{"id":5643,"date":"2022-05-17T10:45:32","date_gmt":"2022-05-17T14:45:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/angrypiper.com\/?p=5643"},"modified":"2022-05-17T10:49:36","modified_gmt":"2022-05-17T14:49:36","slug":"how-not-to-host-a-painting-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/angrypiper.com\/?p=5643","title":{"rendered":"How NOT to host a painting challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Greetings, all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, here we are: halfway through Monster May(hem) 2022 and what do I have to show thus far? Nothing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hardly inspiring, I know. Luckily, the rest of this month&#8217;s participants have picked up the slack, and have put out some amazing submissions thus far.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here&#8217;s the blogroll:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jeremy, aka Carrion Crow; from <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/carrioncrowsbuffet.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Carrion Crow&#8217;s Buffet<\/a>, has begun work on his Straw God. Glad to have you back again, Jeremy; looking forward to next month&#8217;s Forgotten Heroes!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Roger from Ranting<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/rantingsfromunderthewargamestable.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">s From Under the Wargames Table<\/a>, not content to merely paint a monster, has begun work on sculpting a certain camp slasher with a penchant for hockey-masks&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Matt from <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/pmpainting.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">PM Painting<\/a> started things off with an amazingly-painted Queen of Hell, then moved on to an avatar of Hastur, then to some Hell Hounds, then a Tomb Tapper and finally (so far) a Rock Troll! And there are still two weeks left in the month. So much for Matt worrying he wouldn&#8217;t be as productive this year&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Azazel from his eponymous <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/azazelx.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Azazel&#8217;s Bitz Box<\/a> has completed a &#8220;Burrowing Horror&#8221; aka a Bulette (a popular submission from years past here on Monster May(hem); and a Byakhee! The Mythos always gets much love here!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dave from <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/wargamesculptorsblog.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">War<\/a><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/wargamesculptorsblog.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">g<\/a><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/wargamesculptorsblog.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">ames Terrain Workshop<\/a> always raises (and keeps) the bar high. This year he&#8217;s maintained his Star Wars theme from last year with a pair of wampas (wampae?) and a Tattooine sand ape, before moving on to scratch-build a purrgil (a sentient space whale) in the tradition of last year&#8217;s krayt dragon; then, being Dave, he moved on to some models for his GW demon army ( a gibbering horde and a chaos spawn) before returning once again to Tattoine for a sand bat! And yes, Dave, they all certainly count towards Monster May(hem)! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tom from over on <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/the_goodground\/\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram<\/a>, has jumped in with both feet; submitting a &#8220;corrupted were-deer&#8221;, a werewolf, a gibbering mouther, and&#8230;something else&#8230; (a little help here, Tom). I don&#8217;t know what it is, but it looks nasty!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>and a few newcomers to Monster May(hem) this year:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fellow Super Mission Force enthusiast Jon from <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/jonhobbydesk.blogspot.com\/?m=1\" target=\"_blank\">Jon&#8217;s Hobby Desk<\/a>, has begun work on a Glottkin, a big Nurgle-beastie that simply looks hideous!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Simon, aka Blax the Kleric, from <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fantoricalwargaming.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Fantorical Wargaming<\/a>, is planning five large models this month, including the same Straw God from Crooked Dice that Carrion Crow is working on! (It&#8217;s a great miniature.) So far Simon has finished another Crooked Dice miniature: the Giant Ape! It&#8217;s awesome!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And my buddy Malcolm, also from <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/mdcampbell_dunwichcreatives\/\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram<\/a>, has completed a really cool blue basilisk model! Welcome to the party, Malcolm!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As for me, real life has gotten in the way of pretty much everything over the past two weeks. I&#8217;ve barely managed to basecoat one miniature and assemble another. I hope to have at least two entries done by the end of the month (far less than my usual MM output); but things are still moving slowly. I had to cancel my planned rpg session and I haven&#8217;t even had time to play the scenarios for the next leg of my Star Trek AAR series, even though the table has been set up for weeks! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My deepest apologies to everyone for not being here as much as I planned, and for not visiting your respective blogs to comment &#8220;in person&#8221;. Thanks to all who participate, and even though I&#8217;m not posting much, rest assured I&#8217;m definitely looking and will do another round up soon!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Happy painting!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greetings, all. So, here we are: halfway through Monster May(hem) 2022 and what do I have to show thus far? Nothing. Hardly inspiring, I know. Luckily, the rest of this month&#8217;s participants have picked up the slack, and have put out some amazing submissions thus far. Here&#8217;s the blogroll: Jeremy, aka Carrion Crow; from Carrion [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,52],"tags":[115,70],"class_list":["post-5643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miniatures","category-painting-challenges","tag-monster-mayhem","tag-monster-month"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/angrypiper.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/angrypiper.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/angrypiper.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/angrypiper.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/angrypiper.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5643"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/angrypiper.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5648,"href":"http:\/\/angrypiper.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5643\/revisions\/5648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/angrypiper.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/angrypiper.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/angrypiper.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}