time until the Final Report. 
 
Congratulations to all!

[Eberious]

It's a coming just uploading pics, although the banner isn't fully finished but I'm going to post it anyways for now. Not sure if accepted or not, buut as it's non scoring?  ;)  

 

boo.   sulks in Black Templar   

 

 

 

many thank Ctp.Semper

 

 

 

cheers

[Captain Semper]

I'm accepting this as it was a same second thing. Just edit the pics above!!!

[Captain Semper]

FINAL UPDATE

Please check your entries to make sure things are as they should.

[Toxichobbit]

I'm accepting this as it was a same second thing. Just edit the pics above!!!

 

Such a gentleman.

 

Ty for running the event. It was a blast, as always.

[Marshal Reinhard]

*snip*

There's a saying in my language that'd be loosely translated as "When you're waiting for something good, you can never wait too long"... guess the english equivalent is "good things happen to those who wait" ? 

 

Both apply here.

[Jerethdatiger]

I really had fun

[Halandaar]

Well, I definitely can't remember an ETL being such a close race between multiple different forums, all of whom could have won it at the end! While obviously we'll need to wait for Semper's final verdict, I'm reasonably confident I know who the winning forum was, and it sadly wasn't us; we just didn't get the big last-minute completion that we needed, although we had seven different outstanding vows that were big enough to have won the event single-handed if they had been finished, that's how close it was!

Looking through some of the other forum Outposts, they are a lot more proactive about pushing each other on and chasing up outstanding vows, and also running additional events to boost participation. Maybe we suffer a little bit from not having that kind of thing going on much in our forum, although I'm always wary of being pushy with people in their hobby time, which is supposed to be fun!

For myself, I wish I'd gotten a bit more done in July and given myself more time for my fifth vow. I had another ~1000 points worth of models I could have vowed but opted to play it safe with just over a week to go, and not risk losing the 5.5k points I'd already done. That feels bad because those extra models might well have been enough for us to win the whole thing! Victory wouldn't normally be a concern for me (it's mostly just the motivational aspect), but coming so close certainly fired up my competitive side!

But lets end on a positive; assuming my maths is right, I'm pretty sure that we've just recorded the highest ever completion rate by the Space Marines forum in any ETL to date, and that is pretty amazing. Great job everybody!

FINAL UPDATE

Please check your entries to make sure things are as they should.

To Captain Semper; thank you once again for running such a fun and inspiring event. ETL is the highlight of my hobby year and I get more done in these 3 months than I do in the entire rest of the year. So cheers to you!

[Eberious]

Was good to get in there just in time, last few years I've been lacking/failed to meet the deadline. While I didn't get much done, every little helps.  

[longjohnsilver]

Penance will be made.

 

Chaplain Issidorus of 39th Millenium hears your vow, brother.

 

As you can see here with the paintbrush shall we fight against the horde of plastic grey (or other colour) unfinished models!

[Captain Semper]

ETL VII FINAL REPORT IS HERE

[Brother Casman]

Excellent ETL, as always Captain! I was quite impressed to see the level of completions that we had this time around - all those "100% complete" blew me away.