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Weeklong Painting & Hobby Challenge; Monday, September 30-Sunday, October 6, 2013
Topic Started: 26th September 2013 - 03:31 AM (166 Views)
Olorin the Ancient
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Weeklong Painting & Hobby Challenge

Monday, September 30-Sunday, October 6, 2013


Rules and Information


For those rats in the northern hemisphere, the summer is now over, and most of our fellow-rats are headed back to work and/or school (assuming that they got time off in the first place). In order to encourage all of the UnderEmpire's rats to get back to their hobby, we're holding a Weeklong Painting & Hobby Challenge, lasting from Monday, September 30 through Sunday, October 6, 2013. In order to accommodate the UnderEmpire's worldwide nature, we'll be opening the Challenge thread approximately twelve hours before the official start and closing it at least twelve hours after the official close. Participants will still only be allowed to work on the Challenge for a full seven days, but this will give people a little more flexibility while permitting everyone to work together worldwide for the vast majority of the Weeklong Challenge.

The aim of any Painting & Hobby Challenge is to encourage people to devote a real chunk of time to working on their hobby, in this case, concentrated within a one-week period. This is supposed to be a fun way to get people into a painting spurt: the points you earn in the Challenge are really bonuses, cumulative with whatever you earn from Painting Vows and various competitions. Note that the Challenge is not a competition: you're working individually to see how much you can accomplish, and it has nothing to do with whatever anyone else may accomplish. In Challenges, if you get anything done, you're a winner, and we're all rooting for each other to do as well as possible.

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Taking Part
To join in the event, take of a photo of the models you are going to assemble and/or paint on top of a newspaper from the current day (with the date shown in the photo). If you don't have a newspaper, you can improvise by taking the photo in front of your PC, with the screen showing the start page of the event.

Once you have entered you can paint whenever you like, for however long as you like. Some may paint after getting home from work until they go to bed, while others might just do a few hours. Each time you start a new patch of hobby activity, take a photo at the start and at then another when you finish. This is a sort of 'logging in and out'. Let us know how many hours (in quarterly hour increments) you did in the session, as well as how many vow value points (V.V.P.s) you completed (see painting vows for details).

In the thread's initial post, we will keep a log of how much time you have completed, as well as V.V.P.s and your current number of P.R.S. points collected. It will be in the following format:

Name: # hours\V.V.P.s completed\current P.R.S. points collected

Example:

Scarfester: 7.25\26\3
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[b]Scarfester[/b]: [color=red]7.25[/color]\[color=yellow]26[/color]\[color=green]3[/color]
So in this example Scarfester has painted for a total of 7 and a quarter hours, completed 26 V.V.P.s and has currently earned 3 P.R.S. points.

We will keep these running totals updated as the Challenge goes on!
Just make a log in and log out post for each session and we will monitor your progress.

Note that you do not need to start the event at the very beginning, but can join in when you like and go through the end of the Challenge. (We don't wish to exclude people)!

The main thread for the Weeklong Painting & Hobby Challenge will be posted on Sunday, September 29, 2013.

*bsb*

Earning P.R.S. Points
P.R.S. points are earned both for the work you do (as measured in V.V.P.s) and for the time you spend. So you will collect a P.R.S. point for every 10 V.V.P.s you complete, as well for the total time you've devoted to your hobby during the week, as shown below:

6 hours - 1 P.R.S. point
12 hours - 3 P.R.S. points
18 hours - 5 P.R.S. points
24+ hours - 6 P.R.S. points


Feel free to post your questions in this thread, and we will add them to our FAQ.

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FAQ


In order to compete in this Weeklong Painting & Hobby Challenge, do you first have to have a basic monthly Painting Vow that you're working towards?

No, the Weeklong Painting & Hobby Challenge is completely separate from the Painting Vows; but as long as you're participating in the weekly challenge, you might as well make a Painting Vow and get the extra P.R.S. points for the work you're doing.


Do you have to post a picture of what you're going to attempt to get done each time?


Yes. You will need to take a photo of what you are aiming to get done, to prove that you have done your work within the Challenge period. If you are taking photos of models you are going to assemble, be sure to take them of the sprues rather than the box.

With every entry, we need clear evidence that the models have been done in the time frame. Take your photos either on top of the newspaper from that day, or with the first post of the entry thread onscreen in the shot. All subsequent shots should include the newspaper or screenshot as well.
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Scaaarrrrghhh

I will be in on this and using it to assemble as many of my models as I can. :)
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Nice, just what I need to give me a boost! I really need to get those gutter runners done :)
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