Welcome all to the 65th round of the Dakka Painting challenge. For the unfamiliar, this is a friendly painting competition open to members of all skill levels and experience, whether your entry is your first or you thousand-and-first time painting miniatures. Each month, finished entries are collected into a thread where the community can vote on their favourite pieces, and those votes go towards an annual overall League that runs for 12 rounds, ending in February next year.

This month, the theme is Objective Secured. Your entry should feature models who possess the gear, skills,or sheer tenacity and hardiness,to hold,vital strategic points, or press forward and wrest soch locations from the enemy's grasp. Alternatively, objective markers or pivotal terrain features that reflect such locations are also valid entries.

How To Enter

- You may enter up to five 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 July and will end at midnight UK time on the 31st of July. After this, I shall compile the finished entries into a new thread, and voting will run for 5 days.

List of Entrants

Squad of infiltrators. Ready to move out and secure the objective.

Battle Sisters from the army box, still on sprue. I'll try to paint all ten and then just pick the 5 most representative

Not sure I'll stick with these girls, my enthusiasm for this army comes in waves, but gonna try to grab five from this set of Basti spear ladies, spoilered because the latest pseudo-egyptian fashions don't involve tops:

I'm going with the varanguard, rank and file of the everchosen himself. I tend to batch spray with my airbrush when I use it, so much like the marauders last month I have already sprayed on a coat of bronze, but as that is only two minutes work and just a base layer I'm hoping it's ok.

Proof;

It's a really long time since I've entered one of these. Great to see lots of the same names here, and a bunch of new ones too!

I really fancied any of the other subjects because my plan for July is Eisenhorn and Cherubael. Could the Malus Codicium be the objective? Eisenhorn has definitely secured that

No problem if that's too tenuous, I'll be painting him either way.

I am going to enter an Eldar Phoenix Lord...because that is all I have left to paint. Perhaps an objective marker that I build from scratch to go with him.



Cheers,

CB

I've not entered one of these before, but this one ticks a number of boxes and helps push me along the route to my new army for 9th. I'll be going for a squad of Tallarn desert raiders that just came off the 3d printer. I'll pick whichever are the best 5 nearer the end

Vejut wrote:
Not sure I'll stick with these girls, my enthusiasm for this army comes in waves, but gonna try to grab five from this set of Basti spear ladies, spoilered because the latest pseudo-egyptian fashions don't involve tops:

Spoiler:

Mind saying what those models actually are? They look like they might make for an interesting cultists of Tzeentch or Slaanesh squad. Or a "counts as" Tomb Kings spears squad.

Nevelon won't be the only one entering with Infiltrators this month. I'll be painting these up for my Dark Angels army. Here's the proof pic:

I'm kind of on a little project to get as much of my Primaris stuff done as possible before the new box set drops, so this will help with that goal.

Hmm, I guess maybe this barbaretta and cyber mastiff? Not really feeling it. Wanted to paint more lotr this month but I guess I could do this one.

 queen_annes_revenge wrote:
Hmm, I guess maybe this barbaretta and cyber mastiff? Not really feeling it. Wanted to paint more lotr this month but I guess I could do this one.

Why not lotr? They have plenty of generic massed infantry to choose from.

 SergentSilver wrote:

 queen_annes_revenge wrote:
Hmm, I guess maybe this barbaretta and cyber mastiff? Not really feeling it. Wanted to paint more lotr this month but I guess I could do this one.

Why not lotr? They have plenty of generic massed infantry to choose from.

... also, doesn't basically every second scene in lotr/hobbit involve someone holding a vital strategic point? Guess you could pick any random named lotr character and some plot point where they're securing some kind of objective would come to mind

 SergentSilver wrote:

Vejut wrote:
Not sure I'll stick with these girls, my enthusiasm for this army comes in waves, but gonna try to grab five from this set of Basti spear ladies, spoilered because the latest pseudo-egyptian fashions don't involve tops:

Spoiler:

Mind saying what those models actually are? They look like they might make for an interesting cultists of Tzeentch or Slaanesh squad. Or a "counts as" Tomb Kings spears squad.

They're mildly reposed and weapon swapped Basti Skirmishers from Crocodile Games, for their WarGods of Aegyptus game, like most of the weird pseudo-egyptian things I post.

I'm putting together an ad-hoc multi-craftworld force in order to select Ynnari/Rhana Dandra kill teams from. Focussing on guardians this month, so here are (nearly) all of the guardian defenders and storm guardians I'm painting. Some of them are obviously painted beyond base colours (two are actually complete) so they obviously don't qualify. There are also custom heads and unorthodox loadouts in there to make things a bit more interesting. I'll select 5 that qualify from the whole lot, and maybe the eldar pillar as an objective, too.

The craftworlds are as follows -

Back row from left: Saim Hann, Biel Tan, Mymeara, Yme-Loc
Middle row: Iyanden, Alaitoc, Altansar, Mymeara, Ulthwe
Front row: Arach-Qin, Iybraesil, Stel-Uit

I've also got a couple of Il Kaithe and a couple of Kaelor built, but I ran out of white primer, so if I decide to enter any of them I'll add proof photos for them later.

My entry should be colourful at the very least!

Vejut wrote:

 SergentSilver wrote:

Vejut wrote:
Not sure I'll stick with these girls, my enthusiasm for this army comes in waves, but gonna try to grab five from this set of Basti spear ladies, spoilered because the latest pseudo-egyptian fashions don't involve tops:

Spoiler:

Mind saying what those models actually are? They look like they might make for an interesting cultists of Tzeentch or Slaanesh squad. Or a "counts as" Tomb Kings spears squad.

They're mildly reposed and weapon swapped Basti Skirmishers from Crocodile Games, for their WarGods of Aegyptus game, like most of the weird pseudo-egyptian things I post.

Thanks! Perhaps a whole pseudo-Egyptian cultist following for my eventual Thousand Sons army. I have one old squad from the previous sculpt era and I always did like their pseudo-Egyptian aesthetic. I hope they can still be used with a normal Chaos Undivided army as Elites though, since I'll probably never buy enough of the actual models for more than a small patrol size. I do really want a squad of those Scarab Cult Terms though. I've wanted Thousand Sons themed Terms since I started playing back in 4th Ed.

Ah right, I plan to enter 5 Kasrkin as my entry for this month. Didn't get to last months for a number of reasons, but I've gained some drive. Helps that the other half the squad was finished 7+ years ago... It does not help that all the original paints are dead and I do not have close replacements for the one I used for lenses and the one I used for the sensors. Oh well, I'll hopefully make it work somehow. I should have proofs by tomorrow.

I’ll try this again!

It’ll either be 5 infiltrators or 5 incursors for my space wolves army.

Proof attached. (On a side note, does anyone else have problems posting photos not rotated from their iPhone?)

These are 6mm scale Regult Tactical Battlepods for Robotech RPG Tactics. They are nimble and well-armed, and their rocket nozzles allow them to double as space fighters. They are, however, very poorly-armored. They are the standard infantry mecha of the Zentraedi. I'll see how many I can paint in the time allotted.

Rather than the guys to secure the objective, I've decided to paint up the obejctive to be secured:



I put together the transporter platform using a container for camembert cheese, with some bits from the Maelstrom's Edge terrain sprue. I'll add some pieces from the Sedition Wars terrain set to be control panels, power sources and such.

Here's my proof pic. My first batch of zombies for Resident Evil 2 board game. I will pick 5 out when they are done for final pics.

And here's some progress, going to be mainly using contrast paints for these so I can work out some schemes for the horde.

Here's my proof pic of Eisenhorn and Cherubael (securing that Malus Codicium!)



Ignore the chaplain. I will be painting him this month, but he doesn't fit the theme.

I will probably paint up something from my Combined. Just nailed the color scheme on a "test" Worm (which I realize in hindsight are supposed to be support models?)

No clue yet which ones I'll pick; we'll see what I manage to get done this month. Will update this post with proof pic later.

I hate to be the third but.... yeah

WIP on the varanguard; I'm going to be working on the bronze highlights for most of the month I think;

Don't have any troops squads at the moment to paint so gonna do up this terrain I got delivered



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416_SpaceWolves wrote:
I’ll try this again!

It’ll either be 5 infiltrators or 5 incursors for my space wolves army.

Proof attached. (On a side note, does anyone else have problems posting photos not rotated from their iPhone?)

100% avoidable if you edit the photo one time with your phone before posting. Works for me though i am also lazy and just post proof pics however they pop up.

Alright, I'm gonna try something crazy, but I'm working with what I got.

I'm going to try painting this squad of guardsmen (please ignore the failed attempt at an ice world flurry camo on three, I will be painting right over it for this):


Using only these paints (hopefully all the Citadel paints still work right after so long):


If this fails miserably, I will be painting the five unpainted Kasrkin behind them and attempting to match the 7+ year old color scheme on the five painted ones using some of the same paints and the red and blue Grumbacher in the picture because that's what I've got for those two colors.

Wish me luck. I'm gonna need it.

 Whittlesey40k wrote:
Here's my proof pic of Eisenhorn and Cherubael (securing that Malus Codicium!)



Ignore the chaplain. I will be painting him this month, but he doesn't fit the theme.

I don't know, somehow the photo looks appropriate with the chaplain pointing a storm bolter at the Daemonhost...

So I watched the first season of BNA on netflix last night and then got stoned and decided to mimic the color scheme for Michiru's eyes... so... yeah I dont know how well it works on the models yet but maybe some input? I'm planning to add some yellow or something to the scopes... idk

The first coat of white has gone surprisingly well! The paint on the first model was dry before I even finished the fifth. It's even doing a decent job covering the previous paint on the three.

Haha Freya good to see I'm not the only one on Dakka who binged BNA this weekend. The color scheme on the guns looks interesting, are you sticking with the Space Wolves for the rest of the armour scheme? Does kinda fit in with BNA, heh.

Here's my first sister, still lots of details missing but I think I'll work on the others now. Also they're getting seapunk/grunge hair because why not.

 MobileSuitRandom wrote:
Haha Freya good to see I'm not the only one on Dakka who binged BNA this weekend. The color scheme on the guns looks interesting, are you sticking with the Space Wolves for the rest of the armour scheme? Does kinda fit in with BNA, heh.

Here's my first sister, still lots of details missing but I think I'll work on the others now. Also they're getting seapunk/grunge hair because why not.

I really like the teal hair on white armor. Thats pretty wicked.

 MobileSuitRandom wrote:
Also they're getting seapunk/grunge hair because why not.

Because girls just wanna have fu-hun! YEAAAAAH girls just wanna have fun! (PURGE the heretics in STYLE! For the Emperor!)

 MobileSuitRandom wrote:
Haha Freya good to see I'm not the only one on Dakka who binged BNA this weekend. The color scheme on the guns looks interesting, are you sticking with the Space Wolves for the rest of the armour scheme? Does kinda fit in with BNA, heh.

Here's my first sister, still lots of details missing but I think I'll work on the others now. Also they're getting seapunk/grunge hair because why not.

I like the warm (sepia) shading on the cool white armor. That's a neat effect.

I am in

Time to resume Sythe and Sickle!
https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/760381.page

Wyches

I will try the new models this month. capture the object by webway

 ms07b3 wrote:
I will try the new models this month. capture the object by webway

Did you link the wrong picture? Neither appear to have anything to do with the webway or the ObSec theme.

Although I guess if you stretch the theme a bit and take some interpretational liberties, I suppose you could say any character model "possess the gear, skills,or sheer tenacity and hardiness,to hold,vital strategic points, or press forward and wrest soch locations from the enemy's grasp."

It does seem a bit sneaky of the coordinator to change the theme description after voting, since most people are going off of the original description: "Battles are won by more often than not by holding vital ground, key strategic locations., and it generally falls to the rank and file of an army to take such positions. Your entry should consist of such troops, be they mindless minion, conscripted masses or simply those whose role it os to take and hold the line."

I honestly didn't even notice they had done that until I went looking just now to see how those three would fit in.

 SergentSilver wrote:

 ms07b3 wrote:
I will try the new models this month. capture the object by webway

Did you link the wrong picture? Neither appear to have anything to do with the webway or the ObSec theme.

Although I guess if you stretch the theme a bit and take some interpretational liberties, I suppose you could say any character model "possess the gear, skills,or sheer tenacity and hardiness,to hold,vital strategic points, or press forward and wrest soch locations from the enemy's grasp."

It does seem a bit sneaky of the coordinator to change the theme description after voting, since most people are going off of the original description: "Battles are won by more often than not by holding vital ground, key strategic locations., and it generally falls to the rank and file of an army to take such positions. Your entry should consist of such troops, be they mindless minion, conscripted masses or simply those whose role it os to take and hold the line."

I honestly didn't even notice they had done that until I went looking just now to see how those three would fit in.

I think they are the new super soldiers to deepstrike with the webway ability and kill the units near the objective to secure it.
But maybe you are right.actually szeras is not suit the theme.
I will only make stern&kyganil to attend the event.

Still some way to go on these before I pick which 5 to submit. Either these, or some of the other 20 I printed at the same time. Plenty of choices!

 endtransmission wrote:
Still some way to go on these before I pick which 5 to submit. Either these, or some of the other 20 I printed at the same time. Plenty of choices!

Those look really good. Where did you get the files for printing? I don't own a 3D printer, but I am considering getting one as a cheaper alternative for the infantry heavy IG.

Gonna paint up one of the more objective based warbands for Underworlds - Sepulchral Guard. Will pick 5 out of the 7

Regult Tactical Battlepods WIP 1. I sprayed these with Wraithbone and then touched them up with more Wraithbone, washed them with Contrast Apothecary White, and then drybrushed with Vallejo Dead White.

 Pariah Press wrote:
Regult Tactical Battlepods WIP 1. I sprayed these with Wraithbone and then touched them up with more Wraithbone, washed them with Contrast Apothecary White, and then drybrushed with Vallejo Dead White.

Well, they certainly look like unpainted Wraithbone constructs now. I'm curious to see what other colors will be added to make them really pop.

 MobileSuitRandom wrote:
Haha Freya good to see I'm not the only one on Dakka who binged BNA this weekend. The color scheme on the guns looks interesting, are you sticking with the Space Wolves for the rest of the armour scheme? Does kinda fit in with BNA, heh.

Here's my first sister, still lots of details missing but I think I'll work on the others now. Also they're getting seapunk/grunge hair because why not.

I love your sister. The armor is so hard to do. I still can't do white armor lol!

I'm planning to do a little bit of a diverging theme. Have some colorshift metalics coming in... but the armor color will just be the standard colors. Primaris are so much less interesting to paint than any spacewolves model and it makes me bored. I need to do something interesting!!!!

 SergentSilver wrote:


Those look really good. Where did you get the files for printing? I don't own a 3D printer, but I am considering getting one as a cheaper alternative for the infantry heavy IG.

The models are from Reptilian Overlords with some guns from Thingiverse. The Elegoo Mars is a great investment if you want an infantry heavy force. Those 10 cost about £1.10 in resin to print

Haven't decided yet what to submit, have made proof pics of Seraphim, Tactical Marines, Arkanauts and Sequitors Probably will now in a few days.

 endtransmission wrote:

 SergentSilver wrote:


Those look really good. Where did you get the files for printing? I don't own a 3D printer, but I am considering getting one as a cheaper alternative for the infantry heavy IG.

The models are from Reptilian Overlords with some guns from Thingiverse. The Elegoo Mars is a great investment if you want an infantry heavy force. Those 10 cost about £1.10 in resin to print

Thanks! That's incredibly cheap for 10 guys compared to most normal models. I don't have a printer right now as I said, and I probably won't have the money for a decent one in the near future, but I know a place in town that has printers available. About how much time does a ten man squad normally take to print?

Let's do this. Submitting 5 Imperial Guardsmen, with bits from all over the place (Anvil, Bolt Action, Mad Robot, the FW Cadian upgrade, etc).

Quick WIP pic this morning.



Base colors done, drybrushing done, working thorugh the layers of washes. If I can keep up the pace, these guys should be done mid-month, and not racing in under the wire like I normally do.

 SergentSilver wrote:

Although I guess if you stretch the theme a bit and take some interpretational liberties, I suppose you could say any character model "possess the gear, skills,or sheer tenacity and hardiness,to hold,vital strategic points, or press forward and wrest soch locations from the enemy's grasp."

It does seem a bit sneaky of the coordinator to change the theme description after voting, since most people are going off of the original description: "Battles are won by more often than not by holding vital ground, key strategic locations., and it generally falls to the rank and file of an army to take such positions. Your entry should consist of such troops, be they mindless minion, conscripted masses or simply those whose role it os to take and hold the line."

I honestly didn't even notice they had done that until I went looking just now to see how those three would fit in.

To clarify, the wording of the theme is never meant to be restrictive, it's always 100% open to interpretation with the initial title and description just meant as guidelines to spark ideas. In the 65 rounds so far I've only ever turned maybe 3 entries away for being so far from the theme that they're not at all relevant. in general the rule of thumb is that if you think your entry fits, it almost certainly does! Apologies for the confusion, I forget sometimes that every month we get new people joining who might not be familiar with how we generally do things and so these bits go unmentioned.

 Paradigm wrote:

 SergentSilver wrote:

Although I guess if you stretch the theme a bit and take some interpretational liberties, I suppose you could say any character model "possess the gear, skills,or sheer tenacity and hardiness,to hold,vital strategic points, or press forward and wrest soch locations from the enemy's grasp."

It does seem a bit sneaky of the coordinator to change the theme description after voting, since most people are going off of the original description: "Battles are won by more often than not by holding vital ground, key strategic locations., and it generally falls to the rank and file of an army to take such positions. Your entry should consist of such troops, be they mindless minion, conscripted masses or simply those whose role it os to take and hold the line."

I honestly didn't even notice they had done that until I went looking just now to see how those three would fit in.

To clarify, the wording of the theme is never meant to be restrictive, it's always 100% open to interpretation with the initial title and description just meant as guidelines to spark ideas. In the 65 rounds so far I've only ever turned maybe 3 entries away for being so far from the theme that they're not at all relevant. in general the rule of thumb is that if you think your entry fits, it almost certainly does! Apologies for the confusion, I forget sometimes that every month we get new people joining who might not be familiar with how we generally do things and so these bits go unmentioned.

Fair enough. I'm usually one of those people that overanalyzes and has a strong tendency of adherence to given rules with some bend for ease of access and fun, so seeing them changed after the group decision was a bit of a take back. I understand the desire to be more inclusive through allowing vague interpretation of the descriptions like this, it's just in my nature to feel off about it when it comes to competitions like this, even friendly ones.

Of course, I have to question why there's even a theme at all if you're just going to stretch it to allow almost anything to be entered. If you don't have a theme, no one can complain. They choose their own model entry so they can't feel snubbed if they pick something significantly harder than anyone else, no one feels forced out if they don't have any models that fit the "theme" or want to paint something else from their list, and no one has to come up with a stretched explanation of how their choice "fits" somehow. If everyone can just paint what they want you'll probably get more participation in the end and you'll get to see a much wider variety of cool models.

I think the theme is there as an inspiration, and possibly a measure to prevent submissions that are ripped pictures from web or previously painted models.

Having a theme also helps give a little structure to the voting. I’ve voted for technically less well done models over better paint, just because them embodied the theme a lot better.

It also helps to gently stretch our comfort zones for what we paint. There is stuff I entered that would still be gracing the pile of shame if not for this contest. By keeping the theme open, we ensure that most people can probably find something in their backlog that fits. Or give them an excuse to pick up something fun and new.

It keeps things fresh. If it was just enter something random every month, I doubt we would still be going strong.

While a competition, this is more about community and improving ourselves as painters. If someone is stretching the theme to enter, it’s not because they are gaming the system to win, it’s because they want to join us and play, and that’s what they have that (kinda) fits the theme. Our goal is to be inclusive, not exclusive.

I'm almost done just need to finish highlighting. All the colours will be contrast with a single highlight apart from hair and belts.
As always feedback is very much welcome and appreciated.

 Nevelon wrote:


While a competition, this is more about community and improving ourselves as painters. If someone is stretching the theme to enter, it’s not because they are gaming the system to win, it’s because they want to join us and play, and that’s what they have that (kinda) fits the theme. Our goal is to be inclusive, not exclusive.

Exactly!
If not for the contest I wouldn't of resumed my DE. Theme makes you think and pull out unfinished backlog pile.


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Jamie Shred wrote:
I'm almost done just need to finish highlighting. All the colours will be contrast with a single highlight apart from hair and belts.
As always feedback is very much welcome and appreciated.

Looking good, cant really add anything of note other than recommend true blood paints that make the blood effect perfect and semi-shiny.

Cheers mothsniper they will be getting plenty of blood for the blood god in the end

Second part of this month's submission. Parts for an Objective Marker.



Cheers,

CB

new progress

Got the Phoenix Lord finished and the objective marker built. I was going to add some more Sister's parts to the objective, but now I think I will leave it more generic.



Cheers,

CB

Couple of WIP shots of barbs.

@queen_annes_revenge Look at that sweet light effect! I am jelly. Super detailed shield too!

Some progress of mine.
Each body part painted prior to gluing for ease of brush access.
But wanted arms to be together with the torso during assembly, so I can play with dynamic poses.

This month's theme was a bit tricky for me, since I don't have any army-scale projects on the go, and I was struggling to find enthusiasm for the figures I picked. However I'm happy enough with how they're progressing to throw my hat into the ring again.

Proof Picture...


... and a WIP.

@Mothsniper Loving those Wyches, they look great so far!

@queen_annes_revenge Not a big fan of that particular model, but you've done an awesome job on it so far. I'm guessing from the orange OSL that there'll be some kind of flaming light source on the base?

Left arms almost finish, then heads, details, bases, varnish.

Proof:


I’ll be picking the best 5 of the Tallarn.

So there is a Tallarn showdown this month. Or is that a tallarn contest?

 endtransmission wrote:
So there is a Tallarn showdown this month. Or is that a tallarn contest?

A storm of Tallarn?

Finished my entry, will take formal pics tomorrow. Not quite record speed, as I did September’18’s “pick up the pace” as a technical challenge, and did that in 9 days. Still, zippy.

Nice work everyone. Looks to be another great month.

still WIP but almost finished. I will use black background to get the final shot.

endtransmission wrote:So there is a Tallarn showdown this month. Or is that a tallarn contest?

You forget, it’s quite simple; Tallarn are awesome!

SergentSilver wrote:

 endtransmission wrote:
So there is a Tallarn showdown this month. Or is that a tallarn contest?

A storm of Tallarn?

A sirocco?

All sorts of Dune quotes could be appropriate for that showdown.

Finished:


Quite happy with how these guys turned out. I’d done a couple of their squad mates in this scheme to test, but this is the first time I’d sat down and batch painted a squad of them. I think there is one guy from the full kit in there, the rest are from the monobuild SC box. One perk of the fixed builds is that it lets you get the poses down better.

 Nevelon wrote:
All sorts of Dune quotes could be appropriate for that showdown.

"For the Duke!"

Let's see what comes from these. My Carchadon kitbashs for kill team. They'll surely be able to get the objective, tear enemies to pieces and scatter them around as a warning for others who might be coming.

timppako wrote:
Let's see what comes from these. My Carchadon kitbashs for kill team. They'll surely be able to get the objective, tear enemies to pieces and scatter them around as a warning for others who might be coming.

This is pretty awesome kitbash! cant wait to see them painted!

Dune quotes - “Fear is the mind-killer.”

Finished! finally. Took waaaaay longer than i expected, but it was fun!
Inspiration for basing, came from (The Salt Pits of Hoxxes), and a bit from (Planet Crait).

Wyches turned out much more colorful than the Kabalites, and i think I like that.
rest here
https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/30/760381.page#10865148

Actually making some progress this month(!)

I'm basically done with mine thanks to a few unexpected and extended sessions. I'll hold off on taking pics for now with how long we still have to go, might go back over and do some touch ups later on.

Mothsniper those wyches are pure gold! Love the colors.


I found a suitable entry after all.
Who better to capture an objective than a bunch of your everyday kriegsmen, and who better to hold it than two of them with an autocannon.

Just the one team, as I only have one of them. Bought it for a display project, but it never made the final version. Now is as good time as any to finally paint it.

Proof pic:



And a couple of WIP shots from today as well:

Now just let them dry and then to put some varnish on. I fear how the pigmenta will react to varnish... Maybe I'll try some sray varnish. Ill also take more and better pictures later, before the varnish.

timppako wrote:
Now just let them dry and then to put some varnish on. I fear how the pigmenta will react to varnish... Maybe I'll try some sray varnish. Ill also take more and better pictures later, before the varnish.

I see CSM Term Lord loin chains there. Nicely done.

Bit more refined. Almost done on barbs now. Need to think of a good scheme for the cyber mastiff..

Still a ton of work to do. Base colors and a couple bits have been finished but I still need to shade, highlight, effects and color transitions. Sooooo muuuuch woodwork! C&c welcome as usual

 Ezki wrote:
Mothsniper those wyches are pure gold! Love the colors.

I found a suitable entry after all.
Who better to capture an objective than a bunch of your everyday kriegsmen, and who better to hold it than two of them with an autocannon.

Just the one team, as I only have one of them. Bought it for a display project, but it never made the final version. Now is a good time as any to finally paint it.

Two kriegsmen and an autocannon, sounds like an into line to a WWXVIIII film.
For decoration I ran into these jewelers glass beads, look like large caliber shells.
Found em at local dollar and hobby store.




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timppako wrote:
Now just let them dry and then to put some varnish on. I fear how the pigmenta will react to varnish... Maybe I'll try some sray varnish. Ill also take more and better pictures later, before the varnish.

Varnish should not mess with the pigment. It may just darken it. Do a test to be sure


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 queen_annes_revenge wrote:
Bit more refined. Almost done on barbs now. Need to think of a good scheme for the cyber mastiff..

Looking good!
For cyber mastiff, how does 2-color reflective imitation sound?


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 Freya wrote:
Still a ton of work to do. Base colors and a couple bits have been finished but I still need to shade, highlight, effects and color transitions. Sooooo muuuuch woodwork! C&c welcome as usual

I like simple but effective color gradient on the guns, going to echo that else where?
How did you do those eyes so perfectly?!

 Mothsniper wrote:

Two kriegsmen and an autocannon, sounds like an into line to a WWXVIIII film.

Ha, I'm going to use that!

 Mothsniper wrote:

For decoration I ran into these jewelers glass beads, look like large caliber shells.
Found em at local dollar and hobby store.

Sounds like a good idea. Luckily the kit came with some resin shells, but for other projects something like those seem to work really well!

Quick update. I have built and primed the five infiltrators, painted 1! (Below.)

Will need to base it as well. Quite happy with this. Not as great as some of the efforts here, but a step above some of my first models.

416_SpaceWolves wrote:
Quick update. I have built and primed the five infiltrators, painted 1! (Below.)

Will need to base it as well. Quite happy with this. Not as great as some of the efforts here, but a step above some of my first models.

Spacewolf blue gray with yellow color scheme never really clicked with me. Man, I like this warm gray with the yellow combo though!

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 Freya wrote:
Still a ton of work to do. Base colors and a couple bits have been finished but I still need to shade, highlight, effects and color transitions. Sooooo muuuuch woodwork! C&c welcome as usual

I like simple but effective color gradient on the guns, going to echo that else where?
How did you do those eyes so perfectly?!

 Freya wrote:
one word. Retardant. If you don't use any kind of paint retardant your paint will dry before it ever hits the model especially for eyes.

Really?! did not even think of that.

 Mothsniper wrote:


Spacewolf blue gray with yellow color scheme never really clicked with me. Man, I like this warm gray with the yellow combo though!

Thanks Mothsniper. It started as a way to differentiate the primaris units in my SW army from the old guard. I've really enjoyed painting this scheme though.

My !finished! entry is below!

First time completing something for a Dakka contest. First time creating fake snow for the base. Not as great as some of the stuff in this thread, but I'm happy with it, as it's a big improvement over my first few models!

 Mothsniper wrote:

 Freya wrote:
one word. Retardant. If you don't use any kind of paint retardant your paint will dry before it ever hits the model especially for eyes.

Really?! did not even think of that.

Another way to tackle eyes is to use a bigger brush than you'd think, but spend time getting a good point on it. More paint will be held in the bristles, meaning that it won't dry out on you.

Yeah. On a fresh and well pointed synthetic, or with a W&N series 7, I can do at least basic eyes with the same #1 I use for doing the rest of the general work on the model and even not have cleanup to do most of the time.

 JamesY wrote:

 Mothsniper wrote:

 Freya wrote:
one word. Retardant. If you don't use any kind of paint retardant your paint will dry before it ever hits the model especially for eyes.

Really?! did not even think of that.

Another way to tackle eyes is to use a bigger brush than you'd think, but spend time getting a good point on it. More paint will be held in the bristles, meaning that it won't dry out on you.

Depends on the circumstances really. I use a big brush generally speaking but on a hot day it doesn't matter how much paint I have in it, the tip will dry out fast. Besides... if you wanna have creamy blends you need retardant so may as well buy some and use it to make life easier.

I have retardants, flow aids, and thinners of all kinds. I don't use them for eyes, but in the UK we rarely get days that go above 30 Celsius, and most days are far more temperate than that anyway, so probably isn't as necessary. I do use those them for other things though.

 JamesY wrote:
I have retardants, flow aids, and thinners of all kinds. I don't use them for eyes, but in the UK we rarely get days that go above 30 Celsius, and most days are far more temperate than that anyway, so probably isn't as necessary. I do use those them for other things though.

Also depends on what paints you use though. 30 Celsius is still rather hot and will make some paints harder to use. What paints do you use?

After some agonizing over how to paint the blue areas, I'm making some progress on my battle pods.

 Freya wrote:

 JamesY wrote:
I have retardants, flow aids, and thinners of all kinds. I don't use them for eyes, but in the UK we rarely get days that go above 30 Celsius, and most days are far more temperate than that anyway, so probably isn't as necessary. I do use those them for other things though.

Also depends on what paints you use though. 30 Celsius is still rather hot and will make some paints harder to use. What paints do you use?

A mix of citadel, Vallejo, revell and recently gsw. I've started using a wet palette too to help keep the paint moist for longer. It rarely hits 30 here though, most days are between 19 and 24, so pretty good on average for painting.

Plenty of good stuff on show as always.

Hobby time seems to have vanished into the warp last coup!e of months, but my main reason for doing the challenge was to ensure I got some things finished, so don't want to miss a month.



Therefore I will attempt a couple of simple figures, no conversions, limited details, so even if it's not great work it's at least something else done.

These first two Pods look table-ready to me, needing only to be varnished. Now we'll see how many more I can finish before the deadline.

Okay so I've finally added some inks to this one and done some edge highlights on the gun. Still waiting for my new candy inks to ink the yellow on the scope so hopefully I get them in the mail soon xD CC welcome

Objective Secured







Cheers,

CB

Great work Freya and Captain Brown! Terrific detailing!

Mothsniper wrote:Wyches turned out much more colorful than the Kabalites

Those are some very pretty Eldar.

queen_annes_revenge wrote:Need to think of a good scheme for the cyber mastiff.

Perhaps paint the dog like a police car, with pale body panels and a dark trim/internals?

JamesY wrote:A mix of citadel, Vallejo, revell and recently gsw.

I don't recognise "gsw", which paint line is it?

Freya wrote:Still waiting for my new candy inks

I'm interested to see what these are. Also nice panel lining on that space marine.

Some work in progress from me:

@turaxa greenstuff world.

Progress thus far; getting there!

Here are ready and varnished models. Scouts are made from palanite bodies, reiver heads and weapons from bitbox. Vanguards from reiver bodies. I really like the bigger size of primaris models.

People have so nice looking models in here.

@timppako those scout conversions work really well. I may have to steal that idea one day.

 Captain Brown wrote:
Objective Secured

Cheers,

CB

NOICE!
Definitely Secured!



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 Turaxa wrote:


Some work in progress from me:

Yes! Love that inquisition color scheme!
These guys would fit with my STRELETS. Also go Black/ Gray/ White/ Red colorscheme


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thechosen1 wrote:
Progress thus far; getting there!

Spoiler:

These guys look super tactical!
Lemeguess, Desert for base terrain ?! Yep, fits perfectly

Man, I've been away for too long!
So much awesome work done by so many - great lighting effects, great colour fades, great conversions...I love this thread!

I am going to enter these guys - I reckon half of the game is all about securing objectives.

timppako wrote:
Here are ready and varnished models. Scouts are made from palanite bodies, reiver heads and weapons from bitbox. Vanguards from reiver bodies. I really like the bigger size of primaris models.

People have so nice looking models in here.

Love desert dust covering the boots, and all black armor with white heads and red desert. Has that MadMax and Bene Tleilax feel that is just so cool.
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 Chris56 wrote:
Man, I've been away for too long!
So much awesome work done by so many - great lighting effects, great colour fades, great conversions...I love this thread!

I am going to enter these guys - I reckon half of the game is all about securing objectives.

Welcome welcome!
Any interesting color schemes in the plans for cypher lords?

Going to go for a Japanese look...we'll see how it goes!

I feel like these are mostly done:



Just some spot details left to do, once I decide how to do them.

Further WIP on barbs. I wanted to give the effect of a riot situation, so I went for a flaming item for the osl source. I'll add more detritus to the base to increase this effect later on.

Thank you 416_SpaceWolves and Mothsniper

JoshInJapan wrote:I feel like these are mostly done:



Just some spot details left to do, once I decide how to do them.

Josh,

Nice objective. You found a use for those four power relay things from the old boxed set. Mine have been sitting painted like my downed Aquila lander doing nothing for ages.

Cheers,

CB

@queen_annes_revenge that is so good

Damn dudes! good stuff

Is time to start categories for August? Given what’s happening this weekend, I propose “New hotness”; this could cover the latest release, just the newest model you own or a model that represents a rookie or new recruit in your army/gang.

Yep, throw out some ideas and I'll sort a poll later.

As I mentioned in June's thread last night, I'm looking for volunteers to run the vote for this month, and August's round as as a whole, as my eyesight is having way more trouble than I thought and the screen time involved in running these is a bit much for me at the moment. Anyone up for stepping in for a bit?

Hi, after lurking around a while I thought I might just join, since my recently finished mini fits the theme. "After a long battle the last Ultramarine fell and the city was conquered."
Started working on it 3 weeks ago, on and off though.

WIP Shots for proof


Finished (3 pictures)


(Hope I did everything correctly with the uploads and code)

Calling the quick and dirty job almost done. I gotta bulid a lightbox. The photo looks terrible. Just some more touch ups to go.

Statistx wrote:
Hi, after lurking around a while I thought I might just join, since my recently finished mini fits the theme. "After a long battle the last Ultramarine fell and the city was conquered."
Started working on it 3 weeks ago, on and off though.

(Hope I did everything correctly with the uploads and code)

Looking good!


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thechosen1 wrote:
Calling the quick and dirty job almost done. I gotta bulid a lightbox. The photo looks terrible. Just some more touch ups to go.

Nice camo work!
Ye, lightbox is a must. although I ran int a problem of black stripe lines from the led lights, something frequency something picked up by phone camera.
lucky I had old canon rebel laying around, and none white background helps too!



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 Paradigm wrote:
Yep, throw out some ideas and I'll sort a poll later.

As I mentioned in June's thread last night, I'm looking for volunteers to run the vote for this month, and August's round as as a whole, as my eyesight is having way more trouble than I thought and the screen time involved in running these is a bit much for me at the moment. Anyone up for stepping in for a bit?

Sorry to hear that man.
I wish I could, sorry.

For years I thought about putting together a light box. After all, you can get good results from a few desk lamps and a box with holes cut out and some parchment paper to difuse the light. Never got around to making one. One year my not-yet-Ex got me a nice one from LimoStudios. Under $50, folds up nice, comes with 2 high output LEDS. Would solidly recommend it to everyone. Helped my photography immensely.

I’d also reccoment a basic photo editing tool like Photoscape X. Free, does things like cropping and white balance, and lets you make nice collages.

It’s made a huge difference in how I showcase minis.

I have finished my Sepulchral Guard. I tried putting texture into the cloaks for the first time, not too badly I think.

I'm running out of time but ehhhh worth doing my first freestyle decals for the 13th company using metallic media for the white with a slight blue tint.

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thechosen1 wrote:
Calling the quick and dirty job almost done. I gotta bulid a lightbox. The photo looks terrible. Just some more touch ups to go.

Nice camo work!
Ye, lightbox is a must. although I ran int a problem of black stripe lines from the led lights, something frequency something picked up by phone camera.
lucky I had old canon rebel laying around, and none white background helps too!

If I understood that correctly, I think it should help if you change ISO and shutter speed when taking the photo. I get the black stripes when either of those are too high.

Not really had chance to follow progress here (but some great looking minis from what I've just quickly looked at), or post my own until now, but here are a few pics. Pretty close to done now.

Absolutely stunning work so far! Good job everyone and good luck for finishing all your entries!

Calling my entry finished now. Leaving for a trip the day after tomorrow, so don't have much time to touch it up anyway.

Went with muted colors, that fit the color scheme with the rest of my army.
I decided against doing OSL for the muzzle effect nor any other fancy techniques, as I had only a week or so to build and paint this entry.
There are some tracks amidst the frozen mud I did using the wheels from the turret carriage, but they are not very visible as there's so much stuff in the base


Death Korps of Krieg Autocannon team. (Full size image in the gallery).

Terrific job on that autocannon team, Ezki.

Awesome work on that gunner team, really tells a story just in the base details, let alone the great paintjob.

Going similarly Kriegy for my entry this month with this DKoK bust I 3d printed . Needed alot of cleanup (even more after the proof pic highlighted some supports I missed) but I've made a start on it tonight and it's coming along very nicely now. Messy Oldmarine for scale, it's around 70mm tall to the top of the helmet .

Late this month, going for an objective. It will be adapted to make it look less generic.

@paradigm I've had the file for that bust for a while; I must have made half a dozen different slices and still not convinced I'd get a clean print on it. Did you do it all in one piece, or helmet and plinth separate?

Also, hope the eyesight is improving.

One piece print for the torso and head, not sold on the plinth file it comes with so I may find something else to eventually mount it on..Took around 10 hours at 0.12 layer height on an Ender 3, and there was a ton of cleanup in terms of supports, but underneath it's nice and clean, no malformed or broken parts.,

Won't clog this thread with printer talk, but if you want I can PM you with a full breakdown of the settings I used for it.


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Still very much WIP, but i'm already really pleased with this. Got to smooth out the e blends a bit, but the texture work is definitely the focus and I think I'm on the right track,




A shot in the dark, but does anyone have any of the Forge World Krieg books to hand? Google is drawing a blank on my attempts to find the right rank/unit insignia for the Korps, so if anyone can shed some light on that, it'd be a big help.

Thanks for the kind words Pariah Press and Para!

That Krieg bust is amazing! Coming along really well too.

Only have the index book, so no insignia there I'm afraid.

Lots of great entries, I finally decided that I will enter my Seraphim, that are already painted for about a week Here's the proof from the beginning of the month and will take some glamour shots later.

Subject Poll for next month:
https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/0/790371.page#10878584

Finished my zombies. As always feedback is very much welcome and appreciated.

Love those zombies. The blood from the gaping leg wound on the first one is spot on. Great stuff!

I think mine are finished. Just need to snap some photos later.

Cheers Whittlesey

I now can't decide which 5 of the 40+ guard I've painted this month get photographed for this. Does a weapons team count as 1 model because it is 1 base, or 2 because there are 2 figures on it?

 endtransmission wrote:
I now can't decide which 5 of the 40+ guard I've painted this month get photographed for this. Does a weapons team count as 1 model because it is 1 base, or 2 because there are 2 figures on it?

Well, I think a base of rippers or scarabs would be considered one model, and guard are just a step above that. Sounds fine to me.

Just realized I took the pictures, but didn't put them up

Here's a Seraphim squad, ready to strike down from the heavens to grab secure that objective and turn the tide of battle.

I started off doing some infantry for this month's Obsec challenge, but changed plans about 3 days ago when I designed/printed some missile launchers for my Tallarn. to make it up to the 5, there are two mortar teams as well

I managed to complete four Regult Tactical Battlepods before the deadline. Two more to go before I'm ready for my first game of Robotech RPG Tactics.





Trying out the new gray backdrop. Maybe I'll open my aperture a tad more next time.

Damn! those look good!

Love how the desert guard are part of the environment!

and the battle pods looking great!
wait, what scale are those? are those comparable with the dropzone 10mm?

Fraid I'm not going to make it before the deadline. Lack of motivation throughout the month, plus the arrival of a certain new box set kind of kept me out of the painting zone.

 Mothsniper wrote:
Damn! those look good!

Love how the desert guard are part of the environment!

and the battle pods looking great!
wait, what scale are those? are those comparable with the dropzone 10mm?

Thanks! The battlepods are 6mm scale.

 Pariah Press wrote:


Thanks! The battlepods are 6mm scale.

Whaaaaa that is tiny! respect!
I just got interested in the dropzone recently, and was checking out their armies.
So the pods are huge, but at 6mm, so next to the dropzone vehicles they would look quite comparable.

Never owned anything smaller than historical 72nds though.

See, that’s where you need to put something in for scale, because it takes a pretty good paint job to a jaw dropping “how did you do that?!”

Unfortunately my month has been a bit hectic since starting a new job, but I made a committment to entering every month this year. So I'll be doing up these little token objectives as an entry. Emperor forgive.

Final pictures;

Mine is done. Expect photos tonight or tomorrow.

I'm close too, probably going to be last minute as usual.

Edit: Okay, damn it, just discovered I've painted the wrong model. Got to paint an entirely new guardian body to go with the arms/weapon (flamer) I've selected because the arms don't fit the body I've painted. I have two to paint in the same colours and I must have picked up the wrong one initially after I primed them. Well, that really puts me under pressure. Damn damn damn damn damn...

final post

I might be stretching the subject a bit but here are 5 Immortals buffed by Szeras ... objective secured!
Proof

Proof

Final

Finished Eisenhorn and Cherubael











Eisenhorn's actually my first resin model, and it turns out I'm not really a fan of resin. I didn't do a great job cleaning it up and that didn't become clear until I was painting it. I've got the same problem with the chaplain that was in my proof pic. I'm part way through painting him and still seeing bits of resin I've not cleaned up. I guess I've learned to be more careful if I get another resin model! But hopefully it doesn't show too much in the finished model.

There's some great finished entries so far. Looking forward to voting. And it's been nice doing this again for the first time in maybe 2+ years!

I took advantage of the theme and did a terrain piece for my Infinity table.

A MDF biker bar with some modifications. I did a few simple designs (door, balkony and billboards) in SketchUP to spice up the building.









Some VIP shots.








I will post the final pictures tomorrow.

Some excellent work coming in everybody. Makes me a little embarassed to limp in these final pics. Entering the three in the foreground.

Primaris Infiltrators for Space Wolves (female heads so suck it up all you haters)



Sorry, images are huge on dakka dakka when I take them on my S20Ultra.

Reckon the transporter platform is as finished as it's going to get:

 Whittlesey40k wrote:
Finished Eisenhorn and Cherubael
And it's been nice doing this again for the first time in maybe 2+ years!

I know right!
Awesome job on the details!
Reminded me of a lord comisar, and how hard it was to paint all the details.
But Eisenhorn is worth it, such a cool character!


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 Modock wrote:
I took advantage of the theme and did a terrain piece for my Infinity table.

A MDF biker bar with some modifications. I did a few simple designs (door, balkony and billboards) in SketchUP to spice up the building.


I will post the final pictures tomorrow.

Quite sneaky of you!
Klass! as ususal!


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 Freya wrote:
Primaris Infiltrators for Space Wolves (female heads so suck it up all you haters)

Sorry, images are huge on dakka dakka when I take them on my S20Ultra.

Friking awesome. I know the gradients are cool , but man those eyes and faces.


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Vejut wrote:
Some excellent work coming in everybody. Makes me a little embarassed to limp in these final pics. Entering the three in the foreground.

That is a pretty army! Love the color scheme and finally some real sized spears.
Reminds me of Age of Wonders III Tigrans !

My Indomitus box arrived so I'm in.

I think I'm going to be having some serious Indomitus envy over the next month or so as everyone gets to grips with that box of goodies! Looking forward to seeing them, you have a scheme in mind?

@Freya: those are some badass Wolves. Love the faces and war paint. Second from the right is my favourite, such a dynamic pose.

@Josh: really neat terrain piece, love the glowiness.

I'm going with Dark Angels to fit in with what can be loosely described as my "army."

I've been painting all day yesterday (I took the proof pic on Sunday I think) and all day today and I've still got a lot to do. It's going to be tough. I'm dreading doing the transfers, and might not do any weathering.

 feltmonkey wrote:
I'm going with Dark Angels to fit in with what can be loosely described as my "army."

I've been painting all day yesterday (I took the proof pic on Sunday I think) and all day today and I've still got a lot to do. It's going to be tough. I'm dreading doing the transfers, and might not do any weathering.

You can do it, food and sleep will still be there tomorrow.

 JamesY wrote:

 feltmonkey wrote:
I'm going with Dark Angels to fit in with what can be loosely described as my "army."

I've been painting all day yesterday (I took the proof pic on Sunday I think) and all day today and I've still got a lot to do. It's going to be tough. I'm dreading doing the transfers, and might not do any weathering.

You can do it, food and sleep will still be there tomorrow.

The alternative is failing the Emperor. You wouldn’t want to do that, would you?

<checks bolt pistol>.

Gutted, but I'm not going to get mine finished.

Today was my last day at work due to covid related redundancies, and I'm just not in a frame of mind to do even mediocre work - which to be fair was all I was expecting this month.

Better start planning next month's mastermind to ensure I only miss one month (luckily being more of the chaotic persuasion means Nevelon's threat of failing the false emperor rolls off my back.... )

Phew. Managed to secure the objective in time but unfortunately the sister carrying the pict-recorder didn't make it ...
(proper photos tomorrow)

Finally finished at the eleventh hour, a quintet of guardsmen from the 122nd Cadian regiment off to secure an objective somewhere.



I had technical problems editing these pictures, so I've put my five submissions in the spoiler below because they're a bit big.
Final Pictures:

 monkeytroll wrote:
Gutted, but I'm not going to get mine finished.

Today was my last day at work due to covid related redundancies, and I'm just not in a frame of mind to do even mediocre work - which to be fair was all I was expecting this month.

Better start planning next month's mastermind to ensure I only miss one month (luckily being more of the chaotic persuasion means Nevelon's threat of failing the false emperor rolls off my back.... )

Hang in there!

And while you might be immune from the threat of failing the Emperor, I don’t want you crying to me if you get turned into a chaos spawn.

 monkeytroll wrote:
Gutted, but I'm not going to get mine finished.

Today was my last day at work due to covid related redundancies, and I'm just not in a frame of mind to do even mediocre work - which to be fair was all I was expecting this month.

Better start planning next month's mastermind to ensure I only miss one month (luckily being more of the chaotic persuasion means Nevelon's threat of failing the false emperor rolls off my back.... )

It's okay bro. I almost didn't get mine done too. I submitted half done work lol

Final entry from me, I'd like to do a tad more but time and sight are against me. Happy enough with it, especially for a 3d printed piece one done over only a couple of days. Shot for a mix of texture work and a more painterly style evocative of a lot of 40k art, not quite Blanchitsu but heading in that sort of direction.



Good luck everyone!

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 Freya wrote:
Primaris Infiltrators for Space Wolves (female heads so suck it up all you haters)

Sorry, images are huge on dakka dakka when I take them on my S20Ultra.

Friking awesome. I know the gradients are cool , but man those eyes and faces.

Thank you! I'm still really just starting to learn advanced techniques. I also used so much glitter I think i'll never free my workspace of it... those bases are covered in glitter... blurred in the photos but you can almost see.

@Freya, yeah these bases look great as far as I can imagine them behind the blur ... what are the larger crystals, tho? I've been looking for something like this but haven't found anything yet.

(Gradients also turned out super nice!!)

Damn I forgot to take photos tonight.. can I submit tomorrow?

 queen_annes_revenge wrote:
Damn I forgot to take photos tonight.. can I submit tomorrow?

I’ll be putting together the vote thread at some point tomorrow, so you have the time zones working for you. Unless Para wants to crack down and close it, I’m fine stretching things out a bit.

 monkeytroll wrote:
Gutted, but I'm not going to get mine finished.

Today was my last day at work due to covid related redundancies, and I'm just not in a frame of mind to do even mediocre work - which to be fair was all I was expecting this month.

I'm not surprised that you've lost motivation after that, I hope you find something suitable quickly.

Loads of cracking entries again. It's a really high standard once again from everyone.

 Nevelon wrote:

 queen_annes_revenge wrote:
Damn I forgot to take photos tonight.. can I submit tomorrow?

I’ll be putting together the vote thread at some point tomorrow, so you have the time zones working for you. Unless Para wants to crack down and close it, I’m fine stretching things out a bit.

Sound. I'll do it first thing.

Yeah, as usual I'm happy for entries to come in tomorrow morning, don't want people rushing pics if a few extra hours means they can take nicer ones.

Slipping these in on the final day. This month has been hectic; home stretch of the MBA (just finished! woo) plus getting my Instagram and YouTube channels up and running (learning Premiere is a pain) has taken up the majority of my time.

These two were to test my Infinity schemes before I painted up something actually ObSec for this contest, but alas didn't manage to get any other models done this month, so they'll have to do.

Proof pic. It's an older one but it'll do.


I mean I don't know much about Infinity, but these guys can take objectives, right?

Is it okay if I post photos tomorrow also? Painting is just about done, but photos aren't going to get done tonight. I can't promise first thing as I have to work around a crazy seven year old. I'll get on it tomorrow and keep you up to date if that is okay?

Please don't go without me!

 feltmonkey wrote:
Is it okay if I post photos tomorrow also? Painting is just about done, but photos aren't going to get done tonight. I can't promise first thing as I have to work around a crazy seven year old. I'll get on it tomorrow and keep you up to date if that is okay?

Please don't go without me!

Gotcha.

Nice work everyone, really like that Krieg Paradigm, looks like he stepped out of a graphic novel (and that's a novel I want to read!)

Also slipping in at just past the 11th hour, I managed to finish five of the Tallarn troopers:












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It's amazing the effect you can get with enough different browns!

Paradigm, may I please have a 24hr extension on final pics? I had long 10hr shift today and have 11hr tomorrow so am too tired rn to play with my lightbox. Pics as proof of finishing

 Nevelon wrote:

 feltmonkey wrote:
Is it okay if I post photos tomorrow also? Painting is just about done, but photos aren't going to get done tonight. I can't promise first thing as I have to work around a crazy seven year old. I'll get on it tomorrow and keep you up to date if that is okay?

Please don't go without me!

Gotcha.

Thanks, mate.

I'll get it done as early as possible so you're not waiting around.

Given we've had a fair few extension requests, I think we'll just say that any time tomorrow is good, and call it officially to a close on Sunday.

New round will go up tomorrow as usual, but might be a bit later due to time zone differences, so dob't panic if it's not there first thing.

 MobileSuitRandom wrote:
@Freya, yeah these bases look great as far as I can imagine them behind the blur ... what are the larger crystals, tho? I've been looking for something like this but haven't found anything yet.

(Gradients also turned out super nice!!)

Crystals are from greenstuff world and I used glitter flakes under a 'ardcoat layer. As to the blur, I'm working on getting an actual camera lol. They look so much better in person that it's actually upsetting.

Done, my first terrain piece for Dakka challenge...a Bike bar.

Hi guys, hope everyone is still well out there and staying safe.

Its been a tough month and hobby stuff has been very low on the list of things to do so apologies for not being around much. (Doing the league table is a must for me now in August, theres sticky note on my monitor saying so)

I've managed to just about paint a few models, went for some Ork Stormboyz heres the WIP and almost finished shot, will get a final pic up tomorrow after bedtime, I need some sleep now

Proof

WIP

Got my model finished, will take some better photos tomorrow. Here's a quick shot along with the proof

 MobileSuitRandom wrote:
@Freya, yeah these bases look great as far as I can imagine them behind the blur ... what are the larger crystals, tho? I've been looking for something like this but haven't found anything yet.

(Gradients also turned out super nice!!)

Here's for you buddy!

So much great work from so many!

I love those gradients, Freya - I am definitely going to steal that idea some time in the future.

And Modock! Come on, man....give the rest of us a break, huh? That piece is awesome...the graffiti and 3d-printed additions are crazy...it seriously looks like box art material - take that, Angel Giraldez!

I did manage to get finished this month (though half the warband is only blocked in), so here are my Cyper dudes. I love these sculpts so much that I ordered two more boxes of them to try in different colour schemes - something I don't think I have ever done before given the mountain of grey shame I already have in the shed...

Anyhow, here they are...see everyone next month!






Good luck everyone and thanks to Para, MG and Nev for all of their usual hard work!

Well, that was stressful. Had to paint a new model almost from scratch in one day because of my earlier mistake. Didn't get anywhere near doing the terrain piece, and there's loads of stuff I still intend to do on the models in the photos, but this will have to do for now. Multi-craftworld kill team. Craftworlds from the left are: Saim Hann, Stel-Uit, Altansar, Iybraesil and Arach-Qin. All the models have had some conversion, even the saim hann one, although that was just filing off the Ulthwe eye symbol from the helmet. The Altansar one, I actually drilled out the side of the head and modelled the shattered face plate and face underneath. Hope it comes across okay...

Aaaand now I can collapse.

Some real great entries here!

My objective, the Magic Pillar:

Barbaretta and cyber mastiff about to secure the objective. Likely a riot instigator or leader here.

I think they are going after litterers. Plastic bottles go in the recycling bin citizen!

New months is up. Finish your work for this one and head over to the next!

https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/790593.page

Ooof proper photos:






Really like the new sisters plastics! Went a bit overboard with the blanchitsu on the coats but hey.

@Freya - thanks, I'll see if these are available anywhere here in Germany. Very fun effect with the different glittery stuff on the bases!

Final pics

 Tim 121RVC wrote:
My objective, the Magic Pillar:

I’m getting a broken link here

Photos are incoming! We rearanged our entire house in the last few weeks and it turns out we lost our camera. We've found it now.

 Chris56 wrote:
And Modock! Come on, man....give the rest of us a break, huh? That piece is awesome...the graffiti and 3d-printed additions are crazy...it seriously looks like box art material - take that, Angel Giraldez!

Thanks Chris..man you're too kind. Yeah the billboards and the graffiti add a lot to the building.

And btw great entry as usual, Chris!

Okay, sorry about the delay. Here are the final photos of my Assault Intercessors.













These sculpts are fantastic, really dramatic and cinematic, and they would probably be a lot of fun to paint if you aren't battling a deadline and up until 3am finishing them like I was. I like how, in the photos, it looks like they're running back and forth in all directions.

 JoshInJapan wrote:
Reckon the transporter platform is as finished as it's going to get:

I love the Next Generation feel to the consoles.

 feltmonkey wrote:
Photos are incoming! We rearanged our entire house in the last few weeks and it turns out we lost our camera. We've found it now.

lol looks like I'm not the only 1 with camera issues, mines not working for some reason

If I cant get it working soon and just give up and use my phone

@feltmonkey they are seriously impressive given how quickly you have turned them out. Great going.

 Chris56 wrote:
So much great work from so many!

I love those gradients, Freya - I am definitely going to steal that idea some time in the future.

And Modock! Come on, man....give the rest of us a break, huh? That piece is awesome...the graffiti and 3d-printed additions are crazy...it seriously looks like box art material - take that, Angel Giraldez!

I did manage to get finished this month (though half the warband is only blocked in), so here are my Cyper dudes. I love these sculpts so much that I ordered two more boxes of them to try in different colour schemes - something I don't think I have ever done before given the mountain of grey shame I already have in the shed...

Anyhow, here they are...see everyone next month!

Spoiler:

Good luck everyone and thanks to Para, MG and Nev for all of their usual hard work!

Holy crap dude that cloak is amazing!!! I love this piece so much. Hopefully someday I can be as good as you are at freehand stuff like this.

Geez, and I thought last month's standard was high! Guess I'll be back to giving out hundreds of votes again this month.

 Nevelon wrote:

 Tim 121RVC wrote:
My objective, the Magic Pillar:

I’m getting a broken link here

Fixed that, thanks for the heads up!

 DJJazzyJeff wrote:

 JoshInJapan wrote:
Reckon the transporter platform is as finished as it's going to get:

I love the Next Generation feel to the consoles.

Thanks, that's what I was shooting for.

@feltmonkey: Now I've got some inspiration for my own Dark Angels Assault Intercessors! I only hope mine will look half as good.

Had a nightmare with the camera, ended up borrowing a friends

Not going to win any awards with these guys and missed a few bits in the rush but its as good as I can do atm and its a victory for me just to get anything done tbh.

Final Pic and my apologies for the delay

Thanks, JamesY and ZergSmasher.

Zerg, I'd be more than happy to share my recipes and methods, although to be honest there's nothing exactly radical in there.

My pathetic final entry pic, I just didnt have it in me this month

 Deadshot wrote:
My pathetic final entry pic, I just didnt have it in me this month

Any entry is a good one in the fight against the Pile of Shame. They look fine.

We waiting for anyone else? I think this was the last entry pending.

Yeah, I think that's the last one. Calling proceedings here to a close, Good work, everyone!

Vote up!

https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/790638.page