Welcome to the 44th 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, we come round again to the classic October theme of all things spooky and scary. Whether that's creeping dread or in-your-face horror, subtle or overt, the scarier the better for this Halloween round!


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


List Of Entrants:

Zergsmasher:


Rybrook: FINISHED


Nevelon: FINISHED


JamesY:


Flinty:


CaptainWaffle: FINISHED


Maharg: FINISHED


Darkcloak:


Total: FINISHED


Deadshot: FINISHED


Inquisitor Lord Bane:


ZoBo: FINISHED


Gundor2:


Modock: FINISHED


queen-annes_revenge:


Excommuncatus:


Straken619: FINISHED


Chris56: FINISHED


Coh Magnussen: FINISHED


Vejut: FINISHED


Lipsdapips: FINISHED


Tim 121RVC: FINISHED


Midget Gems: FINISHED


MitchellDixon1588:


Evil D-185: FINISHED


Jadenim: FINISHED


Feltmonkey: FINISHED


SirOllox: FINISHED


Paradigm: FINISHED


DV8: FINISHED

Just like last year, I'll paint a batch of Poxwalkers:

I'll paint all ten, and pick the best five to be my final entry. Good luck everyone!

I will try my best, wanted these since 3rd ed so will paint 5 first then the other 5 if they look good

Hrm, I've got a plan that almost fits the theme, but not exactly... It's more of a 'halloween costume' level of scary rather than actual scary. I guess to the wee little yoots and snotlings it might be scary though .

Going to try for all 3. Might be rough.

Luther, last knight of Caliban, Ascended by Chaos, ready to slay the Lion;

Proof

To help fill out my kill team, I'll pull together the terror troop portion. 2No. Reivers.

What's spookier than Maugan Ra, Harvester of Souls? I have a busy October, but I know I can get at least one model done before the month is through. I might increase his base size a little.

I've got some ghosts for this month

Resin has been washed and all 10 figures are glued to 32mm bases

Well... It's not scary. It's not spooky. It's not a skeleton.

It's an Imperial Fists Captain with Storm Bolter and Chainsword! The most terrifying thing any Heretic could see shortly before being demised forcibly. Also painting yellow is scary. I am afraid. I'm very afraid.

Side note: Will use better camera for later shots. I promise that grey blob is a Captain.

I'll throw my Triarch Stalker into the contest this month. A giant Egyptian Death Robot Spider. Not much out there that's spookier than that. Proof pic when I get home.

Sure, I'll throw my hat in the ring - I'll enter a chaos spawn. A currently very WIP chaos spawn. Hopefully it's not too far ahead in the making process to be entered?



Note: Final pics will be taken with a better camera, better lighting situation, and a background that isn't my messy workstation.

Whats more terrifying than the Alpha leader of a monster based on the Xenomorph, most terrifying monster ever? Nothing

 ZergSmasher wrote:
Just like last year, I'll paint a batch of Poxwalkers:
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I'll paint all ten, and pick the best five to be my final entry. Good luck everyone!

I have an arrangement that nearly fits the subject, however not precisely... It's all the more a 'halloween ensemble' level of terrifying instead of real unnerving. I figure to the small little yoots and snotlings it may be frightening however

Popped that Cap off his base to spruce it up a bit. Now just a lil GS and I'll be ready to prime.

GS is part done and curing. Next to do a jack o' lantern!

Proof:

pauloctavio wrote:

I have an arrangement that nearly fits the subject, however not precisely... It's all the more a 'halloween ensemble' level of terrifying instead of real unnerving. I figure to the small little yoots and snotlings it may be frightening however

That sort of thing is absolutely appropriate for this round. We always get a few 'costume' entries in the Halloween round and they're always great.

so I totally spaced out on this the past couple of months, but I think I might have a go at this one - hopefully I'll be able to get it done before I get hopelessly distracted by the impending new ork stuff

...anyway, here's my proof pic...Horticulus Slimux...I've had this model sitting around for...oof...quite a while now I think about it...grabbed it off an ebay box-splitter, from the blightwar box, before he was available separately ...anyway, it seems fitting to me, it's always given me a bit of a Tim Burton vibe, with it's fantastical storybook-esque cheerful spookiness

I'll throw my hat in for this month.

Ah dammit, I was going to make a joke about anyone who does a mourngul automatically wins...

 Jadenim wrote:
Ah dammit, I was going to make a joke about anyone who does a mourngul automatically wins...

Thanks

I'm gonna do this beast of a miniature.

Armata-2 Proyekt "Ratnik"

Zhufor.

I'm in and will pledge Zarakynel/The Violet Heart.

As She currently exists;



More [probably NSFW] pics in my WIP thread https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/0/762359.page#10114943

Sitting down for a pre-hobby smoke. Going to do the pumpkin.

Initially I was just going to do the skull pile base and then I realized the backside of the base looked rather bare. I was going to make a simple plant with wire and flock but then decided to try making leaves. Then I realized I had room for a jack o lantern. That's probably within the bounds of my experience with green stuff! So away we go. Don't expect anything too fancy.

Also I've decided this guy is going to be 6th Company since their trim is orange.

Also that is a sick Slaanesh Demon. It's probably going to win.

Done the pumpkin.

Finally primed the first 5 and nearly ran out of chaos black, now need to find lots of reference materials for inspiration

Good luck

Not sure if Im gonna find the time to paint this but its a good chance for my Harbinger of Death
Proof

That is one really cool model, Straken! Where the hell did you get that 'cos I really WANT one!

I dunno precisely what I am going to paint but something from this lot...

Basecoats down, but he’s going to be very wash intensive.

WIP

Argh!

Waiting for primer to cure is the worst! Especially when you know darn well the next week will be busy at work.

Thankfully us Canucks are celebrating a holiday so tomorrow I should be able to get some basecoats done.

 Chris56 wrote:
That is one really cool model, Straken! Where the hell did you get that 'cos I really WANT one!

I know, right? And its massive! It's 90mm. The biggest model I own so far. Its called The Harbinger of Death from Galapagos Miniatures. Hope I paint it it doesn't look all black

No pics yet, but last night I assembled the first of the halloween grots... what's scary to a grot? Spez Marines! So the little guy is wearing a space marine costume. He'll be getting some buddies, haven't decided if they'll be a little grotling tac-squad or perhaps more varied costumes. I'd love to have tau, eldar, and 'nid costumes as well, but the cost of the bits may be prohibitive for singular models.


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pics are awful, but hopefully suffice as proof. These grots dressed up as space marines for halloween :

So, just got the Village attacks kickstarter stuff in at the start of the month, really wanted to do that werewolf, so--proof pics, with bonus plague doctor I probably won't get to.



And I'd call this WIP, but really I just need to figure out what I want to do for a base. Open for ideas--could continue with the green stuff brick as its technically for a dungeon based game, but not sure it'll fit around his feet right, and may have the usual "model blends into the base" problem.

Extremely WIP with just a couple drybrush layers and a shade but its the first time I paint a really dark miniature. So... what can i do to make it not look like a big black thing? Am i worrying too much and once I drybrush it some more and add the details it will look ok? I could really use some advice.

I'd be very afraid of this guy if I were an enemy of the emperor!

Straken, yes, more layers of color and details will help, contrast I'm told is the big thing, and using it to define the shape. You can kinda see the shine from your light on him, and its a fairly bright grey- you can kinda use that as a guide. Also, use color variation and details to break it up--you can kinda see the start of an effect like that between the dark green of the horse and the dark blue of the guy.

Well I got some stuff basecoated today. My back is killing me so I don't have the energy to go get the good camera.

I decided to use brown as my basecoat for the yellow. I've seen that turn out well. Oh and for his cloak I decided on company colour outer layer and purple for the inner. So purple and orange, lol.

Might try some OSL on the pumpkin to make it look like less of a cartoon.


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Oh and I forgot to say so last night but Coh, those Grots look great. This is going to be your thing isn't it? I must admit GW makes the best tiny goblins. I'm often tempted to do Grot things but there are so many projects already!

Any comic fans over here? My early, unfinished WIP:

 Tim 121RVC wrote:
Any comic fans over here? My early, unfinished WIP:

Damn that's awesome! Are ypu going Green or Hob Goblin route?

coming in with an update!

Got some progress!

Will take better pic tomorrow when the light is better.

Here is another.


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I might do another couple layers of yellow, maybe with a bit of white mixed in. That should get the yellow to pop better. I wanted this guy to be really weathered like he's been fighting a long time but I still want that yellow to pop!

I've moved away from the GW style with raised highlights and the bold colours and started doing my own thing based on my experience painting Berzerkers. I'd like to think I'm inspired by Blanchitsu but I don't know. Whatever's. Basically the method revolves around building up from darker tones to a lighter one and leaving lots of shadow on the model. Each lighter shade goes on an increasingly smaller area so that the actual end tone takes up very little space. I work in small panels, sometimes it's just a dot of colour at the end. What ends up happening is the opposite of the GW style where the raised parts are the brightest. The edges remain dark and make it really easy to apply weathering. If I would have painted all this yesterday I could have taken better pictures to illustrate this...

Anyways, there he is. Captain Pumpkin Patch. Mostly done aside from whatever else I decide to do. Probably give him some muddy boots. Pick out the red Aquila and skulls better. Actually go get another blade for my hobby knife and drill that muzzle out a bit. And there is a bit of purple on the fold of his cape that needs touched up a bit.

Then it's on to that base! Skulls and Pumpkins. Hoorah.

Goddamn, Tim! That is one cool bit of modelling!
Lipsdapips' painting is super crisp and clean as always.
Looking forward to the finished result, darkcloak...interested to see how it turns out!

I like the fact that even when building Deathwatch, it has to be an Ultramarine Lipsdapips!

I really need to make a move on my LoTD defiantly taking LDP’s highlighting though, well will try to do it

 Jadenim wrote:
I like the fact that even when building Deathwatch, it has to be an Ultramarine Lipsdapips!

It's all for show, an attempt to prove he's still loyal despite the fact he's been painting filthy heretical Eldar over on his blog...

Thanks Chris56! I think it's going well, hopefully I can snap some better pics today.

And what? An Ultramarines player painting Eldar?? Doesn't he know the only form of approved heresy is to turn Traitor?! For shaaaame!

Some great entries, ideas and just awesome models so far, seem like the start of a really fun month

Yay welcome back Zobo, looking forward to your snail

Nice work darkcloak, I like what you have done with the base so far.

I've always liked your undead entries Nev, 3 of them will be wonderful

Really nice idea Tim, will be great to see it painted up.

I've been debating what to do for a few days but going with these guys, as always help with the names would be appreciated. What do you guys think?
I've come up with "The Wicked Witch of the Waaagh! (West)", Freddy Kruegrot (Krueger) and Orkenstein, the almost successful squig brain transplant patient.

I've been instructed by my Primarch that certain Eldar are now perfectly fine...lord knows what Yvraine and Ynnead's done to his brain :0

 darkcloak wrote:
And what? An Ultramarines player painting Eldar?? Doesn't he know the only form of approved heresy is to turn Traitor?! For shaaaame!

Yah, those Ultramarine players who paint Eldar, What weirdos!

<whistles innocently>

Some WIP on my entry:


Lantern guy is just waiting for flock, the other two in the basecoat accumulation stage.

alrighty, just finished Horticulus Slimux...oh yeah, this was about as fun as I thought it was going to be ...I even got to mess around with some glow-in-the-dark pigment, to give him extra spooky glowy eyes and stuff!

Finished pics:

Nice one Zobo, looks great. Looking forward to seeing what everyone else can do, there's some inventive conversions going on.

Finished the first model, now for the rest of them

Proof pic to enter

 Deadshot wrote:

Damn that's awesome! Are ypu going Green or Hob Goblin route?

Hobgoblin, though I really have to see how tidying the hood and face work out. Some greenstuffing is involved, I´m not sure I´ve got the skills at this small scale to make it look allright, but I´ll give it a shot.

ZoBo, that's a great paintjob! Cool use of the fluorescent paint, it looks very nice in the dark.
Midget Gems and Coh Magnussen, really funny conversions!

Some WIP from me too.
First time I am doing anything like this but I think I like this "ghostly" effect.

You want something scary looking well OK
This will be the second one I am working on

Model is put together and GS work is finished

Evil-D185 wrote:

Not fair. We can't be having advanced people in this, the rest of us look bad!

Here’s a WIP

Will never be as good as GW’s ones but hey

Started basecoating tonight., so here are some WIP shots of the grot-or-treaters... err, grot-marines, err... you get the idea.

click for bigger pics.

Can just imagine a group of them waddling up to the fortress gates and the guards chuckling allowing them past

Started to put some washes down, still a ways to go on these two.

Progress on this guy.

Wow, he's creepy!

Ordered a 54mm scale S.T.A.L.K.E.R. miniature. Hopefully it gets here in time, it might take me a while to make the scene around him. He is holding an artifact detector, so I'll go revisit the game and find a good place in the game with some anomalies to recreate.

Nice work Evil-D185, thats looking really cool, I like the suspense you have left us in by not showing the face

Good progress so far Rybrook, always liked those models but never been able to get any .

Interesting idea Coh Magnussen, I like the middle one the best.

Looking very good already Nev

No painting update from me but I have updated the league table

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

Half way through the year and some very close positions for 1st, 2nd and 3-4th with 9 - 11 also hotly contested

Also I've finally got around to starting to post some of my stuff up on a Blog if anyone is interested feel feel to drop by, I'll be updating it over the next few weeks to catch up to where I am now

https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/765262.page#10189705

Thanks Midget Gems. The first and last are regular 40k gretchin with Space Marine bits added (I had to do some judicious knife-and-file work to make the body armor sufficiently hollow, but the shoulder pads just glued on). The middle is a full SM torso/head with fantasy goblin legs and arms (plus a spare choppa from the boys box). He's got a banner that will go with, I'm thinking an ultramarine symbol but with teef .

Great work with the chart MG! Thanks Mate.

Hey everybody! I'm checking in with my finished entry for the month: Ennius Spinther, combat specialist for my Deathwatch Kill Team.
I'm a little saddened - I leave the country for 2 months (albeit for awesome study-related reasons) in mid-November. It's also the midst of exam time, so I'll need to be snappy and negotiate some spooky deadlines very carefully. It also means I'll miss December as far as the comp goes. A bummer to round of the year with a miss - it'll carry my total tally of missed ones for the year up to two. I was so close to getting something in every month! Oh well. Next year I guess





Good luck everybody!

LDP

Wow... Just wow!

Nicely done!

OP all up to date now. Going to be some great entries this month by the looks of it!

Well, mine's done, just need to get some better photos.




Lipsdapips, that kinda sucks, but plus side, they're better than the ones I am getting in every month. That's a nice looking marine.

Magnussen, those are nicely goofy conversions. I like them alot.

Nevelon, the ghost streamers are coming along nicely, front one looks like its just about there.

And thanks as well to Midget Gems for keeping the chart up to date. That thing is a bear to wrestle...

Mine are nearly done, just need to attach arms/ weapons, highlight and base

Will post up the current WIP when I get home from work, I don’t think I have done a bad job for first time painting fire

Deathwatch dude is sick. Very simple and muted but so clean and crisp! I like it. Good work.

Final pics


Well that was a fun change of pace. Lots of techniques I don’t normally get to do on these guys.

Need to do some basing work and a little touchup (and find a way to photo the 'nob' so his face isn't in the banner shadow), but figured I'd post another set of pics.

Click for larger pics.

Those are delightfully characterful!

@Nev: great work, all three of those have come out really nicely!

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Every time a bell rings, an angel gets it's wings. Or in this case a demon.

No worries Modock

Well done Lipdapips, another really good entry. awwww sad you are off for 2 months, I always look forward to seeing your entries. Good Luck with your trip and see you next year

Great work on those Nighthaunt Nev, yeah I really like the different techniques you employ for these guys.

Excommunicatus - Shame you are withdrawing that was a really cool model. Anything else you can enter?

Nice progress Gundor, the wings look like they really belong there.

I really need to get a move on with painting, just been very busy the last few week

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So, one or more of these guys:




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And a bit of WIP:

I've had a tiring first half of the month, with a lot going on in work, and working on my Armies on Parade board in the evenings. In the week since AOP, I've been a bit burned out on starting anything else, so all I've managed to do so far is build and prime the model I've decided to paint. I'm going to paint a Plague Marine. Yep, just one bog standard Plague Marine. I've never painted anything Nurgley before, the closest being a female chaos marine I painted a few months ago for these challanges. I've got some cool new paints, and I'm going to try out some completely new techniques on this guy.

 feltmonkey wrote:
I've had a tiring first half of the month, with a lot going on in work, and working on my Armies on Parade board in the evenings. In the week since AOP, I've been a bit burned out on starting anything else, so all I've managed to do so far is build and prime the model I've decided to paint. I'm going to paint a Plague Marine. Yep, just one bog standard Plague Marine. I've never painted anything Nurgley before, the closest being a female chaos marine I painted a few months ago for these challanges. I've got some cool new paints, and I'm going to try out some completely new techniques on this guy.

Those are a lot of fun to paint! So many disgusting little details. I did the whole Dark Imperium squad of them in last November's challenge.

You always have really interesting ideas, felt, so I'm keen to see what you do with the plague marine...they are great models too...
Loving the grots, Coh Magnussen. You've done a really great job on them.
Awesomely crisp detail again, lips - the highlights on the hammer handle are amazing.
Nev - that rider is especially dynamic and you've done some nice work on the 'cloak / ethereal bits...I'm about to try one of those myself. Did you use washes over white or highlight up from blue? I'm unsure which to try...
I'll try to get some WIP pics up soon...

 Chris56 wrote:
Nev - that rider is especially dynamic and you've done some nice work on the 'cloak / ethereal bits...I'm about to try one of those myself. Did you use washes over white or highlight up from blue? I'm unsure which

Pretty simple. No idea what the modern equivalent paints are (using cote d’arms era hex pots)

Prime white.
Basecoat Elf Grey (very pale, almost white, with a touch of blueish grey)
Turquoise glaze over all the white, into the black/red to blend. Actually used as a glaze, not just a wash. None of this “sticking to the recesses” junk.
Thin black/red layer on the robes/cloak to reinforce the non-etherial portion and blend down into the ghosty bits.
Light drybrush with the Elf Grey again to pick up the high points and blend a bit.

That’s my secret. Not much to it. The main stumbling block is I’m not sure GW makes anything close to a turquoise glaze these days. They flow completely differently from the modern shades.

Thanks, Nev. That is very helpful!

While I'm waiting on my S.T.A.L.K.E.R. model to be delivered I went ahead and started on the scenery part of the diorama.

Que spooky music.

Contest entry finished: Maugan Ra, Harvester of Souls, Phoenix Lord of the Dark Reaper Aspect Warriors, wielder of the Maugetar, savior of Craftworld Altansar. Spookiest of spooky this Spooktober. C&C welcome here or at my hobby log. I'm tired of painting bone and dealing with "Finecast" for a time.

Someone (or 5 someones) from this bunch, most likely Voldus.

Of course you can Excommunicatus at any time, good work so far, the base is looking nice, keep going

I feel the same Felt, been a really busy few weeks and struggling to get anything done. I really hope you get at least 1 guy in.

Power Elephant you are insane

Nice work Captain Waffle, I really like the purple for the skull eyes and gems.

My not much WIP, some of the base colours done >_<

Been busy lately too, still need to highlight and base the minis though

Ok, it's good to know that I can change at anytime, 'cause after insisting my GS wouldn't be here until the 29th, it showed up yesterday.

So I'll be going back to Zarakynel/The Violet Heart.

My stalker still hasn't arrived, I wonder if I'll be able to paint him in time.

Well, hopefully I can get some painting done today.

I've been out of the loop, dealing with a shady ex-employer who decided to fire me after I hurt my back on a jobsite. It's actually been a really gak week, but today I may be able to take some time for myself and break out the paint tin.

Loving all the entries. Really looking forward to seeing that She-Demon, maybe? I hope we get to see the She-Demon.

He's a legend even amongst the Kazak veterans. Wearing Ratnik Battle suit, the one and only Romsky "murder machine" Vadimov.

The model is just crazy. Amazingly sharp detals. I wanted something different this time. The model is full of scratches and dents, the subtle camo pattern.
Did some experiments with semi-non metalic metal. I painted him more like a tank, well he is actually.

Off to bed, later.

Awesome as always, Modock. The rust/corrosion on the nmm looks especially good.

I wanna see the she-demon, too!!
Hopefully the Stalker arrives in time - I loved that game.

That's pretty sexy.

I really need to push myself out of my GW comfort bubble.

Is the 'She-Demon' my lady?

If so, She-Demon/Zarakynel/The Violet Heart has had her gaps filled (wahey!) and is primed. I have 108 hours to slap paint on her and I'm off all weekend and Tuesday, so She should get finished.

Y'all should be very aware though that I pledged here for motivation, not because I'm a good painter. They call me Captain Drybrush.

Yep, She-Demon is your girl Ex.

It's a very hard vote for me this month. There are several devils on my shoulder telling me who to vote for.

1: The not-so-bad one. Vote for the one you think has been done the "best" so far... Deathwatch Dude. He's really crisp and black can be a challenging colour to paint.

2: The fun party time guy. Vote for the one that is the most "awesome"... Grot Marines. They look fantastic and make me laugh. I want to see the idea expanded on.

3: Thaaaaat guy, you know who we mean, he'sapervcoughcough. Vote for She-Demon, maybe Slaanesh is real and I'll get some sweet payback later when I open a minor warp rift with a ritualistic mass suicide of the followers I've been gathering. By the way, I've been gathering followers.

4: The pragmatist. Vote for yourself, you may be the only one who does if you don't finish strong!

By the time I typed this joke I could have painted the base coat on the base. Shame.


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I'm going to go play Minecraft now.

Cheers dudes and good luck!


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Oh and I also have to add that I really like that battle suit. Particularly how the rucksack seems to add that nice contrast with the armour panels and the subframe.

psst...you're allowed (and encouraged) to vote for more than one entry...just sayin

 ZoBo wrote:
psst...you're allowed (and encouraged) to vote for more than one entry...just sayin

Shut the front door!

Looks like things are finally turning up Milhouse.

Should you ever meet this fellow in the dungeon then be Afraid! Be very Afraid!

The Beast

That's... disturbing. Kudos.

Wow Evil, well painted and super creepy!

Here are the final photos for my far less well painted and also less creepy entry. A little better than last month, I hope, but I've got a long ways to go.

Sorry guys. A combination of family visits and work horror has combined to take away most of my hobby time this month. The reivers are going to have to wait for another day :(

Existence precedes essence.

A grot in UM armour is just as disturbing as a SIlent Hill-esque Daemon Prnce/Ogre.

Sterling work.

Poll for next month, sorry it's so late, the last couple of weeks have been very busy:
https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/0/765926.page#10206978

Late proof pic, I did on the 17th,but I was not sure if I can finish my entry.




And here the finished entry.
Not spooky, but you should be realy afraid if you come over his way..... Gorefried van Facesmash, my Kill Team Boss Nob, he is not a nice guy.

Ok I think I am finished too. At least for now. Maybe I can fix a thing or two.... but I probably won't.
I really like how he turned out. I was afraid he was gonna look all black but he looks colorfull enough and yet kinda dark.
Im not sure about the hourglass though.... thats why instead of gluing it I just pinned it there in case I change my mind. Im open to suggestions if anyone has a clue how to paint a hourglass cause I sure don't.

 darkcloak wrote:

 ZoBo wrote:
psst...you're allowed (and encouraged) to vote for more than one entry...just sayin

Shut the front door!

Looks like things are finally turning up Milhouse.

There have been several months when I've voted for everyone except myself. Unfortunately in practical terms all I'm really doing is giving myself -1 votes, so it's not that great an idea.

Finally got around to doing up those final pics. One finished Village Attacks werewolf.

Bit of a last-minute entry from me this month, and I'm definitely phoning it in with this one, but at least it's not a DNF (I didn't enter 43 of these in a row to stop now! ). Been super-busy with uni this month and what free time I've had has largely been eaten by the new Assassin's Creed or running 2 D&D campaigns, but I managed to get a mini done just in time.

It's possibly overdone on the grime front even by my standards, but I actually quite like how he's come out; if anyone has a license to be more dirty and messy than usually appropriate it's a Plague Marine. Definitely find the ETB Plague Marines overly busy sculpts though, not as much scope as I'd like for some fancier weathering/muck effects.


Any thoughts welcome!

Apologies for the late entry. Wasn't sure if I'd be able to get these done in time, since it's mid-term season at school and I've been rather pre-occupied.

The Warhound kit for Adeptus Titanicus was released this month, and I figure what's spookier than being flanked by a duo of these bad boys!

Pre-assembly photo:


Completed squadron:





I swear, I'll get a proper photo setup again soon!

Some fantastic looking entries. Unfortunately I'm going to have to withdraw, I'm away for the holidays and mine is no where near finished. It's hardly even started. All the best in the voting

I'm limping towards the finish line, struggling with the flu to do any painting. I'm hoping I'll be able to finish off my mini tonight, and take photos tomorrow night. Then along comes Para with a very similar miniature to the one I'm painting, and a spectacular paintjob very much along similar lines to what I'm doing, but probably looking a fair bit better than my effort, and he describes it as "phoned in." Bah.

Sorry mate, I'd forgotten you were also doing a Plague Marine!

Honestly, I'm looking forward to seeing what you come up with, if your usual product is anything to go by yours will have had far more thought put into it than mine did (which was basically 'what can I paint in a couple of hours that vaguely fits the theme' )! Yours is a much cooler sculpt/pose as well, it'll certainly make my generic bolter guy look boring by comparison!


Still a better part of a day left on the subject poll for next month:
https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/765926.page

Looking at the weather forecast, photos might be an issue for me, too.

Is it ok if I post some artificially-lit, kinda bad, photos before the deadline and then replace them on thursday morning with decent ones?

Usually there's a few hours' amnesty, extended if I know I'm waiting for a specific entry, so yeah, so long as your final pics are in by Thursday evening UK time it should be fine.

I am probably going to have to bow out for this month. I've just had all my hobby time occupied with getting my Tau army ready for a big tournament, so I haven't had much time for the Poxwalkers, and I'm unlikely to finish them in 3 days considering I've still got a lot to do on the Tau.

Finally done, but may add tufts to the bases

Will post up final pics when I get back from work

EDIT: Heres a finished shot taken with my phone, not the best i have a problem with my SLR memory card
and it not allowing me to take pics so will post up finals when I get this sorted

Great work so far everyone good to seem some completed entrys. Everyone else keep going (especially you Felt )

Brilliant work Modock, great NNM on the hammer.

Very cool and scary Evil-D185, I thought that was some box art to start with

and I love your entry straken619, its just really really cool and well done

I think that level of grim perfectly suits a plague marine para, several thousand years tends to leave its mark on any armour.

I've had to go away for work at short notice so missed a few bits I would have liked to finish tomorrow but having to do the final pics now. Here you go and enjoy.

Freddy Krugrot, Wicked Waaagh! of the West and an almost successful Squig Brain transplant patient.
Happy Halloween

I probably won't finish, thanks to real life. Great entries so far though.

He,he MG...that Freddy Krugrot is hilarious..ehm very scary...
Pure genius..

I'm all done! Had to jury-rig a lightbox and use my phone camera for the photos, so apologies for the inconsistent quality and lighting.



EDIT: Eek! Only just realised the 6 picture maximum - I've removed two images from the collage

Great eyes, Total!
I agree, that Freddy Krugrot is pretty awesome, MG...

Anyhow, here is my entry this month. I love these models. Despite being push-fit, they are just such cool poses. I've wanted to do the cloaked warden ever since he was first released.
The idea is that the warden is kinda the boss, with the zombie dragon, skellies and banshee all under his command.
Hope everyone likes it - I loved painting the skeletons especially.







Best of luck to everyone and see you next month!

i'm not going to finish my zhufor entry. like a kid in a sweet shop I got distracted by Abaddon. unfortunately I didnt think ahead and photograph him in a pre painted state.

Here are my finished pics of my Plague Marine. I must have done a decent job, as Grandfather Nurgle has seen fit to bestow a minor plague upon me in reward. Blegh.











Painting it was a completely different technique to anything I've ever done before. I used some AK Interactive weathering paints for the first time, so I was using white spirits for a start! It felt - and smelt - wrong. You get a highlight by washing the mini with the weathering paint, and then use a cotton bud and some white spirits to wipe the wash away from the areas of highlight. You can also create streaks by running a brush with just white spirits on down the area you've washed. It's amazing stuff, I really reccommend it. The ones I used were Streaking Grime and Streaking Rust.

The base was fun to make. I'll do a quick tutorial as people might find it a useful way to make nurgley swamp base. What I did was first glue a thin bit of cork to the base, along with the obligatory skulls. I then covered the cork and the base itself (but not the skulls) with white PVA glue. I added a few mustard seeds to create a bit of interest (you can see this better in the phone pic I took, posted below - they look like a small cluster of testicles in a Nurgle holy symbol.) I then dripped superglue into the PVA glue before it dried. Use liquid superglue for this rather than gel, and cheap glue at that. Don't use your £6 bottle of Gorilla superglue for this! As the superglue hits the PVA glue it starts to dry, in weird fibrous ways. I stirred this around with a cocktail stick to make the mossy effects. I tried not to cover the skulls too much. I then got a little pot of water, and dripped some superglue into it. Superglue starts to dry immediately in water. It creates a small gloopy blob, which i fished out with another cocktail stick. Using two cocktail sticks, I manipulated it into a sort of rope. I dropped this onto the base, and it became the entrails by his foot.

Painting it was pretty simple. I Primed it black, blobbed on some Dryad Bark and Death World Forest, allowing it to mix together on the base quite a bit, forming a greeny-brown base with some variation in colours. Then it was just a case of drybrushing with Deathworld Forest, another drybrush with Nurgling Green, a wash over the whole thing with Agrax Earthshade, then re-drybrushing with the Nurgling green, and a final one with a mix of Nurgling Green and Flash Gitz Yellow. The entrails were basecoated Screamer Pink and very roughly highlighted with Bugman's Glow. These got washed with the Agrax as well. I then finished it off with some Nurgles Rot and Blood For The Blood God. It sounds like a lot of steps, but each one is a matter of a few seconds. You're creating chaos so there's absolutely no point being precious about it. Leaving out the drying time of the Argax Earthshade the whole thing took about ten minutes, of which half was probably painting the skulls and the testicles. (GW's Testicle beige, with a wash of Slaanesh's Nutsack, and a highlight of Guilliman's Glorious Ballbag.)

Phone pic with better view of the base. Para, please don't include the below pic as one of my final pics, it was a WIP shot.

See previous comment about how your Plague Marine would totally overshadow mine and you had nothing to worry about! That's absolutely brilliant.

Thanks mate! It's a bit nerve wracking doing something you haven't done before, but I had some good guides and an idea of what I wanted to do. I definitely had some of your pieces in mind, as I wanted there to be a bit of implied narrative to it.

So I only managed to finish one of the Alpha Legion, but Happy Halloween!

Some amazing models here this month, everyone really well done! Just throwing my pics and gotta run to a Halloween party! Presenting Hive Fleet Behemoth "Broodlord" class Genestealer Alpha-Beast. Believed to be related to the Patriarch of the Genestealer Cult of the Crimson Serpent, this specimen has been codified as "Prince" by the Magos Biologos.

My favorite villain from the Spiderman comics: Hobgoblin!

I've never used more different parts on one model:

Front part hood: Mantic Skeletons
Back part hood: Harlequin Solitaire
Face: Daughters of Khaine/Sisters of Slaughter
Front part torso: Empire Greatswords
Back part torso/cloak: Shadow Warriors
Arms: Shadow Warriors
Hands: Corpuscarii Electro-Priests
Waist/legs: Black Ark Corsairs
Glider: Hellions + Chaos Marauders shoulder pad + flail

This resulted in a lot of conversion work. After posting the WIP pic, merging everything together had only just begun. So my entry for this month has a pretty basic paintjob, (mainly basecoats and washes) because there wasn't anymore time left. I do kinda like this look, since it resembles the look of the comics back in the 90's (not much "depth" in the graphics). Hopefully you can still recognise the small red spider on the base. You know what kind of hint that is.

Some great entries here, well done everyone. Lacked motivation this month and only got a couple done, better than nothing though. Here they are

Here are my finals finally,

Well congrats to everyone who participated! I enjoyed following this contest thread but unfortunately I simply didn't have the gumption to finish the Imperial Fists Captain. Just couldn't get back into after being illegally evicted, and fired for hurting myself at work. I got a little too much on my plate and well, I have to be in the right headspace to paint. Once I get settled again I'll finish him up and share him.

Also, my lack of a decent camera and any sort of lighting box means whatever pics I do upload will be blurry and useless.

That sounds awful, Darkcloak. Hope things improve for you soon.

 feltmonkey wrote:
That sounds awful, Darkcloak. Hope things improve for you soon.

Aw, thanks! Haha, it's really not so bad. More of a nuisance than anything else. I'm pretty well back on track now, I'm more upset about not finishing the mini than anything else!

Anyways, great work folks. The slew of finished models in the last few pages make it really hard to vote!

I especially like the DG mini with the weathering paint and the Skelly diorama.

Sorry to hear all that, Darkcloak.

Going to call this to a close now, the poll will go up tomorrow.

So, I actually finished Zarakynel/The Violet Heart, but when I got back home to take a pic before the 7 p.m. Eastern deadline, the paint had sort of... bubbled? away from Her.

I don't know how to explain it. It looks like a wall where water has gotten behind the paint.

No idea what the [Expletive Deleted] that's all about, but She's basically ruined.

Glad your ok Darkcloak, sounds like a hell of a week.

That Sucks Excommunicatus, What do you think might have caused it? (still welcome to enter any photos, just claim its a horror movie paint effect )

 Excommunicatus wrote:
So, I actually finished Zarakynel/The Violet Heart, but when I got back home to take a pic before the 7 p.m. Eastern deadline, the paint had sort of... bubbled? away from Her.

I don't know how to explain it. It looks like a wall where water has gotten behind the paint.

No idea what the [Expletive Deleted] that's all about, but She's basically ruined.

oof...that's a real shame man
hmm...did you give the resin a good wash/scrub before you painted it?...if not, the paint could have pulled away from the mould release agent coating the resin as it dried and shrunk slightly...that's the only cause I can think of...a pic might help with diagnosis though.

Yeah, sounds like mould release agent to me. That sucks, bad luck.

I'm at work, but I'll get one up when I'm home.

My internet sleuthing makes me think I probably didn't wash Her well enough, even though I gave Her two separate and lengthy baths/scrubs. The only problem with that is that She was primed for days and days without any problem before I put other paint on Her. Then, within twelve hours, She gets Leprosy.

So I really don't know.

EDIT - Hi to Leicester. I went to law school there and was a Phat Kat for three years. How goes it? Is Gift for Geeks still there?

Leicester’s doing well mostly, thanks (the helicopter crash has put a dampener on this week); Gift for Geeks is still going strong, I’ll be in there tomorrow picking up Orky stuff

Wow lots of unfinished entries

 Rybrook wrote:
Wow lots of unfinished entries

It would be interesting to go back and count the number of starts vs. finishes in previous competitions. There are always a chunk.

GO VOTE!
https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/0/766259.page#10216826