Jump to content

+++Blood Angels Outpost+++


Captain Semper

Recommended Posts

Still doing final touches on the tacticals and the champion. Should be ready later today. I have also already started the terminators, so the situation doesn’t look that bad, yet. :)

 

The lack of speed is basically a result of my size 0 go-to brush starting to break. It has lost the tip completely, and starts to split in two if I use too little paint on it. It really makes it difficult to do the tiny details with it, and it looks that I will not have a replacement in any time soon. Probably need to learn to paint everythin with a size 1 brush.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Ok. I'm gonna do it.

I The4thHorseman rise to the challenge of E TENEBRAE LUX on the side of the Blood Angels and vow to complete 2 Armiger Helverins with Heavy Stubbers for a total value of 348pts on or before August 1st, 2018. Success will bring me eternal glory and failure will doom me to wear the Badge of the Oathbreaker until the year-end.

 

Armiger

Link to comment
Share on other sites

 

http://fortressofunforgiven.homestead.com/ETL_VI_Top_Banner_.jpg

 

ETL VI - WEEK 12 UPDATE

 

THIS IS THE LAST WEEKLY UPDATE BEFORE THE OFFICIAL CLOSING OF THE EVENT

 

 

 

 

http://fortressofunforgiven.homestead.com/ETL_6_Poster_01_Announcement_V2.jpg

 

+++ETL VI - WEEK 12 UPDATE+++

 

THIS IS THE LAST WEEKLY UPDATE BEFORE THE OFFICIAL CLOSING OF THE EVENT

 

As per tradition, there is no Weekly Update for Week 13 as it is so close to the end of the event. The ETL VI officially ends on August 1stat 17:00 GMT, so keep that in mind and organise your work accordingly. 

 

So this is the end of Week 12 – the most productive week of the ETL so far with 50.5k pts added leading to a total of 205k pts. The overall completion rate stood at 48%.

 

On a Faction level, the Astartes lead mostly on the back of the BAs spectacular performance with the AoD coming second (with a big margin) as the Loyalists are narrowing the gap with the Traitors – the latter having one of the highest completion rates in the event. Realm of Chaos is in third position as the Chaos Marines strong performance is still hampered by relatively low first vows completions and the Daemons and the LatD have yet to reach the desirable completion rates. IFOR is in fourth position led by the Astra Militarum and the AdMech but kept back by the Imperial Agents and the Deathwatch – while the Grey Knights have already achieved the 100% completion rate! Lastly the Xenos are a bit lagging behind despite the strong completion rates of the Necrons and the Orks. However the Tau are very close to register a significant jump in their score – it just did not happen by Week 12 – so some surprises may still come…

 

An overall advice at this point of the event: Forget strategy and long term planning, now is the time to act! Complete your outstanding vows and see what happens – completion rates is all that matters right now!

 

I will now further analyse Week 12 results:

 

E TENEBRAE LUX VI – Week 12
Faction/ForumParticipantsVowsPoints pledgedAvg. Vow Completions CRSCRAdeptus Astartes 185 275 169,238 61576,897 45.4% 39,340 Space Marines 6799 53,312 539 19,715 37.0% 7,291Blood Angels 44 7445,358 61328,858 63.6% 18,360 Dark Angels 45 60 39,520 659 17,184 43.5% 7,472 Space Wolves 29 42 31,048 739 11,140 35.9% 3,997 IFOR 67 95 80,156 844 29,906 37.3% 11,158 Adepta Sororitas 6 8 4,642 580 1,891 40.7% 770 AdMech 13 21 11,764 560 7,020 59.7% 4,189Astra Militarum 21 33 24,550 744 11,086 45.2% 5,006 Imperial Agents 12 13 21,676 1,667 3,221 14.9% 479 Grey Knights 2 2 2,658 1,329 2,658 100% 2,658 Deathwatch 13 18 14,866 826 4,030 27.1% 1,092 Realm of Chaos 67 116 72,278 623 37,278 51.6% 19,226 Chaos Space Marines 55 100 58,351 584 32,730 56.1% 18,359 Chaos Daemons 4 5 4,145 829 1,432 34.5% 495 LatD 8 11 9,782 889 3,116 31.9% 993 Xenos 41 58 33,703 581 16,254 48.2% 7,839 Aeldari 10 11 3,492 317 841 24.1% 203 Necrons 10 15 8,191 546 5,181 63.3% 3,277 Orks 4 8 5,099 637 3,832 75.2% 2,880 T’au Empire 13 19 13,805 727 6,142 44.5% 2,733 Tyranids 4 5 3,116 623 258 8.3% 21 AoD 47 78 75,358 966 44,236 58.7% 25,967 AoD-L 26 40 35,753 894 18,861 52.8% 9,950 AoD-T 21 38 39,605 1,042 25,375 64.1% 16,258 Total ETL VI 407 622 430,733 692 204,571 47.5% 97,158

 

BLOOD ANGELS:

And excellent performance throughout the ETL this year – but it’s not over yet. The BAs have by the end of Week 12 the highest score in the ETL if by only a SINGLE point ahead of Chaos Marines! This close a competition has never, ever occurred before in any ETL! No the truth of the matter is, that the BAs have expended more of their resources to achieve this with a completion rate of 63.6%. Still there is a lot of firepower still available to see them through in the next few days! Also, your position as leaders of the Astartes Faction seems pretty safe but it is not unheard of to have great fluctuations in Week 13 of even in the couple of days following Week 13 until the end of the event. Especially if your rival is the SMs that should they flex their muscles could have the tables turned. So keep the pace and never relax until it’s all over!

 

 

One point. That is how close it is going into the final week. For the ETL we have never been in this position before (and on the years Chaos won the event, they have never been second going into the final week). Not only are we still in the hunt for this year's triple crown, we are on course for our best ever ETL showing regardless of how it ends.

 

Before I go on, I must praise the phenomenal effort shown by our forum so far. We have dug deep and produced the goods and that is only down to you, the Frater. You have got on board with this project and let it get under your skin; you have helped and encouraged your fellow Frater; you have once again answered the call and shown what an amazing place our little corner of the B&C is and for that, you have my respect.

 

The event isn't over and now it where it counts. During ETL V we were cruising in third at this point of the competition, only to finish fifth despite registering our best ever ETL score and completion rate. However, this time out we're in a stronger position but it will count for naught if we don't get those vows in. Do what you can to finish. Not only will you feel great about having another completed model in your collection but can you imagine the euphoria if we break Chaos' stranglehold on the competition? The feel-good factor will last for ages! It will also go a little way towards our revenge against them for what they did to our father....

 

All I've ever asked is that you do what you can. Lets finish the job together.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

More progress... nearly there...

IEsnAEJ.jpg

 

VrGYwjN.jpg

 

Coming along nicely, you should have it done in a week :thumbsup:

 

Right, that's another 5 marines painted. Just another 5 to go, then bases on them and we're done. No idea if I'll manage, but we're on our way at least.

 

Five models, seven days, I have faith in you :smile.:

 

(remember that the bases aren't strictly necessary, that one is down to you and what you find to be complete. As mentioned before, if I manage a quick character vow, he'll have a temporary base to match my other temp-based models as I bulk base paint)

 

Still doing final touches on the tacticals and the champion. Should be ready later today. I have also already started the terminators, so the situation doesn’t look that bad, yet. :smile.:

 

The lack of speed is basically a result of my size 0 go-to brush starting to break. It has lost the tip completely, and starts to split in two if I use too little paint on it. It really makes it difficult to do the tiny details with it, and it looks that I will not have a replacement in any time soon. Probably need to learn to paint everythin with a size 1 brush.

Again, a completion depends on what you're happy with (within reason, obviously) so if you get everything to the point before using that brush and you're satisfied, then it's done. If not, try the old brush/bigger brush as see what happens :smile.:

 

I'm certain you'll get it done though!

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Oh man, I'm catching the last minute vow fever too!

I, Slothysaur, rise to the challenge of E TENEBRAE LUX on the side of the Blood Angels and vow to complete a Relic Sicaran Battle Tank armed with Lascannon Sponsons of total value 215 points on or before August 1st, 2018. Success will bring me eternal glory and failure will doom me to wear the Badge of the Oathbreaker until the year-end.

gallery_85034_14559_294443.jpg

I've got the next four hours freed up and a new set of brushes. Painting ahoy!

Edit: Lascannons, not Twin Lascannons.

Doable in a week and a nice little follow up. Hope your painting block went well! :smile.:
Link to comment
Share on other sites

Hmmm...to Final Vow or not to Final Vow?

 

Well, it's probably best to play it safe and do something small at this point...

 

Ok. I'm gonna do it.

 

I The4thHorseman rise to the challenge of E TENEBRAE LUX on the side of the Blood Angels and vow to complete 2 Armiger Helverins with Heavy Stubbers for a total value of 348pts on or before August 1st, 2018. Success will bring me eternal glory and failure will doom me to wear the Badge of the Oathbreaker until the year-end.

Whaaaaat?!? :jawdrop:

 

Tell me you have an easy scheme to do and some time off work/family/sleep/etc? All the best with the vow and I do believe it can be done, but you're going to have to motor some. Can't wait to see it though :tu:

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Keep going guys, the Chaos Marines are in full speed! And don't forget your second and subsequent vows - they are way more important to you than they are for Chaos Marines...

 

UPDATED TO THIS POINT!

Link to comment
Share on other sites

 

Hmmm...to Final Vow or not to Final Vow?

Well, it's probably best to play it safe and do something small at this point...

Ok. I'm gonna do it.

 

I The4thHorseman rise to the challenge of E TENEBRAE LUX on the side of the Blood Angels and vow to complete 2 Armiger Helverins with Heavy Stubbers for a total value of 348pts on or before August 1st, 2018. Success will bring me eternal glory and failure will doom me to wear the Badge of the Oathbreaker until the year-end.

Whaaaaat?!? :jawdrop:

 

Tell me you have an easy scheme to do and some time off work/family/sleep/etc? All the best with the vow and I do believe it can be done, but you're going to have to motor some. Can't wait to see it though :tu:

Yea. Just a Simple Malinax type scheme, and I had ordered Resin Bases Yesterday so they won't be here in time for the ETL so I can't exactly do the bases. But yea should be fine.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Oh man, I'm catching the last minute vow fever too!

I, Slothysaur, rise to the challenge of E TENEBRAE LUX on the side of the Blood Angels and vow to complete a Relic Sicaran Battle Tank armed with Lascannon Sponsons of total value 215 points on or before August 1st, 2018. Success will bring me eternal glory and failure will doom me to wear the Badge of the Oathbreaker until the year-end.

gallery_85034_14559_294443.jpg

I've got the next four hours freed up and a new set of brushes. Painting ahoy!

Edit: Lascannons, not Twin Lascannons.

Doable in a week and a nice little follow up. Hope your painting block went well! :smile.:

It went well! I have most of it done just have to hit some lenses on the turret and paint the left treads. Outside of that weathering will come much later (Maybe rts....).

On the same topic, the treads are not fun to paint.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Vow 2 Complete!

gallery_85034_14559_61721.jpg

gallery_85034_14559_109589.jpg

gallery_85034_14559_11852.jpg

gallery_85034_14559_98568.jpg

I borrowed my girlfriends iPhone to take pictures of the Sicaran and WOW! My poor phone is about to get put to pasture based on camera merit alone. Positive side is I now know that my biggest obstacle for taking good pictures is the camera :teehee:

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Vow 2 Complete!

gallery_85034_14559_61721.jpg

gallery_85034_14559_109589.jpg

gallery_85034_14559_11852.jpg

gallery_85034_14559_98568.jpg

I borrowed my girlfriends iPhone to take pictures of the Sicaran and WOW! My poor phone is about to get put to pasture based on camera merit alone. Positive side is I now know that my biggest obstacle for taking good pictures is the camera :teehee:

What is this? It's so cool, I'm guessing Forge world.

Edit: OK never mind I saw the name and checked Forge world. Are they pretty effective on the table?

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Razorback with lascannon complete:

 

http://bolterandchainsword.com/uploads/gallery/album_14515/gallery_65393_14515_1662779.jpg

 

Vindicator complete:

 

http://bolterandchainsword.com/uploads/gallery/album_14515/gallery_65393_14515_637990.jpg

 

Just the Hunter to go and that will vow complete...

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Just a Friendly Check In with Outstanding FIRST Vows.

 

Arkhanist
Bishoujo
bother_b
CaptainHelion
Charlo
Daemonifugue
Dont-Be-Haten
Grazcruzk
Indefragable
Lord Ranulf
Mightykin
Schwills
sfPanzer
Soulhunter1995
Thoridon
Ultra kblock
Venerable Jazzman
Zeller

 

Where we at Fellas? Also how cool is is that this list is pretty short?

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Beautiful dirty stripes! :)
Link to comment
Share on other sites

Archived

This topic is now archived and is closed to further replies.

  • Recently Browsing   0 members

    • No registered users viewing this page.
×
×
  • Create New...

Important Information

By using this site, you agree to our Terms of Use.