Welcome all to the 66th 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 Mastermind: Intellect is a deadly weapon, whether put to work forging a masterful strategy, developing peerless technology or bent towards the study of supernatural and magical forces. Your entry should feature models famed for their mental prowess.

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

List of Entrants

Nevelon

Jadenim -Ariman

JamesY -- Mr. Grimm

queen_annes_revenge -- Magnus a/o Erebus

Captain Brown -- Phoenix Lords and Farseer

Jamie Shred -- indomitus captain and lieutenant.

Dr.Giggles Hive Tyrant

JoshInJapan -- Dwarf General and Engineer

Mothsniper -- Galladon, Male Wizard

Viterbi -- Greyfax

sockwithaticket --Skink Shaman

ZenBadger -- Creed

416_SpaceWolves -- Wolf Priest

MobileSuitRandom -- Broodlord a/o Phobos Librarian

Pariah Press -- Inquisitor Parris

Freya -- Ragnar

ZergSmasher -- Sister Dialogus

ms07b3 --Eisenhorn

I’m in. Figured that Ariman is pretty smart...

Proof;



Mr Grimm by Reaper. Just what schemes is the mechanical man up too?

still no sign of baby, so I'm going to put up magnus, and erebus. and we'll just see which one if any gets finished.

Forgot to photo Erebus head before I'd got a base layer and a wash for his tattoos, all done today. Hope that's still alright

This is going to be a tough one unless I get another miniature to fit the theme better.

Right now, following my theme of Eldar Phoenix Lords either Feugan or Bahrroth was next up...or both...or with a Farseer. Three heads are better than one.





Cheers,

CB

PS: Added Farseer build.

Here's my proof pic, indomitus captain and lieutenant.

This is the perfect time to paint up my Hive Tyrant.

I'm in, but I'm not yet sure what my entry will be.

I am in with
Galladon, Male Wizard

This guy as it turns out can be disassemble into pieces!
Win for me, because I hate detailed undercuts.

Gonna throw Greyfax in, gonna paint her in my Sisters of Battle scheme to accompany them and rid the galaxy of heretics.

Uh, Nev, unless more members of the forum have access to time machines than I'd anticipated you might want to revise the dates for the challenge

After rooting through my box of stuff I've found an old metal skink shaman. Not the skink I was hoping to paint this month, but close. I'll post a pic later once I finish prepping.

 sockwithaticket wrote:
Uh, Nev, unless more members of the forum have access to time machines than I'd anticipated you might want to revise the dates for the challenge

Time travel is the sign of a sophisticated mastermind. Anything else is just the base scheming of savages.

Fun Fact: While I’m not sure what hour Para posts these in his part of the world (I assume GMT) but here in New York, they pop up first thing in the morning, while I’ve having breakfast and my first cup of coffee. Which is my I tend to be the first entrant, as I’m surfing Dakka at that time. It also means that due to my undercaffinated state, I can’t be held responsible for any of my actions. It’s like Dr. Heckle and Mr. Hyde, but the monster is just a lethargic mess staggering around mashing buttons while waiting for the elixer to kick in.

I left the end time as midnight GMT. If Para want to come in and close it then, he can. It’s still his show and I’m just doing the busywork for him. But as timezone math makes my brain hurt, I’ll probably close it down Tuesday morning Eastern time, which should give everyone a few more hours. Extensions are of course, still an option, and as that’s a work day, there is no chance the vote is going up until later that afternoon anyway.

Haven't entered the comp for a few years but since I was back painting 40K stuff any way I thought I might throw my ring into the hat. I have to admit that I have already done some repairs to the back of this "fine"cast monstrosity, it was given to me by someone who couldn't face the remedial work to get it to usable standard. I hope that is allowed in the spirit of the competition.

Anyhoo, it's Creed:

Proof:

This assortment of bits will be a wolf priest.

Proof:

 ZenBadger wrote:
Haven't entered the comp for a few years but since I was back painting 40K stuff any way I thought I might throw my ring into the hat. I have to admit that I have already done some repairs to the back of this "fine"cast monstrosity, it was given to me by someone who couldn't face the remedial work to get it to usable standard. I hope that is allowed in the spirit of the competition.

Anyhoo, it's Creed:

Spoiler:

If you are talking about repairs to the mini, that’s fine. This is a painting comp. Any build/green stuff/sculpting/repair can happen before the month starts. As long as you’ve not put more than a basecoat of paint on his back, you are all set.

Good to have you back.

In with the phobos libby (sprue on the right) and/or the brainy beastie on the left:

Thanks Nevelon, yes it was just the usual finecast horrorshow. Both greatcoat sleeves ended in huge voids, fortunately just after the piping.

Updated Proof- I have kitbashed him together. (in the spoiler)
Built a jump-pack out of two LR lights, two missile "enginges" and an exhaust part from an unknown origin.
The body is a bash of a former assault marine, and various SW bits. I made the crozius arcanum out of a thunder hammer, and a IG skull wing thing that looked appropriate. Looking forward to painting him.

Primed.
And I do not like the staff (fish/dragon)head.
Does not fit the character imo.

I'm trying to make an on-foot version of the jetbike-riding inquisitor I made last year. Of course, I optimized the character to be easy to model riding a jetbike. I've never attempted a kitbash this ambitious before. We'll see how it goes.



Inquisitor Parris examines the dismembered remains of... himself!



Dear God-Emperor! Too tall! Too tall!



Maybe we can work with this...

Heeeeeeeres Ragnar!

My entry, should I actually finish it this month, will be this Sister of the Order Dialogus:

I figure she's gotta be fairly knowledgeable since a Dialogus has to read a lot (even some things that are normally forbidden to others in the Imperium). The new model is such an improvement over the old goggle-eyed one (who looked like Velma from Scooby-Doo!), it'll be a joy to paint. With all the other things on my plate currently we'll see if I find time to finish...

My entry

Here's my proof:



An engineer and a general for my slowly-growing, mostly Mantic dwarf army.

I think we ought to start a summary thread for everyone in the competition who’s done Eisenhorn; seems to be the most popular individual model (mainly because he’s awesome!)

 Jadenim wrote:
I think we ought to start a summary thread for everyone in the competition who’s done Eisenhorn; seems to be the most popular individual model (mainly because he’s awesome!)

I think we'll need a parallel thread for indomitus models as well over the coming months.

 JoshInJapan wrote:
Here's my proof:

An engineer and a general for my slowly-growing, mostly Mantic dwarf army.

You already got my vote!
Anyone with the courage and wit to realize all the glorious benefits of being a proud owner of a respectable army of most feared and revered, unmatched, most powerful warriors in all the lands, the Dwarfs! Deserves an automatic vote at the very least!
I, me self!
Would give my self a vote!
if I was working on my throng for this challenge!







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 Jadenim wrote:
I think we ought to start a summary thread for everyone in the competition who’s done Eisenhorn; seems to be the most popular individual model (mainly because he’s awesome!)

Nha, It is not Eisenhorn who is awesome!
its Dan Abnett, should do a painting competition on him lolz

Going to try to get some animal adventurers wizards.


Either that or the Croc games Tethru harbinger next to them--they're the magic faction in that game, figure a mage hero ought to count.

I think I'll be painting space elves for this month, I've got something for each of the main factions (I'm old and set in my ways so don't count these new Ynnari upstarts)- an old Archon + bodyguard, farseer and shadowseer. Hopefully I'll do them all but more likely just the one

Some WIP.



The long painting war continues...

CB

White gold red wizard this will be!
Because painting in washes is fun!

Two new sergeants for my Carchadon kill team. Reiver sergeant and sternguard veteran sergeant.

Some great entries by some talented individuals so far! Can't wait to see what some of y'all do.

Fuegan finished,








I am still working on Baharroth so it might be two...and I have a Jetbike Seer that I am rewarding myself with for finishing all my Eldar, so maybe all three. Decisions, decisions.

Cheers,

CB

Simple paint scheme.
waiting for things to dry.

The red squiggly turned out verynice!

Sculpted a butt and some thighs with greenstuff. Well outside of my comfort zone, but I think it turned out okay.



Added some arms and weapons:



And a head, purity seal, and grenades:







All in all, not the most dynamic or exciting pose, but at least I didn't completely disgrace myself.

I would like to submit my Lt. Amulis; let's see what we can do wiith him.

Disappointed, but I don't think I'm going to have time to enter this month. I was going to do Eldrad, or potentially some farseers/warlocks, but I'm losing the first third of the month to family commitments, then house-sitting for the second third. I don't think a third of a month will be enough to come up with something I'd be happy enough to submit, so, yeah, that's probably me out. :/

I guess Eldrad is mainly black paint, so perhaps he wouldn't be too complicated. I'll see when I have some free time. Otherwise, good luck to everyone! Can't wait to see what you all come up with.

 CancelledApocalypse wrote:
Disappointed, but I don't think I'm going to have time to enter this month. I was going to do Eldrad, or potentially some farseers/warlocks, but I'm losing the first third of the month to family commitments, then house-sitting for the second third. I don't think a third of a month will be enough to come up with something I'd be happy enough to submit, so, yeah, that's probably me out. :/

I guess Eldrad is mainly black paint, so perhaps he wouldn't be too complicated. I'll see when I have some free time. Otherwise, good luck to everyone! Can't wait to see what you all come up with.

Snap a proof pic. If you get it done, then you can just stick it up here along the final.

Life gets hectic some times, we understand.

Will do, thanks Nevelon.

Nice progress everyone, can't believe CB is finished already while i haven't even finished base coats

I just spent two hours blocking the gold in as neatly as i can and all i can see now is gold everywhere

Great looking work from everyone so far. I especially like the darker look Fuegan by CB.

Here is Mr Grimm so far;



Still lots to do, and I'm not sure that I am going to be able to pull off the effect I'm going for. The details aren't deep enough for me to be able to create realistic shadows to offset the brighter highlights on the other side, but I'll keep going and hope I can pull it off.

@Captain Brown: A nice moody rendition of Fuegan there.
@ Mothsniper: That's a cool red squiggly thingy. Plastic effect parts are common in gunpla kits, but aside from the necron's glowy rods I've rarely seen them used in miniatures.

Well on my way to making this a pretty puppy.

Almost done.
Waiting for things to ossify

@Freya; what colour(s) are you using to get that blue/grey? Ahriman has a dead Space Wolf on his base and I need to figure out how to paint him.

Done!

Freya wrote:Well on my way to making this a pretty puppy.

I am so excited to see how to convert Ragnar to fit your theme.

Some progress but almost done.

Perfect category, gave me the excuse I needed to finish making the model! I might have named this guy by the time he's painted, but it's more likely that I'll have completely forgetten to do that, so:
Iron Warriors Sorcerer on Disc on Tzeentch

Love that sorceror conversion, it looks fantastic!

If I had the time, I might finish of my autarch conversion for this month. Don't think I'm going to, though.

I’m probably going to dig out my Zombicide Invader box and paint up the Steven Hawking, Rick, and Doc Brown models. Probably do Morty and Marty Mcfly time willing.

 Jadenim wrote:
@Freya; what colour(s) are you using to get that blue/grey? Ahriman has a dead Space Wolf on his base and I need to figure out how to paint him.

The fang, Russ grey, fenrisian grey. The GW special. I airbrushed the three consecutively with mixing the colors as I highlighted.

416_SpaceWolves wrote:

Freya wrote:Well on my way to making this a pretty puppy.

I am so excited to see how to convert Ragnar to fit your theme.

I'm curious too haha!

 Total wrote:
Perfect category, gave me the excuse I needed to finish making the model! I might have named this guy by the time he's painted, but it's more likely that I'll have completely forgetten to do that, so:
Iron Warriors Sorcerer on Disc on Tzeentch

Spoiler:

I love this conversion and I'm so excited to see it!!!

Huge range of stuff this month, lots of cool ideas.

Freya, with that pose and your Lady Wolves, you really need some long flowing hair. Do you have a head picked out?

(note to self: OP updated with proofs/finals to this point)

 Nevelon wrote:
Freya, with that pose and your Lady Wolves, you really need some long flowing hair. Do you have a head picked out?

Neave Blacktalon's head from the AoS Stormcast Eternals range would work really well. She has a braid, though.

Nevelon wrote:Huge range of stuff this month, lots of cool ideas.

Freya, with that pose and your Lady Wolves, you really need some long flowing hair. Do you have a head picked out?

(note to self: OP updated with proofs/finals to this point)

CancelledApocalypse wrote:

 Nevelon wrote:
Freya, with that pose and your Lady Wolves, you really need some long flowing hair. Do you have a head picked out?

Neave Blacktalon's head from the AoS Stormcast Eternals range would work really well. She has a braid, though.

I'm probably going with the second from the left at the bottom row of these heads.
https://www.shapeways.com/product/9LXLFLP8H/warfaces2-caucasian-female?etId=195210357&utm_source=automated-contact&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=payment-received&utm_content=3&option=97703192

Buuuut if I do that I need to do some custom green stuff hair which I'm trying to avoid... so... officially I haven't chosen yet but I'll be figuring that out soon. Hopefully.

I am going to try and take better pictures, but Mr Grimm is done;



As the mechanical man stares into the sunset, we wonder what terrible machinations of his tomorrow will bring. Or something to that effect

 Freya wrote:

Nevelon wrote:Huge range of stuff this month, lots of cool ideas.

Freya, with that pose and your Lady Wolves, you really need some long flowing hair. Do you have a head picked out?

(note to self: OP updated with proofs/finals to this point)

CancelledApocalypse wrote:

 Nevelon wrote:
Freya, with that pose and your Lady Wolves, you really need some long flowing hair. Do you have a head picked out?

Neave Blacktalon's head from the AoS Stormcast Eternals range would work really well. She has a braid, though.

I'm probably going with the second from the left at the bottom row of these heads.
https://www.shapeways.com/product/9LXLFLP8H/warfaces2-caucasian-female?etId=195210357&utm_source=automated-contact&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=payment-received&utm_content=3&option=97703192

Buuuut if I do that I need to do some custom green stuff hair which I'm trying to avoid... so... officially I haven't chosen yet but I'll be figuring that out soon. Hopefully.

They are nice looking heads, aren't they? I have a set in my bits box waiting for me to start putting my sororitas army together. The only thing, though: they all look pretty asian to me, even the so called 'caucasian' ones. At least that's how they look to my eyes.

L-R:

Morty, Rick, Hawking, Doc Brown, Marty


Thanks for the link help guys! Not sure what was wrong, it’s fun using a pad sometimes.

The fluorescent bulb in my magnifying lens crapped out today. I will be delayed while I wait for Amazon to deliver a replacement.

CancelledApocalypse wrote:

 Freya wrote:

Nevelon wrote:Huge range of stuff this month, lots of cool ideas.

Freya, with that pose and your Lady Wolves, you really need some long flowing hair. Do you have a head picked out?

(note to self: OP updated with proofs/finals to this point)

CancelledApocalypse wrote:

 Nevelon wrote:
Freya, with that pose and your Lady Wolves, you really need some long flowing hair. Do you have a head picked out?

Neave Blacktalon's head from the AoS Stormcast Eternals range would work really well. She has a braid, though.

I'm probably going with the second from the left at the bottom row of these heads.
https://www.shapeways.com/product/9LXLFLP8H/warfaces2-caucasian-female?etId=195210357&utm_source=automated-contact&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=payment-received&utm_content=3&option=97703192

Buuuut if I do that I need to do some custom green stuff hair which I'm trying to avoid... so... officially I haven't chosen yet but I'll be figuring that out soon. Hopefully.

They are nice looking heads, aren't they? I have a set in my bits box waiting for me to start putting my sororitas army together. The only thing, though: they all look pretty asian to me, even the so called 'caucasian' ones. At least that's how they look to my eyes.

If you look at my gallery you'll see that the ones I've painted are caucasian even though they may seem like they aren't by the photos.

SlaveToDorkness wrote:https://images.dakkadakka.com/gallery/2020/8/9/1072707-.jpeg" border="0" />
L-R:

Morty, Rick, Hawking, Doc Brown, Marty


Can’t get the forum to post my pic....

Upload to dakkadakka, once uploaded right click the image and open it in a new tab. Then use the URL button and paste the URL in between the buttons.

 Freya wrote:

If you look at my gallery you'll see that the ones I've painted are caucasian even though they may seem like they aren't by the photos.

Yup, I saw you entered them in the comp last month. They look ace, btw.

SlaveToDorkness wrote:

[url=https://www.dakkadakka.com/gallery/1072707-.html][img]https://images.dakkadakka.com/gallery/2020/8/9/1072707_sm-.jpeg[/img][/url]
Should be what you're looking for--copy paste the "forum" link below the pic on your gallery. Or just use only the bit between the "img" tags, including the brackets, which will just show the image, and not the link to your gallery for voting.

 CancelledApocalypse wrote:

 Freya wrote:

If you look at my gallery you'll see that the ones I've painted are caucasian even though they may seem like they aren't by the photos.

Yup, I saw you entered them in the comp last month. They look ace, btw.

Thanks! I honestly wasn't expecting to do well last month.

 Freya wrote:

 CancelledApocalypse wrote:

 Freya wrote:

If you look at my gallery you'll see that the ones I've painted are caucasian even though they may seem like they aren't by the photos.

Yup, I saw you entered them in the comp last month. They look ace, btw.

Thanks! I honestly wasn't expecting to do well last month.

Well deserved, imo!

Finally picked up a Warhammer army a few months ago. Figure Draxus fits the whole mind bullet schtick for this month.

Looks like Erebus won out this month. And cloak, means freehand of course. Still a bit rough. Needs polish, and possibly a Daemon head in the middle.

I love the casual “might freehand a daemon head”!

Or the “a bit rough” lol....damn drool-worthy!

A WIP of Draxus. Messing around with colours and wanted to do not monochrome theme. The face is probably going to be terrible when I get around to it.

Where is that model from, Sgt. Sunshine?


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Primed my guys tonight,

 SlaveToDorkness wrote:
Where is that model from, Sgt. Sunshine?


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Primed my guys tonight,

It's Inquisitor Kyria Draxus from Psychic Awakening. I think the Pariah book?

Yep I totally cannot compare to that freehand. Thats amazing. Just amazing. I need you to teach me your ways...

Updated WIP

Here is my proof pic for this month, Shalaxi Helbane ... better get my skates on!

The UK's heatwave (in the South East at least) is putting a serious crimp in my painting schedule.

That’s why I paint in my basement!

 sockwithaticket wrote:
The UK's heatwave (in the South East at least) is putting a serious crimp in my painting schedule.

I'm managing in Oxfordshire, on an evening, just

I'm in, feeling pretty good this month and I'm motivated so I'll enter two minis, the Indomitus Captain and his Lieutenant.

Hope you folks like gritty and battered marines, I'm going for Excoriators!

 queen_annes_revenge wrote:

 sockwithaticket wrote:
The UK's heatwave (in the South East at least) is putting a serious crimp in my painting schedule.

I'm managing in Oxfordshire, on an evening, just

I'm Hampshire and until tonight it's been into the high 20s at 10/11 pm for days along with stifling humidity . It's supposed to cool down properly from tomorrow evening, so hopefully I'll be able to get back on track.

@Tyranid Horde, nice use of the Mk3 helmets

 sockwithaticket wrote:

 queen_annes_revenge wrote:

 sockwithaticket wrote:
The UK's heatwave (in the South East at least) is putting a serious crimp in my painting schedule.

I'm managing in Oxfordshire, on an evening, just

I'm Hampshire and until tonight it's been into the high 20s at 10/11 pm for days along with stifling humidity . It's supposed to cool down properly from tomorrow evening, so hopefully I'll be able to get back on track.

Yeah same. I powered through. I guess it depends on the environment on your immediate painting space, and how adept you are at getting the paint onto the model once it's on your pallette. We've got rain storms here today thank god.

WIP of my entry.

(actually a little further along, but Slug Boy is still asleep in the workroom, so I can’t grab a new pic)

It’s been a bit hot where I am as well. Unfortunately, my workspace is the most poorly ventilated room in my apartment. One small window, no AC. They way my place is set up it’s impossible to get a cross draft. Best I can do is open the small window, and turn the fan/AC units on in the other rooms and hope for the positive pressure to keep the air moving. But that means I’m either air conditioning the great outdoors, or just running fans. It does tend to keep me from long sessions painting.

OP should be updated to this point.

I will be participating this month. I’m entering a sister that I will be converting into a space marine librarian.

Replaced the bulb in my magnifying lamp. I am taking a staycation this week. I managed to finished basecoating my inquisitor kitbash.

Got Rick and Morty mostly done

SlaveToDorkness - is that a bottle of Duff?

Shalaxi is coming together, must admit I don't like painting these big models much, too difficult to get into comfortable painting positions.

@maxwin that's looking lovely.

Superb so far, maxwin!

Hmm, this is gonna be another interesting round!!
Here's my Patriarch WIP, mostly done, bar some more work on the base. Let's see how far I get with the Phobos libby, tho :|

Wow, loads of great works being finished for a normally quiet month.

Very impressive MobileSuitRandom.
That is going to be fantastic when she is finished maxwin.

Thank you for the nice comments Turaxa and JamesY from a few pages back.
Jamie Shred not quite finished yet. Instead of selecting just one I am going to group all my Eldar painting this month. Three heads are better than one. I cannot remember where I heard that...or maybe it was two heads.

So my next Phoenix Lord is finished.

Baharroth.







Two together.


Farseer progress is on my Eldar Painting Log.

Cheers,

CB

Lots of good stuff! Well I'm done with Draxus.

Nice work, everyone.

I reckon these guys are finished:


I'll post mre photos at the end of the month.

 maxwin wrote:
SlaveToDorkness - is that a bottle of Duff?

Good eye, Max! Rick travels to the Simpson dimension just for it!

I will enter with Puppetactica Company, perfect for mastermind. A puppeteer with his puppetbots.

Finished.

Eldar Master Minds - Phoenix Lords and Farseer







Cheers,

CB

My final piccies of Creed. I had a bit of a shiny varnish problem when a hot day turned thundery but it looks OK now.



I know, I need a camera, my phone isn't too good.

ETA, found a better camera, about twenty years older than my phone!

Creed looks great, ZenBadger! I love how you've lit the face.

WIP

Behind every good villain sits a great enforcer. For Necrons, this can be more true than most, with that enforcer being the real power behind an increasingly addled and eccentric throne...







P.S. Hope it's OK to enter this month - turns out my camera ate the proof picture I took earlier in the month.

Sgt.Sunshine, nice looking colour scheme!

JoshInJapan, great models and I like that lantern!

Captain Brown, your speed and efficiency to get some great models painted is awesome!

ZenBadger, Creed is looking great!

QAR, great work on the apostle, really like how you've gone down the NMM route.

SmallChanges, really like that dark metal and regal purple combo

Here's an update from me:

Sculpting work in progress... whoo boy im out of my comfort zone

Great stuff already done and on the way. And good luck with the sculpting Freya!

Realized that there is not much month left and finally started on my Inquisitor Greyfax. Did a little bit last evening and another small session today.

 Viterbi wrote:
Great stuff already done and on the way. And good luck with the sculpting Freya!

Realized that there is not much month left and finally started on my Inquisitor Greyfax. Did a little bit last evening and another small session today.

Oooh matching lipstick! Nice touch!

Got the sculpting part done. Here's a proof pic of it primed...

Nice work Freya!

Going to call it done for this month. Looks better with the 5ft rule as opposed to on camera but I'm still really pleased with how he turned out.

Running out of month people! Time to get those brushes moving.

Finished with the Seer, Librarian still needs a bit of work. (and other background non-competition projects need to get done by the end of the month)

OP should be updated to this point.

Making steady progress here but going to need to get a rush on to have time for everything i have planned. Face nearly done and red nearly done, everything else needs highlights and i still need to base the captains sword.

As always feedback is very much welcome and appreciated.

Man I'm having trouble finishing this month. Erebus is probably about 90% finished but I keep procrastinating on him and painting world eaters instead... Know where my loyalties lie.

 queen_annes_revenge wrote:
Man I'm having trouble finishing this month. Erebus is probably about 90% finished but I keep procrastinating on him and painting world eaters instead... Know where my loyalties lie.

WIP but wanted to finally post a picture of the model fully assembled. Gonna cut it close again this month...

 queen_annes_revenge wrote:
Man I'm having trouble finishing this month. Erebus is probably about 90% finished but I keep procrastinating on him and painting world eaters instead... Know where my loyalties lie.

Having similar issues; I got Ahriman about 60% done in the first two days. It’s taken the rest of the month to get him to about 80% and looks like I’ll be scraping under the wire at the weekend (again!)


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Also, @Freya, that face really reminds me of somebody (an actress), but I can’t think who.

 Mothsniper wrote:

 queen_annes_revenge wrote:
Man I'm having trouble finishing this month. Erebus is probably about 90% finished but I keep procrastinating on him and painting world eaters instead... Know where my loyalties lie.

Amazing!

 Jadenim wrote:

 queen_annes_revenge wrote:
Man I'm having trouble finishing this month. Erebus is probably about 90% finished but I keep procrastinating on him and painting world eaters instead... Know where my loyalties lie.

Having similar issues; I got Ahriman about 60% done in the first two days. It’s taken the rest of the month to get him to about 80% and looks like I’ll be scraping under the wire at the weekend (again!)


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Also, @Freya, that face really reminds me of somebody (an actress), but I can’t think who.

I'm intrigued. I'll see if anyone i know finds a similarity. Maybe it's based on someone for the original model?

WIP - Patriarch's base still not finished, libby still quite a mess, weekend might get 'interesting' :p

@Freya: That's hell of a sculpting work, especially for something that's "out of your comfort zone"

@Maxwin: The face is looking really great!

@Tyranid Horde: Glad to see you take part once again mate! Looking good so far.

@qar: The freehand is top notch! And the NMM fits the model perfectly.


A bit late to the party, but I'll hop in at the last minute.
Started working on these about a week ago, but did not get around posting the proof pic as I've been quite busy.
Plus I was not sure if I could make it, so did not want to take part with unfinished models.

Here's the proof pic.
Gang leaders for my Helot Cultist gang and for my girlfriend's Escher gang.
Masterminds in their own right, using their limited resources and deceptive tactics to steal the territories from one another.


Here's a WIP pic from last weekend. It's really really poor quick shot, but that'll have to do for now.



I will realistically be able to finish the Escher leader, but hopefully get some paint on the Chaos leader as well.

Awesome work, everybody!

Here's my proof pic - Mollog, the "mastermind" behind Mollog's Mob, a group of cave squigs and barely-sentient mushrooms. I like the idea of the mastermind actually being a rather dumb troll. But compared to the mushrooms, he's super-smart.



I took that about a week ago, and have started painting him inbetween wrangling my bored kid, outbreaks of frenetic housework, bouts of existential dread, and periods of blankly playing World of Warcraft. Here's a very blurry WIP pic of where I am so far.



The skin is getting there, although it looks pretty crappy in that pic, annoyingly. The pink and blue mushrooms are finished. Everything else is barely started. Loads still to do.

Cheers Ezki! Might actually be able to make the deadline for once!

Some great work popping up since I last checked in. DrGiggles, that Hive Tyrant is awesome!

I'm almost finished, I have friends round this weekend so have this evening and tomorrow to round things out and take photos, but here's the WIP for the captain:

Subject poll for next month:
https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/0/791518.page#10911550

Nevelon will be continuing to run things for the time being, but as always feel free to shoot me any questions on proceedings next month.

Sorry all feel like I've been letting you down by not updating the league table after each vote but I've finally got around to it now.

Feels like I've been stuck in a bit of a rut the last few months so finding it hard to get any motivation for hobby things, not sure if I'm going to make this months challenge which would be sad has I've not missed one since almost the start of this many years ago

https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/732117.page#9481149

27th place, not bad! Perseverance has paid off where skill and talent may still be lacking.

Here's my finished entry for this month, a radical inquisitor. I sculpted the thighs and butt myself! I think I need to level up my eye-painting technique for next month.

Changing it up to a Solar Watch, Venerable Contemptor Dreadnought. These vehicles house ancient warriors who are renowned for their wisdom and fury. They are both living war machines and strategic advisors.

 Ezki wrote:
@Freya: That's hell of a sculpting work, especially for something that's "out of your comfort zone"

I had a "blank" female head that was 3d printed. I added the neck cowl and hair on the head then the pony tails are from the original models head so I just glued them on my sculpted one. I'm not hardly so good as that.

EDIT:
Might change the photos to ones taken with a real camera and not my phone for once if I can get the card reader to work with my computer. We'll see. If not then these first ones will be the thing

Midget Gems wrote:Feels like I've been stuck in a bit of a rut the last few months so finding it hard to get any motivation for hobby things, not sure if I'm going to make this months challenge which would be sad has I've not missed one since almost the start of this many years ago

Speed paint a grot. Keep whatever forward momentum you can muster. But it would be great if you could get something done. We have faith!

Pariah Press wrote:27th place, not bad! Perseverance has paid off where skill and talent may still be lacking.

Heh, that’s been my M.O. since the start of this. Kicking out table-top quality entries, but every month. I think my best entry might have broken into the top 3rd of the pack, and still well shy of the podium.

Speaking of entries, finished with mine.


There is a shadow in the warp coming, and the seers from my armies can sense it. The need to band together, or my new quarentine tyranid army is going to devour them and claim their shelf space.

I’m not unhappy with the way they turned out, but they don’t really excite me. But they get to move from the primed pile to the YTD shelf, so that’s a victory against the Pile of Shame.

(note to self, thread is not updated to this point. Go back one post)

Just started painting a couple of days ago. I've scaled myself all the way back from Eldrad to a couple of warlocks (now probably just a single warlock). But hey, I might at least have something to submit.

I'll post proofs along with my entry, assuming I get it done.

 Nevelon wrote:

Midget Gems wrote:Feels like I've been stuck in a bit of a rut the last few months so finding it hard to get any motivation for hobby things, not sure if I'm going to make this months challenge which would be sad has I've not missed one since almost the start of this many years ago

Speed paint a grot. Keep whatever forward momentum you can muster. But it would be great if you could get something done. We have faith!

I think we all have hobby (and life) up and down times. If it's all starting to feel like a chore, maybe just do something that makes you happy, even if it's completely not part of the plan. I find I get much more out of converting models than painting them (seriously, my pile of converted figures waiting to see a little colour is getting silly, even without buying more stuff in a while), but occasionally I make a model I'm so happy with that I can ride that energy through a couple of evenings of painting, and put it away pretty close to how I'd imagined. That said, even when I do get motivation for painting, it doesn't always last, and the scheme doesn't always go as intended. Recently mucked up a new Deathwatch venerable dreadnought with some really bad Abaddon black (too thin to cover, yet somehow drying in ridges) which threw me out for a while, until I decided to park it and do something else. I suppose what I'm saying is much like Nevelon says - do what you want to do, at your pace, and don't beat yourself up about it.

Shalaxi finished! if I have to paint one more gem stone I'll cry

Wow thats gorgeous maxwin. Speed mode activated for me and this is where im at.

Ow, my neck! Nice models, Shred!

That is shaping up to become once more a very hard voting with so many great entries. Finally managed to get the photos of Greyfax done. Light was a bit too harsh, may need a weaker bulb.

A very late proof photo, taken tonight... I mean this morning. If I can pull this off-- no promises-- it will be pretty much a one-sitting paint job, as I also need to launch the next round of the LoER Terrain Contest this weekend. If anyone can do it, the Inquisition can.

Well I managed to bump myself out of the “no motivation” rut today and got Ahriman finished; pictures to be taken later tonight I think.

Good luck MacPhail, you can make it!

Just took my finals:


Kinda annoyed on the badger's robes, that varnish said it was matte dangit.

A late entry from me, an Eldar warlock. More comments in my painting log.

Proof

(The picture was upright when viewed on my computer, but the Dakkadakka gallery insists it's sideways.)

Final Images

Looking good, everybody!

Here is a late proof. I also had plans to do an eldar but I need to paint something nice and quick, so a necron seemed to be the best choice.

Right, these guys are as finished as they are going to get:

Finally got my entry done, and then just a bit ago Dakka wouldn't load at all (on my computer at least, or even on my phone). But it's working now, so here are my final pics of a Sister Dialogus in the custom color scheme of my Sisters of Battle army:



I'm very happy with how she turned out. Very fun model to paint, too. Some great entries coming in from everyone else too; should be a good month for voting.

I've been away so need to update my completed picture- I saw a couple of errors that I've corrected since I took it. Will get it taken and uploaded later.

My humble entry for this month - Sven Stoneshield, the Wolf Priest. Kitbash out of an assault marine, space wolf sprue leftovers, two lemman russ spotlights, and some other bits to make the jump pack.

(SoulCalibur Announcer Voice: ) Now! Two Minds are Fiercely Entangled!

Erebus. Not sure what's going on with my photography today. This is the best I can do for the minute. Might try and re do them later.

Super nice, @MobileSuitRandom! You can tell they're thinking really hard because they both have their fingers to their temples.

I bet they're playing mental checkers.

@queen_annes_revenge Superb as ever! That freehand on the cloak... holy hell, I hope I'm even somewhere close to being that good some day.

Stunning work popping up, great work guys!

Finished mine. As suspected, I was able to finish only one of the leaders. The chaos leader is still badly WIP.

So, here's the Escher leader:


It was fun painting something a bit brighter and colorful than rusty ork vehicles or rugged kriegers, which feel more familiar to me.

Goals for this model were to practice painting the skin and highlighting black.
Had to rush a few things and the cloak is a bit messy here and there, but all in all I'm actually quite happy with it.
Especially the skin: even though it could be a lot better, painting it was really out of my comfort zone. After this, I feel a bit more confident about painting faces and bare skin, so a milestone achieved there!

Edit: Updated the pictures

Cheers slavetodarkness! Excellent work everyone, very high standard across the board again. Here's my final pics, as always feedback is most welcome and appreciated.

See you all next month

Here's my entry, then. Considering I banged it out in only a few days, I'm pretty happy with it. At least I've got something to enter this month. It's the first time I've used this technique for the sword - could have been a lot neater (especially on the reverse), but considering I was almost speed painting, it's not too bad.

Proof pic first (obviously). Only managed to get the warlock on the left done.

Woosh. Slipping this in right under the wire again. Combination of losing the first half of the month to the tail end of the MBA (but I'm done, finally!) and then the stress of job-hunting and my father's health issues has sort of undermined my motivation to paint this month.

I tried something a little more ambitious with this piece in terms of dramatic lighting. Didn't quite pull it off, but it was a good learning experience and fun to experiment with. I'm also getting better at this photography thing!

George Washington, Valley Forge 1778, by FeR Miniatures.

Proof pic


Completed piece

Not expecting many votes with the quality of other entries this month, but I am happy with the finished piece, especially as it is so different to what I am used to doing;



@Nev if you could update the previous image with this one, I'd be most grateful

Some incredible work across the board here. It amazes me how the field gets stronger and stronger every month, everyone's bringing their A game these last few rounds and it shows.

Despite the odds, I've technically managed to throw together and entry this month, but I shall have to request the pics amnesty for a bit, hoping to get them done tomorrow morning. It's definitely not a good entry, but until yesterday I didn't think I was going to be in at all, between my eyes still on the blink (pun very much intended) and the 3d printer failing to complete the model I was going to throw in (first world problem, I know )... At the very least, the streak goes on.

Here are my final pics of Mollog.













I really like the newer Gloomspite Gitz sculpts, and have a set of the three Rockspite Troggoths as well, and a bunch of squigs. I have this ridiculous dream of painting an entire Gitz army in this sort of style, but all I've managed so far is this trogg and Zarbag's Gitz. It might be possible, but it would take me until the heat death of the universe to finish it.

A beautiful Troggoth if ever I've seen one!
Final pics of my (still unnamed) Sorcerer:


(I also figured I'd give him an alternate "on foot" base seeing as I already magnetised his feet):

 Total wrote:
A beautiful Troggoth if ever I've seen one!

Spoiler:

Final pics of my (still unnamed) Sorcerer:

(I also figured I'd give him an alternate "on foot" base seeing as I already magnetised his feet):

Spoiler:

Been waiting for this. Not disappointed.

Turns out I did get the pics done tonight, so here's one messy wizard. Caleb Widogast from Critical Role's second campaign. I remember being somewhat disappointed by the CR minis from Steamforged and on the whole I stand by that, but to be fair Caleb was among the better ones in the set and as a wizard with maxed out Intelligence and the Keen Mind feat giving him a perfect memory, he fits the theme nicely. Nothing fancy about the paintjob, as right now just keeping it within the lines is a win for me (I was wearing pinhole glasses to focus while painting, not something I'd recommend but at the mo, sadly necessary.) Still, and entry is an entry, and honestly it's better than I thought it would be.

Some gorgeous work coming in! I'll have pictures of my captain up soon, I didn't get the time to finish the lieutenant

So here's the finished pictures of Ahriman:









Good luck everyone, looks like another mental voting round this month!

Late late entry for me, been so busy with work recently. Decided to throw in a Librarian as his "masterful mind" can rip apart the fabric of spacetime.

Proof




Finals

Puppetactica company done. I've played with a bit different colors to break up the usual color scheme.

Here's my entry, a Farseer.

Hi All

This entry only happened because of some encouraging words from Chris56, so I'd like to dedicate it to him also wanted to get it in on the day rather than you guys having to wait for me to take photos (sorry not my best model to have dedicated to you Chris, its still a bit rough and very much to table top standard but you made it happen)

Proof (only remembered after a bit of blue)


Final Pics

Ate up too much time doing and re-doing the skin. I'm probably a couple of days away from finishing. Another month where I can't get it in on time.

Well...here is my last-minute entry as well!
Some really great entries this month - great to see both MG and Para keeping their rolls going.

Here is my roll continuing also (though not as long as some of you!)...







Thanks and see you all in 'The Long War'.

Late in showing off the finished photos by an hour, thought I'd post them now rather than leave them to the morning.

Genuinely enjoyed this model, it's a shame I didn't get the chance to finish the lieutenant but ah well, he's not far off.

This is the Excoriators 5th Company Corpus-Captain Torix Luxadian, who crossed the Rubicon Primaris and was promoted to lead the 5th company from the Honoured First, following the destruction of the entire company by a Khorne Blood Crusade.

Lots of nice last minute stuff guys!

Remember, one perk of me running this is that I’m in the Eastern time zone. At the time of me writing this, you still have a couple hours to go. And honestly, I’m too old to stay up till midnight just to close it, so you have until breakfast tomorrow.

If anyone needs a little more time than that, just chime in. But barring that, I’ll put up September’s in the morning, close this one, and then start compiling the vote.

But still time to squeak in under the wire.

Could not get my camera to cooperate with me yesterday, so I took some new pics and updated them to the original final picture post.
Hopefully that's the easiest way to grab the new pics to the voting

 Ezki wrote:
Could not get my camera to cooperate with me yesterday, so I took some new pics and updated them to the original final picture post.
Hopefully that's the easiest way to grab the new pics to the voting

Just be sure you post like you did letting me know they were updated. I do occasionally update the OP with new entries/finished pics, so if I already did that, and you sneak in new pics, I might not notice.

Generally the best way to get pics is to upload them to somewhere (preferably Dakka) and post them. That way I can just quote your post, copy the links, and post them in the OP/vote thread. If you just attach them to the post I need to go through a couple extra steps.

And I think we are going to call this one closed. Please join us for next month, The Long War.

Thread up:
https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/791649.page

I updated my pics last night too like I said I would.

I also added some new photos

https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/120/790593.page#10913866

I didn't update pics, because I didn't get mine finished.
Maybe someday . . .

 DJJazzyJeff wrote:
I didn't update pics, because I didn't get mine finished.
Maybe someday . . .

Everyone paints at different paces, and life loves to toss wrenches into out plans. Doubly so these days. Keep at it, any progress against the pile of shame is a worthy endeavor!

Vote is up!

https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/791665.page