Welcome all to the 52nd round of the Unofficial Painting challenge. 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.
This month, the theme is Mad Science. From the magical meddling of a mad mage to the abominations of science, from alchemical creations to cutting-edge technology, your entry should reflect the stranger side of science as appropriate to your chosen faction. From spells to steampunk to starships, go mad!
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 June and will end at midnight UK time on the 30th of June. After this, I shall compile the finished entries into a new thread, and voting will run for 5 days.
Going to enter a bonesinger and a techmarine, the mad scientist creators of their respective factions.
Both have been sitting in my to-do pile for far too long. I’ll try to grab a better proof pic, but here they are primed.
Spoiler:
(the fact that that pic was on my old green 4x8 I left behind in the divorce tells how long the tech has been waiting)
(he first shows up in a pic titled “Last supply drop of 2017” so he’s been patient as well
I had kitbashed an axe for the tech, but I think I’m going to magnetize his arm. More options these days. Plus I was never 100% happy with my work on the axe. Might just give him a thunderhammer to help with percussive maintenance.
Dug out this genestealer cult mechanicus patriarch I made a few years ago before I lost interest in them. Might do a quick and dirty paint job on it between my current pieces
queen_annes_revenge wrote: Dug out this genestealer cult mechanicus patriarch I made a few years ago before I lost interest in them. Might do a quick and dirty paint job on it between my current pieces
At first I was stumped at what I had that fit this category, but then I remembered the Servitor within the model Exorcist. So this month I am going to try and complete an Exorcist. Finally going to start replacing my battalion of painted Mark I tanks with Mark II.
There's already some cool stuff coming up here. Looking forward to seeing these models finished.
I'm going to continue picking appropriate models for my Biel-Tan to fit the monthly theme. This time out we have a flying tank built around a giant gun that operates by ripping open holes in reality. Mad Science indeed. Step (glide?) forward the Warp Hunter.
Hmm, I'm actually torn on what to do for this one. Spoiled for choice, as it were. I'd love to get in on the Techmarine party and see if I can do one as well as Nevelon or Rybrook (only with mine I'll do up his retinue of Servitors as well), but I don't really need one painted that badly. I also have a variety of Dreadnoughts that would probably qualify, a Tau Ghostkeel Battlesuit, a Ravenwing Dark Talon, and the Negavolt Cultists from Blackstone Fortress. I'm open to suggestions on what you'd all like to see me tackle for this month.
Wow, that is a cool bust!
For a change, I'm getting straight into it. I'm painting some grot power armour in the form of a kharadron conversion. The minute I saw them it made me think of the steampunk style goblins in world of Warcraft...will post proof pics soon.
Think I’m going to go for some Blackstone Fortress models; UR-025, the Negavolt cultists and the spindle drones all fit the bill I think, just need to decide which ones to do.
Home for the weekend and managed to find my brothers old, dusty, busted up killa kans and a Finecast Big Mek. Been a while since I've done a Finecast model but I enjoyed painting up those orks last month so I decided to buy all his old stuff on the cheap
OK sign me up with another techmarine and servitors. These guys have been sat on a shelf literally gathering dust for ages so time to get some paint on them!
Here is my grot in power armour - the first in an all-goblin killteam...I've wanted to do this for months now, so I'm very excited to be able to fit him in.
I'm in. Back on orks now that my Skitarii Kill Team is painted, and I need another Big Shoota. I've wanted to loot this heavy stubba ever since I first saw it, and since it came in the Kill Team starter set, I finally got my hands on one. However, as with all puny 'oomie tech, it was too small to properly fit in an ork's hands, so this is the Mad Science that happens when a mek and a dok patch up an injury in the field. Ork wiv bionic arm:
I'll be aiming to get my Ambot done this month. I need to get some real progress done on my 'Munda stuff, since I'm arbitrating a campaign in the next few weeks.
Not gonna lie, I'm intimidated by the scheme I picked out. I'm going to make it look like a pre-heresy World Eater. I've never painted white before....
This topic would normally be perfect for me to come up with some of my usual madness however I know its going to be a really busy month at work so doubt I'll have the time to able to convert or make anything. will go trough my draws and see what's already built.
Nice conversion Queen Anne, seems you have all the skills both painting and converting
Cool models and good progress Jamie Shred, I really like the fallout stuff and have been tempted to get some on several occasions.
Great idea Chris56, what parts did use use, is it a combination of dwarf/Kharadron and Grot bits?
Midget Gems wrote: This topic would normally be perfect for me to come up with some of my usual madness however I know its going to be a really busy month at work so doubt I'll have the time to able to convert or make anything. will go trough my draws and see what's already built.
Nice conversion Queen Anne, seems you have all the skills both painting and converting
Cool models and good progress Jamie Shred, I really like the fallout stuff and have been tempted to get some on several occasions.
Great idea Chris56, what parts did use use, is it a combination of dwarf/Kharadron and Grot bits?
Thanks! Kitbashing is actually my favourite part of the hobby, the problem with that is if I do too much then I have to catch up when it comes to painting it all.
Thanks, MidgetGems - coming from you, that's quite a compliment!
I'm a bit ashamed to admit, it is literally just a head swap...a few months back, I wanted to make an all-goblin killteam (for painting, not for playing) and I noticed the size similarity so I tried whacking a grot head on the kharadron leader and some of the gunners...it's like they were made for it!
I agree with the others, queenanne, that is a cool conversion - can't wait to see it painted. It has a bit of an H.R Giger look to it...
queen_annes_revenge wrote: Dug out this genestealer cult mechanicus patriarch I made a few years ago before I lost interest in them. Might do a quick and dirty paint job on it between my current pieces
Good luck! I'm sure you will do a great job as always!
I'm going to paint something from a universe where all the science is mad - Star Wars! Seriously, did nobody invent the wheel? Loads of vehicles, and they all either walk, fly, or hover. The nearest thing to wheels would be the tracks on the Jawa Sandcrawler, or BB8's body. I'm going to paint an AT-ST from Star Wars Legion. It's a big model, nearly a foot in height, so more plastic than I usually cover in paint.
There's a papercraft character from the game Tearaway in the background. I made that too! I'm not going to paint it though.
I'm going to try a double header this month. Negavolt cultists from BSF to keep that project ticking over, and my converted cargo Walker that I use in Necromunda and as scenery and needs some paint loving. The cultists are obviously trying to steal it, or have found it abandoned deep in the fortress or soMething. yeah... totally within the rules... totally
Going to put a similar scheme on it to my JEKUB class powerlifter, so simple and yellow and terribly weathered.
That is so very cool, Flinty - I love it. Looking forward to seeing it painted. I especially love these challenges when they show off a lot of modeling and conversions - it's awesome to see so many cool ideas to steal!
Here is a WIP of my power-armoured grot - completely plagiarising Darren Latham's paintjob that was in White Dwarf a few months back.
You can see another couple in the background that I've started as well...see how I go with time.
I'm trying something different with this mini, stippling almost everything to create a beaten effect whilst highlighting and shading - having a lot of fun!
My entry will be a Tau XV95 Ghostkeel Battlesuit. Here's my proof:
I figure this is pretty "out there" as far as scientific advancements go, even for the Tau. It should fit the challenge nicely on that basis.
He'll likely end up as a Ynnari Shadowseer or Troupe Master, but really I'm making him just because I felt like it.
Regarding the pictures, the second one is an earlier one just to show the head (the legs were borrowed from a different model and, as you can see from the top image, they've since been replaced by unpainted ones). I'm painting the head separately (to stop the hair getting in the way), but I realised that I hadn't included it at all in the first image.
Edit: Please ignore the above. I accidentally broke the hair on my model whilst painting it, and since my attempts to fix thus far look terrible, I'll be pulling out of this competition.
Some progress. Got most of the details at least started, some of the yellow stripes need tidying up a bit and obviously the armour needs some rust so if anyone has any tips for rusting up large areas of metal I'm all ears.
I'll throw my hat in the ring, small children allowing.
In with this month's theme: Eldrad.
Required In the Primer
Normally I wouldn't start on the cloak but since I needed to airbrush it, it's where we started. The effect was too strong so I started mixing blue and black washes to create more contrast. That's kind of the problem with the color shift paints is you lose contrast.
Contrast improved, used some brush work with the color shifts to emphasize certain parts. Also, photographing the color shift paints is so sensitive to lighting it's almost impossible to get the right impression unless you are in person.
Jamie Shred wrote: Meatybtz - that cloak is looking great, is that the greenstuff world colour shift paint?
Jadenim - off to a fantastic start, love the glowing eye and pattern on the base.
Yes, it's both fantastic and fiddly. While it's color shift is great whne put on enough it also tends to wipe out detail. Fine on... Say an eldar or harlequin vehicle. But on single models it is a challenge to get right.
I am using two colors here. A purple to blue to green primary and a green to gold to orange red though that reddish color is pretty subtle and only visible from a few angles.
So, as expected, the one month for "Mad Science" I get a bug up my ass to do fantasy dungeon crawl minis. Maybe I'll come around by the end of the month.
Jamie Shred wrote: Harlequins are exactly what I had in mind actually. I have a primed harlequins army that I haven't had the balls to start painting yet.
I'd say you could even use it on the individual masque members. Within reason. Like pick a hue shift you like and ride it.. or go hog wild and use every color each on a different space clown. I honestly don't know if that would turn out awesome or horrifying. But I'd stick to say.. their tights or pants for the hue shifting paints if using on individual models. Their vehicles are prime fit for their use, either selectively or as a general full hull coat.
While you can use them with a brush, and I did while working the tips of Eldrad's cloak the hue shift hmm.. qualities?... uniformity? is much superior with an airbrush. Also a little goes a LONG LONG way.
Just a general pair of shots of some of the wife's vehicles... the one with the color shift as you can see + a second shot. I was a little TOO subtle here plus its going over medium blue and that takes some punch out. So consider that.
But I don't want to crap up the thread with our convo and can move it elsewhere. Maybe start a color shift thread if we want to dive a little deeper.
Here's my entry for this month, a couple Crisis bodyguards for my Shas'o, two suits that encapsulate a odd quirk about Tau ideology: heroism, selflessness, and humility. Not sure if I'll get both done because I'm fiercely addicted to kill team at the moment
First draft of my entry. And probably the final one, because my god, this one was a slog to paint! Not even sure why really, but I think I spent more time painting this than the entire Briar Queen Underworlds warband... I do think he's come out how I wanted, a battered old sky-pirate with very rugged equipment and the feeling that he basically lives in this armour, but it was tough compared to the other Nightvault warbands I've painted in the last couple of weeks. Hopefully the rest of the gang will be simpler now I've settled on an aesthetic and colour scheme.
Just a simple one with no really conversions for me this month despite my wanting to do something crazy (mad even)
What I really wanted to do this month was create an Ork Wacky Racers/Catch the pigeon vehicle but because I won't have the time I'll paint it in the style of dick dastardly's mean machine as a tribute, if I really have some free time I'll try to create a grot Mutley
I primed my AT-ST grey, and I've spent all day today - literally the whole day - painting it a different shade of grey. I feel a bit like Rimmer when he has the scutters repaint all the corridors of Red Dwarf from Ocean Grey to Military Grey.
Minor update experimenting with the new contrast paints.
The two guys with Zandri Dust base (wraithbone for the singer, flesh for the tech). Over that a glaze of Darkoath Flesh contrast. (scroll up for before picture)
Drybrush with Bleached Bone.
Overall pretty happy. Good flow, nice tint, like the shade. Drybrush really brings it home. Quick, easy good.
Blood Angel Red is still wet here. Mostly over a Khrone Red base, although the sash is an older Blood Red. Not expecting much over dark bases.
I checked it out after it dried for a bit. Some nice subtle shade, but will need more aggressive highlights to get it where I’d like it. But results fall into line of what I thought they would be.
I feel like I've aged 5 years doing these guys obsessively... Keep finding things wrong with them but ultimately because of the magnets and such I'm deciding to call it a day and put a stop to pouring any more of my time into these fellas. *sigh*
Anyway, these constructs have the spirits of fallen Eldar warriors transplanted into them so that they can serve in death and keep in fighting. Thats some weird science for sure!
Not an Avatar this month!!
I got distracted by my loft raiding last month and all those early 90s plastic beaky marines are starting to look like passable grey hunters and bloodclaws. But who is going to fix their land raider?
This guy!
Once he’s salvaged the ferrous meteorite for raw materials. (This is a genuine chunk Of meteorite from my local space museum shop).
Tikay Fortooun wrote: Not an Avatar this month!!
I got distracted by my loft raiding last month and all those early 90s plastic beaky marines are starting to look like passable grey hunters and bloodclaws. But who is going to fix their land raider?
This guy!
Once he’s salvaged the ferrous meteorite for raw materials. (This is a genuine chunk Of meteorite from my local space museum shop).
Thats an awesome looking base. What did you use as the source material for cork?
I seem to only have acess to 1/4" sheet of cork from my local scale model/train shop...
I'm in for this month!
Another nomad from Infinity for me:
Bran do castro is definitely a mad science experiment- a man modified by the dark techno arts of the spaceship Bakunin into the monkey king!
Tikay Fortooun wrote: Not an Avatar this month!!
I got distracted by my loft raiding last month and all those early 90s plastic beaky marines are starting to look like passable grey hunters and bloodclaws. But who is going to fix their land raider?
This guy!
Once he’s salvaged the ferrous meteorite for raw materials. (This is a genuine chunk Of meteorite from my local space museum shop).
Thats an awesome looking base. What did you use as the source material for cork?
I seem to only have acess to 1/4" sheet of cork from my local scale model/train shop...
Go to any discount/home bargains shop and you can get Cork placements for a couple of quid.
I'm starting to kick myself for picking white as the main color, can't seem to make the layers smooth. I might be trying to find another model I can use. Or just deal with the fact that this isn't going to be my greatest of works.
Inquisitor Lord Bane wrote: I'm starting to kick myself for picking white as the main color, can't seem to make the layers smooth. I might be trying to find another model I can use. Or just deal with the fact that this isn't going to be my greatest of works.
Depending on what kind of white you are after I find pallid Wych flesh covers really well and smooth.
Also, I didn’t upload the pictures of the meteorite!
Cheers.
I have a roll at home but mine is really fine grain cork if that makes sense. I'm on a hunt for more chunky variety. Will keep checking discount stores. There aren't many where I live though.
A late start to this month on my part, my painting mojo has been pretty drained. I'm painting up a couple (or one, I never manage to paint more than one model for this challenge) of rogue psykers from Blackstone Fortress. (Sorry for the crap picture)
"At what point does magic become mad science, and mad science become normality?"
Also Argive, those wraithblades are sweet!
QAR that ad mech/tyranid kitbash is awesome!
Nev I wanted to do something Eldar but I don't think I can compete against the mad science of a bonesinger!
Tyranid Horde wrote: A late start to this month on my part, my painting mojo has been pretty drained. I'm painting up a couple (or one, I never manage to paint more than one model for this challenge) of rogue psykers from Blackstone Fortress. (Sorry for the crap picture)
"At what point does magic become mad science, and mad science become normality?"
Nev I wanted to do something Eldar but I don't think I can compete against the mad science of a bonesinger!
Any suitably advanced science becomes indistinguishable from magic. And vice versus. Mad science is that fun stuff right on the line. Lots of cool looking models in that BSF box, looking forward to seeing paint on those. Good luck finding the motivation. I know I’ve been shy on it myself lately.
There is plenty of Eldar you could do if you wanted, no worries about competing with me. I’m just here to serve as a baseline to make the rest of you look good in comparison! Does feel nice to get that bonesinger done though. How long ago was he Made to Order? Kinda afraid to look. Not like he’s close the the longest thing waiting for paint on the bench...
Progress:
Bonesinger is done. Tech is almost there. He needs highlights and he axe/backpack done. (plus basing and all that). Hope to finish him this weekend.
Calling these finished. Brotherhood of Steel squad.
I tried the sponge technique for the first time on the armour, reasonably happy with it but I should have invested in some ryza rust rather that using fire dragon bright.
That bust is very nice. I have a nice historical bust waiting in the wings for an appropriate theme. Looking forward to working on a larger scale. My entry is ready. Photos tomorrow when I can get some natural light.
Done. Genestealer cult mechanicus patriarch. Wasn't really motivated for this theme so I tried to turn that into a more free and easy painting style. Had a bit of fun wihh drybrushing on the metals and tried a freer, more rapid highlighting style.
Some phenomenal work from everybody this month! DV8 amazing work on the bust and I'm loving the Patriarch and the Exorcist above!
Unfortunately for me life has got in the way - moving house and graduation and faulty superglue means I've not even built my piece yet so looks like this month is out of the question :(
QAR, that looks great! Wasn't sure it was going to work when I saw the plain model, but you've really managed to make it look seamless. Love the stronger, bolder colours as well.
(or at least as finished as I can be- I'm sure I will look at these photos later and realise I missed a bit).
The science is a genuine ferrous meteorite imbedded in the base!
It's just my normal red without my usual transition to pure black in the shadows. I use vallejo heavy red, then here I shades with carroburg crimson, then mix with a fleshtone to layer up to highlight. Vallejo elf flesh in this case. I didn't do as many layers as I normally would here either.
queen_annes_revenge wrote: Done. Genestealer cult mechanicus patriarch. Wasn't really motivated for this theme so I tried to turn that into a more free and easy painting style. Had a bit of fun wihh drybrushing on the metals and tried a freer, more rapid highlighting style.
Oooooooh... very sexy blend on the blue sir. Me likey!
So last month I did a pair of dreads, this month their mechanics.
I sing the songs of creation.
I recite the litanies of Mars
I speak with the spirts of my ancestors, who provide the will bringing life to my creations.
I commune with the machine spirits.
I patch them back up when those boneheads get themselves damaged
I know! Can’t they walk in a straight line without breaking themselves?
<brofist>
So had a bit of fun on this one. Pair of metal models, one legitimately vintage (was painted as a BA for many years) and one MTO fairly recently. A little reminder about the pros and cons of the material. Not really happy with the marine's axe, scratchbuilding is not my fotre. First time out with the contrast paints. Not over white, but the singer is blood angels red over blood red and khorne red. Minimal highlighting. Next time I’ll do a a layer of hilights under the glaze, and a lighter one on top. Quick and easy, and I like the results. Wraithbone and the tech’s face was darkoath flesh over zendi dust (however it’s spelled, beige) Little drybrush on top. Also quick test was the contrast was used to shade the rune hanging off the bottom of his robe, while the rest of the golds got the old chestnut ink. Subtle difference.
Would something like this be considered appropriate for this months theme? I have a more appropriate model, similar to the one DV8 painted, but there is no way I can paint it in time.
I am struggling to reach the finish line. Cutting corners, not happy with how it is turning out. Juggling two young children and work and my dis is leaving me with little time to paint and that time is sub par. Oh well. I suppose it will look good enough on the table top.
Power Elephant wrote: Would something like this be considered appropriate for this months theme? I have a more appropriate model, similar to the one DV8 painted, but there is no way I can paint it in time.
Use spoilers please if you are going to post huge images. Dang that made my monitor freak out. I think generly its ok as long as you enter with a proof pic I.E. before you started and then the finished model. At least thats how I understand it. I hope someone will correct me if I'm wrong.
Power Elephant wrote: Would something like this be considered appropriate for this months theme? I have a more appropriate model, similar to the one DV8 painted, but there is no way I can paint it in time.
Use spoilers please if you are going to post huge images. Dang that made my monitor freak out.
I think generly its ok as long as you enter with a proof pic I.E. before you started and then the finished model. At least thats how I understand it. I hope someone will correct me if I'm wrong.
Sorry, didn't think the pictures would be that big. I did show the proof pic, but the entry has to fit the theme as well.
Power Elephant wrote: Would something like this be considered appropriate for this months theme? I have a more appropriate model, similar to the one DV8 painted, but there is no way I can paint it in time.
Use spoilers please if you are going to post huge images. Dang that made my monitor freak out.
I think generly its ok as long as you enter with a proof pic I.E. before you started and then the finished model. At least thats how I understand it. I hope someone will correct me if I'm wrong.
Sorry, didn't think the pictures would be that big. I did show the proof pic, but the entry has to fit the theme as well.
Less of “active” mad science, and more of the repercussions. Children in gas-masks playing in a nuclear winter. I’ve seen more off-topic things entered, I think you’d be fine. IMHO, YMMV, etc...
Some great work coming in as usual - especially that bust, DV8. Like I said in my last post, it's stunning.
I'm declaring mine finished. Biel-Tan Warp Hunter. A hover tank built around a giant gun that operates by ripping open holes in reality. That sounds like mad science to me!
EDIT 4th July - Previous photos didn't have the Shuriken cannon stuck on (it's magnetised and I'd forgotten to pop it onto the Warp Hunter for the photos). I've just put it on and re-done the photos, I hope that doesn't matter. Original photos still spoilered below.
Previous photos before I noticed I hadn't popped the shuriken cannon on:
Bellerophon wrote: Some great work coming in as usual - especially that bust, DV8. Like I said in my last post, it's stunning.
I'm declaring mine finished. Biel-Tan Warp Hunter. A hover tank built around a giant gun that operates by ripping open holes in reality. That sounds like mad science to me!
Bellerophon wrote: Some great work coming in as usual - especially that bust, DV8. Like I said in my last post, it's stunning.
I'm declaring mine finished. Biel-Tan Warp Hunter. A hover tank built around a giant gun that operates by ripping open holes in reality. That sounds like mad science to me!
More pictures in the spoiler
Spoiler:
I won't lie, Bellerophon. This makes me moist for Biel Tan. If only I liked 40k enough to build an infantry heavy army for the game...
I have started painting the figure in mostly purples to fit the slaanesh theme in some more basic style with edge highlighting. But I will sneak in a gold staff so I can incorporate your advice!
The whole playground is about 9 by 9 cm. I would say that the kid is about 32mm scale. He is advertised as 1/35 scale but when I put him side by side with another model of that scale it was clear that he is way too small. I just used my camera like I always do.
Work and life responsibilities have gotten the better of painting time this month, I won't be able to finish in time. Best of luck to everyone, there are some pretty strong entries already.
With the quality of the entries this month I almost shouldn't bother, but here's my final entry anyway. For your viewing pleasure, a Tau XV95 Ghostkeel Battlesuit:
This was one of the more fun projects I've worked on. I fell in love with the model as soon as GW started previewing it, so naturally I picked one up. He's been waiting patiently for paint ever since, so it's nice to finally be able to get him out of the painting queue and ready for battle. The more observant among you will have noticed that there are two different main guns in some of the photos; I magnetized it so that it would have both weapon options, so I wanted to show a couple of shots of both of them.
I'm looking forward to the voting, as there are some pretty amazing entries in here so far!
Well, 3 out of 5 is...honestly kinda terrible. But that's what I've got done this month. Unhappy with the results, but usual burnout plus a lost week due to vacation means not much to be done on 'em. so, final pics.
Thanks for all the lovely comments on the Warp Hunter everybody, they're much appreciated. I'm glad that you liked it.
Some great entries coming in from Captain Brown and ZergSmasher - I've commented in your P&M Blogs - very nice work.
Vejut - don't worry about it, they look cool and it's always good to have plenty of entries in the challenge, even if you'd have liked to get a bit more done.
DanceOfSlaanesh - ooh, I can already tell this is going to be another good one!
Im calling the master of the blades done. I tried out the verdigris and rust effects from vallejo so far the rust is good but I need to work out the kinks with verdigris
After four hours of attempting to photograph this thing, around 50 photos taken with varying lighting and camera settings, here are my final pics. Enjoyable to paint, albeit time-consuming (it's huge, taller than a knight, and took about 20-30 hours to paint.) but it's such an amazing model, of such an iconic vehicle from the movies, it was a labour of love.
The AT-ST from Star Wars Legion
If anyone is wondering about the weird lines on the base, those are the miniature's fire arcs, which you need for the game.
I don't know how I managed to complete this with a house full of cousins and nephews and nieces. Everyone was all over me and playing with the damned model. Lots of corners cut. But in the end. I think it looks nice enough.
Tired of thankless duty, a celibate life, now he lust for something more. Greedy for wealth and power he began to study the ways of slaanesh. He turned mad.
Some bloody awesome entries yet again! I love this challenge because I get to see all these cool models month after month.
Loving that style again, DanceOfSlaanesh - I really dig the graphic style.
Interesting to see your AT-ST, felt - I just bought a Revell model one myself...you must have quite a bit of Legion stuff done now!
For my own entry this month, I tried to really push myself to do something I hadn't tried before. The model is almost all stippled to create shading and highlights, even the metals. Quite a lot of it is lost in the photos, unfortunately. I think I may have to invest in a good macro lens sometime soon...I used to play a goblin in World of Warcraft and so I love the tinker-slash-steampunk style and have tried to bring some of that into this model.
This guy is the leader for an all-grot Killteam (he counts as an orc with a big choppa) and most of the rest of the killteam is almost finished. When they are done, I'll make a thread to show them.
Anyhow, I really enjoyed painting this model and I hope you like him!
Good luck to everyone and see you all in the wild next month...
Well, I fell way behind this month but managed to find a couple hours yesterday to knock out my infinity monkey king. Not great, but done enough!
Great work, everybody!
I love the stippling technique for highlights. I've only ever used it and similar for the "rough" highlighting on the orks. But I think I can see the advantage of a stippled highlight on rounded or flat surfaces to get a very nice and even realistic (soft) lighting look. I should try it on some models and see how well I can implement it.
Chris56 wrote: Some bloody awesome entries yet again! I love this challenge because I get to see all these cool models month after month.
Loving that style again, DanceOfSlaanesh - I really dig the graphic style.
Interesting to see your AT-ST, felt - I just bought a Revell model one myself...you must have quite a bit of Legion stuff done now!
For my own entry this month, I tried to really push myself to do something I hadn't tried before. The model is almost all stippled to create shading and highlights, even the metals. Quite a lot of it is lost in the photos, unfortunately. I think I may have to invest in a good macro lens sometime soon...I used to play a goblin in World of Warcraft and so I love the tinker-slash-steampunk style and have tried to bring some of that into this model.
This guy is the leader for an all-grot Killteam (he counts as an orc with a big choppa) and most of the rest of the killteam is almost finished. When they are done, I'll make a thread to show them.
Anyhow, I really enjoyed painting this model and I hope you like him!
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Good luck to everyone and see you all in the wild next month...
Tired of thankless duty, a celibate life, now he lust for something more. Greedy for wealth and power he began to study the ways of slaanesh. He turned mad.
Slannesh Cast Eternals? I love the hues you picked. You can almost smell that slanneshi musk from just the hue.
As predicted time as not been kind to me this month and I've run out of it, my entry is mostly finished just a lot of edge highlights missing. and after taking the photos notice I completely forgot to paint the rim of the base (damn)....oh well
I'll put this one down as a well done for getting something finished even during a busy month.
My Ork "Mean Machine" Megatrakk Scrapjet
I really wanted to make a Custom Mean Machine from Wacky racers driven by an Ork Dick Dastardly and Grot Muttley but knew that was too ambitious for this month as my work as a big project deadline for the end of this month so lots of extra hours at work and time away from home to push it over the line. I ended up doing a little homage to that idea and painted a very poorly built Megatrakk Scrapjet I got off Ebay in the same colors as the Mean Machine. No last minute painting season to finish it off either as I'm up at 0430 tomorrow.
Good Luck everyone and sry I've not been around to comment on entries, hopefully I will be next month
So I've finished the Spindle Drones, but UR-025 was too much to do around going away. I've added some extra picks, in spoilers, because I didn't know if putting them on the Blackstone tile was too distracting?
The whole gang:
Blue:
Turquoise:
Purple:
And Greenie!
Without the tile:
Extras:
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Automatically Appended Next Post: Edit: I also forgot to clean up the rims!
Well, definitely beaten by the clock this month. The two servitors are near enough done but the techmarine is nowhere near finished. I've taken some phone pics for now but i'll take some more when they are all finished.
Modock wrote: I managed to squeeze a mini before the end.
Ariadna Dogwarrior.
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Proof
Clean as always, Modock! I hate how quickly you paint these up, but it also motivates me to do better as well
Thank you, but c'mon man your minis are already jaw-dropping. IMO the desire to improve is one of the most important thing in the hobby because it
keeps you motivated and if you're motivated you will get projects done.
Honestly, I'm always open for inspiration from every source, and that most definitely includes other artists. Regardless of skill level, I always approach it with the mentality that there's something to learn, or something I can pull from other people's work (whether it's color schemes, refinement of techniques, or just motivation to keep pushing myself).
And your work definitely stands up there as work that pushes that competitive side of me, especially the speed to which you paint and how clean, crisp and vibrant the colors are. Always looking forward to see what you put in each month!
Whoops, Just realised I photographed my Warp Hunter without the shuriken cannon - the perils of magnetised weapons! Anybody mind if I shoot some new photos with it on? It was painted within June, honest!
EDIT: I've put some new photos in my photo post - the old ones still there in the spoiler.
