The Mountain!

 

It is done!

 

 

The 'Great' mountain build of 2022 part 3 the end

Post 13 now up

 

 

HERE is my last post to the XII Analogue Painting Challenge. I am of two minds about the end of this event. I really have got a lot of stuff done (I still have far too much to be done) but at the same time I am beat. I certainly was running on empty for the last couple of weeks, I was loosing my focus, getting distracted and procrastinating. Many old bad habits were returning. 

In fact if I had not so publicly accepted the challenge to build the mountain I would never have done it, I would have simply sloughed it off, as I did so many other things.. I had hoped to paint a collection of figures to go with the mountain, but I just could not make it happen. My biggest fear right now is that I slip back into my old ways and loose my painting drive. However, I need a break. I need to clean up my room, put away some toys so that I can get back to painting. Without the self imposed weekly deadline and my compulsion to get as much done as I can in the 12-13 weeks of the challenge I can hopefully quickly rebuild my work area.  

The irony about my results in the Analogue challenge is that even though I was able to get so much done, score so many more points than I expected, I still failed to finish off everything that I had hoped to finish. I am sort of impressed with my production speed. I was asked about that and while I gave an answer, the actual answer is a bit more complex. 

I was able to do the output because:

1.  I am retired
2. I found time every day (at least at the start) to paint
3. I am a basic painter, I do not do fancy stuff
4. I do not know how to paint the way the pros do, so what I do is simple
5. I only paint to table top levels
6. The challenge made me paint more stuff.
7. Success bred success, once I saw I could do stuff I wanted to do more
   

I used my competitive nature and the resulting points from the challenge as a tool. The more I painted the more points I got, the higher in the point standing. In the end though I do not care about the points I care about how much stuff is now completed. I compare this to squash. I cannot simply rally when I play squash, I will not give it my all, I will not throw myself against the wall or skid across tha floor on my bear legs. But play a game, keep track of the score, then I will launch myself into the game, often shedding blood. But even then I rely on my opponent to keep track of the score, and win or lose after the game is done the score is forgotten as we are on to the next game. It is the competition of the moment that drives me forward, and that applied to the Analogue challenge. Ultimately the points meant nothing except so far as they translate into the completion of projects!

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The 'Great' mountain build of 2022 part 2

 

 

 

My penultimate post has been added to the Analogue Painting Challenge

 

 

Click HERE  to be taken away from here to my 12th post to the challenge. A modest post, compared to some of my previous posts (average post is about 475 points), but one that was a struggle. We were in a free week, that is the set posting day was no longer in effect therefore we could post any day. As a result with no set time limit I just did not feel the pressure to get the project done. Somehow I did get a lot of it done, but I failed to finish off the Gypsy caravans[2 of them]. Maybe I will find the time before Sunday, but I doubt it...

I am happy to have some more figures finished, including my Zendarians long overdue. Also up until now my five hunter figures were doing double duty as Gypsies, now I have 22 Gypsies done, including a nice music section.

 

The 'great' mountain build of 2022 part 1

 Being a chronicle of the building of 

two quarter mountain boards

 and 

two lowland boards.

For no good reason I have decided to build an arctic(?) mountain board comprising of  four 2' by 2' styrofoam boards two of which will each have a 1/4 part of a mountain. Each mountain will be vaguely triangular, about 18" by 18" by 25". They will rise to a height of about 16-18 inches. Beyond that there is no real plan of attack. I know I want to incorporate some Woodland Scenics rock faces in the build and I want some climbable terrain be it paths or protruding rocks or both. But how they will wind up looking will be anyone's guess.

The final result will first be posted on the Analogue painting challenge site. I suspect this will likely be the last thing I do for this years challenge which will end on March 20th. While Tuesday is my normal posting day we the challenge has shifted to a post something any day mode, so while I ideally will have this done by this Tuesday, if it does not happen I will still have a few days left to get it done before the challenge ends.

 

I may wind up painting some more stuff for this Tuesday just to hedge my bets should this not get done in time. 

 

 

 

 

Post 11 is now up on the Analogue Challenge site

 

 

Featuring Space 1889 goodness and evilness...

Click HERE to get transported to the challenge.

The challenge is winding down and will come to an end on March 20th at midnight. I will have mixed feelings about this, mostly sadness as it has been the most productive time that I have ever experienced. Disappointment too because of the things that I wanted to paint that just never made it to the hobby table. Relief, as the self inflicted pressure that I have been under will be over but concern over the all too likely return of my normal inert, drowning in procrastination self. 

I do look forward to cleaning up the mess that I have made of my room and shifting the items that have overflowed into the non gaming room back where it all belongs. It will be nice not to have that Tuesday deadline, but I will have to come up with some system to replace the challenge. I really am happy that I have been able to do so much in three months and I want to keep that going. The possible return to gaming would certainly help keep my motivation going. 

I also look forward to finishing off some projects that I had started before the challenge started and were thus not eligible for the challenge. Some of those projects just need a few touch ups to be done. So hopefully we will soon see all my Pulp cops and Japanese naval troops done in early April.

I think I will try to maintain the, more or less, nightly painting that I have become accustomed to. From roughly 10pm to midnight works out fine for painting. I also want to stop the analysis paralysis that seems to grip me when I try to tackle build projects or really any projects be they scenery or figures. I have been very successful when a deadline looms over me, when the pressure is beating down on me I can get things done. No thought just get it done before Tuesday! This works well on certain levels but can leave some details off the project. Maybe I can incorporate the just get it done model and combine it with a post project review for any detail work.  The key being to not think but to act.

 

We shall see.  

SUPERS!

 Most of these are from Old Glory unless otherwise noted. Fun stuff to paint and the nature of the models encouraged bright bold colours.

Reaper bones

 

 

Plasitmen

Post number 10 now up

 

Click HERE to go to post number 10, Return to the Planet of the Apes! The pictures in the previous post will give you a taste of what you will see!

This is killing me. As of the night before this post went up, the grass had not been laid, the bridge had not been painted nor had the big square building. I also had to do the sidewalks today, grass up the apes and check them over for any final touch ups and there were plenty of touch ups to be done!

Planet of the Apes game board, it got bigger!

 

 2' x 2' just seemed to tight, so I added on an extra 5 square feet taking the board to 3' by 3'. Tougher to store, but better to play on. Mos items work out to be scatter terrain so I can store this thing in the garage while the bits and bobs can be stored in a box inside.

The fencing is easily removed/added as each section has long pins that easily slide into styrofoam. I am going to fix up the domed building making the dome more central.