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Cool. Glad I have some fellow slackers along for the ride!

Druzhag wrote:

what about broke people (like me) who don't buy miniatures for months at a time. painting 5 miniatures or more and getting the max points points per month seems unfair to the people who get miniatures all the time. Just seems kind of unfair in my opinion. you could add a rule so that anyone who doesn't buy miniatures is penalized by only getting a maximum of lower maximum points a month

I don't think that's unfair. If the point is to reduce the size of your backlog then I would say that you are doing exactly that, even if you don't purchase any minis that month. If you guys think we should have a penalty, we could divide the points by half, but I really don't think it's necessary. This is primarily just a fun way to motivate us to paint!

Author:	Erunion [ Mon Jan 27, 2014 3:43 pm ]
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I'll take some pics when I get home from work this evening. Unfortunately, I don't have any of the Dwarves. These were my first Red Box minis, and I am very impressed with the quality of the sculpts and casts. All of the minis that I bought were made for much smaller bases, so they tend to be narrow and tall, but they fit with what I'm going for. The features are much finer compared to GW's exaggerated style. They're all assembled but still just bare metal for now. It's been too cold/wet to undercoat anything. I'll post the pics over in the Alternative Miniatures Thread

Author:	SidTheSloth [ Mon Jan 27, 2014 4:01 pm ]
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Erunion wrote: I'll take some pics when I get home from work this evening.... So do we need pictorial proof of our painting?

Author:	mertaal [ Mon Jan 27, 2014 4:21 pm ]
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No no, he's just answering a request I had to see the scale of Red Box minis.

Author:	SidTheSloth [ Mon Jan 27, 2014 4:29 pm ]
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Oh I see... I missed that

Author:	Lord Hurin [ Tue Jan 28, 2014 10:38 am ]
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Ok, am managing to get some painting done this morning before work. Should have 20 more Goblins done before Saturday!

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Author:	Lord Hurin [ Wed Jan 29, 2014 5:41 am ]
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I'm going backwards and filling my backlog even more! Today I picked up the following off Kijiji, paid $100 for the lot: -Fellowship of The Ring starter minus the rulebook, which I have (24 Moria Goblins, 16 High Elves and 8 Numenoreans.) -Sauron metal box still shrink wrapped -Heroes of Helm's Deep box still shrink wrapped -Glorfindel foot & mounted blister -Elladan and Elrohir blister -Isildur blister -Fellowship Arwen blister -Dwarf Kings blister -Bilbo Baggins blister -Mounted Boromir blister -Cave Troll with spear blister Pretty good haul for the price. I'll need to kick it into high gear to get these completed.

Author:	Erunion [ Wed Jan 29, 2014 4:42 pm ]
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Only a couple more days to finish up this month's minis. Get those brushes going, folks!

Author:	Galadrin [ Wed Jan 29, 2014 9:13 pm ]
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Gah 2 days to go! Time to put the foot down and tell the wife to stop giving me more chores, I have more important work to do!

Author:	Reto [ Wed Jan 29, 2014 10:37 pm ]
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Backlog Reduction Oath Monthly Report Miniatures Bought: 12 Morannon orcs 1 Thrain the broken 1 Witchking on horseback 1 Golden King of Harad 1 Shadowlord on foot 1 Shadowlord Mounted 1 Uruk-hai banner 1 Shagrad, Warleader of Cirith Ungol Miniatures Painted: 6 Knights of Minas Tirith 13 Warriors of Minas Tirith 1 Nazgul on Fellbeast 1 Bombur 4 Uruk-hai Berserkers 5 Warriors of the dead 12 Rangers of Gondor

Author:	WhoelsebutHaldir [ Thu Jan 30, 2014 3:39 am ]
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Backlog reduction oath monthly report: Bought: -Grimbold -Erestor Painted: -3 Galadhrim -7 palace guards -6 mirkwood rangers I haven't done any yet this week

Author:	Harfoot [ Thu Jan 30, 2014 8:47 pm ]
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Question, is it only lotr/Hobbit figures that count? Reason being 44 Finnish WW2 figures have just been delivered from a kick starter I did last year!

Author:	Galadrin [ Thu Jan 30, 2014 9:18 pm ]
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Backlog Reduction Oath Monthly Report Miniatures Bought: Sauron (Large 4 pts) 3 Mounted Ringwraiths (Mounted 2 ea. Total 6pts) 4 Uruk-Hai (4 pts) 1 Goblin (1 pt) TOTAL: 15 Miniatures Painted: 24 Warriors of Minas Tirith (24 pts) (Just got them finished off this monring before coming into work!) phew

Author:	Erunion [ Fri Jan 31, 2014 2:16 am ]
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Harfoot wrote: Question, is it only lotr/Hobbit figures that count? Reason being 44 Finnish WW2 figures have just been delivered from a kick starter I did last year! I guess it just depends on what you want to do. If you consider all of your minis to be one big project then lump it all in. You would need to help figure out what minis count for, if you use other manufacturers.

Author:	Galadrin [ Fri Jan 31, 2014 3:45 am ]
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Erunion wrote: Cool. Glad I have some fellow slackers along for the ride! Druzhag wrote: what about broke people (like me) who don't buy miniatures for months at a time. painting 5 miniatures or more and getting the max points points per month seems unfair to the people who get miniatures all the time. Just seems kind of unfair in my opinion. you could add a rule so that anyone who doesn't buy miniatures is penalized by only getting a maximum of lower maximum points a month I don't think that's unfair. If the point is to reduce the size of your backlog then I would say that you are doing exactly that, even if you don't purchase any minis that month. If you guys think we should have a penalty, we could divide the points by half, but I really don't think it's necessary. This is primarily just a fun way to motivate us to paint! How about for those who purchase no miniatures for the month (such as me for next month as I am now broke ) have a target set of say 4 Models, and can work out their points based on that? It gives a good incentive for getting lots painted while keeping things fairer for those concerned about the "competition" portion of the oath.

Author:	Lord Hurin [ Fri Jan 31, 2014 1:01 pm ]
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Backlog Reduction Oath Monthly Report Miniatures Bought: []12 Grimhammers []24 Moria Goblins []16 High Elves []8 Numenoreans []Sauron (=6 models) []Cave Troll (=3 models) []2 Dwarf Kings []Boromir on horseback (=2 models) []Arwen []Elladan and Elrohir (2 models) []Glorfindel ft. & mtd (=3 models) []Bilbo Baggins []Heroes of Helm's Deep (8 models) []Isildur So I bought 89 minis! Far more than I was intending, but I got an amazing Kijiji deal and scored everything except the Grimhammers for $100! I calculated it out to be roughly $400 worth at retail, so I'm pleased. Miniatures Painted: []Thorin Oakenshield []12 Erebor Dwarves []2 Moria Goblin Captains []Gundabad Blackshield Drummer (2 models) []29 Moria Goblins []2 Dwarf Kings For a grand total of 48 painted. If I can keep up that speed and keep down the purchases, I'll make good headway. Better keep away from the dreaded Kijiji and Craigslist!

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