Well it\’s said that no plan survives first contact with the enemy and I think that is most definitely the case here. A perfect storm of an unexpected work contract and unbearably hot weather have resulted in my totally stalling in progress with these models. In addition to that – I picked up the new Traitor Command set on release adding two more models to the backlog!
I updated my plan about a week ago with the current progress and little has been made since. The current situation is:
Completed:
Ur Ghuls (25mm)
Spindle Drones (25mm)
Bore Wyrms (25mm)
Ambull (50mm)
Traitor Guard (25mm)
Chaos Beastmen (32mm)
Chaos Ogryn (40mm)
Still to be done: (original dates)
Pious, Taddeus, Janus (32mm): July 12th-14th
Rogue Psykers (32mm): July 15th
Rein and Raus (25mm): July 16th
Negavolt Cultists (32mm): July 17th
Obsidius Mallex (40mm): July 18th
Chaos Space Marines (32mm): July 19th
UR-025 (32mm): July 20th
Dahyak (32mm): July 21st
Amallyn (32mm): July 23rd
Esperon (32mm): July 24th
Rogue Psykers (32mm): July 15th
Rein and Raus (25mm): July 16th
Negavolt Cultists (32mm): July 17th
Obsidius Mallex (40mm): July 18th
Chaos Space Marines (32mm): July 19th
UR-025 (32mm): July 20th
Dahyak (32mm): July 21st
Amallyn (32mm): July 23rd
Esperon (32mm): July 24th
Traitor Commissar (32mm)
Varnish & Base July 24th
Varnish & Base July 24th
The upshot of this is that I have completed the majority of the models with the completion of the Traitor Guard in particular helping out a lot. The downside is that there is realistically no way I will complete this by the end of July and given other projects – the end of August is also questionable. I need to make sure that I keep focused and working on these models but I have to be mindful of the fact that I have competition pieces to complete as well as an unexpected workload that continues to eat up a lot of time. I am hopeful that at least the weather will cool off a little so that painting will be a little more feasible.
Revised plan:
I think it\’s clear that the time frames I set were too specific and too tight leaving me without enough wiggle room. Projects fall behind and you can try to build in tolerances (I had a week for the July 31st target – it just wasn\’t enough). I\’m going to be a little more flexible for finishing this project and let it take as long as it will take to an extent with targets split into weekends and weeks:
July 27th-28th:
Finish Negavolt Cultists, Mallex and Chaos Space Marines – all of these are already WIPs and nearing completion
July 29th – August 2nd:
Finish UR-025 – almost completed but some cleanup still needed
Rein & Raus, Traitor Commissar
August 3rd-4th:
Rogue Psykers, Janus
August 5th-9th:
Mindful that I\’ll have just got my hands on WarCry and will be commuting all week this will be a blank week with no expectations. I should still be doing Twitch streams and may be able to work on something then.
Mindful that I\’ll have just got my hands on WarCry and will be commuting all week this will be a blank week with no expectations. I should still be doing Twitch streams and may be able to work on something then.
August 10th-11th:
Espern, Taddeus, Pious
August 12th-16th:
Dahyak, Amalynn, Basing and Varnishing.
This is a somewhat lighter schedule with a little bit of flexibility built in. It should also allow me some time to work on other projects along side these so that I can get my Capital Palette entries ready for the show.
– Raggy, signing out
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