Just for
once it might actually benefit me to go into a project with a plan.
That usually doesn't work for me but given that the whole point of
this project is to work at a schedule and prescribed goals it might
help to decide a few things before beginning. Also, I had forgotten
what absolute nightmares the Men-At-Arms models were to build so I
need a short break.
September
Goals
Okay, so I
have forty-nine models to paint this month and, as of today, exactly
four weeks to paint them. Considering that's well above my usual
speed I need to break this down into smaller tasks. I've got four
weeks, sixteen archers, twenty halberdiers, four stands of defensive
stakes, eight knights and one Pegasus Knight.
So, the goal
for each week will be half a unit of peasants and two Knights Of The
Realm.
Bretonnian
Units Beyond The Tale
Obviously
not a consideration this month, I've got a whole Battalion to do.
However, after that the targets are a little more forgiving. Next
month's goal is a single unit of infantry or cavalry and if, say, I
choose to do a nice little unit of Mounted Yeomen (for which I have
seen an awesome conversion online) I could probably polish that off
in a week.
So, I've
decided to treat the later goals as more of a bare minimum for the
month. I will not work on anything else for the Tale until the
month's goal is reached but once that's done I'll branch out a
little. At the very least I need more characters than the one “mighty
hero” who'll be my Month Four project. There's a compulsory Battle
Standard Bearer, for a start.
Other
Projects During The Tale
Okay, so I
am definitely not going to be able to paint just Bretonnians for five
months. What I can do is continue last month's work and concentrate
on completing more half-finished miniatures. Also, I'll only be
working on one of these things to the side at a time. No big sprawl
of additional models on my painting table: just the Bretonnian
project of the moment and one other thing to give me a little variety
without sacrificing my focus.
The absolute
only new things I will start whilst this Tale is ongoing is new Death
Guard stuff because I've waited too long for them to be an army with
an actual product range to put them on hold for five months.
Telling
The Tale
I need to
write background for this army. Bretonnians are an army who are all
about their heroes and I really want to explore that. I have an idea
to make the core characters (my general, BSB, some of the Damsels,
maybe) members of the same family and have the army be the standing
garrison of a particular holdfast rather than a crusading force. I
don't doubt they'll end up going on a crusade or two but I want to
establish the characters by writing some stories just about them
before having them interact (read: beat the stuffing out of) my
friends' characters.
Right, now
back to trying to hold those halberds in those awful concave joins
long enough for the glue to actually take...
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