Challenge Completed

The VII Analogue Hobbies Challenge is complete. 3 months of frantic painting and I came 2nd, again, on the last day, again, pipped by Miles Reidy, again. It like deja vu all over again.


The Points Standings - FINAL VII Challenge

Rank	Name	ID	Points	Target
1	MilesR	62	4,125	2,000
2	MartinC	53	4,051	2,500
3	GrahameH	27	3,611	1,000
4	DaveD	20	3,586	2,500
5	EricM	24	3,291	2,500
6	AlexS	6	2,521	1,500
7	SteveM	91	2,130	1,000
8	TamsinP	93	2,090	2,600
9	AnthonyO	8	2,038	500
10	AlanD	3	1,803	2,000

Last year the top 2 in the VI Challenge were


1          MilesR                    3306
2          Martin C                 3292


Overall it's been a blast.
It's not really a race to see who can paint the most. The aim of the challenge is to push yourself to paint. Generally I find that the quality I paint does not increase the longer I spend on it. I'm very much a production line painter. However maybe next year I'll paint fewer things to a higher standard. This year I painted the equivalent of 810 28mm infantry figures, it's actually a little less with bonus rounds etc. Compared to last year where I painted the equivalent of 658 infantry. The difference is that last years were generally better. I went through the doldrums for about 4 weeks in Feb and early March and the painting quality dipped, but not the output. I ran out of things I wanted to paint, had loads of figures ready, the ones that have been ready for years. There is a reason for that.
No pictures at the moment, at work having my lunch, but will post what I did tonight probably.
Chuck Berry on Top of the Pops is one of my earliest musical memories, unfortunately it was My Ding-a-Ling. Well I'm not playing that so this is a better one