Welcome all to the 108th round of the Dakka Painting challenge. For the unfamiliar, this is a friendly painting competition open to members of all skill levels and experience, whether your entry is your first or you thousand-and-first time painting miniatures. Each month, finished entries are collected into a thread where the community can vote on their favorite pieces, and those votes go towards an annual overall League that runs for 12 rounds.
This month the topic is: Out With the Old, In With the New -- Try new techniques, or break out whatever was bought/received as holiday gifts. Alternatively, dig deep in the pile of shame or the back of the painting station and tackle something that has been waiting for while. This can be more of a technical challenge, where the focus is on how you paint (trying something new) a/o meta (painting something actually new/old) or go more literal and paint a raw recruit a/o seasoned veteran. As always take inspiration from the topic and express it in you entry.
How To Enter
- You may enter up to 5 MODELS as a SINGLE ENTRY, and are permitted one entry per member per month. If you enter multiple models, they should ideally be related in some way, such as part of the same squad, unit or scene if you are doing a diorama
- You may enter at any time during the month, up to the last minute. We do encourage people to enter early, as to be part of the community, but if you can’t start until the 11th hour, that’s OK.
- You MUST post a 'proof' picture of your entry in the thread of the state it was in before you started working on it; this must be either unassembled, unpainted, primed or coated a single colour. Entries that do not submit a valid Proof Picture will not be eligible for voting.
- After this, you may post WIP pictures in this thread and your own if you wish, and on completing the entry, you may post up to 6 final pictures IN THIS THREAD that will then be used for voting. Please note that pictures in a montage or collage picture will be considered individual images for this purpose, so while these types of presentation are certainly acceptable, please keep the image limit in mind when compiling them. For example, a collage of 5 images and one separate image would count as your 6 picture allowance.
So What Do I Win?
- Points... and points mean... bragging rights for the next month! Following the vote, points will be awarded to every entrant. This year, the Points you receive will be equal to the Percentage of Votes your entry receives in the final Voting thread; if you get 10%, you get 10 points, if you get 6% you get 6 points, so on and so forth.
These points will be used to form a league table, which will be updated month on month as the results come in.
How Long Do I Have?
This challenge begins 1st of February and will end at midnight EST on February 29th. After this, I shall compile the finished entries into a new thread, and voting will run for 5 days.
If being stuck on the same bike for 10,000 years doesn't feel old (I guess you get used to it), 25 real-world years sure does - I'm too sentimental not to have ported over a bunch of parts, but it's definitely high time for an upgrade.
I'm going to paint the Naboo royal court, very much going with the In With The New part. I've had the box for less than a week. It's freshly assembled. It's the first Shatterpoint kit I built, and will be the first one I paint if all goes well. And I guess they're all child soldiers. So you know, it doesn't get much newer than that.
I would certainly like to paint all of them. We'll see if I have the time to finish them in a month. I'll start with the handmaidens and take it from there.
Going to try to get both these guys done. Old lib is one I kitbashed, mostly from the GK kit. He’s one of the 3 oldest guys currently in the primed pile. New lib is new from the Lev box. They will be replacing my old lead RT lib, who’s faithful service is threatened by scale creep, and probably needs a nap.
Nevelon wrote: I still have one of those old bikes on sprue I should do something with someday. They were fine for the time, but the new ones are so much better.
'ackshually' ..
I really liked the more bulgy feel and thick look of these old'uns over the farseer (will probably make it a warlock though.. even though the seer's helm looks better.. not sure yet.. I mean.. warlocks are better on a bike in an actual game I read, but will I ever play one? hm) bike..
I also got some shining-spears but wanna keep them for another time as they have those pesky flags.
p.s. to those that wondered.. these bikes and bikers will be Lugganath.
Right, so, I'm going to try to tackle the new MCP core, the logic being these are updated sculpts and rules so fits the theme that way.
I'll do some, and maybe pick 5.
Mothsniper wrote: Trying new technique of nmm for realzies this time.
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That looks like a metal model. How can you paint it to be no longer what it is? It’s already metal?! Does not compute… Good luck!
It is aghmm... Super NEW N -TripleMMM technique, NoneMetalicMetalMetal. lolz, thnak you
Automatically Appended Next Post: The black base it came with was fine, but I had these in the bit box and though it be good fit.
I am sure there is a faster/better way to do this... A bit of time and blood went into trimming off the upper "terrain" features. Ended up with a longer slot.
After much deliberation, I decided on the newest model off the printer: Raziel from the Legacy of Kain series. I was never THAT into video games, but Soul Reaver remains a solid favorite. So out with the old, (everything else I own) and in with the new!
For this month, I figure what could be better than a new and improved version of a classic Warhammer unit. So I went with a unit of Tyranid Termagants from the Leviathan box set. Proof pic:
As always when I do a larger unit like this, I'll paint all of them and pick the five best ones to be my final entry. Good luck everyone!
I think I will enter these 5 unfinished scratch-built ork killa kans. On the first page of my blog I have an army group shot from Feb 2016 that has these guys in them. No work or progress on them since, and the waiting time has not been kind to them.
Dem kans look happy to me.
I really enjoy seeing goofy Ork builds.
Anyway, I tried to cut off one of the heads to make it look to the side of one of the retro riders and frogged up.. cutting it too high but stopped just in time when I noticed so thankfully the head still look ok,.. will no longer try that.. It now just has two cuts to the helmet on its sides.. -_-
I'll paint some rust on it I guess. (Its a cut up rider to begin with to reposition the legs because I want him to be standing next to his bike like a smug tunnel snake)
Nevelon wrote: Those old jetbike riders were solid chunks with no neck. I would not have tried a headswap/position myslef. Not a trivial job.
Because my precision knife is too thin and the neck was too thick, fearing it would break I tried it with the spruecutter.. thought I had it below the ridge of the helmet but when I pressed saw some of the detail on the helmet turn white ..knowing there it was not going to end well.. I took away the cutter and saw the cut was above the ridge (don't know how that happened..) and yelled "frog" (well, not frog, but something that sounds like it but isn't site-friendly) for the first time in a year or so during hobby hours.
I put on some basecoat black and it looked good enough not to notice but ok..
Neckless people shouldn't go near spruecutters.. :/ That's the lesson of the new year.
This month's theme fits in with my goal for this year of getting through as much of my backlog as possible, while keeping purchases at a minimum. To this end, I'll start by working on some Usagi Yojimbo miniatures sent to me by a good friend more than twenty years ago, when I first came to Japan. I'll start with Miyamoto Usagi and is frienemy Gennosuke:
I will build two vehicles: Taurox Venator and Outrider Quad. They will be escorting my Ridgehauler on diorama I build for the plastic model exhibition. The Taurox has date 2024 on the sprues, so it fits the "new" theme
Intriguing entries already.
Also looking forward to see that Mothsniper's NTripleM when it's done!
As my entry this month, I'll try to paint a Bust of Triss Merigold from the Witcher universe, sculpted by the H3llcreator.
How it fits the theme then?
Well, first of all this is my very first bust, so it covers the "In With the New" part.
As for the "Out With the Old", those who are familiar with the story of the Witcher games (and/or made certain choices) might get it.
Apologies for the first layer of skin that I have already airbrushed.
Got too excited and forgot to take the picture before spraying. Hopefully it's fine, as it's only a single base coat
Toptip to self and everyone that feels adressed by the words -iyanden yellow-
Never paint yellow on black basecoating. I had to redo all parts I wanted to coat yellow with slightly pink dipped grey before --still having to make 4-5 layers of-- yellow painting it. eeeeeyyghghh1!!! *jumps into wall*
Now I still need to figure out how to make a proper tape-cut stencil to make a checkered pattern on it (after protective coating the parts ofcourse) because last time I did that with just a brush and the steadiness of a cat at a percussion competition I wasn't satisfied with the result.
Leopold Helveine wrote: Toptip to self and everyone that feels adressed by the words -iyanden yellow-
Never paint yellow on black basecoating. I had to redo all parts I wanted to coat yellow with slightly pink dipped grey before --still having to make 4-5 layers of-- yellow painting it. eeeeeyyghghh1!!! *jumps into wall*
Now I still need to figure out how to make a proper tape-cut stencil to make a checkered pattern on it (after protective coating the parts ofcourse) because last time I did that with just a brush and the steadiness of a cat at a percussion competition I wasn't satisfied with the result.
Yellow is infamous for not covering well. Definitely worth putting down a white/off white base if you prime black.
I’ve done hazard stripes with painter’s tape, but never checks. Good luck.
Leopold Helveine wrote: Toptip to self and everyone that feels adressed by the words -iyanden yellow-
Never paint yellow on black basecoating. I had to redo all parts I wanted to coat yellow with slightly pink dipped grey before --still having to make 4-5 layers of-- yellow painting it. eeeeeyyghghh1!!! *jumps into wall*
Now I still need to figure out how to make a proper tape-cut stencil to make a checkered pattern on it (after protective coating the parts ofcourse) because last time I did that with just a brush and the steadiness of a cat at a percussion competition I wasn't satisfied with the result.
Base coating the areas with brown helps a lot if you are going for warm yellow. A lot easier to paint on top of than black.
That's what I do if I have primed the model black.
One way to do checkers is to carefully draw straight vertical and horizontal lines to form the basis of a grid.
You can use a ruler or maybe a piece of cardboard and a thin pencil (at least I found the pencil to be a lot easier than a brush for this).
After you have drawn the grid, color in the squares you want (usually every other) and call it a day!
It of course sounds a lot easier than it actually is, but that's a handy way to "cheat" the grid
I thought I'd cover both bases by painting a really old rogue trader miniature that appeared in the 40K 1st edition rulebook, and what I believe is the newest rogue trader miniature, from Combat Arena:
I decided to paint the rider separately, after I accidentally knocked the painting handle over and the rider popped off - hadn't glued the waist very thoroughly anyway, I'd done a bit of a hack 'n' slash job removing the original Outrider torso from the hips, turns out there wasn't much of the chaos rider in contact with it besides the very edge of the belt on one side. I'm choosing to see this as divine assistance. The shoulder art's a colourised take on the cover of White Dwarf #5, I thought Slaanesh would appreciate the reminder of the days when GW put naked women on the front cover.
More greenskins for me this month, this time it's a selection of orcs from over the years. Definitely more on the side of the old part of the theme, though a couple of the plastics will be re-released soon so kind of new as well
I'm going to jump in with some newness. Going to paint up a Lord of Plagues, it will be my first ever Nurgle model I paint, so that's new. Also going to try some of the technical paints, which although quite old now are new to me and my painting.
I might reposition the model so I can use the three skulls on the base to make a mark of nurgle kind of thing.
Dirk Deadly wrote: I'm going to jump in with some newness. Going to paint up a Lord of Plagues, it will be my first ever Nurgle model I paint, so that's new. Also going to try some of the technical paints, which although quite old now are new to me and my painting.
I might reposition the model so I can use the three skulls on the base to make a mark of nurgle kind of thing.
Ooo, I got one of those too still on the assembled but unpainted pile.
I never really thought it was such a stand-out mini considering its strength when compared with other blight kings but I'm sure you'll make it pop.
WIP post - I tried something new this month and tried to clean up & modify my miniatures.
This may seem simple to a lot of the kitbashers, but I've never been in the warhammer community and have a bad habbit of just painting miniatures out of the box or right off the buildplate when the supports are removed.
So this month I spent some time filing down the support lines and modifying one of the elves to a more masculine frame. I'm hoping to see a cleaner product in the end but am not entirly convinced yet it was worth the effort
Should make a start on the heroes... so of course I'm tackling the terrain instead.
Fun with monochrome (ish) comic cars
Just getting my head back in the place to paint supers!
As I mentioned earlier the shoulder pad is from White Dwarf #5. For the bike's screen I considered what vital information a Slaaneshi legionary would need to see mid-battle, and since I'd already used the pornhub logo on Doomrider's bike, I went with Baywatch.
Technically completed the day before yesterday, but I didn't have time to take pictures until now.
The second one is well on her way and I've just put the first bit of paint on Padme. Currently it looks like I'm on track to finish all models before the end of the month. I hope real life doesn't interfere.
So, this is a finished model picture but also only WIP for the overall entry. When I'm done or run out of time I'll take pictures of the entire group and post that as my actual entry.
I’ve managed to complete 10 Crypt Guard already, will pick the best for the final entry later in the month. I am going to build the Varghulf Courtier and post a proof pic of that too (if that is ok with Nevelon)
Might try and get him entered if I can paint him up in time alongside 4 of the Crypt Guard I’ve finished…
Here’s a pic of all ten. I’m messing around with how I take the photos… giving them a base of slate to sit on before removing the background. What do you think?
I'm in. For this month, I'm going to paint up one or more of the Gnot Tanks I designed and had 3D printed. They're very "In with the new" because I designed them so no one has ever seen these particular tanks before and because these are the first 3D prints I've ever painted. Going to start with this one:
Blackout at home due to weather eliminated distractions and gave good opportunity to focus on the painting.
Painting done, and eventually want to put this guy in a small diorama with this clear floral cover I got at a dollar-store.
Also, I dont have a good camera, but my friend does, asked him to take some pictures, will upload those later.
Curious to see what his Sony A7 III will do.
As I mentioned earlier the shoulder pad is from White Dwarf #5. For the bike's screen I considered what vital information a Slaaneshi legionary would need to see mid-battle, and since I'd already used the pornhub logo on Doomrider's bike, I went with Baywatch.
YES! Freehand! Freehand and Dwarfs are automatically my friends, and get an automatic vote because they are the best. Good job on that, must of been fun.
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Xyabis wrote: WIP post - I tried something new this month and tried to clean up & modify my miniatures.
This may seem simple to a lot of the kitbashers, but I've never been in the warhammer community and have a bad habbit of just painting miniatures out of the box or right off the buildplate when the supports are removed.
So this month I spent some time filing down the support lines and modifying one of the elves to a more masculine frame. I'm hoping to see a cleaner product in the end but am not entirly convinced yet it was worth the effort
It is worth the effort, even if it is not looking like you imagined it would, yet the effort and practice is a learning process through witch the brain is building those specific pathways that will be evident in the next project!
Good on the efforts! and I like your nail palette lolz, I do the same At some point we need to do a community vote contest of thumb-nail palettes.
Killer fades on the handmaidens. Cool Undead and an adorable tank, too. And that's just the last few posts! Shaping up to be another good month.
Raziel base coated with Ultramarine Blue spray. Army Painter, not GW. And not much else. Worked on the blade a bit. Not going well. Need to take a different approach.
Finished pictures are in!; thanks to my friend for those. Wish some images where reshot with better focus, but I'z has what I'z has.
I do want to try the nmm on a smoother newer model, and with an airbrush next time, just to prove to my self that I can do it, and prob never waste time on it again. I do see Lots of room for improvement.
So... I got distracted by the free stl from Korhyl miniatures Serenissima II campaign:
I like the idea of dockside hawkers selling food to folk off the boats.
Originally I'd intended to use a gs roller to make cobbles but felt that they'd look too small against my other Carnveale terrain so came up with the idea of using mdf offcuts. I knew it was a good idea to keep all those bits from the inside of windows and tabs!
I mean I [i]may[/] still do MCP stuff but this whole fdm printing thing is totally new to me - plus the recycling of old stuff - so definitely fits the theme
While mine does not hit the theme perfectly, I am upgrading this tower to be more stable and has stronger floors, so that is new.
Out With the Old, In With the New
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Take a look for the garbage and detritus left on the terrain, as well as hanging wires and cables. There are also little additions like labels and graffiti.
Nearly half way through the month and I've only just started on my entry. I was hoping to do some more forest exodites, this time dragon knights, but the kitbash/conversion just isn't coming together. My fall back was Raven Guard with glacier bases, but I've not been able to work up the enthusiasm for all that black, so instead I'm doing different exodites. They're exodite militia from the plains clans (proof below), and I'm using rogue trader eldar guardians as the base with 3D printed lasblasters. Hope that's enough old and new to fit the theme...
I'm intending to do the main armour dark blue (Kantor blue) and have desaturated bone coloured kneepads and helmets, with probably dark green loin cloths and the coat/cloak on the guy on the far right. The lasblasters will be predominantly black. The scheme is basically supposed to tie in with the exodite dragon lord I painted up for a previous entry. I have a bit of an issue, though, the old rogue trader guardians have chainmail looking undersuits and I'm not sure what colour to paint them. I'm not sure metallic really fits the lore, or the scheme, but I'm not sure what colour to paint them otherwise? Maybe a dark metallic would work, like a black-silver?
Anyone have any suggestions for what they think would look good?
Nearly half way through the month and I've only just started on my entry. I was hoping to do some more forest exodites, this time dragon knights, but the kitbash/conversion just isn't coming together. My fall back was Raven Guard with glacier bases, but I've not been able to work up the enthusiasm for all that black, so instead I'm doing different exodites. They're exodite militia from the plains clans (proof below), and I'm using rogue trader eldar guardians as the base with 3D printed lasblasters. Hope that's enough old and new to fit the theme...
I'm intending to do the main armour dark blue (Kantor blue) and have desaturated bone coloured kneepads and helmets, with probably dark green loin cloths and the coat/cloak on the guy on the far right. The lasblasters will be predominantly black. The scheme is basically supposed to tie in with the exodite dragon lord I painted up for a previous entry. I have a bit of an issue, though, the old rogue trader guardians have chainmail looking undersuits and I'm not sure what colour to paint them. I'm not sure metallic really fits the lore, or the scheme, but I'm not sure what colour to paint them otherwise? Maybe a dark metallic would work, like a black-silver?
Anyone have any suggestions for what they think would look good?
Dark-desaturated-leather-brown-ish should work. To tie it in.
I'm actually going to switch my entry to one that might be more appropriate to the theme. I recently got my hands on the new Belial model for my Dark Angels, and I already had the old one unpainted, so I thought I might paint them side by side. Proof pic:
The old model is a perfect example of why people refer to Finecast as Failcrap. Despite trying the hot water trick more than once when I first got the model, I never could get old Belial's sword straight. So glad we have a plastic one now so I don't have to deal with that. Unfortunately I'll probably lose a lot of votes to the bent sword on the old model now that I'm painting it, but it is what it is. I never threaten the podium in these things anyway, so what have I got to lose, right?
Nearly half way through the month and I've only just started on my entry. I was hoping to do some more forest exodites, this time dragon knights, but the kitbash/conversion just isn't coming together. My fall back was Raven Guard with glacier bases, but I've not been able to work up the enthusiasm for all that black, so instead I'm doing different exodites. They're exodite militia from the plains clans (proof below), and I'm using rogue trader eldar guardians as the base with 3D printed lasblasters. Hope that's enough old and new to fit the theme...
I'm intending to do the main armour dark blue (Kantor blue) and have desaturated bone coloured kneepads and helmets, with probably dark green loin cloths and the coat/cloak on the guy on the far right. The lasblasters will be predominantly black. The scheme is basically supposed to tie in with the exodite dragon lord I painted up for a previous entry. I have a bit of an issue, though, the old rogue trader guardians have chainmail looking undersuits and I'm not sure what colour to paint them. I'm not sure metallic really fits the lore, or the scheme, but I'm not sure what colour to paint them otherwise? Maybe a dark metallic would work, like a black-silver?
Anyone have any suggestions for what they think would look good?
Dark-desaturated-leather-brown-ish should work. To tie it in.
ZergSmasher wrote: I'm actually going to switch my entry to one that might be more appropriate to the theme. I recently got my hands on the new Belial model for my Dark Angels, and I already had the old one unpainted, so I thought I might paint them side by side. Proof pic:
The old model is a perfect example of why people refer to Finecast as Failcrap. Despite trying the hot water trick more than once when I first got the model, I never could get old Belial's sword straight. So glad we have a plastic one now so I don't have to deal with that. Unfortunately I'll probably lose a lot of votes to the bent sword on the old model now that I'm painting it, but it is what it is. I never threaten the podium in these things anyway, so what have I got to lose, right?
Cool concept, to paint two different miniatures representing the same character! Great interpretation of the theme.
Daia T'Nara's outrider is amazing, now I want to build it too I especially like that he rides on the planet of glitter Captain Brown's tower is also great.
The Taurox Venator and Outrider Quad are finished. They are painted the same way because they will be used on diorama as escort of the convoy. Both models were fun to make, and they are made straight from the box.
Nevelon wrote: Month is half over. Hopefully everyone is making better progress then I am,
Not really, it goes slow and am only doing the undercoat colors still for the 3 retro bikes, I did finish the undercoat colors for the warlock bike though. Still need to put on some decal and then its "making em look worn and dirty" etc -_- (someone burn my house down so I don't have to )
So my friend had a D&D necromancer named Therion Darksoul that he was very fond of.
The character's appearance was inspired by Ares from Hercules & Xena, so that's how I always drew him:
I made him a miniature out of Mordheim mercenary parts, but he didn't look quite imposing enough.
So for his birthday, I made him a more representative model out of Marauder bits:
He misplaced the model almost immediately . So for his next birthday, I made him a higher level version:
Last year, he found the missing model, so now he has an evolution of the character. So what do you get the necromancer that has everything?
I decided to make a final boss version; a ghostly wraith Therion Darksoul
Bit of progress, all the base colours and most of the washes done. They don't look like much, yet, and I'm probably not winning any awards this month, but I'm surprising myself how quickly I'm making progress with this squad. I think I've got so used to painting character (or character level) models that I've forgotten that simpler models like this can be painted fairly quickly. Hopefully things continue to go smoothly from here...
@Mothsniper - thanks for the suggestion re the 'chainmail', I've actually gone for a dark brown/dark silver mix and I think it looks pretty good. I might drybrush a hint of silver on just to brighten it up a little.
One more thing, I'm not sure what colour to paint the centre chap's hair. I've got a bit locked into doing pale skin tones, so I thought I'd try to diversify to a darker skin tone for him, but I feel like a space elf should have more interesting hair colour than just dark brown/black. I'm thinking about a grey/pale grey, but I'm not sold on that just yet. What do people think?
I'm making reasonable progress myself. I should be able to finish Padme in a day or two and have already started work on Sabe. Should be doable before I run out of month.
Mothsniper wrote: Finished pictures are in!; thanks to my friend for those. Wish some images where reshot with better focus, but I'z has what I'z has.
I do want to try the nmm on a smoother newer model, and with an airbrush next time, just to prove to my self that I can do it, and prob never waste time on it again. I do see Lots of room for improvement.
CancelledApocalypse wrote: Bit of progress, all the base colours and most of the washes done. They don't look like much, yet, and I'm probably not winning any awards this month, but I'm surprising myself how quickly I'm making progress with this squad. I think I've got so used to painting character (or character level) models that I've forgotten that simpler models like this can be painted fairly quickly. Hopefully things continue to go smoothly from here...
@Mothsniper - thanks for the suggestion re the 'chainmail', I've actually gone for a dark brown/dark silver mix and I think it looks pretty good. I might drybrush a hint of silver on just to brighten it up a little.
One more thing, I'm not sure what colour to paint the centre chap's hair. I've got a bit locked into doing pale skin tones, so I thought I'd try to diversify to a darker skin tone for him, but I feel like a space elf should have more interesting hair colour than just dark brown/black. I'm thinking about a grey/pale grey, but I'm not sold on that just yet. What do people think?
Yeah, a light color will contrast the skin nicely. I’d be tempted to go really bright yellowish green, because it’s such a classic color for a mohawk to be died.
Pariah Press wrote: Yeah, a light color will contrast the skin nicely. I’d be tempted to go really bright yellowish green, because it’s such a classic color for a mohawk to be died.
Hmmm, that's an interesting idea! I think I'll try that! Thanks!
I'm going to (re)enter the two zombies from my last month's entry that never got further than primer. The "new" for this month's theme is their size, they are much more petite than modern Citadel minis, so this is a new size/scale for me to be painting. (You can see a scale comparison pic on my painting blog).
I have just finished this model and am anxious to paint it up. I will be painting him up in a Sons of Horus color scheme and trying some OSL from a lava base, which will be something new for me.
Besides that it is out with the old primarchs and in with the new! Finally answering the age long question "What if a primarch landed in Middle Earth?"
Meet the new primarch of the XVI Legion, the Witch King of Angmar
Jadenim: Nice work there. Love that model, I have one myself. Nice seeing somebody tackling it here!
Ok, as I finished my ghouls in such good time I thought I might crack on with the new FEC units and as such wish to submit the Varghulf Courtier as an additional option for the end of the month. Is that ok Nevelon?
I am thinking I could submit the Varghulf and four of the ghouls as a unit?
It’s up to 5 related minis. As long as there is a theme tying them all together you are good.
It doesn’t even need to be the model range. For example if you were using the “in with the new” as an excuse to try NMN, and wanted to enter a space marine, a foot knight, and a motorcycle, all using that technique it would be fine. Despite the models having nothing to do with each other.
I will almost never say “no” to something if you can give me a shred of an excuse to say “yes”
If people disagree if things on on topic, appropriate, etc. they can always not vote for you. But I try to be an enabler and encourage people to do more, try new things. And if you passionate and enthusiastic enough about something to ask, that’s something I want to reward.
Quick WIP of my little tank. Base coat is done and what’s left is to weather it and make it look like it’s been through the war. If anyone has a method they like that they’d be willing to share or any recommendations on how to proceed I’d appreciate it; I don’t have much experience painting vehicles.
The little tank is great, it looks like something from old sci-fi movie or protoype from the Cold War era. Maybe leave it as it is and add a scientist in a lab coat next to it ?
Disaster struck in my life.. one of the (entire) rooms in my house was impacted by a long-term flood-mold (under the vynil flooring, spanning years undetected), so has been emptied out and awaits repairs likely taking a month or two..with the chaos of all furniture etc standing in my hallway and livingroom.. at the same time my dentist refuses to help me with an irregular problem so I have been looking for a new one to which all so far refused to help.. giving me a lot of stress (peaking whenever a phonecall ends with the same response..), I am not well equipped against such piling on of problems, already being VERY busy with a plot of land I hire, money for my gym subscription refreshing being cut and a damn wonky workplace (I do youth-work, and its being demolished by the state who's removing donations). Yeah its that bad alltogether.
I will still try to finish this months challenge but am at this point not sure if the result will be what I want it to be and don't want to enter anything half finished so .. we will see.
Gulgog TufToof wrote: Quick WIP of my little tank. Base coat is done and what’s left is to weather it and make it look like it’s been through the war. If anyone has a method they like that they’d be willing to share or any recommendations on how to proceed I’d appreciate it; I don’t have much experience painting vehicles.
Leopold Helveine wrote: Disaster struck in my life.. one of the (entire) rooms in my house was impacted by a long-term flood-mold (under the vynil flooring, spanning years undetected), so has been emptied out and awaits repairs likely taking a month or two..with the chaos of all furniture etc standing in my hallway and livingroom.. at the same time my dentist refuses to help me with an irregular problem so I have been looking for a new one to which all so far refused to help.. giving me a lot of stress (peaking whenever a phonecall ends with the same response..), I am not well equipped against such piling on of problems, already being VERY busy with a plot of land I hire, money for my gym subscription refreshing being cut and a damn wonky workplace (I do youth-work, and its being demolished by the state who's removing donations). Yeah its that bad alltogether.
I will still try to finish this months challenge but am at this point not sure if the result will be what I want it to be and don't want to enter anything half finished so .. we will see.
Hang in there and take care of yourself. If you finish your entry, great! But if it’s a level of stress that you don’t needs, not worries if you miss it. We’ll be here next month.
After two weeks of only getting the legs and feet done, I finished the torso in only one day. I can't get the cockpit door to close right, but that's neither here nor there.
The legs aren't supposed to go there, but they do fit.
The eye can be moved up, down, and all around.
Nice to see some gunpla in the challenge, and brush-painted (I think?) at that. Are you able to paint the shoulder and hip joints? I tried once because I wanted to change the colour of the frame, but any movement and the friction stripped the paint down to the plastic.
Turaxa wrote: Nice to see some gunpla in the challenge, and brush-painted (I think?) at that. Are you able to paint the shoulder and hip joints? I tried once because I wanted to change the colour of the frame, but any movement and the friction stripped the paint down to the plastic.
Yep, it's all brush painted. The only spray can I used was GW's Wraithbone primer. The joints can be painted, but you'll usually have to sand them a little first, which is what I do.
Well, isn't that just bothersome. Real life keeps me from painting this week. I'll have to see what I can get done early next week. Completing all models should still be doable. At least I keep telling myself that...
Unexpectedly home with sick kids, so got to work. All done except for varnish. B&W teaser pic.
Automatically Appended Next Post: And we're done.
Raziel, savior, destroyer, soul reaver. Happy with the results. Always something I would change or approach differently, but I do like him. Sort of a pain to photograph, though.
Thanks for the encouragement MothSniper! I think that I will keep practicing cleaning them up. I'm still not happy with the grittiness of the finished models.
I would have loved to have kept working on them but I will be out of the country for the rest of the month and had to wrap it up quick!
My theme tying these two models together this month is 'out with the old' (two old minis from my graveyard) 'in with the new' techniques (i.e. cleaning up/altering models) best seen in my WIP post.
If this is too loose lmk and I will just submit one
Looking forward to seeing all of the submitted entries
Here's a quick WIP shot:
A week to go isn't very long considering how busy these models are, but I should hopefully be able to get them done to a reasonable standard. Working with the old Belial model is reinforcing how much I despise Finecrap though.
Been doing some worksings on the bikers again, still haven't gotten to the decals yet and have to say I am rather intimidated by it because of shaky hands and don't want to frustrate myself further this disasterous month.
Hope I will get to it still..
Then there is the pondering wether I will try to add more detail and damage/rust/dirt to the vehicles.. I kindof want to ..
I’ll have to fix the pictures when I get to a computer, they always come out upside down with my phone. I’m jumping in this month pretty late, but I’m excited. Of course, the mother in law is in town and we’re on a roadtrip to New Mexico, so no painting this weekend. I’ll have to hustle next week.
I’m doing a new model, a praetor from the HH box, but converting it into an older figure, a librarian in terminator armor. Plus, it’s for my older army. And, I’m trying out a new color scheme for my librarians. And, I took a bit from an old Skaven plague monk for the book. And, I’m trying out a new technique of printing my own water slide decals for the book text.
A day or two after my first post, I repaired and added ranged weapons to my killa kans, With the kind of month it's been, I haven't gotten further than that or made the time to even photograph them. I'll try to slap some paint on them before the end of the month and pick the best five of the six.
And everything is wonderful for me again. I got in some unexpected painting time after all and the goal is no longer at risk. I'm just one headdress and a base away from completion.
Leopold: I just added decals to my entry; 2 out of 3 went on smoothly. The 3rd didn’t want to conform to the cylindrical surface and took a couple of tries (and I destroyed a couple of decals in the process). Oh, and I had to paint over the surface of one to make it blend in with my paint scheme because GW’s idea of “Deathskull blue” is a lot lighter than mine. In the end it was still worth doing.
I too am debating calling it good versus adding more weathering which I don’t normally do and am worried that it will screw up an otherwise perfect little vehicle.
I'm finally listening to people's suggestions and I have more than one photo. I feel I should do a little more reading and learning on better compositions.
Gulgog TufToof wrote: Leopold: I just added decals to my entry; 2 out of 3 went on smoothly. The 3rd didn’t want to conform to the cylindrical surface and took a couple of tries (and I destroyed a couple of decals in the process). Oh, and I had to paint over the surface of one to make it blend in with my paint scheme because GW’s idea of “Deathskull blue” is a lot lighter than mine. In the end it was still worth doing.
I too am debating calling it good versus adding more weathering which I don’t normally do and am worried that it will screw up an otherwise perfect little vehicle.
I did the dirt and weathering, all beeps and boops are detail-phase-finished.
I meant more like making a freehand decal of a checkered pattern on the frontsides of the bikes x_x
I have done such before on other Lugganath units but have never really been confident whenever I tried because of the shaky hands.
I've done some painting on my fellow and this is the current status. Started off with the base layers of each color and a bit of sponging lighter green on the armor.
Next step was drybrushing the two OSL effects. Not quite sure if I like it or not.
Would still need to finish the lava base and the sword plus a few details, but I am seriously contemplating just scratching the OSL and going for a grimdark style insted.
Well, I think I am ready to submit my photos for this month. These are four of the new Crypt Guard models alongside the brand new Varghulf Courtier model. These were really fun units to tackle and I can’t wait to get to work on more of the FEC units for my growing force of deranged canni… I mean noble freedom fighters.
I have tried a new approach with the pictures following feedback last month and used a black card background with felt and slate acting as the terrain. I’m reasonably happy with the results but do feel some of the finer details are a little out of focus (as well as the highest highlighted areas on the Varghulf)
Still, I will try to improve on this method as time goes on. I think overall I’m content with the results. Hope you all agree.
Thankyou my man! Nice for you to tip your hat… you know I’m an admirer of your work and this month is no exception. I can see how much work has gone into producing the skintones on Raziel… and the eyes are spot on too!
Thankyou my man! Nice for you to tip your hat… you know I’m an admirer of your work and this month is no exception. I can see how much work has gone into producing the skintones on Raziel… and the eyes are spot on too!
Leopold Helveine wrote:
Ooo, I got one of those too still on the assembled but unpainted pile.
I never really thought it was such a stand-out mini considering its strength when compared with other blight kings but I'm sure you'll make it pop.
Thanks for the blind faith in my ability to make it pop
I've not used it on the tabletop, I more just bought it because it was something different to what I would normally paint. Trying to get back on top of my technique after many years of not painting. Anyway, I've just about finished him, felt like I rushed the last few bits to get it done as the deadline was looming and real life has an annoying ability of getting in the way of my painitng.
So, I think I used a decent range of 'new' technical paints. I'm happier with the results of some rather than others and happier with some parts of the paint job than others, but hey ho, here's my ugly buggly Lord of Plagues...
Added a WiP pic too, kind of missed the boat at that point of painting
Nevelon wrote:Just a quick reminder that we have one week to go, and there will be no vote for next month, as we will go with the classic “Space Marine” theme.
I HOPE it’s Space Marine because I just got back from buying a Captain with Jump Pack specifically for the entry…lol
Yes, March is the start of the cycle, and always “Space Marine” Not required to be GW’s versions, but anything vaguely space-y and marine-y. Or part of the troubling Eldar protest we’ve been unable to purge.
There are 3 fixed months:
March (start) - Space Marine
October - Halloween special. (sometimes gets a more fancy name, but basically the same thing)
December - Open Round.
There will not be a vote for those months. The other time we will skip the vote is in case of ties. When that happens the organizer (me at the moment, was Paradigm before) will choose one to be the topic for the month, and the other one will be the subject for the next month that would have had a vote.
All rules subject to change on the whim of the mad dictator running this thing, but unlikely to do so.
Following on the topic of vehicles piloted by greenskinz of smaller stature, here's the final pics of my Gnot Tank.
"...In with the New":
1. I modeled this in CAD and had it 3D printed, so no one has ever seen this model before
2. It's printed on an MJF which is fairly new and revolutionary technology
3. I've really only ever painted one other vehicle, so this is new for me
4. I tried the sponge chipping technique for the first time.
Great work so far everyone, and good luck to all those still trying to finish before the deadline!
For some reason I thought that February has 30+ days
I've decided to scratch the OSL for now and have gone with a grimdark approach to the model. I've seen this online and wanted to try it for some time. It's certainly a different look with the dark edge "highlights".
Definetely happy with how it is coming along.
The power sword blade is pretty much done, same with all the armor. The helmet still needs a bit of love and then the rest of the details still need to be done (studs, Legion symbol etc.)
There's also a bit more work to be done on the base, but overall I think I prefer it this way. The cracks were not really big enough for the super bright OSL source that I originally had in mind. I will definetely try it again in the future with a new base and model though.
All in all the rest should be doable until the end of the month though
Pneumo wrote: For some reason I thought that February has 30+ days
Remember, extensions are a thing. While the end of the month is Thursday, if people need a little extra time, we can bump things back to Friday if someone asks.
Going to try today or tomorrow to get those patterns on the bikes, haven't really felt like trying yet because of the big-pile-of-disasters this month I'm still trying to rectify.
Here's Sabe. With her the entire Naboo royal court box is painted.
And below, the picture for the voting thread.
Naboo biggen and da uss-en uthers:
That's my year ending with a bang. I don't usually paint as many models in a month since it hardly leaves me with time for other pursuits. I'll take it a little easier next month so I have time for sculpting and whims and fancies again.
Or part of the troubling Eldar protest we’ve been unable to purge.
Does that mean Eldar are allowed too? I don't play Space Marines anymore, but so far I'm debating between three ideas: Dreadnought from the meme "I will wash the unclean", terrain from wrecked vehicle, or cute tiny 3D printed drop pods for Epic scale. But the Eldar have some cool models too.
Halfling84, "space marine" can mean many things in sci fi, not just GW's Adeptus Astartes.
Folks like me and Captain Brown usually enter Eldar models as a jokey protest. But if you think about it, an Eldar space warrior isn't any less of a space marine than a Starship Trooper or Cpl Hicks.
KidCthulhu wrote:Halfling84, "space marine" can mean many things in sci fi, not just GW's Adeptus Astartes.
Folks like me and Captain Brown usually enter Eldar models as a jokey protest. But if you think about it, an Eldar space warrior isn't any less of a space marine than a Starship Trooper or Cpl Hicks.
You may be required to sing rebellious songs or storm the barricades if you join the protest. Fair warning…
ShadowsAndDust wrote:Hey Nevelon, can I have an extension of a couple days?
Sure, we can do that. I’ll push the deadline out until midnight Saturday, which will give everyone 2 days, one of which is a weekend. Let’s end this round on a high note, get those protects done and polished!
XvArcanevX wrote: A lot of people here will probably think me mad but I’m genuinely excited to be painting an Astartes…
It will be my first, and I have quite a few Dark Angels to get through once I start that project. This guy will be a prototype I suppose…
Bring on March!
I'm looking forward to it as well.
I've been in an unexpectedly lasting 40k mood of late, and I'm happy to use the opportunity to paint a Black Legion model with my grown painting skills. The last one has been a fair while ago.
I've been in an unexpectedly lasting 40k mood of late, and I'm happy to use the opportunity to paint a Black Legion model with my grown painting skills. The last one has been a fair while ago.
Glad to have someone else with me on team Astartes… there’s a lot of Eldar sympathizers around here it seems. Blessed are those who stand ready to crush this heresy!
Also, I think I might have made a boo boo before even priming my boy… having gone a bit wild with the DA expansion sprue… who knows, I see, I like, I glue, I paint. It is the whey.
Damn straight! Dark Angels and Black Legion are such a classic bulwark against heresy, and I for one can only appeal to all the others to rethink their silly Ultramarines and Blood Angels and Imperial Fists and join the ranks of the true, righteous defenders of faith!
Geifer wrote: Damn straight! Dark Angels and Black Legion are such a classic bulwark against heresy, and I for one can only appeal to all the others to rethink their silly Ultramarines and Blood Angels and Imperial Fists and join the ranks of the true, righteous defenders of faith!
Quite right brother, repentance is all my ears are attuned to hear…
Weather in my country (netherlands) continues to be cloudseed derp so have hardly any natural light (ongoingly for days now)
Best I can do for pics is this.. hope it doesn't devalue my entry.
rotational vids refuse to come out properly aswell, losing focus constantly so I leave that one out for now and will get back to it for my personal thread.
added info: It may not show as well as it should but I wanted to add that these are not painted in single hue, there's a lot of layering and weathering (with tiny sponges) applied to both the bikes and the riders, linework is not light and flashy but subtle. Soulstones are layered and enamelled. The yellow wings have 5 (!) layers of alternating Iyanden and orange shade, peppered with sponge on the front side with gradually desaturating bright gold into off white, metals are composed with two types of gold and an extra tint of brass etc.. I really hate how the pictures don't convey it as well as one's eyes. So there's that.
Hey gang
On a whim I decided to paint up something extra to go with my contest entry, this excellent Deep One sorcerer from Reaper that the wife got me for Xmas, which I'll use as The Flame That Burns Underwater for Carnevale
So a new set of pic entries
And the dockside itself, alone
Looking back I don't have a proof pic, you'll just have to trust me.
Gulgog TufToof wrote:
4. I tried the sponge chipping technique for the first time.
Welcome to the dark side. -
On the next challenge subj'..
I don't do spacemarines but I have an idea that will hit that mark anyway. (no it won't involve eldar lol)
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On graveimg..
I think having a proof pic is pretty much the only actual prequisite to these challenges at this point and if that goes out the window what do we have left?
You may not have bad intent etc but then anyone can just enter anything they have on the shelve..
inmygravenimage wrote:
On a whim I decided to paint up something extra to go with my contest entry, this excellent Deep One sorcerer from Reaper that the wife got me for Xmas, which I'll use as The Flame That Burns Underwater for Carnevale
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Looking back I don't have a proof pic, you'll just have to trust me.
Leopold Helveine wrote:
On graveimg..
I think having a proof pic is pretty much the only actual prequisite to these challenges at this point and if that goes out the window what do we have left?
You may not have bad intent etc but then anyone can just enter anything they have on the shelve..
Technically not providing a proof pic only excludes you from the vote thread, not participation in the challenge.
I will fully admit to the rules not being enforced evenly. I let a lot of stuff slide. The goal here is to build a community, have fun, and encourage and support our collective growth as hobbyists and painters. The rules are here to encourage that. And when I think they might be restricting it, I will enforce my right as the guy running this show to bend them. So when an established member of the community asks for a free pass, I’m prone to give it to them. Especially if I feel there is no malice present.
If a new person asked for the same thing? I’d still probably give them the pass. Welcome aboard, try to remember next time. Assuming I didn’t feel they were trying to abuse things. They want to drop some golden demon work on the second of the month? I’ll call them on that.
In all the years we’ve been doing this, only twice did I think someone was submitting work done prior to the start of the month. And to be brutally honest, it was mid-teir level work that normally votes in the bottom-third of the pack. So if someone’s ego needs to cheat to get 3% of the vote, I feel real sorry for them, but it’s not going to significantly impact the competition.
The rules are on the book for when we need to enforce them. I could start ruling this place with an iron first. Nobody wants that.
Obviously, the new challenge will not go up until Friday, so nothing is fixed until then.
But here are some examples from past years:
This month, the theme is our traditional Space Marine round. Tall, short, spiky or otherwise, any flavor of post human super soldier would fit the bill. Alive or dead as base decoration. Pretty much any space-based warrior will work, does not have to be a Games Workshop Space Marine (tm). I’d say the sky is the limit, but we are way past that out into the stars.
This month, as is traditional, we're kicking off with the theme Space Marines! Whether it's the clean and colourful good ones or the spiky, angry bad ones, the new-fangled big lads or the old-school but comparatively tiny ones, or even those action figures they do now, if it's a Space Marine, it's good to go! But that's not all; for those without any of the Emperor's Finest (or their villainous counterparts) kicking around, you've still got options. A tyranid whose base is covered in bits of dead Marine, or an Ork showing off some looted Astartes armour, that's good too. Finally, for those not of a Warhammery persuasion, anything that fits the literal defenition (ie. a ship-based soldier in space), whether its from Infinity or Alien, will fit the bill here if you think it does!
This month, the theme, as traditional for the first round of each year, is Space Marines, those ubiquitous space-borne fighty chaps with all that armour and whatnot. But, as always, the only limit on your entry is your imagination in interpreting that theme. In the past, we've had Orks in looted power armour, Space Marines adorning the bases of alien monstrosities, and even a bemused collection of modern-day marines who found themselves suddenly in space... So go wild, and as long as it's at least somewhat related, you're good!
As mentioned, this month marks the return of the annual Space Marine round. However, you're not just limited to blokes in garishly coloured Power Armour, and you can interpret the theme however you like. In the past we've had Orks in disguise as Terminators, US Marines given a sci-fi makeover, some creative use of Astartes as basing material for various enemy forces.. basically, so long as your entry consists of some manner of Marine in Space, you're good to go! And yes, this does include Chaos Marines, HH minis, vehicles, Dreadnoughts ect, the full gamut of Marine minis on offer.
Not here to abuse the system. Just took a notion to paint something. I mean, we're all chums, hopefully. Anyway, my liberal interpretation of Space Marine (Captain Marvel) is likely to be far more contentious
Got my orcs done. The old (the little guy with a spear had 1985 on his base) through to the sort of new (a couple of the soon to be re-released plastics)
Pneumo wrote: For some reason I thought that February has 30+ days
Remember, extensions are a thing. While the end of the month is Thursday, if people need a little extra time, we can bump things back to Friday if someone asks.
I'm going to actually request that this month is people don't mind, I'm away for most of tomorrow, with it being a short month anyway Friday for getting photos etc up would be a relief.
ShadowsAndDust wrote:Hey Nevelon, can I have an extension of a couple days?
Sure, we can do that. I’ll push the deadline out until midnight Saturday, which will give everyone 2 days, one of which is a weekend. Let’s end this round on a high note, get those protects done and polished!
Pneumo wrote: For some reason I thought that February has 30+ days
Remember, extensions are a thing. While the end of the month is Thursday, if people need a little extra time, we can bump things back to Friday if someone asks.
I'm going to actually request that this month is people don't mind, I'm away for most of tomorrow, with it being a short month anyway Friday for getting photos etc up would be a relief.
Request already granted. Take you time, get it right! But not too much time, still have some sort of deadline...
inmygravenimage wrote:Not here to abuse the system. Just took a notion to paint something. I mean, we're all chums, hopefully. Anyway, my liberal interpretation of Space Marine (Captain Marvel) is likely to be far more contentious
XvArcanevX wrote: A lot of people here will probably think me mad but I’m genuinely excited to be painting an Astartes…
It will be my first, and I have quite a few Dark Angels to get through once I start that project. This guy will be a prototype I suppose…
Bring on March!
I agree, it will be good to have this push to paint more of my space marines. I have too many Dark Angels waiting for paint.
Paint as many as you can and pick the best 5.
It’s been a while since we’ve done a month without the 5 model cap. Should get that back on the menu at some point. Not next month though. Keep it simple for the start of the cycle.
ShadowsAndDust wrote:Hey Nevelon, can I have an extension of a couple days?
Sure, we can do that. I’ll push the deadline out until midnight Saturday, which will give everyone 2 days, one of which is a weekend. Let’s end this round on a high note, get those protects done and polished!
God bless you sir, I'm gonna need the extra time myself!
inmygravenimage wrote: Not here to abuse the system. Just took a notion to paint something. I mean, we're all chums, hopefully. Anyway, my liberal interpretation of Space Marine (Captain Marvel) is likely to be far more contentious
The brig is currently at capacity, so no throwing people in irons at the moment. And save the zeal for fighting the xenos who will surly try to disrupt our marine ways.
Nevelon wrote: That rabbit’s dynamite! Look at the bones!
Best have a holy handgrenade on hand...
Okay, right, so I wasn't happy with the way the exodites have been going - the paint scheme just isn't gelling and I'm not sure how I'm going to fix them, yet - so instead for the past few days I've been furiously painting witch aelves in order to have something to submit. I've managed to get two painted of a batch of ten that I got cheap(ish) on ebay (proof pic below)... and promptly realised why they were cheap: with the hair already glued on, it's effin' difficult to paint anything round the back! Ah well, two done anyway.
I've been kicked out of my study by visitors, but I'll try to get my photography setup done elsewhere at some point tomorrow. In the meantime, I've also attached a proof of completion. Oh, and they're "in with the new" because they're the very first Age of Sigmar minis I've ever painted. In fact, I have a feeling they are a holdover from the previous Warhammer Fantasy range, so I guess they're "out with the old", too.
Here we have Neyam Shai Murad, which is I believe the newest rogue trader sculpt, having been released with the original Combat Arena game. Also a figure I've dubbed Septimus Greggor, who appears in the original WH40K Rogue Trader rulebook, though he went unreleased until Wargames Foundry started selling him in 2015.
Request already granted. Take you time, get it right! But not too much time, still have some sort of deadline...
cheers Nev, much appreciated. I won't get the 5th one (Standard Bearer) done in time so just submitting these 4 Knight of the Realm. I tried to go for quite bold colours and couldn't resist some Goblin green bases with a bit of flock
We have in
Yellow and Black - Jasperre d'Outraal
Dark Blue with Stars and White top band - Bors le Blanc
White with Green checkered line - Courageux messire Robin
Red and Blue - Crespin de la Riviere
he says you can have a mushroom for the extension.
"In with the new"
I tried a new technique "slap chop" and used what contrast paints I had along with some other thinned paints, fun model to paint glad I picked up a couple when he was out in the weekly mag I'll save the other one for when I'm better at painting.
Here's my entry, two Witch Aelves painted in Juan Hidalgo's 'eavy contrast style, my first attempt at painting AoS and doing full minis in 'eavy contrast. I really enjoyed painting these two and it got me thinking I might make an eclectic all-female warband out of various heroes and troops from the various AoS ranges. So Stormcast, Cities, Elves, maybe even a chaos girl or two...
OK, got them in on time. Was a little worried this month.
So the old guy is one of the 3 oldest minis in my prime pile. Had kitbashed him out of mostly GK bits with a little Ultra flair. And then he collected dust for a few years. The new guy is new from the Leviathan box. I can’t say he’s leading the way for my modern terminator force, as he’s the last of the TDAHQs to cross over to plastic. But he is ahead of the squads. Which I should really get cracking on.
And with them done, my old metal librarian can take a well earned rest. Unless I need him to lead my old lead terminators again...
Out with the old, in with the new...
(not for the comp pic)
Thanks Ezki and wow! That's some piece! I think I already know who my top pick of the month is going to - It'll take quite the entry in the next however many hours to top that!
Finished him. A Librarian in Terminator armor, made from a Praetor. Out with the new, in with the old.
And the book is all freehand, some Monty Python inspiration. The text is from the book of Armaments, and the designs are the monks jumping into the pool.
Well, as luck would have it, I am going to have to bow out yet again. I've had some pretty rotten luck this week with things eating into my painting time, and to top it all off my apartment was without water for the last couple of days, and the water in my brush rinse cup had mostly evaporated. The water's back on, but now there's no time to finish painting. I might post a WIP pic to use as my entry but the Belials definitely aren't finished. Oh well, hopefully I can get something done for the Space Marine round and start the new "season" off right.
@DJJazzyJeff Ha ha, so my earlier comment about having to have a holy handgrenade on hand for all the rabbits in the thread was accurate! Love the concept and the illumination on the book is great!
@Zergsmasher sorry to not have you in this round. :(
KidCthulhu wrote: With each new completed entry, I feel more and more outclassed this round
Goodness gracious I feel the same - I was so confident in my entries this month but less and less so now!
Great job everyone I will need to keep improving my painting (and photography) game!
CancelledApocalypse wrote: @DJJazzyJeff Ha ha, so my earlier comment about having to have a holy handgrenade on hand for all the rabbits in the thread was accurate! Love the concept and the illumination on the book is great!
Haha, I thought the same when I read it. Though, the Holy Grail is standard reference material.
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