Background
Prior to 2012, I already know that I will be attending ETC in August 2012 since November 2012 and have been training with my Tomb King army, to the disdain of my team mates. Still I believed in the army and continue to tinker with builds that could be feasible for the tourney.
Also, my wedding was to be held on 02 January 2012 and with a early Lunar New Year, it was not likely I would get anything done early in the year.
Lastly, my study commitments continue to deprive me time from my hobbies. The lead-up to my exams in May 2012 means I would have to stop playing/painting by March. Hence, it looks like it was going to be a very busy year.
January 2012
Wedding + Honeymoon + Lunar New Year.
Had to keep my room and house spick & span for the wedding and CNY. Hence, my brushes and models all had to be kept out of sight. Not much done that month.
February 2012
Ok... happily wedded to my wife... things are starting to settle down. Time to start rocking out some models, albeit at a slower pace due to study commitments. Managed to get my third warsphinx done up for my TK list, drawing my inspiration for the color scheme from my Honeymoon trip to Bali. However, it also dawned on me that a TK army was never going to cut it in ETC and it was probably at this time that I made the switch to my Ogres and managed to get my very first ogre mini painted at the end of Feb 2012 - my butcher.
March 2012
Continued to plug away at the command figures for my ogres. Managed to convert up a BSB and tried freehand for the first time on a banner. Not half as bad but still a long way to go. Also managed to complete my slaughter master and tried extreme blood & gore for the first time. I think i got the colour scheme pretty well. Also tried snow effects on my SM for the first times. Like how the snow went but too much of a hassle. Quite pleased with both of them.
April 2012
Nothing much... studies took precedence over my modeling. Besides, i have to keep everything away so that i would not get distracted from my books.
May 2012
Finally, my exams were over by May 18 and could finally devote all my time spare time and attention to finishing up sufficient models for my ETC army list.
Started assembly on those metal maneaters and converted the Araby guy to be a musician and the paymaster as a Standard bearer. Got 2 gorgers, 5 bulls and 4 ironguts assembled as well. Also managed to get some paint unto 3 of those ironguts. That gray was such a life-saver. I loved the color on those pants and it was such an easy color to paint. Also, dipping saved a lot of time and gave the minis a very good shade.
June 2012
Things really started to get hot. Stuff were being churned out of my paint factory at good speed. Continued to plow my way through those maneaters models. It was probably at this time that one of my good team-mates offered to loan me 80 gnoblars at the cost of helping him paint it up and base them. NO FKING WAY! So, that's where i started off. 10 gnoblars.
I also wanted a very unique Ironblaster and since I had 2 of the old scraplauncher kits and with the current Ogre scrap launcher being crap, i did some conversion to mount a cannon on the frame of the old scrap-launcher. Kind of easy conversion but still, this is my most satisfying piece of work yet. Spent lots of effort to paint the gold work on the cannon. It was also at this time i found this static grass that came in clumps. Really saved me a ton of effort to flock my bases. The grass on the IB was still the old GW flock of dried grass and burnt grass but soon after, most of the minis, especially the gnoblars will feature those heavily.
In addition, i managed to get the yellow pants of the Leadbelcher to look pretty sweet and i really liked it. The wood color was a bit boring though but that's what you get for being lazy.
I guess this is a pretty good time to cut this review into half, since it is chronologically half-way and stopped
at a "high point" for the year, completing one of my favorite pieces. Next up, 2nd half of my review for 2012.