It's that time again! With round 49 comes the 5th year of the Unofficial Painting Challenge's rotation, and that means we're off once again with a new League, a new set of 12 rounds and a return to the annual Space Marine theme for the first of them.
For those who haven't seen the challenge before, it is a community-focused friendly competition open to anyone on the site, regardless of your skill level or experience. Every round contributes towards a League table, which ultimately means nothing but is a lot of fun to keep an eye on and jockey for position with Dakka's other painters. See below for the full rules on how to enter, I look forward to maybe seeing some new faces entering shortly!
As mentioned, this month marks the return of the annual Space Marine round. However, you're not just limited to blokes in garishly coloured Power Armour, and you can interpret the theme however you like. In the past we've had Orks in disguise as Terminators, US Marines given a sci-fi makeover, some creative use of Astartes as basing material for various enemy forces.. basically, so long as your entry consists of some manner of Marine in Space, you're good to go! And yes, this does include Chaos Marines, HH minis, vehicles, Dreadnoughts ect, the full gamut of Marine minis on offer.
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 March and will end at midnight UK time on the 31st of March. After this, I shall compile the finished entries into a new thread, and voting will run for 5 days.
List Of Entrants:
Nevelon: FINISHED
Spoiler:
Proof
final
queen_annes_revenge: FINISHED
Spoiler:
Proof
final
Rybrook: FINISHED
Spoiler:
Proof
final
ZergSmasher: FINISHED
Spoiler:
Proof
final
Captain Brown: FINISHED
Spoiler:
Proof
Final
JustALittleOrkish:
Spoiler:
Proof
Modock: FINISHED
Spoiler:
Proof
Final
Midget Gems: FINISHED
Spoiler:
PRoof
final
DrGiggles: FINISHED
Spoiler:
Proof
Final
Maharg:
Spoiler:
Proof
Final
Jadenim: FINISHED
Spoiler:
Proof
final
ZoBo: FINISHED
Spoiler:
Proof
final
Flinty: FINISHED
Spoiler:
Proof
Final
Ferrous695: FINISHED
Spoiler:
Proof
final
lipsdapips: FINISHED
Spoiler:
Proof
Final
Gundor2:
Spoiler:
Proof
Deadshot: FINISHED
Spoiler:
Proof
final
spirallingcadaver: FINISHED
Spoiler:
Proof
final
Ezki: FINISHED
Spoiler:
Proof
Proof
CREEEEEEED:
Spoiler:
Proof
DukeOfBeer: FINISHED
Spoiler:
Proof
Final
Danny76:
Spoiler:
Proof
SmallChanges: FINISHED
Spoiler:
PRoof
Final
Paradigm: FINISHED
Spoiler:
Proof
final
Tim 121RVC: FINISHED
Spoiler:
Proof
final
Chris56: FINISHED
Spoiler:
Proof
Final
feltmonkey: FINISHED
Spoiler:
Proof
final
DanceOfSlaanesh: FINISHED
Spoiler:
Proof:
Final
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Paradigm wrote:It's that time again! With round 49 comes the 5th year of the Unofficial Painting Challenge's rotation, and that means we're off once again with a new League, a new set of 12 rounds and a return to the annual Space Marine theme for the first of them.
For those who haven't seen the challenge before, it is a community-focused friendly competition open to anyone on the site, regardless of your skill level or experience. Every round contributes towards a League table, which ultimately means nothing but is a lot of fun to keep an eye on and jockey for position with Dakka's other painters. See below for the full rules on how to enter, I look forward to maybe seeing some new faces entering shortly!
As mentioned, this month marks the return of the annual Space Marine round. However, you're not just limited to blokes in garishly coloured Power Armour, and you can interpret the theme however you like. In the past we've had Orks in disguise as Terminators, US Marines given a sci-fi makeover, some creative use of Astartes as basing material for various enemy forces.. basically, so long as your entry consists of some manner of Marine in Space, you're good to go! And yes, this does include Chaos Marines, HH minis, vehicles, Dreadnoughts ect, the full gamut of Marine minis on offer.
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List Of Entrants:
Captain Brown wrote:This is going to be tough as I do not think I have any Marines.
CB
You must have some sort of spare IG to do this, no?
I am going with my 3rd ed landspeeder tornado (with metal bits) and a librarian
Going to enter my incomplete collection of Space Marine Heroes. Here's the proof:
I'll paint all six and then whichever bolter guy looks the least good will be dropped to reduce my final entry to five models.
queen_annes_revenge wrote:What kind of hobbyist are you?!
A 40K player without Marines...I know incredibly rare. I have painted and sold off several Marine armies over the years, including one entirely made up of metal scouts.
Rybrook wrote:You must have some sort of spare IG to do this, no?
I do, but I have found a solution...after digging through boxes and trays I have found a figure that I started for another project about 14 years ago that was never finished.
queen_annes_revenge wrote:What kind of hobbyist are you?!
A 40K player without Marines...I know incredibly rare. I have painted and sold off several Marine armies over the years, including one entirely made up of metal scouts.
Rybrook wrote:You must have some sort of spare IG to do this, no?
I do, but I have found a solution...after digging through boxes and trays I have found a figure that I started for another project about 14 years ago that was never finished.
Can anyone name where all these parts came from?
Cheers,
CB
Head: Plastic Orlock (old kit)
Torso: Space Marine
Legs: Appear to be re-positioned marine biker legs
Left Arm: biker arm repositioned
Right Arm: marine bolter arm
shoulder pads, holster, purity seal, grenades to flavor
Was I close?
Hmm. I might see if I can dig something up for this round.
I say there is 2nd ed biker legs with the flat waist, 3rd ed torso the ball type, the helmet hand is tough could be a bike hand or a ML hand.
The backpack is 2nd ed, 3rd ed bolter and a 3rd ed helmet
I dont know the grenades possibly catachan?
I will hopefully get through this month faster than the last
Head: Plastic Orlock (old kit)
Torso: Space Marine
Legs: Appear to be re-positioned marine biker legs
Left Arm: biker arm repositioned
Right Arm: marine bolter arm
shoulder pads, holster, purity seal, grenades to flavor
Was I close?
Oh yes.
Rybrook wrote:I say there is 2nd ed biker legs with the flat waist, 3rd ed torso the ball type, the helmet hand is tough could be a bike hand or a ML hand.
The backpack is 2nd ed, 3rd ed bolter and a 3rd ed helmet
I dont know the grenades possibly catachan?
Cruentus and Rybrook,
You two pretty well nailed it.
Helmet was from the Rhino accessory sprue. IIRC that the hand was a biker that I tweaked. The body and legs were a biker...I am thinking I might do a little more around the waist. Grenades must have been Catachan due to their size. Since my Gaming group has three players with Marines I have just received a sword and a newer backpack.
So, this will be the first marine painted since before the plastic scout models, as the last Marine force I painted was an entire metal Scout army.
Good luck everyone for this month and for the start of another year for the challenge, hooray
Nice combination of parts CB
Looks suitably Mariney to me Modock
I'm gonna give myself a break (mostly) from conversions and go for some more Marines for my custom Chapter, The Knights Sanguine.
My proof for some Assault Veterans, they won't be painted as death company I just liked the detail on the parts and its my own chapter so figured I could do what I liked with them .
hmmm...I'd been saving that sweet new noise marine for this month...but fate has dealt me a painting commission which I'll be picking up today, a Lord of Skulls...now, I could try and reach for a technicality there because it is a Chaos *Space Marines* unit...but also, ehhh...it's a commission, so I probably shouldn't enter it in this...yeah...nah, I won't...it'd be a bit improper or something I think.
...hopefully I can get that done in good time, and still have enough time to do the noise marine justice by the end of the month...but we'll see vOv
ZoBo wrote: hmmm...I'd been saving that sweet new noise marine for this month...but fate has dealt me a painting commission which I'll be picking up today, a Lord of Skulls...now, I could try and reach for a technicality there because it is a Chaos *Space Marines* unit...but also, ehhh...it's a commission, so I probably shouldn't enter it in this...yeah...nah, I won't...it'd be a bit improper or something I think.
...hopefully I can get that done in good time, and still have enough time to do the noise marine justice by the end of the month...but we'll see vOv
Yeah, don't let that be the thing that stops you entering. I've entered with commission pieces before, and I'm sure many others have. You're still painting it, after all!
well, alright then, cool...I'll post up a proof pic once I'm done building and priming the monstrosity
...like I said though, I had originally planned on entering the noise marine this month...so if I can somehow finish the khornemower with good time to spare, I may wind up changing my entry...but we'll see how it goes I guess
hmm, maybe that's why it was feeling a bit weird...I won't be able to really paint it "how I would paint it"...I'll basically just be copying the "box scheme", because that's what I was asked to do...and that's a very different approach, compared to anything else I've entered in this so far...I don't know if I've ever gone full "box scheme" on a model before!
PossumCraft wrote: Damn you. You single handedly made me want to collect chaos just so I can have a LoS and call it the Khornemower.
hahaha...it's too good isn't it? ...I can't claim credit for that one though, I heard it somewhere probably about a year ago, and now I just can't not call it that
Going to be painting the dark angels librarian from the 7th edition dark vengeance set. He's been gathering dust for a bit too long, so I figured this was a pretty good excuse to cover him in some liquid pigment. Nothing fancy planned, mainly box colours with a little variation depending on what paints I actually have. Good luck to everyone else, especially to whoever took on the monolithic challenge of painting a Lord of Skulls.
Cheers
Automatically Appended Next Post: Don't know why he's upside down, I'll try and fix that for the next pic
I tried out some Zenithal shading as a new technique.
However i think I went too.subtle. it doesn't show up much under the base coat
And is now pretty non-existent under the wash :(
I was originally going to do them both green, but after washing the first one wasn't too taken by the effect so have done the second washed in blue. It'll give them a bit of individual character on the board,.so not too worried. Now to go and do the metallics and spot colours.
Not sure how ill do commander hammer dance. Not even sure if I'll have time to get him done, given that I'll lose the batcave next week to a wild.mother in law.(she's lovely but visit is not ready compatible.with extended painting sessions...)
I shall jump in, on holiday at the moment, but have a set on ETB Primaris at home ready to build.
I shall get them all built and photo’d, then paint at least one of them, hopefully..
Pretty much finished the mini, still have to put together a base. Not happy with the white DA insignia on the chest, but I can never get white to work for me. I might go back and fix up something I may have missed after I finish the base
I uploaded both an upside down image and a normal image to see how that works.
Automatically Appended Next Post: Welp, the initial image orientation doesn't seem to be the issue
ZoBo wrote: are you taking pictures with a phone?...if so, was your phone upside down when you took the pics?
He’s got an Australian flag, so it’s probably just the southern hemisphere thing.
When I took pictures with my iPad I needed to have it oriented in a very specific way (button on the right? Been a while) because it flagged the pictures with metadata that said which way was up that might not mesh with what the actual orientation was. One thing I hear would fix that was to open the pic in some sort of editor and save-as, just to replace the tags the iPad stuck on it. I just rotated the pad and took new pictures. These days I use a camera.
Thank you Jadenim, that's very kind. I took Feltmonkey's question (if I would ever consider a different style of painting) to heart last week. It's baby steps to be sure, but I introduced some dark glazes to contrast the scores of edge highlight that my miniatures get. I'm pleased overall and generally took it upon myself to be more patient with my entry for this month. I had already cast sacrilege on one of the best natural sculpts in the primaris range, I owed it to the kit to do it justice as best as I could!
Almost done with the last guy's basecoats (and did the drybrush already) just need the red down. Other guys are waiting for decals and base work, which I’ll do when all 3 are ready.
@lipsdapips: The glazing was a good choice, the model looks amazing! Will be hard to compete with that
At first I thought about skipping this one, as I don't currently have any marine armies. Then I started thinking that I actually have some space wolf terminator pieces that I acquired from a friend.
Now I have always loved to look and idea of terminators, especially Wolfguard. So without thinking about it more, I laid down all the bits I had and started sorting them trying to build one complete model.
This also works as my proof pic. Hopefully it's acceptable.
I was supposed to take another when I got the model assembled, but forgot it in the heat of the moment. So instead I present to you an early WIP image:
Another purpose for this entry is for me to have a crack at trying to paint non metallic gold. It's something I've never done and I thought it would be a fun thing to try.
On another note, it would have been a shame not to attend to the first round of the year.
I had forgotten how big that guy is Zobo, Good luck with it
Looking really good Lips, well done for trying something new can be a bit daunting sometimes but has really worked with that entry, great start to the year and nice detailing on the face
Cool looking model spiralingcadaver, looking forward to seeing that one painted.
Well done for trying the NMM Ezki, its on my list to try as well but not been brave enough yet. Arm is looking good so far.
If I finish this with time left I'll do the other guy from the MKII command set.
Also MKII pauldrons are huge, not sure how I'm gonna superglue this to the shoulder and body.
I'm in this month! I don't really do space marines typically, but I have this bust of a Mobile Brigada from the Infinity Nomads faction.
She lives in space
She wears power armor
She participates in boarding missions, raids, and similar things
Sounds like a space marine to me.
That’s interesting Para. Many paths to the same place. Because if you hadn't said you had used a different technique, I’d have not guessed that. That marine is still very distinctly in your style (and well done, as usual)
To be honest, that's kind of what's bugging me a bit about it. While the blends are a it smoother, perhaps, and some of the detail sharper, but it's not really any better than doing it the other way, but was probably a lot more effort... So while on its own the mini is fine, it's not the breakthrough I was looking for in upping my game.
Paradigm wrote: To be honest, that's kind of what's bugging me a bit about it. While the blends are a it smoother, perhaps, and some of the detail sharper, but it's not really any better than doing it the other way, but was probably a lot more effort... So while on its own the mini is fine, it's not the breakthrough I was looking for in upping my game.
Still good to try it out and see what happens. Good growth. It might be interesting to paint him a battle-brother with your old techniques, and have a side-by-side comparison.
I kind of feel I should've held off on the weathering and blood effects, that might have let the somewhat cleaner work underneath speak for itself a little better.
I do still think the mini is solid, definitely a style for IFs I want to try out on a few more models when I get them. This is just off the back of the retrospective thread where I noticed the entries I did well with were the ones where I did something a little different rather than the same old style. That's what I was shooting for here, and I think I missed the mark a little in that regard.
Paradigm wrote: I kind of feel I should've held off on the weathering and blood effects, that might have let the somewhat cleaner work underneath speak for itself a little better.
I do still think the mini is solid, definitely a style for IFs I want to try out on a few more models when I get them. This is just off the back of the retrospective thread where I noticed the entries I did well with were the ones where I did something a little different rather than the same old style. That's what I was shooting for here, and I think I missed the mark a little in that regard.
I can’t speak for how others vote but...
For the established painters, particularly you guys at the top, I generally only vote you you if I see you go above and beyond what you normally do. Sure, when you phone it in you are still better then 4/5s of the other guys, but that’s not getting my vote. (I know you aren’t really phoning it in, it takes a lot of work to get those results, but I hope you know what I mean). I generally try to keep myself down to 5-7 votes. I’d much rather use one of them on someone like Vejut, who’s results might not be technically as good, but has entered every month, with each month an improvement on the last. Or someone who caught my eye posting WIP stuff where I hear how they are trying new things. And sure, sometimes I do end up voting for the winner when something really mind-blowing comes up. But most of the time I try to vote for the painter, not necessarily the model.
Whoah, how the heck did it get so late in the month?
Looking good Para and queen_annes_revenge - great work.
I have started the Captain here but not the other two, so we'll have to see how much I get finished. These guys are going to be the command units for a small Emperor's Spears variation force that I've wanted to do for a while now.
Paradigm wrote: I kind of feel I should've held off on the weathering and blood effects, that might have let the somewhat cleaner work underneath speak for itself a little better.
I do still think the mini is solid, definitely a style for IFs I want to try out on a few more models when I get them. This is just off the back of the retrospective thread where I noticed the entries I did well with were the ones where I did something a little different rather than the same old style. That's what I was shooting for here, and I think I missed the mark a little in that regard.
I can’t speak for how others vote but...
For the established painters, particularly you guys at the top, I generally only vote you you if I see you go above and beyond what you normally do. Sure, when you phone it in you are still better then 4/5s of the other guys, but that’s not getting my vote. (I know you aren’t really phoning it in, it takes a lot of work to get those results, but I hope you know what I mean). I generally try to keep myself down to 5-7 votes. I’d much rather use one of them on someone like Vejut, who’s results might not be technically as good, but has entered every month, with each month an improvement on the last. Or someone who caught my eye posting WIP stuff where I hear how they are trying new things. And sure, sometimes I do end up voting for the winner when something really mind-blowing comes up. But most of the time I try to vote for the painter, not necessarily the model.
I have a similar attitude; no offence, but I don’t want to vote for the same five people every month (Modock, Para, LDP, etc.), so I normally limit my votes in the “Premiership teams” to entries that are better than their average or particularly speak to me. Quite often that’s when you do something different or where your style adds a different perspective. For example, your gritty/weathered style really adds something extra to fantasy models (e.g. Theoden), which are more often done in a cleaner, more colourful style by other painters.
Actually disappointed I didn't get a chance to enter this one, I thought I had no proper entry but I do indeed have a space marine in my pile of shame. Ah well, great entries so far! I'm keen to see how the voting turns out!
lipsdapips wrote:Thank you Jadenim, that's very kind. I took Feltmonkey's question (if I would ever consider a different style of painting) to heart last week. It's baby steps to be sure, but I introduced some dark glazes to contrast the scores of edge highlight that my miniatures get. I'm pleased overall and generally took it upon myself to be more patient with my entry for this month. I had already cast sacrilege on one of the best natural sculpts in the primaris range, I owed it to the kit to do it justice as best as I could!
I hope you didn't take my question as a criticism! Having a style is no bad thing, particularly when you're very very good at it. Your latest entry looks incredible though, so if I somehow contributed with my feedback I'm definitely going to try to muscle in and take some of the credit. The face is absolutely amazing. How did you do his eye?
Paradigm wrote:To be honest, that's kind of what's bugging me a bit about it. While the blends are a it smoother, perhaps, and some of the detail sharper, but it's not really any better than doing it the other way, but was probably a lot more effort... So while on its own the mini is fine, it's not the breakthrough I was looking for in upping my game.
I don't know why you're down on it, it looks fantastic. To have used a different technique but still produced something in your own style is, again, no bad thing. Perhaps if you'd layered up from black to yellow it wouldn't have looked as good, so that's worth bearing in mind. To my eyes it does look a touch more vibrant, but still with all the atmosphere, character, and narrative your stuff tends to have. If you want the best of both worlds, you could always use zenithal priming.
While I'm here - queen_annes_revenge, I think that might be the best thing I've seen you do, even more than that big armoured digger you painted last year. Spectacular work!
I still haven't got round to posting my proof, and my Space Marine is 70% finished. I've been experimenting with Dalor-Rowney inks, an airbrush, and trying to do a slightly weird lighting thing (not airbrush OSL - for some reason I have an irrational hatred of that.) Not sure how it's going to turn out, yet. I shall get it finished, though.
Wow thanks. I'm surprised with the amount of love it's gotten. Over 3k likes on instagram. It started as a gladiator kharn project about 3 years ago. But I hated it and threw it in a box. Fast forward to the start of this year and I'm trying to figure out what categories I want to enter for golden demon, and I need a third model so I can enter Angry and kharn into squad... So I'm searching for an appropriate model online then I remembered this, dug it out, modified it with the red butcher arms and threw some paint on it.
Paradigm wrote:To be honest, that's kind of what's bugging me a bit about it. While the blends are a it smoother, perhaps, and some of the detail sharper, but it's not really any better than doing it the other way, but was probably a lot more effort... So while on its own the mini is fine, it's not the breakthrough I was looking for in upping my game.
I don't know why you're down on it, it looks fantastic. To have used a different technique but still produced something in your own style is, again, no bad thing. Perhaps if you'd layered up from black to yellow it wouldn't have looked as good, so that's worth bearing in mind. To my eyes it does look a touch more vibrant, but still with all the atmosphere, character, and narrative your stuff tends to have. If you want the best of both worlds, you could always use zenithal priming.
Well if it's good enough for the guy who won the whole thing...
But nah, I take your point that I should be pleased enough with turning out a decent mini, rather than trying to reinvent myself overnight. I think Zenithal is out of the question without an airbrush, but I might experiment with some pre-shading using washes over white before colours, that might do something fun (or look horrible, I've never seen it done before).
Looks like the other vets might arrive just in time, so while I have 2 lectures, a 10-hour Avengers mathathon and a D&D game to fit in this week, I might just manage to expand my entry with another couple of minis. Sadly, what was available on ebay at the time only turned up 3 good condition sculpts I liked, so I'm one veteran short of a squad, but it's better than nothing.
Just dropping in to drop off my entry. i'm particularly proud of this one because of the amount of specialist bits I had to get for this. Every single part was hand-selected and purchased from bits sites and ended up being just as expensive as the official model. That said, I am still particularly proud of how it came out, so much so, I even took the extra time to base and put transfers on!
Martellus, Master of the Forge, Blood Ravens
@Paradigm
I agree with much of what has been said, your model looks amazing and in keeping with your unique style as well, but there's also very subtle differences. Its not a waste of time to experiment - who knows, maybe you'll find the technique useful down the line for an Eldar or Tau unit. At least now you know that the technique can be done and still come out looking as smashing as ever!
I wonder if I should name him "Frankenstein Marine" as there are six different models/sprues that contributed parts. As well as some sprue itself to make some of the extra armour.
Nice to see all the final entries marching in! Great work everyone. Still more time to finish up, month’s not over yet!
My entry:
Not 100% happy with the pictures. After I had put the lightbox away and the minis back on the YTD shelf, I downloaded the pics and realized they were very same-y. Normally I get more pics from assorted angles to make the collage more interesting. Still, pretty happy with the way these guys turned out. Two minor conversions (the hand swap for the sarge’s sword, and the AGL for the demo guy. They match up to my tabletop+ that I’m working on these days, with the edgeing and decals.
These 3 fill out my second 5 man DI squad, each with an ALG and powersword sarge. I’ve got another 5 which will finish up my intercessors, already build the sarge (with a powerfist) and will get around to the other 4 at some point. They will probably end up in one of these comps.
Nice work Captain. I like the facial scar. Looks good.
Dead shot- so many arms are they magnetized?
I have also finished thanks to the gentle pressure of this comp. I find it really helps me through the doldrums of the models not yet looking as good as you would like because they aren't really done enough
So I tried zenithal shading on these guys, but you can't really tell under the washes also a little bit of attempted light sourcing on the shoulder pad. I'm happy with how they turned out really. Not looking forward to coming up against them Blackstone side though
Flinty wrote: Nice work Captain. I like the facial scar. Looks good.
Dead shot- so many arms are they magnetized?
I have also finished thanks to the gentle pressure of this comp. I find it really helps me through the doldrums of the models not yet looking as good as you would like because they aren't really done enough
So I tried zenithal shading on these guys, but you can't really tell under the washes also a little bit of attempted light sourcing on the shoulder pad. I'm happy with how they turned out really. Not looking forward to coming up against them Blackstone side though
Yeah, all but the flamer arm is magnetised! More a necessity than plan as the tiny stumps I had left to glue them to were not secure enough. That said, it worked out in the end as I can now run him as having a Servo-Arm singular or with full-harness.
I find myself really liking the freehand work on those, Flinty! Especially the loincloth, its cool to have the half symbol there, adds a bit of flair to it in a way! I don't recognise the models though? They look like the Dark Vengeance bolter Chosen but different as well.
Ah, crap, totally forgot that, it's been a busy month. Putting together a last-minute poll now!
Automatically Appended Next Post: Here you go. Only 3 options as that's what I could come up with off the top of my head (would you believe after 50 of these I'm struggling to avoid duplicates? )
Paradigm wrote: Ah, crap, totally forgot that, it's been a busy month. Putting together a last-minute poll now!
Automatically Appended Next Post: Here you go. Only 3 options as that's what I could come up with off the top of my head (would you believe after 50 of these I'm struggling to avoid duplicates? )
So, I finished Huron. I forgot to include his Hamaydra (sp?) in the WIP, but, IDK, take him or leave him for voting purposes... He's got a marine helmet on his base, so maybe he counts?
True, when I've got more time I'll go back and pick some out that never made it, and recycle some of those. I'd ideally want to avoid any that have already been done (at least verbatim, there may be some overlap and probably already has been).
Here's my proof pic, taken right at the start of the month, but only posted now. It's been a stressful month, we're still selling a house, among other things.
I have been working on him quite a bit already. I've been using some Dalor Rowney acrylic inks. I sprayed them through an airbrush, before using a brush with them to refine the highlights. There's a bit of a sheen to them, as you'd expect, although it looks quite matte in the photos. I've painted him lit from the side to give a more interesting atmosphere. I actually think this mini, which came on the front of a magazine, is really fantastic. It's understated and menacing, and not festooned with skulls. I don't know what I'm going to do with the base yet, but I probably don't have time to do anything particularly interesting. I imagine him walking down the corridor of a space hulk, so maybe a generic sci-fi bit of flooring.
My phone has helpfully flattened out the lighting contrast I've put on him. The difference between the light and dark areas is much more extreme than it appears here.
I've got to move house in the next 2 months due to a posting within the service. not looking forward to that at all. need to figure out a way of moving all my models safely.
This entry was a lot of fun to work with.
It was the first space marine I have ever painted, first time trying out NMM and the first time doing an snowy rocky base with icicles. So lots of firsts
Very happy how it turned out.
There are always things I could have done better. Maybe next time.
Thank you both. Relfections, nmm and blending is what im trying to improve on. So glad somebody liked it. Next challenge I will work on that even more!
There's been entirely too many extremely well done entries this past week, lets break that streak:
Yan Huo Invincible for infinity:
Final pics:
So, yeah, as you can tell from the tags, I really felt this did not come together at all. I was trying to do block-camo like my entry from last year, but larger blocks so it didn't break up the outline as badly. Didn't really work, should have done a lighter color, then a dark outline around them (kinda tried it the other way when it first didn't work, but didn't do the interior layer neatly enough.) Plus side, I think the panel lines kinda came out, though the edge highlights are pretty trash--the guns are too sharp, and the blue around the armor is too thin. Just really not happy with it, but outta time and energy to strip and redo or jump to something else. Sorry guys.
I’m finished too but will have to wait I finish work or the weekend to get daylight photos, my dslr wasn’t having fun with incandescent lights
I forgot how difficult it was to assemble the landspeeder crew and position them and I wish I hadn’t put the pilots targeter on it’s just too big for what it is
So, it's highly unlikely this guy is getting finished. Partly because I can't paint this evening or Saturday, but mostly because I'm a fool. Every time I use GW's whites or light greys it always goes terribly, the paint clumps and it looks gak. And every time I tell myself I'm not doing that again. And then I try it again a few months later. I tried saving it with eshin grey but the lumps had set. So I scratched it all off and I'm gonna reprime and try again with blue, allude to the OG raptor colours. It's OOP so I can't really have it look gak. I'll try find a suitable model on Sunday that an be painted in a day so I at least submit something.
Got my Infinity Mobile Brigada done!
Didn't have time to do quite as many fine details as I was hoping, but she is finished!
Some great looking marines this month, everyone!
CREEEEEEEEED wrote: So, it's highly unlikely this guy is getting finished. Partly because I can't paint this evening or Saturday, but mostly because I'm a fool. Every time I use GW's whites or light greys it always goes terribly, the paint clumps and it looks gak. And every time I tell myself I'm not doing that again. And then I try it again a few months later. I tried saving it with eshin grey but the lumps had set. So I scratched it all off and I'm gonna reprime and try again with blue, allude to the OG raptor colours. It's OOP so I can't really have it look gak. I'll try find a suitable model on Sunday that an be painted in a day so I at least submit something.
It's probably because you're trying to apply it over a dark layer, and going to heavy as a result. You should lay your light layers down first wherever possible. If not you need to work your way up in layers getting lighter each time
Bloody hell...ridiculously awesome blending as always, Modock!
What colour are you using to shade the orange, if you don't mind me asking...? I love the Nomads and it seems you have nailed the orange...
As always, I really like Space Marine month. And as always, some really great entries.
I enjoyed painting my guys. Most of the shading has been washed out in the photos, but I am happy with how they turned out. As usual I ran out of time, so there are a few things that aren't up to scratch...I said I was going to stick to one model instead of groups this year and I've broken that in the very first challenge...going to have to be properly disciplined in future.
Anyhow, these are meant to be Emperor's Spears, though I took a couple of liberties with the traditional paint scheme. This was my first try at sculpting waves with green stuff and I am pretty happy with how they turned out. I also used Idoneth blades to give a more organic, oceanic feel to them, which I think worked fairly well.
Finally found time amid all of my uni work to finish him off (but not the base unfortunately). Not too proud of the green or the gold, but I quite liked how the blue and cream came out. Rushed the purity seals with a pen (I'm sorry ) . Hope the images send upright this time!
Automatically Appended Next Post: Sorry for the poor quality of the images, I don't really have the money or the time to buy a camera so my phone will have to suffice. Great job everyone, those are some awesome looking miniatures!
Got my Blood Angel finished. Tried some freehand on the shoulder pads, pleased with the way the green one came out, less so with the chapter symbol - not easy to do with a jump pack getting in the way. I was also forced to try a glaze to brighten up the helmet as it was too pale after highlighting.
Didn't quite have time to finish Obsideous Mallex and I don't want to rush him, but I did manage to finish his two friends:
Bald-headed marine was done using Duncan's basing technique, which looks fine, but doesn't really seem to match the actual game tiles. So for the second marine I tried to adapt the technique to better blend in; it's getting there, but I need to tweak it a little for Obsidious (hence why he's not finished). Doesn't help that I missed one of the highlights on the grid and didn't spot it until after I'd varnished the base!
My washes aren´t dry yet and I really have to get some rest -> work tomorrow early in the morning.....
I hope to get the pics up tomorrow late in the evening!
Late to start, late to finish, but he's finally at the stage I can share him with you.
Meet Yorim, adept of the Hunt. Hailing from the Lords of Thunder, Yorim favours the lightning-fast mounted raids of his chapter, as is fitting of a successor of the White Scars. The Lords of Thunder put great stock in trophies taken from particularly challenging enemies, something Yorim's secondment to the Deathwatch has given him plenty of opportunity to indulge.
I'm gonna have to call a halt to these guys and go to bed, got a long drive tomorrow. Unfortunately they are only about 90% finished, still need a few extra bits adding like battle damage and finishing off the blending etc. Good luck everyone
Finished Pics for my Knights Sanguine Assault Veterans
Here are my final pics of Lieutenant Calsius of the Ultramarines.
As I said earlier in the thread, the two things I've done here that are a bit experimental are to paint the mini largely with artist's inks rather than miniature paints, and to try to paint him lit from the side rather than above. All the power armour is painted with the inks, to give a different finish to the skin, hair and leather parts. It went on beautifully through my airbrush, but was more difficult to use with a brush. I wouldn't switch over to it permanently or anything, but it's a nice thing to have in the arsenal.
So, like the tard I am I forgot the proof pic, you'll just have to trust me that I started an hour and a half ago when I remembered I needed to submit at least something. But I am done as of now, I just need to upload the images, but that might take me past midnight in 7 minutes. It looks better in person, although it still doesn't look great. At least I can use the 90 minutes speedpaint challengetm as my excuse. Also feth transfers, I have never had a non stressful transfer experience.
Edit: Voila, one dark angels successor, painted in 90 minutes. Quite proud of the helmet actually, might incorporate some of what I did there into my regular painting. And the time of photo taking is in there by accident too as some kind of verification.
And coming in just under the wire, I'm finally calling my entry finished. If I had more time, I'd probably be able to pick out more details and clean up some sloppy parts (and make the metals a little less flat), but there is no more time and I'm tired of looking at these models. Here are my final pics of my Space Marine Heroes in Blood Ravens colors:
I admit it, this entry is pretty phoned in even for me. I picked up a bunch of the Space Marine Heroes on a lark more or less and was delighted that among the ones I got was the Captain, who's supposed to be hard to find. No matter how lackluster I think these turned out, I at least got something done, so I'm satisfied. Looking forward to the voting, as there are some pretty cool entries in here so far!
Excellent job people and thanks for the kind words!
Chris.
Wow amazing work there buddy. I love the freehand, I only did a small T on the shoulder and that was hard. Kudos mate.
My recipe for the orange.
The middle is a mix or vivid red and orange...essentially a red orange.
On the pallete I make a gradient from base red orange to the ivory and and vice versa to the deep blue. Well, for the deepest shadows I add just a little bit of deep blue.
Chris56 wrote: As always, I really like Space Marine month. And as always, some really great entries.
I enjoyed painting my guys. Most of the shading has been washed out in the photos, but I am happy with how they turned out. As usual I ran out of time, so there are a few things that aren't up to scratch...I said I was going to stick to one model instead of groups this year and I've broken that in the very first challenge...going to have to be properly disciplined in future.
Anyhow, these are meant to be Emperor's Spears, though I took a couple of liberties with the traditional paint scheme. This was my first try at sculpting waves with green stuff and I am pretty happy with how they turned out. I also used Idoneth blades to give a more organic, oceanic feel to them, which I think worked fairly well.
Spoiler:
Good luck everyone and see in 'The Art of War'!
I love what you did with the Psyker's cloak. Do you have any close ups his cloak and his power sword?
Flinty wrote: Loving the half full tank of... stuff? At the back
Stuff? That's blood. You know, for the Blood God!
That thing turned out amazing ZoBo! I've wanted one of those for a while now, but the rules have been terrible. Now that CSM have some new stuff to make Daemon Engines good, maybe I'll consider picking one up.
I can do better than this, planned to do a lot more of washing, highlighting and basing, but man can life intervene......
I'm satisfied about the conversion though, I like his pose.
Great work, Zobo! Really great model and paintjob.
Tim 121RVC - what a fantastic idea! There is a simplicity to the model and paint scheme that really works...I think I might have to steal this idea for a future project...
Thanks for the recipe and the compliment, Modock...freehand is one of the things that I want to work on this year. I'm also thinking of trying some Infinity stuff and I've always liked the Nomads but it doesn't seem wise to have so direct a comparison to your work!
Maybe I'll try some Pan-O or Yu-Jing...
Thanks also, Dr. Giggles for your ...here is a photo from the back.
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They look like the Dark Vengeance bolter Chosen but different as well.
) . Hope the images send upright this time!
