My first painting challenge, March Might & Magic, is wrapping up on April 3rd, so I thought I’d announce a new painting challenge for this month:  Paint the Crap You Already Own!*  The idea is simple.  You can paint anything you want so long as you owned it before April 1, 2020.

Also, as a Hobby Challenge, you don’t have to confine yourself to painting models.  For example, you can finish a short story, poem, write a roleplaying game adventure, craft a mandala, paint a picture, post a Youtube video, complete a needlepoint project, finishing putting together a swing set out in your backyard, etc.  Pretty much anything fun or hobby-oriented that you started before April 1st.

Rules of the Challenge

• Models for this challenge must be ones you owned before April 1, 2020.
• Before pictures are great, and I’ll use them for updates, but they are not required.  We’re on the honor system here.
• If your project doesn’t involve painting models, you must have started work on it before April 1, 2020.
• The challenge closes on May 3rd, 2020 at midnight (your local time).  If you can’t get your pictures posted by that date, it is fine.  Just post them as soon as you can.
• You can complete one model for this challenge or as many as you want.  Basing is great, but is optional.
• Models and projects you feature in other challenges are welcome here too.
• You can join in, and add more models at any time as the month goes along.
• Models from any company, range, time period, scale, etc. are welcome.
• Questions and/or ideas?  Let me know in the comments.

Painting an entire diorama is certainly a worthy project and who doesn’t love a fully painted tank?

Of course some good, old-fashioned space marines are always welcome.  One or a whole squad.  (Wretched, Gollum-looking person peering out of a hole optional.)

Like I said, a project doesn’t have to be painting miniatures to have a place in this April challenge.  Something like this map I made using Campaign Cartographer software or one drawn by hand would find a welcome home here.

Learn the rules for a board game, play a game and then report your thoughts or review the game.

Carve some pumpkins, perhaps?**

If  you don’t want to paint a picture, play a game, paint a model and making videos is lame … then when all else fails bake a Cthulhu pie!

* This being April 1st, I was going to put up an April Fool’s challenge that for the month you could paint your entire backlog of unpainted models, but decided maybe to save that for next year.

** Ensorcelling said pumpkin(s) as containers for the bewitched life forces of extinct but somehow still nascent beings of pure song is entirely optional and probably beyond the scope of this hobby challenge.