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I, Beffer, oath to paint this mummy which is a random print that I picked up with something else on a whim Long time oath thread lurker, first time participating poster. I'm looking for some painting inspiration at the moment, so hopefully this will give me a kick up the arse, even if it's just one mini.
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Oath complete I guess the motivation part worked. Now to start improving my painting and photography 
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Jun 4, 2023 08:38
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I Beffer oath this GW grey seer His tail broke when I hit him with a toothbrush after a Dettol bath. He's been sitting primed on my paint box for several months, but cometh the hour cometh the rat.
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Jun 18, 2023 08:14
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Oath complete! Except I still haven't learned how to take decent photos. I will keep trying but for the moment...  Edit: I tried with my DSLR. At least the depth of field is OK and it's more or less in focus. Any bluriness is my dodgy painting at this point:  Edit2: now with the white balance fixed: 
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Jun 28, 2023 08:53
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I, Beffer, oath to paint this pit fighter from Grimforge Miniatures (and probably to post a badly lit out of focus picture of it) in the month of July
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Jul 3, 2023 02:23
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Oath Complete! ...all the way down to the promised crap photos sadly. I'll try to take something better (or at least in focus) later in the week. In the meantime:  This guy broke my will. He is a limited edition cast resin figure from the Mordheim FB group. The cast was full of holes and didn't fit together well. But that would have been fine except that the wafer thin resin sword snapped while I was wrangling the ill fitting hand onto the arm. Which is why it is now a ridiculous fat sword that looks like he chopped the head of that giant wolf with a sausage. Perhaps he did. I tried to disguise it with GW's gore paint, but it still looks like a sausage. He was going to be Tilean anyway so I'll change his surname to di Salami. The Oath thread did its job though, because it forced me to finish him, so I can now move on to the next processed goods welding member of my not-Mordheim warband.
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Jul 31, 2023 09:31
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Southern Heel posted:Though a great fan of Warhammer 40,000, I’ve always found myself WHFB-adjacent - nobody near me wanted to play it and the closest I got was reading WD and drooling over the Army Books and Golden Daemon entries. During Covid I’ve come to enjoy solo gaming and so I decided it was finally time to build that 3rd/4th Edition Fantasy army of my dreams, and who else but the most red army of the red period? The majority of my sculpts are early middlehammer-style figures by Fabelzel, who has done excellent work in mimicking the original designs of... the Chaos Dwarfs! That is a hard core oath. Respect
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Aug 3, 2023 22:23
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I, Beffer, oath this empire swordsman from GW and a printed resin stuntie from Highland Minis edit: now with time stamp! 
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Aug 5, 2023 03:59
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Oath complete! Complete with dodgy photography, in fact. Here are my two new band members:   A slightly better photo of my pit fighter from last month. It's clear that the lighting is my main problem as these photos were taken with an iPhone with minimal attempt to steady the camera. It's not a good photo but an improvement on last time.  And the whole crew (more to come) emerging from the Tomb of my Retaining Wall 
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Aug 30, 2023 07:20
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with a rebel yell she QQd posted:Oath complete! Last day oathing Extreme oathing
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Aug 31, 2023 22:49
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I, Before, oath to paint three mooks from Archon Studios Woodhaven townsfolk in September!
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Sep 1, 2023 06:43
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Oath complete Three dudes painted and photographed one even in focus!  I nearly killed myself trying to do eyes that I didn't hate. I don't love them, but after 18 (eighteen) painted eyes, I landed on these. More fun was painting the silly striped trousers. And this completes my warband who you can see emerging from the Lost Caves of Retaining Wall having proven, once and for all, that there are no trolls in these caves. 
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Sep 24, 2023 02:57
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Bonus oath! I didn't actually oath this for September, but as we're casually swearing... I finished my warband (see post a couple above), and rolled the start of a new Five Leagues campaign. The first thing that happened was that the party was waylaid before even reaching town. The battle took place along a river. I don't (didn't) have river terrain and have in the past fudged it with printed out, scaled up river battle map images from inkarnate, but it was a bit poo poo. Years ago I saw a video of someone painting terrain on the back of transparent plastic, so I thought I'd have a September crack at it. And here it is:  Still a bit poo poo, but it was a fun and quick project. And cheap: the plastic was AU$10 for 10m2 and craft paint that I have enough of to last a lifetime. Thanks kids. The trick is that you want to paint on the reverse side of the plastic so your minis aren't trampling all over it. So you have to paint backwards; foreground to background. It's hard to get your head around. And if you let it dry and try to blend over the top of it, that doesn't work as you don't see that when you turn it over to the playing side. See for reference the darker blue pools. One positive discovery was that I taped the plastic down to scrap cardboard to protect the surface of my table while I painted. I then realised I could draw what I wanted on the cardboard as a plan. This was very helpful, and if I do this again, I will take more time to do that properly. Anyway a fun, cheap and quick project to add some (slightly less poo poo) terrain casually sworn.
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Sep 30, 2023 00:15
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Beautiful
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Oct 1, 2023 00:24
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I, Beffer, oath to paint these three scratch built ruined buildings (but not my skirting boards) Edit: adding a time stamped photo of primed ruins for posterity!  Edit2: adding a couple of Gobbo shootas 
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Oct 6, 2023 00:18
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Oath complete I like painting terrain. You don't have to be too meticulous and you can just have fun with it. especially scratch built pieces like these (with thanks or apologies to Devs and Dice who provided the instructions, templates and posters on YouTube)  And here are some close ups with the two bonus gobboes: a shoota and a netta! Also fun and quick to paint.   
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Oct 11, 2023 09:08
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I, Beffer, swear to paint this GW beastman (bestigor?) and some scatter terrain from Archon Studios this November  
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Nov 4, 2023 02:51
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Oath complete! My beastie boy looking down on a campsite I made along with the scatter bits I oathed.  Here he is in close up calculating the drop and whether he can land in the tent to break his fall. Sure, he's all about chaos, but he's not crazy. 
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Nov 26, 2023 05:30
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That face is fantastic
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Nov 30, 2023 22:57
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I, Beffer, would like to oath a bridge made of sticks and rubbish, but the weather in Sydney is too good and I think I'll be at the beach so Oath Failed, before I even started! Finishing the year as an oathbreaker but happy with my decision. Edit! Scratch that. The weather has been great, but we've had some days that have been too hot to hang outside. So I've had some time to do some mucking around with sticks and bark and gravel and popsicles, and so... I, Beffer, swear to paint this troll infested bridge, maybe  Beffer fucked around with this message at 11:08 on Dec 17, 2023 |
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Dec 14, 2023 06:27
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Oath complete! So the weather has been a bit iffy. Sometimes beautiful but sometimes too hot to go to the beach and sometimes, like today, too wet. So... I'm sure there's a troll under this bridge.  There he is!   Scratch built and dodgy in all sorts of ways, but I really enjoy making and painting terrain. The process is so relaxed as you're constrained by your tools and materials, so don't have to strive for perfection. It feels like a great release for me, and a real counterpoint to my very slow painting process for minis (which I also enjoy but is very different).
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Dec 21, 2023 09:18
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I, Beffer, oath to paint Aenur, Sword of Twilight for January! Happy New Oathing, goons.
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Jan 12, 2024 04:09
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Double post, I guess: Oath complete!  This was probably the quickest and easiest painted mini I've done. I can see now the appeal of the oldhammer style. When it's done well, it's strong faces, a good pose and not cluttered with a million details. It makes it fun and fast to paint. I'm glad because I had too much to drink over Christmas and ordered some more old metal from the troll trader. Aenur got some paint because one of my war band in Five Leagues (from the Border Princes) died. Here he is meeting his new captain:  "What did you say your name was, sonny? Annie? Never heard of you. Welcome to the band, anyway. Try not to die too fast."
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Jan 13, 2024 01:54
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with a rebel yell she QQd posted:Oath complete! They look great. I love the toenails! And I'm relieved you got your gobbos off those filthy round bases.
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Jan 31, 2024 23:45
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with a rebel yell she QQd posted:I have to stop drinking. Never the right answer
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Feb 1, 2024 23:27
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I, Beffer, swear to paint these several beastie boys from GW this February I'm setting myself up for failure here, as I'm very slow and I really struggle painting lots of the same thing. But I want them done, and I need the motivation. So here we are.
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Feb 2, 2024 06:20
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I, Beffer, must confess to be a despicable pathbreaker despite the leap year bonus day in February Current progress is one base coat on skin of 4 of 9 models. Ah well.
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Feb 29, 2024 02:54
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Is the banner freehand? Very cool
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Feb 29, 2024 20:44
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Does the thing i failed to do last month count?
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Mar 4, 2024 11:14
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gameraMan posted:March Oath! Fixed your image tags. All part of the great plan.
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Progress(?) report I’ve currently managed to do four of the eight cowboys that I oathed in February. Done to a very ordinary standard. I’ve decided that i hate all things chaos with all their fiddly “detail” and I have dedicated my (painting) life to sigmar and purity. At least until i slap some acrylic on the remaining four at which time i will reassess and maybe paint some more orcs. Such is life.
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Mar 28, 2024 11:02
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I, Beffer, completely butchered this February oath but I am heartily sick of these beastie boys so they are done! These guys nearly killed me. I am not made out for painting groups of the same thing. An oldhammer beastmen set would have been way better as they were all individually mutated, but these guys are about as chaotic as sand. On the other hand an oldhammer beastmen set would have cost about a bajillion dollars, so.... I did enjoy painting some of the individual detail, once I gotten through all the flesh, fur, horns leather, etc. Reading that back, it sounds like I was painting an 80s metal hair band. Maybe I was. I apologise for the blurry photos, but I could not get the depth of field to cover the full crew, so between the two power photos you can almost see all of my cows in focus. Enjoy!   Onwards and upwards. I have a character or two to paint next, so that should be safely oathable. *famous last words* And..... I, Beffer, oath to paint this Victrix norseman posing as a Kislev (or is he Norscan?) refugee this month of April. Probably. 
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Oath complete Barely. Still needs to be varnished but done in April (according to the time in American Samoa).   I'll try to take some better photos on the weekend, but this dodgy fella is done.
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