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Best of Nova Open 2014, and Hobby Blog To-Do 2015

9/1/2014

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Going to be a lot of blog posts this week fellas!  Hope you are ready!  I have around 600 photos of Nova armies to go through, so going to split them up into multiple days.  Today I'm going to be covering the Dave Weston Hobby To Do List Alumni for 2015.  Still have to do a summary of Nova, all the awesome people I met...so much blogging to do!


What's that you might ask?  It's a loosely definite way for fellow bloggers to announce to the community what they plan to finish from now till 2015.  It's a motivational way of providing inspiration for one another, and positive feedback so we all reach our goals.

Dave Weston (one of my favorite blogs) started it at Confessions of a 40k Addict.  Stop by and check out everyone's lists (and possibly join in!).   Since my list is a bit long, I will post it after the break (along with my best of Nova open considerations).

This is the original list I typed on thursday, BEFORE I attended any classes at Nova.  I am going to make some major adjustments now!

My list for 2014/2015

1. Attend a tabletop event. (Done!)
2. Enter a painting competition even if I don't have a chance of winning (done, didn't place)
3. Paint my mega dread
4. Paint my gorkanaught
5. Paint my warboss biker
6. Paint the mek and painboy
7. Paint ten sternguard and a drop pod (black templars)
8. Paint and magnetize 10 vanguard vets which will double as assault marines or honor guard.
9. Paint a sicaran battle tank (templars)
10. Finish painting my half painted crusaders.
11. Paint and build another stormtalon.
12. Create an army list for LVO, paint, and build/paint to a high tabletop standard.

13. Practice airbrush techniques, salt techniques, and hairspray techniques
14. Sell old tanks, repurchase new ones, and build CORRECTLY this time.  Unified Scheme.
15. Design and begin working on an actual paint competition piece, instead of a table top piece I enter in a competition.
16. Place in a competition (tournament or painting).
While I was at nova, I attended an airbrushing class, and a weathering class.  The amount I learned in those four hours was beyond my imagination.  I'm completely adjusting my techniques, and style of painting to compensate, and as such, general hobby work might seem to pause for a time, as I practice these techniques.  But I think the end result will be worth it!  I'll share what I've learned as I blog, so hopefully everyone can chime in, or discuss!


Quick Things: 
Agitators in paint pots are bad (oops greg!).  
Water first, then alcohol for cleaning airbrushes, then water again.  Never alcohol directly into paint!
There is no wrong way to paint.  Everyone is right.

You can't recover dried paint.  Just toss it.  If you aren't willing to toss a four dollar pot of paint, you should probably find a new hobby.

So two quick completes for me, with some really hard ones to go :).

Now for the part you guys are probably here for.  My personal best of for nova.  I know my opinion carries a ton of weight (sarcasm), but I thought you'd be interested in seeing some photos anyway.  Keep in mind these are just my personal opinions and I am not a judge, do not have much mini painting experience, and I'm a bit crazy.  There is also tons of awesome armies which I'll be posting all week.  I pretty much loved everything, so mainly going by gut on these.

Favorite 40k GT Army (Player)

Marc Parker brought a green tide ork list.  Not only was Marc a fantastic guy to chat with, but he wielded an army that some thought was completely non competitive (myself included), like a surgical sledge hammer.  To watch this army cross the battlefield was an absolute joy, and he shut down many opponents strategies by presenting a savage and brutal force.  His final score was 5-2 (losing only to eldar and chaos daemons)

Favorite 40k GT Army (Painted)

So I tried to pick this, and utterly failed.  I need more time to look through every ones armies. There is hundreds to go through....and I seem particularly biased to the flying nids because they look so awesome!  Here is a quick selection of some of the armies I particularly liked!  I will be posting a shot of each army I took a photo of in sections (probably 30-40 a day) for the rest of this week.

Favorite Painted Figure (Capital Palette)

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From the first time I set eyes on this mini, I kept revisiting it.  It's just spectacular down from the tiny details to the pose, to the base.  In a sea of competition (which all blew my entry out of the ocean), this one stood out to me.  I will update with the artists name as soon as I know it!

Favorite Painted Vehicle (Capital Palette)

Slight bias here.  I love John's work.  He does weathering on a scale that seems as if he upsized the panel to a size of a room, did his weathering, then shrink it back down to 28mm.  How he gets his models so clean, and weathered at the same time is beyond me!  (Yes I know John.  Oils :) )

Favorite Painted Army

John's work as a whole is absolutely amazing.  There was always a crowd around his army, and for good reason.  I don't need to say much but drop a few photos for you all to enjoy!

Favorite 40k Conversion

Evan from FTGT created an absolutely amazing Mawloc conversion.  He has it bursting out of a road, grabbing a poor ultarmine in his tongue.  The Best part of this conversion? (and why it deserves special mention), the height of the marine on top is the exact height of a normal mawloc.  So well thought out and executed!


That's it for today guys.  Quite a massive post.  I hope you enjoy the photos, because that is going to be the theme this entire week!
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