Ben's Gaming World

Sunday, March 29, 2009

500 point challenge

Here is the deal. This was started by midloo over on the www.wwhfb.com forums and was a great idea. I have two completed 2250+ armies fully painted, but I have always had Warriors of Chaos laying around. I stopped and picked up the book for them finally a week ago and thought, hey, these guys need to get finished and this would be a great way to motivate on my current work schedule to get them done.

So, here are the rules:
Here's the schedule:
--500 points painted by the end of March
--250 points every month after that

The purpose is to get that new army you've had sitting in a drawer for years off and running. Sometimes looking at the whole pile is overwhelming, this should help make that stack more approachable.

Please post the army you are working on and your initial 500pt list.

I started out at almost the end of March, even though I posted I was starting on the 16th. I had a bunch of assembly on chaos knights to complete and repair work on models. Still, I had a good chunk all ready started or completed so I am not worried about the first 500 point mark. At the first 500 point mark, here is the completed. In all honesty, this was all stuff that I have all ready finished for the army. I didn't hit a brush to any of this which probably isn't fair for the rest of them them. However, I did start 17 warriors with hand weapons and shields. I expect these guys to get me to the next 250 point mark, maybe a little further. Chaos is one of those armies that you can almost cheat and paint one model and make your mark. I will post my 2250 army later, but my total model count is 88 models with my current list. Considering I had a 34 model head start I plan on out pacing the marks in the remaining months and trying to get the thing to 3k fully painted. That should give me some selection at the 2250 point mark so I don't always have to play the same lists.

So, here are the picks of what is done so far: