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 JoshInJapan wrote:
Remember when I said I was finished with my August pledge? I lied.

I love those old Wardancers. Normally I find Jes Goodwin's models to be a little too clinical and clean but I do like his early stuff.

As for my own painting this month I was planning on starting my Dropfleet but my pledge hasn't even been dispatched yet and I go on holiday today so I'll just have to see what happens

 Silent Puffin? wrote:

 JoshInJapan wrote:
Remember when I said I was finished with my August pledge? I lied.

I love those old Wardancers. Normally I find Jes Goodwin's models to be a little too clinical and clean but I do like his early stuff.

As for my own painting this month I was planning on starting my Dropfleet but my pledge hasn't even been dispatched yet and I go on holiday today so I'll just have to see what happens

I kind of like the uniformity/consistency of his work. Everything scales with everything else, and armor and equipment all look to have come from the same source.

My final July models - which happen to be from my "Mandatory" army-building section (undead). Finished at the wire, and not photographed until this morning. Because I'm sick and have only been posting sporadically in N&R.



A trio of Reaper Bones' Bat Swarms as a Swarm Unit for KoW Undead.




Worked on in parallel, but finished later (ie, in August) are a trio of Reaper Bones Vermin/Rat Swarms - again as a Swarm Unit for KoW Undead. I'll move them to Skaven later when I have an actual, functional Skaven army.

A few more elves to share:


More here.

You're a painting machine, Josh.

So far this month I've managed to do most of the prep work on the new figures for this month - need to clean up an injection site on two Brigands, and glue the front steps onto the keep, them I'm good to undercoat.

 Dysartes wrote:
You're a painting machine, Josh.

Between two dogs and one child, I have been turned into a morning person. 40-50 minutes every morning before everyone else gets up gets a lot done.

Quick additional hero or part of a foot guard regiment. I've also got the transfer sheet ready to go. So pledge is looking possible.

More elves:


More here.

You're really barrelling along on these Elves, Josh. Very cool to see them painted up.

I finally got a squad (or close enough) of my Iron Warriors completed.



More here and here.

Finally got round to finishing off my mammoths (Arcane Scenery)
mammoth being stalked by neanderthal hunter


parent and child attacked by hunters


Next thing - working on some of my Perry Samurai. Have a bad back, which is slowing things down, but I'm wanting to have a Tribal game with the samurai this coming weekend so I'll have to get cracking on them. Pics soon, hopefully

Hah, those cavemen and mammoths are awesome

Those Iron Warriors are breaking my brain...so fancy.

Awesome work lately everyone. Apologies for being so slow, but it's been killer hot lately and I just can't get myself to paint stuff. Still working on doing *something* for the second month of the challenge, just slow going.

I love the caveman stuff. I'm surprised by how few companies actually make figures of cavemen and other early humans.

Hello everyone here is 120 militia men (30 have list detail on there faces so I'm currently trying to repair them, and I haven't done there faces due to some missing detail but for this month I will correct that) sorry for being so late

Finished a Space Hulk Broodlord. Sorry for lack of productivity, but RL is being a challenge. I have anew motivation now for this tale of painters - I have a game of SH booked in for very late on 3rd September. Very very excited!!!! Need to crack on with pace to get all my stealers painted by then (doubt it's realistic, but would be awesome!)

Another winner there, lovely!

Unfortunately I have been struck with terrible CBA, hope to get the brushes out soon though

Nice.
The transfers didn't work so I've gone back and free handed the shields on everybody this gives me two finished Troops for this month. The Knights (just the shields) and the Pole-Arms

Getting stuff done....just not the stuff I'm supposed to be working on this month - lol

Still stuff done is still stuff done and love painting these DW:O fellas

Some tidy looking minis there, Jan! Branatar and Edryc are my favourites of that bunch.

Indeed! I've been swamped by work myself, but this is seriously inspiring work, exalts for all!

Cheers folks. Those new figs are a lot of fun to paint

More elves, from the Scarloc's Archers set:


Sorry for the terrible image. I need to spend some time how to photograph models more effectively. More here.

 JoshInJapan wrote:

Sorry for the terrible image. I need to spend some time how to photograph models more effectively.

Exactly the same

Some more DZC from me as my Dropfleet stuff is no where to be seen.

Heavy Hazard suits. When I varnished these something odd happened and they look a bit mottled now even though they were completely dry when I sprayed them.


AA teams


Praetorians, 27th century SAS and one of the best close assault units in the game despite being armed with nothing more than SMGs.

Finished my Danes starter warband.



Close up of the warlord.

I almost said "Great Danes!...

Those look fantastic. Are the shield freehand?

Great Danes - that's great banter.

Shield designs are a mix of transfers and free hand. The more complex ones are obviously the transfers, though quite a few were simple patterns too. The leader with the horse shield, that was a real bugger, could not get it to peel off and had to stick the plastic coat to the shield (this is supposed to come off). No problem, bit of superglue and it's fine, but when I painted round the edge some of the paint seeped under the transfer. So there's some extra weathering and scratches to hide this, mostly along the top. Great Scot!

My July challenge is now finished. Here are my entries:

Thallax Cohort



Dark Mariner Close Combat Biomech



Infinity Antipode Assault Pack



I've also cleared two Stretch goals, both Mantic items. As mentioned in my initial post, I would be doing the odd Mantic figures here and there.

Blaine



The Survivor



For the rest of my stretch goals, I'm going to attempt to finish as many more Mantic figures as I can. Next month though, it's going to be very Mantic heavy.

Just a PSA.
I took some photos tonight of the Obliterators I finished a couple of weeks ago, but I find that I've just got no interest in all the hassle of uploading them, writing about them or posting them. So I figure I need a break.

While I'm still painting and will very likely manage to keep up on my monthly goals for this ToG challenge, I'm really burnt out on blogging for the time being and very tired and grumpy (a large understatement) in general, so I may not post much or at all for awhile. Similarly, I'm not likely to keep up on all the P&M blogs for those of you I usually keep up on, or this thread, or even my own threads. So I probably won't be commenting or even reading them. I just don't have the energy, and my general demeanor is not great right now.

My best guess is I'll be back closer to the end of September when the weather here is a little better and I've had a chance to rest. I'll update the monthly showcase thread at that point.

Apologies, but I'll be back to P&M when I can.

Look after yourself Azazelx. My thoughts are with you

Take it easy man, no rush.

Yeah, hope you're feeling up to it soon, Az.