Welcome all to the 70th round of the Dakka Painting challenge. For those who haven't seen the challenge before, it is a community-focused friendly competition open to anyone on the site, regardless of your skill level or experience. Every round contributes towards a League table, which ultimately means nothing but is a lot of fun to keep an eye on and jockey for position with Dakka's other painters.

This month, as is traditional for December, we have the Open Round. There's no theme to stick to, so while as the usual rules apply as far as proof pictures and model count ect, the choice of miniature is entirely open to you. Need to get something painted for a Christmas gift, or eager to get started on your own new shinies, or just looking for an excuse to paint the cool model that's been sitting on your desk for months, now's the time!

How To Enter
- You may enter up to 5 MODELS as a SINGLE ENTRY, and are permitted one entry per member per month. If you enter multiple models, they should ideally be related in some way, such as part of the same squad, unit or scene if you are doing a diorama
- You MUST post a 'proof' picture of your entry in the thread of the state it was in before you started working on it; this must be either unassembled, unpainted, primed or coated a single colour. Entries that do not submit a valid Proof Picture will not be eligible for voting.
- After this, you may post WIP pictures in this thread and your own if you wish, and on completing the entry, you may post up to 6 final pictures IN THIS THREAD that will then be used for voting. Please note that pictures in a montage or collage picture will be considered individual images for this purpose, so while these types of presentation are certainly acceptable, please keep the image limit in mind when compiling them. For example, a collage of 5 images and one separate image would count as your 6 picture allowance.


So What Do I Win?
- Points... and points mean... bragging rights for the next month! Following the vote, points will be awarded to every entrant. This year, the Points you receive will be equal to the Percentage of Votes your entry receives in the final Voting thread; if you get 10%, you get 10 points, if you get 6% you get 6 points, so on and so forth.

These points will be used to form a league table, which will be updated month on month as the results come in.


How Long Do I Have?
This challenge begins 1st of December and will end at midnight Eastern time on the 31st of December. After this, I shall compile the finished entries into a new thread, and voting will run for 5 days.

List of Entrants:

Nevelon - SoB Seraphim


Rybrook - Angel infernus.


Tyranid Horde - Porsche 911 FINISHED


Jamie Shred - Impulsor


MobileSuitRandom - Yvraine


queen_annes_revenge - Magistus Amon. FINISHED


Captain Brown - Shining Spears FINISHED


E3DD - Sepsimus, Plaguesworn.


Paradigm - Mandolorian


Vejut - Orcs and warrior


Argive - Eldar


ZergSmasher - Canoness


Ezki - Stompa


Yorkright - KillaKan FINISHED


JoshInJapan - Harlequins


Arakasi - Grots


Freya - Oleana


maxwin - Guts FINISHED


straken619 - Ironjawz


DJJazzyJeff - Truckasaurus


CREEEEEEEEED - Necrons


Pariah Press - D&D Adventurers: A tiefling rogue, a drow fighter, and a gnome bard.


MangoChutney - Knight Azyros


Gulgog TufToof - Trukk crew


Chris56 - Jakkob Bugmanson


Turaxa - LRX-077 Sisquiede


DV8 - Queen Elizabeth FINISHED


ShadowsAndDust - Chaos Sorcerer FINISHED


Maharg - Elves

I will try my hand at this relic Angel infernus.

10 year old tank chassis, with modern weapons

Entering a Christmas present I'm painting up for my dad, who is a big fan of Porsche 911s, so here goes. I've never done a scale model of a car before and I know it's a bit left of field for Dakka but hey, embodies the Open Round right?

Open round is open. If it’s small and was unpainted at the start of the month, it’s all good.

I’m trying to think of entries that would be on the edge. Face paint on your kid? Sure. It’s a mini-you and it’s painted. Apartment renovations for a NYC/Tokyo/Other cramped city? Also mini, but probably stretching it a bit. We allow terrain and dioramas, and some game tables are larger than inner city apartments.

I mean, don’t take this as a “Challenge Accepted” to try to find the outer boundaries of what’s acceptable in the open round. But if you think it works, it probably does.

I'm going to get this impulsor painted for my Blood Angels

Time to finally get Yvraine done! Also I have a horribly dorky colour scheme in mind that will make all Dakka groan in unison

Magistus Amon.

I am hoping I can use the same photo from last month's proof and show the two members of the squad of old metal and plastic Shining Spears I did not get beyond priming. I hope that this does not cause any issues?



Cheers,

CB

I've got a member of the Wurmspat, known simply as Sepsimus, Plaguesworn. I have the other two members built and may add them depending on how quickly I finish this one.

An earlier entry from me this time, as shock, horror, I actually went into this with a plan! Had this one sitting on my desk for a week or so now, and held off painting him until today. Hoping that the larger model (75mm ish) should compensate for my eyesight a bit, and give me more room for all that Starv Warsy weathering.


And a WIP after a day's work. Lots of neatening needed, this is still a bit of a 'sketch' for what I hope to achieve, but already I'm liking the overall impression. The base is a placeholder, he's definitely getting a larger display base and possibly a small green companion if I can find a decent file for it.

This is the way....

First couple of layers of red down on my impulsor, fingers crossed it dries reasonably smooth.

Looking good Jamie, which contrast is that?

Smoother looking than when I did my razorback man that was patchy.

Pretty quick out the gate Para.

going to try to get at least one of these ladies done for the month, two bronze age miniatures orcs, and an old Julie Guthrie warrior for grenadier with 1987 on the bottom:

I havent done anymore on these guys other than prime and magnetise bases yet.

I will pick out my 5 favourite poses and spend extra time on them and submit those.

I'll go ahead and enter my Canoness from last year's Sisters of Battle Army Set (crap, it's been over a year already?!):

I should be able to do this model in plenty of time before the holidays really shift into high gear. I think. Hopefully. Good luck to everyone else entering!

This will be my entry. Maybe a bit ambitious to try and finish the Stompa in one month.
I will most likely ditch the fancier techniques, and just have fun with it using a big old dry brush and a sponge.



This chunk has been assembled but unpainted for over a decade, but it has quite a bit of sentimental value.
Got it as a Christmas present from my now deceased father back in the day, and did not even bother to paint it. Stupid young me.
Time to correct past mistakes.


@Tyranid Horde: That's an interesting project! My hobby started with scale modelling, so I'm looking forward to see the result.

 Rybrook wrote:
Looking good Jamie, which contrast is that?

Smoother looking than when I did my razorback man that was patchy.

Cheers Rybrook, its not contrast just a couple of thin coats of mephiston red.

@Jamie Shred, don't think I could paint a tank with a brush, bless your patience and keen to see how it goes!

@Ezki, thanks! I'm interested to see how painting something clean goes, I'll be playing with lots of gloss over the next few weeks. Wonder if your project will win biggest model?

@tyranid horde - its quite a big brush in my defence :-)

Third and final base layer of red down now and have started picking out the metallics. Red seems to have gone on smooth enough, thanks make up brushes :-)

Also making use of my standard issue budweiser barrel holder.

That is a smooth base, looks really good so I'll have to up my game on my land raider.

I just went with two thin coats then a heavy drybrush with a large round make up brush.

Going to try my hand with a KillaKan. Have not decided on Klan yet.

I'll be painting some Harlequins.

Jamie Shred wrote:
Third and final base layer of red down now and have started picking out the metallics. Red seems to have gone on smooth enough, thanks make up brushes :-)

Also making use of my standard issue budweiser barrel holder.

For a second I was trying to figure out the funky freehand chapter symbol on the hatch!

P.s. JoshinJapan, your photo link seems to be broken.

Whoops! Thanks for the head up, Jadenim!

 Jadenim wrote:

Jamie Shred wrote:
Third and final base layer of red down now and have started picking out the metallics. Red seems to have gone on smooth enough, thanks make up brushes :-)

Also making use of my standard issue budweiser barrel holder.

For a second I was trying to figure out the funky freehand chapter symbol on the hatch!

P.s. JoshinJapan, your photo link seems to be broken.

Hehe king of hatches.

WIP on this magic boi.

I'll be going the opposite extreme on the Ork front - Grots!

Most likely just the front left one... so I guess that is just "Grot" then

Catchya,
Arakasi

Oleana will be my next diversion from the norm.

 Freya wrote:
Oleana will be my next diversion from the norm.

Wulfen?

For this round I will be painting Guts from the Berserk saga, its a Christmas present for my brother who is a big fan of the series
The model came in a rather nice box!
Proof Pic ...

Finally added shade to my bright reds, will layer in the coming days

 CancelledApocalypse wrote:

 Freya wrote:
Oleana will be my next diversion from the norm.

Wulfen?

I mean... Technically not a wulfen model but if I were to put it on the right size base I'm sure it'd pass haha xD

I really like this 3d print and I wanted to build a small one before I do a much bigger one. You'll like what I'm gonna do with this!

Since this is an open round im gonna paint something from the last thing i bought.

I am sharing the box with a friend since we only play warcry and there are more than enough miniatures in this for a warband (both of us have a few brutes too).

I intent to paint all my miniatures from this box in December but the 'ardboys wont get the same love as the Warchanter and the Gore-grunta so my entry will probably be just the 2 of them but we'll see.

Made some decent progress today, finished blocking silvers in, tidied up the red and gave that a wash ready for clean up and highlights.

That looks great, my self have learned not to fit tracks and have them painted in the base colour only to have to paint them black and ruining the shaded base colour

Thanks rybrook, yeah sub assembly would be easier but i generally game with stuff for months if not years before getting round to painting it.
I know i would end up losing bits if i left them all sitting around in sub assemblies so just have to accept some stuff will be more difficult to paint.

I'm scratch building a Truckasaurus for Gaslands. Proof pics of two of the main cars. The rest will likely be kit bashed. Transformer toys, matchbox cars, etc.

Whichever 5 out of these 9 I think look best.

Bit of progress, and by progress I mean the first coat of paint following a pretty lengthy clean up process on the Porsche:



Seems there'll be a couple of red vehicles this month!

EDIT: I found some dust in the paint so that's been sanded back and ready for another coat...

Proof pic: D&D Adventurers: A tiefling rogue, a drow fighter, and a gnome bard.

Couple more WIPs of Amon. I was surprised at how fast I was painting this guy before I realised that he's almost 50% robe so I'm technically only painting half a space marine.

I'm hoping to have the figure finished in the next few days, giving me some time to work on the base. I had planned to make the structure on his base in green marble to compliment the red, but decided that this would be too dark and potentially overshadow the man himself (plus I'm super lazy and marble is effort!) So I went with an Egyptian temple theme to match his armour and also provide a light base to contrast the darker red.

@Tyranid horde: I hear painting scale model cars is mostly sanding, just like painting a real car

@qar: wow, that is looking marvellous!

Couple of WIP shots from the Stompa:

Yeah making a scale car is possibly the worst modelling project I could think of. Tons of tiny, fiddly details, enamel paints and sanding and polishing... Not for me thanks! Fair play to you.

Thought I'd have a go at this Knight Azyros that arrived in the post today

I'm in! I've been working on a trukk conversion lately which has consumed all my hobby time, but it's nearly finished, so it's time to paint up the driver and gunner. I started these on December 6th, and due to a quarantine situation, I've finished the gunner in record time (record time for me at any rate). Proof:


and here's what he looks like now:




I'll post actual final pics later once I finish the driver.

Nice to see this competition is still going, and it's good to see both new and familiar faces.

OP should be updated to this point (sorry for the delay)

And a quick blurry, sloppy WIP from my bench. At the cleanup stage, and need to do a lot of work on the faces/hair. Just finished the flesh wash last night.

Nev my spoiler has Tyranid Hordes entry merged.

 Rybrook wrote:
Nev my spoiler has Tyranid Hordes entry merged.

Woops. You and like 4 other entries. Should be fixed now.

Remember people: Coffee first, then try to be productive...

@Ezki, yep! Lots of sanding, lots of varnish involved in this, all new approaches to modelling.

@QAR, I probably wouldn't have picked this ordinarily, I wanted a challenge as I'd never done a car build before and it's for someone else so giving it a try to see how I get on. The detail isn't too bad as there aren't many pieces, and I'm staying away from enamels, acrylics do just a good a job if you're careful and apply a lot of thin coats.

Currently varnishing and revarnishing the shell, it'll hopefully come out a nice shiny gloss by the end.

Well,, my copy of Indomitus finally arrived yesterday...but I need to decide on a paint scheme and now I feel all intimidated by how many models are in the box!
So...I'm gonna paint this...

I'm going to try building another gundam kit for this round.

LRX-077 Sisquiede*
Proof Picture



* No, I have no idea how that's supposed to be pronounced either.

I'm going to paint this neat little bust from 9th Age, of young Queen Elizabeth. It was unfortunately smaller than I had anticipated when I'd ordered (I guess the jump from 1/10 to 1/14 scale is pretty huge), but that just means less to paint!

Bit more progress. I have finished cleaning up the wash so ready for highlights now then on to metallics and other details.

Here's my proof picture of the Chaos Sorceror all primed and ready to be painted.

Thought i would give dry brushing a little go for some panel highlights before i edge. Over did it a bit on the top hatches but i reckon some bloodletter glaze will knock those back a bit.

Looking good Jamie.
Added nuln oil to the Angel infernus weapons, starting to look like a tank now, still need to layer the sides and weapon covers. There are so many bits when painting sub assemblies.

Likewise Rybrook

Magistus Amon is finished as far as I can currently be bothered to take him. Photos tomorrow.


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 DV8 wrote:
I'm going to paint this neat little bust from 9th Age, of young Queen Elizabeth. It was unfortunately smaller than I had anticipated when I'd ordered (I guess the jump from 1/10 to 1/14 scale is pretty huge), but that just means less to paint!

Amazing. That plinth gives you a good canvas too. You could put the royal seal on there or something to embellish it.

I need to do more busts. Maybe I'll do some more next year. I've painted so many gw figures this year that I think next year will be a time to work on some different things. Some vehicles, maybe some scale, and historical and busts.

Slow progress on the two Shining Spears.



Cheers,

CB

Makin' progress...

Magic boi done

That looks awesome QAR, now I post a WIP of my pre school crayola art

Ooh nice take on those frag launchers Rybrook, the yellowy sandbagish colour works really well.

QAR - awesome work as always, that base is fantastic as is the model on top of it

That LR looks decent! Im so impatient when it comes to doing vehicles that I very rarely do them. Something I am planning to change next year.

Jamie Shred wrote:Ooh nice take on those frag launchers Rybrook, the yellowy sandbagish colour works really well.

QAR - awesome work as always, that base is fantastic as is the model on top of it

I went with that as a heavy leather/Kevlar type enclosure with repackable charges (well at least till they get blown off), looking at various modern tanks the smoke launchers have a protective cover with a little chain so why not.

queen_annes_revenge wrote:That LR looks decent! Im so impatient when it comes to doing vehicles that I very rarely do them. Something I am planning to change next year.

Thanks, just have to sort the muzzle burn and the angel wings.

I've managed to mostly finish a couple of harlequins:



I'm using these models to practice my NMM skills. I still have a long way to go, I think. Also, they look much better in real life than in the zoomed-in pics in the gallery.

That top harlequin is giving me an inquisitor vibe for some reason - must be the colours.

Here's another WIP, I have assembled the pintle mount and commander, added the comms array and auto launchers.
Still have a bit more to do but should be able to finish it on time.

Here's my Chaos Sorceror so far.

I just have to finish the base and put a Nightlords decal on his shoulder armor.

Looking good Rybrook

I have finished the red on mine, just metallics and details to sort out now.

The Chaos Sorcerer is finished!

Well since my order came too late for November's comp, it's good luck that this month is an open theme . My entry pics:

Calling her done. With the holidays quick approaching, I don't expect much more time to hobby so I'm getting this in early this time (for once!)

Nice work DV8 almost looks like its painted on a canvas but 3D

Wonderful DV8.

I am calling my submission finished.








As always there has been no photoshopping or color adjustments, just cropping to center the images.

Cheers,

CB

Very nice work everyone. We’ve got about a week left to go, so better start wrapping up. Unless you want to get started, and see if you can race a Christmas present from tree to table before the year ends.

@Para: You have any theme ideas to start the new year off right?

Almost done with my entry, started the baseing.

Finished just in time for Christmas

I'm going to paint these elves this month

progress so far

Hope everyone has a Merry Christmas, I finally got the chance to take some photos among the preparations for Christmas. I have to say, this experience has been eye opening, scale model cars aren't easy and I really didn't expect the amount of varnishing and sanding I did. Probably not my best work and I couldn't get a photo of the interior, but it's something different!

A friend on mine is in the rivet-counting scale model crowd, so I have some appreciation of the work that goes into model cars. I have to say I’m quite impressed in what you have there. Kudos.

My Canoness is nearly done, hopefully I can cross the finish line on her before the end of the year:

Progress is being made!




Catchya,
Arakasi

Happy Holidays folks. Here's a WIP, head etc. still very much a mess and I didn't even come up with a colour scheme for the space cat yet, but I think/hope I'll get them done in time:

Here is my submission for December.

Hey, I didn't see myself in the list of entrants, did I do something wrong?

 ShadowsAndDust wrote:
Hey, I didn't see myself in the list of entrants, did I do something wrong?

Probably not. Generally I do one update about a week in to catch the initial entrants, and one close to the end (which I should do now-ish). Might be more depending on how busy life is. If you see me post something along the lines of “OP is updated” after you posted your entry and you are not there, then I screwed up and you can slap me to remind me to fix it. At the end of the month when I’m wrapping up the thread and making the vote one I do go through every post and make sure I have everyone. So even if you enter last second and never make it into the OP, you still get in the vote thread.

Edit:
OP is updated to this point

Anyone got theme suggestions for January? I'll see about getting a poll sorted tomorrow.

 Paradigm wrote:
Anyone got theme suggestions for January? I'll see about getting a poll sorted tomorrow.

Maybe one about fresh starts, new beginnings, or recruits?

 Paradigm wrote:
Anyone got theme suggestions for January? I'll see about getting a poll sorted tomorrow.

Blinded Me With Science: These units use the power of advanced technology to achieve superiority over their foes.

Finally finished. My first time at doing a diorama (of sorts), and a first for doing faces I'm reasonably happy with!

'Blood on the Ice: Prussia, 1242'

@Tyranid Horde: Nice work with the Porsche! I can only imagine how much work it is to paint that body.

@Warpig1815: lovely snow effects!


Some progress with the Stompa:









Pretty much all of the unglued parts are done now.
Some small touch ups and drilling the barrels (not sure why I decided to do it after painting )

Then it's "just" the hull left.

 Paradigm wrote:
Anyone got theme suggestions for January? I'll see about getting a poll sorted tomorrow.

Out with the old, in with the new?

Calling these guys finished:






There are a few more individual photos and comments on my P&M Blog.

@Ezki, that’s some really nice rust!

 Paradigm wrote:
Anyone got theme suggestions for January? I'll see about getting a poll sorted tomorrow.

Oh, I know...Shining Spears! Could not resist as I have more to paint.

Great diorama Warpig1815.

Cheers,

CB

 Paradigm wrote:
Anyone got theme suggestions for January? I'll see about getting a poll sorted tomorrow.

How about "Civvie Street"? Civilians, armed or not. Could also cover military personnel in non-combat roles.

Gonna try and "speed" paint 5 Ronin from Test Of Honour skirmish game.

Late entry from me! But for this month I'll paint up this Krampus. Seems good for the season!

Hark! The herald angels sing; glory to the God Emperor of Mankind.

OK, they are probably not going to make it into any Christmas carols, but they are done:


These ladies are the last of the SoB box set I painted over the last year. Was a pleasant diversion from my normal fare.

Nice work everyone!

Quick subject poll for next round, which I've just realised is the penultimate of this rotation! Where did the year go?
https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/0/794933.page#11015909

Thanks Ezki and Nev for your comments, part of me enjoys the rivet counting aspect of scale modelling, but another part of me doesn't want to fuss too much!

Warping, that snow scene looks sweet!

Ezki, that stompa is going to be mega when finished, loving all the weathering you've done so far

Nev, I really like the green accents you've added and that white has come out well!

Finished pics for me:
Driver, Front

Driver, Back

Gunner, Right

Gunner, Left

Gunner, Front

Gunner, Back (the ACDC fans out there know what was playing on repeat in my head as I was painting this)


It's weird not basing minis, but these are both going to be part of a trukk, so that part isn't necessary. The eight ball in the driver's left hand is the top of a shift nob.

I thought I had posted my proof pic, but going through the thread it appears I haven't. I'm painting Bastian Oriel from the Judgement miniature game, which I picked up on Black Friday for half price.



I started basecoating the skin before I remembered to take the proof pic. I hope that's within the rules. Ten minutes before I took this photo he was just primed.

All done, though I must say, I hated painting this model. I re-did the wings three times and I'm still not happy with them. My prosecutor unit is now firmly on the back burner and I don't think I'll bother getting a a knight venator in the future. Ground troops all the way from now on!

"I can bring you in warm... Or I can bring you in cold..."



Final pics of Mando. This has been 'finished' at least four times before I've decided to to back and done more, but it has been a good exercise in slowing the flip down and taking my time on a more complex model. There was a big pivot in style about half way through the month after I got a set of Vallejo inks, but I think the final result is something to be pleased with, definitely one of the better paintjobs I've done since my vision issues arose.

Any thoughts welcome!

Im nearly done, Should have pictures tommorow after aplying transfers.

These ladies done and are ready to go on an adventure!

@Paradigm, first thought: “This is the way.”

Very nicely done as to how he looked at the beginning. I now want to see you or one of the other god-tier painters in the competition have a crack at the full Beskar version. So shiny!

Hah, yeah, I wondered about doing the full Beskar suit version as I do have a 3d print file for that, but given that just the helmet by,itself was quite the headache, I think it'll be a while before I dare.

I did end up printing a d painting his Little Green Friend, but as a Christmas ornament that now adorns our tree! Slightly too big to be in scale for this Mando, but I might do him again at some point more appropriately scaled.

Sepsimus, Plaguesworn complete.

Finally done, there are some missed parts that have been spotted after pictures have been taken

Did I say that I was finished? That may have been a lie, or at least an alternate fact. I found a few more hours to paint over the last few days, so I'm adding the last model of my original pledge, with some updated photos:

Probably won't manage to go take better back dropped pictures in time, so here's some quicky finals:

I have finished too but still havent found the time to take some photos. Hopefully I will upload some tomorrow.

While we are getting close to the wire, if you need a little more time, let me know. Everyone is going to stay up until midnight tomorrow to make sure this year leaves anyway, might as well use the time for painting!

Damn shadowlands for dropping during this month!!! But it turned out alright despite not having a ton of time between WoW streams.

Thats some very nice OSL Freya. I initially thought you were taking pictures under UV with some flourescent paint.

Vejut wrote:
Thats some very nice OSL Freya. I initially thought you were taking pictures under UV with some flourescent paint.

Thanks! I didn't give it all the attention I wanted to this month so I feel like it's not that great but either way it was definitely good practice for OSL. What better way to learn than to push yourself right?

 Nevelon wrote:
While we are getting close to the wire, if you need a little more time, let me know. Everyone is going to stay up until midnight tomorrow to make sure this year leaves anyway, might as well use the time for painting!

I probably won't be able to post pictures today so It would be great to have some extension time. I'm sure I will finish sometime tomorrow.

Done!

I'm also pretty much done (I could play around with the weathering indefinitely), but I'll try to post the pics tonight or tomorrow at the latest.

Ezki wrote:I'm also pretty much done (I could play around with the weathering indefinitely), but I'll try to post the pics tonight or tomorrow at the latest.

Modock wrote:

 Nevelon wrote:
While we are getting close to the wire, if you need a little more time, let me know. Everyone is going to stay up until midnight tomorrow to make sure this year leaves anyway, might as well use the time for painting!

I probably won't be able to post pictures today so It would be great to have some extension time. I'm sure I will finish sometime tomorrow.

Not a problem.

Some great entries as always!

I wasn't sure I'd get finished but here it is!
Bugmansson was a really fun model to paint and I am quite happy with the squig and ribbons.







Finished....now I have to try to think of something new to try for next month!

 Nevelon wrote:

Not a problem.

Cool, thanks!

Here are my final pics. As always feedback is most welcome and appreciated. See you all in the new year.

 Nevelon wrote:
While we are getting close to the wire, if you need a little more time, let me know. Everyone is going to stay up until midnight tomorrow to make sure this year leaves anyway, might as well use the time for painting!

I’ll also have to beg some more time。I won’t have time to do the accessories, but with a few more hours I should have the finished mecha itself posted by the other side of the bells.

Proof and final pics in one post. I had hoped my wife's new camera would arrive for taking better photos, but alas the mobile phone had to make do. I give you the healthiest father/son relationship in the galaxy

Proof:

Great stuff this month!

I finished my krampus and made a little holiday diorama:


Happy 2021!

Hi All

Took some time away from everything over Xmas and to just deal with RL lock downs and kids. I realized I hadn't even posted my proof pic so here you are.

Ork Santa 2020 - A simple and small model but keeping my Ork Santa run going



Should get the photos up tomorrow

Happy New Year, Dakka!
Here's my Wano Kuni Yvraine:

Finally got around to it.






Unfortunately I didnt have time to finish the boys too. Well after these two I starter painting Ylthari guardians instead of the boys but... Oh well.
I also need to add the trophies but maybe I will do that after they get to prove themselves in battle.
Really fun models to paint!

I didn't finish all my elves, vision in one eye got worse after Christmas but improved in time to get this one done




Happy new year everyone

Here are my final photos of Bastian Oriel.













Happy New Year!

Between uni work, TWWH2 and intoxication, I only finished the concept model and the rest are half painted. I present, one poorly, mostly contrast, painted flesh and bone zombie necron. Happy new year, I think this is the only thing I've (admittedly sort of) finished before a deadline in the last 9 months.

Always fun watching the deluge of final entries come in at the end. Well done everyone.

I got very sidetracked with NYE celebrations tonight... I have a last minute entry if that's still fine. Uplaoding






Photos

Those are some crisp blood ravens Deadshot! Definitely like those pinkish accent colours!

Great entries from everyone and a happy new year!

Complete enough to be presentable, my SD-scale LRX-077 Sisquiede.


Final pictures in the spoiler.

Done and done!

I got this fellow as a Christmas present 11 years ago. My young self did not even bother to paint it and instead left it to gather dust half assembled.

Decided to make that the theme of the paint scheme: an abandoned unfinished warmchine left to gather rust on some long lost mek shop.
Over a decade it was sitting there, waiting, until a warband finally located it. They restored it to a functioning killing machine, so it can finally wreak havoc on the battlefield!



It was a lot of fun to paint this thing.
Decided to ditch blending and highligting techniques all together, and instead went to town with the weathering effects.
Instead of trying to make the weathering look super realistic, I opted for what looked cool.
I played around with some familiar stuff, as well as with some completely new techniques. Namely using liquid mask to do the paint chipping and glazing some of the rust effects.
To top it off, I decided to add a few transfers (the small white glyphs on the hull). Last time I used transfers was maybe 15 years ago while doing some scale modelling. Just wanted to give that a shot too.

Learned a lot and had very much fun doing so. Great way to end the year!

And, slipping under the wire, here are my final pics of my Adepta Sororitas Canoness from last year's box set:



Not my best work, but far from my worst I think. This is probably my favorite sculpt from the box set and she'll probably make it into at least some of my Sisters lists whenever this damn pandemic lets up and I can actually play games again.

Some really nice stuff coming in at the last minute! Puts my "quick and dirty" Sisters of Battle paint jobs to shame for sure. I'm already looking forward to voting for this challenge, but I'm not sure at all what I'm going to do for the next one. I'll be needing to think about that.

Happy New Year everyone here, I really hope the next year is a lot better (and I can actually get the time to do some proper conversions)

Final Ork Santa for 2020 (I missed the final green highlight on the face but too late now)

Ronin are finally done, thanks for the extension. Played a bit with the freehand, designs and patterns.

And yes...happy new year!

Great work all!

New thread is up:
https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/795040.page

So feel free to get started over there. I’m going to leave this open for at least another 4 hours (that’s Noon, Eastern) as I was up late to see the old year out and just started my coffee. After that I’ll start wrapping this one up, and check that everyone who asked for more time is in.


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OK, calling this closed. Vote thread is up:

https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/795045.page

Amazing work overall people. And while not 100%, and a few people did a little less than they anticipated, the completion rate for this month was the highest I’ve seen. Considering the year we’ve been having and the nature of the month, this is quite impressive. Job well done!

Don’t forget to sign up for next month. One of the reasons for this whole challenge is to push yourself, and try new things. Great time to give it a shot. There is no shame in failing, just not trying. And plenty of people here willing to give a hand with advice if you find yourself in trouble.