EmperorNorton's Overabundance of Projects

[EmperorNorton]

Did you get that from the kickstarter, EmperorNorton? And if so, where's the metal vampiress?

The metal vampiress was not included and I'm not even sure that I'll get one. She wasn't part of my original pledge and there was some confusion about whether she would be among the extras for those having pledged more than $225.

The SDE dragons look good EN. I was sooooo tempted to buy SDE when it was on 50% off the other week at the warstore... still, glad to see your KoW rules (and any plastic armies) from the KickStarter has arrived - still waitingfor mine, not too bothered though as I have a tonne (no far off reality) ofstuff still to paint...

No plastic armies for me. I went in with the intention of getting some more Abyssal Dwarfs, but I ended up ordering loads of Celestians, which will come next year.
It's not like I am in danger of running out of things to paint in the meantime...

Considering I declared this month Goblin Month there has been a distinct lack of goblins so far. Let's remedy that:



So thirty more Night Goblins with spears. Not bad, but a bit underwhelming for Goblin Month.
So I started preliminary work on some more:


And some more:


And some more:


And then I posted it to the internet in the hopes of getting encouraging comments.

The army as it stands so far:

[shelfunit.]

Nice - something very Harry-esque with all the wolves in progress there EN, never a bad comparison

[nedsta]

I want to paint all my night gobbos now great work as usual EN

[HereBeDragons]

Nor that is an impressive mass of stuff to have on the go at once! Good luck...

[Lord Dan]

Man, you get all the cool nicknames. Nor is definitely my favorite so far. Is your name actually Norton, by the way?

Love seeing the tide of green expand further. You've got some great fanatic models there, and the colors you've chosen for your squigs look promising. After this next batch it looks like you'll have enough models to start playing some games!

...if, you know. You ever get around to playing some games.

[Little Joe]

The green tide is becoming just that, you seem to have collected some of the nicer additions such as the Gamezone fanatics and various old metal ones from GW. This must have been planned in some way?

Besides this month is just half through and you cannot expect everything done at the beginning. Looking forward to more of this madness.

[EmperorNorton]

Nice - something very Harry-esque with all the wolves in progress there EN, never a bad comparison

Not bad at all, I just don't think I have the necessary follow through at the moment.

I want to paint all my night gobbos now great work as usual EN

Do that then!

Nor that is an impressive mass of stuff to have on the go at once! Good luck...

It's more depressing than impressive, really.

Man, you get all the cool nicknames. Nor is definitely my favorite so far. Is your name actually Norton, by the way?

No.
In case anybody is wondering, my handle refers to this remarkable man.

Love seeing the tide of green expand further. You've got some great fanatic models there, and the colors you've chosen for your squigs look promising. After this next batch it looks like you'll have enough models to start playing some games!

...if, you know. You ever get around to playing some games.

Which continues to be unlikely.
I've been meaning to sign up for this forum of gamers in my area for weeks, but I somehow never get around to it.

The green tide is becoming just that, you seem to have collected some of the nicer additions such as the Gamezone fanatics and various old metal ones from GW. This must have been planned in some way?

Besides this month is just half through and you cannot expect everything done at the beginning. Looking forward to more of this madness.

Planned? No, not in any way that goes beyond me thinking "Hey that looks cool, I want one of those." I'm a little sad I only have two variants of the GW metal fanatics. I am positive that I had more, but I traded some away. I'll have to remedy that at some point.

With the month halfway over I am nowhere near I had hoped I would be. Things are going a lot more slowly than I had wanted.
It doesn't help that summer seems to be back with a vengeance and I can only brave the attic in the early hours of the morning, which I should spend doing something more productive.
Anyway, some more finished Gobbos:



So that brings the number up to 50 for this month and 120 overall.
Regrettably that is a mere 545 points.
But at least that's 545 points of core troops, so I can do something less repetitive now.
I'll do character models next, then probably switch over to the Malifaux Gremlins and maybe some Special and Rare units after that if time allows. And somewhere in between I have to finish the dragon for Super Dungeon Explore, but that shouldn't take too long.

[DAGabriel]

I am confounded by your productivity and quality, I am still working at putting together my 6 K`daii and see no end cause I can`t find more than 5-15 min per day. Oh well, weekend is coming.

[Killshot]

Those goblins are looking fantastic. Not sure I could do that many without going insane!!

[wikear]

pretty cool man! the fanatics look awesome :P

[EmperorNorton]

I am confounded by your productivity and quality, I am still working at putting together my 6 K`daii and see no end cause I can`t find more than 5-15 min per day. Oh well, weekend is coming.

I expect to see results by Monday!

Those goblins are looking fantastic. Not sure I could do that many without going insane!!

Not sure I could, either.

pretty cool man! the fanatics look awesome :P

Thanks.

No Gobbos today, but the end of a project:




And the complete Super Dungeon Explore in (totally fake) action:


So this is what it feels like to completely finish a painting project.
It's a nice feeling.

[deathskullork]

congrats on finishing your super dungeon explore you should be rightly proud it looks fantastic.

[basher]

congratulations on finnishing a project mate

[HereBeDragons]

Nice one! Great work finishing it. I really love that game, having finally played it recently. I may have to get a copy myself. I hope completing your project can encourage you to finish your next one!

[EmperorNorton]

congrats on finishing your super dungeon explore you should be rightly proud it looks fantastic.

Thanks, I am a bit proud.

congratulations on finnishing a project mate

Thank you!

Nice one! Great work finishing it. I really love that game, having finally played it recently. I may have to get a copy myself. I hope completing your project can encourage you to finish your next one!

Ah, the problem with that is that my other projects are not as clearly defined. I think it's only theoretically possible for me to finish my Night Goblins, for example.

Speaking of which, Night Goblin on Giant Squig, the one that somehow inspired me to work on these in the first place:


I think he looks better in person, the picture is too bright and drowns out some of the highlights.
I am wondering what I should add to the base to make it look less empty. This has bothered me slightly with the regular Gobbos, but it's much more apparent here. Just some static grass?

Since it's going to be the hottest weekend in the history of forever that will be the last bit of painting for a couple of days at least. The attic will be like an oven...

Another thing I've been meaning to show is the one mini I bought this month (so far...), Irene Vioque from Tercio Creativo:


I was surprised because I expected it to be metal, but it seems to be some kind of plastic. The detail looks great, though, although the face might be a little washed out. Maybe it's just the colour that is misleading though; I'll find out after undercoating.
Again, here is their indiegogo campaign. Everybody go and throw some money at them! I'd hate to see them not reach their goal of a mere $8000 while other companies don't have a problem collecting a hundred times that amount.

[HereBeDragons]

Ah, the problem with that is that my other projects are not as clearly defined. I think it's only theoretically possible for me to finish my Night Goblins, for example.

Yes, thats always a major problem when the project doesn't come in one box. It is hard not to add more stuff to it! Surely if you painted all the night goblins you own they must be complete? Although that might be the impractical part

[shelfunit.]

Looking at another pic on the web of her face.....

...it looks to probably be ok - I think the angle of your photo and the lack of shadows on the material don't help her.

[Tonny]

The goblins are fantastic! Congrats on painting so many of them. Quite an effort!

[DAGabriel]

I expect to see results by Monday!

Sorry, no real results since I had to sort through my new reinforcement (pics at my plog). But I assembled the K´daii and started on the basing, the ranking up doesn`t seem to make as much problems as i feared. Think they will make a team for BSL over at CDO.

[leonmallett]

The SDE stuff on the board there looks great.