5-Day Painting Challenge

[Eric Farrington]

Greetings all,

In preparation for an upcoming Kill Team narrative campaign, I have given myself a bit of a challenge. I decided to paint a box of Sisters of Battle for my Kill Team, and I have given myself 5 days complete it. The Campaign begins this Saturday.



You can read all the gory details on why I did this to myself, about the list I chose, why I chose it, and a bit about the campaign on my Blood and Spectacles blog here:

bloodandspectacles.blogspot.com/2024/01/on-painting-desk-5-day-challenge.html

I will be trying to "live" blog as I go on this one.

The key thing is that I intend to build, prime, paint, and detail all in 5-days for a 10 Sister roster. Do you think I can do it? I am not sure, as I still have all my normal life activities to attend to as well. No sitting around and working on this for hours at a time! Wish me luck!

[Eric Farrington]

Day 1 is done and everything is assembled with a basic Grey Seer primer.



You can read all the details and see some more photos on the blog if you are so inclined.

bloodandspectacles.blogspot.com/2024/01/on-painting-desk-5-day-challenge-day-1.html

Tomorrow I hope to finish priming with a dark grey wash and dry brush of white. Maybe I can even decide on a color scheme by then?

[Eric Farrington]

Okay, Day 3 is done and I got a lot more paint on the models but they still don't look like much at this point......



That white armor is just not working! I should have used my trusty "Palid Bone" but that has a bit more of a yellowish look to it than I wanted. This is looking more grey, and after I give it a light wash.... who knows?

Anyway, the main colors are done on all the Sisters and I even did a bit of work on the Icon.

Tomorrow, it is on to detail work. Might have to do small batches at a time to avoid missing anything. We'll see.

You can follow along on the blog:
bloodandspectacles.blogspot.com/2024/01/on-painting-desk-5-day-painting.html

[Eric Farrington]

I just finished off Day 4, and detailing has begun...



Sadly, I did not finish all the detailing I wanted so that will push me back into Day 5. There is a lot to do on this final day of the challenge!

You can see more photos and my idle chatter on the blog:
bloodandspectacles.blogspot.com/2024/02/on-painting-desk-5-day-challenge-day-4.html

[Eric Farrington]

Today is the 5th day. Was is mission accomplished or mission failure?

Going into the last day I had to finish up some detail work, wash, base, and varnish. Tomorrow was time to start playing games with these models.



You can see more photos, final progress shots, and the final pass/fail on the blog:
bloodandspectacles.blogspot.com/2024/02/om-painting-desk-5-day-challenge-day-5.html

[Eric Farrington]

Well, the first day of the campaign is over.



Despite the photo, the Order of St. Augustine Martyred did not get to hit the table! I was paired up with an Imperial player, so the Hand of the Archon got the nod.

You can see some more photos and some final thoughts on the 5-day challenge here:
bloodandspectacles.blogspot.com/2024/02/5-day-challenge-epilogue.html

Thanks for all the support and well-wishes. I think I might try something like this again when my Chaos Guard show up.