Yeah, Dave Gilson maid. Hagar matter right?
I'm fine. I'm doing well, I'm doing well.
It looks very red around you. They're in their room.
You got. You got lucky.
Yeah. It's actually in the living
room. I would have done that.
I would have done it in the shade but all the printers are
going. All right on the real occasion
that all working the same at. You must have it all set down
pat because I don't know how you do it but you've got like a
hole. Like an array of different
printers printing off models constantly.
Yeah I do saw I've got three areas of work to spare room
where they keep, but some PCS from orders.
I've got the shared, feel all the printers are and what does
recently converted the Loft so that I can actually start making
handmade diagram of scenery for people.
Wow. So that's the sobbing Katie do
Let me change because I'm actually going to view a unit on
Saturday to expand the business. Wow, - yeah, let's bring my
that's fantastic. I'm really Hayes is good but
like I said I couldn't do in the shadow to be too noisy and all
the FTM front of the they are quiet.
What? When you've got six or seven in,
I'm running at once and it doesn't make a bit of noise and
So yeah that works. Once you put it, well it's
actually nice and warm in the shade.
I don't have the problem as much as most people with is and
foreigners. We're not being able to use them
when it's called you to the fight for my fdm but there's a
little one. My shed is 1 so it works, you're
pretty well. Nice man.
So right now, I'm plantain. I've got some comedy 2 comedy
Forge castles on. Yeah, I've got some Wheezy
forger scenery hurts, like really read your telescopes or
six most off and I'm using the other panels.
Just never went and got already cheap great pla from a guy and
I'm making it for before diorama board display board for
BattleTech. I'm putting all that off just
now. So I've got about 300 Parks
different, wow. Or just to I'm going to fill up
with fuel board. And I've got our bottom work
done, for battle take, but it also has Mark my business will
go on it. Wow, nice, when people go past
and see the display board of she put the product as sort of
thing, so, yeah, the running 24/7, everything's running 24/7.
Yeah, right, or so it's really, really enjoying it.
Actually, quite enjoy it. It's a good for me.
I think it's part of it. If you enjoy your hobby, and
then it's less stress. And so, I quite enjoy my whole
being and putting things for other people and help promote
and things like that. And so, A good thing.
It may this goodness. Yeah, that's great, man.
Yeah. We sort of connected through
Facebook, I think initially through the sales group maybe I
think. I think it's epic within middle
group year. Pick one as the main one.
Yeah. And then there's also that epic
for sale page and an obviously, you've had some products off me
yourself. I did.
Yeah, I do. A little one here.
The mega Gaga. Yeah, I don't like them.
Had some really interesting configurations when he came up
to see me, he said, oh probably you doing.
I said I'm putting my make a gun together so he had like all
these really crazy mcboyd ideas of how things should be put
together, making some nice air might not hang on.
Let's load together as a dynamite Canal.
Disabled a white, let papa put it all together first and then
we can start gluing it together. So we had some really good ideas
of how to put stuff together, which is really funny but yeah,
wasn't the original metal gargan.
Because it's all parts to yeah and you needed three hands model
super glue and your gold poured in it.
Trying to piece back together and pray to God, that actually
holds together. Yeah.
Who's always that baby is really coming to its for now.
I think many people have sort of jumped on The bandwagon either
border 3D printer or ordering stuff through 3D printing
services and I think it has a wealth of, you know, really
great products that people can tap into especially for the six
mil Market. Because, you know, people who
were interested in playing Epic and don't have the financial
resources of purchasing original 1992.
Epic Space Marine Miniatures and I can totally That because it's,
you know, I've been there myself.
It's not actually a cheap thing, buying very small, miniature
metal Miniatures or plastic Miniatures, whatever it might
be. So having a having alternative
out there is really good? Yeah, definitely.
And it's good for some markets. Some not so good, but for epic
has been absolutely blowing. But over game is also a battle
take for six Mill. But epic is a mean one.
I'd see pictures and see, it's also got a bigger fan base and
but I'll take Take but you see trying to get the models and
myself. I've been collecting since 1993.
So from back in the day and going deaf by another thing in
all thing, and quite a large collection, though, of what
people guard, Army of about 50,000 points and because I'm
quite one of each unit, one of each company, but some of the
models are really hard to get But I'm also what was in these
models. They don't go out media can some
of the mental models I've got canned, the shadow swords and
they're being boys are back from that you know and then they get
passed on to further Generations from UC models go around again.
But there's still not enough sort of 3D printing Market.
There's definitely been good for that definitely especially the
scenery some of the scenery just know for the Epic is absolutely
but oh yeah. I really enjoy it.
It's very good, we use it. We epic.
Every two weeks here with a bunch of guys, forget to give
over two weeks or two weeks every few weeks.
So I think typically epic and the sooner that getting the
scene at all card will buildings were great but no to get them in
3D print was absolutely brilliant and so yeah, nice make
Society. You mentioned, you started
collecting in 1993 was epic, the first system that you
Encountered. Yeah, it was it's funny before
that and I hadn't even recognize that I'd actually played a
version of dungeon ball a few years before that down in
London, had been at a party. And I don't know why, but this
guy pulled out a board game and that's what was the result.
And another funny video game, I can't remember the name of me
and then I forgot Orbiter and in 1992.
To an old friend of mine. I was actually thinking I'm
today is a guy called more coach, has his nickname, is at
least Hardman skinhead. Give me and he showed me one
Epic space when he's done and one rain or stand.
And that was it I got hooked and then he gave me a box or bottle
force and with other models in it and I showed it to my pile
Gordon that time and I wasn't working Gordon was working and
we run through to Glasgow, dear God and is VG's.
And this year, I am only going to spend this and it was a false
denied back in the day of pain gives Workshop used to do over
Wizard of Oz denied. Free-for-all, we're still in
love or buts in peace. He's on a wedding and the shops
are filled with the door and went in, in end up spending his
whole wage and buying everything from a Peck and then we've got
empty out quite a bit. So yeah, we did that link 3 and
the 6 months would actually set up a club and the local
community doing epic and things that are.
And it's so it just went on from here for most to remodels and
just collect an overhang. I had a spare room, we actually
put a full Hold my spare room and me and all my mates would
get together and play. Epic wigs and competitions.
But we also do or what he space, Hulk going to come to my house
at 7:00 at night. And we'll be there to form the
morning, Point space, Hulk. And I joined for being bored and
the room and all that kind of stuff.
So, all different things like that, it was great to swapped
it. It nice - so you've always been,
like, a six mil purest. Basically, you never got.
Yeah, we'd find a key. From 2nd 4th edition and a
database. One more fun is he borrow.
But the things that we did by Kennedy was always like space
whole ultramarine can things that are older be small, GW
board games going to be boxes, used to get them space Fleet and
everything like that. Yeah so we've cleared all those
kind of things but will re-enter the only one we begin to for
turkey but there was a few players around.
Like I said, we started the club within six months.
And within a year we had 120 Forks, kids and everything.
From a 20-mile radius. Coming around to the corner
Saturday night. We actually did an epic game of
50,000 points. Wow, they'd Chaos versus
Imperial Garden space Moline and we started on the fade in 82,
the Sunday night. It was absolutely brilliant,
obviously, the Imperial Garden. The Marines got hammered and
they can stop our 50,000 point forward.
No matter how many shooting guns, you've got saw it.
And we used to do that kind of thing all the time.
It's just so ya can epic is always been my thing then and I
took a couple of years out and ever and again just to have a
wee break from a modern and up but it's always in the back
room. So yeah.
It's six mils, mark my 40, I love it and just blowing given
that's good right now. I'm willing, I'm really happy
that to hear that. You actually have a fortnightly
game group getting together and playing some games.
So I hear that you're playing tomorrow, is that right?
Yeah, I saw there was guys, I don't Scotland group, we have
quite a few of those got one, but getting them together was
hard, especially going to cover people couldn't get out for the
glass, go guys. Actually enmity new key thing
doing in London. Sorry, P wave that say two
things and they get ranked in the top three in the UK in the
world. So it's saying so I spoke to a
few of them and met them before three competitions.
And I just sat late, let's try and see if we can get a bunch of
guys together and walkable community site to support them.
To get them to build up and their communities, Glasgow
Edinburgh, Inverness or cook stolen, all his veto.
Bones. But there's always two of the
players but they couldn't get together.
So we've been trying to arrange things to get together to go to
different venues around Scotland as we can.
And we seem to have stumbled onto Main venue, which is bang
in the Centre of Scotland, Roy and between Edinburgh and
Glasgow. So we'll be meeting ever had one
competition just before Christmas, which went to New, we
will sow the seeds but they were going to play every two weeks.
And we'll try the different game systems.
Mostly we do epic am again, and but we're going to try different
systems just to give people a wish or tomorrow.
I think we do mini getting. So it's 1,000 Point forces and
getting some new players come along and we provide that armies
with provide the scenery. So it's saying and then some
will do not every two weeks and then we'll hook to start a
Scottish Nationals. Once every few months just for a
bit of fun, nothing to see this but give a wee bit in Rankin and
give people an opportunity to come together a bit more and
then do an open once a year for the UK of whatever whoever wants
to come across. So yeah.
The two-week thing as good as a good, we do covers and so yeah,
so good. Nice Mater's.
Oh, that's awesome. So yeah, you talked about
Armageddon and I know that the Epic Community is quite
fractured in that. They have various different
editions, not so much fraction, but they had, you know, everyone
has their own sort of choice game system of Epic six Mill.
They want to play in 40K, universe everything from first
edition epic. It's a second edition, which is
really the most beloved one that people most got in probably had
their entry into epic 40, 40 K, and then it came to Third
Edition and then Armageddon after that.
So what is your preferred game system?
Do you think second edition already made?
Good on you Dave. Thank you.
You got to be and all what people see is really fragile,
because there was too many units into many different rules for
less than that, but you know what?
I don't care. Yeah, and it was just absolutely
blowing back in the day, and we stopped where I got into my
pulses and yeah, yeah. And we try to get together once
a month and play some second edition.
We do obviously, it become again to try and keep the rules.
Then for the duration, I've only played it once and that was
about three months ago, I don't quite It just wasn't my thing
that I think it was true too far away from second edition after
Titan, Regents, for me. And that's when I had actually
stopped waiting for a couple years.
So I came to miss actually pointing that.
So, it's okay, as a good be system, but not a second
edition. All the way and all these cards
and ordered units and just everything.
There's you can go crazy again. Yeah.
And some sometimes It was a bit dark.
And remember point, we competition of my house with
some of my pals and we always played six Frozen Point armies.
It didn't if we get me one or two thousand, six thousand
points and remember table, and Elder Army unfold, one point on
one then, wow, your tactics, right?
And there's this button and water and everything can and and
this is all great stuff. Ken, it was just it was crazy
but that's what That is all about.
Can you wouldn't? It is a boot.
You cannot see what's cool for that.
So yeah, second edition is yes, my favorite.
Yeah, me too mate. I mean I came into second
edition in Epic and I find it so hard to leave it.
And when you know, I've heard stories about Third Edition and
onwards and I looked at the Armageddon book and it just has
nothing, it doesn't have the the soul or the core that second
dish in brought to a lot of Players and in the rules in the
the the themes of the Army's. It's just not there.
It's just very, very Bland. I think yeah that that is all
about and I think that's because it's been designed as a fan base
for more. Hope you see competition style.
Yeah, can to give an overall general focus and make it can
even if he couldn't Point second edition.
Couldn't have do that. And two and a half.
I was you late right there. So I can see why the fruit that
structure in place. Yeah, till but you can play a
good game, two and a half hour or so.
As you only fuck competitive, I still like it.
I do like it then and I use my meds and adjust, no, can fetch
apart form. The ones I heat is, Nick runs.
Absolutely detest. It comes in.
I will gift, I will give Third Edition a try and I will give
Armageddon ago because I want to give a good, you know, I want to
give it a thorough reflection or a thorough assessment of what I
think about the other systems. Comparing two second edition.
I think second edition was like, the, you know, the ultimate
edition. I mean I don't think anybody
could top that, but I can understand your viewpoints.
And I understand the designers viewpoints in making these other
editions where they had it had to make it, you know.
No, playable in a tournament sense but second editions, not
like that. It's kind of a it's it's so
expansive in its its rule sets in the Army's.
You can play and all the rules and everything like that.
Know, if you look if you actually look at the cover of
the second edition, blue box piece medium box with a laundry
that and all the troops and the Army has a mesh Marshall
everything. Yeah.
And that's its second edition dead, the offered the proceed go
for it, feel for you want, do what you want.
You've got some restrictions on Syrian Army cards in that.
But give you give you such scope to do all crazy stuff and I
thought that was just brilliant. Canada is a good way to work it
and and it was like what an army should be as not to sleep won't
work, unless we unity and that we unit area.
This is ignore everything especially if you're in Orcs.
And you might not. Yeah, thank you.
Couldnt chord but this absolutely not.
Okay. And for me, that was just and we
boil really battle tower was an amazing weapon.
Yep, came. And you feel that again to start
the back of the board surrounded, we are Clan and just
waked anything that was in front of it or, but it's a squat cycle
up. So, I went to a game shop and
got in Glasgow in the Warhammer short.
And I've been Queen epic for quite a bit.
And if we just go against squats, another freedoms against
bots in the process. A corpse.
Oh, and it took note a note in the tongue on one and I was
just, but bar, you can t do that?
You don't like to do that. But it was like I again, that's
it. I'm buying a cyclops.
Thank you very much. Thank you very much, Dave.
That's good sold. Yes, I don't have one yet.
So that's that's the next purchase I think.
I've got one. I got one.
India steam. So
let's see what when like when you first got into the hobby.
When you first discovered epic, what was the first Army that you
sort of gravitated towards, what was the first thing that really
appealed to you? It was Marines babies Marines
and he that's what you go to the box.
You've got the Hawks and you go lll die.
Mommy. He got and he grabbed the the
Elder and hotdogs setting here. So we built that up between the
two of us and we just take tons about and a couple more than
meets got on board. So what we actually did was
Special, with the game's called was we had.
We used to collect armies for people who are coming into the
club and we had every Army for the Epic and for the key at the
time of, what are my fantasy and we kept them in this cupboard in
the club and people could come along and use them.
But for the Epic for me, it was always Marines to start with
Ken. That was really good.
I can never get a grasp, it chaos.
And and I still struggle with it at times, especially with me
cards and that it just Just my her.
And I suppose I've been a bit lazy and learning that but for
me it's all been a marine man or imperial guards.
Right thing. And I had a bit back and years.
I had a big 10,000 points of Marines within a year or just
collect that many models and system structure even.
So you could go crazy with. I'm gonna be just the structure
of a whole game system that wasn't just about that.
For me, it was just about the structure, you can create an
army with a different positions and their tactics and things
like that and that is quite later and back in the D for Mia.
Personally I suffered depression and I was even as a young lad
had you about depression and the game system, give me something
to focus on something outside of what was happening in the world
and another issues in that That. So that was something that that
game coming along result of your life changer, for me and because
Kenya had a new group of friends and you can people took me into
their homes and treat me as family.
So playing these games, it's more about that side of it.
Been seeing this armies. The best army of that armies are
based on me. Yeah, but yeah, I was always
been an old woman, he's man. And as far as I'm concerned, but
there's no other space million Army and moisture.
Limiting in the well, you see the Trio's.
that's a really good point you made there about you know
because you suffered depression and you found the hobby recruit
gave you that in action two people and obviously it made you
feel Are as a person and it just got you through that difficult
time in your life. And I think for me to is being
very shy young guy, I think I found it very hard to connect
with people, you know, in a normal sense, kind of thing,
I've found gaming a really good way to connect with people and
communicate, and develop relationships and that kind of
thing. So, I think for gaming, it's
really good, but it's a really good thing, I think.
Yeah, it definitely is going back in the D.
I'm not. Should I go and I'm again the
room for stand up board, where and go nuts?
But back in the day, there was no control that I had the
patient. Can, I had to push myself out
and I went a bit much, but the game give me some structure.
Okay, definitely give that and I think and I've seen it all three
years, people with disabilities and things like that and it's
been good for them. And when we had that games
called back in the day and we had a committee would take the
the kids on the committee and bring them in and show them how
to be part of a committee and how to run clubs.
And we'll pack of the part of the Jew, cayendo Ward scheme, at
the time. And had guys coming in to teach
them how to build scenery professionally.
And all this kind of thing, and it gives them a feeling of
self-worth. Can especially Kevin, you've got
an illness or anything like that.
It's the hardest thing to do is to get to know people and to do
things within, it's an activity. If it you can all enjoy and
share but we've it really helps people and communities and
things like that. So not sure we can speak to a
guy speaker but opening up a small club for people with who
have learning difficulties and things like that.
And communities are people, we suffered a patient and maybe
doing Something in the near future because it's can people
are certain they're getting tied up in their houses, for squeal
was specially recorded can come and over that know, if I serious
depression and the fat Nick mystical, okay, then definitely
please to go. But the one thing, but it's
happened, as gaming has increased in the homes and
people's homes because of the covid period.
So, most people will know stuck in her who she's coming out here
called a looking for places to go and game.
So, looking at night, can you sing?
So it definitely helps people who have issues and needing
help. And I would recommend that
whether it's epic, well, it's for Tiki EG Sigma or anything to
some board games. Yeah, get a new local church.
There's a bunch of guys there and there's a bit name them a
get together with a couple weeks and they play board games all
the time and as a community activity, which is is great.
Yeah, it's really. A positive isn't, it's really
good thing actually? Yeah, I mean, I think for, for
most of us, I think maybe I think you know, for me,
especially Gaming's, being just a big social thing for me, you
know, it's like getting together and meeting people.
And you can just chatting and playing games and enjoying that,
of course, that aspect of the hobby as well.
But yeah, connecting a few, I think most of my friends, if not
all of them are all Gamers. Yes, I've got quite a few
things, we aren't Gamers and they don't understand Kim.
Came when it till you're blue in the face and I just look e is
have to see. Yeah, right.
Sure. See you later can.
My friends were outside the gaming thing, the actually, when
I show them the 3D printing, what I'm doing, then they get on
a better understanding of a gaming because when you take,
you describe a board game and a battlefield, no rest of it and
ice it and we'll come and have a look at my Printing and see what
I do. From a printing things out.
I'll show them the stuff like AA and they're not open to trying
to gaming, so I think that's a good way of doing that.
Can watch your pretty well hand. In hand we've off.
Definitely. Yeah I think that's that's
definitely good that way nice. I've got quite a few things and
I have to be honest and see but I don't have many things.
We fought the key of all aurageyser combo started going
to recently appointed for it again at a key party but it came
at a good Bunch. Most other guys are no outside.
The hard work called guys before take a at the Savoy them.
Yeah. Really.
Really avoid them and I don't know it just Used to bring you
an aggressive sided. People can competitions agree,
but you still want from me. But I've seen some awful things
with for occasional, be, some guiding very aggressive towards
others. As in people, keep in
competitions, I've seen organizers, cheating
competitions, have seen all these kind of things, but it's
not a point. So I tend to avoid that sided
queers. Yeah, I find that most of our
systems bottle. Take Epic.
Ball action, even all these can systems even so you can be
competitive. Most of the guys are pretty
sound. Yeah.
Really we say and yeah, so yeah, it's still a stick to the games
like that, but I'm all fat people that are fun be.
So I'm going to try to hammer you and so, I was putting their
ball last night. Uh, no.
Boyhood the Bible with setting up a new.
We going to Club as some of the guys.
Guys are going to quit one or two games.
So as I said well what's sure some of the guys give her a
couple of we practice games going to help out.
So I've been doing that but I felt really bad because we've
been teaching them and about them for now I don't want to
school and teach you how to play the game.
You have to think what you're doing but it is but there is no,
is that it was great. Kendall is no path.
Fiona Burt over, half an hour, laughs, everything that was
going on. And that says, the community in
the game is especially needed. And it sorts of stimuli epic
battle, take a lot of them ones to do.
It's a great sense of community in that.
Say to think so, absolutely, absolutely.
Now you talked about your printers so that means you must
and you talked about like selling, you know, your
Miniatures and that kind of thing that you producing.
So let's talk about your business and talk about your
Your webshop and that kind of thing.
Yeah. Well, okay, so I've got a
printer. One print that I was speaking to
the wife last night when I first started out in print button on
like big businesses but I've got a couple of grand or thousands
of pounds and moderate. So it's a, I started with 200
pounds. Yeah, yeah, 200 quid.
I bought a secondhand refurbished end of three and a
couple of screws or ple And I was planting stuff at home to
sort, but some bits and pieces. And I'm the kinda guy like, to
be honest, and upfront with everything I'm doing, whether
it's 3D printing, or whatever businesses have been involved in
before, and I just dissing, you know what, I'm going to start to
be business. Some of my friends at last,
we've seen a repentant and I stumbled across bottle take with
a steel Warriors Studio stuff, but she suddenly causing And I
just approached him and see, I'd like to sell some of this in the
UK and it's a, yeah, give me a commission commission, based
thing. And that was that what a couple
more printers within a month. I was doing it for about nine
months before I got my first raising printers because it was
all just as the sexual scenery. And then I just got to do my
shed. I've got a 16 foot by 8 foot
shade and I just got it out. Put my planners are near and to
started printing things. All right so and it's just grew
bit by bit quite enjoy it, but I it's been so sort of thing but
it is quite enjoyable, that's good, man, that's great.
So where should people find you made?
If they want to, if they don't have a look at your web store
and they're kind of thing where we're this.
Yeah, I saw meet you many's Yuki Really should say may.
I don't know the full address just now, but maybe many of you
key Either on Facebook or what the website, there I do.
What's this stuff I do? What?
I don't do. 25 mil skill yet, right?
It's all 46, milk to 10 mL or 1, Master, things like that.
And we're looking at doing space, Hulk mod, s.
So, So as a LV 47 or 24/7, they've got a lot of this stuff
I'm looking at doing days two hours.
I've met a guy who is willing to let me do his broad ball
Miniatures, so I'm looking at doing that.
So that's a skill up. Most of the stuff I do is
Battle, take an epic for and one master and I do them all the
time. Again it's your Gustav.
I'm actually putting like I said, let's start a full before
diorama for battle. Take just now.
So I'm building a shield more Cotton Bowl for later on the
edge of the board, putting all the scenery in it, so yeah.
Also, make it work, it's all good.
I quite enjoy it again. And the good thing is is I don't
charge for time by the way, what if people will be surprised that
this people with a recharge, for taming the prince?
I don't charge for time because I'm a hobbyist and I want
scenery, but I know what it's like not be able to afford that.
Yeah. All right.
Can some great seen earlier and but being 60 quid full of old
them but just kind of do it, that's what I don't expect,
other people to do it and if I can always bring in a cup of
Excellence for people to have a move because of hobbyists seem
as myself. So again, if you're short on,
will be back in was a guy came to me recently.
As you know, is what if we epic reason audio?
So one must always Wadi had some models going spill over the
customers. So I said, normal people plenty
some more, and that just forming some water, I'm not going to
make money, it's just like to help remove your name, your own
bloody great, get your watiam or you go there.
Something, I'm really happy that it's
really going well for you. I've and on wish you all the
success in the future between 23, mate.
I hope my team in its UK really lifts off, and we're going to
leave links in the show notes. People can check it out.
I know you got a new website under construction and, you
know, adding photos and that kind of thing to it.
So people can find you there. If they go to the show notes and
they can check out your catalog of all the different kinds of
six people, 20 ml, and scenery products.
You've got there available and hopefully they'll do the right
thing and purchase Some stuff off you, mate.
Yeah, what she said, helps me, whatever.
It's as simple as that. You're not in business to make a
war and a hobby and things being a good thing.
So what jet business up front? So it's all good like that.
So yeah, come on, speak to me. What's that?
Me speak to me again? I'll wait to speak to the guys
who are buying the stuff. I'm always up front with folks
and Marissa. So, thanks very much.
Having me back to meet you. My it's been wonderful to be
Dave, it's been really good in life.
I've been a customer of yours like buying some bits and pieces
of my epic stuff. So I can definitely vouch for
you to say to it. Legit guy or a good guy and
doing it all for the right reasons.
So, thanks again. Maybe help me out mate.
It's been brilliant. Excellent.
And thank you. Well, what you call?
And I'm going to head off, mate. Take care.
Thanks again David all the best, see you mate.
Happy New Year, everyone. It's GJ with another call of the
crown painting challenge update. I am very glad to report that we
have had a lot of response, very many, pretty pictures, despite
the December month. We did have some people who
unfortunately had to either take a mulligan or even drop out all
together for different reasons but despite Quite a few
casualties. The painting challenge is
continuing as strong as ever. I think I can confidently.
Say we have in. Maybe there's still some
stragglers. What?
I'm recording. This.
I don't think I've heard from everybody yet, but we have a
total of at the moment. Twenty thousand seven hundred
and seventy two and a half points.
So this month, which is even more than in November, I think
that's because a lot of people had to take a mulligan in
November because of illness the flu going around.
However, it's very encouraging to see that even in December
with Christmas and with all kinds of family, obligations and
other stuff that takes away, time from the hobby, would not
to say that it's bad or something.
But well, you know, how it goes life can sometimes get in the
way of doing a hobby stuff and despite all that, we have more
points painted this month. And then we had last month or I
should say more points painted last month that we had the
previous month we have now in total over sixty three and a
half thousand points that have been submitted.
And we are not even halfway through the challenge.
So I've already had people asking me if it was, all right,
if they added some more stuff to what they had originally
pledged, Awesome. People that said, I might have
to turn down a little bit or otherwise I might not make it.
Well, that's all right. I think it will even out in the
end. I believe it was estimated that
we had around 160,000 points, pledged at the beginning of the
challenge. So if that's true, then we are
still very much on schedule despite having to say goodbye
to. I Think about it doesn't
participants at the moment. We have some very lovely
painting pictures that that have been submitted.
By the time you will hear this, this will be on my blog.
If you go to GJ's Workshop, dot wordpress.com, it will be the
topmost post there, the call of the crown December update there,
you will see all the pretty pictures and I have to say it is
a joy to organize this. Challenge, just to see how
committed people are to finishing their pledges to, to
make it work, despite maybe having some things get in the
way, or maybe things not turning out, the way they planned.
And I have to say the quality of the stuff that submitted is, is
really amazing. I'm looking at, for example, a
unit of arches returning arches Painted by Bobby Patterson.
Very nice crisp, blue and yellow with a nice black contrast in.
There, we have some beautiful Empire, help dies command from
Blue in VT. I'm just going to pick out some
entries at random, then I'm going to call out clearing
Griffith. He is doing Orcs and goblins and
skaven this Monte Payne. It's um since cave and some
rats, giant rats, red ogres cup of weapon teams.
The very nice purple and greens color scheme.
Their works really well. With skaven covering fire.
That painting chaos dwarfs painting, AC submitted the unit
of blunderbuss dwarves very high quality of painting.
We have what we have so much, great stuff.
I really can't go through them all.
Couple of Empire cannons by Gordon, ins the fourth edition,
hell Blossom, Vale gun. I've always liked that one.
It is only I don't have the model but I do have that
Leonardo da Vinci standing on the on the cannonballs.
He's a very nice model. I think I'm just going to use
him as Leonardo. That me rightly, a no for the
dogs of war. We have Heinrich learned
back-painted a whopping 1705 points, but it's mostly chaos
and dragon ogres. So that's let me go into your
real quick. 13 models, five chaos nights, I see skill.
I see a general on a horse. I think that's a called hell
Bruns there. And yeah, like I said, a couple
of dragon Olga's. So we have a That, that rakes on
the points really quickly, I'm going to contrast that to
header. Roy, who said he was not
feeling. Well, I might not even finish
this month's challenge, but he did submit a loan Goblin
champion at 38 points, not going to count the points here but it
is a very beautiful paint job is goddess.
Snotty nose. What I believe that's all on a
Model but it is mated to a standard that I could not even
dream to achieve. So even if you are like me and
you just going quality of quantity than I think, just
looking at these pictures will be really inspiring.
We have a couple more I wanted to shout out.
We have Joseph Justice who submitted a few units of dark
elves, a sorcerer and unit of crossbowmen and of Swordsmen.
We have zero quick Marcel muscle.
You're from Germany with a group of dwarf, Miners and dwarf
crossbowmen. He wrote a nice little story
about them, taking back their ancestral whole, I believe it
us. It's been a while since I read
it. So sorry myself, I don't do
represent your writings correctly here.
You can go see for yourself. Of course, Mark Muirfield from
The back to the have a Blog with a whole bunch of lizard, man.
He has been putting out a lot of models both quality wise and
quantity wise and there's some people have just submitted a
single model, Maxwell can with the white dwarf, problem
brindle, very nice model. The one where he is holding his
helmet upside down and as beer, foaming out of it.
Let's see here, I got a couple of very Black Orcs with one of
them has a. I think the Blackhawk General It
Is by Rick Beyond. Oh, he's got a sword painted in
metallic metals which contrasts really well with the metallic
metals on the other axis. And the armor I have to say that
is going to be a magic sword. I don't know how else you can
feel that. We have rulon's a friend of mine
from here from the The Netherlands with a chaos
sorcerer, a cinch sorcerer by the looks of it.
What else a normal sport? A lot of chaos.
We have some people who added some more stuff to their
December pledge. For example, we had Steve Quinn,
who's doing wood elves. He submitted a group of War
dances and then he said, well, I had already planned on doing
Orion for Worried. But he was so much fun to paint.
I squeezed him in in December and it is a beautiful model of
course but also a very nice paint job going for the box out
there and definitely to a standards that that I would say
is at least on par with what you might expect in.
Yeah, let's let's just say in the white dwarf and In other
gaming magazines. So like I said I really want to
shout out all of these but sadly I can't.
So I really have to invite you to go over to the website, GJ's
Workshop, dot wordpress.com, you will find all of these pictures
there and everything that people wrote about them.
If people did run some to write about them, not everybody is
writer. I enjoy right.
My own story and making it a continuous story.
I did it for the Gathering of Mighty painters challenge as
well, so my, my baseman feels weird shouting on myself but I'm
going to do it anyway. My Beast Man is a, my general,
which I painted in the first month, he's just going to track
around, visit. All those legendary, beastmen
heroes, and that gives me an excuse to paint all those
special. Characters.
I'm not sure if I mentioned that before, but if I have, I'm sorry
about the double information here.
So yeah, I like writing, I like writing up stories and some
people just say, well, this is what I painted and others say,
this is what I painted and this is what, what happened during
the painting, or this is what I bumped into.
This is what went. Well and some people just
submitted a photo and a points value and what it's all good.
It's Is what you want. I am also I've been thinking
about putting this out there or not, but at the start of the
challenge I said everybody gets one Mulligan and I think for an
eight-month challenge one, Mulligan that might be a bit too
harsh. So some people have already
said, oh I'm sorry I have to drop out.
I wanted to stay in but I already used my Mulligan and now
I have to use another one. I'm not going to Be too strict
on that. So I will always ask you, if you
are saying, I want to drop out, is this really what you want or
is this just because of the rules because in that case I
will happily bend the rules a little bit to keep you aboard.
The goal of this challenge is to slay, the gray to get rid of
your pile of shame or at least to reduce it a little bit and
Also to have fun doing so and to be inspired by others and also
to inspire others by your work. I myself, I'm really happy about
the way this challenge is going. It does a lot of work and I
don't think that this is something that I want to do
every year but organizing a challenge like this is very
rewarding more so than I had expected.
Expected when I started it. So this is me saying a big thank
you to everybody who has participated so far, everybody
who is still in the challenge and also everybody who had to
drop out for, but whatever reason, it might have been.
I am really grateful to all of you to response and basically
just do the way that this is going.
And I see On Facebook and on, on the crown of command Discord, I
see people encouraging each other, don't remember who it
was. But somebody said I might have
to drop out or I might not be able to submit something.
And then somebody else said, well I just made a character and
then you'll get there and then you can paint all the units.
When you have two little bit more time, these little tips and
tricks, some people have made complete schedules of what they
want to paint each month. If that's something that can
help you, then then go for it. And also don't hesitate to ask
other people for advice. I know that the pressure of a
challenge can be quite helpful, but it can also be a little bit
daunting. And it should remain fun, and it
should remain something that you that will help you.
You enjoy painting about help you get your units done, get
them on the table, for whatever you want to go play at this
summer. Thank you everybody for
listening and I will see you again next month with another
update. When we are at the halfway point
of the goal of the crown. In addition to