Welcome to the 21st 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 'Heavy Metal'. This basically covers everything that's bringing a lot of armour, from a Paladin in full plate mail to a Spartan Assault Tank. If it can take a beating, it's the kind of thing we want to see this month!
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 November and will end at midnight GMT on the 31st November. After this, I shall compile the finished entries into a new thread, and voting will run for 5 days.
List of Entrants:
SirDonald: FINISHED
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Proof
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Jadenim:
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Proof
Nevelon: FINISHED
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Proof
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Bottle: FINISHED
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Proof
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Aspiring Deathbringer of Khorne
Possumcraft: FINISHED
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Proof
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Hey Para, is it alright if I enter my Predator conversion?
It's technically only primed and base coated blue, so meets the rules, but it feels a bit cheeky having a base coated tank! Having said that I do only have two weeks before I go on holiday to get it finished.
Automatically Appended Next Post: Also, shameless plug for my P&M blog on how I built it!
I’m going to start out with my Honor Guard chapter champion with thunderhammer.
Depending if I can get mold lines cleaned and a good day to prime (which is very sketchy at this time of year) I might swap my entry to the tartaros terminator sergeant I’ve got tacked together at the moment.
Jadenim wrote: Hey Para, is it alright if I enter my Predator conversion?
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It's technically only primed and base coated blue, so meets the rules, but it feels a bit cheeky having a base coated tank! Having said that I do only have two weeks before I go on holiday to get it finished.
Automatically Appended Next Post: Also, shameless plug for my P&M blog on how I built it!
Don't worry, I'll compensate for you by starting with a Land Raider that needs its previous paint removing first! I'm clearly over-committing but I didn't want to miss another month! Pics to follow tonight.
These are the only really heavy units I'll have this month but I'd already based, washed and dry brushed when the poll was chosen. Would they still be acceptable?
G'day...now see, I've had a stompa sitting around for about 2 years now...I've made a couple of starts on it, but never got close to finishing it...currently, it's primed, sprayed silver, and has a smattering of panels based in red, white, yellow, blue, brown and olive...is that too much pre-work done on it to enter it as-is?...I mean, there is 7 colours on it already I guess, but then it is huge, with a lot more work to go...
If it is too much to go as-is, that'd be fine honestly, I've been contemplating respraying it and going with one of several other possible schemes anyway, so I could just do that if it makes everyone comfortable
Anyway, I want to (at least try to) get him done finally!...and really, what's more "heavy metal" than basically a walking pile of scrap metal/machinery?
Anyway, proof pic...taken and uploaded entirely with my phone, because my laptop's still dead...praying to mork this works!
Okay, this is my entry. It's an original RT Land Raider I've had since I was about 12 (which was really longer ago than I'd like!). I need to strip the paint off, then fix it (I think I tried giving it battle damage, but basically just smashed bits!), then I can start painting it. That's a lot to do in a month for me, but I don't want to miss another month, so I'll give it a shot!!
I doubt I'll be able to take it apart, so I've got to live with 12 year old me's gluing skills :(
It's currently covered in Biostrip. Might get chance to clean it up later tonight.
Is it okay if the interior of my tanks were painted 3 years ago, assembled, primed and now sit with (some) basecoat? I hope so, because I am going to be doing my land raider!
I'm in with these Centurion Devastators:
As you can see I'm going to do the heads separately, as they will be impossible (or nearly so) to get to once glued in. I figure Centurion suits are suitably heavy and metal, huh?
@DAJimmyK: I look forward to seeing those Deathwing Knights. I did some of those as my first ever entry into one of these painting challenges (way back in April 2015). They really are awesome models!
I'll give this one a shot. I have a few things around I could paint. FWDG Contemptor, centurions, Blood Angels Contemptor, .... . Now to make up my mind.
I'll be painting this Lord of the Rings Cave Troll is rescued off ebay. Just finished paint stripping him. He'll become a Super Mutant Behemoth for my Super Mutant warband for our second local This Is Not A Test campaign.
So, in impatience with the kickstarter shipping, I bought some of my own shipping for Dropfleet Commander, and I figure I'll do some of them for this. Kilometer long ships probably qualify!
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@DAJimmyK: I look forward to seeing those Deathwing Knights. I did some of those as my first ever entry into one of these painting challenges (way back in April 2015). They really are awesome models!
They are pretty awesome! I just hope I can do them justice. It'll be my 3rd DW squad and I learned a lot about blending on the first 2. Hopefully that'll show up on these. Also faces...:(
made a start on the stompa today, I decided to ditch the old scheme I'd stared, it just seemed a bit busy, and I wasn't really feelin' it...and I kinda waned to go at it from a fresh start for the challenge
...so, in the words of CCR: "...Don't go around tonight, well it's bound to take your life, there's a bad moon on the rise"
I'll be entering either 1 to 3 drop pods (all in the same scheme) to give me inspiration to get them done for an up and coming tournament at the end of the month.
1 of them has been partially built, base coated and had the interior started. The 2nd has been partially built and primed grey. The 3rd is still warm and cosy in his cellophane sealed box.
He finally showed up in the mail, so I am going to enter the Blood Angels Captain in Terminator Armor, also known as Captain Karlaen:
Oh joy, another flesh head... well, I may as well get some practice at it. The corsairs I intend to do one day are going to be predominantly flesh heads...
Automatically Appended Next Post: Also, in case anyone is interested, I fixed the pics for last month's entry.
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Definately needed a red background or something now that I really look at them.
Kustomer D wrote: Been working on my Trukk for a few hours (Had a day off yesterday)
Still a lot to do but I like the way this goes.
C&C please
K D
C&C? Quit your dayjob and start selling these because DAMN.
That looks mean
Maybe some dirt on the wheels would be my only suggestion, I guess. Awesome work so far, though.
Thank you man. The weathering will follow as soon as its paintjob is done - mud on wheels?! Sir, yes, sir! Selling those wouldn´t let me pay my bills I think - so I ll unfortunitely have to keep my job
Here is my proof. Some base black when I needed to empty the airbrush.
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What? You've started putting paint down on day 4 and you're 'behind'. I've positively gone backwards. I have less paint now then I started with!
Here he is all stripped down (I guess these should be my proof pics, rather than my earlier ones with paint!). Plenty of repair work needed before I start painting it up again. I don't know what 12 year old me was thinking, but I do vaguely remember going at the front of that right track with a hammer. I wanted battle damage
I think I'll keep the hole in the door (why did I have matches at 12? I don't know, but it melted that plastic like a meltagun through plasteel - just what I needed!), but need to fix up the track and make it look like it'll at least move!
Here is my proof. Some base black when I needed to empty the airbrush.
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What? You've started putting paint down on day 4 and you're 'behind'. I've positively gone backwards. I have less paint now then I started with!
Maybe behind in getting started in the month, saying I waited a week to actually properly basecoat.
Finished up base coating the main land raider body. It is a crusader pattern. I had to prime the weapons and a few pieces, so just tad bit of black and I can move on to the fun parts... Airbrushing is amazing.
I was inspired by Zobos entry the other month so thought I would go with a Heavy metal Ork guitarist. Looks like BC had a similar interpretation of the theme, Sorry BC didn't want to copy you but now I've started I'll try to finish, we can have a rock off
I wanted something fairly simple so I could do a bit of prep for Xmas entry
nice MG...looking forward to seeing how he turns out!
...I just had to get myself those classic rockers, I'd had my eye on them for a good couple of years...that said, I do still want to have a go at converting some more "current-looking" versions someday, so I might wind up taking some inspiration from how yours turns out
Quick WIP shot of my Centurions:
Blood Ravens is not too difficult of a color scheme to paint. The hardest part was figuring out what red to use for the armor. I settled on Mephiston Red, as I figured Khorne Red would be too dark, while Evil Sunz Scarlet would be too bright.
I'm in! Seems only fitting, since the theme this month was my suggestion. When preparing my proof pic, I realized I haven't done one of these competitions since July (not sure exactly where those three months went ).
I haven't painted a metal model in 20 years, and I'm super excited to be doing this one.
Proof, Big Mek w/ KFF and BFW:
I finally bought myself a box of 'super dungeon explore' and I can't break myself away from painting the cute models. So my entry this month is one or a few of the models below.
Awwww those are soo cute! which box did you get Moolet? I've been considering that game a bit
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(Messy desk sorry)
Just put some reaper brown liner on the Dingos (behind the dog....) waiting to dry so I can do the spots I held them on. Then some actual paining will ensue =D
Guildenstern wrote: Awwww those are soo cute! which box did you get Moolet? I've been considering that game a bit
They are from the forgotten king starter set. I played the arcade mode once a week ago with some friends and loved it. So I immediately bought myself a copy. You get a ton of figures and I found it for fairly cheap on amazon. The figures need a good amount of clean up and in some places a little re-sculpting but the style is a nice change of pace from 40k =)
I'd recommend the game very highly if you have a group of friends who enjoy a bit of silliness yet there is still plenty of game mechanics to make it quite tactical.
Ratius: I'll agree, that's quick work, and rather neat too.
On my project for the month:
WIP of one of the three ships. Not sure I like the result, think I may need to go very wide edge highlight and then narrow one, or possibly just use the middle red as the base instead.
starting to remember how I stopped working on my stompa twice over the past couple of years...stompas are big!
upside though, I think I am further along, and to a better standard, than my past attempts, so that's something
hooboy though, there is still sooo much more smaller detail-work and weathering and such left to do to it...I'm gonna need all of the next two and a half weeks I think!
not much point posting more pics yet though, it doesn't look that different to my last pic, aside from I've taken the arms, head and exhaust rack off to paint separately, and redone all the metal parts...maybe in a couple of days...
Only half joking actually, I have actually managed to paint one of my Stompas, by judicious use of a large dry brush to do rusty metal!
I used a 1" brush for the bulk-work on the body ...I'm picking out all the smaller details now though, which a big brush just won't work for...and there's a surprising amount of small stuff!
Only half joking actually, I have actually managed to paint one of my Stompas, by judicious use of a large dry brush to do rusty metal!
I used a 1" brush for the bulk-work on the body ...I'm picking out all the smaller details now though, which a big brush just won't work for...and there's a surprising amount of small stuff!
Yeah, the level of detail on that kit is pretty amazing.
I didn't fix up anything else. I want to leave it battered - it's supposed to be thousands of years old after all!
Tried an airbrush for the first time. I definitely need to practice more, but it got the silver base coat down quicker and better than a hairy brush. Didn't quite give me the finish I wanted, but that should come with practice! And any bits that aren't quite right should be covered with washes etc.
Still plenty of basecoating to do before getting to everything else, but hopefully I'll still have time to finish everything up once the basecoats are done.
I didn't fix up anything else. I want to leave it battered - it's supposed to be thousands of years old after all!
Tried an airbrush for the first time. I definitely need to practice more, but it got the silver base coat down quicker and better than a hairy brush. Didn't quite give me the finish I wanted, but that should come with practice! And any bits that aren't quite right should be covered with washes etc.
Still plenty of basecoating to do before getting to everything else, but hopefully I'll still have time to finish everything up once the basecoats are done.
Ultramarine Honor Guard Chapter Champion, with thunderhammer. Final pic.
Mostly built from the new deathwatch box, with a few odds and ends from other spots. Like the shoulder pads from the command squad box, and the tabard and backpack from who knows where (probably a tactical squad box)
I'm so far behind its silly!!! Been caught up with old Inq models and streaming and farting about with ....stuff! HAve managed to get all my Onager's sub assemblies on pins n blocks so I can prime them though...so that's a thing!!!
Making some slow progress today. Minitiare paints do not work well when brushed on (in fact mighty bad if you get impatient). May have to rethink line highlighting in the grey I bought, as that will take a heck of a long time.
So.. I've got a couple of Leman Russ hulls that are... Under new Management. There's some colours on them, but they sure as hell aren't mine. Converted the hull mounts to Multilasers as can be on the LR Incinerator. Their original weapons loadout was as LRBTs. The hull's the only part with any paint on it, and like I said, gonna get reduone.
So if y'all accept some Phoenix builds, as another forum once called them, I'll just leave this here...
Honestly.... I think it needs more assault cannons
Alas, I'm almost out of burstcannons, and need some more. But I did manage to acquire another Riptide burstcannon which I'll put on something in the future.
I've been working on mine a lot this week. I'm going away at the weekend, so I have less time than usual to get it done. I should get it finished though. For a while on saturday I was close to abandoning it, because to be honest it's quite hard to make a dreadnought look interesting! I have no modelling skills, so I just put it together as per the instructions, and it's quite a static lifeless figure, with silly short legs. By saturday, I had a neat GW-style paintjob on the armour and the machinary, but I really didn't like it. So ever since then I've been trying to add interest to it by making it grubby as hell, splashing untidy washes over my tidy edge highlights! I'm not sure if the result as it is at the moment looks like weathering or incompetent painting.
I have to do a decent job though, because I'm entering it into not just this thread, but a painting competition at my local GW, a competition which hosts a fearsome rivalry between myself and a good mate of mine who is an excellent painter and also a much much better modeller than me. He always beats me. He keeps bringing bigger (and better) models than whatever I'm entering, which I consider to be a dirty underhand trick. I've seen what he's planning to enter this month and, before he's even put a drop of paint on it, I'm resigned to second place at best.
That's the key, Felt.. Dreadnoughts have all these open flat surfaces, especially Loyalist ones. You could freehand if you wanted to, to give it some extra.. or you could take your hand at doing some battle damage to go even further than your weathering the hell out of it.
What's that you say? You want mooore WIP? And you need some more ork in your daily life? Well!
This is a fantastic sculpt full of character, and I'm super excited to add him to my collection once he's done.
I decided to try something different with this one. I primed him white, and I saw somewhere that if you do a black wash before adding anything else, that you get dark color in all the recesses and it brings out the detail. That part has come out well, and I'm tempted to just leave him as is with the addition of a few accents (eyes, teef, etc) since he looks like he just emerged from a coal mine and all the grey seems fitting for an ork big mek. Mostly, I just have serious artist's block about how to paint him. Is he a proppa Skull? A Sun? Wunna dem worfless Freeboota gitz??? I dunno. The black wash does help tremendously though, because it makes it less daunting to have him mostly grey (he's got a lotta metal bits anyway) instead of all fresh white primer staring back at me. Whaddya think?
I'll do my bit. Here is my WIP, more like my work nearly finished. To stick with the theme of Super Dungeon Explore game I've tried to keep them cartoony, a lot different to how I usually try to paint.
Painting the models was fun but could also be infuriating too, as the mould lines were often quite severe and required re-carving certain areas. I'll post final pics later in the month
I confess to being a complete newb to 30k rules so I don't know if they all fit in a squad but probably not! They're related because... uh... the same guy is responsible for keeping them all clean and free of rust.
These conclude a Sons of Horus army I've been working on for a while, quite a novel project
Another progress report - connected the ammo feed for the single mauler-pattern bolt cannon.
Verily, 'twas a fether to conduct.
Scratch built connection to the ammo supply box
The tracks are such a big feature of these old Raiders - I need to make sure they look good (whilst working around the piss-poor gluing I did 25 years ago!). Looking at adding some weathering to them. Plenty more to do on the rest of it too, but at least I feel I've got a chance of finishing it now
Lost my motivation to paint (anything really) a week or two ago. But, managed to finish this. Not a big fan of the kit (prefer the old Fire Prism). It's been poorly magnetized to fit as a Falcon when needed, and has been peg-legged like my other Falcon based tanks.
Some pretty awesome stuff so far! My Centurions are nearly done, just the last few details to go.
@Elbows: For being unmotivated, you sure did a good job on that Eldar tank! I love that color scheme, makes me think of an alien version of a "dazzle" paint scheme like they used to do on ships during WW1.
Lots of cool vehicle entries this month:
Nice work Verviedi a good amount of guns and the rust effect adds well to the model.
PossumCraft again very good weathering
Kustomer D those flames look good, I like how it draws your eye to the middle of the model.
Keep up the painting, month seems to have flown by only 10 days left.
took a mold from the thanatar-calix pauldron to add the bit missing on the normal thanatar design so it looks 'proper'.
(the mold is rested against the thanatar-calix base)
Thanks! It's almost finished, just gotta highlight the claw and paint a piece of scrap metal on the base Looked through your gallery, I LOVE the work you're putting out. The orks with bionic arms and legs are just brilliant
My Centurions are nearly done, just some freehand details and highlights on the gold to go. Here's one last WIP shot:
Sure is shaping up to be a good month for entries!
dakkamakka wrote: Thanks! It's almost finished, just gotta highlight the claw and paint a piece of scrap metal on the base Looked through your gallery, I LOVE the work you're putting out. The orks with bionic arms and legs are just brilliant
I've put the last bit of paint on the main miniature tonight, so it's just the base to do. The weathering took around three times as long as painting it neatly to start with.
"Yes, only nine days left..." he muttered, still somewhat lost in hazy reverie. "Wait, Nine Days???" He suddenly sat up spluttering, the foam of the ale he just choked on emerging from his nostrils as the realization of impending doom set in. Slamming the almost empty tankard on the table, he launched from his chair and declared, "good heavens, I better get painting!"
As usual this month, there are some stellar entries. I'm suffering from a total lack of motivation, and when I do get painting, the artist's block sets in. Finally making some progress, but it's going to be down to the wire folks. Great job everyone who has finished (or is close) and good luck to everyone in the same boat as me!
Well everyone's been posting wip's lately, s'pose I'd better get one up ...think the main body is mostly done, but all the other parts need a lot of work...hope I can get it done in time!
...not sure if I'm going to get the chance to do the BA captain, but I have a Guardian Heavy Weapon Platform sitting about that's ready for paint. Might not be the most stellar entry ever, but it's something.
Would it work? I can get a pic of it up tonight if it is acceptable. (As a T7 little mini tank, I would like to make the argument that it's pretty tough.)
I keep a hobby progress thread on the lead-adventure forums that details most of the stuff i've painted and created for TNT. You can find the thread here.
Some of my favorite stuff:
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My current warband - the Hubologists. "Lawyers and roaches – even the end of the world could not stop them. When the Hubologists march to battle, they send out The Lawyer to declare war and "sue" their adversaries as was the ancient custom of the Church of Elron in the times before the Great Deluge. Each lawyer is a champion of combat who obtained a sacred law degree from the ruined depths of one of the law schools of San Francisco in order to cast off their old identity and be anointed by the Hubologists for war."
To be fair, it's not quite a tank since it doesn't have much of a driver; I guess it's more half little-bitty tank and half floating little drone weapon thing.
Interesting work dakkamakka, good to see a nice looking scratch built Ork stuff.
Your fall out models are very good Rollawaythestone, a very fun looking table to play on.
Update on my guy, hes got a fair bit of paint on now and I decided on a name, he will be Tony Orkommi, prominent guitarist in the Heavy Metal rock band Black Squigoth (read Tony Iommi and Black Sabbath).
Doing the individual strings on the guitar was very tricky, I couldn't get them under enough tension to be perfectly straight.
I finally was able to get to a hobby store and picked up some proper brush on paints so I can actually line highlight my tank. Running out of time! Luckily I work Thursday night and will have 8 hours of uninterrupted time
lol thanks for the kind comments, its something different away
Now just need to find the time to actually finish it. I was hoping to finish early so I could do some prep work on xmas entry but that doesn't appear to be happening >_<
Well, I've finished my entry now, so here are the final pics of my Blood Ravens Centurion Devastator Squad:
I really enjoyed painting these guys. It was nice to paint some loyalist Space Marine models that weren't Dark Angels for a change. Many people don't like the Centurion models, but I think they are cool. They definitely qualify as Heavy Metal, as the suits look very sturdy and strong.
As I said earlier, I'm liking everyone's entries so far, so as usual it should be hard to decide who to vote for! Feel free to vote for my pics in the Dakka Gallery even if you don't vote for them in the challenge voting thread.
Right! After about 2 years of it sitting on my shelf staring at me accusingly, my stompa is finally painted!
My laptop's dead, so I had to settle for taking, editing and uploading these pics from my phone, hopefully they aren't too bad ...anyway, here's my 5 final pics, there's also a closeup of the belly design in my gallery if anyone wants to have a look
MAN. YOU. GUYS. Makin' me crazy over here, the competitions so stiff! You guys really have done some incredible work, and I'm still struggling to finish on time! Speaking of which, time to get back to work.
Ratius wrote: 5 string base Midget? Or is he missing a string on a regular guitar?
Lol I was wondering when someone would pick up on that, it could be a base (it was almost a 4 string one but managed to squeeze an string in) or I'll just calm Ork waagh power and because Tony Orkommi and the crowd believes it should sound like a regular string guitar it does
Great work KD, the flames look really good, I like the mud in the tyres too, a proper Orky machine
I'm impressed with your Green lens on the arm Zerg, I like you that our adding things like this into your painting repertoire, keep going and trying different things.
Zobo thats pretty epic, hope you got a large amount of satisfaction for finally finishing the beast. The artwork on the belly is damn impressive.
and lloks like some really nice blending on the sword KB
Keep going everyone, a few days left. I'm still waiting on a base for my guy, not sure its going to turn up in time >_<
I entered this guy into the monthly painting competition at my local Games Workshop, and didn't do very well. I think I came last with zero votes, actually. A partial reason for this could be that the store staff accidentally put it on a different shelf to all the other entries, so no-one knew it was in the competition! :lol:
Tried a few new things this time. This is the first time I'd used an airbrush. Only used it for the initial basecoat - need to practice more! I also tried weathering pigments for the first time. Man those things are messy. And apparently are never really fixed/set, regardless of what you do. So that'll be fun when using it in a game!
I was also dealing with the crappy assembly job I made of this 25 years ago - but it was too secure to take apart.
So that's all the excuses out of the way, here it is:
There are loads of great entries this month - great work everyone! Looking forward to final voting.
That looks brilliant feltmonkey, and I don't usually like chaos stuff
Thanks!
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It's not chaos, it's from the Dark Angels Deathwing. I guess it looks battered enough to be a chaos dread. Some would consider the Dark Angels to be traitors actually...
Midget Gems wrote: I'm impressed with your Green lens on the arm Zerg, I like you that our adding things like this into your painting repertoire, keep going and trying different things.
Thanks, MG! It's hardly the first time I've painted lenses, but I feel like I'm starting to get better at them. I do like to try new things, and these painting contests give me the inspiration and drive to do just that.
Great work coming in folks. Looks like I'll be out of this one again. Been busy as a bugger streaming n painting other stuff :/ What's the theme for December - voite thread up yet?
Januine wrote: Great work coming in folks. Looks like I'll be out of this one again. Been busy as a bugger streaming n painting other stuff :/ What's the theme for December - voite thread up yet?
I know last year it was an open category. Given the fact that everyone’s December is normally a hot mess of scheduling conflicts and events, the idea that a “paint whatever” approach would make it a lot easier to actually get people to enter.
Not sure if Para is going to continue that this year though...
I tell you what, don't those orks fit together exceptionally well? I put together my whole team in about an hour and a half, including sorting the mould lines (of which there were very few.)
As for next month, whatever the theme, I doubt I'll be able to do anything particularly big or spectacular, looking at how much painting time I'm going to have.
I tell you what, don't those orks fit together exceptionally well? I put together my whole team in about an hour and a half, including sorting the mould lines (of which there were very few.)
As for next month, whatever the theme, I doubt I'll be able to do anything particularly big or spectacular, looking at how much painting time I'm going to have.
So, squeeking it in for this month. sadly, didn't get the second of the two escorts done, but probably for the best because I was running out of allowed pictures as it was. Not sure I like how the repeated edge highlight look came out, but, eh, try something else next time.
Really liking a lot of the entries this month, gonna be another over five vote month (but aren't they all?)
December's challenge will be an Open round, no rules beyond the basic proof and model limit. Other than that, it really is a 'do whatever' as a) people will be busy over the Chrismas period and b) I think it makes for a nice chance for people to really push themselves, then look back on their entries from earlier in the year and see the progress.
Sneaking in late myself, I've been so busy this month but I just about managed to paint up my Mighty Lord of Khorne. Proof below, final pics will come later.
Managed to finish, it's totally not November right now or anything. Still need to do the numbers but will do them when the rest is done, also just realised i hadn't given the metals a wash, can't be helped though.
Congrats to everyone, well done! I'll be entering next month, as it's pretty easy to do an open round for me, as my collection is very varied. Also, do we vote upon the monthly themes, or is it preordained by a higher being?
JustaerinAtTheWall wrote: Also, do we vote upon the monthly themes, or is it preordained by a higher being?
Both?
Paradigm if the official head honcho for this un-official contest. He can basically do what he wants, and we roll with it. There has been at least one instance where he just picked a topic.
That said, there are a few “rules” we tend to go by.
At the end of the month, a call goes out for suggestions for next month. Para takes these under advisement, and puts up a poll with 4 choices. Winner gets to be the topic for the next month. Second place gets one more shot in the next poll, but if it fails twice, it’s out.
Exceptions are March, who’s topic is “Space Marine” (and the annual points reset and anniversary of the contest) and December, which is an open competition.
Yeah, there will be a subject poll for January's round coming towards the end of December.
The subject voting is something I wanted to get some thoughts on, it's been mentioned to me by a couple of people that the usual 1-week-ish notice of a subject before the round starts it a little short, and that a longer period would be helpful for planning projects to fit themes. Any thoughts on this? I personally think the system works well enough at the moment, but I'm open to persuasion and can definitely change it up if there was a consensus.
If it were to change, an option might be to do a poll of, say, 8-10 subjects quarterly and the top 3 are (in order) the subjects for the next 3 months. The 'second place, carried over' entries often win in their second round anyway, so this would simplify that a bit and give some more prep time. Alternatively, I could just operate the same system as now, just earlier in the month. Wouldn't be in the first week to prevent it clashing with the actual voting on entries, but if I were to do it in the second week that'd give at least a fortnight to prep entries for the next month.
Paradigm wrote: Yeah, there will be a subject poll for January's round coming towards the end of December.
The subject voting is something I wanted to get some thoughts on, it's been mentioned to me by a couple of people that the usual 1-week-ish notice of a subject before the round starts it a little short, and that a longer period would be helpful for planning projects to fit themes. Any thoughts on this? I personally think the system works well enough at the moment, but I'm open to persuasion and can definitely change it up if there was a consensus.
If it were to change, an option might be to do a poll of, say, 8-10 subjects quarterly and the top 3 are (in order) the subjects for the next 3 months. The 'second place, carried over' entries often win in their second round anyway, so this would simplify that a bit and give some more prep time. Alternatively, I could just operate the same system as now, just earlier in the month. Wouldn't be in the first week to prevent it clashing with the actual voting on entries, but if I were to do it in the second week that'd give at least a fortnight to prep entries for the next month.
Any thoughts?
I personally am fine with what we have now. Moving it up a week or so for more time would not be a major issue, except perhaps to distract those of us with squirrel-like attention spans. Minor potential for confusion where people enter next months entry in the current month’s comp.
I do have some concerns with going too far out though. One is that often new releases might skew what people would like to vote for/paint. Another is if you do the top 3 in order thing, it messes with holiday/season themed months. i.e. spooky October monster competitions. Makes sense for that month, but not if it ends up in December.
As for voting on topics a few extra days would be nice to be able to plan stuff (like buying bases that don't turn up in time) out but not essential
Sadly the base I ordered took 2 weeks to arrive so I've only just got it today, and I got stuck in traffic around Oxford this evening so not had the time to rush paint it. Good luck to those that are pushing the time to paint their entry this evening.
Here is Tony Orkommi from Black Squigoth.
Think I should have added a few minor bits to the guitar e.g. switches and dials to replicated a real one.(and yes it only has 5 strings).
Bonus Spoiler what he would have looked like if the base had turned up in time, I wanted to put him on a platform/stage like he was performing. think I will still do in slower time over xmas
Lotta good entries. I just got backing from Hobby Lobby and Blick's and heading into the hobby room to finish up the tank. I figure I got 3 hours left before December! I will not give up yet! I just have line highlighting of everything left...
I hope I'm not too late... finished painting at 11:50 and took photos at midnight last night. I didn't get time to base him and take proper photos (these are from my phone), but when I do, I'll be sure to put them in my P&M blog. I am happy with how the paint job turned out though (final pics):
Really nice entries this month. Well done everyone there is a lot of work gone in to them.
I finished my entry but unfortunately I didn't have time to take some proper pictures (dealing with a family member in hospital). I wont be able to enter next month as I'm having some surgery on my shoulder, my painting shoulder, and I need to keep it immobile for a few weeks. Hopefully I can start fresh in January.
Sorry to hear about that, hope it's nothing too serious. Since you finished, please do post some pics up in here when you can and I'll make sure you get a completion point for the month.
I am sad I didn't finish, but life really got in the way the last 2 weeks. I am happy with how much I got done though. Tank sat there for YEARs with no paint on it.
Hey Paradigm, sorry I couldn't figure out how to PM these images to you, my Dakka-fu is insufficient. (Their doesn't seem to be an attachment system for PM's)
Paradigm wrote:Sorry to hear about that, hope it's nothing too serious. Since you finished, please do post some pics up in here when you can and I'll make sure you get a completion point for the month.
Thanks paradigm =) Below are couple of pics I made though not great quality to show I finished. The op went well and the nurse said 2 weeks before I can try to paint.. gah
Midget Gems wrote:Good luck everyone
Sorry to hear that Moolet, hope the family member gets well soon and you recover from the surgery for Jans comp
My father is well on the road to recovery and my shoulder is currently bandaged and I'm dosed up on pain killers. So all is well. Only downside is I've a ton of minis to paint and for once loads of time of work. Just zero fine motor skills! =)
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