Welcome to the 42nd round of the Unofficial Painting Challenge! For the unfamiliar, the challenge is a friendly competition open to any Dakka members, whether you're painting your first model or your 1001st! The more rounds 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 Above and Beyond, focusing on the veteran, the elite of your armies, the troops dispatched on the most dangerous missions, wielding the deadliest weapons, displaying the most impressive skills on the battlefield. Whether that's some all-guns-blazing shock troops, a sneaky squad of infiltrators or anything else that stands apart from the rank and file is up to you, though the focus is elite soldiers rather than commanders.


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 August and will end at midnight BST on the 31st of August. After this, I shall compile the finished entries into a new thread, and voting will run for 5 days.


List Of Entrants:

Nevelon: FINISHED


Vejut: FINISHED


Elnibbus:


Porphyrius:


lipsdapips: FINISHED


Rybrook: FINISHED


Inquisitor Lord Bane:


jb1981:


Deadshot:FINISHED


ssisal: FINISHED


LordMcAllister:


Kustomer D: FINISHED


lur_tae_mont:


Zergsmasher: FINISHED


CREEEEEEEEED:


SirOllox: FINISHED


Modock: FINISHED


DV8:FINISHED


Midget Gems:FINISHED


SmallChanges: FINISHED


LordRahl:


Suzuteo: FINISHED


Tim 121RVC: FINISHED


queen_annes_revenge: FINISHED


Primaris Dude:


Power Elephant: FINISHED


Chris56: FINISHED


Feltmonkey: FINISHED


Jadenim: FINISHED


Elbows:


Paradigm: FINISHED

Going to be another short month, but I’m going to try to get these inceptors done.

Gonna see if I can get at least one of these three done, possibly all three, Basti hero and two Duelists from Wargods of Aegyptus.


Edit: now with actual picture!

I'll give this a go.

I know there are 10 here but there will only be 5 in the final entry

I'll be entering some plasma-toting Vanguard Veterans this month. Hopefully I can manage to actually finish the whole unit this time!

Good luck to everybody this month, getting great inspirado to keep working on my command squad. I'm entering the 2nd Company Champion, whose literal job it is is to fight stronger people than him to the death with an awful statline

I'm at work so again i'll post the same proof as last month on top of my actual proof pic from last night, which I suppose is kind of illegal - the point is that i'm leaving myself open to do other vets in the squad if i have time. I understand that the pic is old but I hope it's clear enough that the standard bearer is the only miniature that got any work last month and he took up all my time! Hope this is okay

I am submitting my two dreadnoughts, pic is from my gallery
I’m sure most people know what an AC and a DCCW looks like which both have,

These will be a real blast from the past

I feel that my Chaplain goes above and beyond. I'll paint him up this month.

I'll join again this month. Had these just sitting around until I get to them;



I'm thinking 1x Deathwatchand 4x Salamanders with Deathwatch Shoulders.

My entry for this competition

Blood Raven’s Honour Guard
Before you I present to you today are 5 members of my chapter’s Honour Guard. At top left, Ra Adrastus, Captain of the Honour Guard and Chapter Champion, succeeding Apollo Diomedes in the role. Known as the Victor of the Helios War, he wields the traditional blade of his office, The Stalwart Blade of Champions, and the Artificer Armour Holy Mantle of Elizur, blessed by the legendary Blood Raven Chaplain.
Beside him, Brother-Ancient Ramses carries the banner of the chapter into battle. Clad in the finest armour known as Merciless Truth, and carrying a relic sword known as Azrael’s Second. Hewn from black steel, it was rumoured to be a sister sword to Azrael’s Sword of Secrets.
Below, from left to right, Honoured Brothers Isilur, Balrim and Senrial. Isilur and Senrial both wield the finest axes and the wear the most decorated armour to reflect their status as long serving members of the Honour Guard. Brother Balrim is the newest recruit, moved up from First Company to replace the losses from the chapter’s civil war. With many of the Honour Guard choosing loyalty to Kyras over the Imperium, the Blood Raven’s honour guard were left severely depleted. He wields a masterfully made Boltgun that he has carried for over 300 years, and a power sword, a gift from First Captain Leonidas upon his promotion.


Update: Unfortunately Brother Balrim will no longer be joining the revered honour guard. This is in part due to my bitz supplier being out of stock with the remaining parts I need. Therefore, my entry will consist solely of the 4 metal models shown above.

Coming in with a WIP already! Had a very long and fun painting session last night. At this rate it's definitely looking like i'll get more command squad members in.

Sorry of its a little late but I hope you all enjoy it anyhow

To follow-up on last months entry im submitting the following trio of the Kurnoth hunters all armed with their greatbows. for the greater good of Ghyran, the Everqueen is awakening a winterleaf wargrove..b. in my gaming den...

have fun and good luck everyone else!

Will a single champion of khorne fit the theme?

I know I shouldn't start yet another project, but I'm not a tabletopgamer because I'm so super rational... here is my picture of proof:



I kept it small this time in order to up my chances of finishing!

If I can do some painting this month - it's burning hot in here, I'll enter either a heavily converted Ork Nob (the first Ork in months!) or Red Hood from DC Knight Models.

I know you can submit up to five models, but can it be just one model?

Thanks

SG

Yep, most of us do just the one model. (It's all I can usually find time to paint in a month!)

 feltmonkey wrote:
Yep, most of us do just the one model. (It's all I can usually find time to paint in a month!)

Thanks! I appreciate your help!

SG

I'm gonna throw in five members of my Iron Warriors Kill Team.

 Kustomer D wrote:
If I can do some painting this month - it's burning hot in here, I'll enter either a heavily converted Ork Nob (the first Ork in months!) or Red Hood from DC Knight Models.

Personally I'd love to see Red Hood! The mini looks great!

I'm perhaps later joining this party than I would like, but this month I thought I'd say "And now for something completely different". In honor of the upcoming re-launch of Games Workshop's Lord of the Rings Strategy Battle Game (now called Middle-Earth SBG), I thought I'd paint up a unit from that game from my old collection. I had to try to figure out an elite unit to fit the month's theme, and really the only thing I could come up with was these metal Easterling Kataphrakts. Here's the proof pic showing that two are primed from years ago and the other three are newly assembled and thus not primed:

I figure heavy cavalry could be considered fairly elite, and it gives me an excuse to paint up some Easterlings. They had the best looking armor in the LotR movies hands down; it's a shame they only actually appear in one scene in the second movie.

Some wips

Guess the theme?
May not be to everybodies liking but hey

What is this, March? We need less space marines dammit!

Anyway I'm entering a chaplain.

My entry for this month:

A champion of khorne

It's time to paint some more Infinity minis.

Gonna do Tunguska starter pack.




Also here are several bases I made from Kato clay and various plastic profiles. For the top texture I've used Green stuff world's rolling pins (amazing tool).

@Modock Thank's for showing those rolling pin's. That has just saved me hour's of work.

kryczek wrote:
@Modock Thank's for showing those rolling pin's. That has just saved me hour's of work.

No problem! I have quite a few of them and I must say they are amazing for bases, walls, ground and so on. Also very easy to work with,
you just have to use the right clay/material. Highly recommend.

I will be completing (among many other things this month), this Tomb Sentinel.

Bringing in my second mini's (of 4) WIP for this month - I've finished the first but I figured i'd post the WIPs here and leave the finals until we're closer to the end. If anyone's desperate to see the finished ones as they go i'll put them up on my P&M blog.

This will be my entry: a Chaos Gladiator. Experienced fighters that Chaos certainly can use in battle.
Very early WIP, but I'd like to hear your thoughts on him. I don't want to be entirely historically correct, but it's inspired by the so called Retiarius, the gladiator armed with a net and a trident.

1. Aren't the trident spikes just a little too large? (not going for a realistic look, but still......). I probably will replace the top part of the shaft with an "unwrapped" one.
2. Other thoughts? (don't mind the base, it'll be a round one in the end.

It looks nice. And the idea is cool.
Maybe his pose is a little bit static and I am not sure, but the hooks seem to point upwards, I think downwards should be better to get one caught.

And I like the size of the trident.

Hooks definitely should be the other way round as if they were being thrown over head

Good luck everyone

Nice to see those rollers in Action Modock, I've looked at them several times before but not gone for them just yet.

I'll just be doing a fairly simple one since I want to do a few other things this month which will limit the time I have to paint, an Ork Painboy. I feel they ago "above and beyond" the call of duty to "improve" and help their fellow Orks. Many a time a wounded Ork has just come in for a simple leg amputation and found he's got a new leg and a new arm and eye and had a dreaded squig brain transplant because the Painboy was in the mood for one.

Proof

Let's see if I can get a Deathwatch Kill Team done...

Proof:

Hey guys its been a while this is what ive been working on this month dont count the red one...they are still wip


Proof

A nice looking squad already SmallChanges

LordRahl, welcome back, they are looking pretty cool, will be interested to see some closer photos when they are done.

League table updated as promised

https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/732117.page#9481149

 SirOllox wrote:
It looks nice. And the idea is cool.
Maybe his pose is a little bit static and I am not sure, but the hooks seem to point upwards, I think downwards should be better to get one caught.
And I like the size of the trident.

 Rybrook wrote:
Hooks definitely should be the other way round as if they were being thrown over head

After another day thinking about this, I'm gonna change my entry.
You guys were right about the hooks. That's not much of a change, but I probably also want to re-pose his legs as his pose is quite static compared to the net being thrown. I'm not afraid to take that challenge, but it'll take too much time for this contest if I also want to give it a decent paintjob......
I'll have to come up with something else or use the skeleton centaur which I planned to use earlier this year.

Very frustrating day. I built and primed a bunch of infantry, and I started blocking out the metallics when I remembered this theme. So I went to take a picture of my Alphas. Then I butter fingered my tablet, which Rube Goldberged into my set up and FLIPPED my models over. Thing is, they are magnetized, so they got crushed under a 2 lb baking pan.

Two hours of finding all the bits, repairing and cleaning them up, repriming, and here we are:


It gave me perverse joy to pose them like a 90s boy band.

On a side note, I'm actually quite impressed by how impact resistant gesso is. If these were spray primed, I doubt they'd stay in one piece after the beating they took. (AdMech are all about the spindly bits, so unthinned acrylic gesso really helps bulk out the features while giving it a very toothy and durable coating.)

Thanks Midget Gems! There's more where they came from.

LDP - that's a heck of a quick start. Looking forward to seeing what you do with the sword.

Managed a good session yesterday and blocked out most of the colours. Left to right we've got Kail Vibius of the Marines Errant leading the Kill Team (based on a piece of art from the Deathwatch RP books), a Death Spectre, an unspecified purple and gold chapter, one of the Marines Malevolent, and a Mantis Warrior (a sniper veteran of the Tranquility campaign, hence the green spike camo on the shoulder pad):

Some Wip pics of Heckler mini. Changed the orange recipe a bit. It's more on the orange side previous recipe was more reddish in tone.

Great contrast and smooth transitions as always, Modock. That orange has a nice earthiness to it, too. Another bunch of amazing minis on the way, I'm sure!

I love your gladiator conversion, Tim121.

Also, I agree. That pose is perfect, Suzuteo.

Still don't know what I'm going to paint this month, yet. Tossing up between a harlequin killteam, a DE scourge and the new Knight Incantor that comes on the magazine - I'm not usually a fan of Stormcast but I just love that pose! I think I'm leaning towards the last.
Anyhow, back to the renovations...only another couple of months to go...
...oooh, or maybe some death guard...

Close up proofs for the last 2 members of the squad

Completed Tomb Sentinel:

Gonna work on this one:



Initially wanted to use it for the 3 colour maximum month, painting it up in an etherical/ghostly look, but that took too much time and was a bridge too far.
Stripped it from all of the paint and replaced the horns. Going for a normal bone painting scheme now.

@DV8, holy crap! That’s one sexy Necron gribbly!

Thanks! It was a lot of fun to paint, although figuring out where to put the lights and shadows on each segment took me a hot minute!

Shamless plug, check out my P&M log if you wanna see more of my Necrons.

 Chris56 wrote:
Great contrast and smooth transitions as always, Modock. That orange has a nice earthiness to it, too. Another bunch of amazing minis on the way, I'm sure!

Thanks Chris, yeah it's a bit more brownish than before. I'm happier with this tone.

Still don't know what I'm going to paint this month, yet. Tossing up between a harlequin killteam, a DE scourge and the new Knight Incantor that comes on the magazine - I'm not usually a fan of Stormcast but I just love that pose! I think I'm leaning towards the last.
Anyhow, back to the renovations...only another couple of months to go...
...oooh, or maybe some death guard...

I'd like to see you do the Harlequins with some checkered pattern. You can draw some amazing freehand also Harlequins are really cool, something special in 40k.

Well, it looks like real life is getting in the way of painting again this month, and in the most unfun way that can be... My dad passed away so I'm going home to Canada for the next two weeks. I won't be bringing paint and miniatures with me, so I'll see you all next month for the next challenge... I do want to turn in a "armies on parade" board this year at my local GW, so I will have a lot of work to do in september...

I'm actually doing a thing. Yay.

First time really doing bone. Could have gone better, but not bad for my first time, Imo.

WIP of veteran number 3! One more to go after this and i'll post up my final shots of everybody when the last couple are done.

Maybe this is the month I paint my final Phoenix Lord, Baharroth...

A bit left field, but I'd like to enter my 1/35 scale caterpillar D9r. Veteran of every israeli conflict since the 1970s. This will be part of an already partly completed diorama, so I hope that's OK.

 ChaosDad wrote:
Well, it looks like real life is getting in the way of painting again this month, and in the most unfun way that can be... My dad passed away so I'm going home to Canada for the next two weeks.

My deepest condolences to you and your family.

Hope you and your family are ok ChaosDad, best wishes to you all.


Well done CREEEEEEEEED, the green around the eyes looks quite nice.

Nce work Lips, will be good to see them altogether at the end.

Nice to see you again queen_annes_revenge, I remember your Spitfire (I think) entry from many challenges ago. Looking forward to see what you do with this one.

Thanks.

Once again I've left my painting too late and I'm leaving the country again tomorrow. So I declare I'm gonna speedpaint this boi by the end of today. I'm holding myself to having a picture of him finished (except for the bade which can be completed tomorrow morning once the texture paint is dry) shortly after midnight. see you then

Condolences to you and yours, ChaosDad, I'm really sorry to hear that.

@queen_annes_revenge: A very interesting model. If possible, could you make sure at least one of your final pics is of the model separate from the diorama, just so people know exactly what they've voting on come the end of the month?

OP should be all up to day, sorry I've been a bit lax this month but God of War has been eating all my free time for the last two weeks!

My own entry also hasn't arrived yet, it's a model I pre-ordered a while ago that was supposed to be shipping any day now, so hopefully it gets here in time for me to do something with it. And if you want a somewhat cryptic/obscure clue: Dagger, dagger, dagger....

ChaosDad: condolences, funerals are never fun, especially for close relatives.

So, WIP on the kitties. Not happy with the skin, and not sure what to do with the polearm shaft, and the sheild would not wet blend. Kinda like how the red came out though, even if the orange didn't go the way I wanted.

At the end of the day, I'm a very slow painter. And even when consciously trying to paint quickly, stuff takes a long time. So the jetpack is almost done, but the chaplain is still a few hours of highlighting away from completion. At least I tried though, unlike last month. The old adage (that I just invented) has proven true once again, 'there is no way of getting a smooth coat of ulthuan grey'. Over three pots of the stuff it's always so lumpy that it needs to be thinned down to milk, then it doesn't have smooth coverage, even if it has smooth texture. I should really just buy the valleho equivalent at this point.

Also condolences chaosdad, never a good time.

It's never an easy time to get through ChaosDad. Time is a healer but I wish for the greatest strength for you and all those close right now. Truly, my condolences.

I'm coming in with the photographs for my final submission. Going to end up having these 3 be my finished product for this month. good luck everybody!

LDP

Some more cape WIPs.

 Paradigm wrote:
Condolences to you and yours, ChaosDad, I'm really sorry to hear that.

@queen_annes_revenge: A very interesting model. If possible, could you make sure at least one of your final pics is of the model separate from the diorama, just so people know exactly what they've voting on come the end of the month?

OP should be all up to day, sorry I've been a bit lax this month but God of War has been eating all my free time for the last two weeks!

My own entry also hasn't arrived yet, it's a model I pre-ordered a while ago that was supposed to be shipping any day now, so hopefully it gets here in time for me to do something with it. And if you want a somewhat cryptic/obscure clue: Dagger, dagger, dagger....

yeah il take photos of it separately. The vehicles on the diorama won't be attached anyway to allow changing of their positions.

@ChaosDad, my condolences. Hope you and your family are doing okay.




My entry is 50% finished. I have finished the all the red, brown, bone and green sections on my honour guard squad. Now just the silvers and golds to do, the whites and the banner depictions! WIPs to come soon!!!

My condolences, ChaosDad, on your loss. It's never easy, losing a loved one.

I still haven't really started on my entry, and indeed I may not even get to. Too much else needing paint right now for a big tournament I'm playing in next weekend.

My condolences to CDad and his Family.

My entry is nearly done. Some touchups here and there and than I'll try to do some decent pics...

Hi Guys, Just joined the dakka today,
is it too late to get in on this?
i have a 4 day weekend, and reckon i can get him finished!
All i can say is. . . he ain't gonna be no Apothecary!!!!

Welcome aboard!

Not very happy with a lot of things, but some warmachine models I am supposed to paint should be comming through the mail soon, so I probably won't have time to paint anything else. The model name is Strider.

I always liked that Mantic model. Cool looking Strider you got there Power Elephant. The blends on the polaris cannon are well done.

Reckon I'm going to have to call it here (I realised I've not fully decided how my Deathwatch will be based, and I don't want to rush in to it. And I won't be able to do any more work on them this month)...

 LordMcAllister wrote:

 Kustomer D wrote:
If I can do some painting this month - it's burning hot in here, I'll enter either a heavily converted Ork Nob (the first Ork in months!) or Red Hood from DC Knight Models.

Personally I'd love to see Red Hood! The mini looks great!

Just 'cause you asked for him: Red Hood

Annoyingly, I took my proof picture a few days ago, but for some reason the pic isn't on my phone anymore. I don't think it saved properly. I've already started painting my entry. I was going to paint two Blood Bowl star players, but I've primed them black and painted some blue, pale brown and white onto them. Would it contravene the rules to retake "proof pics" as they are now? Or should I try to find something else to throw together in the remaining week?

I think you have enough of a track history here for me Feltmonkey, but I guess it’s up to Para and the high council of Dakka painting.

Seems fine to me, as Jadenim said you're a regular so I trust you to play fair, and I've made the same mistake myself in the past! Just post a pic of where they are now and you're good

Love the reflection on the canopy, Powerelephant. He is one cool mini.
Shame you won't have a chance to finish those death watch, Smallchanges - they are looking really clean and professional.
Red Hood was definitely the right choice, Kustomer D - he looks fantastic. You've done really well with all of those fine details.

As for Felt, I'm glad we're taking his word for his proof pics...but maybe we should make him paint the rest of the mini with his left...foot. That way the rest of us have a better chance...
...notice I do not say 'certain', only 'better' chance!

Anyhow, I am going to take Modock's suggestion and paint my harlequin killteam...well, as much as I can in the next week anyway.

So after finishing my Alphas, I realize that they're sort of meh...

Would it be possible to change my entry? I will have to paint all three of these guys within 7 days, but they're Death Company, so most of my work has been done for me:


Dante, I AM YOUR FATHER!

By all means, change away!

 Chris56 wrote:

Anyhow, I am going to take Modock's suggestion and paint my harlequin killteam...well, as much as I can in the next week anyway.

Oh, cool! Can't wait to see them. One can try all sorts of wacky combos with Harlequins and still look great. Really cool minis

I’ve just had to buy more AP paint online, will be tight but will definatly finish one at least.

Final Entry Pics

Fluff, for any who wish to read. Slight spoilers for Dawn of War 3

 Deadshot wrote:
Fluff, for any who wish to read. Slight spoilers for Dawn of War 3

I cried like a baby when that Ork finally got his pointy stick.

Thank you Chris. These figures are pretty cool.
But way different to paint than GW minis.

Paradigm wrote:Seems fine to me, as Jadenim said you're a regular so I trust you to play fair, and I've made the same mistake myself in the past! Just post a pic of where they are now and you're good

Jadenim wrote:I think you have enough of a track history here for me Feltmonkey, but I guess it’s up to Para and the high council of Dakka painting.

Chris56 wrote:
As for Felt, I'm glad we're taking his word for his proof pics...but maybe we should make him paint the rest of the mini with his left...foot.

Thanks guys.

Here's the "proof" pic of how they looked last night (I've been working on them this evening.) Griff Oberwald and The Mighty Zug.



I don't know about painting with my left foot. My five-a-side team could tell tales of the damage I can do (to corner flags, low-flying birds, spectators of adjacent matches) with that foot.

Gaaaaah...forgot about this. I might still try to do a Phoenix Lord.

Done.

Right, so I see you’ve perfected your miniaturisation technology, but what about the model you were supposed to be painting?

Still in this!



Hopefully can get more done this weekend. Work’s been rough, cutting into my energy to hobby.

Nice to see the other entries, going to be a fun vote!

I have no idea whether I’ll get any of these finished, but I thought I may as well throw in a proof; either Eisenhorn or some of the Harlequins.

August seems to be flying by, no idea where the time has gone. Keep going everyone

Good entry, Deadshot and thanks for the fluff always find it interesting

Really nice weathering queen_annes_revenge

A WIP for me

If weather, time, and patience allows...I'll hop in this one late.



My sixth Phoenix Lord, finishing the set.

Can we join at any time?

Yes! There's still time if you think you'll get something done by month's end.

Update...primed...started painting and realized I HATE the paint scheme I devised (it looked fine in my head). So Baharroth is going in the acetone tomorrow morning...for a restart. One evening wasted!

Here is my finished entry.

This month was more enjoyable than the last, so I am more happy with the outcome of my miniature.

In real life the blood looks more squishy and wet than on the picture, but I think I got a good look for the demonweapons.

Dang it, will definitely only finishing one dread, it’s taken longer than I thought, my edge highlighting is terrible and to top it off my fine detail brush keeps splitting on me

Fantastic job, queen_annes_revenge - that model looks exceptional. Great realism.
Sir Ollox, you've really done a great paintjob on a cool model - I'd love to have that guy in my own Khorne force. You're right, the axes are cool but I particularly like the demon faces on the torso and knee. Awesome.
My harlies still have a long way to go...I hate diamonds...

@Chris56, likewise. Diamonds are the worst.

queen_annes_revenge wrote:Done.

Unreal model QAR, as someone said it genuinely looks like you've Ant-Man'd a real one!

Midget Gems wrote:August seems to be flying by, no idea where the time has gone. Keep going everyone

Good entry, Deadshot and thanks for the fluff always find it interesting

Really nice weathering queen_annes_revenge

A WIP for me

Thanks a lot Midget Gems! I always admire your work so the compliments are great! Loving the WIP can't wait to see the final.

SirOllox wrote:Here is my finished entry.

This month was more enjoyable than the last, so I am more happy with the outcome of my miniature.

In real life the blood looks more squishy and wet than on the picture, but I think I got a good look for the demonweapons.

Great entry SirOllox, loving the blood effects!

Thanks guys, here are a couple more of it on the diorama base.

That is mighty impressive!


Automatically Appended Next Post:
My planned entry didn't arrive, so instead I'm going with the backup, a little Big Stompy Robot in the form of Gerantius, the Forgotten Knight. Possibly not final pics as I'm not 100% sold on the finished product, but here we go anyway:


These Titanicus models really are lovely, it has to be said. Fit together perfectly, a decent enough size where detail isn't lost (I'll do some proper comparison shots with the ones not on plinth bases, but the Knights stand around Terminator size/bulk) and pretty reasonably priced, all things considered (the Warlord is beyond my budget/ability, but I can see myself picking up a Reaver or a Warhound at some point).

Any thoughts welcome! A bit of a rushed entry this month, but hopefully still fairly eyecatching.

Here are the final pics of Red Hood Jason Todd.
He is above the law

K D

Finally finished, was a rush and I broke one of the transfers, Also forgot the finish the assault cannon so it just looks sticks of dynamite but again not too bad for 20 year old stickers and water slides

Finished my WarGods of Aegytus Basti heroes today. (and man, isn't that a lot of capital letters in a row...) Still not quite gotten the focus right...

love the redhood and the cat warriors, gotta remember to upload my finished images tonight, lots of distractions this month

Well, since I'm going out of town later today I'd better go ahead and upload my final pics. So here they are, straight from the far eastern reaches of Middle Earth, my Easterling Kataphrakts:



I'm pretty happy with how they turned out, especially considering I did all the work in basically just two (long) evenings, and finished them up this morning. I absolutely love the look of the Easterlings as seen in The Two Towers, and it's tragic to me that we only see them in that one scene in the whole trilogy. GW did an amazing job coming up with additional models that still have that look even though we never saw them on screen. Truly some of my favorite models I've ever painted.

Anyways, I like what others have been posting recently, and I look forward to being able to see and vote on everyone's stuff!

Im pretty happy with how my forest is shaping up over here. I gave some leafs to mark the leader of the squad, decided to pick up a second pack of the hunters and now have 6 archers, Winter has come to the glades..

I won't make it this month. Stripped my Baharroth down but didn't get back to painting him. Since I dip, I couldn't finish him tomorrow even if I wanted to.

Final Pic:


OK, these guys were kinda fun. Those bases need to die in a fire, but the minis aren’t as goofy as I originally thought.

Some great entries coming in this month...
Love those guys Nev, I was tempted to paint those myself this month. I agree, I thought they were a bit goofy at first but they have grown on me over time.

This is my finished Harlequin Kill Team (minus two models that I am yet to finish). It sure was an experience painting these guys - I think it has really helped my fine detail skills. Those diamonds are a pain in the neck, though...It has been years since I played anything, so I am really looking forward to seeing these guys on the tabletop!

You'll need to zoom in on the group shots to get rid of the blur - my camera equipment is still in storage so they aren't fantastic...

Each Player is meant to be one of the characters that I rolled up from the Kill Team book.
From left to right; The Redtide, The Shadow, The Moon, The Witch and The Sun.


Kill Team Front


Back


The Witch and The Sun


The Moon


The Shadow


The Redtide

Good luck to everyone and see you all next month!

Here are my final pics. Griff Oberwald and The Mighty Zug of the Reikland Reavers.













For those who aren't familiar with Blood Bowl lore, these guys are the star players of the most succesful team in Blood Bowl history. They elevate the Reavers through, respectively, their scoring ability and sheer brutality, helping the team to championship after championship. Zug alone has inflicted over 200 serious injuries across his glittering career. I reckon they fit the description of elite troops.

I haven't touched my entry in over a week, but all I really have left is some shading and highlights, so I'm still in a position to be able to submit something tonight (or when I get home from work tomorrow, depending on pictures).

Some really strong entries coming in late in the game! Good work everyone!

Just finished my piece. Have to wait for the texture to dry. Will take photos after work.

EDIT:


These are the Thunder Hammerers for my Death Company. They are true scale and converted from some damaged Stormcast Eternals that I bought off eBay along with Space Marine and AdMech bits.

Unfortunately, I was not able to matte spray these things in time (I usually let them sit for a few days just to be safe), so the metal looks more glossy than satin.

So I managed to get one (1) finished:







I hate diamonds. Almost as much as I hate yellow. So glad I decided not to get a Harlequin army (these are for a friend's Kill Team).

Too bad, I only finished two with third half way...
Well here they are.

Heckler and Hollowman.

I haven't had time to finish the last one

Midnights here so time for some Final Pics from me. Well done to everyone that finished.

Not too happy with the pics actually will have to look at my set up again, they seem to have lost some of the colour transition and highlights but it is what it is now.

Waiting for the paint to dry, will take my pics first thing in the morning!

Nice to know I’m not the only one skating in under the wire. Nice group of last minute entries!

Few more hours, then I'll call it a wrap.

Just want to make sure, but I updated my post above with a photo.

Go vote!
https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/0/763233.page#10137066