Welcome all to the 29th round of the Unofficial Painting Challenge here on Dakka. For anyone who's unfamiliar with the format, this is a simple community challenge open to anyone on Dakka, the aim of the game being to paint a model or set of models relating to the month's theme and win points for doing so!
This month, the theme is 'Fun and Games'. As always, this is open to interpretation however you like, but the idea is that your entries should be something of specific use for gaming, such as objective markers, turn/wound counters, status markers, terrain pieces or other useful items. There's nothing to say these can't include models or elements of models, but ideally they shouldn't just be models you'd put down on the table and use in a game (unless of course that's appropriate to the theme, for instance Blood Bowl or Guild Ball models, or comedy miniatures like the White Dwarf or similar).
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 6 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 5 images and one separate image would count as your 6 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 of July and will end at midnight BST on the 31st of July. After this, I shall compile the finished entries into a new thread, and voting will run for 5 days.
List of Entrants:
NinjaPirate: FINISHED
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ChaoticMind:
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feltmonkey: FINISHED
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Kustomer D: FINISHED
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U971: FINISHED
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Nevelon: FINISHED
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Apacekittens:
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n1ceguypaul: FINISHED
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Bottle: FINISHED
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Midget Gems: FINISHED
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Modock: FINISHED
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Verviedi: FINISHED
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dukeofbeer: FINISHED
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Chris56:
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Farseer Anath'lan: FINISHED
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Whittlesey40k: FINISHED
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NathanD298: FINISHED
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Moolet: FINISHED
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Jadenim: FINISHED
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ssisal:
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vejut: FINISHED
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Chris56: FINISHED
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GulGog TufToof: FINISHED
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Keezus: FINISHED
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Paradigm: FINISHED
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This was going to be one of a set of 3 Badab War themed objective markers, but time got away from me this month so for now it's just this one, depicting a pair of Howling Griffons on the battlefield, one grievously injured.
I think I’ll do the crashed lander from the Battle of Macragge box. Maybe an ammo dump or some little force screens. I’ll get a pic once The Boy is no longer camped out in my hobby room.
I dont think I've got anything for this month. Just cracking on with my marines, so not really anything that fits. But good luck to everyone. This should be an interesting month - more variety than your usual month
Whittlesey40k wrote: I dont think I've got anything for this month. Just cracking on with my marines, so not really anything that fits. But good luck to everyone. This should be an interesting month - more variety than your usual month
We are in the same boat, I think. Unless somehow Primaris Marines fit in the theme (highly doubtful) I'm going to sit this one out.
Hey guys with the announcement of the date for armies on parade i think that im gonna try and get my board done. Will post up some WIP pics as i go as well. I've been meaning to do this for the last couple of years and have finnaly got thenerve to actully try it.
Remember to take a proof pic, although I'm not sure what you'd take it of. A bit of wood?
Automatically Appended Next Post: While I'm here, I think this is what I'm going to paint this month. My Sylvaneth Wyldwood. I don't think I really get the theme this month. Game pieces rather than models, but Blood Bowl teams are okay? Is it just that if a model fits the "fun and games" theme ignoring the instruction about painting game pieces, then that's okay? I do have loads of Blood Bowl stuff to paint, as it happens, so I might change mid-month! I do need to get this wood done, though.
feltmonkey wrote:
I don't think I really get the theme this month. Game pieces rather than models, but Blood Bowl teams are okay? Is it just that if a model fits the "fun and games" theme ignoring the instruction about painting game pieces, then that's okay? I do have loads of Blood Bowl stuff to paint, as it happens, so I might change mid-month! I do need to get this wood done, though.
As always, the theme is open to interpretation, so terrain/markers ect fit it in the sense that they are used to facilitate the playing of a game, whereas Blood Bowl minis for example fit it more literally as they are actually model playing a 'game', if that makes sense. An argument could then be made that any model you'd use in a game would therefore count. but the spirit of this month's challenge is to encourage people to think outside the box a little and come up with something different to the normal entries we get.
Whittlesey40k wrote: I dont think I've got anything for this month. Just cracking on with my marines, so not really anything that fits. But good luck to everyone. This should be an interesting month - more variety than your usual month
We are in the same boat, I think. Unless somehow Primaris Marines fit in the theme (highly doubtful) I'm going to sit this one out.
Sadly, it might make June my last comp. Baby's due in August so probably won't have painting time then, or for quite a bit of time afterwards.
Although my gaming buddies have arranged a final pre-baby game for me at Warhammer World, so that'll be a nice way to bow out of the scene for a while
feltmonkey wrote:
I don't think I really get the theme this month. Game pieces rather than models, but Blood Bowl teams are okay? Is it just that if a model fits the "fun and games" theme ignoring the instruction about painting game pieces, then that's okay? I do have loads of Blood Bowl stuff to paint, as it happens, so I might change mid-month! I do need to get this wood done, though.
As always, the theme is open to interpretation, so terrain/markers ect fit it in the sense that they are used to facilitate the playing of a game, whereas Blood Bowl minis for example fit it more literally as they are actually model playing a 'game', if that makes sense. An argument could then be made that any model you'd use in a game would therefore count. but the spirit of this month's challenge is to encourage people to think outside the box a little and come up with something different to the normal entries we get.
Hope that makes sense!
Would a diorama count? Or would some terrain fit the theme better.
Sadly, it might make June my last comp. Baby's due in August so probably won't have painting time then, or for quite a bit of time afterwards.
Although my gaming buddies have arranged a final pre-baby game for me at Warhammer World, so that'll be a nice way to bow out of the scene for a while
Congrats Whittlesey, I just about managed to find the odd hour or 2 (when not feeling knackered) to do some painting after my first one in Jan last year, still hard to hard find the time now. It is nice to occasionally escape and do some painting to relax a little. Hope it all goes well
For my entry I think I will go for the absurd (for a change) and go for a "Ork Fun Fair" I had ideas to do several different rides but I will have to tone it down a bit and just go for an Ork playing a Whack-a-mole (snotling) game, fun and games for everyone
Proof pics would just be pieces of plasticard atm so I'll take one when the idea is a bit more formed and I've worked out a few of the bits to go in it (might even draw a picture!)
Sadly, it might make June my last comp. Baby's due in August so probably won't have painting time then, or for quite a bit of time afterwards.
Although my gaming buddies have arranged a final pre-baby game for me at Warhammer World, so that'll be a nice way to bow out of the scene for a while
Congrats Whittlesey, I just about managed to find the odd hour or 2 (when not feeling knackered) to do some painting after my first one in Jan last year, still hard to hard find the time now. It is nice to occasionally escape and do some painting to relax a little. Hope it all goes well
For my entry I think I will go for the absurd (for a change) and go for a "Ork Fun Fair" I had ideas to do several different rides but I will have to tone it down a bit and just go for an Ork playing a Whack-a-mole (snotling) game, fun and games for everyone
Proof pics would just be pieces of plasticard atm so I'll take one when the idea is a bit more formed and I've worked out a few of the bits to go in it (might even draw a picture!)
So is my board idea for armies on parade ok or not. Its a scenic piece by itself so hopefully. Im thinking if blood bowl minis are ok the dioramas and the such should be ok to.
Im not actually doing the models yet so hope thats ok. Other wise those pesky blood bowl players will be seeing some love.
Okay, so I am planning to do my first large diorama. it's also in teeeeny scale. (not epic bit still small).
is this A. okay and B. can I post a picture of the first little one I did for people to give some tips on? my reasoning for this piece is its to play around with dioramas and try some new painting techniques, just for fun.
I'am doing something a bit different Fallout3 Necromunda Crossover Objective Marker Set.
Proof pics below stuff i'am using,type of bases i used for the sewer theme,I did make them a while ago,but fresh out of bases,they are just simple card painted grays,Caliban green & Nurgles rot in the sludge channel,hope its okay as proof,if not it's fine.
Anyway,Remember that Fallout3 Quest in the Pit where you have to gather "Steel Ingots" In order to Gain Rewards,Yeah well i'am going to do that but in the "Sump" for the non necros out there,that's the bottom of a hive city,basically a mega-sewer,should be an easy one for me for obvious reasons.
Bit's i'am using. (razor wire,straw bits,card type used on the sewer bases,sprue for the ingots,and a couple of bits from the box,cog&mushroom upper right)
Bases used for the sewer/sump theme.
8th is out, time to work on stuff from the 4th starter box. I’d do the ruins from the 3rd ed box, but would need to prime them. Might do some barrels/tank traps from there, time permitting. But I suspect this is going to be a lot for the month, especially as I’m taking a week at the beach, which will cut into my hobby time.
that's a nice bit of kit, that one...ok, it might not be the most useful terrain for gameplay purposes, it doesn't really provide much cover or anything, but it's great for scattering the wreckacge along the table and placing an objective at each part...or for setting up some kind of narrative game
...I kinda wish they'd kept including bits of terrain in the starter sets...it was a nice addition.
still no idea what I'm going to do this month honestly...hopefully I'll think of something that'll work, before it's too late in the month...it'd be a bit of a shame to skip a month...meh, we'll see
Firstly my entry proof:
Next My baby diorama with miniatures from the same range. this is posted here so i can get tips and feedback so it would be appreciated. the photo is bad but I couldn't be bothered with the DSLR camera.
Thanks to paradigm for allowing this.
Ok, so I've been thinking about an entry for this.
My initial thought when I read the "Fun & Games" theme was board games!
I'm a big fan of Soda Pop Miniatures and have quite a lot of their minis in my painting pile. To me the chibi style just screams FUN!
I've gone back and forth a bit about which models to paint tho, possibly a few treasure chests & boo bootys from SDE?
Or maybe a party of heroes and pets?
Or a mini boss and a few creeps?
Then my mind turned to Ninja All Stars. I backed the KS a few years back, so have a load of minis that need some love. The game didn't get great reviews tho I actually quite liked it, has a feel of Blood Bowl about it.
TLDR: my entry will be a few ninjas from Clan Yamazaru for NAS.
Some more work done on the bark, mainly washes and drybrushed highlights, the leaves basecoated, some highlights, and a wash. I'm using an extraordinary amount of wash on this thing!
I didn't want to use my Agrax Earthshade on it, as that stuff is so expensive. Fortunately, I remembered that I had bought some Army Painter washes (Strong Tone and Soft Tone) but had never really used them for anything, so I used them. You can see by how the bottle on the right is half empty how much I've used! The wash is still wet on the leaves. I used a second wash on the leaves, of Drakenhof Nightshade, painted into the recesses on the lower part of the bark to make it much darker, a more interesting colour tone, and to try to create a sort of gradient so the lower part of the trees is darker than the top. It also made the model look more sinister, which was a happy accident.
I also don't know what I'm going to do with the ground. I would usually put some flock on it then dab some sepia wash onto it, but on this scale. I'm not sure if that is a great idea. What do you guys reckon?
I quite like the look of the wet wash, feltmonkey - it gives a real sense of life to the leaves. What are the Armypainter tones like? I've never used them.
For the base, maybe some sand in a dark, earthy brown with some sections green and moss-like? Maybe add some grass tufts or sections of flock?
Also, looking forward to seeing Apacekittens' diorama - some really fun models and terrain there, and n1ceguypaul's board - looks like some cool height to that board.
Finally, congrats to Whittlesey40k on the bub! Don't stress too much, you should still have some time for painting...at 3:25 in the morning with the baby screaming in your ear!
Seriously, I have three of the little buggers and I've adopted what I call 'guerilla painting' - 10 minutes here and there, doing basecoats or washes at home and saving the details to do at work in my lunch break.
OP up to date. As to the various people asking what's appropriate, I'll reiterate what I said before: If you think it's appropriate and can justify why it fits the theme, it's fine to enter!
The thread is now Stickied at the top of the P&M forum, so if you ever need to check your progress or want to look back over previous rounds then it should be easy to find.
I have nothing that really fits this month's challenge. The closest thing I have is Harlequin Shadowseer which I'm gonna paint for a friend.
I'm not that into fluff but aren't they like space clowns/jokers!?!. Their appearance screams fun and entertainment. Don't they find
disintegrating enemies funny?
Looks like a perfect objective for the relic game. Whats the story behind it? Seems like it would be perfect since the original suggestion was for objective markers or terrain.
The AI is the puppetmaster controlling a planet that seceded for unknown reasons. The defenses were smashed, and the AI has fled into the planet's wastelands. The Mechanicus must capture the AI, to figure out how it works, and dispose of it properly.
Automatically Appended Next Post: Completed entry.
Alright, I'm in this month!
I didn't have too much that fit the theme, but I have a copy of the old school blood bowl boxed set that I've been meaning to paint up for forever. I figure I would do a test model from each of the two teams. The players presumably have fun playing their game, so I think it fits!
Proof:
I am very excited to see the end result of whack-a-mole! Great idea!
Thought I would do a scenery project to be used as a location in a D&D game.
It is an evil sorceress' hut, made from an old Games Workshop cottage (I wish they still made this set) with a scratch-built 'interior', so that you can lift off the outer shell to reveal the inside of the cottage.
Here is my proof shot.
Hey guys quick update. Been busy been making some bits and piece for this to go with my board and for miscellaneous gaming as nèd to get some games played as i have only played a handful over the last year. So couple of WIP pics on bits and pieces and the board. Going to get more done this weekend and will uodate asap.
That's looking very exciting. The trees are great. I can't imagine how you're going to get it finished in time, but I'm loving what you're doing so far.
I might have to get you to show me how to make trees like that so I can make some home-made wyldwoods. I must warn you though - I will use them to crush your stormcasts.
@feltmonkey those pesky trees are no match (pun intended) for my awesomely handsome stormcast eternals that need some paint.
Cracking job as usual @bottle. The weathering is great, thats one of the things thats next on my to do list learn how to weather properly and not just slap on the shiny bits. Need to tone it down amd keep it crisp and clean. Fair play @bottle you nailed it.
Bit of a crazy month on here with stuff all over the place. Keep up the good work guys.
N1Paul yeah those trees look really good, nice work.
I really like the highlights and colour on the beards Bottle, cracking work well done
Lots of people seems to be struggling with entries or ideas for this month, or wondering if their idea fits the theme. Remember this challenge is all about an excuse to get you painting, so even a very tenuous link is fine. e.g. 40k, AOS, Bloodbowl, Infinity etc are all games, I assume you have fun playing them (or painting the models) therefore any model = Fun and Games. Its a very open category
Finally getting some paint on my guys, still working though a few of the finer details.
I've got a model i painted at the paint and take at Historicon last Thursday for the fun of it. I didn't think to take a photo before though-would it still be okay to enter it? I've got a backup, but feeling very meh about it though.
Didn't think I'd be in this one, but we're starting a drive to make terrain for Warmachine-so that's the plan for these aquarium rocks and garden stakes.
Another update on the AOP board. Lucky for me the kids and wife managed to all fall asleep early last night so manged to block out all the basic colours on the board and to pretty much finish the rocks bit of a wash and some weathering to go and they done.
Not to happy looking at it now with the shape of the water but thats an easy fix.
Big thanks to the awesome videos from Mel TheTerrainTutor and Luke from LukesAps on youtube. Cracking ideas and inspiration on youtube. If you want to make some terrain check them out.
Make it Toxic! (Hazardous stuff,Lava,Acid Lakes,Death World Forests,Savlar Chem Dogs,Necromunda Gangs,Death Korps,Modian)
There's one idea too think about.
I always love the delicate subtlety of your topic suggestions, Bottle
...that said, I wouldn't have a clue...honestly, I'm still kinda trying to think of something I can possibly still slap together for this month!...don't think that'll happen though :(
however, I am kinda diggin the idea of both EmberlordofFire8's, and u971's suggestions...I'd be totally fine with either of them
Somewhat last minute, but I'm going to give this one a crack! I was lucky enough to pick up a Lost Patrol before they disappeared so I'll make a start on that for this month (I feel a boxed GAME matches the theme far better than the Librarian idea I had before)
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I'll endeavour to paint up all five, but I could believe I'll fall short! Great work so far everyone!
If you go with a theme like Toxic i bet alot of people would enter with their new death guard miniatures. And you could even efter assassins and stuff that use poisons.
DanceOfSlaanesh wrote: If you go with a theme like Toxic i bet alot of people would enter with their new death guard miniatures. And you could even efter assassins and stuff that use poisons.
One of the reasons i Suggested it,there would be alot of entry's...unlike this month!
Bottle wrote:Haha, Tzeentch must have turned a blind eye to me when he was dishing out subtleties.
Okay some that are a bit more generic and don't push my own agenda quite so obviously:
- Hack N' Slash - Blood Brothers - Fire
The first two are ok, but the last one is GREAT! Fitting too, since my birthday will be coming up and who doesn't love a month of fire. Well done bottle.
ChaoticMind wrote:"Make Mine a Double!"
Works on multiple levels, drinking or twins!
Interesting, but I'm not sure how many people here could find something to fit the theme without just painting two models from a unit.
u971 wrote:Make it Toxic! (Hazardous stuff,Lava,Acid Lakes,Death World Forests,Savlar Chem Dogs,Necromunda Gangs,Death Korps,Modian) There's one idea too think about.
Sounds cool, but everyone will probably go with death guard. Not that that's a bad thing, though.
Gulgog TufToof wrote:I'm still interested in seeing Black and White However, what I'd like to paint is more along themes like: 1 dakkadakka 2 dakkadakkadakka 3 moar dakka!
How's that for subtle?
Agreed, but you forgot dakkadakkadakkadakka and dakkadakkadakkadakkadakkadakka.
DanceOfSlaanesh wrote: If you go with a theme like Toxic i bet alot of people would enter with their new death guard miniatures. And you could even efter assassins and stuff that use poisons.
I'm sure I could find a way to incorporate Orks into it somehow, A nice Toxic Fungus Beer anyone?
I need to start actually painting some of my army, played my first game against a good friend the other day, was pretty fun. My first game for about 10 years or so I think.
Whatever the topics come up as I'm going to try and incorporate one of the units I need painting into it.
Anyway some progress on this months challenge. The Whack-a-mole table has been built and the snotlings are all ready to go, there's at least a base coat on most items. Nothing is glued down yet just balancing for the photos. However there still seems an awful lot to do in 8 days.
How about some themes that relate to the upcoming Konor campaign in 40k, but could refer to other things for those who don't play 40k. Like maybe Good & Evil, Xenos Treachery, etc.
Another WIP adding the elven light house to the board now. So scratch building that last night. Heres the pics and hopefully get it painted up and mounted today.
Hi all,
I needed a 6 week break to get my enthusiasm back, thankfully I've only missed 1 challenge =). I'll enter this one from last month that I never got round to (the one on the left). He is from an awesome 'fun' 'game' called super dungeon explore.
So, life has been occupying most of the month so far, but I need to paint up these guys for our Dark Heresy campaign, which I figure fits the theme, so let's see how we go:
Bit of a shame as I got my Greebo miniatures Florentine knights Blood Bowl team in the post a couple of weeks back, but there's no chance of doing justice to them in the time left.
Some great-looking stuff here as usual guys. I've finished my Wyldwood, but I still need to take the photos. This is usually quite an undertaking as I need to comandeer my wife for an evening, get my son to sleep, and set up our makeshift photo studio, which consists of a lightbox balanced on to of the Imperial Knight: Renegade box, two lights each with their own extension cable, a DSLR, and an uncooperative tripod. It always takes at least two attempts to get good photos, too.
As a theme for next month, how about The Divine Comedy? You could go with something funny, something like Harlequins, you could take the highbrow route and reference the Dante poem, which deals with heaven, hell, and purgatory, or you could just paint a lovely horse.
So, apologies for no proof pic, as I did this at Historicon's Paint and Take, and didn't think to take one. Not really happy with this, too many bits where paint came off after painting, but I really have run outta motivation for the month. Likewise, really need to crop these down, but...again, out of cheese error.
Finally yad some decent enough weather to go outside and take pictures. I realized that it actually is just little bit smaller than 3 inches so it works as an objective marker aswell!
Love the helmet there, Ninjapirate...it's really a cool detail.
I have almost finished my sorceress' hut and I noticed that a lot of others are including figures, so I thought I might try to get the cottage's owner done...
I know my proof pic is already painted but I will be doing a completely new paint job on her, nothing like the existing one. Looking forward to everyone's entries!
Very nice miniature to paint. I wanted to do something special this time, so I tried some freehand. I've never done freehand before
and I must say it's no joke! I can't even imagine how some artists draw mini paintings on miniatures. Even paint as simple as
a straight line is not easy. When I was doing the diamond pattern It was a nightmare to draw a straight line on a curve surface.
Overall I'm quite happy with the mini especially with the lightning on the staff.
Great job as always, Modock.
The blending of the yellow on the gloves and cowl is awesome and I really like the tones of the stones on the base.
Good diamonds, too!
Chris56 wrote:Great job as always, Modock.
The blending of the yellow on the gloves and cowl is awesome and I really like the tones of the stones on the base.
Good diamonds, too!
Bottle wrote:Yeah, it looks absolutely awesome!
Big cheers you two!
Excellent work on the dwarves, Bottle! Great touch with the battle damage and the beards are fabulous.
Dwarves are my favourite fantasy race, I love yours!
Heres another WIP pic. Sea is getting there need to add a couple more waves and to blend in the foam and crests. Hopefully get that done tonight and finish the elven lighthouse.
Fantastic sea, Paul! And Modock, that Shadowseer is stunning.
Here are my final pics of my Wyldwood.
I really like the model. I bought it for it's in-game effects, thinking it was just a bit of scenery, but it's a great model in it's own right. It's so detailed and sinister. I wanted it to look quite realistic, but sort of creepy. Pretty at first glance, but with something unsettling about it. Like if you came across this glade while out walking you might hesitate to enter.
I entered this as it fulfills Paradigm's suggestion of something that is a game-piece rather than a miniature. Scenery is an often overlooked part of the table, and without this challenge, I reckon I might have done a much quicker, more functional job on the wyldwood when I got round to painting it. I'm glad I didn't, because it was fun to spend time with the model, find it's cool little details, and try to bring out it's sinister character.
I'm going to enter this month; I got inspired by the "Show off your objective markers" thread, so I've made 6 crates. I took a 20 year hiatus from playing 40k and just got back into playing around the release of 7th. I don't get much time for "fun and games" and have only played 3 games of 40k, but a friend and I have finally got the basic mechanics down, and I want to make our games a little more interesting than just trying to clean each other's troops off the table.
The stock for these is carpentry leftovers and I suspect it's white pine, but I'm not entirely sure. It's high quality though (not your standard 2x4 material), and very light colored (almost white), the picture makes it appear darker than it really is. My question is: does anyone have a favorite method to paint wood to look more like... wood? Thanks for any tips you guys can provide.
Proof:
@Gulgog TufToof.
Well the paint schemes i used for my pallets & crates were as follows,also cool crates nice and big!
Gray crates:Abaddon black Undercoat,Drybrushed Dawnstone.
Green crates:Abaddon black Undercoat,Drybrushed Castellan Green.
Brown Crates & Pallets:Scorched Brown Undercoat,Drybrushed Bestial Brown,or its equivalent,using up my old paints for such things.
@feltmonky you've done a cracking job as usual on the wyldwood cant wait to see that in the table next time we play. @moolet thats an awesome treeman thingamy bob looks fantastic. Good job to a lot of the guys who have funished already.
Got a couple of things to do this weekend but see you all at the finish line.
Will post up a list of videos that have been helpful as its a mix and match of a number of ideas. So far so good will hopefully post some decent pics of it over the weekend just got a couple of finishing touches to do now.
Also today is sign up day at local GW stoes. I've been and got my AOP badge. Look forward to seeing others on here soon hopefully.
Great entries again.
Looking forward to seeing Midget’s orksome creation.
N1ceguypaul - your board is looking great, love that sea it is so realistic.
Feltmonkey - great work on the wyldwood, those details are really eerie and I agree with you about this month’s challenge. I don’t usually do any terrain either, so it was rewarding to do something a bit different.
Moolet - that treant is super-dungeon-cool, awesome blending on the teeth especially.
Anyhow, this is my finished entry for this month. It is meant as a set piece for a game of DnD some friends have coming up but I think I might have spent two weeks painting something that will be used for two minutes…
The exterior is an old Games Workshop building that they don’t make anymore and the interior is scratch-built. Overall, I really enjoyed this project and am pleased with the end result.
See everyone for some brutality next month!
That my friend is one cool looking model. If you need a home for it after the 2 minute use time then i will always welcome stray terrain piece into a loving and welcoming home.
Really loving the witch and that is how to accessorise a terrain piece.
P.S how did you do the skin any tips. Thinking of a human looking slaaneshi daemon army.
I like the skin tone and the purple hair on her. There's a huge amount of details which bring the piece to life, it must have
taken you quite some time. Well done mate, extremely well done.
Thanks, guys!
I really enjoyed this project - something a bit different.
N1ceguypaul - the skin is cadian flesh, shaded by mixing with rhinox hide and highlighted with reaper ivory. The blue is meredius blue by P3.
Looking forward to seeing your finished board!
Apologies, I haven't had chance to tidy up the photos as much as I would normally like; my computer is severely ill, so just being able to upload them counts as a success!
I’m done, but my camera battery is dead, and it looks like I forgot to charge the spare. So here is a placeholder phone picture, hopefully I can get some better ones before month’s end.
Well, I managed to get my old school blood bowl minis done with a fairly old school paint job. Hopefully, this challenge will now encourage me to paint up the whole set!
Definitely some cool and creative stuff this month. @Bottle- wow those dwarfs are great! I particularly like the range of hair colors on the epic beards.
It’s all fun and games until you crash the lander...
Final pic:
Can’t say that I’m particularly fond of painting terrain. This comp was a decent motivator to get this off the to-do list though. Been sitting around since 4th edition. Not the oldest thing loitering on the back of the bench, but up there.
Done as much as I'm going to this month. I'm probably going to expand this out later though-it was quick, easy and fun.
As I found out when I was taking photos, it's not modular per se, but it's definitely similar enough that you can put it together and do stuff with it.
This should make our Warmachine games much more interesting.
So the worst part of this months competition was trying to get tidy pictures. Hopefully ive done better to show off with this. If not and it looks shocking will upload all individual shots.
The army thats going to be gracing the board is a skaven army and it is going to be the Island Of Blood. Kind of thought that i coukd create a kind of Realm of Echoes that shows flash backs to great and defining moments from the world that was.
Now got to paint an island of blood skaven set and extras. Prob gonna see if i can get the griffon done to battle something oh so furry on the cliff top.
At the moment theres still charge from the solar light in the light house but gonna be putting green led lights inside the tower. Hopefully looks ok.
Last minute entry from me this month! Painted about a week ago but I totally forgot to take the pics!
Proof
This was going to be one of a set of 3 Badab War themed objective markers, but time got away from me this month so for now it's just this one, depicting a pair of Howling Griffons on the battlefield, one grievously injured.
Really Nice work N1Paul, would love to see the combined Pic a bit bigger so we can see all the detail, very impressed you got it all done
A bit of a rushed end and post I'm not finished but I will have to call it a day, I am rushing things and starting to make mistakes. I seem to be a bit over ambitious with my time these last few challenges. Still a lot of highlighting to do and would have loved to have tied the banner to the poles with rope/GS. But I'm still proud of the work it seems to have come out exactly how I imagined it and I got a few of the little details in.
Paul - fantastic work. I can't believe you got that done in a month! All built from scratch - amazing! The sea looks great, and I love the vines climbing up the lighthouse.
I finished my 6 wooden crate objective markers. Making and painting these was not much "fun and games", but it will enhance the fun of games to come. Final pic:
Just got a tiny bit of the base left. I am gonna wait til day to post the pictures. I had fun with him and learned alot about washing.. and a little bout dry brushing.
Been so busy tending a few gardens that ive not really be around much to paint at night.. cant focus enough during day to use a brush..
Alot of awesome looking stuff in here. Even those crates right above here look awesome
Yay! 
