Welcome all to the 101st 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.
This month the topic is “Renewal”. Reborn, returned, recycled. A fresh start. Lot of different ways this can be interpreted. Changing of the seasons and the rebirth of spring. A fresh start with a new life. Rising from the ashes like a Phoenix. Or a necron. Also could be literal and physical, if you are upcycling old bits/parts/trash into a new creation.
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 may enter at any time during the month, up to the last minute. We do encourage people to enter early, as to be part of the community, but if you can’t start until the 11th hour, that’s OK.
- You MUST post a 'proof' picture of your entry in the thread of the state it was in before you started working on it; this must be either unassembled, unpainted, primed or coated a single colour. Entries that do not submit a valid Proof Picture will not be eligible for voting.
- After this, you may post WIP pictures in this thread and your own if you wish, and on completing the entry, you may post up to 6 final pictures IN THIS THREAD that will then be used for voting. Please note that pictures in a montage or collage picture will be considered individual images for this purpose, so while these types of presentation are certainly acceptable, please keep the image limit in mind when compiling them. For example, a collage of 5 images and one separate image would count as your 6 picture allowance.
So What Do I Win?
- Points... and points mean... bragging rights for the next month! Following the vote, points will be awarded to every entrant. This year, the Points you receive will be equal to the Percentage of Votes your entry receives in the final Voting thread; if you get 10%, you get 10 points, if you get 6% you get 6 points, so on and so forth.
These points will be used to form a league table, which will be updated month on month as the results come in.
How Long Do I Have?
This challenge begins 1st of July and will end at midnight EST on July 31st. After this, I shall compile the finished entries into a new thread, and voting will run for 5 days.
Don't mind the semi-painted base, it'll all be sprayed over once the flock's dry. Before I smashed a tank trap through it that was one of my old Gorkamorka wartrakks, and then I turned it into a base intended for Doomrider - the plan was set a strut into Doomy's rear tyre to be plugged into this base for display, and a regular bike-sized base in case I ever wanted to use him in a game, but the whole plug thing turned out kind of unsteady since the bike's whole weight was in front of it, so I glued it to the bike base permanently and abandoned this one. The fallen Sororitas is from the Hospitaller set, and I did at first intend to have her on Julienne's base before I decided it'd be more fun to stick it to the Black Legion instead. And the Venomcrawler has had quite the ordeal - when I first got it in the now-retired Start Collecting Chaos box I didn't intend to use it, so it lost parts whenever I needed them - the fallen pillar its leg would plug into went to Doomrider's eventual base (I was going to use some of its armour as well, but wound up going for Seeker Chariot bits instead), the 'face' became decoration for a Terminator, one of the tendrils became another Terminator's accursed weapon, one of the forelimbs is sticking out of somebody else's base as a fallen bit of enemy, and the cannons and exhaust pipes are now part of a Noise Marine Obliterator that's taking an age to paint, but I expect I'll finish it eventually. It was actually only after I got the chaos spawn set a couple of contests ago that I thought waste not want not and gathered up everything that was left of the Venomcrawler to see if I could complete it of it using parts from other sets to fill in the blanks - and now here we are, all those leftovers and castaways having their day at last.
Don’t just throw away your damaged warriors. reuse, reduce, recycle. Given a new chance to fight in a new walking coffin. New version of an old model. Bigger, better, tougher.
I was having a hard time deciding what to enter, so I pulled out the big storage box where I keep all the models that got dinged up when we moved. I pulled out these models that I want to revisit:
There are some Oldhammer skeletons, an Eldar raider on a skyboard that I "converted" back in the RT days, and a snakeman. I'll try to narrow it down to one theme, and maybe add some more models that fit said theme as well.
This month I will be “Renewing” these crummy old eBay Dwarves.
I have a few more of each type but not the whole lot and not enough of any to make a whole unit so I’m not aiming for a unified paint scheme. I’ve got them for a Dwarf mine-cart game my son is inventing.
theCrowe wrote: This month I will be “Renewing” these crummy old eBay Dwarves.
I have a few more of each type but not the whole lot and not enough of any to make a whole unit so I’m not aiming for a unified paint scheme. I’ve got them for a Dwarf mine-cart game my son is inventing.
Damn... now I want to bust out my old eBay Dwarves...
When it comes time for suggestions for next month, we can try to get some that would fit old stunties. I know I’ve got some old metal dwarves kicking around.
11 slayers and a rune priest or smith
This was my wood-stain wash finish stage. I though it looked very cool.
Will Acetone these lads, had to break off the bases. (lesson learned from previous acetone baths where I left the bases on, and then had to use a wire brush to scrub out melted black plastic pieces from the Pewter details.
Digging around in the Undead Section of the Closet of Shame, I came across this undead chariot and the undead champions which were released along with it. Assuming I can locate the horses, I'll be counting the chariot as one model. Otherwise, it goes back in the box.
It's in one piece finally (well, two pieces, I'll be painting the model and base separately), so let's properly introduce the Venomcrawler, 'renewed' as the Salvation Engine:
The missing excruciator cannons were a bit of a conundrum, but you know what they say, if you can't use your own heavy weapons, jam tentacles into the spinal columns of your enemies' corpses so you can use their heavy weapons instead.
I mean you've got to get to the spinal column first... I did actually give that some thought, since I feel like I'm getting a reputation around here that's only about 60% deserved, maybe 65%, but the backpacks would've been in the way of the tentacles going straight into the backs (note to self: forgot to glue on backpacks, do that before spraying), and leaving the heads off and having the tentacles go down the necks would've lowered them down too far compared to the crawler's body. Plus, it's Slaanesh.
Nevelon wrote: When it comes time for suggestions for next month, we can try to get some that would fit old stunties. I know I’ve got some old metal dwarves kicking around.
Hmmm dwarf off ey.. Well.. best I got are either redoing my fyreslayers which I'm already selling (but found no buyers for yet)..
But kindof wanted to do something cooler, so how about this.. I still have some arkanaut parts laying around so could make some arkanaut corpses for the upcoming entry.. (I'll edit this thread with the story in a bit, still need to write it xD) It's the only thing that comes close to 40k (the arkanauts) and the main unit will be 40k ORKY (doh!!) and trust me I can make it fit storywise, already was building something extraordinaire.
Leopold Helveine wrote: Hmmm dwarf off ey.. Well.. best I got are either redoing my fyreslayers which I'm already selling (but found no buyers for yet)..
But kindof wanted to do something cooler, so how about this.. I still have some arkanaut parts laying around so could make some arkanaut corpses for the upcoming entry.. (I'll edit this thread with the story in a bit, still need to write it xD) It's the only thing that comes close to 40k (the arkanauts) and the main unit will be 40k ORKY (doh!!) and trust me I can make it fit storywise, already was building something extraordinaire.
Hmmm. Tempted to give this a try for the first time, although this month is going to be pretty busy for me. I've got a few ideas that fit the "renewal" theme:
1) repair/repaint my 1st edition era Rhinos (final bit of my IG army restoration project)
2) assemble/paint some original Adeptus Titanicus models I found the other day rummaging around old boxes
3) scratchbuild something Orky from various bits and pieces lying around
Seperate post cause of the size of this thing LOL, just finished writing the story, vanilla. -_- (still had to remove all the spaces after copypasting)
(also, not going to use arkanaut corpses sorry, more likely aeldari corpses)
Spoiler:
What the Gork or possibly Mork is going on here?!?
Orky timetravel?! That can't be good.. wait.. does that mean there's going to be spoilers? Uh oh..
So, Gruk'Og Nubgruk the Orky hero of our story ongoing up till now had met his demise and his end, he apparently was NOT unorky (undead) afterall!!
"Hey! How'd he survive that big fall then storkyteller!!" I hear you inquire internally, loudly..
Ah yes!, Well ofcourse Orks have two lives!!, One life from Gork or possibly Mork and one life from Mork or possibly Gork. His two lives now expunged meant there was only one more place to end up..
The dark, silent, soily pit of.. Orky reincarnation into another Ork!! Yay!!
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200 B(efore)C(aptain Badrukk), a great stargate loomed over the wasteland where stealthily as ever the rad (Go) Kurg Kurg-bun, a mysterious loner on a mission hid his acrobaticly leen self against a big Ork shaped rock overseeing the premise. Above gleamed and crackled lasers in the clouds.. and he knew.. that soon another of those pesky Aeldari floppy spacecraft was going to emerge from the midst of his interest..
Guardians were loading supplies in and out of them, and Kurg knew that whatever came through had to come from a place of wealth. Where that wealth was didn't matter to Kurg, all he wanted was obtain something greater than his kin could cook up, to get back.. no matter what.. to that place deeply buried in a memory..
He knew this place to not be from the realm of imagination or dreams, it felt too real..
There was a many layered construction site of a tower of sorts, fire raining down from amidst his fellow, a great number of assailants.. and one of his own' yelling the words "MORK POLO" after which a group from above jumped a kamikaze attack onto their foes way below..
Something must've gone wrong in that fight.. for he woke up inbetween some baby squigs in a mushy forest.. wondering at first wether he himself was a squig.. but the baby squig leader was a wise wizard, a longbearded mini squig by the name of "Draathangeon the master of magick and most powerful grand and epicly ancient lord supreme over all creation and all creation to be and all creation to be after that, the third."
But Kurg had never met him, instead he met the frog faced older brother of the baby squigs that went by the name of "urhpjf" and he taught him over the span of about fifty years that Kurg was in fact an Ork.
It had taken much training and hardship to come to this conclusion, all the while Kurg every night dreaming the same dream.. of that which was unveiled above..
Now, Kurg had left the squig and was searching.. searching for a way to find a remnant of truth in this vision.. and after searching in many wrong places, among even his Orky kind.. to which other, much less interesting adventures were made, of which some concerned weirdboys holding unrelating ceremonies that did absolutely nothing for Kurg apart from annoying him to the point of killing the weirdboy..
No.. now he saw a glimmer of potential in the far superior technology before him.. this gate was certainly going to bring him to a place of technological connectivity! Something that would make a reality this vision of another life! Or at the least.. find its remains.
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The wait was over, the plan was perfect.. Kurg would expertly rush down the slope, execute the Guardians and sneak right into the big portal emitted.. then find his way as he went..
20... 15.. 10.. 5.. go.. yub yub yub!!
Kurg let out a warcry and stealthily stomped down the slope, as the Guardians unstartled started firing at Kurg, missing him because they had rolled ones.
Kurg grabbed the necks of two guardians, bashed their heads together rolling two sixes, tripped over his unmade shoelaces rolling a 2, hit his own head against the left side of the gate rolling another 1 and while the rest of the Aeldari Guardians kept rolling ones he fell into the portal that luckily just in time opened for the transport ship..
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10 Morky, possibly Gorky months later..
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Kurg, now a seasoned' may I dare say expert' of the Webway crouched down onto his belly on top of a stone workplace floating on a landmass in twilight, as he watched below him spiky Aeldari administer power to some other Aeldari types crafts.. Deeper in a gate made out of rods of light obstructed him from obtaining the materials he sought.. aware that they had to be of a kind he had yet to understand.. but powerful enough to evolve everything he could build of Ork stature into a new paradigm.. He had his mind set on something gnarly, something allowing him to wade through these flimsy but numerous Aeldar populating the outstretch of this strange luminous dimension.
Ah.. they were leaving.. Kurg hopped down and looked at the gate in fron't of him, the bars made of light were emitting quite some heat.. it would probably be unwise to try and touch them..
Kurg took some dice out of his pocked and rolled.. two sixes..
The gate turned off.. lucky roll.
Kurg walked through, finding to his suprise an entire stash of technology just laying there for grabs, now.. to an Aeldari the tech would probably be considered scrap.. but to an Ork this stuff was more like scrap with his name on it!
Some of it looked quite heavy though, so Kurg had to select a few..
There was what seemed to be a partially broken battery cannister on which was written "Doomw", and a working stack of what seemed to be big rifle type things in a big box on which was inscribed "P Titan Pulsars"
Those did look way too heavy..
Instead he grabbed some smaller energy cells, what looked to be some sophisticated shield module and lastly two smaller gunthings from a shelve tagged "scatter".. after thinking to himself that the word scatter rhymed with better.
Kurg quickly made his way back out, dropped one of his dice trying to hold all the loot and it fell onto the ground with the number 1 up, Kurg therefor tripped again and stumbled off the edge of the floating landmass.. still holding all his obtained stuff tight to his chest, tumbling down into warpy vortex one after the other going all over..
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300 trillion years into the future, a great war was fought against the Necron most formidable foe yet, known to all races as the greatest terror that had once been underestimated.. the SQUIG.
This race had evolved to such monsterous sizes, that even Tyranid hivefleet dared not to try to go near anylonger having been decimated into pockets from the onslaught themselves.
Among the Necron fought a mysterious rough cybORK known only to his Necron allies as "the Kork" having equated himself with Mork, possibly Gork. He hated all things Squig, because a long time ago.. way too long for ordinary mortals to possibly remember any detail of.. he somewhat did remember to have been tricked by Squigs having supposedly made him believe that he was an Ork.
Kork an Ork?.. No.. he was much more than an Ork!.. he was a Kork! Equal to Mork and possibly Gork!!.. or perhaps even.. Gork and possibly Mork!
The Necron's were glad to have him, and had allowed him to build whatever warmachine he wished from whatever parts were laying around..
Kork had no interest in Necron tech.. the day he had come to this world he had clutched to his chest a pair of guns, a bunch of energy cells and a module of a kind of sophisticated shield..
The Necron had some old salvaged Orky parts.. among which the remains of a Deffdread which Kork outfitted with his belongings. Therewith he had created a weapon to destroy all those who had dared to tell him that he was less than a Kork.
fighting the Squig terror for so long after.. he had earned his battlescars and foul wounds which the Necron's would then help turn into strengths.. which eventually made Kork a cybORK. (so that that's clear!!)
Now, the decicive battle was upon them.. Quazillions of Necron marched into the outstretched upward bending wastes meeting with the Septafragillions of descending Squigships blasting a path into billions of Necrons to land..
Among the backline Kork saw on the horizon how Squigs the size of planets, mounted with jetpacks the size of moons came down among them, making this fight rather onesided..
They probably also had septafragillions of dice rolling lots of sixes too.. ..
There was no hope for victory, no matter all the battles fought and won prior..
Kork took his last dice out of his pocket ..
Perhaps that one dice would grant Mork and possibly Gork to intervene.. or cause some sort of miracle.. if only he could roll a 6.. ..just one 6.. against the septafragillions of sixes being rolled in the distance.. Kork cried out as the ground rumbled and loud metallic creaks blasted from every billion of Necron slain collectively and instantaneously in the far distance..
He rolled.
.
4
Behind him opened a portal.. ..well.. that was convenient too Kork thought to himself, renouncing his name in shame.. and becoming Kurg oncemore.
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On the other side he found himself in another wasteland, devoid of life..
Walking around in his Deffdread, armed with the exotic "scatters" and a module of a kind of sophisticated shield.. he wandered about for a while.. until he noticed sounds in the distance.. something clattering.. something popping.. and bopping..
Gunshots?
Entering a canyon Kurg found himself standing face to face with a small group of privateer dwarfs that looked like they were wrapped in plastic gear taking potshots at some straggling Tyranids that had obviously fled from yonder.. trying to outrun some kind of miasma..
Then, as the Tyranids passed .. the dwarfs inquired..
"What the vault o' ores is dat silvery lad up ther me mates.." pointing his drill right at Kurg..
Kurg wondered wether these wrinkled little men were a sort of prehistoric Squigs.. and an anger boiled up in him oncemore..
Without even giving it another thought Kurg pulled a lever and pushed a few buttons..
Un-dwarfly screeches were emitted echoing loudly bouncing throughout the entire canyon as Kurg's scatter weapons zapped holes into the dwarfs accurately by its automated targetting systems..
..Kurg, now sitting comfier in his Deffdread ran on through the canyon and eventually.. at the end of it could make out in the distance a sight which he could only vaguely recognice as from the hazy suggestion of a long lost dream..
An utterly abandoned town out of concrete, and among these structures a a big concrete ruined building, mostly consisting of level plates and crumbled stairways leading up to them, five levels high. In fron't of it layed on the ground the remains of a gigantic Ork suited in an even bigger ..chemically burn't suit.. he was probably dead for no longer than a day..
The smell of copper lingered.. as Kurg came nearer.. there must've been a huge explosion, which destroyed all but the concrete itself..
He noticed some fully bleached bones near of a kind that could've only been Tyranid..
"Wuz lat?" (who are you?) A voice called from above.. sporting an almost fully skeletal guise..
"Lat nub klomp'd ad dis nuka choom rhir..?!" (you weren't killed in the nuke's destructive blaze?)
Kurg remembered the language, this was proper Orky..
"Ee come ere nuw.., nub wuz inda choom.." Kurg replied.. (I just came here, wasn't in this cataclysm)
"come up, meet da hai" (come up, meet the clan) the skeletal Ork called down..
Kurg climbed the scorched concrete stairway.. and at the top floor stood a whole bunch of skeletal orks waving to him.. among them an eerily familiar face.. holding a big sawblade..
"ee iz Ogtuuk Oothed.." the sawblade Ork introduced himself.." "lat join uz Orkhai, iz Nite Orks!'.. (I am Ogtuuk Oothed, you join our clan.. it is the Nite - Orks.)
Kurg the cybORK cried from his only functional eye.. because he knew the dream was true, and he had found a way to find his place of memory..
And so.. the story of Gruk'Og Nubgruk.. was renewed.
-Fin.
Attached: The WIP of atleast the exotic Deff Dread, to which Kurg will be definately included!!:
p.s. funfact: this is the third Deff Dread I made for my Orks, and the other two I accidentially (TWICE) ruined the skeletalface of so third time' is the charm.
I have been gifted some old lead Harlequins that had a few missing limbs and weapons, with a thin layer of paint over the metal (no primer). So I will revive them.
Cheers,
CB
PS: First picture after striping, repairing, and priming.
Cool stuff popping up already. Old dwarfs, old Harlequins, a hentai engine. This challenge is like a box of chocolates.
I am in with Immortal Hulk. I love this storyline and was quite excited when I heard they were releasing a figure based on it. But then I saw the model and thought, "well, that just looks like Hulk." Immortal Hulk was a return to Hulk's horror roots, and featured lots of Wrightson-esque body-horror imagery. To me, the model is interchangeable with the "regular" one that is already available. So I have been considering ways to bring some of that visceral quality over when I assemble and paint this guy. We will see how it goes.
Don’t just throw away your damaged warriors. reuse, reduce, recycle. Given a new chance to fight in a new walking coffin. New version of an old model. Bigger, better, tougher.
Well if you are doing that dreadnought, I'll do the 'standard' one!
Here is my Redemptor dreadnought proof. (I may try to do another dread, depends if I have time).
This will not be a 'good' work of art. First dreadnought I've painted in over a decade.
Renewal, you say? How about Azrael being renewed with a new body after crossing the Rubicon Primaris:
It's just one model, what could possibly go wrong? [/famouslastwords] In all seriousness I'll probably be using this guy a fair amount in the new edition of 40k so I really ought to get him painted. It's nice that it dovetails so well with this painting challenge.
Ok ok ok, I'll edit my story a bit to add in some arkanauts (in the canyon at the end) that are dispatched of no contest with a funny side to it and add some dead arkanauts afterall..
Just to meet the "dwarf-off" challenge.
Anyway heres a bit of WIP progress.
Used a minitool to cut away the hatch so that Kurg fits as the visible pilot. No welding this guy in.
Kurg himself was going to either have a gigantic electric rifle from the looters OR.. be more modest.
Modest it is, because the focus has to be more on the deffdread being exotic, and storywise Kurg had no other weapons anyway.
Digging around in the Undead Section of the Closet of Shame, I came across this undead chariot and the undead champions which were released along with it. Assuming I can locate the horses, I'll be counting the chariot as one model. Otherwise, it goes back in the box.
Thought I'd seen some of these parts in my bits box recently and was hoping for a chariot challenge, but sadly I can't find the horses either and I've run out of obvious places to look Still, I think you've inspired me to renew some other old undead, I did find a screaming skull catapult and a carrion, so I might get those painted instead
Digging around in the Undead Section of the Closet of Shame, I came across this undead chariot and the undead champions which were released along with it. Assuming I can locate the horses, I'll be counting the chariot as one model. Otherwise, it goes back in the box.
Thought I'd seen some of these parts in my bits box recently and was hoping for a chariot challenge, but sadly I can't find the horses either and I've run out of obvious places to look Still, I think you've inspired me to renew some other old undead, I did find a screaming skull catapult and a carrion, so I might get those painted instead
I actually have two incomplete sets-- I have one Screaming Skull in my Gallery--but this one being unpainted will save me the hassle of stripping it. I do love me some Oldhammer skeletons...
Pariah Press wrote: What could be more symbolic of renewal than springtime babies? Here we see a mother tyranid with her two little nidlings, or however that works.
Oh, wow, you have one of the original tyranids? I am so jealous!
Captain Brown wrote: I have been gifted some old lead Harlequins that had a few missing limbs and weapons, with a thin layer of paint over the metal (no primer). So I will revive them.
Pariah Press wrote: What could be more symbolic of renewal than springtime babies? Here we see a mother tyranid with her two little nidlings, or however that works.
Oh, wow, you have one of the original tyranids? I am so jealous!
Don’t know if I’ve ever seen the big one before, looks straight from the page in RT though. I might have a blister of the little ones in a box somewhere. So different from where they went with the line
Pariah Press wrote: What could be more symbolic of renewal than springtime babies? Here we see a mother tyranid with her two little nidlings, or however that works.
Oh, wow, you have one of the original tyranids? I am so jealous!
I wish! No, this is a modern sculpt from Hybrid Miniatures.
This bunch of victims for my Deffdread enough? They will be leaning against a slope and covered in debris and dirt so they don't need legs.
Turns out I had no dwarf bodies left, only arms, heads and accesoiries. So used a few trooper bodies and one high elf armor because it looked better for the leader dwarf who needs some decorations.
Will add burns and perhaps some blood if people are ok with seeing gored dwarfs here.. let me know.
So I was originally going to do the Leviathan terminators for this but I started last night with such rapid pace it'll be a little too easy. So instead I'm thinking up something a little different. Pics to come!
Gulgog TufToof wrote: My motivation could use some renewal. I’m at a complete loss for what to paint right now
What’s on your workbench?
What are your active projects?
What games/armies do you play?
Is there anything you’d like to start?
Is there anything you want to revisit?
Don’t just throw away your damaged warriors. reuse, reduce, recycle. Given a new chance to fight in a new walking coffin. New version of an old model. Bigger, better, tougher.
Jesus Christ?! Never anticipated the new one to be a skyscraper instead of a dread.
Gulgog TufToof wrote: My motivation could use some renewal. I’m at a complete loss for what to paint right now
@Gulgog Tuftoof: I'm enjoying your ork P&M blog. For this theme maybe you can make an ork mad dok since they tend to recycle ork body parts?
I'm thinking I will try joining the monthly painting challenge for the first time. With the theme of: “Renewal”. Reborn, returned, recycled. A fresh start. I'm thinking I could go back and paint up a sculpt I made of the daemon prince Mamon from Siege of Vraks. Daemon princes are chaos worshipers reborn as daemons. Also I personally would both be getting a fresh start and returning to the sculpt since it is one of the first miniatures I ever sculpted to use in 40k (around 2015), I still like how it looks, but I never painted it or any other Nurgle stuff I was making back then.
I'm adding another dreadnought proof to my entry, and adding a WIP for it.
The above edge work was done with acrylic pens, which are interesting to work with.
I recommend edge-highlighting *before* sticking your model together. The lascannon on the right is the 'neatest' I could do with the pens.
The launcher on the left is equivalent to the 'neatest' I could do using a pen on a finished model, where I can't access parts fully.
It makes a major difference, but I think the style on the left 'works' for a battle ready model.
(And I will be using a ruler for any future bases like this of course )
I'm furious. I'm 3 days into a project and only just noticed this. I don't have proof of the project other then the jumbled pile of sprues I've been using and my room mates word to claim he has witnessed my progress. I'm trying to finish a cool conversion before his kids visit again.
Uptonius wrote: I'm furious. I'm 3 days into a project and only just noticed this. I don't have proof of the project other then the jumbled pile of sprues I've been using and my room mates word to claim he has witnessed my progress. I'm trying to finish a cool conversion before his kids visit again.
Post where you are now. As long as you are not posting Golden Demon level stuff 2 days into the month, I’m generally willing to trust that people are telling the truth that they’ve done the work in the correct timeframe.
If I want to be real pedantic and strictly follow the rules as written, failure to post a proof picture does not stop you from participating, only from inclusion in the vote thread. But it’s a fun competition to build community and help each-other. It’s not like money or fame is on the line here. Welcome to the fun.
Uptonius wrote: I'm furious. I'm 3 days into a project and only just noticed this. I don't have proof of the project other then the jumbled pile of sprues I've been using and my room mates word to claim he has witnessed my progress. I'm trying to finish a cool conversion before his kids visit again.
Post where you are now. As long as you are not posting Golden Demon level stuff 2 days into the month (and aren’t Paradigm), I’m generally willing to trust that people are telling the truth that they’ve done the work in the correct timeframe.
If I want to be real pedantic and strictly follow the rules as written, failure to post a proof picture does not stop you from participating, only from inclusion in the vote thread. But it’s a fun competition to build community and help each-other. It’s not like money or fame is on the line here. Welcome to the fun.
A third of the month is gone and I have successfully done nothing at all. That's a good start.
I may have to rethink my entry. Not sure yet, but my complete lack of progress certainly doesn't inspire confidence that I made the right choice of miniature.
Nevelon wrote: As long as you are not posting Golden Demon level stuff 2 days into the month (and aren’t Paradigm), I’m generally willing to trust that people are telling the truth that they’ve done the work in the correct timeframe.
Fixed that for you Nev.
Heh. True. Different people paint at different rates. And some people do crazy work in no time at all, month after month. I suspect trafficking with fell powers. No other explanation really.
Geifer wrote:A third of the month is gone and I have successfully done nothing at all. That's a good start.
I may have to rethink my entry. Not sure yet, but my complete lack of progress certainly doesn't inspire confidence that I made the right choice of miniature.
I just put the second color on my dread yesterday. So right with you on being behind schedule. And I’ll be AFK next week, so really need to catch up.
Geifer wrote:A third of the month is gone and I have successfully done nothing at all. That's a good start.
I may have to rethink my entry. Not sure yet, but my complete lack of progress certainly doesn't inspire confidence that I made the right choice of miniature.
I just put the second color on my dread yesterday. So right with you on being behind schedule. And I’ll be AFK next week, so really need to catch up.
Hey, don't do that! Procrastination is supposed to be a labor of love. Assisted procrastination is basically akin to cheating!
Uptonius wrote: I'm furious. I'm 3 days into a project and only just noticed this. I don't have proof of the project other then the jumbled pile of sprues I've been using and my room mates word to claim he has witnessed my progress. I'm trying to finish a cool conversion before his kids visit again.
Post where you are now. As long as you are not posting Golden Demon level stuff 2 days into the month, I’m generally willing to trust that people are telling the truth that they’ve done the work in the correct timeframe.
If I want to be real pedantic and strictly follow the rules as written, failure to post a proof picture does not stop you from participating, only from inclusion in the vote thread. But it’s a fun competition to build community and help each-other. It’s not like money or fame is on the line here. Welcome to the fun.
Well, here's my submission for this month.
Two marines who both agree that not even in death does duty end.
Interestingly the 'Tron' style dreadnough was edge-highlighted with acrylic pens. I may use a thinner pen in future, but it was fairly quick to do!
I haven't done much painting at all in the last few years (basically Round 99 of this challenge), and definitely enjoying trying out new painting methods.
On a related note I'm going to be painting up an army loosely based around one of these colour schemes. Opinions on which colour scheme is better would be gratefully received!
First, great work! I like them both. They are wildly different paint styles. Polar opposites.
The TRON dread is extreme highlights. The Red one is a fairly smooth transition, where the overall glow from the base washes out almost all the details.
I’d like to see Red with some details picked out to catch the eye. Right now the gaze just seems to drift over him with no place to “catch” Where is the focal point? Where should I look? Where is the points of interest?
You have one that is more realistic, but (for lack of a better work) boring. It does not catch the eye. The other is ALL points of interest. Extreme hyper highlights, turned up to 11. Doesn’t look real, but does look interesting.
If you were to do an army, I’d go with the TRON one. I like the red guy, but like actual camouflage, it might be well done and “real”, but that does not necessarily translate into a good looking army of miniatures. I think if you expanded that out into a full army, they might look good and cohesive, but you would have trouble telling units apart and what they are equipped with.
Man, between the heat/humidity these days and my burnout following the 100th Challenge, I might have to sit this one out. The only thing I've been painting likely doesn't fit the theme.
I really screwed up on trying to make my two lazguns (on the deff) look good -_- had to start over.. (added too many colors and wasted like an hour of time)
Anyway, going to paint the dwarfs for on the base a bit before returning to the detail phase on the deff.
Kurg himself is done and glued into the hatch and also made gun1 have better camo on the grey parts and lined em. (I normally hardly ever line but wanted to make this particular entry pop so much that noone could possibly ignore it.)
I'm a bit tired now though, maybe taking a day off from painting first.
Nevelon wrote: First, great work! I like them both. They are wildly different paint styles. Polar opposites.
The TRON dread is extreme highlights. The Red one is a fairly smooth transition, where the overall glow from the base washes out almost all the details.
I’d like to see Red with some details picked out to catch the eye. Right now the gaze just seems to drift over him with no place to “catch” Where is the focal point? Where should I look? Where is the points of interest?
You have one that is more realistic, but (for lack of a better work) boring. It does not catch the eye. The other is ALL points of interest. Extreme hyper highlights, turned up to 11. Doesn’t look real, but does look interesting.
If you were to do an army, I’d go with the TRON one. I like the red guy, but like actual camouflage, it might be well done and “real”, but that does not necessarily translate into a good looking army of miniatures. I think if you expanded that out into a full army, they might look good and cohesive, but you would have trouble telling units apart and what they are equipped with.
Thanks for the helpful feedback!
It's definitely reassuring to hear that the Tron version isn't "too much" for a tabletop army. To be honest I was a little concerned that the red one was too *high* constrast for a model, nevermind the Tron one.
Your feedback indicates I've got a lot of room to "play" with here. Thinking of new models and new blends with stronger colours atm.
Your point about Red's base is definitely a good one. I think for future models like that I'd have a more focused light source. That should help pick out features of the model more, and provide more constrast between the base and the model.
Similarly, your idea about models wanting a focal point is both fairly new to me, and very relevant. I've got some thoughts on that, but will need some time to think.
With your and youwashock's feedback, definitely thinking in terms of a Tron style base colour scheme. Likely will be major variations from unit to unit, but that's part of the fun.
As the summer gets hotter, I find myself slowing down. Here are a couple of almost-finished Oldhammer skeletons for the Challenge:
For the weapons, I'm trying to make them look rusty, but with the corrosion worn off on the cutting edges, implying recent use. It works better on the sworn than on the scythe. The shield need some wear and tear, as well.
For Renewal I've got these lovely little Goblins! These are for my D&D campaign. They represent the Tothsporid, creatures of the Underdark that have become puppets of a fungal evil that plagues a local Dwarven kingdom.
So I was going to do Venetian Vampires as nothing says Renewal like fresh blood, right? Plus I failed to even start the Vampire Queen last month However, I totally forgot to take a pre-photo, got excited now I'm back from my holidays and started painting - hope this'll do (there is actually a primed proof pic in my gallery, but it's dated mid June).
Nevelon wrote:It’s fine. I reuse old proof pictures myself most of the time. My hobby progress is an open book anyway in my blog.
Be excited, have fun. Paint.
Cheers chief. I was originally planning on doing some mutant outlaws for Brimstone but I'm just not feeling it. My son reckons it's because I'm so hacked off with Flying Frog and yet another dreadful KS. These, on the other hand, I'm proper excited for.
Couldn't help but show off the base contents, last time I post pics of a WIP before posting the finished result (which I'll stil take my sweet time for dw)
Dwarf off commence, these are the victims of Kurg the Cybork.
Steady progress:
As ever, I'll pick 5. Aside from the guzzling vampire queen, the top row are more citizenry so won't be in the mix for this, but are part of the paint push.
The lad with the missing axe gets whatever was in the bit box.
Also, trying the triangle cutoffs (wood block) paint handles. Pretty good.
I have a slight of time to say that I love how these turned out, as if you can just get them off the shelve in a toystore.
Fantastic grain on the axes aswell!
Anyway, small change of plans.. my base is not big enough to house all my Dwarf victims so I hope you dwarf-offers accept me just using a single Dwarf victim? atleast then its easier to see its details. I'll save the others for future challenge projects, I promise.
As it turns out I am much more into 40k this month, so instead of Ahsoka I painted this here mutant dude, Bernardo the Purified:
Why Renewal? He used to be a Poxwalker, but he got better. Well, "better".
More in setting, Bernardo the Purified used to be a common temple worker with lusty fantasies about the Battle Sisters stationed there. Instead of doing the only right thing and finding a priest to confess to his sins and submit to punishment, he kept on pretending that he had a right to his heretical thoughts. But the God-Emperor, praise be on Him, protects the purity of his devoted daughters even from hidden heresy and changed Bernardo's physical form to match his mental degeneracy. So changed, Bernardo eventually found penitence in seeking out and punishing heretics in the low warrens of his city. Ironically he can no longer go near a temple and mingle with other devoted servants of the Emperor, knowing full well what will happen to him if he did. But as long as he brings the light of the Emperor to the dark places, he is content in spite of his deformed body.
I'm experimenting with rusty NMM for this set. I think the weapons have turned out pretty well. The armor actually looks better in these photos than in real life, which is a switch.
Good news everyone, considering one dwarf victim would be too harsh.. I have decided to afterall.. add another dwarf victim to my renewed Kurg the Deff dread driving icon of my Orks.
There was still enough space for one more body, and considering dwarfs are small.. I didn't even have to cram him.
As for august topics how about give praise to the Roman emperor that gave it its name and do 'splendor and magnificence'; a unit being so engulfed in riches and gold that he/she radiates pure wealth and demands awe.
I really like the idea of that ^. Alternatively, how about Upgrades: V2.0 . In this era of new giant Terminators, new Mantic tanks, new versions of old models or individuals who are in some way augmented, orkmented or modified?
Leopold Helveine wrote: As for august topics how about give praise to the Roman emperor that gave it its name and do 'splendor and magnificence'; a unit being so engulfed in riches and gold that he/she radiates pure wealth and demands awe.
I have a hard time coming up with topics myself, but I am fully in support of this one.
inmygravenimage wrote: I really like the idea of that ^. Alternatively, how about Upgrades: V2.0 . In this era of new giant Terminators, new Mantic tanks, new versions of old models or individuals who are in some way augmented, orkmented or modified?
Pariah Press wrote: Topic Idea: Big Guns never tire. Artillery. Heavy weapons troopers. Alternatively, people with big biceps.
This sounds fun.
Another idea: Hotter Than Hell. It's topical, given recent weather patterns, and there are any number of interpretations so anyone can find something to paint.
Pariah Press wrote: Topic Idea: Big Guns never tire. Artillery. Heavy weapons troopers. Alternatively, people with big biceps.
This sounds fun.
Another idea: Hotter Than Hell. It's topical, given recent weather patterns, and there are any number of interpretations so anyone can find something to paint.
I’d be concerned about what Daia T'Nara Would enter for that one…
May I present Saint Valerie, the Salvation Engine:
Can next month's theme be Just One Miniature, Ideally A Really Simple One, And Keep The Paintjob Basic Too? If we're being honest, I cut a bunch of corners while painting, because between the size of the thing, the multiple different miniatures with their own colour schemes, and it not being attached to the base for ease of painting meaning most of the time I was holding it with several spikes sticking into my fingertips, about 2/3rds of the way through the process I was very ready to just be done with this blasted thing. I'm glad I finished it, and got some use out of the venomcrawler after all, but I don't see myself ever painting anything this size again. (I didn't bother uploading an uncensored version, the dong isn't painted any differently to the rest of the fleshy bits.)
(Edited after I dug out my old full-size tripod to get a top-down shot.)
A rift in time and space opened and there it was.. the five images of Kurg the Cybork.. finished just in time (what.. 7-8 days early?.. blame timetravel.. damnit) for all eyes yet to be machinized.. to see. now say it with me.. "BEEP BOOP"
(The fellow on the side is the old Nubgruk, the template for his renewed cyborky version!, couldn't help adding him.)
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Le hidden story of Kurg:
Spoiler:
What the Gork or possibly Mork is going on here?!?
Orky timetravel?! That can't be good.. wait.. does that mean there's going to be spoilers? Uh oh..
So, Gruk'Og Nubgruk the Orky hero of our story ongoing up till now had met his demise and his end, he apparently was NOT unorky (undead) afterall!!
"Hey! How'd he survive that big fall then storkyteller!!" I hear you inquire internally, loudly..
Ah yes!, Well ofcourse Orks have two lives!!, One life from Gork or possibly Mork and one life from Mork or possibly Gork. His two lives now expunged meant there was only one more place to end up..
The dark, silent, soily pit of.. Orky reincarnation into another Ork!! Yay!!
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200 B(efore)C(aptain Badrukk), a great stargate loomed over the wasteland where stealthily as ever the rad (Go) Kurg Kurg-bun, a mysterious loner on a mission hid his acrobaticly leen self against a big Ork shaped rock overseeing the premise. Above gleamed and crackled lasers in the clouds.. and he knew.. that soon another of those pesky Aeldari floppy spacecraft was going to emerge from the midst of his interest..
Guardians were loading supplies in and out of them, and Kurg knew that whatever came through had to come from a place of wealth. Where that wealth was didn't matter to Kurg, all he wanted was obtain something greater than his kin could cook up, to get back.. no matter what.. to that place deeply buried in a memory..
He knew this place to not be from the realm of imagination or dreams, it felt too real..
There was a many layered construction site of a tower of sorts, fire raining down from amidst his fellow, a great number of assailants.. and one of his own' yelling the words "MORK POLO" after which a group from above jumped a kamikaze attack onto their foes way below..
Something must've gone wrong in that fight.. for he woke up inbetween some baby squigs in a mushy forest.. wondering at first wether he himself was a squig.. but the baby squig leader was a wise wizard, a longbearded mini squig by the name of "Draathangeon the master of magick and most powerful grand and epicly ancient lord supreme over all creation and all creation to be and all creation to be after that, the third."
But Kurg had never met him, instead he met the frog faced older brother of the baby squigs that went by the name of "urhpjf" and he taught him over the span of about fifty years that Kurg was in fact an Ork.
It had taken much training and hardship to come to this conclusion, all the while Kurg every night dreaming the same dream.. of that which was unveiled above..
Now, Kurg had left the squig and was searching.. searching for a way to find a remnant of truth in this vision.. and after searching in many wrong places, among even his Orky kind.. to which other, much less interesting adventures were made, of which some concerned weirdboys holding unrelating ceremonies that did absolutely nothing for Kurg apart from annoying him to the point of killing the weirdboy..
No.. now he saw a glimmer of potential in the far superior technology before him.. this gate was certainly going to bring him to a place of technological connectivity! Something that would make a reality this vision of another life! Or at the least.. find its remains.
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The wait was over, the plan was perfect.. Kurg would expertly rush down the slope, execute the Guardians and sneak right into the big portal emitted.. then find his way as he went..
20... 15.. 10.. 5.. go.. yub yub yub!!
Kurg let out a warcry and stealthily stomped down the slope, as the Guardians unstartled started firing at Kurg, missing him because they had rolled ones.
Kurg grabbed the necks of two guardians, bashed their heads together rolling two sixes, tripped over his unmade shoelaces rolling a 2, hit his own head against the left side of the gate rolling another 1 and while the rest of the Aeldari Guardians kept rolling ones he fell into the portal that luckily just in time opened for the transport ship..
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10 Morky, possibly Gorky months later..
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Kurg, now a seasoned' may I dare say expert' of the Webway crouched down onto his belly on top of a stone workplace floating on a landmass in twilight, as he watched below him spiky Aeldari administer power to some other Aeldari types crafts.. Deeper in a gate made out of rods of light obstructed him from obtaining the materials he sought.. aware that they had to be of a kind he had yet to understand.. but powerful enough to evolve everything he could build of Ork stature into a new paradigm.. He had his mind set on something gnarly, something allowing him to wade through these flimsy but numerous Aeldar populating the outstretch of this strange luminous dimension.
Ah.. they were leaving.. Kurg hopped down and looked at the gate in fron't of him, the bars made of light were emitting quite some heat.. it would probably be unwise to try and touch them..
Kurg took some dice out of his pocked and rolled.. two sixes..
The gate turned off.. lucky roll.
Kurg walked through, finding to his suprise an entire stash of technology just laying there for grabs, now.. to an Aeldari the tech would probably be considered scrap.. but to an Ork this stuff was more like scrap with his name on it!
Some of it looked quite heavy though, so Kurg had to select a few..
There was what seemed to be a partially broken battery cannister on which was written "Doomw", and a working stack of what seemed to be big rifle type things in a big box on which was inscribed "P Titan Pulsars"
Those did look way too heavy..
Instead he grabbed some smaller energy cells, what looked to be some sophisticated shield module and lastly two smaller gunthings from a shelve tagged "scatter".. after thinking to himself that the word scatter rhymed with better.
Kurg quickly made his way back out, dropped one of his dice trying to hold all the loot and it fell onto the ground with the number 1 up, Kurg therefor tripped again and stumbled off the edge of the floating landmass.. still holding all his obtained stuff tight to his chest, tumbling down into warpy vortex one after the other going all over..
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300 trillion years into the future, a great war was fought against the Necron most formidable foe yet, known to all races as the greatest terror that had once been underestimated.. the SQUIG.
This race had evolved to such monsterous sizes, that even Tyranid hivefleet dared not to try to go near anylonger having been decimated into pockets from the onslaught themselves.
Among the Necron fought a mysterious rough cybORK known only to his Necron allies as "the Kork" having equated himself with Mork, possibly Gork. He hated all things Squig, because a long time ago.. way too long for ordinary mortals to possibly remember any detail of.. he somewhat did remember to have been tricked by Squigs having supposedly made him believe that he was an Ork.
Kork an Ork?.. No.. he was much more than an Ork!.. he was a Kork! Equal to Mork and possibly Gork!!.. or perhaps even.. Gork and possibly Mork!
The Necron's were glad to have him, and had allowed him to build whatever warmachine he wished from whatever parts were laying around..
Kork had no interest in Necron tech.. the day he had come to this world he had clutched to his chest a pair of guns, a bunch of energy cells and a module of a kind of sophisticated shield..
The Necron had some old salvaged Orky parts.. among which the remains of a Deffdread which Kork outfitted with his belongings. Therewith he had created a weapon to destroy all those who had dared to tell him that he was less than a Kork.
fighting the Squig terror for so long after.. he had earned his battlescars and foul wounds which the Necron's would then help turn into strengths.. which eventually made Kork a cybORK. (so that that's clear!!)
Now, the decicive battle was upon them.. Quazillions of Necron marched into the outstretched upward bending wastes meeting with the Septafragillions of descending Squigships blasting a path into billions of Necrons to land..
Among the backline Kork saw on the horizon how Squigs the size of planets, mounted with jetpacks the size of moons came down among them, making this fight rather onesided..
They probably also had septafragillions of dice rolling lots of sixes too.. ..
There was no hope for victory, no matter all the battles fought and won prior..
Kork took his last dice out of his pocket ..
Perhaps that one dice would grant Mork and possibly Gork to intervene.. or cause some sort of miracle.. if only he could roll a 6.. ..just one 6.. against the septafragillions of sixes being rolled in the distance.. Kork cried out as the ground rumbled and loud metallic creaks blasted from every billion of Necron slain collectively and instantaneously in the far distance..
He rolled..
4
Behind him opened a portal.. ..well.. that was convenient too Kork thought to himself, renouncing his name in shame.. and becoming Kurg oncemore.
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On the other side he found himself in another wasteland, devoid of life..
Walking around in his Deffdread, armed with the exotic "scatters" and a module of a kind of sophisticated shield.. he wandered about for a while.. until he noticed sounds in the distance.. something clattering.. something popping.. and bopping..
Gunshots?
At the entrance of a canyon Kurg found a rockdrill.. finders keepers.. Kurg thought to himself.. and attached it to his Deff..
Entering the canyon Kurg found himself standing face to face with a small group of privateer dwarfs that looked like they were wrapped in plastic gear taking potshots at some straggling Tyranids that had obviously fled from yonder.. trying to outrun some kind of miasma..
Then, as the Tyranids passed .. the dwarfs inquired..
"What the vault o' ores is dat silvery lad up ther me mates.." pointing his gun right at Kurg..
"der mad lad ev'n stole un of er diamon.. drillzers.."
Kurg wondered wether these wrinkled little men were a sort of prehistoric Squigs.. and an anger boiled up in him oncemore..
Without even giving it another thought Kurg pulled a lever and pushed a few buttons..
Un-dwarfly screeches were emitted echoing loudly bouncing throughout the entire canyon as Kurg's scatter weapons zapped holes into the dwarfs accurately by its automated targetting systems..
..Kurg, now sitting comfier in his Deffdread ran on through the canyon and eventually.. at the end of it could make out in the distance a sight which he could only vaguely recognice as from the hazy suggestion of a long lost dream..
An utterly abandoned town out of concrete, and among these structures a a big concrete ruined building, mostly consisting of level plates and crumbled stairways leading up to them, five levels high. In fron't of it layed on the ground the remains of a gigantic Ork suited in an even bigger ..chemically burn't suit.. he was probably dead for no longer than a day..
The smell of copper lingered.. as Kurg came nearer.. there must've been a huge explosion, which destroyed all but the concrete itself..
He noticed some fully bleached bones near of a kind that could've only been Tyranid..
"Wuz lat?" (who are you?) A voice called from above.. sporting an almost fully skeletal guise..
"Lat nub klomp'd ad dis nuka choom rhir..?!" (you weren't killed in the nuke's destructive blaze?)
Kurg remembered the language, this was proper Orky..
"Ee come ere nuw.., nub wuz inda choom.." Kurg replied.. (I just came here, wasn't in this cataclysm)
"come up, meet da hai" (come up, meet the clan) the skeletal Ork called down..
Kurg climbed the scorched concrete stairway.. and at the top floor stood a whole bunch of skeletal orks waving to him.. among them an eerily familiar face.. holding a big sawblade..
"ee iz Ogtuuk Oothed.." the sawblade Ork introduced himself.." "lat join uz Orkhai, iz Nite Orks!'.. (I am Ogtuuk Oothed, you join our clan.. it is the Nite - Orks.)
Kurg the cybORK cried from his only functional eye.. because he knew the dream was true, and he had found a way to find his place of memory..
And so.. the story of Gruk'Og Nubgruk.. was renewed.
Okay, so I managed to squeeze in some painting this weekend and I think I can finish on time.
Here's my proof pic:
Basically, I like my original version of the model but wanted to try to do better on a second version. Actually, that's a lie; I wanted the model mounted on my cobblestone style basing for my games & comics, but I didn't want to risk damaging my old paintjob. I went through this same thing with another super rare Clan War miniature I entered many moons ago.
For the renewed version, I thought I should track down an "official" painted miniature photo but there aren't any. I did, however, find a lot of art of her for the RPG & CCG.
My original paint scheme was way off. I leaned into the "witch" aspect when I should have been leaning into the "Chinese bride" aspect.
I really threw myself into my work today and I'm almost done. But my lighting is terrible and I may need to do more touch ups.
I’ll not bore you with the details or indeed any more photos. Suffice it to say these crummy plastics have been rescued and revived to what I might call a “colouring in” standard whereby I throw enough paint at them to call them done.
Sorry (again) for the delay, was out of town AFK, just got back. But poll is up for next month. Lots of great ideas, those that weren’t used will be added to the list for later.
Great entries and progress! Month is running down, but still time to go.
Renewal: I am renewing my oath to the Emperor and getting my finger out and painting some marines.I decided to treat myself to the leviathan box for my birthday and got the space marine combat patrol models assembled over the weekend along with some ebay buys to make up the Dark Angels combat patrol.
My choice of marine for the challenge is a slightly converted terminator chaplain, I bought a little bundle of bits for dark angels conversions from ebay and managed to find a bit for the mace, I couldn't find a proper chaplain head on ebay so used a primaris reiver one, and managed to stick something different hanging from his wrist, smoking urn thing. I wasn't sure if this would stay put but seems ok. The mace isn't totally squint either so happy days.
A simple head swap + cut axe top off + stick urn on wrist took several hours
Last month was a bit hectic with a family emergency, I managed to get my entry finished but I didn't have time to post the finished photo sadly. I have this week off so hoping to get a decent amount of work done on these mini's.
Little update on on my chaplain, weather wasn't great for spraying but managed to get them all undercoated. I think he is nearly finished, just going to add a little more detail to a couple parts and try highlight some edges so he doesn't look so flat. I had some issue's with his face but managed to tidy it up a little, I think it's still too bright though.
I always forget how much I dislike painting big models. Just so much space. And with my Ultras, I use an ink to tint the blue, which needs to be done rapidly and smoothly to prevent pooling. Which on big flat surfaces is not fun. Anyway, WIP shot:
Cleanup and detail pass, assembly, and <shudder> edging. Plus base and decals.
Month is getting along now. Almost out of procrastination time!
Though these “primaris" brothers have new geneseed, their hearts still beat as Ultramarines. They will need your wisdom, venerable brother, to guide them. March once more for Macragge, in a new body. Courage and Honor!
Final Pic:
For and ETB pushfit this was a surprisingly good model. Not a lot of bad undercut issues due to trying to keep the part count down. Paint was fine, just the normal issues of painting vehicles. Just so darn big. And this guy is a chonky boi. First redemptor I’ve built. I had no idea how big they really were.
I had a great idea to speed up the drying of the base by doing it outside in the sun, left it for 15 mins to go make a coffee only for it to start pouring with rain, never mind he dried off fine.
Here is the finished chaplain ready to burn the heretics, kill the mutants and purge the unclean
ZergSmasher wrote: At this point I'm not sure there's any chance I'll finish Azrael in time. I just fell too far behind and motivation is lacking.
Would an extra day help? We still have all of today, and if you need tomorrow that could be arranged. See how you are doing tonight, and we’ll work from there.
Ugh... So I picked a model for the theme, spent so many hours on her, and I'm not pleased with the end results. I entered her anyway because that's what I got done. Then yesterday, I finally got around to painting my Warhammer RPG character. My mojo was really working and I banged him out in an afternoon:
I'm actually really pleased with the end result and there was no pressure or deadlines. However, I never took a "before" proof photo, so my renewal of the vow to quest for the grail for Ze Lady cannot be entered...
I know I can't enter him, but I at least wanted to share as well as vent
KidCthulhu wrote: Ugh... So I picked a model for the theme, spent so many hours on her, and I'm not pleased with the end results. I entered her anyway because that's what I got done. Then yesterday, I finally got around to painting my Warhammer RPG character. My mojo was really working and I banged him out in an afternoon:
I'm actually really pleased with the end result and there was no pressure or deadlines. However, I never took a "before" proof photo, so my renewal of the vow to quest for the grail for Ze Lady cannot be entered...
I know I can't enter him, but I at least wanted to share as well as vent
We play fast and loose with the proof pics anyway. I know and trust that you are not abusing the rule to enter something old. We can run with this as your entry.
It's okay, Nevelon. I don't want to set a bad precedent.
I just find it ironic that I took photos of everything during the 100th challenge but then slacked off with the photos when I ran out of primer. The planets aligned and I got this done. It's funny more than anything.
This one was a real mess for me. All the metal pieces were badly bent and the surface was damaged in several areas.
It's "good enough" for me to put it on the table, even if I'm not super happy with it.
Spoiler:
Might put another layer of paint (or three) on the metal parts later on to get rid of the blotches, but I want to paint something else for now.
Having decided early in the month to renew the paint job on this screaming skull catapult (or was it called a skull chucka back in the day?), it was promptly put into the Dettol where it sat for most of the month... So a bit of a rush job to get it done in time over the last few days!
proof
Maharg wrote: Having decided early in the month to renew the paint job on this screaming skull catapult (or was it called a skull chucka back in the day?), it was promptly put into the Dettol where it sat for most of the month... So a bit of a rush job to get it done in time over the last few days!
At least the days back to my knowledge it was always the screaming skull catapult. Which is the 5th edition “Undead” book from ’94, before the split into TK/VC. I normally fielded 2. I could almost always call the guess range right on target, but one would invariably scatter off. Good times!
Oddly, the one pic of mine I uploaded here I have labeled as a skullchuka. No idea what I was thinking. Could just be lazy and using the slang. Digging into the etymology of skull-based war machine naming conventions is more then I’m up to right now though.
Just wondering what I should do for the photos. I do not have photoshop and was just wondered if I should try and tweak the brightness and contrast with office?
ZergSmasher wrote: At this point I'm not sure there's any chance I'll finish Azrael in time. I just fell too far behind and motivation is lacking.
Would an extra day help? We still have all of today, and if you need tomorrow that could be arranged. See how you are doing tonight, and we’ll work from there.
With an extra day, I might get to at least an acceptable level, although it won't be anything special. If you're willing to give me until midnight tomorrow local time (CDT) I might have something to submit.
ZergSmasher wrote: At this point I'm not sure there's any chance I'll finish Azrael in time. I just fell too far behind and motivation is lacking.
Would an extra day help? We still have all of today, and if you need tomorrow that could be arranged. See how you are doing tonight, and we’ll work from there.
With an extra day, I might get to at least an acceptable level, although it won't be anything special. If you're willing to give me until midnight tomorrow local time (CDT) I might have something to submit.
Don’t make me do time zone math, just get it done. Extension granted. Have a spare day.
Well- procrastination kills me. Again!
I had finished a while ago and put off photographing the Ork Mekanikus because I dreaded cleaning off my painting table- then proceeded to use my dresser top and moved things out of the way and it took 30 seconds. Anywhoo, I'm my own worst critic, but here ya go!
Body is old pewter nob, head is burna boy mask and fantasy faceplate, and there are various other bits that were trash or stuff sitting around.
And yes, that is a bread heating implement of toasting on the ground.
I got Azrael to a slightly not embarrassing state, so I'll go ahead and drop some pics. It's very late here and I'm too tired to fart around with the lightbox, so just some quick and dirty pics on my messy desk instead:
Garbage photos are garbage, but I'm just lucky I was in any state to finish. Work has been killing me lately and I just haven't had energy for painting much. Eventually I'll get around to touching this guy up and taking proper photos in the lightbox, but this is what there is for now. Don't feel any need to throw any sympathy votes my way.
I hope that you just need to update the time setting on your camera and you weren’t up until 2:44 AM painting! It’s a school night! /dadmode. You don’t get sympathy votes, you get them for dedication and accomplishment. Well done.
OK, that’s our extension folks. Break out the hot stuff and see you in the next comp. Vote thread might be a little late (early next week) or I might manage it sooner. We’ll see.
Nevelon wrote: I hope that you just need to update the time setting on your camera and you weren’t up until 2:44 AM painting! It’s a school night! /dadmode. You don’t get sympathy votes, you get them for dedication and accomplishment. Well done.
OK, that’s our extension folks. Break out the hot stuff and see you in the next comp. Vote thread might be a little late (early next week) or I might manage it sooner. We’ll see.
It was not 2:44, but rather around 1:40 or so. Still too late to be up painting.
right.
However, I totally forgot to take a pre-photo, got excited now I'm back from my holidays and started painting - hope this'll do (there is actually a primed proof pic in my gallery, but it's dated mid June).
