{"id":4501,"date":"2015-08-24T21:04:58","date_gmt":"2015-08-24T20:04:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hntdaab.co.uk\/blog\/?p=4501"},"modified":"2021-10-29T03:00:58","modified_gmt":"2021-10-29T02:00:58","slug":"the-lead-mountain-challenge-week-0-introduction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hntdaab.co.uk\/blog\/2015\/08\/24\/the-lead-mountain-challenge-week-0-introduction\/","title":{"rendered":"The Lead Mountain Challenge – Week 0 – Introduction"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Newest additions to the lead pile – Radio DishDash’s Taliban<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

As the Red Hot Chili Peppers once sang “I have a bad disease”. While it may not cause me to actually bleed, it does have the unfortunate side effect of taking my money and then running away with it. I am talking about the Lead Mountain condition common to all wargamers, where you buy more models then you need and thanks to a combination of lack of time, lack of effort and other more important things to do they never end up painted, instead dooming them to a life time of being unpainted or only base coated.<\/p>\n

Seeing as I have been properly\u00a0wargaming for only a year, for me to get a large number of unpainted models is a little bit ridiculous. So I’m setting myself a challenge. Between now and the end of January\u00a02016,\u00a0I aim to paint, base and varnish all of the 28mm models in my collection. I’ll detail the exact sets I still need to paint below but first a few other rules.<\/p>\n

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  1. I can not spend any more money on buying models until the 1st of February. This includes terrain, vehicles, models, other ranges of models etc.<\/li>\n
  2. I CAN spend money on tools and equipment needed for painting\/gaming – This includes brushes, paint, sand, counter, dice. I will have to declare what I buy on the weekly blog and explain why I need it.<\/li>\n
  3. Each week I’ll write a blog post with my progress that week including lots of pretty pictures<\/li>\n
  4. A model is classed as finished when it is painted (to a tabletop gaming standard), based and varnished.<\/li>\n
  5. If I complete all the 28mm model I own\u00a0by the 31st of January\u00a02016\u00a0then I get to pick up a few models of my choosing to start a new project (something of a similar scale to the British platoon I have finished). If I don’t, then I get to be shamed and sent to the hobby gulag. And the challenge then extends even further.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    So that sounds fun.\u00a0Now, what’s the situation as it stands? Here are all my models from a selection of sources (about half \u00a0of the Spectre sets are from an additional order I received by accident):<\/p>\n

    Already painted, varnished and based – 87:<\/strong><\/p>\n