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.
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.
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 )
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...
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.
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?
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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:
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
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 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...
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..
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...
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...
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.
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?
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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:
Spoiler:
^NOMNOMNOM!
...I went ultramarines with the looted drop pod, because I've already got 2 looted rhino "trukks" painted as ex-ultramarine, so I thought I may as well have a matching set ...also, blue's lucky
@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.
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.
@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.
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:
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.
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.
@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 - 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
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.
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.
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
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...
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...
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.
@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.
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
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!
@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
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
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?
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.
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.
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!
@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
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
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...
'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
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!
Automatically Appended Next Post: 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
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.
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
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!
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.
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.
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...
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.
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...
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?
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!
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
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.
As promised some pictures. Im happy with the wash.. sorta, i can see the brush strokes. But the five people that have seen them, of which all paint, tell me it looks like smoke or mud and not repaint things. Let me know what you guys things, its my first time washing anything.
Righto, calling the squiggoth done I think...scraping in at the last minute here!
Well, I'm happy enough with it, it's properly big an' stompy, and chompy! ...the paint scheme is something of a fusion of snakebitez and dethskullz style, with the orks deciding the blue drop pod looked lucky, and doing their best to replicate the scheme on the squiggoth's armour...with a little proppa orky flair too of course
Great stuff Zobo glad you got it in in time The tail looks sufficiently spiky now, I especially like the running paint on the graffiti.
I will add to the last minute entries for the Orks with my mini version of a Squiggoth (also interestingly a combo of Blue and Snakebite) an Ork reared Stegadon with AA Gun (beast of an animal and beast of a gun). I'm not 100% done with it sadly but had to stop now, I would have liked to touch up a few bits, missed the odd highlight and also wanted to add a banner and extra touches e.g. packs, pouches of bones etc to add more detail to the model. In true 40k style the driver of the heavy weapon platform has a sword
My last entry was too bright but I think I may have over compensated for that in this one in 3 of the pics.
Some great entries coming in thus far, should be a fun browse through them all when it's time to vote!
I managed to squeak in with a couple of the Dreadball Xtreme free agent models. Here are my final pics:
With a bit more time I probably could have gotten these to look a little better and/or done a few more of them, but oh well, my fault for changing entry in the closing days of the month. At least I got something done.
some great entries indeed, ZergSmasher...
it looks like the Orks are getting some extra love this month...
i had a lot of fun painting in a completely new style on this guy...
it is tough to loosen up, and not go for crisp line highlights on everything, but it was nice to try
Well done to all - some sweet entries this month again. Choosing (once again) is going to be a bitch
Sometimes my camera chooses to be a complete fethwit - this morning was one of those times~~~~!!!!!!
Anyhow - finally got some decent~ish shots taken of my Skitarii Rangers' new ride - a reclaimed and requipped Dracosan. First tank I've done and loads of fun to paint, not so much to photograph There's more shots over on the admech plog
Great efforts, everyone! I love the fact that there seems (not for the first time) to be an Orky flavour to this month's entries.
Unfortunately for me, moving house somewhat disrupted my work on Boss Zagstruk.. So, unless I can change my entry at the last minute to aforementioned house (6 rooms, three colours, countless layers... all to at least tabletop standard), then I have failed ... :-(
Good luck to all those who finished, and see you all next month!
@Bottle: thanks, dude btw, i found painting on bare plastic is not really any different, since i paint straight out of the pot, my base coats are fairly thick and opaque anyway...
i don't think there is any advantage on skipping primer, though...
i'll stick with my black usual undercoat...
@Para: glad you like him, mate...
there are a lot of little mistakes that i will have to fix, before i take him to the local Con painting comp. in September...
i just ran out of time on the last day :(
see you all next month, with my Kung-Fu Battlesuit
Paradigm wrote: Apologies for the lack of vote today, I've not been feeling too well for most of the day, I'll get it posted up first thing tomorrow morning.
With it being such a short topic, I'll do you the poll post contents to save you some compiling time. I gotta sit and watch this vinyl paint cure in a few hours anyway, so I can't go to bed.
Cheers, but don't worry about that, I've got the post itself done up and saved in a word doc, it's just the actual setting up the poll that I don't want to do while slightly out of it as I don't want to miss anyone. So the hard work is done, it should only take 15 minutes or so tomorrow morning.