A Bearded Newbie

Ok, so I played an impromptu game that was planned on Thursday, set up on Friday, 'cause we had the time, and played on Saturday afternoon. As it was played in the garage that is unfinished (common in Southern California)so there is no insulation nor air conditioning: the 95 degree weather was the third opponent. Heat aside, I was able to pull of another win. yay. My buddy King used a strange list that included 4 squads of terminators for a total of 22 of them. The set up: We played full ITC mission Seize Ground with secondaries. I picked Marked for death, and chose his termie squads, Recon, and Behind Enemy Lines. He chose Reaper (smart), engineers (gutsy) and Old School (easy). I actually deployed faster, so when both rolled 3's for 1st turn decision having that plus one allowed me to choose first turn. Turn one: His set up was lopsided so I focused on the weaker side for easy kills. The deployed shokk attack and battle wagon did some damage on a berserker squad wipi...

This is it. This is all I have left. 11 miniatures. Really, 10 nobs and a grot oiler. That is all I have left to paint for the tournament.  I feel pretty accomplished with this, but not as much as I thought I would. This is a bit discouraging, but not much. I thought I'd feel better, and I am not sure why. Maybe it is that I know I still have more to paint. Maybe it is that I have painted to a level that is six check marks on the ITC Hobby Track Painting Rubric, and no display board. I just saw that rubric last week and it is a bit discouraging to not be at least half the standard. Especially with the amount of work I've put in. I'd like to see something that says,"If there is more that 40 models, if there is more than 80 models, if there is more than 120 models..." I'd make the argument that having a bigger army fully painted is harder that a smaller one. Nids, IG, Orks should automatically get more points! This is pretty good that this much painted, 125...

Ok, so I found another tournament to play in. It is closer and cheaper, so that is a win. I figured out my tourney army, but still need to play it more. The tournament is full ITC load out, including a chess clock set up. it is the The tournament list. 44 models, 4 weeks Things I am worried about: 1. Getting my army painted. This is a dozy as my army is approaching 125 models. 2. Transporting my army. Since I have games at my house, I don't move them much, so I am not used to it. 3. Chess clock. I am lucky if I can get a game done in less that four hours, much less three, and I am usually not very lucky. First, I have the summer off and I am trying to paint about five days a week. I am actually getting in to it a bit. I try to do the drudgery work, like painting shoota and storm boys with the fun stuff like painting the battle wagons or the jets. Also, I am trying out new stuff with the airbrush. For the storm boys I primed black, did a zenithal with white, then spra...