Welcome to the 17th Unofficial Painting Challenge here on Dakka! Each month, entrants use these challenges as motivation to get painting, push their skills, clear their backlogs and get feedback from the amazing P&M community here. Anyone is free to enter, whether this is your first model or your thousand and first!

This month, the theme is all about beasts, whether that's the wild forces of nature, demonic creatures from other worlds or vicious warriors filled with animalistic rage! As usual, you can interpret this however you like; if you think it's a suitable representation of the theme, it probably is!


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 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 5 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 4 images and one separate image would count as your 5 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 July and will end at midnight GMT on the 31st July. After this, I shall compile the finished entries into a new thread, and voting will run for 5 days.


List of Entrants:

Nevelon: FINISHED


ZoBo: FINISHED


Jadenim: FINISHED


SirOllox:


Perkustin:


Kustomer D: FINISHED


Kleggt:


TP^DC Deputy Manager:


Midget Gems: FINISHED


NidLifeCrisis:


Januine: FINISHED


ZergSmasher: FINISHED


methebest: FINISHED


Farseer Anath'lan: FINISHED


ChaosDad: FINISHED


GiraffeX: FINISHED


Melcavuk:


Bottle: FINISHED


EverlastingNewb: FINISHED


sockwithaticket: FINISHED


ssisal: FINISHED


Kurnost:


Gulgog TufToof: FINISHED


dabossofdaskulls:


Tim121RVC:


Begel Dverl: FINISHED


spuj


Guildenstern: FINISHED


godardc:


space/-_-/faced\-_-\mate


dsmith10: FINSHED


gohkm:


Whittlesey40k: FINISHED


Snail22: FINISHED


feltmonkey: FINISHED


Moolet: FINISHED


jah-joshua: FINISHED


Zach: FINISHED


Paradigm: FINISHED


SoldierOFortune: FINISHED


Buttery Commissar: FINISHED


vejut: FINISHED


Manalishi: FINISHED

I was kind on the fence for what to do for the beast. But then it all came clear:

It’s Zoat time!

I'll be entering a commission that just came in the mail, I finally get to paint some Kingdom Death stuff.

Finally a theme I can relate to!

Hmm. I have too much choice!
I own most of the Confrontation Wolfen and Devourers of Vil Tis...
I also have all the critters I collected for my Titan base..
Picked up a Space Wolf starter to give straight marine painting a go...
Then there's my recent Slaanesh army with the Seekers and Daemonettes that are only primed... Plus Keeper of Secrets.

I need an adult!

Buttery, why dont you have a couple of the wolfen, and a wolf lord, fighting the keeper of secrets and one Seekers?

Because there are only 31 days in July?

Line them all up on your desk and see who leaps out at you. Or take a pic of them all and see what leaps out at us.

Righto boys! bad ideas time! - I'm in!

just finished riveting this big sod...I may make some further small additions, but he's basically ready for priming now I think
(the "howdah" is technically painted right now, but that's only because it was a second-hand scrap jobber - it's getting a full re-do, don't worry )

I like that very much.

Though I think the tail needs more weaponisation.

 Buttery Commissar wrote:
I like that very much.

Though I think the tail needs more weaponisation.

hmm...yes, yes you're quite right...now, I just found I have 4 horns from the battlewagon kit sitting around...I could give the tail-club 4 big nasty spikes...or...I could give the tail-club just 2 spikes, and perform a spot of squiggoth dentistry, and replace 2 of his teef with a pair of big orky tusks?...hmm...

 ZoBo wrote:

 Buttery Commissar wrote:
I like that very much.

Though I think the tail needs more weaponisation.

hmm...yes, yes you're quite right...now, I just found I have 4 horns from the battlewagon kit sitting around...I could give the tail-club 4 big nasty spikes...or...I could give the tail-club just 2 spikes, and perform a spot of squiggoth dentistry, and replace 2 of his teef with a pair of big orky tusks?...hmm...

I think more tail spikes would be better, but both options have merit.

If the tail doesn’t have enough natural spikes, you could just weld on some jagged bits of armor plate a/o old choppas, as spike substitutes.

Also, more dakka.

only models i have that are beasty are old chaos beastmen, will submit proofs later but count me in again

I would like to enter, got a good idea and it includes something i've been wanting to try to make for ages.

I'm finally trying to put all the Starbucks stirrers to good use! Don't lie, we all obsessively collect them for hobby uses. Only to end up with a huge collection of paint stirrers

I Second a tail club zobo. Also is the base model some form of triceratops? Possibly lots of smaller spikes to add some gruesome detail and make it a focal point?

 Nevelon wrote:

 ZoBo wrote:

 Buttery Commissar wrote:
I like that very much.

Though I think the tail needs more weaponisation.

hmm...yes, yes you're quite right...now, I just found I have 4 horns from the battlewagon kit sitting around...I could give the tail-club 4 big nasty spikes...or...I could give the tail-club just 2 spikes, and perform a spot of squiggoth dentistry, and replace 2 of his teef with a pair of big orky tusks?...hmm...

I think more tail spikes would be better, but both options have merit.

If the tail doesn’t have enough natural spikes, you could just weld on some jagged bits of armor plate a/o old choppas, as spike substitutes.

Also, more dakka.

hmm...possible options:
2 spikes:

+ 2 tusks?:

or 4 spikes?:


I guess I could carve up some small spikes, same as how I made his teef? and stick a bunch of them on his tail...?
as for more dakka...hmm...well rules-wise, a "big squiggoth" can only take one up to one gun...either a lobba, a kannon, or a zzap gun...the dakka is mostly provided by the 15 angry orks riding it

@Perkustin - yeah, it's a Tamiya 1/35 scale triceratops kit for the base

While I do like the tusks, IMHO the head can do without them, but just two spikes on the tail looks a little weak. If you are going to weaponize that thing, it needs more the two little stabby bits.

Looks very good with 4 spikes!

I think I'm going to hold off my entry until after the 9th, as I have a festival to prep stock for. Then I may have an entry from my back room at home... Trying to do it now would just make me stressed.

yeah, righto...4 tail-spikes it is! - I didn't really think he needed the extra set of tusks, he's got a nice heavy-set grimace as it is

...although now I've decided a few spikes on his tail and armour plates would look pretty good...so, I'll be off for the next couple of hours carving 30-odd sprue-spikes

ZoBo, that is a sweet Squiggoth conversion; I've seen a lot of people try the dinosaur/rhino/elephant conversion and a lot of them look like a dinosaur/rhino/elephant with some Orks strapped to the top. Your's really does look like a Squiggoth Can't wait to see it painted.

Also, proof for this month:



Anghkor Prok unleashing a Kroot hound. Starting with a little bit of yellow on the hound's beak because I mixed the colour, so did a load of hounds at once. Unfortunately all of the others have open mouths, which I also painted, so I can't give you a pack and stay within the rules. So he'll just have to have one faithful hound!

My entry this month will be the werwolf from Super Dungeon Explore.

I hope I get the chibi look right and not as dark as I paint normally

Proof, will definitely be using the cart, maybe the big brute, not decided yet. Want to scratchbuild a horse, Have a chaos marauder horse in reserve but it will need serious work to 'Static' it's pose so either way it's tricky. Had a ton of fun making this Not finished yet, need's to be detailed, bosses on the wheels, yoke and harness for the horse, brackets and sleeves for some of the joints etc. Should have really got the rivet punch to do the tread, i may add some segs or something later.



Also if the cart has a horse and a driver does it count as three models? Should be fine as i only want maybe another model on foot (either the brute or another model) but still. I would imagine a 'vehicle' counts as a single model but if i entered a Dark Eldar raider with ten guys hanging off it, it would have a similar instant wow factor as a Warhammer Regiment and be hard to judge.

As a rule of thumb, one base=1 mini. So the cart, rider and horse would count as 3 minis if they were all separate, but assuming they're stuck together in some fashion and share a base, it will count as one.

Obviously your fully crewed Raider example is an extreme, though to be fair, it sounds cool enough I'd almost be tempted to allow it anyway!

@Perkustin - wow, that cart's coming along real nicely!...although the idea of scratch-building a horse terrifies me!...I have a looong way to go with greenstuff before I could even consider something like that

@Jadenim - thanks a lot man! yeah, I've seen a lot of DIY squiggoths that still looked way too much like the base dinosaur/elephant/etc too, and I was really hoping to avoid that!

Looking good everyone. That Squigoth will be awesome!
My project this month wasn t looking so beasty at all.
But while I m re-doing and -painting my Ork Boyz, I came up with two very beasty looking guyz.

One riding a warthog or something - AND a little boy looking too badass to be set aside.

I ll propably choose the single beast-boy.

K D

Thinking of motorbikes and such... Would a commissar on a jetbike be beasty?

 ZoBo wrote:
Righto boys! bad ideas time! - I'm in!

just finished riveting this big sod...I may make some further small additions, but he's basically ready for priming now I think
(the "howdah" is technically painted right now, but that's only because it was a second-hand scrap jobber - it's getting a full re-do, don't worry )

Dayum. The opening howdah reminds me of the old school Dino Rider Torosaurus toy! Awesome.

 keezus wrote:

Dayum. The opening howdah reminds me of the old school Dino Rider Torosaurus toy! Awesome.

Spoiler:

http://www.toyarchive.com/DinoRiders/DRTorosaurusARMORED3a.jpg

haha yesss! ...I didn't need to open that link ...I was getting Dino Riders flashbacks all through the build for this thing

Was originally going to do a zombie werewolf, but thought I'd really challenge myself this month and choose 5 of my Wild Orcs. They enjoy beating things into piles of meat, eating piles of meat and charging wildly into battle alongside zombie dinosaurs.

Roughed out the horsey, didn't use any reference but i was thinking of the FW DKoK rough rider horsies so i am hoping for a similar look.

I like the look of those mantic orcs, especially the faces, they look a lot nicer to my eye than other minis i've seen in the range/past.

Para, are you in league with my girlfriend? Because she just bought me a pack of fenrisian wolves "Because they are so pretty"...
I will see if I get time to get them primed and finally get around to painting some stuff again

Hi everyone.

Soz for being away for a while. Had a pretty busy couple of months, which has now finished - weird feeling (more on my blog page soon). But means more painting, so I am entering the Deathwatch Overkill Patriarch (more photos of base build on blog page too).

I got a partly done conversion off ebay and thought it would fit perfectly for this theme. It was an catachan stegadon conversion, it will now be orkyfied and I'll add a big dakka gun on top. I'm in the mood for a proper build this challenge.

My Beast proof, a slightly smaller cousin to Zobo's

 TP^DC Deputy Manager wrote:
Hi everyone.

Soz for being away for a while. Had a pretty busy couple of months, which has now finished - weird feeling (more on my blog page soon). But means more painting, so I am entering the Deathwatch Overkill Patriarch (more photos of base build on blog page too).

Good to see you back, dude! Hope all is well, and lookin forward to seeing some paint on that Patriarch!

I'm going to enter my take on the most foul tempered, blood-crazed Ork ever to strap on a Rokkit Pack: Boss Zagstruk.

We're moving this month, so it feels like madness to enter, but what the heck:



Good luck to everyone!

Can really decide yet but gonna be one of these three beasts.
Skitarii reclaimed Dracosan with lightning cannon
Or
Chaos sorcerer Lord
Or
Casket from the Morticians Guild

I'll probably paint all of them up this month but just enter one

Count me in! Here's my proof for July:

I hope I can do a better job on these hounds than the ones I painted last May. My proof shows all 9 from this lot; I'll do them all and then enter the 5 best in my final pics (which means I can skip the one that is missing his tail, although I could sculpt a tail for him with green stuff or something).

Only the first day and it looks like there's gonna be some really cool stuff this month! Looking forward to those Squiggoths especially!

 Midget Gems wrote:
I got a partly done conversion off ebay and thought it would fit perfectly for this theme. It was an catachan stegadon conversion, it will now be orkyfied and I'll add a big dakka gun on top. I'm in the mood for a proper build this challenge.

My Beast proof, a slightly smaller cousin to Zobo's

nice! ...he's a little runty, but he is nice and spiky!...maybe our runtherds can get together and swap squigfeed recipes

can't wait to see yours all built and armoured...that assortment of plasticard bits looks so neat and organised!...it's like you've actually planned ahead or something! ...I just bodged mine together as I went

Very quick WIP on the Patriarch base. It's a start anyway

Damn fine start. Love those metals

I have some nids but don't have a colour scheme

so i'll go with some trolls for blood bowl.

 Perkustin wrote:
I like the look of those mantic orcs, especially the faces, they look a lot nicer to my eye than other minis i've seen in the range/past.

Oh if you mean my ones they're actually Shieldwolf Orcs, great kit. I much prefer them to GW and Mantic orcs, I'm always on the lookout for alternative orc ranges, these and the MOM Miniatures ones are my fav so far.

Here's mine.

Update

left to right
Troll with fish with fanatic infront, ripper stand in with ball in front, this troll will be throwing the goblin infront of him.

Will be putting some shoulder pads on them, mostly so i have a surface to write numbers on.

Here is my entry, although I hesitate between this and Kharn with a few berserkers...

I find the large model quite intimidating, to be honest, and I'm not sure if I can be a worthy painter to this classic metal model...

Once done it's going to be the centerpiece for the khorne deamonkin part of my greater chaos army, along with the 'iron men' space marines and berserkers that my son painted...

So, here is my Bloodthirster of Unfettered Fury :

Here's my entry, a unit of treemen for Kings of War

The Start of my Lord Celestant on Stardrake, just waiting on the Carmine dragon to arrive from forgeworld to be his mount.,

Here's my entry: Genestealer Patriarch

Already some very nice Mini's in here - and i actually have a Model that might fight quite well:





My AT-ST Defiler Conversion, a Daemon Engine unleashed to 'defile' anything in its path

My pile o'bits

Change of plans. I want to build a monster for the chapter, so I purchased a land raider. I'm not sure yet which one I'll end up making it. It's to lead a hammer of caliban. Already have a trio of vindicator's. So I also got a tech marine and his servators to crew it. I don't like the finecast. Stuff that the tech marine and servators are made our of. Same stuff the interrogator chaplain was made out if. Brother also gave me a Nephilim.jetfighter to build, so I'll be using the extra bits from the darktalon side to deck out the land raider with..

I'm in! cybernetic version of Old One Eye for my Wild Hunt

man this is shaping up to be another awesome month...a lot of great proof's showing up so far!

@EverlastingNewb - great defiler conversion there man! great pose too I love those defiler walker conversions, I might have to try making one myself someday...

Roight, guess I'm in too... Unleash da Beast!
Proof:

Bottle! Let's Patriarch it up together.

 TP^DC Deputy Manager wrote:
Bottle! Let's Patriarch it up together.

Hell yeah! Let's do it :-)

 ZoBo wrote:
man this is shaping up to be another awesome month...a lot of great proof's showing up so far!

@EverlastingNewb - great defiler conversion there man! great pose too I love those defiler walker conversions, I might have to try making one myself someday...

Thank you

got the fuseloge body of the jetfighter put together, figured id do him first so i know what extra bits and bobs ive got for use on the landraider. And the jet is alot smaller. I didnt realize how much larger then a rhino a landraider was. painting the seats and controls and screens as i go. I'll edit in the photos when i go back inside far as progress. Im having fun and still thinking what to do for the terrain contest.

Bit of progress for the day - got all the base metals down for The Fist of the Omnissiah. Bloody cool tanks these Draosans

WIP - I got the base colors down, next is a black wash, and then the highlighting and detailing...



And then I need to find a better base for him than that plain 60mm...

 Januine wrote:
Bit of progress for the day - got all the base metals down for The Fist of the Omnissiah. Bloody cool tanks these Draosans

That IS a frikken cool tank! Can't wait to see it done.

Here's some progress on my Patriach, nothing but basecoats so far.

After spending the whole day on it (it did feel good to be painting for a full day, listening to "Angel Exterminatus"... ) I'm quite happy with the result... I still need to base it, though...

I wasn't going to enter this month - nothing beastly on my workbench - but I see a few people are doing tanks. Is it stretching the theme too far to do a Rogue Trader Rhino? What if it had working lights?

@Bottle - interesting colours, likey likey

@Januine - I want to say "pretty tank" but mean it's a "beasty"..... what words to describe it!!!!!!

@ChaosDad - a whole day painting.......... [dreams of how cool that must be]

 Whittlesey40k wrote:
I wasn't going to enter this month - nothing beastly on my workbench - but I see a few people are doing tanks. Is it stretching the theme too far to do a Rogue Trader Rhino? What if it had working lights?

A Rhino drives towards the Enemy to.. "unleash the beast" inside of it. But it ain't my call

A Rhino is named after a beast isn't it?

 ZoBo wrote:
A Rhino is named after a beast isn't it?

How'd I miss that!
I'll get some proof photos sorted


Automatically Appended Next Post:
PROOF:

The Rhino for the last 25 years:


Then stripped:


And the LED stuff to get him lit up:


I've got the wiring all done and the Rhino is primed and partly assembled (more in my blog soon), but painting hasn't yet begun.

No idea if I'll get this done in the month, but this is what I was going to be working on anyway, so might as well enter it.

I don't see myself completely painting/finishing one of these, but oh man, selecting the parts and building is so much fun already!

I'll call them "Birdbeast" and "Beastwarrior" for now:

the nature of the beast

burner boyz

I think this month is out for me.

 ZoBo wrote:

nice! ...he's a little runty, but he is nice and spiky!...maybe our runtherds can get together and swap squigfeed recipes

can't wait to see yours all built and armoured...that assortment of plasticard bits looks so neat and organised!...it's like you've actually planned ahead or something! ...I just bodged mine together as I went

They could compare notes over some fungus ale.

Haha, yes I had indeed planned something and this is the result so far, a little bigger than I expected but that just means more dakka , the rivets take ages.



I was going for a quad AA gun.
While doing my research I found a good video here which I studied and adapted to my own needs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmU-nqvFtmY

If yours turns out half as good as your warboss biker from last month I will very much look forward to seeing it. I do like that the drop pod doors still open, I can imagine a big raaaggh from the squiggoth, the doors opening and all hell breaking lose.

Some interesting interpretations on the theme so far, the birdbeast really seems to have caught your imagination Tim 121RVC, will be interesting to see them develop.

Looking better and better Midget Gems! Have to say, front left ammo box appears different profile (without the lip on edge) but maybe it's just the photo, certainly got some dakka going on!

whoa MG! - mine may have yours beat in raw brawn, but yours definitely has mine beat in dakka! good stuff!

oh, for future reference regarding rivets...I highly suggest dropping less than a fiver on a pack of these (or similar) ...~20,000 ready-to-go ~2mm rivets, and they work with plastic glue - just get a little pile of them out on your hobby bench, make glue-dots on your model where you want them, like 10 at a time, then just use a damp small brush to pick them up and place them on the glue-dots - dead simple! ...I just counted, and my squiggoth's armour has 336 rivets on it (blimey! )...I don't even want to know how long that would've taken me if I was slicing up plastic rod, or hole-punching plasticard...ohhhh lordy...makes my hands cramp up just thinking about it!

now see...this is why I love orks...we're basically modelling the exact same thing here...but we're going about it in completely different ways!...yours is looking brilliant so far, and I'm pretty darn happy with how mines coming along too...and I mean, even the concept alone is just brilliant - what other army can you perfectly legitimately have basically a dinosaur, with a brace of honkin' great guns, or a repurposed drop pod strapped to it's back? I just love it!

I'm curious about the links you guys use to post your finished pics. Under the "Share this image" heading in the gallery, I use the one titled "forums", because it seems to me like the image Dakka displays in the thread is pretty crummy, but if people click on the image, they get the full-resolution, nice-looking image.
However, if you post one of the other links that sends a user directly to the gallery page, they are more likely to vote for your image because they don't have to search around for it, right? Thanks for any input.

Is this the thread to submit my entry? Because I want a go at this.

yes it is begel dverl

Gulgog Tuftoof, i just take them from the s4, then make a post with the computer so i have keys to type, then edit in the pictures as an attachment to the post. i havnt been to the gallery but once or twice.. never to set my stuff up.

@Gulgog: the 'forums' bar will give you the pic in the thread that can then be directly clicked through to the gallery page and voted on.

Well, a little update - Just some Base colors, Agrax Earthshade & cleanup of the red..
And, for size comparison matters, my Khorne Land Raider.. The defiler is really big.

 dodgemetal wrote:

Looking better and better Midget Gems! Have to say, front left ammo box appears different profile (without the lip on edge) but maybe it's just the photo, certainly got some dakka going on!

Cheers Dodge, for that bit personally I blame the Mekboy and Grot orderlies, so hard to find a decent one these days. Those responsible have been severed as dinner to the squigs. (I did that bit wrong but by the time I noticed it was past the point of no return)

Thanks for the tips on rivets Zobo, I did used to do them all with plastic rod cut up, recently started using Zinge industry ones, I might give the gems a go on the next project. One thing thats def helped was the brush tip, I was using superglue and a nail (to place a dot of glue) and a toothpick, or the back of the Stanley knife to pick the rivets up and get them into position, I avoided brushes because I didn't want to ruin them with glue but since I had one on its way out anyway it has proven a lot better, ty

Yeah I like Orks cos I can do anything I can imagine and call it Orky. hence lots of my other finished models. I started a little book of Ork conversion ideas for when I get round to them and/or the right challenge comes up

@ Gulgog TufToof also a useful tip is you can set the size you want the pic to display at using the "recommended size" drop down menu in the "share this image:" area. Default is 600px, i would suggest don't go full size if its a 3000 x 400o pic etc, might clog up the thread. Resize it on your PC first.

Nice pose on your defiler EverlastingNewb, certainly a beast of a machine.

I humbly submit my Savage Orc boy for the contest

@Midget Yeah, i'm still not so sure about the pose but thanks
I actually had something like this in mind



but, after while of pre-assembling, i thought this pose wouldn't fit to a defiler, which only moves 6"

I just managed to get a barbed hierodule on the cheap, if work permits I'll have a proof pic of that and maybe get it done this month.

Base WIP.

Waheey for progress!!!

Making a little sloppy progress myself

wow! so many people posting WIP's! - looking great so far guys!

mine's still got a lot to go on it...more metal on the drop pod, some more colours here and there, and just loads of weathering and detail-work required, but here's my progress so far:

Dudes! This was close! The first week of July is almost over and I could finally finish my entry!!!

I think he came out really nice. Hope the pics do him justice. Tried some "new" techniques - wetpalett ´n stuff.

Hope you like him. Comments welcome!

Hurry guys, the month is almost over!!!

K D

Lovely work, KD! Brutal stuff!

@Begel Dverl: Nicely done! Just a quick note, for these challenges you must submit a pic of the model unpainted just to prove you're painting it this month! I'll let you off this time, but if in future you could take a Proof before painting then that'd be great. Cheers.

nice one KD! ...guaranteed +1 vote at the end of the month from me

bonus points for the black t-shirt background - my method of choice

 ZoBo wrote:
nice one KD! ...guaranteed +1 vote at the end of the month from me

bonus points for the black t-shirt background - my method of choice

Black T-shirt, huh? Why didn't I think of that myself? I may just have to steal that idea!

I got a bit more work done so far tonight on my first jetfighter, if i can get it bright enough downstairs, ill take a couple wip shots,

ive got the extra bits in with the landraider's bits, im going to start on that tomorrow, not sure yet which type i will make. Something with similar range as the vindicators. ill decide that as im painting the interior tomorrow.

I am going to go open the tech marine box and see how bad the resin will be to do them.

Ravenwing nephilum jetfighter wip. Any suggestions or other feedback be greatly appreciated.

Thanks for the kind words guys.

K D

So I thought I uploaded my proof already? But I didnt. :( I painted this guy up today, but Ill upload the rest of the KD proof soon.

Here's my WiP of the project, nevertheless.

Pretty boy was lonely so I decided to make him a friend....

 Zach wrote:
So I thought I uploaded my proof already? But I didnt. :( I painted this guy up today, but Ill upload the rest of the KD proof soon.

Here's my WiP of the project, nevertheless.

Holy crap that's terrifying. Is it from Kingdom Death?

@Ssisal: Since you asked for comments, I'd say you've got the colors blocked out really well and have some nice clean lines. Right now it just needs either washes or highlights (or some combination of both) to give it more depth and then I'd call it done. If you've already done it and the real thing has a nice gradient to it, then you need to retake the pictures so it shows.

 Zach wrote:
So I thought I uploaded my proof already? But I didnt. :( I painted this guy up today, but Ill upload the rest of the KD proof soon.

Here's my WiP of the project, nevertheless.

Good God that's hideous and... amazingly graphic. And did I mention freakin terrifying?

 Zach wrote:
So I thought I uploaded my proof already? But I didnt. :( I painted this guy up today, but Ill upload the rest of the KD proof soon.

Here's my WiP of the project, nevertheless.

Hruk *throws up in mouth a little*

Dammit Zach, that's the most disgusting, horrifying, miniature I've seen since FW released this bad boy; https://www.forgeworld.co.uk/en-GB/Mourngul

Thanks for the nightmare fuel!

Hiya, this is the closet thing I have that I would class as a beast, would it be on to enter into the comp with this chap??

@Spuj - from what I gather, in regards to the theme, it's pretty much a case of "if you honestly think it fits, then it fits"

but honestly, if anyone says that thing's not a beast, I'll krump 'em meself!

I'm not gonna argue with that... and not just because I may end up entering a Dreadnought myself!

 Paradigm wrote:
I'm not gonna argue with that... and not just because I may end up entering a Dreadnought myself!

err...I wozn't gonna krump you boss - honest!

haha...I've spent too much time with this squiggoth today I think...I'm going full "ork mode"

Hi, I'm interested in this painting challenge, here is my proof picture:



I'm going to paint this Trygon prime for a friend of mine.

Here is my proof, an ork boy and what will become and ogryn. The ork is pretty much ready for paint the other fella needs some greenstuff work.

Zach, ARE U SERIOUS???
How can you enter something that scares grown up men in a way that doesn't let them sleep anymore???

This beast is horrifying as hell!

You will get my only vote if you promise to never enter something terrible like this again. ; D

Good - awful - job, sir.

I got my Hierodule in, so proof is here. Hopefully I get enough time to finish this one

keezus wrote:

 Zach wrote:
So I thought I uploaded my proof already? But I didnt. :( I painted this guy up today, but Ill upload the rest of the KD proof soon.

Here's my WiP of the project, nevertheless.

Holy crap that's terrifying. Is it from Kingdom Death?

Guildenstern wrote:

 Zach wrote:
So I thought I uploaded my proof already? But I didnt. :( I painted this guy up today, but Ill upload the rest of the KD proof soon.

Here's my WiP of the project, nevertheless.

Good God that's hideous and... amazingly graphic. And did I mention freakin terrifying?

Jadenim wrote:

 Zach wrote:
So I thought I uploaded my proof already? But I didnt. :( I painted this guy up today, but Ill upload the rest of the KD proof soon.

Here's my WiP of the project, nevertheless.

Hruk *throws up in mouth a little*

Dammit Zach, that's the most disgusting, horrifying, miniature I've seen since FW released this bad boy; https://www.forgeworld.co.uk/en-GB/Mourngul

Thanks for the nightmare fuel!

Kustomer D wrote:Zach, ARE U SERIOUS???
How can you enter something that scares grown up men in a way that doesn't let them sleep anymore???

This beast is horrifying as hell!

You will get my only vote if you promise to never enter something terrible like this again. ; D

Good - awful - job, sir.

LOL yea, its a pretty upsetting model and it evoked a lot of feelings from me personally, which in my opinion makes it special. Kingdom Death is something else
and I'll have to invest in some of their mini's in the future for personal use. Nevertheless, my entry continues and I have more:

WIP of my rhino - lights working!





P.S. Para - you've missed me off the list of entrants.

I am going to try and paint one of the miniatures from my current Kickstarter for this.

Either:


Or:

coming along

You really do put out some nice "hard working" metallics Jan, it has to be said

Cheers ZoBo there's a simple 'how to' over on my plog page. Very simple technique but seems to do he business

Here's my finished entry some Treemen for Kings of War

I finished painting the nice resin base from scibor that I got for this model, and now I have a painted bloodthirster!

(it's nowhere as impressive as the one that won last month's challenge, but I happen to be very happy with it! )









And this has given me at least a bit of confidence in my painting ability, enough to tackle the other big pieces in my collection...

Got to do quite a lot of work on my Patriarch over the weekend. Still a long way to go because I want the highlights to be super bling - but you can see it starting to come together.

That's awesome Bottle! Keep it going!

Really nice work on the old hammer 'thirster there Chaos dad!

excuse the multi post, because of max total size.

sorry for the sideways pics.
maybe paradigm can edit them or someone can tell me how?
also phone camera...

Some nice stuff already, and we're still early in the month! As for my entry, I'm just getting started because earlier on I just wasn't "feeling it" with the models. Well, that and I was busy assembling some other, unrelated models.

@snail22, that is a very neat paint job in both senses; very clean and tidy and also unique and interesting!

@Snail: If you're taking photos with your phone, take your photos in landscape position not portrait. With the home button on your right hand side. That way Dakka's photo uploader doesn't rotate your pic when you upload it.

if you take a photo in portrait, edit the photo after - just a teeny tiny crop is enough - then upload the photo adn it'll appear the right way up. weird quirk of uploading phone (iphone) photos

There's some truly monstrous entries this month! Great work, everyone!

My Zagstruk must be finished before Thursday because we're moving house.. So far, Da Boss has got his base colours mostly down (I always leave a couple of armour plates till last so I can decide if he needs more colour) and most of his washes applied.



I'm not looking forward to painting the plumes of exhaust fumes tbh. Anyone got any good tips?

@Nidlifecrisis: That is very snazz conversion.

@Bottle, that looks really awesome!!

@NidLifeCrisis - very cool - love those metals, that gun's especially beautiful. I find it hard to get decent detail on the guns, to make them look interesting.

Despite all you industrious souls getting a lot of your stuff actually done done (you make me sick ), I did get mine primed and basecoated. Weather was too horrid again for spray priming and I've broken my airbrush so I used my brush on Vallejo. Love that primer, but the grey is quite a light colour so I have basecoated based on what colour's going on top, even more so than usual. So a lot of the grey painted areas are going to be leadbelcher, mournfang brown for the bronzy as well as woods, etc.

Also decided to do some of the stones on the base near his foot like they're warpstone as well, will probably add warpstone overall to his base (if I get it finished in time!!)

Thanks for the props and directions guys. Will put up properly aligned and cropped pics once i get in in the morning. Should i delete the prvious entries or would it be better for me to pm paradigm?
Keep it up yall

Unfashionably late again, but I'm in! This month, Matthew, I'm going to be painting Bashful Boris from Super Dungeon Explore.

Proof:

Oohhhh. That's a sweet looking fig there feltmonkey

Yeah, a lot of the Super Dungeon Explore minis are really great. This is from the second edition of the game, The Forgotten King. It's worth looking out for on Amazon, because sometimes it's really cheap. In the UK it's about £45 at the moment, which is a good deal considering you get about 50 miniatures, including several quite large ones like Boris up there. You get a whole stand-alone board game in the box too. I've never played it so I can't report on whether it's any good.

3 upright shots on top of what i already put up for 5 finals

I love your take on that genestealer.. beautiful..

My proof pic, I'm a bit late starting this month as I've been away. I've been wanting a crack at this guy for a while now.

I got a fair bit done on the Landraider the past couple of nights. Here is a wip shot of all four sides. Needs a bit of cleanup. and ive got some oil to wash it with, but im going to get it finished first.

Drac is coming along. Need to get that skitarii gunner sorted though. Totally forgot about the wee fella

I may have an entry.

It's an otterhound I'm working on.

And of course no muddy dog would be complete without a muddy base.
Needs a few more layers of effect paints and varnishes and leaves, and the dog needs detailing.

I can't pretend to keep up with the various big leagues we get entering these days, but I can paint a puppy.

here is a horribly out-of-focus shot to mess with your eyeballs...
hopefully, i do better with the finished shots

i am loving many of the AoS minis...
this one has got to be the biggest Fantasy Orc i've ever seen...
he truly is a beast



this will be my first try at painting a plastic mini with no primer, just base coats directly onto the bare plastic...
i'm curious to see how it works out...

good luck getting done by the deadline, everyone...
i know i'll need some

cheers
jah

Here be my entry, something a little bit smaller than the past:

@jah-joshua: I'm just curious, why no primer?

 Gulgog TufToof wrote:
@jah-joshua: I'm just curious, why no primer?

just an experiment, to see how it works out...
i love painting over black primer, am indifferent to grey primer, and hate painting over white primer...
since i don't use acrylic for its translucent qualities on my base coat, but rather for its opaque qualities, i wanted to see how it acts over bare plastic...
so far, the experiment is turning out fine...
it is pretty much like painting over grey primer...
the paint is slightly more susceptible to rubbing off of the edges, but not by much...

in the end, i think i'll just stick to my P3 black spray primer...
i love that stuff...

i also use Vallejo grey primer to brush on when i travel, and can't take spray cans...
i don't love that stuff, but if i let it cure enough, and then paint black over it, it does the job...

it is nice to know that i don't HAVE to prime plastic, and the paint will still stick well...

cheers
jah

To be honest, what I call 'priming' is actually just painting a flat coat of black over everything to act as a basecoat, I actually can't stand the texture you get with 'proper' primer, so I just use the black to get a solid coat to paint over. Metal minis do need a good varnish to prevent chipping, but that's par for the course anyway and it beats having to paint over that horrible grainy surface any day!

@Zach: looking through the thread, I'm not seeing a Proof, you mention that you'd forgotten to upload it but apparently haven't yet! Not to worry if you've lost it or whatever, just asking for the sake of neatness. Lovely paintwork though, proper spooky!

not to be a jerk, but if you are getting a textured surface from your primer, Para, you are either doing it wrong, or using GW Skull White spray
a good spray should go on really smooth, unless humidity is rearing its ugly head

to be honest, plastic and resin also benefit from a good coat of varnish, too, if they are going to be handled at all...

cheers
jah

Varnish stops moisture, oils and some damage, but for metal I do find that a proper primer protects from chips. I run 90-120 metal guard which I primed myself, and I've dropped them on stone flooring in handfuls, they've survived. They're not varnished, either.
But then I've had unprimed but varnished metal minis shed layers of paint from just being in a mailing bag. It's Sod's law.


Anyway, doggle is getting somewhere.

And the other side.

The water needs to cure, and I need to detail the pup properly.
I live for fun basing though. Even have water dripping off his waggy tail.

 Paradigm wrote:


@Zach: looking through the thread, I'm not seeing a Proof, you mention that you'd forgotten to upload it but apparently haven't yet! Not to worry if you've lost it or whatever, just asking for the sake of neatness. Lovely paintwork though, proper spooky!

Duuuude you are totally right, and at this point Im pretty sure I deleted the pics off my camera. Just pull me out of the comp, I dont wanna raise any eyebrows with it. Maybe I can enter something else before the
end of July.

Don't worry, you're in! Made the same mistake myself last month, so I'm not going to pull you out!

@jah: my only experience with actual primer is buying minis second hand! I learned to paint from the old LotR magazine GW produced, that always started the tutorials with a basecoat of black acrylic, so that stuck and I've never done anything else myself. Never had a problem with it!

 Paradigm wrote:
Don't worry, you're in! Made the same mistake myself last month, so I'm not going to pull you out!

@jah: my only experience with actual primer is buying minis second hand! I learned to paint from the old LotR magazine GW produced, that always started the tutorials with a basecoat of black acrylic, so that stuck and I've never done anything else myself. Never had a problem with it!

oh man! that LotR magazine...I only got the first issue of that, with the tiny little moria goblins...they really threw you in the deep end starting with those tiny gits...I'd never even heard of warhammer or miniatures in general really at that point, so naturally my efforts at painting them were...not great (with no painting experience, and that orrid starter brush that came with it, I don't think you could really expect much though) ...I did give them some nice metallic blue armour though

Yeah, those goblins are still a pain to paint... although I've not tried any in a while, I might dig a few out now I think about it... I was way too young to be painting when they first came out, so I didn't have to start with them, thankfully!

To be fair I didn't post proof of the dog, I have some, but I can't remember which mate I sent it to on messenger.
I'll find it by the end if that is my entry.

I really need to get myself a Lightbox & some decent lamps, waiting for 'good' weather here in
northern Germany is a real pain in the bum

But he's done - was really fun to paint my Defiler, although i think i have gone a bit overboard with
the weathering.

Nice! No such thing as overboard with weathering!

oh yeah! that looks great man! ...easily one of the best-looking defilers I've seen in some time, in my opinion

as for the weathering, I paint orks and nurgle stuff, so that looks "clean" to me ...but I think it's a nice balance...it's noticeable, but it's not too much, and it works well all-round

Speaking of weathering... not final pics, and needing feedback and touchups, but here's my entry this month!


Any thoughts welcome, I want to make this the best I can!

Personally, given the focus of the mini, I'd really add on to the green of the ork himself and make him pop (even exaggeratedly so) just due to natural eye focus and whate people are going to draw a bead on first.

 ZoBo wrote:
oh yeah! that looks great man! ...easily one of the best-looking defilers I've seen in some time, in my opinion

as for the weathering, I paint orks and nurgle stuff, so that looks "clean" to me ...but I think it's a nice balance...it's noticeable, but it's not too much, and it works well all-round

Why, thank you for the compliment
Yeah, i like my Crimson Slaughter to look crisp & clean but i bought Typhos corrosion and wanted to test it. And after i finished weathering the feet, i thought that some
battle damage as well as greasy & oily parts like hydraulic would look cool and spent almost as much time weathering this model as painting it

@Paradigm - wow man, I had no idea you were painting gazza, I somehow totally missed the proof ...he looks great! - he's even more grim and dirty than mine! ...it's really hard to pick faults with it, but I think I might agree a little with Zach, a final fine-detail highlight pass on the skin would help it stand out against the armour a bit better I think

the deffkopta power klaw blade seems to have worked nicely too

Haha, I snuck the proof into the OP earlier to keep the final pic a surprise!

Made a few edits to him based on various feedback, upped the contrast on the face, added some freehand to the banners, cleaned up a few bits here and there. Should get some better pics in daylight tomorrow. The blade swap was improvised, I bought the mini second hand years ago for about two quid, he was missing the klaw blades, horns and banner pole so I had to make a few minor edits. I like it though, which is to say i still wouldn't want to be printed by it!

So I can actually finish with plenty of time:







Really pleased with how the cloak came out, figured that a native American style was appropriate for a Kroot master shaper.

Nice work, the cloak looks great.

Calling mine done, having made a few edits:

@Jadenim - nice ...I actually quite like kroot, I might like them even more than all the fancy battlesuits the tau have...and I don't see them very often - the style works quite nicely too

@Paradigm - yeah...he just looks like he's about to really ruin someone's day...proppa mean and dirty! ...nicely done


I've really got to get cracking on my squiggoth...I thought I had it almost done...but then I decided to build a "driver" rig add-on for the front of the howdah...I've built and primed that, and I think it looks kinda great (wait and see ), but now I need to paint that, and do another general all-over weathering pass over the whole thing...he's a big lad - should still have it done on time easily though, no worries

Hey guys !

A little late entering, but I'd like to enter my Ironjawz Brutes i picked up the other day. I got stuck right into them , but I hope they are still eligible to qualify for entry.

At present, they are mostly assembled, Sprayed White, with a single Green on the skin and a single Bone layer on some of the armour, that is all.

Please let me know if they are not eligible, otherwise consider it my entry

Thanks!

Working on "Bob"; I'm trying for a more patchwork look to his skin on this HPA.

Looking gribbly there Guildenstern . Nice work!

Big Daddy Genestealer is coming along :-) Feeling a bit pressured to meet the deadline though!

Can't find my dog proof. Here's proof for my replacement entry.

That's a fantastic Patriarch you got there, Bottle! Looks all kinds of awesome!

 angelofvengeance wrote:
That's a fantastic Patriarch you got there, Bottle! Looks all kinds of awesome!

Cheers Aov! Want to try and do the glowing effect on his temple, so need to speed things up as that'll no doubt be tricky to pull off!

 Buttery Commissar wrote:
Can't find my dog proof. Here's proof for my replacement entry.

I am so jealous, so want that yet there is no way for me to get it.(other than ebay)

Bug me nearer a FW event. Me and my friends all have one so we can do a small amount of pickups. They were £25 retail though.

I may be switching my entry (bit late in the month for that but oh well). I'm just not feeling inspired to do the Flesh Hounds. I might do a few of the Free Agent players from the Dreadball Xtreme starter set instead, since some of them are beastly looking. I'll post a proof before I start if I do go that route.

Dreadball Xtreme! I have that! I completely forgot that I bought it.

I've been working on Bashful Boris this evening. Fair warning - he's purple. A big purple bear. I've got to a very scary point where the next parts I need to paint are the metallic areas, and I have to decide whether to use metallic paints or attempt non-metallic-metal on them. NMM would probably fit the model better, but I really don't know what I'm doing with it. I've tried it before with mixed results. Some bits I've done look good, others just look yellow. Anyone got any decent tutorials or tips?

I love my original entry, but I painted this today and it fits more and I have the proof pic. Anyone mind if I change?

 Buttery Commissar wrote:
Bug me nearer a FW event. Me and my friends all have one so we can do a small amount of pickups. They were £25 retail though.

Thats less than i paid for the gw only praetor.
Will definitely take up up on the offer, thanks.

Okay, I'm officially changing my entry. Here's my proof with four Dreadball Xtreme minis that are somewhat beastly:

Left to right: Avaran Treebeast, Vlorox Spinpede, Pusk Rampager, and Convict Thug. I'll brush prime them instead of spraying since the weather here in Missouri just refuses to cooperate (heat index was 106 degrees F this afternoon).

I'll probably start with the Treebeast, as his color scheme should be really simple. Basecoat brown, wash, drybrush, add a few green details, done. At least then I'll have something to submit.

@Zach: Very cool. Post up the new Proof and any other pics and I'll switch you over!


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Oh, and now taking theme ideas for next month, let's hear 'em!

Cool!

Beautiful stuff Zach. GW is coming out with some cracking sculpts these days.

Possible theme/idea for next month. Single fig, gaming legal. Just one regular fig. Be interesting for a change to go back to basics.

Thanks man, it was a fun couple of hours and its nice to get back to basics.

My idea for a theme would be Skin. It is a painting competition, and skin comes in a thousand different forms and ways of painting it, whether its the flesh of a human or the scaly hide of a demon, Id like to see what the community can come up with for a skin focused showcase.

Couple of hours????? Jaysus - I'd be at that for days!!!!
Skin is a fantastic theme. Something I'm trying to work on at the mo.

Assembly and painting took right at 3 hours, it's airbrush base colors, drybrush 5 colors, several washes and some honey comb lining. Her skin/face was the only thing I actually brushed in. It's refreshing to 'not care' on a model, you can't generally do that with other people's stuff!

Ahhhh. Cool beans.

@Zach
Awesome looking Drycha there man very well done !


My Ironjawz Brutes are all complete except for a few more layers of some effects i am trying to build up and need to dry, but I will certainly post the end result pic within the next day or so

@Zach
Holy Macaroni that Tree..Bark..Human thing looks awesome! I guess i know what will get my vote

Hey thanks guys! It takes a lot for me to just buy a model cause I want to paint it, I think these things are too cool to pass up.

Hey guys, put the finishing touches on the Brutes !!

I was originally going to paint designs on the armour, but I have decided to abstain until I am 100% certain, so for all intents and purposes this is FINISHED !

A little background to explain the armour style choice :
I am not 100% on which Sigmar army i'll do, but the Orruks are down to the final 2, and I have decided if I do stick with these boys I will be doing a primarily Savage Orc (aka Bonesplitterz) army , with support elements from the Ironjawz due to their awesome sculpts.

SO , with this in mind, I decided to NOT do metal armour as is tradition with Ironjawz, but rather make it actual primitive Bone that has been carved and shaped down into armour. I think this will then make the Savage theme complete when I run a mix of the two !
The skull face paint doesnt hurt either

Here is my finished entry

Awesome stuff SoF

 angelofvengeance wrote:
Awesome stuff SoF

Thank you !

I had a couple of possible theme ideas for next month:

Irregulars: entries should be some kind of rabble rather than polished regular military. Things like conscripts, cultists, probably anything to do with Orks, etc.

Technological Superiority: this could be interpreted in many ways...

How about: I need more Dakka!!! ?

Got more work done on "Bob" - finished up skin. Just need more details, the metals etc. Base is almost complete.

Bob is superb Guildenstern. Great job

'Bob' is looking great, well he looks horrendous but also looks great ...

I'm loving the brutes, soldier of fortune, I really like the bone armour thing. I'm tempted to get a pack of them and convert them up as meganobz.

Talking of which, I attempted one of my first conversions/kitbash of a model. I needed a mega-armoured warboss and I didn't want the ghazz model. Before painting him I was really unsure whether he'd turn out decent but I'm very happy with the results. I also had an evening where I wanted to mess around with some decals, so I attacked this fella with them. So, to anyone who is unfamiliar the ork decal sheet, most the fine details are decals and not my handy work (unfortunately).

From behind his welding mask, the warboss yells 'Unleash the Beast!!!!' (you've seen what this little guy can do with a mushroom!).

Moolet wrote:'Bob' is looking great, well he looks horrendous but also looks great ...

I'm loving the brutes, soldier of fortune, I really like the bone armour thing. I'm tempted to get a pack of them and convert them up as meganobz.

Talking of which, I attempted one of my first conversions/kitbash of a model. I needed a mega-armoured warboss and I didn't want the ghazz model. Before painting him I was really unsure whether he'd turn out decent but I'm very happy with the results. I also had an evening where I wanted to mess around with some decals, so I attacked this fella with them. So, to anyone who is unfamiliar the ork decal sheet, most the fine details are decals and not my handy work (unfortunately).

From behind his welding mask, the warboss yells 'Unleash the Beast!!!!' (you've seen what this little guy can do with a mushroom!).

Thank you !

That warboss looks awesome, very cool conversion and very imposing looking. Paint job is fantastic love the wear and tear. I'll admit when I had Orks in 40k I also didn't like using the Ghaz model as a base for Warbosses but never made one up myself. This is the kind of thing I definitely have in mind Well done !

Love the idea of the caged grot as his personal killing machine

@Moolet - that is a great looking megaboss! plenty of armour and an appropriate amount of lights and gizmos ...ah man, I've been wanting to do something like that for a long while now, this's making me want to even more - love the mean-looking little caged snotling too - he'd make for a good lucky stikk too

@Soldier0Fortune - that bone armour's a great idea! I never thought about that...fits great with feral/snakebite orruks/orks...they'd make great snakebites meganobz like that actually

FINISHED!

ZoBo wrote:@Moolet - that is a great looking megaboss! plenty of armour and an appropriate amount of lights and gizmos ...ah man, I've been wanting to do something like that for a long while now, this's making me want to even more - love the mean-looking little caged snotling too - he'd make for a good lucky stikk too

@Soldier0Fortune - that bone armour's a great idea! I never thought about that...fits great with feral/snakebite orruks/orks...they'd make great snakebites meganobz like that actually

Thanks!

Yes they definitely would... When Ironjawz dropped I had no interest in doing Sigmar, but I had thought the Gore Gruntas would make amazing Nob Bikerz and Brutes Mega Nobs , and of course the new imposing warboss as himself for a Snakebites army

thanks guys hopefully will post final pic up here in a while, need to take a better pic of Bob now he's done

@Moolet - that is so awesome love it lol

@Whittlesey40k - wow that came out beautifully!


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Next month suggestions:

Fires O' War (not flames so's to not get mixed up with a certain game) - Fiery deaths, Flamethrowers, "go fast" fire stripes... all kinds of interpretations

the Light Brigade - could be calvary, could be modern "steeds" (warbikes), could be the opponents facing the Brigade

@Jadenim: Loving the Native American kroot master.

@Para: Great Ghaz there. Really like the level of weathering/wear n tear.

 Bottle wrote:
Big Daddy Genestealer is coming along :-) Feeling a bit pressured to meet the deadline though!

@Bottle: That 'stealer looks good enough to enter now! Nice clean lines.

@Buttery: I don't care about the proof - enter the dog!

@S0F: I really like the face paint on those Orcs. And overall a nice sharp paintjob.

@Guild: I don't know what Bob is, but I like him!!

Really looking forward to seeing all the finished entries. Lots of variety this month.

Unusually for me I've finished with some time to spare:



The Eviscerator is the beast part of the model, but I like to think the marine kind of looks the part too with the up-armoured parts I've used. As 'Unleash The Beast' sounds like a command I wantd him to look very static, but ready, lik he's waiting for the order.

Finished my entry too :-)

Love that pose sockwithaticket! Where did that eviscerator come from?

Cheers, Jadenim. It's from the Forgeworld MkII / III power weapon set.

Awesome Broodlord, Bottle . He looks fantastic!

Hey guys sorry I have been very inactive on the boards the last few weeks, think I've missed about 4 pages. RL is making me very busy atm and when I do get a few minutes peace its spent slowly paining my entry.

Heres a WIP of the Ork Stegadon, I'm quite behind where I wanted to be at this point in the month. Beast is mainly done, AA gun is base coated and Ork controller not started or built.



A week left now so I hope people are faring better than me and get there entry in, keep going you can do it

 angelofvengeance wrote:
Awesome Broodlord, Bottle . He looks fantastic!

Cheers, AoV!

Love the work, MG and Bottle, really charming stuff!

I finished early for once! This is the first Goff I've ever painted; once I picked out the Stormboy head, all I could see was the black/grey/white color scheme. Here's my Goff Big Shoota, Unleashing the Beast!

Finished pics!

I finished one It's not my best work ever, but I'm proud of myself for finishing it and that's what counts

I'm really struggling to get my bear finished. Sections are completed, but there's still some quite large areas that are just basecoated, including half of the nmm, the most complicated bit of the whole model. I only managed to get about an hour and a half to paint today, starting after 11pm, and all I managed to do was get a basecoat on the leather straps. The slow, painstaking, inefficient way I paint, I'll spend hours trying to get them looking sort of like leather. I reckon there's probably at least eight hours work still to do, and Thursday is the only time I've got to do it in. After that I'll still need to get it photographed! It's going to be tough.

Sorry, there's no actual point to this post.

 Bottle wrote:

 angelofvengeance wrote:
Awesome Broodlord, Bottle . He looks fantastic!

Cheers, AoV!

this bad boy is in the GW Flickr pool today, Bottle
he turned out great!!!

this is going to be another tough month...
so many nice paint jobs...

cheers
jah

 jah-joshua wrote:

 Bottle wrote:

 angelofvengeance wrote:
Awesome Broodlord, Bottle . He looks fantastic!

Cheers, AoV!

this bad boy is in the GW Flickr pool today, Bottle
he turned out great!!!

this is going to be another tough month...
so many nice paint jobs...

cheers
jah

Thanks for the heads man! Although a shame I didn't make the little preview window :p

Yeah loads of great entries from everyone already and I expect a sudden flurry before the month end!

So, to start off that flurry:

Reaper Pig-Demon. Removed the wings, greenstuffed over their sockets, and turned him into the champion for an eventual unit of these guys, probably eventually to become a guardian brute unit for KoW.

Proof pic:


Final product:

a few WIPS before the last push...
some fun experiments going on with this guy...
i didn't start with any sort of plan, except to try painting directly over the plastic, but it branched out into trying all sorts of new stuff...

first up, the red armor:



if you look at the boot on your right, you can see where the red is fairly oxblood in color, with some P3 Coal Black shading...
on the groin plate, you can see the fine dots of pure P3 Underbelly Blue...
the boot on your left has been given a few washes of nearly uncut P3 Red Ink, which makes a rich darker red, and tones down the U.B. dots, and is my finished color...

the back shows even more contrast on the leg armor:



the front of the Megaboss shows the base green that i went with on the head, P3 Thornwood Green...
the shoulders, neck, arms, and back show the layer color, P3 Traitor Green...

the finished hands show the first stippled highlight, P3 Thrall Flesh, the shade, P3 Beaten Purple, and the final highlight, T.F. stippled again...





the claws started with P3 Thamar Black, then a layer of Coal Black, and a wash with P3 Armor Wash, plus a highlight of pure Underbelly Blue...

next up i'll show the axe handle, and some base construction, but i don't want to carpet-bomb this post with too many pics...

i hope you like the experiment, so far

cheers
jah

 Soldier0Fortune wrote:
That warboss looks awesome, very cool conversion and very imposing looking. Paint job is fantastic love the wear and tear. I'll admit when I had Orks in 40k I also didn't like using the Ghaz model as a base for Warbosses but never made one up myself. This is the kind of thing I definitely have in mind Well done !

Thanks! He was a bit of an experiment and was great fun to do. Give it a go I'd love to see the results. I really want to get myself some of those AoS orks to try some more conversions.

ZoBo wrote:@Moolet - that is a great looking megaboss! plenty of armour and an appropriate amount of lights and gizmos ...ah man, I've been wanting to do something like that for a long while now, this's making me want to even more - love the mean-looking little caged snotling too - he'd make for a good lucky stikk too

Thanks, I loved your warboss last month. I've been tempted to get that model for a while now. I'd really want to do it the justice it deserves, as you did. I'm looking forward to see how the squiggoth turns out, and WIP pics? =)

As usual, there are lots of great entries but my favourite is Bottle's genestealer... so far, its so well done it should be official publicity pic for the model. I've love the different styles everyone has and I've been very much enjoying the character Gulgog puts into his models. I also always envy the neatness and the cleanness of sockwithaticket's entries.

Jah-Joshua, that Orruk Warboss looks amazing so far!

@Jah-Joshua: That ork looks great. I've been itching to get some to paint myself, but I'm balking at the cost a bit.

Love the skintone in particular!

I'm debating whether or not to try and get something done for this month. I'm still struggling to get stuff done for Gencon. Madness, I know!

Here's mine. My photos aren't great, but I'll be busy till the 3rd, so probably won't get to redo them.

here are a few more WIP shots...

the outside face of the axe gets a lot more light than the inside...
the wood is a base coat of P3 Battlefield Brown, shaded with P3 Coal Black, layered with P3 Beast Hide, and finished with fine dots of P3 Menoth White Highlight...
the leather is based with P3 Bloodstone, shaded with Coal Black, layered with a 3-1 mix of Bloodstone and M.W.H., then stippled with pure M.W.H. and given a thin glaze of Coal Black...



the inside edge of the axe is all the same, but glazed heavier for a darker look:




i bought this Epicast base on clearance, but it has too many skulls, even for me
for many years, i wondered what i would ever use it for...
the other day i got inspired to just sculpt over the damn thing...



it just happens to fit perfectly on top of the Megaboss' plastic base:



i really don't care for the look of "base overhang", so i hacked all the skulls off of the edges:



now i just need to sculpt some rock on top, and only leave a few small areas of skulls...

hope you enjoy seeing some of the process...

cheers
jah

Looking awesome Jah. I really need to get off my ass and finish my own entry. 10 more mins in bed first - lol

very nice Jah - I love those tones, they look really cool

I agree with the base too - there is sometimes such a thing as too many skulls lol (Heresy, I know!)

That's a really cool model I can't wait to see the whole thing!

Jah, this is going to be incredible. The tiny stripping effect you are doing for the final highlight looks so good and must require bomb-defusal level dedication!

Cannot wait to see the finished product. And how have you found painting straight onto the plastic?

I have finished, well not quite as i forgot about some things on the goblin but the brush is down.

been a while since i was online, did a osl on a old beastman model , cant remember if i did any proofs, will be posting my progresws and final soon. hope all is cool with a proof and final on the last day.

@Moolet: Thanks for the encouragement, I'm kind of in a painting rut lately but I have been really trying to put some personality into the poses and stuff.

@Jah-Joshua: That's looking amazing so far, and it's really neat to hear about the process. I may well borrow some of those techniques.

@All else: as usual, some fantastic entries, and if you haven't finished yet, keep pushing, you'll make it!

I've finished one of the Dreadball Xtreme free agents, so I will have something to submit. I'm gonna try to finish at least one more, but we'll see if I can work fast enough to beat the deadline.

Not quite happy with him, but that’s kinda par for the course. Final pics.



Behold, the Zoat, beast of myths and legends. Tried a new technique here. I used the new soulstone blue as a glaze over black for a chitinous look for his gun/breather/shoulderpad. I think it turned out OK, but the high gloss did not want to photograph well. Also a little BftBG on the pad and tubes, to help make things more organic.

Also, little fun fact: The basecoat blues used were from my collection of old, still working RT-era paints, just as old as the mini himself!

 Nevelon wrote:
Not quite happy with him, but that’s kinda par for the course. Final pics.



Behold, the Zoat, beast of myths and legends. Tried a new technique here. I used the new soulstone blue as a glaze over black for a chitinous look for his gun/breather/shoulderpad. I think it turned out OK, but the high gloss did not want to photograph well. Also a little BftBG on the pad and tubes, to help make things more organic.

Also, little fun fact: The basecoat blues used were from my collection of old, still working RT-era paints, just as old as the mini himself!

Always good to see someone keeping RT alive Good work on keeping those old paints working, mine have all died now

This month has been so diverse, it's awesome.
I'm not sure I can finish my Libby to the level I want in time. Being doing some subtle metals rather than usual gleaming stuff, and it's sloooow.

Here are my final images for the completed Bashful Boris.

I went full Colonel Kurtz on this one. Towards the end, I was feeling so anxious about painting him that I was making excuses not to. I just had the club to do, but I was so convinced that I was going to do something to mess up the whole miniature that I was terrified of touching it. I would say, "Well, I can't finish Boris off, I have to empty the bins" and my wife would reply, "It's not bin day until Sunday, what are you talking about?" "Well, maybe I should get them done early." If it hadn't been for the deadline imposed by this thread, I probably wouldn't have finished him. I'm glad I did, because I used some techniques I'm quite new to, and painted in a style different to how I usually paint, which I've been trying to use on my Super Dungeon Explore miniatures. The metal is all painted in Non-Metallic-Metal style, which took hours and hours, and was really hard, particularly for a noob like myself. The leather straps also took a long time, as again I went a bit crazy on them, trying to make them look worn and weathered. I've included a close-up so you can see the extent of my chicken-scratch craziness on them. It's a bit of a shame that some tiny bits of dust show up in the close-ups. That stuff is not visible to the naked eye at all, it's virtually mircoscopic. I kept blowing on the mini, gently dusting him, and retaking the photos, but there's always a few specks that remain in the photos. I'm just going to have to live with them.

Overall, I'm really happy with the finished miniature, and as I say, I probably wouldn't have pushed myself so much without the existence of this thread, so thanks to Paradigm for running it each month, and everyone for participating. I think we collectively push each other to improve as painters. You can see that from how the standard keeps creeping up and up. This month is another spectacular collection of minis!

So here he is, the finished Boris:

 feltmonkey wrote:

Spoiler:

Here are my final images for the completed Bashful Boris.

I went full Colonel Kurtz on this one. Towards the end, I was feeling so anxious about painting him that I was making excuses not to. I just had the club to do, but I was so convinced that I was going to do something to mess up the whole miniature that I was terrified of touching it. I would say, "Well, I can't finish Boris off, I have to empty the bins" and my wife would reply, "It's not bin day until Sunday, what are you talking about?" "Well, maybe I should get them done early." If it hadn't been for the deadline imposed by this thread, I probably wouldn't have finished him. I'm glad I did, because I used some techniques I'm quite new to, and painted in a style different to how I usually paint, which I've been trying to use on my Super Dungeon Explore miniatures. The metal is all painted in Non-Metallic-Metal style, which took hours and hours, and was really hard, particularly for a noob like myself. The leather straps also took a long time, as again I went a bit crazy on them, trying to make them look worn and weathered. I've included a close-up so you can see the extent of my chicken-scratch craziness on them. It's a bit of a shame that some tiny bits of dust show up in the close-ups. That stuff is not visible to the naked eye at all, it's virtually mircoscopic. I kept blowing on the mini, gently dusting him, and retaking the photos, but there's always a few specks that remain in the photos. I'm just going to have to live with them.

Overall, I'm really happy with the finished miniature, and as I say, I probably wouldn't have pushed myself so much without the existence of this thread, so thanks to Paradigm for running it each month, and everyone for participating. I think we collectively push each other to improve as painters. You can see that from how the standard keeps creeping up and up. This month is another spectacular collection of minis!

So here he is, the finished Boris:

@Felt, those eyes are amazing! I always screw up eyes

Few final touches in the morning and this beast of a machine is done and ready to join her Rangers

Awesome job, felt! Really like those eyes and the strapping.

Whittlesey40k wrote:
@Felt, those eyes are amazing! I always screw up eyes

Buttery Commissar wrote:Awesome job, felt! Really like those eyes and the strapping.

Thanks, guys.

I painted the eyes the way I paint gems. A black circle, then a little sort of u-shaped bit of colour at the bottom of the eye, then a smaller "u" of a lighter shade just inside the other u. Then a little spot of pure white in the top corner and Bob's your uncle. You need a steady hand, and have to be prepared to go back and start agin, but it's do-able. I think those particular ones came out well, but I consider them a bit of a fluke!

Just about to actually start the washes on everything, paints all been dried for a full day. if it works good, i should have the photos of the land- aider and tech marine and servitors all posted before the sun sets in the midwest. Im also going to wash the Jetfighter and the Vindicators for the Hammer of Caliban, ill post those as well.

its too bad i put the jetfighter together this month, as i have nothing that flys or jumps thats not already at least halfway painted. But the Jetfighter Just may help to inspire one of you to try something different, So ill post that as well.

As usual there are far far far too many photos of WIP and finished works that look amazing. By the looks of things, ill be voting for all you again this month. A couple months ago someone commented on everyone's work, that was awesome of them. It got me thinking. Everyone here, random photos in the gallery too, inspire me to be a better painter, a better modeler. This month, I will be commenting on all the finished photos and let you each know how you inspired me.

I havnt done a thing with my bases beyond a single color, but thats cuz i want to do the whole Lions Blade Strike Force with one base, which will give my chapter about 8 different styles of bases. But i dont wanna just do like 5 guys, id rather buy the stuff in bulk and do a few hundred at a time.

@Jan - love your tank! he's a beautiful machine and an awesome job per usual on him!

@feltmonkey - good lord that's amazing. Seriously, incredible. You should be very proud of yourself you did a fabulous job!