Welcome all to the 112nd 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: Glow Up - Paint an updated sculpt of an older model (lots of choices there)-- bonus if you paint the older one as well. Alternatively, start with a low level character, and convert or kitbash a more experienced version. Maybe something like an old Ral Partha three-stage character, of a Frostgrave wizard and apprentice, as they're basically the same in game. If you want to be more literal, something featuring OSL or other lighting effects. If you want to go meta, paint or re-paint something you have done previously, to show off how much you've improved as a hobbyist.


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 June and will end at midnight EST on June 30th. After this, I shall compile the finished entries into a new thread, and voting will run for 5 days.

I'm going to paint the crisp, modern version of the HeroQuest barbarian.

This is the model I had in mind when I suggested this theme:



I used the little one all through 2ed, because he was small enough to screen with other troops as well as gain cover bonuses. The 1984 version never saw any game time because his 3ed rules weren't good enough for the points. I'll be stripping down the larger one, and redoing him with what I hope turns out to be a proper molten-metal glow.

So 10th finally got me some new terminators. These 5 are a mix of the ETB Leviathan ones and the full kit. They will be used for when I want to field new TDA heroes, as there may have been a tiny bit of scale creep from when these guys originally took the field.


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 JoshInJapan wrote:
This is the model I had in mind when I suggested this theme:



I used the little one all through 2ed, because he was small enough to screen with other troops as well as gain cover bonuses. The 1984 version never saw any game time because his 3ed rules weren't good enough for the points. I'll be stripping down the larger one, and redoing him with what I hope turns out to be a proper molten-metal glow.

For the true scale creep experience you need to get the new giant plastic one!

Here's the weird bugger (proof pic), I'm also going out of my comfort zone and making him look like a lightbulb, already made him saturated yellow which I will be working onto lighter yellows, eventually making everything into lightning bolts to its appendixes.. yeah.. taking the theme literally ehehehehe *beholder noises*.. eek!

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With Nevelon's permission re: the base, I'll be glowing up this chap:



...who, yeah, isn't technically a resculpt of an old mini, but I bought and assembled it to be a callback to this guy:



...who's just 'Blood Angels Commander' so far as I know, the bare head on the RTB01 sprue was 'commander' so I don't know if we should read into it that this is an early appearance of Dante (does Dante have a bionic eye, under the mask?), but with my thoughts on Blood Angels history I ended up deciding my guy is actually Lieutenant Tycho, before he got the promotion to Captain and the bright idea to stick his head out where a Weirdboy could see it (so it makes no sense timelinewise that he's Primaris, but I don't care). Accordingly I'll be attempting my first real non-metallic metal paintjob here, although also staying true to the Rogue Trader mini, so he'll have his little red feet.

 Leopold Helveine wrote:
Here's the weird bugger (proof pic), I'm also going out of my comfort zone and making him look like a lightbulb, already made him saturated yellow which I will be working onto lighter yellows, eventually making everything into lightning bolts to its appendixes.. yeah.. taking the theme literally ehehehehe *beholder noises*.. eek!

Also a massive glow up from what beholders used to look like. I’ve got this guy staring at me on the shelf:


Also while I had the camera out and the lighbox warmed up, in the spirit of this topic I grabbed some picks of new models and the old ones they replaced in my collection. Some are more 1-to-1 glow up then others. But a lot of classic lead has crossed the rubicon primaris. (plus some older pics from my gallery where I already had the pair together)


OK, that’s enough of me cluttering up the thread with my nostalgia.

Nice. It's bring your kid to work day on Macragge!

 Geifer wrote:
Nice. It's bring your kid to work day on Macragge!

Scale creep is like that. I should branch out and get some non-Ultra glow up shots. I know I’ve got some old lead Eldar with modern versions (3 generations of jetbike, guys in mesh armor) and other oddities collecting dust in the back. A couple Octobers ago I did a 3 generation Hive Tyrant entry for the comp.

And because I was on a roll and wanted to keep the momentum with the camera:


This is what 12 years and 21k posts will do to you. Heh. Looking at my profile it’s exactly 12 years today. Happy Dakkaversary to me I guess.

In a desperate attempt to have a useable force in time for Age of Sigmar 4th ed, I've bought a Seraphon Spearhead.
Spearhead's the 'easy in' version of 4th ed apparently, so that's where I'm starting. And I picked the Seraphon because it has a total of 14 models. Not the best reason to pick them, but I figured I might be able to manage 14 models!

So I'm going to do the Kroxigor for this 'Glow Up' challenge, and maybe one early Krox (27 years old, and half the size!) if I get time.



I'm thinking I'll do the 'Saurus on Carnosaur' thingy for the Centerpiece Challenge, and then the Saurus infantry in next month's 'Footsloggers'. Unless I get ahead of myself, and manage to get them all done this month.

I've got the old Ghazzy as well a new old old ghazzy. I also have the new ghazghskull, but they're already painted.

Wow. Krox got mean in the last few decades. I have fond memories of carving up the old goofy grinning guys with wight blades back in 5th edition WHFB. Serious glow up going on there.

Do try to get the old metal one done as well. Love to see side-by-sides of old and new, and this is the month for it!


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 Mr Nobody wrote:
I've got the old Ghazzy as well a new old old ghazzy. I also have the new ghazghskull, but they're already painted.

Do you also have the old-old one? Wasn’t there a version before the resin one with the old-school lobster claw?

Great stuff already. Terminators, Avatar, what more could you ask for?

In this month with The Law. The really old version from Citadel, and the less old version from Foundry.

I'll be doing the HGUC Gouf (Revive) which is a redo of the HGUC Gouf which itself was a redo of the old Gouf kit from the '80s.

 Nevelon wrote:



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 Mr Nobody wrote:
I've got the old Ghazzy as well a new old old ghazzy. I also have the new ghazghskull, but they're already painted.

Do you also have the old-old one? Wasn’t there a version before the resin one with the old-school lobster claw?

Alas, I do not. It's quite a rare model these days.

Here's what the actual model looked like. I'll certainly try my best to replicate the colours. With maybe a few more shades and highlights.

Ghazzie's boy, Yarrick had the lobster claw.

I'm going to paint some dragon ogres this month, the plastic replacements for the old metal ones. Sadly I don't have any old ones as a comparison

youwashock wrote:Ghazzie's boy, Yarrick had the lobster claw.

I knew Yarrick had the lobster, but for some reason thought they both did. My mistake.

Maharg wrote:I'm going to paint some dragon ogres this month, the plastic replacements for the old metal ones. Sadly I don't have any old ones as a comparison

These lads?

Started on one a whiiiile back but never finished it because this is a weird and goofy model for a Dwarf, and a Witchhunter.
It is large, beardless (goatee doesn't count as a beard), wide-faced, with a wizard scepter and a pirate cutlas. Do not like it.
Then, I am sorting my reaper packs and discover that I must have bought 2 more of this same model, at different times, so, I have 3.
Perfect conversion opportunity for the Glowup, because this guy sucks!

Here is the 1



Other 2 (put 2 into one pack, they don't sell in 2)




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I shall not stand for a occult staff or scepter on a Witch Hunter! Found this bit from an old pin-vice to replace the abomination with something steam-punky.



Drilled the face for putty to anchor in because the man needs a beard, cutlass has to go, and the shield/crossbow seem appropriate.

 Nevelon wrote:

 JoshInJapan wrote:
This is the model I had in mind when I suggested this theme:



I used the little one all through 2ed, because he was small enough to screen with other troops as well as gain cover bonuses. The 1984 version never saw any game time because his 3ed rules weren't good enough for the points. I'll be stripping down the larger one, and redoing him with what I hope turns out to be a proper molten-metal glow.

For the true scale creep experience you need to get the new giant plastic one!

I would need to wait for my son to move out so that I could give a model this size his own room...

 Nevelon wrote:


Also a massive glow up from what beholders used to look like. I’ve got this guy staring at me on the shelf:

Spoiler:

Makes me think of monster rancher suezo hehh..

Anyway, here's my first WIP:


Getting glowy enough? *zippy zapp, zappy zip*

I'll be painting this terminator squad this month. These models represent a glow-up from my March entry in that, instead of crudely sculpted 1st edition prototype miniatures, we have some refined and detailed 2nd edition miniatures!

 Pariah Press wrote:
I'll be painting this terminator squad this month. These models represent a glow-up from my March entry in that, instead of crudely sculpted 1st edition prototype miniatures, we have some refined and detailed 2nd edition miniatures!

I think there are at 3 more generations of normal terminators. Stupid old plastics from early Space Hulk (I think), the recently replaced plastics (which were still old) and the new kit just released for 10th. That’s before getting into the HH stuff or chapter specifics. You can be painting tactical dreadnought armor all summer if you play your cards right.

I need to remember to paint a Blood Angel battle honor on one of my new guys in an homage to an early bit of terminator fiction.

Hi all. I’m going to jump back in to the old monthly challenge with this sadly neglected Skull Pass Troll.



His Glow-Up will be in green-stuff form as I need a “Mole-Troll for our latest project. I’m cracking hard on the pace to get this thing up and running for summer so I’m hoping if I get this one sculpted and painted in time I might even add another couple. Just need the challenge to kick my into high gear.
Cheers.

Right, proof pic:

My glow up is 3 tiers of boss from Shadows of Brimstone: Gates of Valhalla, a Draugr, a Frost Giant and the Thunderforged Titan. All 3 will also feature different OSL for added Glow! At least, that's the theory.

Primed and ready, citizen.

Just wanted to make sure I was clear on this one, if I'm doing a new model glowing up from an old model, can the old one already be painted? I was thinking of doing a glow up of an old Island of Blood Warlock Engineer to a new Warlock Bombardier but I'd hate to strip and re-paint the old one.

phoenix89 wrote:
Just wanted to make sure I was clear on this one, if I'm doing a new model glowing up from an old model, can the old one already be painted? I was thinking of doing a glow up of an old Island of Blood Warlock Engineer to a new Warlock Bombardier but I'd hate to strip and re-paint the old one.

You don’t even need to own the old one, much less strip and redo. The idea is just to showcase the new glowey version.

If you want to paint both the old and the new, that’s extra cool, but not required.

Progress.

I am going to do the Shadowseer and the Warlock from this lot.



Better photo with the two separated from the others.



Cheers,

CB

First time I've entered this for a few months but feeling good about getting this one painted. Also fits the bill quite nicely for the theme.



Converted the new Grombrindal mini for my Votann army.

I do have vague plans to muck about with the base but that'll come later.

Hey folks.

Haven't been on for a couple months, longer than I hoped (in the middle of moving house)

Manged to find most of my hobby stuff and found something suitable for this months challenge

I'm going to paint up two dreadnought's, I built the primaris one myself and the other was from a job lot on ebay, the blue paint was slightly thick on a few bits so I decided to strip it and prime it.

The necron is there as a plan B should something go terribly wrong with the dreadnoughts (he's just primed silver)

I'll go ahead and enter my Ballistus Dreadnought for this month. Proof:

It's a vast improvement over the chunky box dreads, and is a better scale fit too. I'll probably knock out most of the basic paint today to have it ready for a tournament this weekend, and finish it properly afterwards.

It’s wild to remember how cool the old dreadnoughts looked to me back in the 90’s, and how silly they look in retrospect.

 Pariah Press wrote:
It’s wild to remember how cool the old dreadnoughts looked to me back in the 90’s, and how silly they look in retrospect.

Heresy! Also completely, objectively wrong! Science proves that old Dreadnoughts are best Dreadnoughts!

Box dreads are the best dreads.

I have spoken.

Done

Full disclosure, I printed the banner - it was looking a bit dull (printed on adhesive vinyl so I wouldn't have to muck around with glue to attach it, but that stock has a pretty flat matt finish) so I gave it a coat of paint over the main areas of colour, but it's not a freehand paint, if it's not obvious just looking at it.

Formatting to make Nevelon's life easier (hopefully, if I got it right):

Daia T'Nara - Lieutenant Tycho


...and an image just so people in this thread don't have to go opening spoiler tags to see it:

Old metal Harlequin Warlocks.







Cheers,

CB

Started converting the retainer into a Draugr, decided I might do a pre undead retainer as well

I'm in. This head, pair of arms, bits of sprue and paperclip are going to get a full glow-up including a custom greenstuff torso and a flash new ride!
Proof:

Pretty much done. Need to varnish and base.

A while ago I painted the old generic bolter marine on the left to try out a Deathwatch colour scheme. This month I'll paint the slightly more modern equivalent on the right in a similar (but hopefully better painted) scheme.

 Gulgog TufToof wrote:
I'm in. This head, pair of arms, bits of sprue and paperclip are going to get a full glow-up including a custom greenstuff torso and a flash new ride!
Proof:

Seeing this image, I'll be disappointed if his ride isn't a pogo stikk(bomb).

My proof pic

Here's after the bases are done but before I paint the glowiness

They are meant to be Plasmonic lifeforms for Stargrave based on Glue sticks cut into a crude skeleton shape and then melted with more glue added for tentacles.

Seeing some cool models in the thread already that I'm very jealous of. Good Luck all

I thought I'd go with the literal interpretation of the theme and do something with OSL and light sources.

I'm going to make a scene I call the "Night Watch"

My original thoughts



How its going (quite well i think)

 Llamahead wrote:
My proof pic

Here's after the bases are done but before I paint the glowiness

They are meant to be Plasmonic lifeforms for Stargrave based on Glue sticks cut into a crude skeleton shape and then melted with more glue added for tentacles.

That is so cool! I need to find my glue sticks and give that a try.
Cant wait to see them done.


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 Midget Gems wrote:
Seeing some cool models in the thread already that I'm very jealous of. Good Luck all

I thought I'd go with the literal interpretation of the theme and do something with OSL and light sources.

I'm going to make a scene I call the "Night Watch"

Spoiler:

My original thoughts



How its going (quite well i think)

This will be EPIC!

 Midget Gems wrote:
Seeing some cool models in the thread already that I'm very jealous of. Good Luck all

I thought I'd go with the literal interpretation of the theme and do something with OSL and light sources.

I'm going to make a scene I call the "Night Watch"

Spoiler:

My original thoughts



How its going (quite well i think)

Ok, but which one is Vimes?

Progress on the wee vikings.

 Jadenim wrote:

 Midget Gems wrote:
Seeing some cool models in the thread already that I'm very jealous of. Good Luck all

I thought I'd go with the literal interpretation of the theme and do something with OSL and light sources.

I'm going to make a scene I call the "Night Watch"

Spoiler:

My original thoughts



How its going (quite well i think)

Ok, but which one is Vimes?

How do they rise up?

This looks like it's going to be amazing when completed.

To those with glorious completed minis already, madness I cry!

The Dwarves, LT Tycho, the Harlequins and Dredd look superb. Well done!

Everyone with progress so far is looking very nice indeed.


I've put the bulk of the base colours on and started a bit of shading on the Kahl Grombryndal. Not much but progress is progress.

Cheers Mothsniper I nicked the idea from here

 Llamahead wrote:
Cheers Mothsniper I nicked the idea from here

Oh that is so clever! Thank you for sharing, that is an automatic Yoink.
Glue sticks come in different colors too... think of the possibilities!

Progress pic, nearly finished the first dreadnought. I decided to keep it as Ultramarine as the original owner had intended. Not sure about the battle damage I attempted with a tiny piece of sponge, I'm going to try add some more chips with a brush and see if it helps.

Midget Gems - it arleady looks awesome, I can't wait for the final effect.

I will enter with something simple, because this month I want to focus on my model from the Summer Blockbuster challenge.
This not official model, but official concept I present the female custodes:



The model can be downloaded for free here: https://cults3d.com/en/3d-model/naughties/ecstatic-lady-guardian-of-change.

Finished the Beholder so I can finally turn my attention toward the Glottkin again (which I have been basecoat-coloring off and on) for the 3month chal.

Have to admit at first I wonked the lighting as I had the darkest bit on the outside -_-, but after redoing the glow it looks ok to me.
Also made a single 'action version' in which I used photoshop to add some minor effects but you don't have to use it for the voting if its not allowed (and I fully understand)

Not expecting to beat anyone this round but still, hope most peeps here like it.
The reason I chose this floaty bally floatball was because back when I was a little helveine (actually when I was like 20 or so) I played baldurs gate and remember the first boss really wowing me (it was ofcourse an eye tyrant/beholder) as I had never seen such a thing before in any other game.
I've always enjoyed seeing them in later games, like in Ultima online as gazer beholders (which were pretty powerful mind you, especially their elder versions) and ofcourse in Final fantasy as evil eyes (although they are winged instead of hovering through magic power there..)

Anyway here it is, my very own Beholder.. It would be only right to give it a magically inspired name.. I dub it.. "Gir-Immaru" meaning stranger-light in sumerian. (first looked up the sumerian word for lightning but ehh.. that's definately not going to work LOL)

Gir-Immaru the Beholder
crouching down in a damp cave trying to pick up your glasses that had fallen to the ground having been startled by a sudden cold chill.. strangely so for the obsidian flooring giving away imminent rivers of lava all but preventing your descend.. you notice how a rippling pattern of a shadow forms around your own.. and as you turn around ..a crackling envelopes you shooting out from the gigantic living lightbulb hovering in closer.. its size atleast five times a man, It exhales in an elongated hiss empowering its electrifying burst and you tremble and fall from the impact.. certain that your adventure has ended.
"GGGggg...iiiiirr.... Immmmaaaaaaruuuu" It gurgles its name in testament to your demise.. and all turns black.."


Rest in spoilery to reduce load.

The avatar is essentially finished, apart from his base. He is proving difficult to photograph, both because of his pose and my difficulty with lighting.

99% complete on the Kâhl Grombrindal, just got to add something to the base to finish that off.

EDIT: Hiya Nev this will be my completed photo.

@joshinjapan - bloody hell, that is definitely a glow up. The gold on the headdress in particular is fantastic.

A wee update, on to the Frost Giant

Bit of detail work

Sculpting is done on this monstrosity. Time for paint.

Gotta love an Avatar.

OK, after a brief vacation, got the bases finished and the Dredds are all done.

First, the smaller, older version from Citadel/GW.



Second, slightly newer (price tag said '02), significantly larger version from Foundry.



And together.



The wrong side of the law.



Fun to do. Neat to have in the cabinet. Glad to finally have them done.

These were nice and simple my entry is a set of 4 Plasmonic Lifeforms for Stargrave and will consist of these 4 photographs




Massively simple paint job but rather fun and effective.

Female Custodes are painted with golden base . I also made the second model with the same body, but with head and weapon changed for helmet and sword.
At first I chose this model as a joke, but at this point I think they are not that bad. The green blade was a test of colour, but I think the metal one will look better.

OK, here we go:













Trying to embrace the theme on several different levels

I might not be able to enter this month. I was busting my ketsu on this guy...



...only to realize I don't have a proof photo. I thought I did, but apparently not.

I have a potential backup plan (the proof photo is already on Dakka) but I don't know if I can get to finishing it. We'll have to see what time & humidity have to say about that.

But I'm loving the competition. Keep up the good work, everyone

The Custodes are ready. I must say I am positvely surprised how they turned out.
I tested the Tamiya golden paint and glossy black base on them, and I am happy with the results. Metallic paints on 3D print usually look more rough, but here the gold is quite shiny.

And remember:


(source after clicking the image)

So I present:

halfling84 - female Custodes

Heh heh heh! The HIPS on those warriors!

Well it might not be the triumphant return I might have hoped for but here it is.

The MoleTroll






If you ever wondered what your giant goblin-mount mole creature would look like if you fed it enough magical emeralds this is apparently the answer.

Month is slipping away, check your progress and make sure you are on track.

Reminder that there will be no vote for next month, due to the tie this month. “Footslogger” will be our topic for July, so break out your good boots.

I'm suffering from overexposure to real life again. Good thing I didn't pick anything ambitious this month as I haven't made much progress yet and I doubt I will before next week.

 Geifer wrote:
I'm suffering from overexposure to real life again. Good thing I didn't pick anything ambitious this month as I haven't made much progress yet and I doubt I will before next week.

Real life needs to settle down and stay in it’s lane. We’re painting here! Priorities…

Hope things calm down for you.

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And some slow progress from me:

I should find the motivation to assemble one of the new Terminators, too. They look so cool in pictures, but I just can't seem to get into the right mood.

 Nevelon wrote:

 Geifer wrote:
I'm suffering from overexposure to real life again. Good thing I didn't pick anything ambitious this month as I haven't made much progress yet and I doubt I will before next week.

Real life needs to settle down and stay in it’s lane. We’re painting here! Priorities…

Hope things calm down for you.

So do I.

 Llamahead wrote:
These were nice and simple my entry is a set of 4 Plasmonic Lifeforms for Stargrave and will consist of these 4 photographs




Massively simple paint job but rather fun and effective.

These are quite effective!
Totally your fault, I had to do something with the glue gun.
https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/814064.page#11677609

I'm making some progress on my plasma support unit for my Raven Guard. Hoping to finish them in the next few days so I can maybe make a start on an entry for the Centrepiece comp.

Glad you enjoyed it Mothsniper can't wait to see the army!

Lots of good work this month (as every month, really). Here is my progress so far:

I'm having a very dodgy month unfortunately - I've spent a lot of time sat in hospitals with my son, who's started having seizures.
So unfortunately I'm not getting much time to paint. I got a couple of hours in tonight, and will hopefully get a couple more evenings this week. I'm aiming to get all four Kroxigors painted; but it may have to just be two of them. I'll see how it goes.

Fingers crossed!

Tonight's progress:





cheers,
Michael

Zounds.

All the best to you and your son.

 youwashock wrote:
Zounds.

All the best to you and your son.

Second this. Hope all goes well. Both I and one of my nephews had seizures as small children and grew out of them. Scary as heck for parents to deal with though. Fingers crossed things work out.

Krox are looking great!

Oh mate, that sucks. Been there and it's very stressful. Much love. Also, painting looks great, and any you can get it can be a great destresser.

Hang in there, Lovejoy. There are effective treatments out there now. My son started having tics, and then seizures, when he was in elementary school, but after starting on his meds, his symptoms haven't reappeared.


My entry is all finished and photographed!

Kaela Mensha Khaine:


The lave-like glow took a long, long time to get it as good as it is. The NMM bronze works well enough IRL, but kind of breaks down in these large-size photos. The base was a bear-- I built it up with putty to give the peg in his foot something to grab onto. I then applied some cracking medium, planning to do a lava base. The medium didn't stick to the putty though, and curled up so much that it looked like eggshells. I ended up scraping most of it off. I'm quite proud of my green-and-red alien plant, though.

Sorry to hear about your son, Lovejoy. I hope things turn out well for you guys.

Really sorry to hear that Lovejoy, hope everything works out okay. The Kroxigor look excellent, like the soft skin underneath the scales, nice contrasting colour.

@JoshinJapan - nice work finishing the base on your Avatar, the classic cactus is a great touch.

Sorry to hear about your boy Lovejoy. Hope he gets effective remedy and is happy and well soon.

Yeah, that sounds rough. I hope things turn out alright for him.

Thanks youwashock, Nevelon, inmygravenimage, JoshInJapan, Geifer, XvArcanevX, and Pariah Press - much appreciated!

And JoshInJapan, that Avatar looks fantastic - love the bronze!

I've made a (very small) amount of progress tonight... I did the back scales bluey-purple. They looked terrible, but I kept working at it, trying to get it to go right. It didn't, so I've made a last minute switch to red. Not sure about that yet... I'll see how I feel about it tomorrow.

I think it works pretty well, Lovejoy.

My proof shot for the month:


And finished shots of the Fire Elemental:

Sorry to hear about that Lovejoy. I really hope the whole family is coping and that things can return to normal for you all very soon. I really like the red on that Krox. It looks quite natural and adds some interest to the colour pallet.

Vej- the deep red flames are looking great. Proper magic fire.

Good luck Lovejoy.

Lovejoy, here's hoping everything works out for your boy. Also, your Kroxsies are looking great with the red.

I have no idea if I'll have an entry this month.

Little dreadnought is finished, ultramarine style

I have been trying to find my green paints, but no luck yet, I must have put them in a separate box from the others (in the middle of moving)

If the unpainted dreadnought didn't have dark angels stuff glued all over it I would have painted it an other color

I'm going to have a look this morning again and if I can't find them, there's a shop in town sells some citadel paints I'll pop in there and see what they have, need to get cracking not much time left.

Hope your son feels better Lovejoy

Welp, there's no chance of me finishing painting my terminator squad before the end of the month. It's been a long time since I failed to finish one of these, but it looks like June 2024 just isn't my month for mini painting.

 Pariah Press wrote:
Welp, there's no chance of me finishing painting my terminator squad before the end of the month. It's been a long time since I failed to finish one of these, but it looks like June 2024 just isn't my month for mini painting.

I’m not going to finish the whole squad. Right now I’ve shifted to getting one guy done. Put the final blue wash on him last night, so it’s just edgeing, clean up, decals and basing left.

Do people need an extra day? We can always push the deadline back if it would help.

I don’t think a day would help in my case. Feels like I’m closer to a week behind schedule.

I'm bowing out of this month's contest. I'm experiencing hobby burnout and need a break.

Better painted, or just a better sculpt? I'm not sure.



This image is just for comparison, my actual entry images are in this spoiler:

Was next month going to be footslogger btw cause I forgot

 Leopold Helveine wrote:
Was next month going to be footslogger btw cause I forgot

 Nevelon wrote:
Month is slipping away, check your progress and make sure you are on track.

Reminder that there will be no vote for next month, due to the tie this month. “Footslogger” will be our topic for July, so break out your good boots.

 Nevelon wrote:

 Leopold Helveine wrote:
Was next month going to be footslogger btw cause I forgot

 Nevelon wrote:
Month is slipping away, check your progress and make sure you are on track.

Reminder that there will be no vote for next month, due to the tie this month. “Footslogger” will be our topic for July, so break out your good boots.

Allright, nice.

Been buying a new army, so will have something foot sized and on foot and also somewhat foot with a d as in food for whatever manages to pin one down..for next month..

ofcourse, I am speaking of loon cults.

Also contemplating giving them human skin because I am tired of using green in 75% of my armies already.
Either that or red toned like my trogs had.

Bit of a terrible month, really - I haven't managed to complete all the Krox, and I have to work tomorrow, so this is as far as I'm going to get. But I do have an entry, at least; one original (5th ed WHFB) Kroxigor, and one of the current, far bigger, AoS Kroxigor. I've given them the same colour scheme as far as possible.

Lovejoy - Kroxigor



Also, here's one of the pics without the spoiler tags, just for visibility...



cheers,
Michael

Nice looking dino's, digging the natural color scheme, loads of cool entries as usual

I would have struggled to get the second dreadnought finished in time but the shop I popped into the other day didn't have normal base/layer dark angels colors, just the contrast which I'm not keen on.

Think I have been on the coffee too much /lack of sleep I spent half my time sorting bits I had accidentally touched randomly with other colors.

So with that in mind I decided to just finish the box dreadnought off a little more, there's a few glowing lights and a radiating cheese and tomato pizza base to count as the "Glow Up"

So the rest of the squad is still WIP, but got one to the finished stage. Really enjoying these new guys. My old metal terminators are just casually standing around, but these boys have some life to them. My paint scheme pre-dates helmet colors for vets, so no white helmet for this guy. He did get a BA icon on his leg as a callback to an old RT bit of fluff about a TDA squad getting ready to teleport into combat. One of them was in a borrowed suit from the Ultras, where whenever they painted over the blue the wearer was killed. In my headcannon, it was returned and we honor the time is spent with the angels, so as not to incur the wrath of the armor's machine spirit.

Anyway, I should get working on the rest of the guys again to try to clear the decks for next month.

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Let’s get those entries finished off and submitted! Last day of the month

Just caught up on this thread, hoping to have my plasma troops finished this evening, barring disasters with resin.

@Lovejoy, so sorry to hear about your son, I hope things improve for him and for you. Those Kroxigor look amazing, by the way!

A little later than I would have liked, my barbarian is ready for what's best in life.

HeroQuest Barbarian:

I realised I don't have time to sort the base so my photo from before is my final one!

Okay, it looks like I'm in this month after all. I started my entry yesterday and just finished this morning

Proof

Kid Cthulhu-Dr. Febris, Plague Doctors Guildmaster




Why is this a glow-up? Besides the luminescent effects? Well, because it's an update to my previous Plague Doctor

Got a dragon ogre finished for this month, just need to get the pics. Football/pub got in the way for photos tonight, hopefully tomorrow is ok?

Maharg wrote:
Got a dragon ogre finished for this month, just need to get the pics. Football/pub got in the way for photos tonight, hopefully tomorrow is ok?

Im the same (the Football/pub part not the Dragon Ogre)

Some quick pics here but will get better ones up tomorrow evening.

Me too (bloody nerve-wracking England team...). Here's the proof of completion, I'll get proper pics tomorrow.

Tomorrow works for pics.

Let’s get those entries in!

Thanks Nev! I’m technically finished but an extra day to get proper pics is most welcome this month.

I'm far enough behind that one extra day just ain't gonna cut it. I'm waving the white flag. I hate hobby schizophrenia so much, I've been doing a lot of assembling lately but just haven't felt like actually painting anything after my tournament earlier this month.

I'm running a little late this month. I planned out quite poorly, unfortunately. But I should be able to post something July 1st or 2nd.

I literally just need a coat of varnish and some nice photos.

Here's my final entry pic:



Good luck everyone!

Really nice glow from those plasma guns CancelledApocalypse

Here are my final pics

Nice work Maharg and Cancelled Apoc

And completing my final Pics here

I like how this turned out overall, I went for a Mordheim theme rather than Ankh Morpork/Discoworld as I wanted this to look like a grim dark photo frame with the background and the sides adding to the piece (I got them printed out from the rulebook) but the good thing is its easy enough to swap in a new background and sides if you feel like it. Could put the Tower of Art in the background and small dragons or Hippos up the sides

A few bits could be improved I think, I lost a small rat I was going to put in the scene coming out the Tunnel and also forgot to put a skaven symbol on one of the boxes to show who the red eyes belong to. Took me ages to align the lights with the holes so you could actual see the eyes. I think the scene it tells a story at any rate and I'm looking forward to this being on my Shed office wall near where I work when at home. Tried a bit of OSL with the Guard with the lantern too.

Maharg wrote:
Really nice glow from those plasma guns CancelledApocalypse

Thanks Maharg! The skintones on your Dragon Ogre are fantastic! Wish I could get skin to look like that...

@Midget Gems That's awesome! Love the glowing eyes under the bridge/in the culvert, really well thought out and executed!

I'm saving my comments for the vote thread, but for now I can say that the competition will be stiff this time around.

And I have them done. I have concluded that Ghazghkull has always looked cool.

Love that old school Ghazzy on the left!

As long as we're posting ork stuff, I've finished the last Gnot Tank in the squad. As part of this wee grot's glow up, I think he got a few too many stim chems from the dokks to help him win the grot tank races, he's a pretty diesel little guy. New bod, new ride, ready for summer!









Great work everyone, I can't wait to vote for all this amazing stuff!

I'm sad I didn't end up having much time to paint this month, so my glow up burned out. Can't wait to vote though, everyone's entries are great!

https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/814149.page

Little late, but go vote!

Thanks as always Nev!