Welcome to the 38th round of the Unofficial Painting Challenge! For the unfamiliar, this painting challenge is a friendly affair open to any Dakka members, whether you're winning Golden Demons or just painting Demons gold! The more you enter, the more points you accrue based on a public vote, and these are tracked in a League Table over the course of the year.
This month, the theme is Agents of Chaos, the individuals and groups that exist to cause havoc, wreak destruction and invite madness into the world around them, one blade, bullet or spell at a time. As always, this is fully open to your interpretation, it's a nice broad theme to go wild!
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 April and will end at midnight GMT on the 30th of April. After this, I shall compile the finished entries into a new thread, and voting will run for 5 days.
I’m in. Time and weather permiting, i might build and prime two more to make the 5 model limit. These 3 guys have been loitering around the back of the bench for a while. Four of their kin made it out for “Primal”, now it’s thier turn.
My entry this month... a bunch of bloodbowl fans for my orc team, the blackrock bad boyz.
they do not directly belong or represent chaos, but the bring chaos to the edge of the pit and devastation upon the enemy fans and players.
Nice idea SirOllox an interesting interpretation of the theme, hope to see more like that as well
I originally thought I would go for my Shokk attack gun since having a snotling turn up inside you is quite chaotic. However I had a bit of a search around and could find many Chaos Ork conversions so thought I'd have a go.
I'll be doing a Ork Nob that's been possessed by Chaos.
Alrighty, second month in a row here. Going to enter some converted Poxwalkers, sowing the seeds of Nurgles Chaos amongst the citizens of the Imperium.
I'm entering with my agents of the Officio Assassinorum:
Even one of these guys can cause chaos and havoc among the enemy, so I figure a full-fledged Execution Force should qualify as agents of chaos!
I doubt I'll finish him, but I'm entering sly marbo.
Before I start, resin has to be washed in hot water first, right?
Also, I've had some bad experiences with superglue frosting before, is it still better to paint in a sub assembly?
@CREEEEEEED i'd be careful rinsing finecast. I actually don't wash mine and it turns out okay. I'm too afraid of just warping the model out of all recognition. Superglue frosting is classic, but if you can apply it in careful enough quantities, then you should be able to avoid it altogether. Good luck!
I need to keep thinking of a way to warp my ultrasmurfs to fit the "Agents of Chaos" theme...
not hot mate, just warm-ish...with a bit of dish soap or something...if you use hot, it's liable to go all soft and bendy on ya! (which you may need, if there's any bits that are curved, and shouldn't be...)
as for superglue...I've never had frosting problems myself, might depend on the brand? ...fwiw, I use Selley's quick fix...might be an australian brand though, dunno...
lipsdapips wrote: I need to keep thinking of a way to warp my ultrasmurfs to fit the "Agents of Chaos" theme...
Don’t you have some filthy tau on your workbench? By opposing the imperium they do the work of Chaos. But any sort of disruption unit would work well. Scouts, assault marines, reivers, land speeders, bikes. Anything that’s going to hit, cause some carnage, then move on before retaliation arives.
righto, I'm in...I would've liked to do something more on the fun and wacky novelty side of things, buuut...I actually need these dudes painted for a game soon ...and just look at them...I mean, you wouldn't be particularly inclined to invite them to your next formal dinner party or something would you?
Chaos, eh? Okay, I’m going to paint Lord Commander of the Imperium, Roboute Guilliman, Primarch of the Ultramarines, whose return caused all manner of chaotic uproar amongst the High Lor-Plague Marines. I’m doing Plague Marines.
Before I start, resin has to be washed in hot water first, right?
Also, I've had some bad experiences with superglue frosting before, is it still better to paint in a sub assembly?
As others have said, I use lukewarm water, dab of washing up liquid and a old toothbrush to give resin a good (but gentle) clean before undercoating it.
From my research into it I believe the frosting from superglue is caused by a build up in fumes in the area where the glue is which then causes the white effect. I do 2 things to try and avoid it:
- I paint the base colours and a wash on the parts and then glue them together then do the highlighting so if you do get a bit of frosting its easy to go back over it with the base colour.
- Use a small amount of glue (you really don't need much) and keep the glue joint well ventilated.
Well, I have only ever been faithful to the Emperor, so this is as close as I get:
This is one of my Deprogrammed Psykers. They are inspired by one of the AdMech books where they use a Gellar Field to exorcise a daemon. Thing is, we all know that anything tainted by Chaos can always be corrupted again. So they brainwiped his personality, prescribed him a regimen of drugs, and stuck a bomb inside his chest. Just in case.
And in case anyone is curious, in terms of the modelling, this is a kitbashed Primaris Psyker combining a Warhammer Fantasy Hurricanum Acolyte body and staff with a Skitarii Ranger Alpha head, Radium Pistol, and Arc Maul. I also took a spare servo skull and cut out an aquila for the embellishments.
gonna finish off my Khorne Bloodreavers. These 5 are the last models from the Warhammer Quest Hammerhall set.
Proof:
started work on them today. Going to paint them to match the first 5 I've done, but trying to make this guy look like he's going demonic, but a little worried he just looks sunburnt right now. Any advice?
Well, since Eddie Riggs is going wonderfully, I'm even considering creating a diorama, but that requires the other said pieces I ordered to actually arrive on time.
Since I can't control said deliveries, I decided to add another entry: a true Agent of Chaos.
I'm making some progress on my Assassins:
Most of the basecoats are down, but on models like these the devil is in the details, so plenty of work left to do yet.
Did some modifications, trying to turn it into an "agent"/assassin. I will attach knobs to the knife handles. Cover up his back a bit. And maybe replace that skull on his shoulder by a small warp stone. Thoughts?
Nice conversion Tim 121RVC, he does really look like an assassin, the swords behind him and leaning forwards give him a real sense of movement. I like it
Nice work lipsdapips, good clean edge highlights on them. I knew you would think of something
Power Elephant, that is incredibly disturbing, have you been playing goat simulator again?
Don't worry CREEEEEEEEED you exams are more important ( i assume that's why you won't finish) I'll look forward to whatever you enter now or in the future
I did a dumb thing and painted one model of my planned 5-model entry before taking a proof. Would anyone object to me still entering the whole group? If anyone takes issue, I'll just do the remaining 4 but it would be nice to enter the full set and hopefully you guys trust me not to cheat my own challenge.
You know how it is. Get shiny new models, assemble in a hurry, absent-mindedly starting to paint during a D&D game, a couple of hours later you've killed a boss and somehow managed to paint a Necromunda mini... Then realise you were meant to take a pic of it first
It’s not like the time difference between unpainted and finished models is more than a few minutes with you anyway Para I swear models just get painted by being in the same room as you!
urgh...not feeling the bikers at the moment, I've got sod all painting done on them yet, been playing too many games lately instead
so, yeah, I think I'm going to change my entry from the bikers, to an old metal ork "Nob with a Waaagh! Banner"...I feel like a big ork waving a big banner, stirring up the boyz to fight even more enthusiastically than they already do, makes for a pretty good "agent of chaos" eh?
para, can you update my proof pic to this one thanks mate?
ok, finished my Waaagh! Banner Nob...not bad for a 20 year old model
pics:
Spoiler:
*edit - never mind para, not finished yet...I just remembered his "space marine helmets on a stick" trophy rack that goes on his back...I forgot to even strip that bit!
I’m not going to be able to finish all four of them, work and family just get in the way, probably just two will make it out of the under hive to live another day
Was going to comment on the undrilled barrels, but you fixed it yourself. The Warboss looks great!
haha yeah, my brother already called me out on that one ...I was real tired and feeling kinda lazy at the time and just couldn't be bothered drilling metal, and it didn't look that bad in person...was hoping I could just be cheeky and get away with it - nope! ...I am definitely glad I did it now though
I was going to enter a large-scale Rhodesian Selous Scout model for this month but time has gotten away from me and I just won't have time to do it. I'll hang onto it and hopefully he will fit a future theme.
All the best for everyone taking part - already some lovely entries in.
Those models look great SmallChanges - really characterful.
Tim121RVC, your skaven conversion is awesome as well - I'm a little jealous 'cos I want him for my own Shadespire skaven!
Para, those Escher girls are really nice also - look forward to seeing the rest. (I also thought YOU asking about a proof pic was pretty funny given how fast you paint!)
Kustomer D - I cannot agree more about finecrap, it is extremely frustrating when most of your paint job is just trying to correct flaws in the casting. I have a bit of a similar problem with my entry this month (even though mine are metal). I really like the job you've done on the plasma vents - the colour fade is really top-notch.
Power Elephant - that is one of the strangest/most interesting models I think I've ever seen and your paint is very effective - it's quite fascinating...I can't stop looking at it...
Anyhoo, even though I have left it a bit late again, I am going to try to get these guys done. I've wanted to paint them for quite a while now - I think Magneto and The Brotherhood of Evil Mutants should count as agents of chaos, shouldn't they?
I'm not sure who the hell calls themselves 'Evil Mutants', though... The woman is officially meant to be Lady Mastermind but I am probably going to paint her as Mystique instead because she is more iconic for THE BROTHERHOOD OF EVIL MUTANTS!!!
A progress shot on my Starweaver. It's probably gonna come down to the wire for me this month, but I'm optimistic that I'll manage to finish.
Will there be a poll going up for next month? I've got a marine captain on a bike I'm itching to work on, but if he could fit in with next month's theme then I want to hold off.
Aight, let's get this show on the road, with METAL!
To those who played Brütal Legend, you may remember the very start of the game, where he faces a bunch of cultist-looking demons called "Druids". Eddie is for a friend, so I decided to go the extra mile and attempt to create my very first mini diorama.
Well, two rounds of photos later...and it still looks like our adventurers have decided to go wandering in the mists. I'm about out of energy for photos, so we'll go with the ones I've got. Annoying, because the last two months didn't really have this problem.
Anyways, final photos:
Final pics. Not happy with them. I built them years (possibly decades) ago, and did a crappy job of it. Bad mold lines, misaligned arms, the works. The sculpts are pretty horrid to boot. But they are done now, and can join the 4 I did for last April’s comp on the shelf. Well, they can when I find a spot for my old chaos army and get them settled in.
Hope to enjoy my entry next month a bit more then these guys. Felt like a chore getting them done. I had a lot more fun painting the 2 eldar guardians I was working on as a side project.
Hi all apologies for my absence on this thread. The last 2 weeks or so have been very hard with a combination of a succession of illness for the children and wife (although not me....yet) and a lot of stuff going on at work.
My entry does have some paint on it, but I'll probably have to scale back the idea to wet blend most of the larger surfaces to get it finished in time.
Para really good Escher models.. I like that you lighten the hair, it really draws the eye up to the head and the top of the model.
AUGmaniac, you have made those thousand sons look distinctly evil
Zobo. there are certain old models that I love from the orks/orc. your entry being one of them. I like the flame details that links all the parts of the model together. I was going to say drill the gun barrels but looks like you already caught that one;
nice posse Kustomer D, and you have done a very good job with the plasma effect on the guns.
A shame you can't make it this month Oppl, I've really enjoyed your last entries.
TheDraconicLord, very entertaining entry, good idea putting them together on a diorama base as well. Well done on the little details like the shoe laces.
Shame the photos have gone a bit misty Vejut, you always find very interesting models for your entries.
Lol Nev well done for getting them done. your chaos army is slowly growing. some target practice for your Ultras
Keep going everyone, just a few more days to finish.
Midget Gems wrote: Hi all apologies for my absence on this thread. The last 2 weeks or so have been very hard with a combination of a succession of illness for the children and wife (although not me....yet) and a lot of stuff going on at work.
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Lol Nev well done for getting them done. your chaos army is slowly growing. some target practice for your Ultras
Good luck staying germ-free in the house of Nurgle.
My Chaos army is mostly dead. I had both Undead and Chaos armies for 5-6th WHFB. I was going to reboot my Chaos for 8th, and even picked up the army book, but then AoS dropped. With the rules being free for the armies, I decided that it would be easier to modernize my Death army then Chaos. They were my first and favorite fantasy army anyway. Aesthetically Chaos has come a long way from my old stuff anyway, so even if I wanted to flesh it out, it would look weird. Death is more coherent with my old collection.
All that said, I think these 3 guys bring me up to a 10 man squad of marauders, so could actually be fielded.
Bane is one of my favorite batman villains and I had a lot of fun painting him.
But I have to say I really dont like metalic miniatures. I havent bought one for a while now but this was a gift. I had forgoten what a pain in the they are to paint. The paint chips so easily. I will never complain again about how easily resin miniatures break
I tried to get most colors close to the colors Bane has in the movie but he is wearing some pretty weird colors.
I really like how he turned out though. At first I wasnt sure about the skin but i think i like it now. For some reason some parts of the skin are too bright in the photos.... And I think the pants look too similar to the base but they are not really.
Fair enough Nev, I still have my old Fantasy armies from when I was small, Orcs and Dark Elves sitting there waiting to be reused (and repainted, the 12 year old me was not a fan of watered down paints).
straken619, you have done good job on Bane and sounds like you had fun too which is the most important bit
Well done for getting them in craggy, I like that you have mixed it up a little and one of them has a red head/skin tone. Nice idea
Feltmonkey, you painting with Marmite now? will your experimental techniques never end!
Fair enough Nev, I still have my old Fantasy armies from when I was small, Orcs and Dark Elves sitting there waiting to be reused (and repainted, the 12 year old me was not a fan of watered down paints).
straken619, you have done good job on Bane and sounds like you had fun too which is the most important bit
Well done for getting them in craggy, I like that you have mixed it up a little and one of them has a red head/skin tone. Nice idea
Feltmonkey, you painting with Marmite now? will your experimental techniques never end!
When I was building them I wanted all the two-handed axe guys to have the horned helmets, but this one isn't a helmet, so I figured he was in the process of being blessed into becoming a Bloodletter or something.
ah cheers MG ...yeah, I really love all the metal ork sculpts from around that time, late 90's-early 00's...a real golden decade for ork sculpts in my opinion...I just wish I'd known about warhammer back then, so I could've bought a load of them without having to now go to ebay and get hit with the good ol' "RARE OOP!1!!" markup!
he was a fun one to paint anyway ...I may have gone a touch overboard with the extra little freehand bits, but hey, I figure he'd be quite a venerable old nob by now, and I imagine being the waaagh banner bearer would make him a pretty flash git too, so I feel he probably would have some pretty snazzy gear - which as we all know, for orks, means loads of bright flashy decoration! ...I did try to keep a vague sense of balance, and a vaguely coherent scheme, while still making it as orky as possible, with the bulk of him, and the base, being fairly dark and muted, black, dark brown, murky green, grey...in contrast with the bright flashy colours, specifically the red and yellow kinda flowing around the model.
all in all, I'm pretty pleased with how he turned out, and also how he's performed on the table since I finished him!...so far I think he's shot a few guardsmen, and a dark angels marine, and given several more guardsmen, a couple of guard vehicles, a couple dark angels marines, and a dark angels lieutenant a right propper bonking with his bannerpole! - all the while making the rest of the boyz swing their choppas a bit better
Okay, as promised, here are my final photos. I present to you an Execution Force of the Officio Assassinorum:
I'm pretty happy with how they turned out. They were a fun and interesting challenge as a painter. I probably could have done better given more time and less burnout, but I'm satisfied with them as they are, so I'm calling them done.
Lots of cool entries in here so far, so it should be fun going through them all when it comes time to vote! Good luck to everyone trying to beat the deadline!
Attached now. I'm entering Rodney the Rambunctious Red Reiver, about to rappel up and stab someone in the kidneys.
I believe Reivers are meant to be terror troops, which is fairly chaotic. If not, said stabbing would certainly be chaotic for the unfortunate recipitent's kidney.
Hi, all.
I really enjoyed this month, even though the sculpts on these guys are not really great - I spent a lot of time just covering the bad parts and I found it really difficult to get a smooth finish on almost all of the surfaces.
Anyhow, I have tried to give a real comic-book feel to them with very vibrant brights and stark edges. The bases are Necromunda bases, which I thought looked a little like the X-Men danger room!
I started out just wanting to paint my favourite Magneto, but I ended up enjoying Pyro the most out of the lot.
I've complete my entry, 5 Poxwalkers... Although the conversions sort of make them cultists. Either or, happy with how they turned out, even if I did lose motivation towards the end. Turns out I love painting rust on every model or at least including a little bit whenever I can. The highlights are subtle, some not coming out in the photos but I'm still happy with the final product. From veins on the skin to the glorious rust covered weapons, this was fun. Looking forward to the 3 colours next month.
First pic is group shot final entry, with 4 more photos attached in the spoiler. WARNING - BIG PICTURES!!
This project got not as much love as it deserved.
The idea seemed to be fun at first, but was not in the end....
And then I bought a mortarion, which is much more interesting.
But here ist the result for this month.
My Orcish Bloodbowl fans of the Black Rock Badboyz.
The way I painted them is normal table standard and fits to the team I have.
EverlastingNewb wrote: I, sadly, have to withdraw my Daemon Prince. My Dad suffered a heart attack a couple of days ago & i'm seriously not in the mood to paint currently.
Really sorry to hear that. Hope he makes a good recovery.
Only managed to get 4 done in the end, damn you end of year deadlines! (on the other hand, all going well in 3 weeks I have a degree...). Pics aren't the best, I'd give them another go but I'm pressed for time so they'll have to do.
Since a few people have asked, I'll extend the amnesty to tomorrow evening; realistically, I'm not getting the poll done much before then anyway!
It's far from perfect, but I'm pretty pleased with my first attempt at a Harlequin paint scheme. I didn't realize that my matte varnish would fog over the clear plastic on the canopy, but c'est la vie...
I just put the finishing touches on, in my opinion, the best model I ever painted and am currently painting the base. It's just too bad it doesn't fit the theme. It's a infinity yu jing guijia.
So I’m joining the “didn’t get to where I wanted, but have something finished, so here it is” club:
These old metal models are a pain, I don’t think there’s a single straight edge or right angle on them, but good enough for the tabletop (particularly when they’ll spend most of the time hidden in terrain!)
Automatically Appended Next Post: Also, sorry for using the phone; just didn’t have time to setup the camera.
I decided to paint this one in a very experimental style for me. It's all done with stippling - there's hardly a brush stroke on there, it's all just dots. Loads and loads of dots. The idea is to create texture. I made no effort to be neat, so I reckon it will put a lot of people off. I don't think I really pulled off what I was going for, but it's rare to try something new and get it right straight away. I think the result is interesting. I think everyone will hate it.
The other thing to bear in mind is that I reckon she looks a bit like a HR Giger painting, so I tried to use colours reminiscent of his art. It could have worked as an entry for next month's Three Colour Maximum, probably.
I'm very happy with the look of this... I know I've done better, but I'm mostly very happy to be pushing forward on painting my Alpha Legion army. I still have a lot of guys to paint, not to mention a couple of Rhinos and a Spartan!
Painting him has got me started again after a bit of a lull, I'll try to keep the momentum going...
I really like the display base that he comes with...
My last minute entry. I had some bad luck this time. I didn't have any suitable minis for this theme so I ordered some cool chaotic minis
three weeks ago but I received them just this thursday. Was impossible for me to finish them in 3-4 days so I did a quick job on the pandas.
Pretty gakky enty I must say but here they are ...Nomads Fast pandas.
Ugh. I can't get any traction at the paint bench... I'm getting murdered at the office. It is going to be another week before I get any real painting time... then it's a brief respite before the next death march... Work is going to be brutal for the 40 weeks.
I admit the OSL needs a big more work. This is as far as April's entry is going to go.
Postcards from R'lyeh
Model: C'thulu
Maker: Polaris Minor
EverlastingNewb wrote: I, sadly, have to withdraw my Daemon Prince. My Dad suffered a heart attack a couple of days ago & i'm seriously not in the mood to paint currently.
Still a few more hours to get pics submitted! New round will go up shortly, I'm just trying to make sure the rules for the 3-colour maximum are as clear as possible!
Done, just need to shoot some pics.
Taking the kid to football practice and will be back in 1,5 hours. Will post my entry right after that immediately!
Sorry for the late photos was in Chester with work and didn't get back until late. Hes missing a few highlights etc but will have to do
My Final pics for the Chaos Ork
A Small backstory, while on a Rokk/Space Hulk drifting through the warp this Orks warband was attacked by the Chaos entities that inhabit the warp and wiped out apart from 1 Ork (this one called, Grimzod Magsnik). He was offered great power if he would willingly be possessed or be killed. Grim decided to take the demon up on the offer so he could carry on having a good fight with everything he meet.
(which you may need, if there's any bits that are curved, and shouldn't be...)
...and just look at them...I mean, you wouldn't be particularly inclined to invite them to your next formal dinner party or something would you? 
I swear models just get painted by being in the same room as you!
they are to paint. The paint chips so easily. I will never complain again about how easily resin miniatures break 
