• Season 8 Spreadsheet
  
• Oath Galleries
  
• Current Time in American Samoa
  

1. Set up your screen of choice to show the Current Time in American Samoa.
   
2. Lay out your chosen miniatures around / in front of the screen. Miniatures may be assembled and undercoated (including zenithal priming) but otherwise painting must not have started on them.
   
3. Take a picture of the lot! Make sure the screen is clearly visible (the important parts are the Date, Time and the American Samoa title) and that the miniatures are countable (it’s fine if they are a bit out of focus so long as we can match them with your oath). If you’re oathing a lot of stuff it’s fine to take multiple pictures.
   
4. Post in this thread with your picture, the contents of your Oath and a sentence akin to ‘I, <username>, Oath to paint the following for <month>’. This post should be made within 3 days of the picture being taken, ideally on the same day.
   
5. Optionally, let us know the manufacturer(s) and scale(s) of the miniatures you are painting. It's not needed but it can be interesting to see trends
   

1. Take a picture of your completed miniatures. It’s fine to take multiple pictures if you’re painting a bunch of stuff or just want to show it off from multiple angles.
   
2. Make sure your forum name is clearly visible on the pictures - either you can include this when taking the picture (e.g. on a bit of paper or a screen in the background) or you can edit it onto the picture afterwards. Technically this is optional, but you’ll lose out on points and the pictures won’t get submitted to the Gallery.
   
3. Post in this thread with your picture(s), the words ‘Oath Complete’, and any Achievements or Challenges you are claiming (see later). Make sure this post is made before the end of the month in American Samoa (see the countdown timer).
   It’s that simple!
   

• A successfully completed Oath will get you 3 Points.
  
• If you have remembered to add your name to at least one of your completion pictures you get 1 point.
  
• If you complete the month’s Challenge you get 1 point.
  
• For each Achievement you complete you get 1 point (possibly more!).
  
• Extra points are available for impressing our celebrity Judges!
  

1. May - A Flying Start
   Paint up a flying model, such as a dragon, plane or even a spaceship! The model doesn’t have to be posed as if it’s currently flying, though it should be obvious that it could do so. Alternatively, add a flying design to a figure - this could be a dragon tattoo, or a banner depicting an angel, or similar.
   
2. June - Raise Your Flag
   Paint up a flag or banner as part of your model. This could be a literal flag they’re holding, or something like a tattoo or painted panel which shows a flag. You could even be patriotic and paint the flag of your home country (or the one your model is from).
   
3. July - Time to Shine
   Paint up something really shiny as part of your figure. Perhaps this is a meticulously polished suit of armour, an all-seeing crystal ball, or a handful of magical gemstones or coins. You could use some gloss varnish or an NMM technique to make it stand out.
   
4. August - Feeling the heat
   Add some fire to your model - this could be a fire elemental or a burning torch, or even a special effect like a fireball or plasma blast. Maybe use some OSL to really make your model pop! You don’t have to feature actual fire so long as it’s obvious something hot or bright is about, so a lava base or searing bright spotlight works.
   
5. September - The Chop Shop
   Convert your miniature in some way. Maybe a simple head or weapon swap, or you could go as far as a scratch build or your own sculpt! If you’re converting an existing figure, include a picture of what a standard version of the model looks like.
   
6. October - Bring out your dead
   Paint up something spooky for All Hallow’s Eve or the Day of the Dead. Alternatively, add some skulls, either real ones, icons, tattoos, facepaint, etc.
   
7. November - Always take the weather with you
   Add some environmental effects to your figure. Maybe they’ve been driving through a dust cloud, crawling through muddy trenches or have been soaked by a rain storm. Alternatively, paint something that looks old and weathered such as a rusty machine or a statue covered in verdigris.
   
8. December - Back to Base-ics
   Don’t just settle on a plain base for your figure, put together something unique to make them stand out! For games which don’t use bases or if you’re using transparent ones, put together a display board or movement tray for them.
   
9. January - Remember to show your workings
   Take at least three Work in Progress shots of your figure, not counting your initial Oath and final Completion pictures. Each picture should show some progression. If you take a lot of pictures, show three in the completion post and include the rest in an Imgur gallery or similar linked from the post.
   
10. February - My heart bleeds for you
    Include some glory blood effects on your model. Maybe they’ve just decapitated their foe or have taken a few flesh wounds. Alternately, paint a heart symbol on your figure, showing that it’s better to love than hate!
    
11. March - I’m gonna wreck it!
    Add some battle damage to your figure. Maybe they’re riddled with bullets or have lost a limb, or some armour plates have been crumpled or ripped off. In any case, it should be obvious that they’ve taken a beating!
    
12. April - Free(hand) as a bird
    Add some freehand to your figure. This shouldn’t be a simple small symbol, rather it should be a large pattern which catches the eye and is an obvious focal point, such as nose art on a plane or an intricate celtic knot tattoo or so on.
    

1. Getting Started: Complete your first Oath.
   
2. Apprentice: Complete your third Oath.
   
3. Journeyman: Complete your sixth Oath.
   
4. Expert: Complete your ninth Oath.
   
5. Master: Complete all twelve Oaths this season!
   

• Stay awhile and listen: Write a story about one or more of the figures you have painted. How did they get those scars? Why are they wielding a variety of golf clubs? What makes them get up in the morning? Post your story alongside your completed pics in addition to your claim.
  
• Need 4 Speed: Paint up one or more of your figures in 24 hours! To do this you need a before and after picture with timestamps (use the American Samoa time as usual; your before pic can be the same as your oath picture). You’re free to post the after picture as soon as it’s ready but make sure to link to it in your completion post so it's not missed.
  
• A faithful replica: Paint one of your miniatures to match the manufacturer’s ‘official’ scheme. When you post your completion, include a picture of the original you’re copying. This also includes painting something to mimic a real life person or object, e.g. if you paint up a historically accurate tank or a tribute to a TV show character.
  
• Get the Crystal: Paint up some game aids as part of your Oath. These could be objectives, status markers (like a vehicle wreck explosion), loot counters or even a customised blast template! State in your completion post what they’ll be used for (e.g. Get the Crystal: Treasure counters for Frostgrave).
  
• Spic and Span: Tidy up your painting space. Post a before picture of the terrible mess your painting area is (this can be with your Oath in the month) and an after picture with everything neat and tidy with all your paints and tools back in their places.
  
• The Daily Double: Paint a figure that matches the challenges from two different months other than the current month. State which challenges you’re doing in your completion post (e.g. Claiming The Daily Double for the helicopter using April and December’s challenges).
  
• The Mr Tryhard Award: Paint up a figure that matches a challenge from every month! That’s right, 12 challenges, one figure! This can’t be combined with The Daily Double (you’ll need a different figure for that) but can be combined with the usual challenge for the month. This achievement is worth 2 points!
  
• Take one for the team: Paint up a group of at least four related miniatures, such as a Frostgrave Warband, a squad of Space Marines, a Guildball Team, a Dropfleet, and so on. There should be a unifying theme behind the minis such as a logo or colour scheme so they don’t just look like a bunch of random guys.
  
• A recipe for success: Include a list of the colours and techniques you used to paint your figure. If you’ve done a fancy base, include the materials used for it. Basically anything to help other people copy your masterpiece!
  
• Rescue Ranger: Finish painting a figure you’d started but never gotten around to completing. This is an exception to the ‘undercoated only’ rule - when posting your Oath featuring a rescue model, state that you are rescuing it and show it in it’s current state. You can’t claim Need 4 Speed on a Rescue model.
  
• All together now: This can only be claimed during April. Post a picture of everything you have painted for the current Oath season - you may be surprised at how much that is! Optionally, summarize what you’ve painted in the post (e.g. this season I have painted 127 infantry and 3 tanks). In the case of people who aren’t painting anything during April you can still claim this achievement by making a Season Complete post with the picture and description as above.
  

Zark the Damned fucked around with this message at 21:55 on May 1, 2018

Bonus objectives

• There's more than one! - if you paint more than one monster or robot you receive an extra entry in the prize draw. This could even be one of each!
  
• There goes the neighbourhood! - if you post a picture of your monster or robot terrorising the local populace, standing triumphantly over the smouldering remains of a tavern, facing a soon to be dead hunter, or similar, you receive an extra entry! In short, some sort of diorama featuring your monster(s). It may be an idea to combine this with the above and shoot an epic battle of monster versus machine!