The Lead Painters' League Season 5

[Pil]

Don't know if it will all fit in an 800 x 800 photo.

Indeed, apart from having to paint the models for round 10 I don't know yet how I will have to compose my picture. Ah well, paint first, photograph later I guess.

Hammers, I'm sorry if you can't compete with new teams anymore, but you have an amazing backlog of entries from this and previous LPLs to choose your non-new teams from for the final rounds, if you really can't make it.

[Fire Broadside!]

Ok... entry 9 sent. Not the minis that I had planned, but newly painted ones nonetheless. 

Now, to get started on round 10...


And Hammers...   

[Captain Blood]

Wow - the league sounds such a hard slog - really don't know how everyone manages it.

It's a challenge, that's for sure, if you're going to compete with a new entry each round and chase down all the theme bonus points. But you get a lot of satisfaction from achieving it 

The trick is to make sure you use the notice period of (in this case nearly six weeks) to get a few teams in the bag / under your belt. After that, painting, say, five or six teams of new miniatures across the ten week period of the league becomes a reasonably manageable proposition. Although the investment of time does also rather depend on the standard of painting you're aiming for 

But that thing called Real Life has a nasty habit of getting in the way - work, partners, kids, holidays, accidents, social commitments, family events and family crises... They can all derail the best-planned LPL campaign...

Only the toughest survive... 

[syrinx0]

You really do need to build a buffer as soon as see the announcement and decide to give it a go.  If I hadn't had a 3 team buffer at the start thanks to a few days holiday I would have fallen off two weeks ago.  What I didn't think to do was to get a jump on week 10 earlier.   

[Wirelizard]

Nothing new for Round 9 from me, I'm afraid. My poor ECW horse will get another chance to lose horribly to someone else.

I'm going to have to get cracking on Round 10's entry this weekend, too!

I mananged the full ten rounds of new stuff last time I did LPL, but this is the second round I've had to rerun something in. Family commitments at the end of last week, and then a cold that left me wanting about 14hrs of sleep a night instead of my usual 7 or so kind of kill off the spare time!

[Hammers]

It's a challenge, that's for sure, if you're going to compete with a new entry each round and chase down all the theme bonus points. But you get a lot of satisfaction from achieving it 

The trick is to make sure you use the notice period of (in this case nearly six weeks) to get a few teams in the bag / under your belt. After that, painting, say, five or six teams of new miniatures across the ten week period of the league becomes a reasonably manageable proposition. Although the investment of time does also rather depend on the standard of painting you're aiming for 

But that thing called Real Life has a nasty habit of getting in the way - work, partners, kids, holidays, accidents, social commitments, family events and family crises... They can all derail the best-planned LPL campaign...

Only the toughest survive... 

Exactly so.

[Blackwolf]

Say it ain't so! I was hoping to be matched against you someday, maybe League 6- as I doubt I'll creep into the top ten this round.
Frank and Blackwolf gave me a one-two knockout combo

 But what matches they were I still have the bruises

 And Hammers, I'm sorry you may be dropping out?

[Anpu]

No new entry for me this round either. Probably no one next round as well as I will be away to work in another city this week.

[Silent Invader]

And round 9 is in.....

How happy am I to have finished it? Picture cheerleaders, marching bands, bunting, fireworks....  

What's that?  Round 10 is the real test.  

Bugger!  Picture sloping shoulders, cramped claw of a hand, washed out complexion from too much time indoors, bags under eyes, the 10 cm stare.....  


On a serious note .... really sorry to hear that hammers won't have a new entry for Round 10 (crikes... I'm sure many of his previous could be round 10 entries.... am absolutely certain I've seen them on the big screen... or perhaps I'm becoming incresingly delusional.....).  

[Heldrak]

Picture sloping shoulders, cramped claw of a hand, washed out complexion from too much time indoors, bags under eyes, the 10 cm stare.....  

Add lower back pain and that's me all over... 

[Raz]

Never came this close to the deadline... Had a wedding yesterday, home by 02:00 and needed to finish my entry this morning, won't recommend it Well, the picture is just sent, now to relax a bit

Hammers, sorry to hear you're dropping out. Your entries are stellar especially with the amount of scenery you add to each!

[Braxandur]

Entry has just been send in at 11:58 local time

I already wish everyone a lot of luck with the next round!

A shame to see that the pace is (as always) killing of contestants... Don't want to see you fo Hammer now we are almost there!

[Blue in vt]

So I got round 9 in at 4:30am est...and things were a bit rushed there at the end...the wife had just realized I wasn't in bed and came searching for me!  There it is in but I could have used another 30 min to tidy it up a bit.

Of course the kids were up at 6:00 as usual....ugh I see a nap in my future.... Then I begin the final mile...10 figures and a vehicle seem like an awful lot right now!

Cheer....zzzzzz

Blue

[Braxandur]

So I got round 9 in at 4:30am est...and things were a bit rushed there at the end...the wife had just realized I wasn't in bed and came searching for me!  

Allthough in my case it's the girlfriend instead of the wife, this part sounds disturbingly familiar

[Bugsda]

Allthough in my case it's the girlfriend instead of the wife, this part sounds disturbingly familiar

My wife hates my guts, I count myself incredibly lucky