1. Make a post including a picture of your unfinished mini, in whatever state you want to start your project. Use an online image hosting service like Imgur and link your images from there. Optionally you may want to include a picture of your starting image with Current Time in American Samoa in view behind the picture. This may be your tradition from the Oath thread that you want to continue, or else you might just find it useful to help keep track of the history of your projects this way. (see 'Traditions')
   
2. When you are complete, post a picture of your completed work in whatever setting you choose.
   
3. Progress pictures are welcome and discussion of your work and others is encouraged.
   
4. You may want to include a 'watermark' of your SA user name as part of the with start and completion pictures, but this is not required. (As there are no rules).
   
5. There will be monthly 'prompts', similar to the previous monthly 'themes', including a list to pick from, as well as a (partially) randomized monthly prompt. Ideally declare your Prompt with your starting pic, however if you get inspired later in the month just include in your finished pic.
   
6. Recommend if you have a project crossing month boundaries, and/or taking longer than a month, making a 'monthly affirmation' ideally with a progress photo, to help keep you motivated and so we get to see what you are doing.
   

1. No points, judges, spreadsheet, achivements, galleries, rules
   
2. Setting your own time frames for painting
   
3. Monthly 'Prompts' instead of Themes
   

1. Multiverse of Madness - Paint a model that somehow references another setting or character - e.g. a proud knight dressed in full plate in the colours of Iron Man's suit, a fantasy football team in the colours of a baseball team, a wizard with a strange technological wand (aka sonic screwdriver), some urban graffiti with the hand of Saruman.
   
2. Smoothly Does It - Add a smooth blend between two or more colours/shades on your model.
   
3. A Real Scorcher - Your model should feature flames or a heat source of some kind. This could a soldier firing a flamethrower, a dragon roasting some unfortunate adventurers, a spaceship at full thrust or an overcharged plasma cannon. OSL isn't necessary but may help get the point across.
   
4. The Chop Shop - Your model should be customised or customisable in some way. e.g. Sculpt it yourself, a kitbash or headswap, changable weapons or fun with magnets / LEDs!
   
5. Raise Your Flag - Your model should feature a large banner or flag. This could be held proudly or draped against the side of a vehicle or wall. For settings where a large banner is inappropriate, nose art or similar mural art can be used.
   
6. Send Shivers Down Your Spine - Paint up something creepy or spooky. Could be a ghost, or some classic undead or hammer horror inspired figures. Could be a more modern take on horror ala The Ring or something unsettling or wrong about an otherwise ordinary scene.
   
7. Shine on Crazy Diamond - Add something shiny to your model. This could be using chrome metallics, NMM, glossy scales, or similar
   
8. Lay on the Texture - Paint a figure featuring heavy fur or other texture. This doesn't necessarily have to be modelled on, you could paint a fake texture such as marble.
   
9. Obligatory WIP Month - Take at least three Work in Progress pictures of your oath, if you take more please link to an external gallery of them.
   
10. Making a Splash - Your model should look wet or feature water effects. Maybe they're a slimy toad, are fighting in the rain or even just standing over a puddle.
    
11. Shades of Grey - Use a limited colour palette on your model, e.g. everything is different shades of blue. Optionally throw in a single accent colour, Sin-City style.
    
12. University of Hard Knocks - Your model should feature weathering, e.g. rust, mud or heat staining. Alternately they could be under the effects of heavy weather such as a storm, blizzard or hurricane.
    
13. Repair Time - revisit something you were never quite happy with, or is in fact technically broken and requiring an actual repair. Post a pic and explain the task in hand, whether it be an actual fix or just a rework of an old paint job. Let's see what we can improve!
    
14. Maximum Carnage Include some gore or battle damage on your model. Maybe they won the fight or maybe they lost it, but either way something took some heavy damage! Or maybe all the damage/gore is part of the model's base.
    
15. Cooling Off Include something 'cold' in your model, whether it be ice and snow, or perhaps just an overall 'cool' color scheme.
    

1. Post your monthly Oath start pic w/Current Time in American Samoa in the background
   
2. On the last month of each season, post a picture including all the work you did that season. (This was formerly an achivement). Me I also like to try and post everything I've ever Oathed (this gets difficult over time...)
   
3. Include a watermark of your username on (at least) your completed pics at end of project.
   

1. Season 13 (for inspiration)
   
2. Season 13 Spreadsheet
   
3. Current Time in American Samoa
   

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