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 Post subject: Re: 2014 Backlog Reduction Oath
PostPosted: 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

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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?

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No no, he's just answering a request I had to see the scale of Red Box minis.

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Oh I see... I missed that :)

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PostPosted: 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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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.

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Only a couple more days to finish up this month's minis. Get those brushes going, folks!

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PostPosted: 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!

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Backlog Reduction Oath Monthly Report

Miniatures Bought:
  • None!

Miniatures Painted:
  • Pippin Guard of the Citadel
  • 2x Citadel Guard with spear
  • 5x Misty Mountain goblins
  • 6x Hunter Orcs

I'm off to Vapnartak in York at the weekend though - this could make things tricky for February!

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PostPosted: Wed Jan 29, 2014 9:42 pm 
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Miniatures Bought:
    None

Miniatures Painted:
    6x Wargs Riders (12 models)
  • 1x orc shammen
  • Grishnakh
    Gaint Spider
    Mirkwood spider

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PostPosted: Wed Jan 29, 2014 10:37 pm 
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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

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PostPosted: 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 :(

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PostPosted: 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!

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PostPosted: Thu Jan 30, 2014 9:18 pm 
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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*

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PostPosted: Fri Jan 31, 2014 1:53 am 
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Miniatures Bought:
  • FOTR Witchking on foot
  • Unnamed ringwraith on foot

Miniatures Painted:
  • FOTR Witchking on foot
  • Unnamed ringwraith on foot
  • 2 x Rider of rohan

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PostPosted: Fri Jan 31, 2014 2:03 am 
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I was WAY ahead until yesterday...

Backlog Reduction Oath Monthly Report

Miniatures Bought:
  • Bolg
  • Sharky
  • 23 Moria Goblins w spears (they arrived yesterday, I got them for $16 USD, so I couldn't resist)

Miniatures Painted:
  • Bolg
  • Sharky
  • Sauron the Necromancer
  • A Mumakil

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PostPosted: 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.

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PostPosted: Fri Jan 31, 2014 3:45 am 
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Erunion wrote:
Cool. Glad I have some fellow slackers along for the ride!

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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 :sad: ) 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.

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PostPosted: Fri Jan 31, 2014 5:26 am 
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Time to face the music!

Backlog Reduction Oath Monthly Report

Miniatures Bought:
  • Tauriel

Miniatures Painted:
  • None!

The problem is I have a potentially huge order of models coming in next month, the month I'm also planning on finishing off the most amount of models I've ever painted also haha.

I'm an oathbreaker at this stage but hopefully this thread and seeing the work of others can help me turn it around :)

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PostPosted: 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! :x 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! :P

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