Painting Challenge: Mid-September Update
/Some very nice examples of our craft submitted over the last couple of weeks.
Make sure you check out the everyone’s individual galleries, but here’s a selection:
TFL Painting Challenge: First September Update
/A little bit slower this week, probably because the summer holidays have ended and it’s back to work time!
It’s still, however, an impressive collection of entries this week. Visit the galleries to see all, but here’s a snapshot of what’s been sent in:
Another Painting Challenge Update
/It’s time for another Painting Challenge update, and today we have some really lovely entries coming in.
Make sure you look at the individual galleries (accessed via the nav bar, above) but here’s a selection…
TFL Painting Challenge: Latest Update
/It’s another sweltering hot day today in the UK: going outside is like walking into a wall of heat.
Unusual distribution of entries into the Painting Challenge this week: lots of entries but from a small number of entrants. Must be the weather!
Here’s a sample of the work of everyone who submitted something this week. Make sure you check out their full galleries: some inspirational content there.
Painting Challenge: Post-Holiday Round Up
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As some of you may have gathered from the recent lack of posts, I have been on holiday for a week. Surfing in Cornwall, in Polzeath to be exact.
A very pleasant week: although the waves were only good on two days, it was glorious weather throughout, so plenty of fresh air and sea, with some fantastic meals in the evenings.
I like Polzeath: very poor ‘phone signal so unlikely to get bothered by work in the few hours that I’m not in a wetsuit, small enough to lack any sort of night life (except for a couple of restaurants) and we’re lucky enough to stay somewhere that’s only a five minute walk from the beach.
And lovely to get back to a Painting Challenge inbox packed full of entries. I highly recommend everyone visits the individual galleries, and here’s a selection of work from this week’s entrants to encourage you to do so:
Painting Challenge: Post Weekend Update
/Rather than get overwhelmed by the backlog of entries that always seem to mount up against me, I’ve had a chance to process this weekend’s latest batch of entries to the Painting Challenge.
Please do visit each person’s individual gallery, but here’s a selection:
Painting Challenge Special: Matt Slade Catch Up
/Those of you who follow the Painting Challenge regularly will know that this year super-painter Matt Slade has so far been conspicuous in his absence: Real Life interfering with Wargaming Life.
Well now he’s back with a bang, with a catch up of his work over the last six months. Visit his gallery to see the full extent of his work, but Matt has knocked up just over 2,200 points already. Here’s a selection of what you’ll see there:
More for the Painting Challenge
/Morning all!
Almost a week since my last post: my apologies but the real world got in the way of wargaming! Trying to keep a company going during lockdown is a tough business and sometimes I just can’t face another session on the PC.
Anyhow, enough of my griping: time for another update to this year’s Painting Challenge. A bumper crop of entries this week, including the return of Ashley Pollard: someone who, after a good start back when the Challenge first began, hasn’t taken part for the last couple of years. Welcome back,and I love the colour scheme on the spaceships.
Make sure you visit everyone’s gallery, and here’s a sample of this week’s entries, one from each person submitting something.
TFL Painting Challenge: Another Bumper Crop!
/Here’s another cracking set of entries into the 2020 TooFatLardies Painting Challenge.
Make sure you look at the individual galleries, but here’s a selection from this week’s entries:
TFL Painting Challenge: First Update in June
/And don’t I wish I hadn’t left it so long: vast numbers of entries coming in!
Excellent work, everybody: some really good lock down painting going on. Make sure you check out everyone’s galleries, but here’s one entry from everyone who submitted this time round:
TFL Painting Challenge: A Week's Worth of Entries
/And what a week it seems to have been. Don’t know if it’s because it is half-term or what, but some of you have been very productive indeed.
Visit people’s galleries to see everything, but here’s a selection of this week’s entries:
Missed Four Entries
/Whoops! Missed four entries off yesterday’s Challenge entries: some lovely terrain from Carole, ECW from Mr Helliwell, more Gangs of Rome from Chris Kay, and more re-basing from Stumpy. All galleries and the Scorecard now updated, and here’s a special four-person gallery of some of what I missed:
Lockdown Painting Challenge Update 3
/Well it seems as if I am not the only one taking full advantage of lockdown to paint little soldiers: a huge number of entries into the Challenge since the last update a week or so ago.
I encourage you all to visit the galleries to see what people are producing, but here’s a sample from everyone who sent something in:
Big Painting Challenge Update
/Well it seems as if many of you are getting into your lockdown painting stride, with loads of entries into the Painting Challenge.
In today’s batch we have the following:
There are many more photos to see in the individual galleries, so make sure you take a peak there as well.
Right: off to the painting table myself now!
Painting Challenge: A Lockdown Update
/Good to see that the entries are still coming n for this year’s Painting Challenge despite the problems of lockdown: hard to replenish your painting supplies when you’re not allowed out!
Here’s a selection of today’s entries: make sure you visit everyone’s galleries as there’s a lot to see:
Painting Challenge Update
/Hello All
Yes, I am still alive!
It’s just that the coronavirus situation now has me working from home and, this week at any rate, I have been busier than ever with no time to post anything.
That, however, is if there was anything to post. The fairly regular flow of AARs has now dried up: presumably either because of the closure of most of the places where people meet to play, or people avoiding playing in case they get a case of CORVIDs across the tabletop.
So a huge annoyance really: no commute, so technically plenty of extra time…but that extra time taken up with extra work to get the business done remotely…so no painting done…and no gaming either because of social contact restrictions.
But let us not despair: there’s still the Painting Challenge to enter.
Here’s a sample of the latest batch to hit my inbox, and a very impressive latest batch it is too. Check out the individual galleries too.
Stumpy Returns
/Another great week for the Painting Challenge, with loads of submissions coming in, including one from long-time participant, Stumpy.
Stumpy has taken the Challenge every year since it first started, meaning that this is his seventh year of entries, and with an average annual points score of just over 2,000. Impressive.
Here’s his first entry of the year: an LRDG Jeep and an M8 Armoured Car:
Lots of other entries as well. Here’s a little pictorial summary, but I do recommend that you visit people’s individual galleries as well:
Scorecard will be updated in due course.
Keep ‘em coming!
New Month, More Entries
/Another set of magnificent entries into this year’s Painting Challenge.
Here’s today’s album:
Quick Painting Challenge Update
/Some lovely entries to the Challenge this week.
Here’s a pictorial summary:
Don’t forget that there are plenty more to see in the individual galleries!
One More for the Challenge
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Tanks for the entry, David!
A big welcome back to David Scott, who sends in his first TFL Painting Challenge entry of the year. This is David’s fourth year, and he opens the batting with some rather nice 15mm Soviet armour.
This week, we also have more from Carole, Mr Luther, Joe McGinn, Chris Kay and, of course, Travis.
Scorecard is updated and more pics appear below. Can you match them to the painter? Have a go and then check out their gallery to find out if you are right.
