Fieora wrote:

Love it! I feel ashamed mine is so unfinished it has cobwebs.

Would it make you feel better to know that both him and his twin brother have been sat on a shelf for at least the last 5 years? =p

Same as mine. It's so old that I used the WD painting guide to start it.

 Paradigm wrote:
@KommissarKiln: Can you pick just 5 pics of those guys? I know it'll mean leaving out one guy or the group shot, but rules is rules!

My bad for not having looked carefully for that rule. Let me pick the ones I feel are best...
Da Fearsum Five!

Led by Grimy:

Here's Googley:

Followed by Snot-fer-Brainz:

Last but not least, Pokey:


Consider these my final entry unless I can get a groupshot from behind, then I'll try to substitute that in for one of these. But I won't have a good camera available till right before the end of the contest.

Greetings,

Thank you for replying so quickly earlier I do appreciate it, and thank you for doing all the work for the contest I have submitted my Proof and I read up to five photos in the rules above so I added four of my finished photos to this post. Enjoy!

-Tittlemanscrest

PS If you could post the frontal shot of my Sigmarine first I would be very appreciative.

That's beautiful

1 Week to go! I'm still here and still in the running. Grots are done (despite some difficulties I'll elaborate on when I post final pics), and I just have the kannon left to do. As usual, some great entries this month, I'm really looking forward to seeing the final pics from everyone. Good luck to all you like me who still have work to complete before the end of this short month.

 Tittlemanscrest wrote:
Greetings,

Thank you for replying so quickly earlier I do appreciate it, and thank you for doing all the work for the contest I have submitted my Proof and I read up to five photos in the rules above so I added four of my finished photos to this post. Enjoy!

-Tittlemanscrest

PS If you could post the frontal shot of my Sigmarine first I would be very appreciative.

I adore the clean metal plates on this, beautiful!

@Tittlemanscrest: In a word, beautiful! In two, bloody beautiful!

That blue man... That blue.

Hi,
Beautiful entries so far. Below are my entry pics. The ‘size matter’s not’ is the last thought that went the snotling’s mind before the Furioso’s right foot.

This is my first BA model (other than a test marine) I must admit I went back and forth trying to get the base/shades/highlights right until i realised i didn’t know what i was aiming for. At this point I tried out paradigms advice and I’m fairly happy with the results. The model took 2-3 times longer than it should have.

My fine detail work has always been sketchy and I’ll be redoing the ‘Mortem’ scroll when i get some time to paint again. (I won’t get another opportunity before March). I think i just need to stop avoiding fine detail and practice a bit more.

I also think I went a bit too far with battle damage/weathering (every other Blood Angel I've seen looks pristine). Ah well, it was fun to do =)

Would love to hear your critiques,

Frankly, it's fantastic! The Dread looks like a Dreadnought should, big, stompy and beat up (Clean Marines are for... well, people who like clean Marines, I guess, but personally, I think the more weathered the better! ). And the Grot is just hilarious, those minis are just so full of character. The base looks epic too!

And all done. The little fella with the big voice - The Vox Divina ServoSkull final photo

Moolet that is really nice, I think the battle damage is spot on too.

Jan, lovely work as always, even ignoring that you did it in a few days

Trevor is getting there, a few more washes, one more base and I will be ready for final touches HRRRRRRRNNNNNG. I also wrote a special message to BC on the underside of the base.

Love it, Jan! Got a group shot of him(?) with his companions? Very cheeky little thing.
Might be the white background, but I'm not sure about the cold base with the warm figure. Still very Blanche-y and creepy though.

Also holy hell at that Sigmarite. That's astonishing.

The amount of pro/extreme painters seems to be increasing each month, which is really cool to see so many working on these themes.
(Though very discouraging if like me, you haven't started yet. Not feeling much pull to the brushes after those posts and a lazy weekend)

Extreme painters? Is that the people who paint awesome stuff while freefalling from 20,000 feet or diving to the bottom of a reef or ramping snowmobiles off mountains?

 Buttery Commissar wrote:
Love it, Jan! Got a group shot of him(?) with his companions? Very cheeky little thing.
Might be the white background, but I'm not sure about the cold base with the warm figure. Still very Blanche-y and creepy though.

Also holy hell at that Sigmarite. That's astonishing.

The amount of pro/extreme painters seems to be increasing each month, which is really cool to see so many working on these themes.
(Though very discouraging if like me, you haven't started yet. Not feeling much pull to the brushes after those posts and a lazy weekend)

Ikr?! Lol mine are barely base coated

@paradigm, extreme painting for me is painting before coffee :p

 Guildenstern wrote:

@paradigm, extreme painting for me is painting before coffee :p

Anything before coffee is an extreme activity. As is painting right after coffee. I drink about half a pot in the morning, and any sort of detail work is impossible thanks to the jitters. Caffeine is a cruel double-edged sword. It gets me moving (no simple feat) but often non-consistently.

 Paradigm wrote:
Extreme painters? Is that the people who paint awesome stuff while freefalling from 20,000 feet or diving to the bottom of a reef or ramping snowmobiles off mountains?

I meant the kind that roll out of bed, nudge a mini with their elbow and accidentally create a freehand banner, but I like your idea better.

Does feel like we've gone from 5 a side games to suddenly being dumped in the big leagues.

Wow, love the blue Sigmarine and think the battle damage on that Furioso dread is spot on. When it's charging through the enemy ranks like a wrecking ball machine of death and killing stuff, it is going to get a bit scratched and dirty

Here's my finished entry Luna from Malifaux, a small dog with a big bark

Very cool! Always good to see some realistic hound models out there. Very god job on the fur tones.

Great tones on the dog, nice job

Thanks for Furioso comments.

Extreme painting sounds good, perhaps it means dosing the paint thinner with a touch of cyanide. First time you get a point on your brush with your lips and you're done for. I wouldn't survive an hour...

That's not actually too dissimilar to what nearly did Tommie from Golem in last year.
Poor bastard got seriously sick from paint water.

I need to base my rippers and take decent pictures.

I hope I have some PVA glue and sand at home...

Good god i think I'm done.

Minor touch ups and some varnish - IT'S FINALLY OVER

Looks great KB - Trev is finally together, standing on his own and sporting a snazzy paintjob!!

I've witnessed the birth of all three of my children - each of those moments pales in comparison to the joy i feel in finishing this donglord

E: not today swear filter

just dont drop him

Dude that is cool.

Wicked awesome piece, kb_lock!

So, the legendary Trevor is done. Awesome job, kb!

Thanks folks!

The pictures are just quick ones before the varnish, I will do better ones over the weekend.

@Moolet - I love it! The little gretchin is very creative

@kblock - Awesome job! I like the purplish wings. Great model, too.

@januine - spooky! I like


I have a little time now, have to get my butt in gear. I want to try to finish 2 administratum buildings and 2 bastions before the end of the month, but we'll see. There's also Deathwatch Overkill coming next month, and it's gonna be awfully rough getting anything other DWO models finished then, til I have at least SOME of those models done

Or until GW tosses another jellybean...

TREV! TREV! TREV RISES!

He genuinely looks great, kb!

@KommissarKiln: i love the gretchin. After painting 2 squads of them i know how small and fiddly they can be. They look great.

@Tittlemanscrest: the Sigmarine looks awesome. Very... i dunno what.. otherwordly? Love the colourscheme and clean painting.

@kb_lock: From continent to continent I’ve travelled, from modelling shop to modelling shop I’ve seen and the utterances in every dark corner of every workbench whispered... “... Trev... Trev ... Trev” The unspoken name of model long since unfinished...
Seriously though, beautiful work. The wings in particularly are spectacular.

 Paradigm wrote:
Frankly, it's fantastic! The Dread looks like a Dreadnought should, big, stompy and beat up (Clean Marines are for... well, people who like clean Marines, I guess, but personally, I think the more weathered the better! ). And the Grot is just hilarious, those minis are just so full of character. The base looks epic too!

I like to think the little snotling is the last of squad that just charged the dreadnaught. The rest have just been roasted by the frag cannon and flamer, he just hasn't realised his mates aren't with him. Perhaps I should diorama that at some point.=)

Hey Para, I might not get time to take new pics of my MegaArmourGrots. If I do so, I will post the, otherwise, if I don´t, could you just leave the "RocketGrot" out of the pics. If the whole pics are too much, just post the Groupshop pic, please.

Cheers,

KD

OK, will do that if I don't see any others posted!

Yay Trevor! Bloody well done KB!

I think you need to include a 25mm base or something in the final photo because he is genuinely larger than most people realise.

I'm going to start on Yarrick shortly. Para, can I get permission to photoshop something off the final pictures?
He has a banner pole that a friend is making the banner for - I will not get it before the 28th and it's not my work when it arrives anyway. So I would just block out an empty pole on the photo.

Good point, for scale he's on a knight base (or flyer base)

 Buttery Commissar wrote:
Yay Trevor! Bloody well done KB!

I think you need to include a 25mm base or something in the final photo because he is genuinely larger than most people realise.

I'm going to start on Yarrick shortly. Para, can I get permission to photoshop something off the final pictures?
He has a banner pole that a friend is making the banner for - I will not get it before the 28th and it's not my work when it arrives anyway. So I would just block out an empty pole on the photo.

Absolutely fine, edit the pics however you like!

Maybe in one of the five, just pop a D6 or something next to him.

I'm going to flip him the bird in each photo, for scale

 Paradigm wrote:

 Buttery Commissar wrote:
Yay Trevor! Bloody well done KB!

I think you need to include a 25mm base or something in the final photo because he is genuinely larger than most people realise.

I'm going to start on Yarrick shortly. Para, can I get permission to photoshop something off the final pictures?
He has a banner pole that a friend is making the banner for - I will not get it before the 28th and it's not my work when it arrives anyway. So I would just block out an empty pole on the photo.

Absolutely fine, edit the pics however you like!

Well, 'ere we go then.

Well, after seeing what people have painted this month, I'm not winning this one, but for 4 hours work start to finish I'm very pleased.

wow that's awesome for four hours! seriously.

Yeah, I wish I could do something that nice in just four hours!

I started marking all the black areas, then realised that is most if the figure. So then I got bored and had a try at skin tones. I am reasonably okay with this.

Skin tone looks fantastic actually. That hat.....wow.....that hat!

I'm such a fan of this figure, even though I shouldn't be. It has literal skull-acne on the back of the claw.

I'm going to count the skulls on the entire figure while his bale eye dries.

Edit: 35

Yo dawg I heard you like skulls

OK so due to having no internet ATM i'm going to just enter some sort skins, spent to much time wondering if the Russians has helmet covers in the 80's without being able to Google it.



I need a better lighting as this windows are in fact blue.

@Buttery Commissar, I second the comment on the skin, it looks fantastic!

@Deadshot : For 4 hours that is mighty impressive though. Well done!

That classic Yarrick definitely holds up, I think. He's one of the few older sculpts that does, along with I think Dante, Ghazkul, that's about it really. That said, the new/current one is among GW's best sculpts, period,

Guildenstern wrote:wow that's awesome for four hours! seriously.

ZergSmasher wrote:Yeah, I wish I could do something that nice in just four hours!

Nordicus wrote:@Deadshot : For 4 hours that is mighty impressive though. Well done!

Thanks, but surprisingly it looks better on camera than in person. It's just a single layer of paint, wash and highlight for most of it, a drybrush on the metallics, and a few layers of white for the helmet (which is chalky as a blackboard tbh). In reality it was a 2 hour paintjob but I was watching friends at the time and so got distracted.

 Paradigm wrote:
That classic Yarrick definitely holds up, I think. He's one of the few older sculpts that does, along with I think Dante, Ghazkul, that's about it really. That said, the new/current one is among GW's best sculpts, period,

The new one is probably my least favourite Commissar, oddly enough. If I had one, I would swap out the klaw. It turns him from a guy with a weaponised arm on the banners and art, to a half-man-half-tonka-truck, which is a shame. It would realistically (ha) hurt a 50 year old something fierce to wield something like that.

That said this figure really shouldn't be viewed side on. He's single piece cast, and amusingly flat. Cardboard commissar.

 Buttery Commissar wrote:

 Paradigm wrote:

 Buttery Commissar wrote:
Yay Trevor! Bloody well done KB!

I think you need to include a 25mm base or something in the final photo because he is genuinely larger than most people realise.

I'm going to start on Yarrick shortly. Para, can I get permission to photoshop something off the final pictures?
He has a banner pole that a friend is making the banner for - I will not get it before the 28th and it's not my work when it arrives anyway. So I would just block out an empty pole on the photo.

Absolutely fine, edit the pics however you like!

Well, 'ere we go then.

That's a beautiful miniature Butters, hope you manage to finish it because I'm sure it'll look sweet fully painted! Can I ask where you got it from?

I don't think I'm going to be able to base or get better pictures of my rippers I posted earlier. So I'll use that for my entry. Let me know if I need to repost them.

Hi. Started working on my Infinity this month. Proof photo is from the 7th of Feb. Will be submitting best of what I manage to get done before Sunday.



(Possibly nothing!)

Good thing it’s a leap year. Extra day to work for the late entries!

 Nevelon wrote:
Good thing it’s a leap year. Extra day to work for the late entries!

This!

Here are some WIPs for my MANZ:





As usual, having the attention span of a gnat and being overly ambitious with my paint scheme are hurting my chances of finishing in time...

We'll just have to see!

Looking great so far everyone!

Here's where I'm at, doubt ill get the troll finished, but Hopefully I'll get some much better pics of this guy tomorrow, as these pics aren't too good

Changing my entry to a Helper bot for my Infinity HVT (High value Target, basically an objective marker).

Pics as soon as I get him assembled...ugh...

 Deadshot wrote:

 Buttery Commissar wrote:

 Paradigm wrote:

 Buttery Commissar wrote:
Yay Trevor! Bloody well done KB!

I think you need to include a 25mm base or something in the final photo because he is genuinely larger than most people realise.

I'm going to start on Yarrick shortly. Para, can I get permission to photoshop something off the final pictures?
He has a banner pole that a friend is making the banner for - I will not get it before the 28th and it's not my work when it arrives anyway. So I would just block out an empty pole on the photo.

Absolutely fine, edit the pics however you like!

Well, 'ere we go then.

That's a beautiful miniature Butters, hope you manage to finish it because I'm sure it'll look sweet fully painted! Can I ask where you got it from?

That is the 1990s Yarrick. He would originally have came with a paper banner depicting him losing his arm.
The base is a corpse from the "Thieving Grots" GW set. I drilled it, flattened his knees, and changed Yarrick's feet to stand on him. The head has no teeth due to them having been pinched by a grot with pliers from the set.

WIP:


Just needs edge highlighting and varnishes to done. Fair chance of getting him done in time, the rest will just have to wait.

ncie work TP - really smooth tones

@NLC: I think you're obliged to get those MANZ done, they're looking too awesome not to be entered!

@TP: That thing is coming along very nicely! Are the black areas staying black, or do you have something else planned?

wow TP that is beautiful! always love purple and black too

I don't think I'm going finish mine, we'll see. I'm not happy with how they're coming out. Having a really hard time getting the detail I want. Right now they're base coated and that's about it. Anyway still a few days, who knows maybe I'll get inspired with a sudden burst of creativity

Hey Para, Jan and Guild. Thanks for your kind words.

Para, the black areas are actually very dark purple but with the claws being pure black. The body will be getting edge highlighting with a dark blue/purple to bring out the high points. The pure black claws, recessed circles around the face and dome on the head will all be gloss varnished at the end

Loving it, TP!
I want to see that finished up, it's stellar.

My new proof. Morrocan merchant and his Shlepper bot.



aaand after a few hours painting last night...


A brief explanation of how it fits the theme... the bot is a 6mm/10mm Walker that I'm using for 28mm. Ya for rationalizing!

Cutest bot in the Souk!

I didn't fail this month!

 Priest Foxley wrote:
I didn't fail this month!

Awwww...

Love seeing the mouslings!

Bloody good job, Foxley! I especially like the khaki one. the acorn shield looks ace as well.

God you remind me that I have an embarrassing amount of those little things in my house. Including one signed by the sculptor because I'm that kind of goon.

Well this us my final, was hard to paint him, and fun, 1980's style halfling

Could manage to take some new pics of my Grots in MegaArmour and their little support.

Hope you like ´em!

Have a good one,

K D

Awesome stuff, those are so cool!

Wow, Kustomer D! They are all kinds of awesome!

Thank you guys!

@Foxley - they're adorable!! well done
@Kingpin - love your little guy he looks great!
@KustomerD those are soo coool! love it

Final entry time!


Bloody typical that literally every other mini I've painted this month has photographed fine and the one I enter for the challenge has been a right pain, but after an age of employing the magic that is Photoscape I think I'm just about there. Still doesn't look as good in the pics as he does in reality, but it's probably the best I can do with only a day left (though if there's any major issues with the pics, I can probably correct them, so let me know!

He looks fine to me, Para. Very nice mini!

Paradigm that dude looks awesome!!!!

These two are some of the smallest creatures on the battlefield, but they're putting out S8 AP3 shots. Size Matters Not Indeed. Presenting Gree-Z and Grunt!

On a P&M note, I bought this set off eBay thinking, oh great, they're pre-primed, this should be a piece of cake! However, the original owner didn't remove the mold lines before priming them, and I only managed to chase down some of them before getting tired of the endeavor. Then I discovered that the primer used was probably some kind of two-part oil-based house paint. The first component repels all other kinds of paint (in particular, acrylics) and the second component flakes off in order to better expose the original metal underneath. I would paint portions of these, leave them overnight without touching them, only to come back in the morning and find places that were chipped off down to the metal. I re-primed each model twice (over the other stuff) w/ my own paint-on primer, and ultimately ended up thinning my paints with primer to help them adhere better. The takeaway is that from now on, no matter what I buy off eBay, I'm stripping it to bare metal and starting fresh.

End rant, thanks to Para once again for hosting the Challenge, final pics:

Here's my little guys:







Might see if I can get some better photos, but finished!

Not going to be able to get mine 100% finished this time, been suffering a sinus infection for a while. For brevity's sake though, a picture of the progress I was able to make.

That's fantastic! Please keep us updated if you're well enough to finish it.

Is there any simple ways to get a good pic without fancy equipment, every pic I take at the moment looks trash :S

Go to your bathroom, put mini in the corner on the floor, turn on every light you can, get close to the mini, pray to the good emperor

Put a sheet of dark paper behind pale / medium tone minis, pale paper behind dark minis.

Well, the moment you've all been waiting for (I hope!), time for me to unveil the mighty Tau KV128 Stormsurge that I've been laboring over for a month. Pics or it didn't happen, you say? Well, feast your eyes on these:



Let me tell you, my photography skills do not do this thing justice. I had a hard time making a good white background, since this thing is just so big. Hard to pick the best photos of the ones I took as well. The contest rules say five, and five is how many I'm submitting, but I took eleven in total. The rest will very shortly be found in my Stormsurge blog.

I can tell you, this was a very challenging miniature (and I use the term miniature very loosely) to build and paint. However, it was a lot of fun. I think it fits this month's theme very nicely on many levels (indeed, size mattered not for me getting this done in time!). Biggest miniature I've ever done in my life. I'm loving what everyone else has submitted so far. Most entries have gone toward small rather than big (lot of grots this month). Looking forward to the voting!

I know I'm far from the level of quality and consistency that I see on here daily, but I judge myself against myself, and thanks to the encouragement (and friendly insults/threats in some cases) I have joined in and finished a model, that I am happy with and have managed to improve my megar abilities slightly.

Unfortunately due to some work issues I didnt get the 3 models I wanted done, but here is my Bag Pipe Playing Goblin none the less.






again apologies for the camera, my sister has said I can borrow her decent camera if I join in next month

Thanks for the competition it made me try new things and gave me a reason to have patience and endeavour

Good job BillyC! He's turned out great.

I'll get pictures up of Trev asap

So apparently it's really difficult to get good pictures of tiny, dark, gothic figures that are hunched over...who knew?!

Still, I think these are slightly better than the previous ones:

Its been real nice flicking through the entries this month - fantastic mini's people! (i'm now a fan of tiny models) it's going to be tough voting this month!!

Too much excellence here, can't comment properly.

Yeah, gonna be difficult to choose.
Aaaand... I'm failing this month. I just couldn'g find the time nor the enthusiasm to work on that damned sailor. Oh well, next month will be like a blank paper, lets see if I managd to finish all of the challenges the next round.

ALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLRIGHTY THEN

Trev's DONE

Forgot there are aren't 31 days in February.

...I'm special. Yarrick is probably not gonna get finished.

Nice mantycore. Btw, why is this trevor mini so infamous? I live under a rock, so I miss a lot of things.

That stormsurge needs some necron compound love.

Trevor started off in the "I paint your miniature and borrow it for a while" thread.
I posted him as something I never got anywhere with him, having got him second hand from a kid who got him from someone else...

And basically his tail weighed so much that every time KB assembled it, regardless of glue, pin or securing it, it fell off. Occasionally wrecking stuff at the same time.

Pretty sure he's haunted by sheer ennui.

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/648746.page#7845420

Last picture, Trev

That thread has a lot of the drama within it, as does this one;

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/120/660242.page#8078675

As does this one

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/659995.page#8075048

I will compile them all into the chronicles of trev one day - right now it is all a bit too soon.


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Please don't remind me of the tail.

It is still slightly wonky, held together with pure rage. He has wrecked at least 2 models, a drill bit, and who knows what else. On top of it all, I also bought my own Malryte from the manufacturer - it is in worse shape than Trev when I got him.

I don't want to hang gak on Valiant Miniatures, but this thing is utterly terrible. I have seen chinese recasts that are of infinitely better quality.

Done! Thought I'd be ahead of time this go around. Then Papa Nurgle decided to pay me a visit last Wednesday. Can see some things I'd probably have done a little bit better if I wasn't blowing my nose between brush strokes, but I'll have to deal with that later. For now, he's done.

smooth work there fella - really ncie job

Yeah that's beautiful, prefect fabric

Sry I haven't been very active on the thread this months, it seems over the last 2 and a half weeks I've barely had chance to eat let alone browse the internet.

After a big push over the weekend and tonight I've mostly finished the models, still some highlighting left to do in places and a few extras bits I would like to finish also some that went wrong (Lightening Effect on sword and In my haste I cut the poor snotlings toes off ) but its at least something.

I present
Rule number 1 of Adeptus Astartes School. Always wear your helmet because size matters not when it comes to bashing your brains in with a Spikey club.






I'll hopefully have a look at everyones progress tomorrow

@midget lmao nice!

i finished the stead... sry for the crappy pic
its rider is unfinished tho :(

done as I'm getting (big guy is for scale only)

They came out great, reminds me that i forgot to add a marine for scale

Only got two blokes done in 3 weeks. :(

These guys are the extremely basic, and arguably... kind of cruddy line infantry for the Nomad Sectorial: Jurisdictional Command of Bakunin (Infinity).







(The two guys are center, far right, and bottom left in the block of 9 infantry in the proof photo)

Doooo it.
I doubt Para can use #5 you posted. :p

Man Trev called all that wailing and gnashing of teeth? Is it wrong that all it does is fuel my desire to conquer it myself?

Not wrong at all, I actually got valiant to cast a metal one for me as resin is too easy

I'm painting the second one i have up for my wife

Quick update! I painted a few more buildings

I actually finished this guy on the 8th, but I've been busy, and out of it, and forgot to post up. So, here it is.



I thought he came out fairly well for an eBay rescue.

Looking amazing, everyone.

I'm finished! Hopefully I can take some better pictures in the morning, so long as that's not breaking the rules, Para?

Mega Nobz:







I got cold feet about them being too colourful and wacky looking, so at the last minute I reverted to type and Goffed them up.

Good luck in the voting, everyone!

Really didn't like the white background for the Vox Dinvina ServoSkull, so reshot the noisy little bugger on a black on. The other is now deleted so here's the new shot

Superb last minute entries from everyone! Since a couple of you mentioned needing to take better pics or whatever, I'll leave the submissions open for another couple of hours or so, hopefully that'll be enough for you (if not, them PM me the pics and I'll add them in to the Vote thread).

@kb: Chronicles of Trev is a Dakka article waiting to happen...

@MG: I knew you'd find a way to get some comedic greenskins in there! Good stuff!

Love what you did with that tower Tal.

This month was rough for me, I am afraid that for all my teasing I forgot about my dread. Also Im apparently not a DCM anymore and I also got distracted by some metal guard models and plastic ones. Cough.

I'll re enter old man Belore if there is a contest that would suit him.

Trev looks good, considering he is a dick.

I've written a whole series of curses, complaints, swear words, and general nastiness on the underside of the base.

@Para, never ever considered an article, consider it done.

 Stormwall wrote:
Love what you did with that tower Tal.

This month was rough for me, I am afraid that for all my teasing I forgot about my dread. Also Im apparently not a DCM anymore and I also got distracted by some metal guard models and plastic ones. Cough.

I'll re enter old man Belore if there is a contest that would suit him.

Trev looks good, considering he is a dick.

Next month's (well, this month's now) is Space Marines, so he'd fit right in there. So long as you've not actually painted any more of him, resubmitting is absolutely fine!

Me?? Paint???!

Ha...

*stares at two unpainted 2-3k pt SM armies, much shame, wow.*

Haha!

Round 13 is up nice and early, get to it, folks!
http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/682152.page

Can I still enter my final pics this morning?

Yep, post them up and that'll then be it for submissions for this month.

Anwar moved through the press of bodies hurrying Shlepper along as best he could. Those mercenaries would be on him soon enough without his bot dragging him down too. Shlep seemed to be even more prickly and slow since taking that glancing shot in their first encounter with the hired muscle. He wondered who it could be after him. Although with the new serums he was carrying, fresh out of the labs, every faction in the galaxy would be wanting their filthy infidel hands on them...






Not the best shots, and he's not completely got the finishing touches (damn you long work Monday!) but here is my entry. I console myself with the fact that I started Saturday.

Very impressive! Ok, submissions are now closed, vote will go up shortly!

Mooooar pictures! Though not a vast improvement on my first batch of pictures, I would like for these ones to be used instead if that's not too bloody cheeky?









I can't wait to get started on the March challenge! See you all there.

Just under the wire there! But since you have already submitted pics, I'll add those in!

Trev isn't a bad guy, he just had a shaky start in life. You haven't seen the pics of what colours I had to clean off him to get him down to bare metal...

He also has a brother. Smaller, but I've similarly never got anywhere with him.

I hear kb_lock isn't doing much these days, I'm sure he'd take on Trev's little bro!

Voting is up!
http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/0/682187.page#8493731

Can I point you towards http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/30/646010.page#8508011. The year's results are in!!!

Here's my entry, very late, but meh!

Mature Angel named Sryuhh


Angel Minnow named Tryjo

You'd have had my vote mate, they're slick as hell

Well worth waiting for, TP, those are very impressive indeed. You should be proud!

Wow! Thank you both so much, that means a lot to me. I was so close to being finished but RL took priority. Ho hum.

I am proud of them actually BC (I don't do that often). Bits I could perfect, but I'm happy as heck with them

I saw your plans at the start, and I have to say that you executed them incredibly well.

BC I gotta tell you that you have made my day (as has everyone who has been so kind as to comment). I was at a real low point earlier this week regarding the hobby. Thought I was playing in a playground that I didn't belong in. The quality you and others produce is superb and I don't see myself as being anywhere near your standards and I still don't think I am.

From someone with a very low opinion of my hobby skills, thank you so very very much

 TP^DC Deputy Manager wrote:

BC I gotta tell you that you have made my day (as has everyone who has been so kind as to comment). I was at a real low point earlier this week regarding the hobby. Thought I was playing in a playground that I didn't belong in. The quality you and others produce is superb and I don't see myself as being anywhere near your standards and I still don't think I am.

From someone with a very low opinion of my hobby skills, thank you so very very much

I know I'm new around here, but I just wanted to say that you have no reason to doubt yourself or your skills. From what I have seen of your work, you are on a above-average level and you have a very nice unique feel going on.

Keep on trucking man, and hold your head high - Your minis deserve nothing less

 Nordicus wrote:

 TP^DC Deputy Manager wrote:

BC I gotta tell you that you have made my day (as has everyone who has been so kind as to comment). I was at a real low point earlier this week regarding the hobby. Thought I was playing in a playground that I didn't belong in. The quality you and others produce is superb and I don't see myself as being anywhere near your standards and I still don't think I am.

From someone with a very low opinion of my hobby skills, thank you so very very much

I know I'm new around here, but I just wanted to say that you have no reason to doubt yourself or your skills. From what I have seen of your work, you are on a above-average level and you have a very nice unique feel going on.

Keep on trucking man, and hold your head high - Your minis deserve nothing less

Yep, what he said!

Or to put it another way, your minis are a) very rapidly improving in quality, you're pushing yourself all the time and it's paying off and b) they're already better than a good 70-80% of minis I've seen across the table from me over the years. The fact they're painted is one thing, but they're also painted to a consistently good standard and if all my opponents could get their act together and match the kind of quality you're putting out, I'd be very happy indeed!

So yeah, soldier on, keep on doing what you're doing, and be proud of it! For what it's worth, you'd definitely have got my vote for that Angel if it'd been in the poll!

Cheers Nordicus and Para. Your kindness is greatly appreciated. I'm gonna stop this here coz I am derailing a thread with insecurities. Soz.

Thanks again

Pfff... this thread has little point now anyway...so I derail fuuuuurther!!

TP^DC, never judge your skills against another painter. We are all at different points on the same path. Others are better because they've had more time in, that is all. So it's like worrying about people being younger or older than you. Silly.

Judge your painting by what YOU have done before. Is your latest work better than your first? Good you're learning! Is it better than your last work befor it? Awesome! You're learning FAST!

This is from someone who's been painting minis for longer than the majority of posters here has been alive. I was self-taught for a very long time and learned dry-brushing, washes and highlighting pretty much on my own. Nowadays (you young whipper-snappers!) have the sum of human knowledge on your phones and can follow some of the best painters in the world's blogs. What I'm saying is, I have learned very slowly over my 30 odd years of doing this and am not a phenomenal painter. Mostly because I haven't put the effort into improvement over a large portion of that time. Now my efforts are focused on doing that again. So take it easy on yourself and learn all you can. If you do, and stay with it, you could be a very amazing painter in a relatively short time. Just make sure you keep improving!


/preachy oldman rant

Oh, and those creepy alien things are freakin' sweet!

Thanks man. I'm in a similar position, but only 20 years of painting with a huge gap in the middle. My dad taught me and I sort of tried things and got some sort of effect, then saw these ink things (see how old I mean) came out from GW and Inhave them ago.

I agree though. Phones and Dakka have accelerated my learning beyond my imaginings.

And I will definitely take your advice. And on a side point, you are a very good painter [full stop]

 TP^DC Deputy Manager wrote:

BC I gotta tell you that you have made my day (as has everyone who has been so kind as to comment). I was at a real low point earlier this week regarding the hobby. Thought I was playing in a playground that I didn't belong in. The quality you and others produce is superb and I don't see myself as being anywhere near your standards and I still don't think I am.

From someone with a very low opinion of my hobby skills, thank you so very very much

Stop being so British!
Your stuff has consistently hit the mark throughout the contests you've entered, and you are definitely deserving of the praise your work gets.

I can remember the colours and figures of some of your pieces (though not the names because I'm dreadful at character names) and what you worked on, so you definitely leave a good impression.

Again thanks. And I remember your's too because of your high standard

Well done for entering them anyway after the comp finished TP^DC, nice to see them in their finished glory.

As regard to questioning your own skills I'd be at risk of just be repeating what people have already said here, your work is good and I have voted for you on more than one occasion.

I view the challenges as a way to have fun and be creative with the hobby since I have a very limited amount of time for it (or anything else atm) As long as you enjoy yourself with what your doing it doesn't matter what skill level your at, its your hobby after all. Also the people are a pretty good group too

 Midget Gems wrote:
Well done for entering them anyway after the comp finished TP^DC, nice to see them in their finished glory.

As regard to questioning your own skills I'd be at risk of just be repeating what people have already said here, your work is good and I have voted for you on more than one occasion.

I view the challenges as a way to have fun and be creative with the hobby since I have a very limited amount of time for it (or anything else atm) As long as you enjoy yourself with what your doing it doesn't matter what skill level your at, its your hobby after all. Also the people are a pretty good group too

I was practically hating the models for having taken so long and was obviously peeved at having mixed the deadline, but then when I finished them up, as you say, I loved them again. Posting was to create a sense of closure was great to have them photographed properly and up on Dakka

Yeah, what everyone else said, TP! I think that Mature Angel is amazing, and the Minnows turned out well too! Thanks for posting it even though you missed the deadline. Almost makes me wish I'd gotten in on the Medge kickstarter (except I'd have no one to play with). I myself have gone through periods of "painter's blues" where I didn't feel like my painting was very good, but ultimately I've looked back and compared some of my more recent work to some of my early work, and I realize that I have improved. Like the others said, the only one you should really compare yourself to is yourself.