THOSE SHOULDERS! I mistook her for one of those old OLD termies!

 Januine wrote:

@Talys - you painting the chaplain up as a WB or another legion. Absolutely love his crozius. Saw it painted up in a marble effeect (think that's the official paintjob fig I'm thinking of) and looked pretty belting. looking forward to see him all Talys'd up

Out of all the factions in 40k, Chaos is really the only one that isn't my thing, so definitely not WB

I'm sure it will be BA again -- until they're "done"... and I'm only about 60% of the way there... I wont be working on many other faction.

hmm..wow I did not even get a coat of paint on my entry this month thanks fallout 4 .

I'm nearly finished the Kats. few more things to do. 'Freeblade' has not helped matter though. lol

@BC not the biggest fan of the GW one tbh

I have managed to make some progress with my entry, Abbadon's armour is now black and gold as apposed to just black. I am doing well!

 Buttery Commissar wrote:
LordRahl, nah; I wouldn't touch that balloon-chest-fest with a long-las.

I've got the far more sensible female GW Commissar.

...



Maybe I can make her less... That.

I have had that sculpt sitting above my PC for a long time now, reserved for the day I feel my painting skills have improved enough to do it justice.

 LeCacty wrote:
THOSE SHOULDERS! I mistook her for one of those old OLD termies!

Looking left and right is for deserters and cowards! Forwards only! For the Emperor wills it!

I genuinely don't know if she needs a neck or those dropping down.

congratz on finishing your model Nevelon and your entry is looking good so far LordRahl hope you get the other bits finished

 Buttery Commissar wrote:
LordRahl, nah; I wouldn't touch that balloon-chest-fest with a long-las.

lol I did once try to make a amazon warband for Mordhiem, was really hard to find models that weren't in chain mail or fur bikinis since i was going for the more practical look rather than pin up look. I did find some bodies to convert in the end.

well i started on present, base coating skin always looks weird...
and i think the part on her chest that i base coated as skin might not actually be skin....




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@BC i think adding the neck would be easier than moving her shoulder pads down

Alright, I'm sorry guys..... I like my Kurtha Sedd model so much that I want to replace him as my entry for this month's contest :X Partly, because he's thematically better for Princes of the Universe subject matter, but mostly because I just love the model But, if it's too much a pain to change, don't worry about it

This guy is just a blast to paint. Definitely, my favorite model from the Betrayal at Calth box. I did him up as a Blood Angels chaplain (of course!). Now to tackle all those Mk4 power armor guys...



Slightly off-topic... when you use a the forum include tag from Dakka Gallery, the image is horizontally smaller than when you use the an IMG tag. Is there any reason for this or way around it?

lovely work there Talys. especilly liking the cloak. great stuff

Oh my god. I've been sitting under a rock for so long...
count me in for next month! Agh i'm so ashamed that I discovered this so late... :(
Shows how much I travel outside the P&M Blog/Showcase pages hahaha

Also Talys, that is one sublime miniature. I thought it was a screenshot from and old GW article or something, until I remembered that Sedd came out only a few days ago
Even if you can't get him entered, know that you have a stunning legion chaplain there mate!

Woe. I picture up Fullers to check if I could indeed rescue him, and his sword is missing.

Going to have to go back to the carpark in daylight and see if it's there. I dropped him unloading my bags from a friend's car in town.

Looks like my entry is indeed going to be something else. :(

Dang, Talys, that guy is AWESOME! I guess I'll have to make some sort of effort. My model is getting there, albeit slowly. Not giving up just yet!

@Buttery Commissar: Sorry to hear about Fulgrim, I hope you can find that missing piece!

@BC - ZOMG :( That's a nice sword piece, too. I don't suppose if you pop into the FW store, bring the model and ask really nicely...?

@lipsdapips - thanks & can't wait to see your stuff next month

@Januine & ZergSmasher - thank you!! Zerg, you got 4 days, and if your flag is right, it's a long weekend Do your Black Friday online and paintpaintpaint!!

The Kats are finally all finished and am really chuffed with them. Seriously great figs to paint. Photos......later when I get around it. Long long tiring day

@Talys: I've switched your entry, no worries! Awesome mini!

@LDP: Hooray, another excellent painter between me and getting into the top 3 at some point! Welcome aboard. Next month's in an open challenge, so whatever is sitting on your desk and yet to be started qualifies for entry!

@BC: NOOOOOO!

Talys, leave some talent for the rest of us! That is astounding!

The good news is I found the blade! Bad news is the hilt and shoulder are mashed so I'm gonna have to put him on hold after all.

Consider that ladyssar my proof, Para, and I'll give her a backing cast of as many cadets as I can finish. Argh.

Great work Tayls, it is a nice model and its good to see it as a BA. I was thinking of starting a BA 30k army with my Calth box.

I am very jealous of how good your red looks, I feel when I do start them I'll be looking over lots of your pictures for ideas on how to do it properly

@BC: That's lucky just goes to show how often people clean those places, good luck fixing him and with getting m'dam commissar finished on time.

Added a base to the Thorster, I'll have it finished tomorrow.


I'll have to see what I can find to enter next month. Maybe a tank or something.

Holy hell I love that so much.

@OMN love that brave little toaster!

@bc send a pic to FW maybe they'll replace it

lots of work done on present i'll post a pic later

@Midget Gems - Looking forward to seeing your blood angels Feel free to PM me if you want to know how I did something or where some bit came from

My Fulgrim is not made by FW. He's by Kabuki.

T'all be reet int end.

im almost done... this pic was from this morn...
but this mini cape thing... i was thinking of painting it light brown
but idk... i think i should play it safe and paint it light blue...

@LordRahl - you can make a medium brown work. If you think color wheel, the opposite of complementary color of a medium blue is an orange, and a dark blue, a medium brown (mournfang brown-ish). You could play on it with a split complementary scheme and go blue, red-brown cape that gets highlighted yellow-brown highlights/accents.

The trick to making it work, though, is to not have too many other colors on the model, because you have lots of white and blue already.

 LordRahl wrote:
im almost done... this pic was from this morn...
but this mini cape thing... i was thinking of painting it light brown
but idk... i think i should play it safe and paint it light blue...

I did all of my Cygnar infantry with Brown cloaks rather than their blue. If you keep their armour blue, and add a few spots of an orange/red you are good.



Also managed to pretty much finish Njal off, will just finish up his base which will have a little weathering around his legs and cape. Then snap some nicer photos.

Got my head around the new camera, so here are my final pics of ol' Morty:

Really like the job you did on him and his base.

really lovely job there Para. Colours and treatment are top notch.

That Njal Looks fantastic Winter, well done!

looking good para

The mighty Thorster is finished!

You sir, just won. You won.

Love the Thorster!!! Really awesome stuff!!!

fanfethingtastic!!!

Thorsome!

@Winter: Cracking stuff, I've taken about 3 attempts at that model and always found it a bit of a pig to get right. Good work!

Hi everyone. Just to say I'm very impressed with everyone's work this month. I've not been round since page 7!!!! RL has changed dramatically and painting time has vanished. I will try and pop an entry in here and there I hope.

For anyone who wants to see, or didn't know it existed, the League table has been updated (http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/646010.page) so you can see where you stand. Regardless of whether I enter I'll check in to vote and keep scores up to date

Here are my finished SpecOpsOrks

Some great entries there, as usual.

TP: Thanks for all the work with the table, dude.

K D

Loving your converted Orks KD, great work

The Thor toaster is outstanding, impressive for your first try and OSL too oneManNoodles

Since everyone is getting there finished models up and my guy has just been staring at me for the last week here is the finished pics of him

I present ConnOrk MacLeod from the Highlander Movie which Queen did all the soundtrack for including the video that Para linked called "Princes of the Universe" and therefore my link to the theme Hope you enjoy.

I enjoyed trying to figure out how to do the GS trenchcoat, but making and gluing the GS fingers for the hand was the hardest bit..

There can only be one!

Thanks, but your Connork looks fantastic, too.
Great work!

Super stuff from the both of you!

@KD: would you mind just taking one shot of each one? I do allow collage images like that, but there's still the 5 pic limit and that way of doing it is a bit unfair on everyone else (although still awesome).

My final entry, Prince of da 'Ooniverse, complete wiv chest fulla loot and gold rings on each finger:



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Just curious... is there a way to get around the compression when uploading pictures? These looked a lot better on my screen before I posted them to Dakka; now they look grainy and awful.

You could put them on Imgur instead of Dakka. The image system is pretty grim.

Loving the pics so far guys. Really nice ideas coming out.

Some seriously awesome entries this month! Really need to get off my arse and take some photos of the Kats today

In general, if you upload the images to the gallery first then link them into the post rather than uploading directly to the post, I think they get less compressed. I could be wrong, though.

Love the characterful and effectively done conversion of that Freebooter Captain...and Talys your Kurtha Sedd is beautiful. So many good entries already.

Will have photos of mine up tomorrow.

This is just a test to see if uploading a single photo so as not to exceed the total limit for a message by uploading 5 simultaneously improves it any.


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Nope, still gak. If a moderator wants to delete this, that'd be just fine.

Gulgog TufToof wrote:This is just a test to see if uploading a single photo so as not to exceed the total limit for a message by uploading 5 simultaneously improves it any.

At the moment it is appearing grainy in the thread because of automatic resizing to fit the thread.

You need to manually resize your images prior to uploading them. They are actually huge. Its a 45mb image file that is in 4k Resolution (4608 x 3456 pixels).

EDIT ~ Resized it for you

Lovely looking stuff all round. That Thorster is too cute x)

Sorry for breaking the orc trend here, but here is my entry. In case I don't get around basing him properly in time, here are some pics.

Tarik Mansuri, Amir of the Khawarijs











Forgive my low quality pics :(

Well, I started.

I'll fetch proof on the other figures dependin on which I use, there a group shot of them incomplete on my blog from mid November, I'll find it later. Actually finishing would be priority.

Buttery butts.

If you're wondering why the bases are hideous, that's the underlying grit for snow flock.

@Winter: That's exactly how it should look! How do you manually resize an image (did you use Photoshop or some other program?), and what's the ideal size for an image in Dakka forum posts?
I normally am loathe to hijack a thread with a diversion, but I think others in this competition might appreciate it too if you could shed a little light on the subject.

Thanks!!!

Pirate ork! @.@

@Talys how about the brown from this terribly blurry pic
bestial under snake leather? >.> yea my browns are old...




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Pirate ork! @.@

@Talys how about the brown from this terribly blurry pic
bestial under snake leather? >.> yea my browns are old...

@LordRahl - Personally, I would go for a little darker brown and then layer it up or highlight it with something like an ochre. But, just judge for yourself... here's what a traditional color wheel looks like Just look at the tones of blue across from the tones of orange, and in isolation, generally speaking you get good contrast that is pleasing to the eye.

Beautiful stuff there.

@Para: Sure, didn't want to bend any rules with that.
I'll upload them later.

 Gulgog TufToof wrote:
@Winter: That's exactly how it should look! How do you manually resize an image (did you use Photoshop or some other program?), and what's the ideal size for an image in Dakka forum posts?
I normally am loathe to hijack a thread with a diversion, but I think others in this competition might appreciate it too if you could shed a little light on the subject.

Thanks!!!

No worries at all mate, I did indeed re-size the image using Photoshop. If you don't have that, you should however be able to download GIMP (which is free) and use that to edit the image.'

Ideal range varies, I like using anything around 640 x 480 if it is a 4:3 image. I normally don't go any higher than 1000 pixels on the largest dimension. Another note is that I typically constrain the ratios (so that if you adjust one dimension the other will follow, i.e. you adjust height and width automatically adjusts according to the original dimension).

Let's try this again.
Paradigm, if it's an easy thing to do, would you please replace my finished pics in the OP with these? If it's not easy, don't worry about it. Thanks!

Winter, one more question if I may: How did you get the image to fill the screen in your post? Did you make them something other than 640x480, or is that something that was done in the forum post after uploading? (Your image of my mini still looks better than my image of my mini ) Thanks again, this is hugely helpful.

 Gulgog TufToof wrote:
Winter, one more question if I may: How did you get the image to fill the screen in your post? Did you make them something other than 640x480, or is that something that was done in the forum post after uploading? (Your image of my mini still looks better than my image of my mini ) Thanks again, this is hugely helpful.

I set my image to around 960 x 720 I think, or something like that. So yeah its a bit bigger than 640 x 480.

Finally got some photos of the finished Kats for my entry. Have had a bit of a nightmare getting the phtos. My camera is OOC so had to use the wife's camera. It's.....ok but not as sharp as I'd like to feth all depth of field and then the gakeating software I use to combine photos refused to save the file. I've resized the photo down but it's still showing up rather on the large size over in the gallery. Not the sharpest but I'm knackered at mo, soz folks :/

Here is my first entry to the competition...please be gentle.

I introduce Vandus Hammerhand, Lord Celestant of the Hammerhands Warrior Chamber:

I've actually managed to finish my entry just finishing the base now so will post pics tomorrow.

Trouble is i got a bit carried away with the washing, and it turns out robes are easy, smooth armour is not so much.(whites)

So it ended up at a iffy table top standard. >.>

Whites are hard. I've only ever done white cloth by hand once. Every other time I've painted mid grey and sprayed with a can or airbrush for a gradient.

Fantastic stuff from all of you! Some really splendid entries this month, it's going to be one hell of a close vote, I reckon.

As always, if you've submitted final pics then please just check they're actually in the OP and that you're tagged as finished, don't want to miss anyone!

Yet another month of outstanding entries, great job to all that have posted so far.

Here are my finished pictures, please forgive the lack of basing as I want to do something special for him when I have a bit more time.

I went for a more traditional dark and gritty paint scheme, makes a change from my normally brighter entries:

Abaddon the Despoiler

Nowhere near the level of other entries, and not the best work I've ever done, but I'm happy with it. Warmachine is table top level for me.
Looking good everyone, some amazing entries.

Lord Arcanist Ossyan, Narcissar of House Vyre.



White is a 1/40 of a rupee pain.

@thrax love that model!

@MTB i like painting with an off white like elf grey then highlighting with white like i did for my grey knights.
the trick is to paint it without the chalkiness

her leg + hair is done just have her arm and that brown mini cape

Here´s my final picture.

Good luck to everyone!

I allready found my favorite toaster aaahhm, I mean mini this month

KD

Kustomer D!

SpecOrks!

Just saying

Take it easy.

-Red__Thirst-

I need help! NOW! What colour does an Ork guitar have?

Red. For faster solos

Red!!!

Done and Done. Final pics (sadly they are a little washed out, but it's all I have time to do at the moment) are here:

Nice job Winter

Bit less armless. He's supposed to look fierce, but mine looks rather cheerful.

"Heehee!"

Looks like your Avatar...minus the butter.

lol

Well, I've finished my Tau Commander, here are the (spoilered) pics:

I had fun painting him and seeing my vision of my planned color scheme for all my Tau suits come to life. These pics don't really do him justice; the blue really pops in person. This is the first model that I really tried doing some edge highlighting on. Not sure drybrushing is the best way to do this, but I think I would have made even more of a mess trying to do it the other way. Overall I am happy with him as he came out to be at least tabletop standard. Looking forward to voting for this contest, as it looks like we have a lot of seriously cool minis contending for the title this month!

 SlaveToDorkness wrote:
Looks like your Avatar...minus the butter.

lol

it's not deliberate (this time). One of the commissar's in the fiction I write has a blue uniform to fit better with his regiment. The others are painted to match the colours suggested in the Commissar Workshop on Dakka.

He has the butter... tucked away under his sash; that's why he's so cheerful!
That, and he's about to put that sword through the heart of some foul xenos.

 Buttery Commissar wrote:
Whites are hard. I've only ever done white cloth by hand once. Every other time I've painted mid grey and sprayed with a can or airbrush for a gradient.

My saruman was easy as it was really obvious where to put the white due to the robe having lots of highs and lows.

Now for my entry.
O-Yoroi tag.

Just in time. Finished the base. Actually didn't take long. Here's some updated pics. Sorry for the trouble! :x

Ok folks, last 24 hours or so! We've already got a rather impressive 22 entries finished, let's see if we can hit 30!

Next challenge will also go up tomorrow, another reminder that this will be a completely open challenge! So long as it fits the rules regarding proofs and number of minis you can enter it, from a single Grot (or toaster) to a 5-'model' Titan Maniple if you think you can get it done in a month...


Please, someone do a Titan Maniple! I'll accept EPIC scale ones!

I was agonisingly close to being finished last night. Just a couple of purty seals to do and then I can throw up pictures into the midst of yet more sterling competition.

Hey there Para - got my own camera working and re-shot the Kats. Have deleted the old collage photo and upped a new one. Can you pop this one is as my final entry - cheers fella

 Paradigm wrote:
Ok folks, last 24 hours or so! We've already got a rather impressive 22 entries finished, let's see if we can hit 30!

Next challenge will also go up tomorrow, another reminder that this will be a completely open challenge! So long as it fits the rules regarding proofs and number of minis you can enter it, from a single Grot (or toaster) to a 5-'model' Titan Maniple if you think you can get it done in a month...


Please, someone do a Titan Maniple! I'll accept EPIC scale ones!

I gotchu!

My submission next month is either going to be a badly Kept Secret, or a scaly one, I think.
Possibly if I can get my hands on the Raging Heroes tech priestess, I'll give that a crack.

Hiya Guys, top quality work this month! Not been able to keep track fo the forum as much as I would like too as family stuff has got in the way, but a quick skim back shows some really nice models and paint schemes.
Managed to rush my entry out last night, not to happy with it as tried to do some OSL on the face and it went very wrong. Attempted to make it look like his face was lit from below by red light, but looks more like his armour is full of blood and he's drowning in it!
Hey Ho... Here is Calas Typhon, First Captain of the Deathguard, sans base as I didn't get time to that either.

Might not be able to finish this time... I'll soldier on, and try to get something finished.

hello if i can get past done i'll update my final pic,
for the moment this is what i got

Group Shot


Present:



Future:

I'm glad you redid your photos Januine they look much better

Looking forward to seeing voting but not looking forward to the hard decisions on having to choose who to vote for

Just a quick one, but if I haven't said that entry is closed and that I'm compiling the vote thread by about 11 (English/Proper Time) tomorrow morning then can someone post here to remind me? Got 3 essay deadlines this week, so things not directly related to that are liable to slip my mind... Thanks!

Can do, Para.

Unfortunately Real Life hit me with both barrels today, so my only submission is going to be a cleaned up male commissar. I'll sort pics later.
I'm safe and unhurt, but very very sad. DWP / local council has me by the short hairs and just gave a twist.

Finshed
http://www.dakkadakka.com/gallery/760871-Demon%20Prince.html?m=2
http://www.dakkadakka.com/gallery/760869-Demon%20Prince.html?m=2
http://www.dakkadakka.com/gallery/760870-Demon%20Prince.html?m=2
http://www.dakkadakka.com/gallery/760867-Demon%20Prince.html?m=2
@Para could you post all of my finished demon prince pics. I don't know how to get them all together
Thanks

Fella - that is sick!!!! awesome work there!!!

Here he is, Watch Captain Jael

Very very clever use of the warding stave's head as an Iron Halo! I'll have to consider that in the future for my next iron halo character!!

As a fellow Deathwatch player (I have around 12 models painted) your Captain looks slick as hell man. Well done!

Thanks for sharing him and great work!

Take it easy.

-Red__Thirst-

Hey Para, when is the next challenge thread going to be created?

Wow, sock, that's really sweet!

New thread is up!
http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/0/671966.page#8291070

And I'll call this one closed now. Voting thread going up later (like I mentioned, I'm quite busy this week. It will definitely be done by this evening, though!)

Ah balls. I completely forgot to post the photo.
After all that's.

 Buttery Commissar wrote:
Ah balls. I completely forgot to post the photo.
After all that's.

If you got it finished in time, just post the pic here and I'll see you get completion points! Sorry, should've waited before posting the vote as you did say pics were coming.

I'll get pics up this afternoon, it's my fault, the OH went to catch a plane stupid early (4am) and I went back to bed after and forgot to pull the pics off the camera.