Welcome to the 22nd 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 is an Open Challenge round, so there is no set theme, so as long as it meets the rules below, you can enter whatever you like, whether that's the last handful of minis to finish off 2016's army building, a showcase piece to show off the skills you've picked up over the last year or the start of a new project for next one!
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 December and will end at midnight GMT on the 31st December. After this, I shall compile the finished entries into a new thread, and voting will run for 5 days.
I'm in Blackshields mode these days, so I'll deffinitely enter some of them in this round... It will be close to a year since I started again in the hobby, it will be interesting to pull out all that was painted this year to see how far I've come...
My two painting projects for the month are a techmarine on bike and a Fire Prism. I’ll probably be entering the marine, but the month is going to be odd, so I’ll proof them both here. Who knows, I might enter them both!
I did start to put the red basecoat on the prism last night, but that should still be within the parameters of the competition.
G'day...seeing as this is an open challenge, and the last one for the year, I thought I'd take the opportunity to dust off these old lads, and try to give them a paintjob worthy of their greatness...round off the year with something pretty cool and out of the ordinary
Soo, 'ere we go!...straight off the pages of the 2nd ed. Codex Orks...
a Mekboy with Shokk Attack Gun
an Ork Dreadnought
Zodgrod Wortsnagga: Renegade Runtmaster
Warlord Ghazghkull Mag Uruk Thraka
...and his faithful sidekick Makari! ...time to Waaagh! like it's 1994!
I'm in with this Inquisitor:
The model is one of Raging Heroes' Toughest Girls in the Galaxy line. I saw some of those at my FLGS and decided I wanted to paint one, and the best use for 40k I could think of was as an Inquisitor (although there are a few that might make decent Sisters of Battle). I may also do three Servo Skulls as well, in which case I will post proof of those before I paint them.
Matthew wrote: Hmm, I might have to do something associated with christmas...
Me too...
Proof (I know, there's no sign of Christmas just yet, but...)
(This could all go horribly wrong )
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ZoBo wrote: G'day...seeing as this is an open challenge, and the last one for the year, I thought I'd take the opportunity to dust off these old lads, and try to give them a paintjob worthy of their greatness...round off the year with something pretty cool and out of the ordinary
Soo, 'ere we go!...straight off the pages of the 2nd ed. Codex Orks...
a Mekboy with Shokk Attack Gun
an Ork Dreadnought
Zodgrod Wortsnagga: Renegade Runtmaster
Warlord Ghazghkull Mag Uruk Thraka
...and his faithful sidekick Makari! ...time to Waaagh! like it's 1994!
Loving the 90 models. That's a chunk of my bro's active army - he's not stopped using them since they were new
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Nevelon wrote: My two painting projects for the month are a techmarine on bike and a Fire Prism. I’ll probably be entering the marine, but the month is going to be odd, so I’ll proof them both here. Who knows, I might enter them both!
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I did start to put the red basecoat on the prism last night, but that should still be within the parameters of the competition.
Great to see those old marines sneaking in the photo
Paradigm wrote: this must be either unassembled, unpainted, primed or coated a single colour.
How strict is the single-color rule? I've got a wrecked tank scenery piece I'm going to be working on this month, but I happened to do the "primer" coat in two different colors (brown for the dirt, gray for the tank). It's still the same first step with virtually all the painting work left to do, but technically it's not a single color.
Paradigm wrote: this must be either unassembled, unpainted, primed or coated a single colour.
How strict is the single-color rule? I've got a wrecked tank scenery piece I'm going to be working on this month, but I happened to do the "primer" coat in two different colors (brown for the dirt, gray for the tank). It's still the same first step with virtually all the painting work left to do, but technically it's not a single color.
That'd be fine, so long as it's at the primed/basecoat stage it's generally ok.
I haven't painted or modeled anything in close to 2 years, so i thought i would have a crack at some random things i had laying around the place.
Proof:
I seem to be able to paint larger models better, so I'm going to attempt with my largest. Side note, my normal troops usually end up looking like absolute Gak WIP
Hmm...so I think I'm falling into the hype for the new traitor legions book...it's really got me back in the mood to work on my nurgle marines again...I've had a forgefiend sitting around for a while, and I started painting that lastnight - I only just thought to take a proof pic though...
I'll probably still be doing my oldhammer orks, but in case I don't get them done, I'll post this proof of my forgefiend as a backup
I say I hate painting vehicles. And I feel that I hate them. But I really mean imperial vehicles. I love painting Eldar tanks. I just hate painting most of their infantry and bikes. Well, the old bikes, the new ones aren’t that bad. And most of that is in cleaning the mold lines off the spindly little gits. But every Eldar vehicle I do I expect to take the month or so I spend on rhinos and the like, and end up finished in a couple of days.
But I have a soft spot in my heart for grav tanks. The Falcon was what got me into Eldar back in 2nd ed. The chassis on this guy might have been sculpted before some of you guys were born, but it holds up well, IMHO.
I think I also might have set a personal record from box to table on this guy. Bit over two weeks from when he showed up in the mail.
This is probably my final entry. But the month is young, and I might go (more) crazy. But if I drop off the face of the earth (which actually has a non-zero chance of happening) you can vote on this one.
Some interesting entries already, good to see, I do like the open month.
Welcome to the competition Tombo, your making some good progress already I hope the challenge can help you finish
Great work Guildenstern, as soon as I saw them I knew those trucks would loot well
I did this one last year, but don't think I'll be able to match it due to time this xmas.
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However I still what to do something xmasy so I'll repaint this find off ebay with the hope of getting an Ork in a sitting position dressed as Santa, surrounded by presents and Grot helper elves.
Noice Midget Gems - whatever you come up with will be awesome sauce as always!
I doubt I'm alone in being instantly in love with the Goliath Orkied trukk as soon as I saw it - I'd seriously love to see if GW has any clue how many are *actually* being used for cultist and how many are being insta looted lol
My fave pic from latest work - more in my blog thingy. But this thing is so orkie already actually having trouble making it more orky. Course I'm not as experienced as you guys except for the battlewagon scratchbuild I'm *still* working on, this is really my first conversion (for Orks).
I really love painting something up really nicely and then weathering the S*($ out of it lol Just satisfying in a weird way!
I'm going to give the painting challenge a go! Nice way to round off the year. I'll be going for the Knight Questor - my first time trying zenith(?) highlights, so let's see how it turns out!
Great stuff Guildenstern! Nice idea with the Ramshackle reminder on the back as well, I can't really do that with the Marines I play... Well, I suppose I could write 'Remember you have bloody Mission/Chapter Tactics' on my purity seals, but it might be a tad fiddly!
Paradigm wrote: Great stuff Guildenstern! Nice idea with the Ramshackle reminder on the back as well, I can't really do that with the Marines I play... Well, I suppose I could write 'Remember you have bloody Mission/Chapter Tactics' on my purity seals, but it might be a tad fiddly!
Truer words were never spoken. I often find myself assign CT, warlord traits and the like and never using them!
All in all, lookin' good everyone! I haven't had a chance to take a picture of my progress recently, as there hasn't been much(AP chemistry exam), but i'll get somethin' up no later than Saturday.
Hey guys.
cool stuff so far. I wanted to give a try on a Rhino this month.
only problem is: I cut my right palm and had a few stitches to close the cut.
so I might not be able to finish it even though the doc said it takes 10-12 days until I can use the hand again.
I'm in with this Blood Bowl Rat Ogre that I've nicknamed 'Splat The Rat' from the team The Grutnik Gamblers (the rest of whom will be showing up in my blog in a couple of weeks), one of the older sculpts but I think it holds up a lot better than many others from the period.
Proof
And a quick WIP, most of the work is done to be honest but he still needs basing and a few final details (and some better pics, these ones are a bit rushed! )
Pretty pleased with the look overall, I think he's coming along to be suitably monstrous!
Update; Pretty sure I'm almost finished. This is the first time I've actually put this much effort into a model, and gotten this close to finishing, so really not sure where to go from here....
Hmmm so now I know why December is an Open round. I realised I don't have a free weekend to undercoat my entry until almost Christmas, so I am going to have to change my entry to something already undercoated.
Some really good progress on the entries so far and quite a variety, looking forward to voting this month
Hope the hand gets better KD Splat the rat is coming along nicely Para Thats a huge entry TheoreticalFish, very impressive.
Lol nice work Whittlesey40k, I do like a xmas entry.
I've contemplated doing it with a Commissar and a guard, but I think it sort of cheapens what happened.
There are plenty peaceful or charming things could be parodied.
As long as you are doing it with good intension and not trying to undermine anything I think you will be OK, if its too serious that no one dares talk about the thing or put them in art then what happened will definitely be forgotten. That little event is a bright piece in a very dark time.
For anyone that doesn't know or would like to you can read it here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_truce
Heres an update to mine, taking a stand model and getting it to sit is harder than I thought, I chopped his legs off and pined them but hes not on the seat properly, I think will have to shave Ork Santa's ass to make him fit, which is something you should never attempt with Santa, or an Ork.......
It's been a while since I joined one of these, but I got one of my old conversions finished yesterday and I thought it'd make a good contribution
Here's my proof pic:
And here he is in his final state:
The colour scheme and greenstuffed parts were based on the Culter Dei and Jian Shiang Di factions' appearances in the video game EYE: Divine Cybermancy, which is set in a WH40k-esque grimdark universe where the genetically-modified superhumans make more sensible choices when it comes to the colour of their armour
Update time! Over the course of the week, here's my slow(But steady) progress. If any of you want a more detailed read, I'll post this on my second blog later.
P.S. sorry about the wonky picture. Still adjusting to my new phone.
My Rhino is slowly getting together. Just thought about pimping it a bit, so I scratched a little antena to field it as a Damocles Command Rhino.
Some paint on it and it s done.
I haven't even started painting my entry, and I'm probably gonna change it since it appears with the upcoming Imperial Agents book Inquisitors got nerfed into the ground (leaving me little incentive to paint the model). What I might do instead is paint a bunch of my Dreadball Xtreme guys (probably the Convict team). I'll post a proof pic when I decide.
Going to take the opportunity to get this beautiful (and long OOP) terrain piece done. Kind of a late start so some of the long drying times might be a tight fit, but it's worth a try! Proof pic:
Well, looks like I may have to sit this one out. I actually finished an entry...and then accidentally wiped my entire memory card in my camera, so the "before" proof is now gone.
Elbows wrote: Well, looks like I may have to sit this one out. I actually finished an entry...and then accidentally wiped my entire memory card in my camera, so the "before" proof is now gone.
Feel free to just post up a pic of where it's at now and I'll call that proof, I've made the same mistake in the past and everyone was kind enough to let me enter anyway, so it's only fair to extend that offer to you.
I thought I wouldn't be able to enter this month due to a shoulder op, but a speedy recovery and lots of time at home has meant I can!
Here is my entry it is 'Bashful Boris' from Super Dungeon Explore. I've got nearly half my set painted up now but all the mini-bosses are left to paint so this will be the first of them.
When I was entering this month, I was torn between the Fire Prism and the Tech on the bike. So I put both up as part of my proof pics. While I’m sticking with my Prism as my final entry, I did just finish the tech. So if people are interested in how he turned out, here he is:
(Spoilered , as he’s not my official entry)
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It feels the the month is almost over, but we are only halfway through. Of course, the end of December tends to arrive very quickly.
ZoBo wrote: Hmm...so I think I'm falling into the hype for the new traitor legions book...it's really got me back in the mood to work on my nurgle marines again...I've had a forgefiend sitting around for a while, and I started painting that lastnight - I only just thought to take a proof pic though...
I'll probably still be doing my oldhammer orks, but in case I don't get them done, I'll post this proof of my forgefiend as a backup
^righto, so I finished my death guard/nurgle forgefiend "backup entry"...so in case I don't get my oldschool orks finished, which I'm still kinda doubtful of because there's just other stuff I'd rather be working on now unfortunately (would rather not paint them unless I really feel like it, because I teally want to do them justice)...anyway, in case I don't get to the orks, or think of something better, this'll be my finished entry for now
So, new proof since I am now officially changing my entry:
This is the Convict team and their sponsor from the Dreadball Xtreme starter set. The one guy who has some paint on him I hope is okay since he's only got primer and one coat of orange. I'll keep it down to 5 models for the final entry.
Proof. I'm going to be painting up these Lychguard for this month. Been painting nothing but Khorne all year, so looking forward to doing something not red.
Nice work all! The OP should be up to date, do let me know if I've missed anyone as I've been rather busy so it's entirely possible!
Built some of the new Blood Bowl Skaven today and pending results paint-wise I might add them to my entry alongside my Rat Ogre, they're really nice models (if a little bigger than I'm used to seeing Skaven).
actually yes they replied to my instagram post I was thrilled of course! but thanks for the direct link! I'd been waiting for it but I think my browser wasn't updating :( lol
Funny they linked to the battlewagon upgrade kit not the goliath on the find out more bit lmao - well that is where I got the killkannon but still seems little odd hehe
Congrats Guildenstern, great work to get on the GW website
You ave resurrected those Eldar beautifully Elbows, they are now proud to march into war.
I'm glad you finished Santa Cron Whittelsey, I hope I'm on his nice list (unlike the rest of the human race)
Not much progress from me, I was in Vienna last week with work so only managed a a few basic colours and decide on how I want the models posed, also still some Greenstuff to do.
ohhh...ah, MG...apparently I liked your idea, and then managed to completely forget that you were doing it (it's been a busy couple of weeks )...and, ah, Just a few hours ago, I finished doing a bit of greenstuff work on a runtherd just like that, and was going to prime it and post it here tomorrow as my new entry
...and there I thought I'd come up with a nice unique idea...looks like I just subconsciously looted yours!
...Mine doesn't have a big fancy chair or grots and stuff though...I went with a "Rudolph Squighound" instead
ZoBo wrote: ohhh...ah, MG...apparently I liked your idea, and then managed to completely forget that you were doing it (it's been a busy couple of weeks )...and, ah, Just a few hours ago, I finished doing a bit of greenstuff work on a runtherd just like that, and was going to prime it and post it here tomorrow as my new entry
...and there I thought I'd come up with a nice unique idea...looks like I just subconsciously looted yours!
...Mine doesn't have a big fancy chair or grots and stuff though...I went with a "Rudolph Squighound" instead
ZoBo wrote: ohhh...ah, MG...apparently I liked your idea, and then managed to completely forget that you were doing it (it's been a busy couple of weeks )...and, ah, Just a few hours ago, I finished doing a bit of greenstuff work on a runtherd just like that, and was going to prime it and post it here tomorrow as my new entry
...and there I thought I'd come up with a nice unique idea...looks like I just subconsciously looted yours!
...Mine doesn't have a big fancy chair or grots and stuff though...I went with a "Rudolph Squighound" instead
Rofl, Its why I post here to give something back because I look at other peoples work and take bits I like then combine it into my own work. I'm sure you have added your own twist too it or done it better knowing your work.
I would be very interested to see how you have done yours
@Paradigm - hiii ...so, I decided to change my entry again...more OP-editing work for you again, sorry!
Anyway, I decided to try getting into the spirit of things, instead of going with that big stinky nurgly forgefiend ...so I had a go at some minor greenstuff work on a runtherd I had sitting around, gave him a santa hat, a big bushy beard, a fluffy strip down his chest (kinda hidden by the beard in hindsight), and gave the squighound a nose and antlers ...it didn't turn out too bad, but I'm definitely no master sculptor! ...also, wow the white primer is not being kind...hopefully it'll look better with some paint on it...
Verviedi wrote: Out of curiosity, what model Chimera is that? The turret seems a bit higher and more centered than the current plastic one.
It's the old (and long OOP) FW wrecked Chimera kit. The turret is the same as the FW autocannon turret you can buy normally, the Chimera seems to have been sculpted from the old plastic kit as a base, so maybe there's a slight difference in the turret mounting as well?
@ Zobo - Interesting you have gone with fur effect on the rim of the hat and bobble. It looks good. I didn't due to time and having to make 4 hats.
The beard looks good
One thing to consider is maybe adding fur to the top of the boots (I did that on last years but not this one since I need it to sit as far back as possible)
The squig antlers are fun
aww man! wish I'd thought of adding fur to the boots ...ah well, I think it'll work out ok without it, it's a little late to go adding more greenstuff onto it now anyway, as it's all colour-blocked already, just gotta add all the details/highlights/etc...here's a couple of wips:
I had a question about the competition. Are we going to restart the points in 2017 (and crown a winner for 2016 - probably Januine?)
I also thought it would be fun in 2017 to have a "family photo" thread were everyone posts a group shot each of all their completed entries from the year. Could be a great motivator to get more people taking part!
I had a question about the competition. Are we going to restart the points in 2017 (and crown a winner for 2016 - probably Januine?)
I also thought it would be fun in 2017 to have a "family photo" thread were everyone posts a group shot each of all their completed entries from the year. Could be a great motivator to get more people taking part!
The competition’s birthday is in March, so that’s when we did the reset last year. That’s when I did my composite late year.
I had a question about the competition. Are we going to restart the points in 2017 (and crown a winner for 2016 - probably Januine?)
I also thought it would be fun in 2017 to have a "family photo" thread were everyone posts a group shot each of all their completed entries from the year. Could be a great motivator to get more people taking part!
That kind of stuff will happen in March as the challenge is based on a 12 month/round cycle, this is round 10 of the current rotation.
I know last year someone set up a 'year in review' thread in P&M, I imagine someone else will this year (and if I don't see one, I'll do it if I remember!), that'd be the place for collecting the year's entries, but separate from the challenge for the above reason.
I didn't think I'd be able to enter this month, due to a combination of work, illness, and family commitments. Last Thursday was the first time I'd picked up a brush in December. I'm going to try to rush out a Blood Bowl orc or two. I took proof pics before starting them, and will upload them when I get a chance. I've so far put about an hour's work into them, and I'll have maybe another hour or two before the end of the month, so they'll be pretty much quick and dirty paint jobs, but hopefully I'll have something to enter.
It's been a crazy month. A really difficult one, actually, but if I survive the rest of it with a scrappily painted orc to show for it, I suppose that's something.
@Bottle - well that was about as subtle as a polka-dotted elephant
ehh...I suck at trying to come up with theme ideas...actually, it's kind of a shame that we're already doing an open theme this month...I feel like that'd be a good one for January, what with a lot of people getting random fancy new minis over the holidays an all...
ehh, nope, can't think of any decent topics right now sorry...all I can think about is my shiny new Vulkan and that FW salamanders character ven dread
It's touch n go whether I'll finish up Eisenhorn in time. Mum's visiting for the Christmas/NewYear and trying to finish up a Death Jester by next saturday for a giveaway plus my Warhound Titan arrived with Mum....so........much.......resin!!!!
Just have to see how it goes!
Back for Seconds. Either a wounded model getting back into the fray, or an e-bay rescue, refurbished for a new life.
I Want YOU. Across every model range, there are guys pointing. Stiff pose, arm out. Directing their ire or the attention of their fellows to something. Commanders, champions, spotters.
Fresh Start.
Light in the Dark.
Calling for Backup.
Finished the Squiggy (base and all this time), then promptly left town on vacation. Luckily I'll be back in time to photo, edit, and post. Pics should be up this weekend some time.
Finished the Questor!! Photo quality isn't the best, so I apologise for that! Overall I'm pretty happy with how he turned out - the first Stormcast I've ever painted, and it's tempted me to get a squad of Sword/Shield Liberators to put him with
So, having finally been released from the grip of Papa Nurgle just in time for Christmas, I was looking for something to paint. Receiving my copy of Imperial Agents on Christmas Eve inspired me to break out some models I've had for a while; three Crusader henchmen, two stock and one converted.
Proof:
A couple of days painting later and we have the finished results:
This didn't turn out 100% as I envisioned, but as a first attempt at sculpting anything, I'm overall pretty happy w/ it. I'm at least encouraged to make another one in a month or two after the Rogues and Scoundrels comp. Perhaps I'll have to start suggesting competition themes like "Kablam!" and such.
Nice work sculpting that from scratch, Gulgog. I like the landmine hat.
Lovely job on the skaven, El Torrminator.
I've almost finished my blood bowl orcs. I just need to do the team logos and numbers, add a bit of weathering, and base them. At this rate I'll be racing to get them finished and photographed on new year's eve. I haven't even managed to post a proof pic yet! I've had so little time to do anything.
Gulgog TufToof you are very creative with your entries, I like your sculpt.
Some cool looking models there Jadenim
TheoreticalFish, your right that is a lot of purple, well done for completing that monster
I hope everyone had a good xmas, I've been neglecting this tread and my project for the last week due to being crazy busy so time to get back in. I was able to complete the seat yesterday, now time to work on the models
What are peoples thoughts, should I put the tinsel around the edge or not? does it fit?
MG...oh man, I do kinda love the tinsel ...but I'm not sure how well it really works with the rest of it ...it's a nice thematic touch, I'm just not sure if it helps or hurts the overall look of the piece ...the whole base/diorama thing looks great though!
...anyway, I just got done with my santa runtherd and "roodolf da red nozed squighound" ...here's my final pics:
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I'm not super happy with the pics...lighting's too intense and the focus is a bit off and all that, as usual...I might try and sneak some better ones in before the deadline, but these'll do for now
Wow, looking through the thread and the completed projects, is anyone else thinking they might end up having to vote for every single entry? Absolutely everyone has done phenomenal work this month. Every completed entry at the moment has something about it I really like. It's a really impressive thread this month (as it is every month, to be fair.)
fantastic entries so far.. loving the bomb squig! I might need to steal that idea.
Here is Bashful Boris! This is probably the most painful entry I've done as I did it during the 2 weeks after an op on my shoulder. He was a lot of fun to paint.
Thanks for the feedback Zobo, I was thinking the same which is why I wanted someone elses view, its nice to make it as Christmasy as possible but with the tinsel in not being painted and shiny it draws the eye away from the actual piece so I think I'll leave it out.
Your is good, I like the addition of the snow, what did you use for that? I want to do a snow base when the right topic comes up but not sure which why to go on how to create the snow.
Nice work Farseer Anath'lan, its a little difficult to see some of the details on the models though.
Your reds are always very good mootlet, nice entry, We have had that model entered before but I think it was blue.
Midget Gems wrote: I like the addition of the snow, what did you use for that? I want to do a snow base when the right topic comes up but not sure which why to go on how to create the snow.
I had absolutely no idea how to go about doing the base...but I had a vague memory from long ago of hearing about something involving bi-carb soda (apparently not baking soda though, turns yellow?)...so I just thought what the heck, and mixed up a thick paste of bi-carb, pva glue and water, and slapped it on dirt cheap, super easy, and seems to have worked quite well...it might be a bit fragile though...or maybe it just hadn't fully cured yet when I was last handling it...or maybe not enough pva in the mix?...who knows, it was my first try at snow so there ya go ...but yeah, I might be a bit hesitant to use it for models that are going to see a decent amount of gaming...maybe keep it mostly for display stuff
Purple actually, Midget. Both look pretty nice.
My entry for the month: Angry Armadillos!
Armadillo warriors from splintered light miniatures. Kinda a rush job, was going to do the bird man up in the corner of the proof pic, and then I just looked at the time I'd have this month, and started a batch paint...
brilliant MG! ...love all the little details you've added in there, the grot's cork guns, spiky collars, candy canes, hats, beard, ghaz's present (I now imagine he gets stikkbombs every year and grumbles about it )...nice use of the ammo crates too ...everything's nicely painted, and it all works together really well, nothing looks out of place...which is impressive considering how much is going on in such a small scene, it could have easily turned out looking too "busy"...great work, love it!
Sorry it's a bit late, and about the size.
He's not the best thing I've ever painted, but he managed to get me back into Warhammer which makes up for it.
Ahhh! I still have highlighting to do as well as the base for this Ethereal's Hover Drone - this is really going to be a sprint to the finish for me.
Would it be okay for me to upload the image sometime tomorrow, or would that disqualify me from the competition? I can finish the painting tonight, but I want to photograph the model in a proper light box, which will need a setup
Some great last-minute entries here! Adding my own to that list, it's taken a lot to get good pics but here he is, Splat The Rat of the Grutnik Gamblers:
Would it be okay for me to upload the image sometime tomorrow, or would that disqualify me from the competition? I can finish the painting tonight, but I want to photograph the model in a proper light box, which will need a setup
No problem, ideally it'd need to be up by about mid-afternoon UK time tomorrow, but since I know to wait now I'll hold up so long as it's not massively late.
Paradigm wrote: No problem, ideally it'd need to be up by about mid-afternoon UK time tomorrow, but since I know to wait now I'll hold up so long as it's not massively late.
No need to delay the competition anymore, Para - long story short, I left the scroll thing on my Ethereal off the model so I could paint it separately and glue it on last thing; after tearing up the entirety of my newly arranged and cleaned room for the past half hour, I've been forced to conclude that the scroll, alongside the staff of a Librarian I was working on converting, have been lost.
I wouldn't be happy posting up the model when it's incomplete, so I'll be withdrawing from the competition. I'm pretty upset about it, but there's not much I can do this late in. Goes to prove why you should never ever let anyone touch your modelling stuff.
I've finished my orcs, I just need to take some photos of them. In the meantime, here's my extremely late proof pic!
Automatically Appended Next Post: And the final pics!
I think these might be the first Orcs I've entered in the monthly competition. Long overdue! To be honest, I'm just glad to have been able to get something done in time after the month I've had. They are the only bit of hobbying I've managed to do all month. I only started them a few days ago.
Well, my final entry ends up just being one model, that being the sponsor of the DBX Convict team, known only as "The Warden":
I feel like this guy turned out ok. There would have been a second model, one of the Thugs, but after I looked at the picture I just couldn't enter him (the camera was not kind to the mistakes and blemishes on the paintjob). I will post the picture in my personal P&M blog, but it's not good at all. The Dreadball minis are kind of fiddly, being in a somewhat smaller scale than GW models. They are cool, though; Mantic did a good job giving them plenty of character.
There's a lot of cool stuff being submitted, and a lot of it in these final hours. Looking forward to the voting!
Also Paradigm, could you update the proof pic to the one I posted I think on page 4 with the Dreadball minis?
Really nice entry Modock. I really like the skin tones on the ork.. how did you do them?
Thanks mate!
OK, I used dark blue grey for base color, royal purple for shadows then buff first highlight and ivory for final highlight.
All paints are from Vallejo model color range.
So far as I know, we're not waiting on any more entries, so I'll call things to a close here! 2016 has been fantastic for the challenge, so many great round, so here's to the next, beginning with Rogues and Scoundrels!
http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/712804.page
I hope everyone had a good new year and this coming year will be god to you.
Thanks for the comments Mootlet, Modock and Zobo, I always look forward t the open challenge in Dec so I can do Santa Orks, I'm glad you were able to spot and work out what some of the little bits were meant to be (like the cork guns )
Welcome back to painting tombo, One of the benefits of doing these challenges is it makes you get some painting done and keep going, I look forward to seeing more from you, you are off to a very good restart.
Really good weathering on that tank Peregrine.
methebest, I like the white on the cape, its not just plain white but has some depth to it which is hard to do with white.
I'm glad you managed to get your entry done Feltmonkey, The Quarterback/thrower model is really nice, the little bit of check on his shoulder really brings the model together.
angelofvengeance wrote:Great work with your Gouged Eye orcs there, feltmonkey
Midget Gems wrote:
I'm glad you managed to get your entry done Feltmonkey, The Quarterback/thrower model is really nice, the little bit of check on his shoulder really brings the model together.
Thanks, guys. Happy new year to you both!
I kind of added bits of check to them all pretty much at random, MG. It's a pleasant surprise that one of them enhances the overall mini! There wasn't a lot of planning, beyond looking up the Gouged Eye colours and logo, and watching Duncan's video on the GW site. Love that Santorc's grotto, by the way. Bad Santa 3?
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...it's a nice thematic touch, I'm just not sure if it helps or hurts the overall look of the piece 
