ACT Painting Challenge - Ultramarines Pt.2

PROGRESS!

Well, not really enough to warrant an exclamation, but any progress is good progress in my books.

I'll start this post of by going into a little bit of detail of the work I've been doing before (and will complete during) this challenge.
As stated in the last post, I have a pretty sizable force of Ultramarines, many of which are admittedly on their way from overseas to bolster my options for events (including the ACT one) or I painted in a relatively rushed fashion a few weeks before the Inferno I event in January this year.
As a result, many of my ultras sport some pretty lackluster paint jobs, due in part to their rushed nature and also because I'm not a fantastic painter either (compounded by NEVER having painted blue miniatures before).

ACT Painting Challenge - Ultramarines Pt.1

Well, it's been quite some time since this blog has seen use, though despite that, my Heresy era hobbying has honestly continued in earnest.
Where I was last posting about having a meager few marines done, I've since bolstered my army to roughly 5000pts of blue armored awesomeness!

Now, however, the point of this post isn't to boast about the size of my army, but rather, discuss a new challenge that has been brought up by mr. Wiseman now that the ACT 30k event has been confirmed for the start of next year (23rd - 24th of January).