Dawnstar's (Long Overdue) Pre-Codex Odd Jobs

[Commander Dawnstar]

Four-and-a-half years ago during ETL VII I was possessed by some rogue spirit of productivity and managed to knock out 4,000 points of T'au in three months ... and I've barely painted anything since, let alone with real consistency. I still had a fair amount of models left to do at the end of that run, some of them already part underway, but they've all been lying around for the last couple of years just waiting for the stars to align. I wouldn't say now is that time, but I'd certainly like to get all that stuff sorted and prove to myself that I can stick to a painting project again.

 

So I'm challenging myself, as a no-stakes vow, to get through these thirteen Crisis Suits* to my tabletop standard before the new Codex drops - the public release, not the limited edition with the Kroot. Not for any particular reason (I don't actively play the game) but just for the sake of an arbitrary deadline. Maybe I'll get back into things if I actually have a finished army: who knows!

 

*There aren't any weapons in the pictures but I'll be doing those too of course.

 

 

I have some other things beyond this (three unbuilt Crisis Suits, a few characters on foot, Shadowsun 2.0) but I'm not going to worry about any of that for now. They can be stretch goals in the event that I somehow manage to pull this off.

Edited March 16 by Commander Dawnstar

[Lord Blackwood]

You  got this!  Lets goooooo productivity!  

[MithrilForge]

May you get those suits done “For the Greater Good” !!  
Still if  you can burn through 4,000 pts in 3 months I think you’ve got a better than average chance of nailing this … 

Time for you to go all Mont’Ka on this 

 

good luck ! 
 

M. 

[The Pounder]

Hell of a lot of Suits there!

 

I too set myself deadlines to keep me motivated.

 

Looking forward to seeing your paint scheme.

[Commander Dawnstar]

Thanks for the encouragement everyone.

 

12 hours ago, MithrilForge said:

Still if  you can burn through 4,000 pts in 3 months I think you’ve got a better than average chance of nailing this …

 

You inspired me to check up how much that force would come to in 10th and going off pre-Codex values it looks like it's dropped to a mere 2,005 points. It doesn't sound quite so impressive when you put it like that XD

[Commander Dawnstar]

So ... much-belated project update:

 

Obviously I missed my target, but given that I had zero stakes riding on that I don't feel too bad about it. I've been going through it in a bunch of different ways for the last while, and taking on this undertaking has been a bit of an exercise in helping myself wrap my brain around things like time management and just generally staying on task. It's gone far from perfectly (for many, many reasons I won't get into) but I have at least got some things done.

 

As I write this I'm ... probably something like halfway done (?). It's a lot of laborious repetitive work that really doesn't actually show much in the way of results.

 

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At the moment everything looks more or less like this, which represents filling in all the black, cleaning that up across multiple coats of the blue and most recently getting the recess shading in and applying a second round of that in the places I want to emphasise. Naturally that's also going to need two-ish coats to clean up too. Really the whole thing's a very messy job redeemed by gong back to fix things time and again.

 

I'll get it all done eventually anyway.

 

Edited May 18 by Commander Dawnstar

[MithrilForge]

Technically you haven’t failed …in Australia  (the codex has not been released here officially) 

I see the work you’re putting in and yes it’s tedious and labour intensive but it’s coming along  you do have a lot of them so hats off to you for this epic task !! Look forward to seeing them done !!.

Cheers, Mithril 

[The Pounder]

Progress is progress!

 

All projects can be a bit of a slog at points.

 

The main thing is to keep going, the great thing about our hobby is that there’s always an end product!

 

Keep going and you’ll soon have a force you can be proud of!