2016's "A Tale of Many Gamers Painting Challenge" MkII: July-December

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**Polonius**

So, what's the only thing more boring than Ultramarine tactical squads?

Ultramarines Rhinos, of course!

I had to overpaint the decals, because they just wouldn't set right, but I kind of dig how they look.

**FabricatorGeneralMike**

Barzam wrote:
I got the first part of my September challenge finished. I'm planning on doing all Mantic and GW/FW robots this month. First is the Domitar Battle Automata.

Thats fething epic!!!!

I know im tardy with my pics but ill have them up soon. I decided to work on the 54mm Artemis but I got side tracked with I had to put together a friends 30k Mechanicum stuff.....

**Azazelx**

Awesome Domitar there, Barzam. ...except stop tempting me to buy the damn things!

Nothing wrong with those Rhinos, either! Especially two done in a month.

These were finished by me in August. I took the photos last month, then ended up taking a break from blogging after trimming them in photoshop and then didn't even bother to upload them until this morning. I'll get caught up in the next couple of weeks, which will include the maintenance of this thread and the monthly showcase posts. Until then, here's a couple of models.

more here

**FabricatorGeneralMike**

Hello there.... sorry about the late postings for my aug project....work has been kicking the gak out of me....well here we go....

This is my DW IF guy I worked on....I would love to make a 54mm omni one day...hell i'd love to make 54mm of all of Talon Squad one day...I do love those stories and the book....

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**JoshInJapan**

That's a nice, very dynamic model. Is the combi-melta a conversion?

**JoshInJapan**

My first post for September:

This is, of course, a Strider from Deadzone. More here. I have the day off tomorrow, so I'll try to get a photo of my August pledge to share.

**Huginn**

Well done guys, keep those brushes working!

A break from regiments for me this month, working on two characters. Well, first one is done, here is Gunnar Gunnarson, leader of my dwarf gunners.

And the other character, predictably maybe, is this chap. Minor alteration - removed the skull poking out of his shoulder, it's now gently resting against the rock.

**JoshInJapan**

That's a fine-looking dwarf. I like the tartan on his cloak.

Here's everything I finished in August. The photo is only two weeks late. That's acceptable, right?

**angelofvengeance**

Currently working on a unit of 3 Flamers of Tzeentch for Silver Tower. These will add a bit more of a challenge to the game (seriously, they will! Nasty little buggers these things!)

Edit: More Progress

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angelofvengeance wrote:
Final flesh highlight of Lothern Blue- dry-brushed.

What do we think so far?

Spoiler:

**JoshInJapan**

One more Deadzone walker finished:

More here.

**Mana Press**

Got distracted and started painting cars for our game of Mad Max set in the 1930's...

And some Cro-Magnons vs Neanderthals, fighting over a bridge

**Azazelx**

Some awesome stuff up there. Mana Press' picture reminds me of Far Cry Primal a little (Cool Cars as well!) and Huginn's dwarf is sublime. Great 54mm Deathwatch and Mechanicum/Forge Father/Robot stuff as well.

I've finished my Undead entry for this month (September) as well, and photographed them.

More here and a lot more here.

I spent an hour or so updating the monthly showcases this morning. I'm about 2 pages behind, but July is done and August is almost done. Seems to be a lot of missing submissions for July, so if I've missed any or you've forgotten to post your stuff up, please feel free to do so now (please note that it's your July entry) and I'll get those done and fixed up ASAP.

**Silent Puffin?**

I'm really busy for the next few months, until the middle of November at least so I won't be painting much in that time.

I'll see what I can do though.

**Dysartes**

Still here...

Only managed 3 more SDE Chests last month, so I'm going to post the pic for them when I post my September pictures, assuming no-one has any objections?

**BrookM**

Starting a personal countdown myself, one week of work to go, then three weeks of vacation in which I plan to make something of a comeback after all those weeks of inactivity due to work.

**Polonius**

I finally completed the Devastator squad, which was the last full squad needed for my first demi-company:

I also finished the captain, who is resplendent in all of his third edition glory:

One interesting fact here is that I used the new GW gemstone technical paints, and I really liked how they look. The green gen on his chest, the eyes of the backpack eagles, and even the power nodes on the sword are all hit with one of them.

When I began my major rehabilitation project, half the vehicles were the older MK I style, and I decided that I wanted my Ultramarines to use the newer kits. Instead, I broke out my Emperor's Children Brass etch and turned them into second line vehicles for my 30k force:

Rhinos:

The original Vindicator, which has held up amazingly as a model!

I should be able to finish a Dreadnought for my Demi-company this month, and hopefully my Betrayal at Calth tactical squads.

**Llamahead**

Nice job Polonius my man! But I can't help but feel the Captains sword could do with a contrasting colours sword glow.
Equally on the subject of models with poor contrast
Sir Montalban Zombicide Survivor

Spearman Troop

Still want to get the light cavalry done.

**Polonius**

Llamahead wrote:
Nice job Polonius my man! But I can't help but feel the Captains sword could do with a contrasting colours sword glow.

I was going to post that blue power swords were de rigeur in 3rd edition, but looking at some old catalogs at Stuff of Legends, plenty of models had either red power weapons or, more commonly, metallic sliver power weapons. I might try a nice pure metallic.

Equally on the subject of models with poor contrast
Sir Montalban Zombicide Survivor

Spearman Troop

Still want to get the light cavalry done.

Those are some gritty, dark age spearmen!

**Llamahead**

Cheers!

**Barzam**

Got my GW Kastelan Robots and Datasmith finished. All that's left for this month's pledge will be my Dreadball robots.

**Llamahead**

Not necessarily progress but the new stuff for the Army of New Haven arrived

I've also got some of the 2nd hand unassembled Battalia glued together

**Huginn**

You certainly don't do things by half! Good luck with all that.

**Llamahead**

Cheers Huginn. Well this is my first new army since 2009 and it corresponds with an acting promotion at work and the final run up to finishing my thesis and graduating with an MA. It's also a project I've wanted to do since I started wargaming. I won't be buying anything new for a while though.

Automatically Appended Next Post:
Curse you Frostgrave Nickstarter ok after that I won't be buying anything new......

**JoshInJapan**

Here's my latest entry for September:

More here.

**Azazelx**

Great stuff, guys. And that's going to be one hell of an army when it's done, Llama!

Here's my latest. More Skellingtons for the undead army.

And set up for KoW:

More here.

**Dysartes**

Nice skeletons there, Azazel, especially for Bones.

Work continues on the five Boo Booty models from my two SDE sets - I may even try to get the last four treasure chests done, if I can figure out what colour I want to do the "wood" panels.

**Celtic Strike**

This is really neat you guys

**ZergSmasher**

Okay, since it doesn't look like I'm actually gonna finish any Tau stuff this month (since I'm going on vacation in a couple of days and will be gone until October 2nd), I'll post this Chaos Sorcerer I finished as a side goal:

Hopefully when October rolls around I can get more Tau stuff done.

**Llamahead**

Light Horse done one extra model for Kings of War. On to stretch goals for the rest of the month, or starting on units to finish next month.

**Archer**

Here is my September progress. The final unit of Questing Knights and a Paladin pretty in pink. So this brings to a close to my Bretonnian army. I will shortly be posting the whole army up on my plog so feel free to stop by. For the rest of the challenge I will be focusing on the next army in my Army Challenge which is going to be my first Chaos Space Marine army: Alpha Legion.