Welcome all to the 55th round of the Dakka 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 Up, Up and Away, so we're looking for all things aerial, from soaring dragons to lightning-fast jetfighters, starships to airships, jetpacks to wings.
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. The overall winner of the League for this year will receive a set of Dakka Dice.
How Long Do I Have?
This challenge begins 1st of September and will end at midnight UK time on the 30th of September. After this, I shall compile the finished entries into a new thread, and voting will run for 5 days.
I was thinking about doing a stromhawk, but I’m a bit behind on my model count for the year, and there are a lot of shiny mew models out there, so my paint more then I buy goal might be at risk as well. So 3 windriders are going to intercept a pair of deathwatch inceptors.
The Khardon Overlords and Sylvaneth became embittered over who could use a track of land after fighting off a chaos incursion. The Khardon Overlords paid little heed to the ground dwelling treemen seeing as they possessed air superiority though the Sylvaneth clearly had numbers. Figuring on a quick end to the battle the Khardon Overlords brought their fleet in close....too close it seems. Taking a play from a game in the world that was the Treelord Ancients began throwing their team-mates at the Khardon vessels. The Khardon who had not bothered to prepare fully were taken off guard by the SAP (Surface to Air Plantlife) and were quickly undone. At the truce talks overseen a delegation of Stormcast Eternals, the great growth ancient Cypress was heard to say about the battle
“Who needs air superiority when your limbs reach the sky?”
Picked up a start collecting Sylvaneth box this week after having so much fun building and painting the Warhammer Underworlds Ylthari’s Guardians warband. I always wanted to build a tree man heavy WHF army, never got around to it till now .
Sprues or spruces, guess autocorrects going to get a workout with this . Had to modify the left arm some and trimmed a few branches that were in the way.
This ”Gumball Special” is so inspired by my favorite comic book team the Uncanny X-men with Wolverine and Colossus working together for their Fastball Special.
The first SAP will get a name eventually, and is not glued into place so I can do a flight picture when all painted up.
Some interesting stuff already taking shape in here. My own entry isn't as inspired but should hopefully be interesting to someone in here. I'll be doing a squad of Suppressors for my Dark Angels:
Hopefully they don't prove too difficult. I've got other stuff I need to be working on that totally doesn't fit the theme this month, so it could slow me down if I'm not careful.
I'm just going to get some Chainghasts done for my Nighthaunt army. Proof pic to come later tonight or tomorrow. I'd love to try and get the Coach done but I know that's just going to end in failure.
Automatically Appended Next Post: My proof for this month, a warlock skyrunner. I don't have any of the new bikes so this one will stick out a bit from my overall army but hey ho, it's an entry I can do quickly:
Its quite straight forward. Start with a basecoat of Waaagh! Flesh, shade with Agrax Earthshade, layer over with Warboss Green painting in lines following the ridges. Then I repeat the layering with a 50/50 of Warboss Green and Flash Gitz Yellow. If its bigger coils like on a Plasma Cannon or above, I then do 1:2 mix of Warboss to Flash Gitz on the sharp edges. Moot Green can be substituted for the mix, I just don't feel like buying a whole paint just for the eyes, purity seals and plasma. Depending on the model I also do a very fine highlight of white on the corners but not usually. Then I glaze with Waywatcher Green to blend the highlights and hit it with gloss varnish.
Also thanks Rybrook and Tyranid Horde! Looking forward to seeing both your entries finished!
Deadshot wrote: Turns out I picked the quickest project I've ever done in 11 years of hobbying!
The Orks are correct: The red ones do go faster!
I notice this myself when painting my Eldar vehicles. A (blue) marine tank is a slog I need to force myself through weeks of work to finish. Eldar (red) Leap off the bench in just a few days. When you figure my red takes about a zillion coats to get a smooth finish, this is kinda shocking.
Nice Work Deadshot, congrats on getting them finished to a good standard so quickly. Have you been subscribing to the Para school of painting recently?
Cool choice DV8, looking forward to seeing what you do with those, lots of nice potential with the capes/cloth.
Paradigm wrote: @Bellerophon: My vote definitely goes to doing the HE Prince. Hands down, one of my all-time favourite minis and I'd love to see your take on it.
Alright then!
I've had this guy since Island of Blood first came out. I was mainly a WHFB collector in those days and High Elves were my main army, so a starter set with my army in it was an instant buy when WHFB 8th came out. But I drifted away from the hobby shortly after, and I'd only got as far as building and priming the HE, and half painting the Seaguard. The Phoenix I did for the challenge a couple of months ago is the first HE model I've finished since then, so it's about time the prince got done.
From back when I used to prime things black...
It'll probably be towards the end of the month before I manage to get him done - I'm trying to finish some Eldar Rangers in time for a game, and I've got a week away for work coming up.
Deadshot wrote: Turns out I picked the quickest project I've ever done in 11 years of hobbying!
The Orks are correct: The red ones do go faster!
I notice this myself when painting my Eldar vehicles. A (blue) marine tank is a slog I need to force myself through weeks of work to finish. Eldar (red) Leap off the bench in just a few days. When you figure my red takes about a zillion coats to get a smooth finish, this is kinda shocking.
Sharp looking squad.
Thanks man! And yeah I agree with you there, all of my 6 armies have red as a major colour, either as the main colour (Blood Ravens, Behemoth Nids) or as a large spot colour (Deathwatch, Grey Knights, Black Legion, Orks), and it goes so much quicker to me. Maybe its because other colours have such large or small difference between shades? Like, painting GK is a trawl because silver to slightly bright silver looks like nothing, while Waaagh! Flesh to Warboss green always needs 4-5 coats for me, and black models are just a drybrush to highlight.
Midget Gems wrote:Nice Work Deadshot, congrats on getting them finished to a good standard so quickly. Have you been subscribing to the Para school of painting recently?
Cool choice DV8, looking forward to seeing what you do with those, lots of nice potential with the capes/cloth.
Thanks a lot dude! Shockingly, I have not! believe it or not, I actually do most projects over 2-3 days. The only reason I end up submitted deadline day is that life is too busy at the moment. Most of the projects I've done particular for this comp are done really quickly. The Trukk I submitted for last month was built on a Saturday, sprayed on sunday and fully completed by the wednesday apart from minor touchups.
DV8 wrote:Proof pic:
Nice looking unit there DV8. Interesting take on the theme, I think most people including myself are going for flyers and jump infantry type stuff, but floaty ghosts are awesome.
ssisal wrote:I'm going to try and do something with this heldrake.
Very nice my friend! I was almost going to do the same with one I've had for nearly 5 years but the wings and pinning are a modeller's nightmare. I'll pray for your fingers when you cut them to shreds on that beast!
Bellerophon wrote:
Paradigm wrote: @Bellerophon: My vote definitely goes to doing the HE Prince. Hands down, one of my all-time favourite minis and I'd love to see your take on it.
Alright then!
I've had this guy since Island of Blood first came out. I was mainly a WHFB collector in those days and High Elves were my main army, so a starter set with my army in it was an instant buy when WHFB 8th came out. But I drifted away from the hobby shortly after, and I'd only got as far as building and priming the HE, and half painting the Seaguard. The Phoenix I did for the challenge a couple of months ago is the first HE model I've finished since then, so it's about time the prince got done.
From back when I used to prime things black...
It'll probably be towards the end of the month before I manage to get him done - I'm trying to finish some Eldar Rangers in time for a game, and I've got a week away for work coming up.
Sweeeetttt model dude. Agree with it being an instant classic, was up there for me with the Black Reach Captain for starter box models. Such a shame they removed it from the line instead of releasing individually. Will look forward to this one!
@Deadshot: Nice work on those Blood Angels! I'm jealous of the fact that you did them so fast!
@DV8: The Chainrasps might be the coolest models in the newer AoS starter, so I look forward to seeing what you can do with them.
@Bellerophon: That Griffin Rider prince almost got me to buy into WHFB way back when, and again when they did the limited rerelease of Island of Blood for AoS. He'll be really awesome when he's done, I'm sure!
As for my own entry, progress has been made:
Still got some smaller details to basecoat, and then it'll be on to shading. I'll also need to clean up the green armor a little bit where my drybrush highlights got a little messy.
Paradigm wrote: @Bellerophon: My vote definitely goes to doing the HE Prince. Hands down, one of my all-time favourite minis and I'd love to see your take on it.
Alright then!
I've had this guy since Island of Blood first came out. I was mainly a WHFB collector in those days and High Elves were my main army, so a starter set with my army in it was an instant buy when WHFB 8th came out. But I drifted away from the hobby shortly after, and I'd only got as far as building and priming the HE, and half painting the Seaguard. The Phoenix I did for the challenge a couple of months ago is the first HE model I've finished since then, so it's about time the prince got done.
From back when I used to prime things black...
It'll probably be towards the end of the month before I manage to get him done - I'm trying to finish some Eldar Rangers in time for a game, and I've got a week away for work coming up.
I had the same model.... got broken by a combination of wife and kids :(. Going to submit something this month as I am off work for most of it before I head away for a while again.
Here we go, got a crimson hunter and some escorting jetbikes. The bikes almost went to trash because they had like 3 ugly painting layers and I'm missing the drivers. Decided to try some easy saim hann colors on them, so they are freshly primed and ready to go.
Rybrook wrote: Looks good, maybe yan find replacement riders on ebay
Already built some with parts from different kits. Mostly spare dire avenger chests and three different heads. Dire avenger, basic guardian and one old jetbike guardian. But it's fine. That way I don't worry too much on trying some new techniques and colors. Hope I'll be able to do a better picture with the result. Didn't worry for the entry.
I was a little leery painting this guy up, but I’m enjoying him now.
Still plenty to do including the dryad being hurled, but enjoying the project, which is most important.
Midgetgems, I can already tell that is going to be another awesome conversion from you - looking forward to seeing it!
Belerephon, I almost chose that model myself! Got to the point of even priming it and then got excited about another idea - will post proof pic if it gets off the ground...oh crap, sorry, didn't mean that...not deleting it though!
Looks like i’ll Be concentrating on the Wingmaster! I’ve painted a lot of Space Wolves recently, so this is a nice change of style. I’ve been putting this off for ages but I’m having a shot at some NMM elements for the first time ever. Quite pleased with the result so far!
That definitely looks like metal tikay so id say that's a solid first attempt.
Almost finished the skin on these guys. My first time painting dark skin so would appreciate any feedback or tips for this, as it stands I'm just planning a lighter brown sharp highlight to finish off but if you have other suggestions I'm all ears.
just a couple wip shots. Having never painted any chaos ive done alot of searching for others works to get inspired.
I useded many thin layers of a 50/50 water/minitaire brand airbrush paint In magenta on the tops and purple(but looks blue) on the underside.
the gold im going with is a base of retribution with shades and such tbd on how it looks guilded.
Better pictures to come, but hopefully you can see the concept of flight in the Sylvaneth world. The big trees throw their little twigs at enemy flyers and over the ramparts of enemy fortresses.
Might add a few more touches, so still not Done done.
First highlight done on the skin tones, going to add a brighter spot highlight too for these. Then I will finish the clothes and finally the crows.
Painting up some characters to go with them at the same time so thought I may as well share their progress too.
As always feedback is welcome and appreciated.
I will be adding this old framed Dark Eldar model into the mix, I only have found one so far, but if I do find more they will be added to the model count!
I haven't painted Tau minis in a very long time that I forgot I have some lying around. I found a piranha in my pile of shame.
Since I'm not such a huge fan of the current design I made a few adjustments, a bit of conversion, I made it more like a fighter jet.
I have access to 3D printer at work so with my limited design skill I drew a wing and a canopy. IMO it looks alright.
A lot of “jet” Piranha conversions flip the wings round, which makes the model back-heavy and “off” somehow, keeping them the right way round makes it much more balanced in shape. I also like how you’ve lined up the leading edge with the intakes; gives a nice transition of angles.
Cool looking stuff this month! Looking forward to your crazy cool conversion, Midgetgems!
This month, in a first for me, I bought something to paint for this challenge! Hopefully this doesn't become a dangerous new trend. I had some Bolt Action Soviet forward air observers to paint, so I thought I would get them a IL-2 ground attack aircraft to direct.
Thanks guys. The demon is just the scenic base for Sangy that FW very kindly allowed you to pay extra for (they're good like that). I'm not sure if you can still get it or if it was an event only at the FW weekender.
Done! Not my best work, but these were always destined for the tabletop. This challenge just helped motivate me to finish them!
feltmonkey wrote:I'm going to paint the T-47 from Star Wars Legion.
This is hands down my favorite Star Wars vehicle design, so I can't wait to see what you do with this!
Modock wrote:I haven't painted Tau minis in a very long time that I forgot I have some lying around. I found a piranha in my pile of shame.
Since I'm not such a huge fan of the current design I made a few adjustments, a bit of conversion, I made it more like a fighter jet.
I have access to 3D printer at work so with my limited design skill I drew a wing and a canopy. IMO it looks alright.
Yo that thing looks legit! And Tau will perfectly suited to your Infinity style! Looking forward! What kind of color scheme do you have in mind, since I'm assuming this is a one off and you don't actually own a full Tau army.
queen_annes_revenge wrote:Done!
I didn't quote the photo, but SO GOOD! Although I think the piece needs a slight contrast shift, darkening the values on the base and bumping the values on Sanguinius to draw focus to him.
Those are a very neat, DV8. Your "tabletop" standard is nuts, I'd say is way above.
Yea, you're right...Tau is favourite army because of the high tech look and it stands out quite a bit in 40K world. I just painted a few models but I'm
gonna shift more focus on them cause I need a break from painting Infinity minis.
The scheme will be in green military colors. I did these two years ago and the piranha will be something similar.
Captain Brown wrote: Now I am open to suggestions on how to show the constant change in temperature on the turbine casing.
Google “steel bluing temperature” for reference photos and work out where the hottest part would be (hint; combustion chamber). You need a bright gold (possibly mithril) over the hot part fading back over a good distance to the base metal colour. Then use blue wash over the brightest part, fading through purple to sepia to the base gold. You need a bit of blend between the colours, but they can be relatively distinct bands (I think because each colour change happens at a critical temperature, so even if you’re only a few degrees below it won’t change).
My 3rd duel of the year. Nothing fancy like a diorama. I paint for the table, and don’t have room on the shelf for little bespoke fighting bases. So just mixed army entries. Helps me get a little of everything done for my armies. Although next time I should do Ultras and Deathwatch; Eldar have been in all three.
Quite happy with the inceptors. My one complaint is the flight stands, they make them very face-down, and hard to photograph. Less happy with the bikes. Almost decided to cut them from my entry as I think overall they lower the quality by quite a bit. But they’ve been waiting for paint since 6th edition, so deserve their time in the sun.
Next month will be my annual undead entry. Already got the spooks lined up and primed. At this rate I’ll have a nighthaunt army done by the time they re-boot the universe again!
Some lovely work coming in as ever, folks. QAR - that's a stunny paintjob on Sangy - that's going to be hard to top this month! DV8, your tabletop standard is still clean and very well presented, nicely done. It's a similar philosophy to my entering my Corvus Blackstar last month - no special effort but just using the challenge as an excuse to paint it. Nev, I'm liking the continued Vs theme you've got going on, and it's always fun to see some classic eldar.
I'm looking forward to seeing the finished versions of all of these WIPs, they're all looking promising!
I've never been one to post too many WIPs, because I usually feel in the middle stages of painting that the model looks rubbish and I save it until the end before I post anything. But I've been working on my griffon and I'm quite pleased with how the wings have come out, so what the hell, I'll post a WIP. Feathers are largely done, but still a fair bit of work required for the rest of it. I'm largely painting the griffon itself in a similar scheme to the Island of Blood box photos, but the rider to match the red/bone theme of my old High Elf army.
Thanks Duke of beer, I will try my best to make it Crazy AND Cool Yours is a nice idea, yeah sometimes you get a moment on inspiration and run off to buy something for a cool idea. Looking forward to see how yours turns out.
Damn! queen_Anne that is far to lovely. The subtle shading to the wings and the face (of course with your painting) are wonderful.
Those are amazing as well DV8. I actually though I was looking at a drawing for a minute. The bright leaves on the base give a nice contrast to the pale ghostly colors.
Yay a Madock conversion and its looking very good indeed
Things are looking interesting and close at the mid way point 6 months in. Lots of pairs of people on similar scores and Queen Anne in the lead by just 5 points.
In an update to mine - Some of it has some paint on it!
Things were going well at the beginning of the month, then with one thing and another they kind of stalled a bit. Long story short, I used to fly aeroplanes for Thomas Cook.
Anyway, this is as far as I’ve got, and although I may paint a bit over the weekend for a break, I have other priorities at the moment. It’s a huge pity, because I was really enjoying this one. The Ghost Miniatures sculpt is beautiful and I really pushed myself with learning new techniques like the non on the sword.
Thanks again though for running the competition, without it I probably wouldn’t even get half way through painting a figure!
Tikay Fortooun wrote: Things were going well at the beginning of the month, then with one thing and another they kind of stalled a bit. Long story short, I used to fly aeroplanes for Thomas Cook.
Anyway, this is as far as I’ve got, and although I may paint a bit over the weekend for a break, I have other priorities at the moment. It’s a huge pity, because I was really enjoying this one. The Ghost Miniatures sculpt is beautiful and I really pushed myself with learning new techniques like the non on the sword.
Thanks again though for running the competition, without it I probably wouldn’t even get half way through painting a figure!
I'm sorry to hear that man, the whole TC is a travesty, really sorry to hear about your situation. Also sorry to see you drop out, looks like it would've been a gorgeous miniature. Hope things go upwards for you soon, though with a pilot skillset should be something right around the corner!
I always wanted a army of treefolk, and starting with the Shadespire/NightVault Yltharis’s Guardians I found a reason to buy the Sylvaneth starter set and this up,up, and away competition got me the inspiration to paint them up. I just need to flock the second batch of dryads and I should have 1000points of Sylvaneth done. Looking forward to buying another start collecting box to work on them.
The contrast paints have also really helped me achieve what I was wanting to do (sunlight blades). Thanks for looking
Well I have loads of additional photos in my Necromundian Guard log, but I think these six give the best views...it is hard to fit the flying stand into the photos and let you see the detail, so one vertically arranged photo. Used the Las Cannon and Rocket Pods for this configuration, but also did the six Las Cannons for a Vendetta and the Multi-laser with Rocket Pods.
Nice entries guys, I'm especially loving that Valkyrie - very well weathered.
I'm calling my entry finished. I felt like I was cutting it a bit fine this month but I've finished with a few days to spare. I'm particularly pleased with this one - the Island of Blood High Elf Prince on Griffon, that's been sitting in my unpainted pile for the better part of a decade. It feels good to get it painted finally.
Nice, I like those feathers and the front leg skin. Also kinda wondering how you did the cat body, because I've been trying and failing to get that sorta style for my kitties for a while now.
Vejut wrote: Nice, I like those feathers and the front leg skin. Also kinda wondering how you did the cat body, because I've been trying and failing to get that sorta style for my kitties for a while now.
Thanks! The cat body was basecoated by airbrush with Vallejo Model Air Middlestone. I brush painted my shadows and highlights in a fairly loose, broad-strokes sort of manner, not perfectly blended, and also painted on the spots. Then I airbrushed another thin coat of VMA Middlestone over the top to achieve the blending.
Wow great stuff this month! Love that griffin- the feathers and spots look phenomenal, really brings it to life.
Not super happy with mine, but it is done enough for now! It was very fun to do a 1/72nd scale model again, and I wouldn't have done it except for this challenge! This is a really fun addition to my bolt action soviet force.
I'll not be able to complete my entry. Got some rl issues and just realized it's the last weekend of the month. However, really like this challenge and will try to do better next time. Quite some nice results so far. Keep it up everyone!
I managed to finish my entry sooner than usual. I had quite fun painting the piranha. I bought some oil paints a while ago but I never
got to use them. I did the streaking effects with the oils and I'm quite happy how it turned out and I'll say they are very forgiving
in the way you apply them.
I always thought (don't know why) that decals are hard to use but on the contrary are quite easy. I did a mix of decals and freehand
red markings.
So I’ve finished the Thunderbolts, but these aren’t the final pics, because; a) I may have time to finish the Marauders before Tuesday and b) my computer is currently “attempting repairs” after I downloaded the main pictures of my camera. But iPhone photos as a progress update!
Wow, some fantastic stuff here.
I love your griffon rider, Bellerephon - I have one of those that has also been sitting there waiting for some love for years. You have done a great job!
Modock - a bit of a departure for you recently. The directional weathering is fantastic. Great painting as always from you.
I also love your dragon Vejut - every month I look forward to seeing the unique minis you bring to the table.
Jadenim - those flyers are great, look forward to seeing the others.
Can't wait for your suppressors either, Zerg.
Anyhow, life has been a right pain lately, with family crises and having to work through my lunchtimes (which is usually my only painting time). I had grand plans for this month to paint some Scourges for my Dark Eldar army but just have not had time to do anything. Instead, I am going to try to finish this TIE fighter by tomorrow! I have an idea that looks good in my head, but we'll have to see if it turns out in real life...
Modock - a bit of a departure for you recently. The directional weathering is fantastic. Great painting as always from you.
Thanks Chris.
It's like a breeze of fresh air painting something different and trying some new techniques, It always boosts my motivation and passion.
Anyhow, life has been a right pain lately, with family crises and having to work through my lunchtimes (which is usually my only painting time). I had grand plans for this month to paint some Scourges for my Dark Eldar army but just have not had time to do anything. Instead, I am going to try to finish this TIE fighter by tomorrow! I have an idea that looks good in my head, but we'll have to see if it turns out in real life...
Sorry to hear that, I hope everything goes well. Regarding your entry I'm sure it will look fantastic like it always does.
Entered my first in store painting competition today at one of my flgs. 4 hours to paint a random marine in store colours (yellow and purple). Only these paints to use.
Mechanicus Standard Grey
Administratum Grey
Dawnstone
Leadbelcher
Bugman's Glow
Ushabti Bone
White Scar
Ceramite White
Xereus Purple
Averland Sunset
Flash Gitz Yellow
Seraphim Sepia
It was a really fun challenge and I got third place with my quartered scheme! Really interesting how many different yellow and purple shades were created from the same list of paints.
As promised, here are the final pics of my Dark Angels Suppressor squad:
They totally aren't compensating for anything with those big autocannons. Honest! I'm just glad to get done with these models. Getting them to stay on their flight stands was a royal pain in the ass. I'm fairly happy with how they turned out, although as usual for me the fairly subtle edge highlights are hard to see in the photos.
Some pretty cool stuff coming in from everyone else too. That T-47 Airspeeder from feltmonkey in particular is incredible! Gonna be a great month for voting!
Here is my very late proof. I have actually been painting these guys for a week but never got round to putting up the entry.
A Ravening Direflock which counts as Necromunda Cawdor Sheen birds
Jadenim wrote: So I’ve finished the Thunderbolts, but these aren’t the final pics, because; a) I may have time to finish the Marauders before Tuesday and b) my computer is currently “attempting repairs” after I downloaded the main pictures of my camera. But iPhone photos as a progress update!
Spoiler:
So the “attempted repairs” failed and my computer is as dead as a Norwegian Blue (at least for the next few days), so I’m afraid you’ll have to use those photos as my final ones
Jadenim wrote: So I’ve finished the Thunderbolts, but these aren’t the final pics, because; a) I may have time to finish the Marauders before Tuesday and b) my computer is currently “attempting repairs” after I downloaded the main pictures of my camera. But iPhone photos as a progress update!
Spoiler:
So the “attempted repairs” failed and my computer is as dead as a Norwegian Blue (at least for the next few days), so I’m afraid you’ll have to use those photos as my final ones
Great colours, JustALittleOrkish - they look very cool.
I thing the edge highlights look good, Zerg, especially on the feet and lower legs.
@feltmonkey - that is one cool snowspeeder! I love the battle damage and the canopy panes on the cockpit, with the tiny cracks in the glass.
Anyhow, here is my TIE fighter - the colour scheme is based on an episode of the Disney cartoon - Rebels. It is not identical and very rushed but I'm pretty happy with it as an overnighter.
Hope everyone likes it and see you all next month!
No vote for the next month, it'll be the traditional annual Halloween round. So basically anything scary, spooky or otherwise frightening. Sorry, thought I'd mentioned that earlier in the month, but it seems I didn't.
I need to paint a Land Raider for Armies on Parade next month, so I'm wracking my brains for some way to justify it as Halloween themed. I suppose a Land Raider would be terrifying in real life. I'm also planning on doing some freehand on it, and the prospect of trying that is filling me with a cold dread...
Thanks for the lovely feedback on my Snowspeeder, Para, Modock, and Chris. I went pretty route-one with it, a true to the movie look. Seeing Chris' psychedelic Tie Fighter makes me wish I'd broken out the fluorescent paints.
feltmonkey wrote: I need to paint a Land Raider for Armies on Parade next month, so I'm wracking my brains for some way to justify it as Halloween themed. I suppose a Land Raider would be terrifying in real life. I'm also planning on doing some freehand on it, and the prospect of trying that is filling me with a cold dread...
Thanks for the lovely feedback on my Snowspeeder, Para, Modock, and Chris. I went pretty route-one with it, a true to the movie look. Seeing Chris' psychedelic Tie Fighter makes me wish I'd broken out the fluorescent paints.
Paint the driver as Chevy Chase and do a Dark Angels vacation theme.....that’s scary
Paradigm wrote: No vote for the next month, it'll be the traditional annual Halloween round. So basically anything scary, spooky or otherwise frightening. Sorry, thought I'd mentioned that earlier in the month, but it seems I didn't.
Paradigm wrote: No vote for the next month, it'll be the traditional annual Halloween round. So basically anything scary, spooky or otherwise frightening. Sorry, thought I'd mentioned that earlier in the month, but it seems I didn't.
That is perfect, have just the mini's for that
Sitting outside Miniaturemarket’s brick and mortar store......not that I don’t have plenty of options in the pile already .
Paradigm wrote: No vote for the next month, it'll be the traditional annual Halloween round. So basically anything scary, spooky or otherwise frightening. Sorry, thought I'd mentioned that earlier in the month, but it seems I didn't.
That is perfect, have just the mini's for that
Yep perfect opportunity for me to paint some more resident evil. Not sure if I will enter some zombies or bosses, let's see how clean up goes.
Afraid it's a rather naff last-minute entry for me this time, the first half of the month was lost to the final bits of uni work and since then the theme has largely had me stumped. Best I could come up with s Luke Skywalker in his Red Five pilot gear, close enough I think (just about!)
The 'model' is actually a toy from a few years back, hence the fairly soft details, especially on the face and the white part of the flight suit. Roughly 54mm scale, but less detail than your average 28mm mini! Still, it's an entry, hopefully with a bit more time I can come up with something more accomplished next month!
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. Had to modify the left arm some and trimmed a few branches that were in the way.
Sitting outside Miniaturemarket’s brick and mortar store......not that I don’t have plenty of options in the pile already 
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