Painting Challenge: Wrap-up
Before and After: from bare metal to border legion
It was a long month and I put in a lot of hours and late nights, but I managed to pull off a victory. I know have a fully painted 35-pt 5th Border Legion army. Check out Nog’s Painting Cave for a full story on how everyone did.
My painting speed definitely increased as I progressed through this challenge. The last model completed, the Spriggan, took very little time but still came out look good and matching the rest of the army. How this speed increase will apply to my regular painting remains to be seen, but hopefully it has a positive impact allowing me to get more painted models to the table. I have quite the Cygnar backlog of baremetal minis, so I hope to make a serious dent in that. Once you play a few fully painted games it gets more and more irritating to place unpainted models on the field. Especially alongside the Stormwall that I painted up, it’s such a focal point that looks so good, bare metal really jumps out next to it.
The painting challenge was a lot of fun and I’m glad I participated. It will probably be some time before I recuperate enough to take up another such challenge, but the results of this one speak for themselves. It will be good to try out this crazy force on the table.
For now it’s back to Cygnar, I’ve got some metals laid down on a Sentinel for Kara Sloan’s army. I’ve only played one game with him, expecting him to take some Shield Guard damage, but instead he took out quite a swath of Risen, so I’d like to keep trying him out in her (and eventually Caine’s) army. But it needs to be painted! After that I need to get the Stormsmith’s painted up for use with the Stormwall.