Welcome all to the 82nd 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 favorite pieces, and those votes go towards an annual overall League that runs for 12 rounds, ending in February next year.

This month is our open round. Paint whatever hobby related thing you want. It’s a busy month, so take what time you can to fit in what you are able. Or use the open nature to help make your year-end goals. Just have fun, get something out of the Pile of Shame, practice you skills, and have a great month.

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 1st January. After this, I shall compile the finished entries into a new thread, and voting will run for 5 days. I’m just going to add that extra day on now, instead of waiting for someone to request extra time. Celebrate the new year by relaxing, and not trying to get the last detail painted before the ball drops.



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My entry:

Ah, always looking for this round! So many interesting entries every time.

I'll most likely take part with this.
It's yet another buggy, but this challenge keeps me motivated on finishing it.

Scratchbuilt Kustom Boosta Blasta, using a 1934 Chevrolet 5 Window coupe body as inspiration.
Proof:


Might change my entry later, not sure. I'll at least try to get it finished.

Gonna stay with MCP and try these three. Kingpin will get the Spider-verse look.

I will enter some more metal Necromunda, or old metal Sisters, or some old metal Eldar. Just need to decide which of the three I am most interested in finishing next.

Cheers,

CB

PS: So based on the fact I have only been painting a few figures this month, my entry is going to be old metal Confrontation Ash Wastes gangers and Necromunda Scavvies.



PPS: I seem to have not taken a photo right after priming, but you can see they are just started and have tons of work left on them.

Open? I might throw in on this round

I'm doing a Traitor Marine Kill Team with 3 Marines and 8 Cultists. Given model limit here I will restrict my entry to the three Marines.

Here's the Group Shot: (ignore the mass of craptachan-future-cultists)

(@wildbilbo is my tag on the discord channel and twitter)

The models will be:
Icon Bearer (my Master of Possession will be slumming it to fit this role)


Aspiring Champion (I somehow have 2/3rds of a StormCast model that I might as well use for something!)


And Heavy Bolter Gunner:


Cheers
KT

Well I had something to paint and now I'm scratching that idea and kitbashing a new idea so forgive me while I put my boot up my own @$$.

big bobby this month

Oh, so many great entries already. Standing out in this round will be difficult but I’ll enter something... just not sure what yet.

I'll be painting Yndrasta! Mostly excited about doing a large swamp base at the moment, less excited about subassemblies, tho

Here's my proof pic, super mutant behemoth from fallout wasteland warfare.

Got a couple bits that failed last print but I'll show you the most important part until the new print (hopefully) works.

The warhammer conversion you neither asked for nor wanted.

*sigh*
Maybe, just maybe, I'll have the gumption to actually finish something for one of these this time around. Having to paint a bunch of Sisters for a tournament army, and do it under massive time pressure, really took the wind out of my sails for a long while as far as painting. Worst burnout I've ever really felt.

Anyways, here's my planned entry and proof pic for this month:

These are 3D printed models from a patreon I'm subscribed to; his last three months of models in his Sci-fi category have had the theme of "Dark Space Elf Nippon", which is basically Japanese-themed Drukhari. These are the Archon, Succubus (which was the "pinup" model for the month of October) and Haemonculus from the range. This will be the first time I've actually painted something that I 3D printed.

For those who are curious, the artist is Ghamak. Here's a link to his MyMiniFactory page if you're curious about his work: https://www.myminifactory.com/users/Ghamak

I'm going to enter some kingdom death this month. 54mm death armour pinup

 ZergSmasher wrote:
*sigh*
Maybe, just maybe, I'll have the gumption to actually finish something for one of these this time around. Having to paint a bunch of Sisters for a tournament army, and do it under massive time pressure, really took the wind out of my sails for a long while as far as painting. Worst burnout I've ever really felt.

Anyways, here's my planned entry and proof pic for this month:

These are 3D printed models from a patreon I'm subscribed to; his last three months of models in his Sci-fi category have had the theme of "Dark Space Elf Nippon", which is basically Japanese-themed Drukhari. These are the Archon, Succubus (which was the "pinup" model for the month of October) and Haemonculus from the range. This will be the first time I've actually painted something that I 3D printed.

For those who are curious, the artist is Ghamak. Here's a link to his MyMiniFactory page if you're curious about his work: https://www.myminifactory.com/users/Ghamak

I am familiar with this actually. Both the burn out and the miniature line. My two cents, you don't have to finish every month at the top. Just do as much as you feel you can or want to. Even if it's just battle ready. We all have our weeks/months where we just can't. Except dv8 cuz he's a God. But us mortals just gotta give ourselves some slack. You're awesome!

I will have me a try at large scale

It has been surprisingly difficult trying to decide on my entry for this month, but I'm pretty sure it'll be these fellows:



From left to right: Alpha Simian, Synechdote, and Skaratron. All three are Giants for Dreadball Ultimate and/or Xtreme, but also appear in Deadzone, which has been getting a lot of play in chez JiJ recently.

 queen_annes_revenge wrote:
I'm going to enter some kingdom death this month. 54mm death armour pinup

Hmm, reminds me of Lady Death a comic character from the 90s.

I'll be painting an Astropathic Choir. I believe this is every Citadel astropath ever made!

If I get a anything painted this month it’ll most likely be a selection of these lot.

More home-brewed antro-animals from me again, and most likely including this one so I’ll be sure to make a proper effort on her.

It's been a while, but if I put any colour down this month it'll likely be on these two drone thingies...

Bit of progress on the behemoth, loving working on something pretty big but also mostly organic.

I'm in. I only remembered to take a fresh proof pic after having painted the ork's skin green, I hope that's okay.

Real life continues to get realer, and it's starting to cramp the style of this fantasy life I've been cultivating for as long as I've been alive. I'm going to try to batch paint all six minis, with the goal of having them all affixed to last month's Squighogs, but depending on how hectic December gets, I may whittle down the scope of what I attempt to get across the finish line. One ork rider at the very least.

Edit*

got no will to do hobby at the time, it`s been sitting on my desk for 16 days and i simply dont want to do anything hobby related.
withdrawing from the comp.

It's just as well this is the open round, since this entry requires a little explanation: 2020 was the 40th and 45th anniversaries, respectively, of the Gundam and Hello Kitty franchises. As part of the commemoration, Bandai released a couple of kits which let you build a chibi gundam mecha and a little model Hello Kitty. They also contained parts to headswap the two models, resulting in a mecha-kitty as seen on the instruction manual below. I'm going to be kitbashing this anniversary kit slightly so that it's less 'gundam cosplay Kitty' and more 'retro sci-fi Kitty'.

 Turaxa wrote:
It's just as well this is the open round, since this entry requires a little explanation: 2020 was the 40th and 45th anniversaries, respectively, of the Gundam and Hello Kitty franchises. As part of the commemoration, Bandai released a couple of kits which let you build a chibi gundam mecha and a little model Hello Kitty. They also contained parts to headswap the two models, resulting in a mecha-kitty as seen on the instruction manual below. I'm going to be kitbashing this anniversary kit slightly so that it's less 'gundam cosplay Kitty' and more 'retro sci-fi Kitty'.

omg what is this and where do I buy it????!!!!

 Turaxa wrote:
It's just as well this is the open round, since this entry requires a little explanation: 2020 was the 40th and 45th anniversaries, respectively, of the Gundam and Hello Kitty franchises. As part of the commemoration, Bandai released a couple of kits which let you build a chibi gundam mecha and a little model Hello Kitty. They also contained parts to headswap the two models, resulting in a mecha-kitty as seen on the instruction manual below. I'm going to be kitbashing this anniversary kit slightly so that it's less 'gundam cosplay Kitty' and more 'retro sci-fi Kitty'.

After seeing this, I did a quick Google search, and boy oh boy are there a lot of Gundam/Kitty crossover models/figures.

WIP

That face is amazingly well painted. The skin tones amd beard shadow are amazing. It also looks quite a lot like Will Ferrell

That is a fantastic face, excellent work!

Mind was already blown by the Gundam Kitty, then that

Heh, this is going to be a good round!!

 Flinty wrote:
That face is amazingly well painted. The skin tones amd beard shadow are amazing. It also looks quite a lot like Will Ferrell

Thanks, now I'm picturing an earnest Ultramarines war drama by some indie director with Ferrell as Robby, and maybe Woody Harrelson as Calgar? Yeah ... I'd actually watch this.

Freya wrote:omg what is this and where do I buy it????!!!!

These are the kits you're looking for: https://www.hlj.com/search/?q=hello+kitty+gundam. Note that the red and green Zaku II kits are mostly recolours of each other, but the gundam version uses a different frame as the base, so might not be kit-bashable as easily with the zakus.

JoshInJapan wrote:After seeing this, I did a quick Google search, and boy oh boy are there a lot of Gundam/Kitty crossover models/figures.

These gunpla kits are actually the cheapest models to come out of that crossover. Some of the diecast figures were pretty pricey by comparison.

Pariah Press wrote:I'll be painting an Astropathic Choir. I believe this is every Citadel astropath ever made!

I hadn't realised they'd made so many. Could this be the only photograph of them all together?

 Turaxa wrote:

Pariah Press wrote:I'll be painting an Astropathic Choir. I believe this is every Citadel astropath ever made!

I hadn't realised they'd made so many. Could this be the only photograph of them all together?

It could be! The guy who runs the Magpie and Old Lead blog has posted pictures of his astropathic choir, but I don't see the astropath from the Regimental Advisors in them.

Okay, I'm in with these guys...



I've been getting good feedback on my warriors, so why not?

Idk which one I will do. One is a display model the other just a wolf lord. We shall see how the next week goes lol

It is easy to paint it than I thought then maybe I will finish it at the weekend.Some new progress.
I like the huge Big BOBBY!

 Freya wrote:
Idk which one I will do. One is a display model the other just a wolf lord. We shall see how the next week goes lol

Well one has a pompadour and an ummm Frostmourne Frost Blade (Frost Frostmourne Blade?) while the other has neither, seems quite obvious to me

Okay, this went quicker than expected...





Good luck, everyone!

Nice progress everyone! We are about a third of the way into the month, so keep an eye on the deadline.

WIP workbench shot:

Just about done with the basecoats. Next up all the washes and drybrushing. At some point I should start the arms/guns.

almost finished

So much great stuff on every page! Am done with mine (may try to correct Miles a bit, but fear that I will lose red lines when I touch up the black ). Need to try to get some terrain done for some nice shots.

Brilliant stuff showing up already!

Some progress with the Chevy build:

I finished the Alpha Simian:






His paintjob was inspired by the Ultra Humanite, a Golden Age DC villain. The gold disk on his chest doesn't look exactly gold, but I'm not entirely sure how to do NMM on a flat surface like that. He's based for Dreadball, but as he'll likely be spending more time in Deadzone, I have to figure out a basing option for that, as well

That’s an awesome monkey. I also thought you had done an amazing job in matching the base colours to the photo backdrop… took me a moment to realise it was just transparent

Mecha-kitty torso complete.



Has anyone experienced gloss varnish lifting paint, even when the paint was try to the touch? I was using The Army Painter gloss varnish diluted 1:3 with water, and while it wasn't stripping the paint, it was lifting enough for there to be colour bleeding into adjacent white areas. I doused the last gunpla I did in a thick coat of neat matt varnish and didn't have this problem.

I know acrylic paint actually takes some time past dry to touch to actually fully set, up to a week as I recall. Might be the other one had had more time to set.

I forgot to take a proof pic, but I have this one I took of the whole horde when I bought it off ebay. The big guy went through very little in the way of changes prior to this month. One base layer of a skin tone while I had some paint mixed up from my clan rat marathon.
Anyway, some progress pics. He's in the hole stage of painting and it pretty much looks garbage. But, a little faith goes a long way. He'll get there.
Antlers coming along, Purple osl is progressing. Need some work on the orb itself.
I haven't touched the armor yet. I just can't decide what color to make it.

Adding one last photo because I can

I haven't been able to do anything so far, may have to leave the imperial spacemarine for another time, the weather has been so bad also which doesn't help.

Bit more progress

Slow progress on the painting this month.


But then I have been busy sculpting a Valkyrie Shrew on the back of an eagle. I blame/credit Vejut for this.

Kravastor is finished:







The official model is black with red armor and bright green lighting effects. Based on my research (or "research," which was just a Google search), most spiders are brown. As loyal readers of my P&M Blog, Paint Everything Brown is one of my trademark techniques, so that's the direction I took. I'm still not very good at lighting effects, but at least you can tell that the blue parts are lit up. Please ignore the mold lines-- this is a Mantic restic model, and thus too much effort to clean.

Little more progress.





The month is already on the better half, and I've not even finished building the darn thing.
We'll see if I'm going to be able to finish it.

Nice progress guys.

I am way behind. Had a plumbing issue that required four wall cuts and one ceiling cut to get access to remove the broken pipe. So that has taken a bit of focus away from the challenge. Plus the holidays are fast approaching and I have not finished shopping for Mrs. Captain Brown and Miss Captain Brown yet.

CB

Nightmare CB. Hope you got it sorted

Oof, hang in there.

Still plenty of time left in the month. Keep at it everyone.

Vejut wrote:I know acrylic paint actually takes some time past dry to touch to actually fully set, up to a week as I recall.

That's useful to know, thanks.


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For once I finished my submission well before the deadline! This was due to it being intended as a gift, so I had an IRL deadline to work to. A bit stressful but I'm reasonably happy with how it came out. So many coats of paint though, I was envying airbrush users while painting this. She's not as posable as I had hoped, but the chibi proportions suit the character.

Space Adventurer Kitty-chan!



More picturers in the spoiler below.

Thats a funky mecha-kitty Nice work!

Thanks guys.

Cracked pipe is out and I am starting to repair the walls and ceiling.


So I finally got some time to work on the Scavvies last night. Still a WIP.



Cheers,

CB

@CB - you need to make that into some scenery surely! Own the annoyance, and add rules that lets you explodify it in every game

A Christmas present for my brother. Hopefully I'll have it done in time.

The Astropathic Choir is complete! I really wanted to make sure that each member had a different skin tone, as that's something I've been pretty lazy about in the past.

From left to right:
- One of the original 40K miniature releases
- A Rogue Trader Adventurer
- One of the figures released for Talisman Timescape
- A figure released for 40K 3rd edition's Daemonhunters range
- One of the Regimental Advisors still available for the Astra Militarum range

I know I know... its been a long time since I posted a WIP. But I'm excited about this one!

Will join this round with 5 Tyranids.

@Freya: like commented on your IG post, I absolutely love that mini!

Last WIP picture I promise...

Finally got the thing built and base coated. It's a bit crooked and there are a few mistakes, but I'm quite excited how the body turned out.
Still held together with blu tack.





Off to painting...

Primed and washed.

My phones camera has gotten significantly worse since the latest updates to the OS. If the photos are too crappy please say something! I am looking at buying an actual camera here in a little... just need to get the one camera I want.

 Freya wrote:
My phones camera has gotten significantly worse since the latest updates to the OS. If the photos are too crappy please say something! I am looking at buying an actual camera here in a little... just need to get the one camera I want.

They seem a little fuzzy, but that might just be the size of the pics and the zoom. You can still see the amazing work you did on the model.

If you get better pics/camera, you can always upload more. Month isn’t over yet.

But time is ticking away. Especially if people are traveling for the holidays, keep an eye on the calendar.

 Nevelon wrote:

 Freya wrote:
My phones camera has gotten significantly worse since the latest updates to the OS. If the photos are too crappy please say something! I am looking at buying an actual camera here in a little... just need to get the one camera I want.

They seem a little fuzzy, but that might just be the size of the pics and the zoom. You can still see the amazing work you did on the model.

If you get better pics/camera, you can always upload more. Month isn’t over yet.

But time is ticking away. Especially if people are traveling for the holidays, keep an eye on the calendar.

Thank you for saying so! I realize my last submission had crap photos so I don't want a repeat lol

Well as long as you can see the detail I've done I'm gonna be okay with it. Though I am very seriously eyeing a camera for streaming / photos. So I'll hopefully have better pics in the near future...

I'm actually still in this one, here's a WIP:

Most of the base colors are down at this point, plus I've already shaded and highlighted the Succubus's hair (plus I basecoated all the little metal hooks in it). I've also shaded the Haemonculus's armor and tunic. Still plenty to do on these three. Even at the end the models will only look so good mainly due to the fact that I didn't clean them up as well as I could have (one of the little quirks of 3d printed models is support residue and stuff which is not always easy to see before painting), but also because my printer isn't the greatest so some finer details were lost. Still, these have been fun to work on so far.

Progress

Bah. No Germany trip, therefore I’ll drop a robot wolf into the mix. Going to try for some darkness and OSL again.

Nearly there. Have to set up and take some real pictures.

OK, calling these guys done.


When the weather is cold out, the best way to heat things up is a little melta. Or a lot of melta! For being starter box monopose, these guys were pretty good on the detail. Fun to paint, and not a bad unit to toss into a list. More importantly, these guys are the final unit for the primaris demi-company that was my goal for the year. Much of which has been part of this contest for the last few years. Nice to get them done and on the Year-To-Date shelf, which needs to be integrated into the general collection some day soon.

Lots of great looking stuff out there, keep up the good work!

JoshInJapan wrote:Kravastor is finished:

Nice. The colour scheme you chose gives it a bit of a biomechanical look.

Flinty wrote:Thats a funky mecha-kitty Nice work!

Thank you. Your mecha-wolf is a cool design.

Pariah Press wrote:The Astropathic Choir is complete!

A good-looking group. Are the names from 40K lore?

@Freya: Good work on the NMM and the cloth texture. Is the miniature a homage to something?

@Nevelon: Your snow-themed bases contrast really nicely with the Ultramarines armour.

 Turaxa wrote:

Pariah Press wrote:The Astropathic Choir is complete!

A good-looking group. Are the names from 40K lore?

Yep! Yerl and Korm are from ancient catalogues, Fennix is from a very early 40K novel (Chaos Child), Zarneck I got off the Lexicanum wiki but I'm sure it must be accurate, and Alen the Seer is from an old Citadel Combat Card.

Finished!
Hoped few layers of over-washing will produce "spotted" patterns in chitin to reduce actual painting. Kinda worked but not really. More test needed, was fun though.

Finished. And just in time for Christmas. The cape might be a bit much, but a red cape always looks great.

Not what I thought to be painting, but other models and bitz not arrived, try and shoehorn into next months challange...

this was little 2" bust, was sent for free alongside another order of... something... cant remeber, been sat unpainted for most of a year... and I have nothing else left needing paint! well until Christmas...

@Mr Nobody: That is gorgeous! DKoK models have a special place in my heart.

the_balloon_dog wrote:
and I have nothing else left needing paint!

What sorcery is this?
Anyway, great work on the bust!

Going to be entering Doctor Strange, Sorcerer Supreme, from Marvel Crisis Protocol.

For those that follow my Instagram, you'll know I actually finished him yesterday, but I want to snap better photos of him with the DSLR for the entry photos.

For now, the proof (which was him up until about a week ago):

I might be a bit late to the game, but here's my proof picture for the Blood Angels Sanguinary Priest

And the finished model.

Is that what Dr. Strange looks like in the comics-- armor instead of the silk pajamas?

 Freya wrote:
My phones camera has gotten significantly worse since the latest updates to the OS. If the photos are too crappy please say something! I am looking at buying an actual camera here in a little... just need to get the one camera I want.

Your photos don't look so bad. They look pretty good actually. And good work on the model.

Here are the final photos of Alpha Simian and Krastavor:

 ShadowsAndDust wrote:

 Freya wrote:
My phones camera has gotten significantly worse since the latest updates to the OS. If the photos are too crappy please say something! I am looking at buying an actual camera here in a little... just need to get the one camera I want.

Your photos don't look so bad. They look pretty good actually. And good work on the model.

Thank you! She turned out better than I thought she would actually. My only disappointment is that I don't know if or when I can actually put her on a tabletop.

Progress on the Sanguinary Priest. I should be able to finish tomorrow.

Well I am calling these five finished.

Five Scavvies for Necromunda.







Made from a GW Gang Leader, a Marauder Wastes Ganger, a Confrontation Ganger with modified Kroot arms and his rifle turned into a musket, a GE Scavy ganger, and a GW Scavy Mutant.

Cheers,

CB

I'm just about done with this guy. I'll take some better photos tomorrow.

Great work everyone. Just a reminder that the year is running down, so keep that paint flowing!

Some amazing work coming in, folks!

Here's the subject poll for January:
https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/0/802687.page#11278541

Here's my finished Sanguinary Priest

So the airbrush OSL progress is fine, but very unhappy with the hand brushed highlights. NMM is not for me it seems. I was trying for a subtle moonlight from above to get some interesting from above, but it really hasn’t happened.

Thankfully, resetting to black should be easy and I’ll give it another go with the airbrush instead

 ShadowsAndDust wrote:

 Freya wrote:
My phones camera has gotten significantly worse since the latest updates to the OS. If the photos are too crappy please say something! I am looking at buying an actual camera here in a little... just need to get the one camera I want.

Your photos don't look so bad. They look pretty good actually. And good work on the model.

Thats good news and I appreciate you saying so. I did just find a camera that might work so this next months photos (and maybe this months) will hopefully look better.

I was worried I’d not make these in on time, in fact I had another one almost complete but I’ve not had opportunities to paint the last week or so and I’m just going with these three.

So here it is, another home-made threesome for my Burrows and Badgers collection.

A Witch Hunter and Two Witches to hunt.

 theCrowe wrote:
I was worried I’d not make these in on time, in fact I had another one almost complete but I’ve not had opportunities to paint the last week or so and I’m just going with these three.

So here it is, another home-made threesome for my Burrows and Badgers collection.

A Witch Hunter and Two Witches to hunt.

Oooh nice! I was admiring the bunny and her cuteness when I realized that's all freehand on that banner. It didn't immediately strike me and I had to double take. That's awesome!

I love the subtle patterning on that banner, theCrowe.

Thanks Freya, thanks Pariah Press, the larger gold and red icons on the banner are all putty but the patterning in the white section and the around the blue edge is freehand. I was hoping for a lighter grey for the white patterning to let it be a bit more subtle like in the blue border but I think maybe the darker grey shows up better in the photos anyway.

Abbess Hild the Huskey baring the standard for the witch hunter cause. Then the witches are Mildred the Mole (she might be the worst witch) and a rabbit they call Wild Rose. (Who came out much cuter than my sculpting tools intended!) She’s a pretty happy bunny.

Mildred can't be the worst witch... Maybe a little short sighted perhaps, but surely not actually bad! (its ok, my coat is on the way out anyway... )

The banner is awesome and the bunny sculpting is great as well. Love the twining flowers.

Phew, managed to get this done despite it being pretty much half built two weeks ago.

Finished pics: Scratchbuilt Kustom Boosta Blasta


Even though this is not the biggest kitbashed / converted model I've done, it was definitely the most challenging one!
Building the body out of plasticard was a pain, especially as I tried to follow the blueprints of a 1934 Chevrolet 5 Window Coupe.
After it was done the real fun started.
It is a bit crooked, but hopefully in an Orky way. All in all, I'm quite happy how it turned out.

You should be well happy with that. The close up shot really shows off your excellent distressing/rust/chipping all that good stuff. It’s a real rat-rod. Love it!

Finished!

After totally screwing up the hairy brush highlighting, I went back with a dark blue airbrush blend, and I'm much happier. Is it realistic? probably not, but I think each of the different light sources are picked up fairly well.

Least happy with the red, but that's just because I did that over the top of the rubbish hairy highlights, couldn't tidy the edging up, and didn't want to go back to the start on that face...

Man (well paint) of the match goes to the Space Marine Paint Set Ultramarine Blue from about 1988, that remixed perfectly and ran through my airbrush super smoothly for the re-working of the back highlights.

Not sure what I'll do with it,but it can sit in the display case until another Stargrave or Necromunda game comes along needing a big nasty mecha-wolf thingy!

Done! I had these boyz sitting around since their release, finally got round to painting them. I do think they are missing something, though. Something to tie them all together.








Aaaaand the crappiest proof pic ever.

Sorry for the late photo.





bonus shot

Great work everyone. Still some time left! Roughly 48 hours from this post.

Quick edit to replace my photos, with (hopefully) better shots!


Strong entries so far!
Currently on holidays, so struggling to get good photos of these models - here's the best I can get done:

















Three Iron Warrior Traitor Astartes for my Kill Team.

Good luck everyone and have a great new year
KT

I've got a few ogres painted for this month. I was planning on finishing a few more but ran out of time, there are a couple more almost done, might add them if there is an extension.
Here's the proof and finished ogres

Fantastic work everyone, I havent even primed mine too much IRL stuff going on.

Will re enter in the new year.

Final pics, Super Mutant Behemoth from Fallout Wasteland Warfare. Really enjoyed this one, probably did the metals wrong way round as I painted them up as NMM then weathered rather than doing the weathering as i went along but pretty pleased with the end result.

Happy new year everyone!

So much amazing stuff, voting will be very hard. Here are my entries, some Spider-Verse action:

Coming in at the last moment with Lt. Titus of the Ultramarines, hero of the entirely-unexpected Space Marine 2 (still can't believe they're making it, loved the first one). Dialed up the grimdark and gore a bit more than usual in homage to the game's ludicrous ultra-violence and overall grim tone, the result is a little messy but I do think it evokes the feeling I'm going for, just about...




As a reminder to everyone, new round will be up tomorrow, but there's still an extra day left on this one!

Can't recall if I posted a proof of the crossbow ladies, but decided I didn't like how they came out. Decided to do a printed stl file from Heroforge of a rat lady:


And finished pictures:

Hi All

Been a tough month, really busy in the run up to xmas and then the week after I finally finished work I got covid which took me out for a while, just about managed to get something done while in isolation

Da Red Gobbo
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Finished


Happy New Year to you all, I hope this one is a better one

Nice Midget Gems, love the extra baubles and the rudolph red nose

And we're off for 2022!
https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/0/802763.page#11281581

 Paradigm wrote:
And we're off for 2022!
https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/0/802763.page#11281581

But still have an extra day here. So walk off that hangover, and get some pics up. Happy New Year.

I got all six of mine to a point where they’re worth entering, not done per se, but I’ll be posting at some point today and getting them to 100% on my own time. Happy New Year all!


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'Ere we go, I keep looking at these and seeing more that needs to be done, but for the sake of the competition, here's my entry. Please don't include the first (spoilered) pic, it's just proof that I got all six in the squad up to the same level of doneness; since we can only have five minis, one of the grots didn't make the cut.


Official entry pics:








Happy New Year Everyone!

 ms07b3 wrote:
Sorry for the late photo.





bonus shot

Great job.
The sister's painting is very good and the details are well highlighted.
Out of curiosity, did you sculpt the 3D model of the head? or what model / file did you use?

Finished off a couple more ogres today. Not often I reach the 5 model limit for a month



and the pictures of the other three posted earlier so they are all in one place

Here is my entry, the Verminlord Warpseer.

@Maharg - Those ogres look so much better than the GW paintjob with the weird cartoonish skin! Also, stripey pants FTW.

Here's my grimdarkened Yndrasta:

OK, About time to formally close this one. I’ll try to get the vote up soon, but also need to recover from the holidays myself (which included driving 13 hours yesterday). So there might be some delays.

Everyone break out your forces of nature and start 2022 off with a roar.

Keep painting!

Vote thread is up:

https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/802825.page