Welcome all to the 113th 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: Footslogger - Sometimes the best way to get somewhere is putting one foot in front of the other. No fancy bikes or tanks. No fancy horses or winged monsters. Just the poor infantry with a good pair of boots. Getting where you need to go and getting things done. Taking ground and holding it. These boots are made for walking, and that’s just what they’ll do...


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.

I'll enter this freshly sculpted cyber-ninja.

Based on the totally-use-your-Escher-miniatures-for-this-one sketch in the 3rd edition Codex Imperial Guard's gallery of regiments, a Xenonian guardswoman:

Keeping on the female theme above, I think I have an old metal Howling Banshee Exarch to prime and paint.



Cheers,

CB

PS: Then I remembered I had an extra Dark Reaper Exarch...so I figured I would take advantage of the contrast of black and white.

Can I ask your indulgence good people of Dakka?

I got these dilapidated plastic dwarves off eBay like this and I don’t want to bother stripping them or over-spraying them. Can I just call this primed and set about trying to make these guys look worthy of the painting challenge? Or is this just setting a bad precedent for future challenges?

Alternatively I could also find a female biped.

 theCrowe wrote:
Can I ask your indulgence good people of Dakka?

I got these dilapidated plastic dwarves off eBay like this and I don’t want to bother stripping them or over-spraying them. Can I just call this primed and set about trying to make these guys look worthy of the painting challenge? Or is this just setting a bad precedent for future challenges?

Alternatively I could also find a female biped.

The question is how much of that is going to be in the finished product?

If you intend just to paint over the whole mini, so none of the pre-exisiting paint will show (or like 90% of it) just not strip/prime, it would be fine. What you start with is not a head start for the finished product, as it’s going to be all replaced.

If you are going to clean up/touch up/refine what’s there, I think that is a little too far away from “primed one color” which should be the baseline.

I’m not loving the blue and yellow vibe but the flesh and the metal on the weapons probably are more touch-up areas. I’ll maybe just entered something else anyway. I’ll see how I go.

It’s kinda more that I need to get these painted soonish.

I think I'm going to paint some Bretonnian Men at Arms this month


though if those don't inspire me, my Old World painting queue shelf has a few more candidates with orcs, beastmen and wood elves all waiting for their turn with the brush

My entry for this month will be Solar Auxilia infantry, painted as a French army from steampunk WW I to accompany my french Sentinel from the "Nice ride" contest. I'm still thinking if they would look better in light blue uniforms, or with the famous red pants from the beginning of the war.

Proof picture:

My entry proofpic, was going to buy a lot more looncult units but need to conserve money and so I'll just keep it to this as a standalone.

Besides that I wanted to buy oldworld armies too in the near future so..

Acceptable?



I actually had the blue bits based in Fenris grey but then the blue ink just blued them back up. It’s for a skirmish game rather than an army game so the rest will be all sorts of individual colours.

Fun fact, Dwarfs didn’t actually wear helmets with horns on. That was just something GW did to give them more character.

 theCrowe wrote:
Acceptable?



I actually had the blue bits based in Fenris grey but then the blue ink just blued them back up. It’s for a skirmish game rather than an army game so the rest will be all sorts of individual colours.

Fun fact, Dwarfs didn’t actually wear helmets with horns on. That was just something GW did to give them more character.

That’s basically a full repaint. You are fine.

In with a couple Mandos. They have jetpacks, sure, but they elect not to use them.

I'll enter these genestealers. I'll pick the five I like best to submit.

Built these guys for the last edition of KT. Never got around to painting them. Probably not going to get all 5 done, as I still need to finish last month’s terminators and am going to be AFK for a week. We’ll see how many I can get through.

I've got a load of female AoS troops I'm jamming together from all factions to form a warband (might even write a story about them), so here's some proof pics for ones I might enter...

 theCrowe wrote:
Can I ask your indulgence good people of Dakka?

I got these dilapidated plastic dwarves off eBay like this and I don’t want to bother stripping them or over-spraying them. Can I just call this primed and set about trying to make these guys look worthy of the painting challenge? Or is this just setting a bad precedent for future challenges?

Alternatively I could also find a female biped.

I say go for it!
I did that in the past with Ungrim entry.
Here was my proof
https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/30/812028.page#11607384
Here was the final
https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/120/812028.page#11615614


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Footslogging gangers for me this month.

Oh btw will my looncourt guy on a squig still be eligable or do I need to cut it from the entry, technically the squig is on foot..

 Leopold Helveine wrote:
Oh btw will my looncourt guy on a squig still be eligable or do I need to cut it from the entry, technically the squig is on foot..

Squig’s got feet. Close enough.

I'm in, of course, but I haven't decided what to enter. I want to lean into the theme, and paint up something that just sort of trudges along. I'll try to find some time to dig through the backlog and find something appropriate.

Made up some Scouts for a Heresy army project.

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 Nevelon wrote:

 Leopold Helveine wrote:
Oh btw will my looncourt guy on a squig still be eligable or do I need to cut it from the entry, technically the squig is on foot..

Squig’s got feet. Close enough.

Oh btw rules say no more than 5 models but I remeber you stretching that up before? Shouldn't that be another number now? Or are we back to max 5?
I just noticed that looncourt has 7 models -_-
Should I cut a few from the entry or are modelcounts no longer relevant?

Kind regards.
(already got one grot gnome done.

 Leopold Helveine wrote:

 Nevelon wrote:

 Leopold Helveine wrote:
Oh btw will my looncourt guy on a squig still be eligable or do I need to cut it from the entry, technically the squig is on foot..

Squig’s got feet. Close enough.

Oh btw rules say no more than 5 models but I remeber you stretching that up before? Shouldn't that be another number now? Or are we back to max 5?
I just noticed that looncourt has 7 models -_-
Should I cut a few from the entry or are modelcounts no longer relevant?

Kind regards.
(already got one grot gnome done.

All entries should be 5 models. I assume that if people are paining more then that they are going to choose the best 5 for the final entry.

The model cap is one we occasionally waive. And little accessories (like mascots or teleport homers and the like) while technically another model get a free pass.

 Nevelon wrote:

 Leopold Helveine wrote:

 Nevelon wrote:

 Leopold Helveine wrote:
Oh btw will my looncourt guy on a squig still be eligable or do I need to cut it from the entry, technically the squig is on foot..

Squig’s got feet. Close enough.

Oh btw rules say no more than 5 models but I remeber you stretching that up before? Shouldn't that be another number now? Or are we back to max 5?
I just noticed that looncourt has 7 models -_-
Should I cut a few from the entry or are modelcounts no longer relevant?

Kind regards.
(already got one grot gnome done.

All entries should be 5 models. I assume that if people are paining more then that they are going to choose the best 5 for the final entry.

The model cap is one we occasionally waive. And little accessories (like mascots or teleport homers and the like) while technically another model get a free pass.

In that case I'll only enter the ones actually on foot, cutting the squigrider and the one composed of two grots standing on top of eachother as one of them technically isn't on foot when being carried by another either.

I want to always stay as close to the theme as possible.

Hey all, my entry for this month is going to be one of these dudes I just finished building last night.

Sadly being a giant there is a lack of transport options available and these guys have to walk everywhere

I’ll be tackling the ‘Royal Decapitator’ from Flesh Eater Courts this month…

Keeping it simple as time is limited but not planning to miss any more submissions this year so choosing models I have a good shot at completing while I’m busy is the way forward me thinks…

Right:

Something(s) from this lot. Snakemen, winged serpents, and Conquistadors alive and dead.

My plan is topaint up these 5 ork nobs I made as a personal bodyguard unit for my warboss.

I think i finally foundf some foot sloggers and I wanted to paint. These guys have been sitting on my shelves for half a decade now. Ever since I read Gaunt's Ghost I've wanted to have some Blood Pact. Hopefully I can run them as something in killteam.

Finally figured out something for this month. I'll paint my very first Old World model, a Tomb King on foot. Proof:

I plan to use a combination of Contrast and traditional paints for this guy. He shouldn't be too hard to do.

Gonna paint up some good old fashioned footslogging Primaris

This month is rumbling along at an alarming pace so I've got one model lined up for footslogger.



Mighty Matilda from my new Yaegir Kill Team.

Daia T'Nara - Xenonian Guardswoman


If we're being honest, I didn't enjoy this one much - drab paint jobs just aren't for me. Luckily the rest of the box is going to be traitor guard, so they can dress for pride and we're all good.

If you have the minis, and nothing else fits the theme, and you can prime them . . .
Maybe you can paint . . . the A-Team.



Been a while since I've entered a comp., but I'll through my hat in the ring with these models from Crooked Dice.
I also bought a resin version of B.A.'s van, but it's not exactly the right scale for the models (about 80-90% big enough), and then they wouldn't be on foot either.

@Daia T’Nara I really like the way you’ve done the creepy alien plants; where are the models from?

 Jadenim wrote:
@Daia T’Nara I really like the way you’ve done the creepy alien plants; where are the models from?

Those are just the basic 'Barbed Bracken' GW does. Good little set, they're very thin but the plastic is flexible and springy, I can't see them taking damage from anything that wouldn't just pulverise the miniature anyway. The website says to use superglue on them, but I hadn't bothered checking that when I assembled the mini and just used plastic cement, and they seem pretty firmly anchored. It's pricey of course, but I'm too lazy to go looking for cheaper options online, and since I'm only using it for one-offs like this, not a whole army, the four sprues in the box are probably going to last the rest of my hobby life.

Steadily painting my ninja, half a paint layer a day. It's not fantastic speed but should get me there on time. Of course I expect to get a good day in before that. A month can't be all bad days, right?

Month is half over. Time to check progress and adjust schedules and goals! Get that paint down.

Also time to start kicking around ideas for next month.

I managed to get some work done over the weekend (caught covid last week and have been feeling like I have been hit by a bus)

I did get some new hobby supplies in the form of oil paints while down in Newcastle last week getting infected and have been trying those out for this months challenge.

First time using oil paints, think I have went to baby blue tone, need to try darken him up a little I think, going for an undead trio of freshly resurrected giants.

I had the first week of July off from work, so I'm nearly done with my genestealers.

My pitch for next month: "Absolute Units!" (Something huge. Or, a squad of soldiers!)

Having had no painting mojo at all this month, finally settled on something:

Setaris Ravagers- not so much footsloggers as tail / wing sloggers! Nasty scavenging alien Dinos, from Brimstone but also ideal for 2000AD, Stargrave, you name it.

And having found a bit of mojo, some colour!

Halfway through the month, but I can see quite a few others are only just starting too, so I reckon I've got no excuses not to join in...

I was planning to finally put together some Death Korps veterans for Kill Team, but I looked at the sprues, and how many pieces they were in, and basically lost the will to live. So I've put them back on the shelf.

I've dug out an old 1/35th scale Maschinen Kreiger SAFS toy instead. I saw these at Salute a while back, when South London Warlords ran a big display game using loads of them. So I bought some, and, like 99% of my planned projects, put them in a box and ignored them.

But I've found one, and it was a bit broken, but fixable.



I chopped it up a bit, to repose the legs, to give it a bit of movement:



Then I glued on a few bits and bobs, and slapped on some putty:



I always think of SAFS as being fairly slow, plodding, lumbering things, so hopefully it fits the 'Footsloggers' theme OK. Now I just have to decide on a colour scheme, and go crazy with over-the-top weathering!

cheers,
Michael

Finished.







Cheers,

CB

Tomb King is coming along:

Despite a bad prime, I think he's gonna look okay, at least from tabletop distance. I need to figure out a good way to paint his undead flesh though. I'll think of something, I'm sure.

Great work, Captain Brown! Love that axe-head!

That Tomb King's looking good too, Zergsmasher - classic colours! I feel maybe a pale blue-grey wash would go well on the flesh, and help tie it into the rest of the colourscheme?

I've been cracking on well with the SAFS thingy... I'm trying a new weathering technique, where you basically do all the rust first, then paint over it. We'll see how it goes!

Basecoated with black, then oversprayed with a tan brown. I figured that'd be a good base for the rust.



Then I just went crazy with the rust paints!



Hopefully the next stage will tone it down a bit...

cheers,
Michael

Well, here we are.

Lots of early progress this month. I dig it.

Mandos done.







Keep.up the good work, everybody!

Genestealers: DONE!

 Lovejoy wrote:
...Hopefully the next stage will tone it down a bit...

Well, the next stage is done, and it did tone things down! I used an old chopped-down brush to scrub on some bluey-grey, then a bit of highlighting, and a few scratch marks.



Next is a couple of unit markings or something like that, and a bit of grime, I guess.

cheers,
Michael


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...and I reckon this is about done! Maybe a bit of stuff for me to fiddle with still, but I should be able to take proper pics tomorrow.



cheers,
Michael

Here's my entry for this month;

Looncourt gnomeskins

(I don't like grots)



Selected the 5 on-foot minis out of the 7 total of the looncourt.

 Geifer wrote:
I'll enter this freshly sculpted cyber-ninja.

I love this

He's finished!
Here's one of the pics without the spoiler tags, just for visibility...






And the formatted spoiler-taggy bit:



Lovejoy - Footslogger

Basic, bright and colourful. My Dwarfen footsloggers are done.





Nothing very uniform, just a variety of styles for players to choose in a dwarf skirmish game.

Wow, their bases even match their uniforms!

Suggestions for next month's theme:

Slow and Steady

The Last Drop (Drop of liquid? Supply drop? Drop from orbit?)

Taste (Paint?) the Rainbow - whatever you paint, it should be colourful.

Sun, Sea & Sand - in honour of the summer holidays, paint something that features one or more of those themes.

Wow Lovejoy, that weathering is a thing of beauty

If it's suggestion time, I've got a couple (that totally aren't things I've assembled but haven't started painting yet so it'd be convenient):

I Understood That Reference! - Something about this mini and/or how it's painted is a nod to something else. It might be built in from the start like Sly Marbo or Mad Donna, homemade like an Ork Flyboy wearing aviators because he feels da need fer speed, or just take your word for it like a scout with a shotgun he calls his Boomstick or a Wych with blond hair because this Barbie is queen of the fighting pits. Dakkadakka, their brushes ready.

Beep Boop - Villains who are more machine than man, or your plastic pal who's fun to be with (unless he's feeling very depressed). Doesn't have to be bleeding-edge quantum computing in a body made from pure unobtainium, to our distant descendants on feral worlds clockwork and a steam engine could've been enough to turn a hunk of scrap into a metal beast. Robots, cyborgs, labour-saving devices or smart weapons.

Beep Boop sounds really good, I would like to paint a robot

But I'm already painting my Beep Boop this month because she's on foot!

I understood that Star Trek reference in there But given that General Grievous is getting built right now, I'm all about the beep boop

Fine. I'll get out some more green stuff...

Normally I don’t like topics that are genre locked. “Can this be fantasy/modern/sci-fi?” Is a yardstick I apply to everything. Beep boop is a little hard to get into fantasy. We could widen it out in the description to silly little things making silly little noises, which could catch familers, animal companions, fey things. But that’s a bit pf a stretch.

That said, it seems to be getting traction, so I’ll put it in the poll. Which I’m going to try to get up after work today, so keep the ideas coming.

To be fair, golems and goblin/gnome steam robots are pretty established in many fantasy settings.

With Nevs permission I would like to adjust my entry to include a Deathwing Knight I fancy messing around with over the next few days. If I like how he turns out might submit him rather than the ghoul if that is ok?

Here’s my proof pic. I feel the ghoul is in a place that needs a lot of glazing so my plan is to maybe save him for when I have more time and try a weathered and battle worn stippling approach on the Deathwing character in time for closing…

You can change your entry at any point up until the last minute, as long as you started in the month. So that’s fine.

The ninja is ready for a rooftop romp.

Cyber-Ninja:

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
I like the idea of a golem or other magically created construct as an analogous fantasy version of a robot.
Even though I'd most likely paint a straight-up robot if that theme wins.

Also, if I'm not mistaken,

 Daia T'Nara wrote:

your plastic pal who's fun to be with (unless he's feeling very depressed)

is a reference to Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

 Nevelon wrote:
Normally I don’t like topics that are genre locked. “Can this be fantasy/modern/sci-fi?” Is a yardstick I apply to everything. Beep boop is a little hard to get into fantasy. We could widen it out in the description to silly little things making silly little noises, which could catch familers, animal companions, fey things. But that’s a bit pf a stretch.

Maybe extend it to other non-biological lifeforms - genies, elementals, not-undead spirits, living goo, etc.

OK, some topics to vote on for next month. Giving it 3 days, as it’s a bit early this month.

https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/814258.page

Footslogger matches my army theme better than any other comp theme ever, but somehow, I spent the first week of this month groping for inspiration.
Then I left town for a week. In the day that I had back at home, lightning struck and I assembled this guy.
Then I left town for another week. I finished up the greenstuffing (this is more of a conversion than a kitbash, since these two kits don't really bash) last night and primed him today. So I'm in but with precious little hobby time left in the month with which to paint him.
At least he's a real "foot"slogger (unlike you feetsloggers):

Making some progress, but hit a motivation wall.

Face is about 80% of the way there. Looks good enough on the table and any improvements from here on out will require serious time commitment.

B. A. is partly done, Hannibal and Murdock are barely more than base coated. I'm hoping taking some pictures motivates me a little.

And then there's the whole problem of bases . . .

@Gulgog TufToof: I feel the same way. I was looking forward to this one and thought it would be easy to get done, but life has been getting in the way too much.

I've finished priming my minis and put a wash on them so people can at least see what they look like. We'll see if I can manage to paint them the next few days.

So long as you’re adding more boyz to da Waaagh!, that’s what counts right? I’m looking forward to seeing those ladz painted.

@jazzyjeff, I can imagine with a subject like yours that you would want to do them justice and it would be challenging with a deadline. just keep telling yourself, “I love it when a plan comes together.”

Lotsa fun stuff so far. The A-team is delightful, and TV accurate as well.

I've painted quite a few models this month (follow the link in my signature to see everything), and it's been tough to decide on my entry. In the end, it has to be Raging Annie, from Bad Squiddo miniatures.

Proof pic:


Final pics:

Right I’m happy with this fella. Got a whole ton of Deathwing to tackle at some point in the future (after various other projects) so thought I would try out my general ideas on this guy; a ‘mini of the month’ from my local GW store not long ago.

Very happy with the result to be honest. It was primarily achieved with layering ultra thin paint with a stippling technique and I found the whole process super relaxing and easy to achieve. The weathering was done with sponge chipping and the odd hand painted scratch and from then on it was simply a case of painting in the details; which was by far the most time consuming part.

Here he is:

I'm attempting a foot slogger this afternoon. Wish me luck

Good luck!

 KidCthulhu wrote:
I'm attempting a foot slogger this afternoon. Wish me luck

All the best!

 KidCthulhu wrote:
I'm attempting a foot slogger this afternoon. Wish me luck

I wish you success instead.

My French Solar Auxilia squad is ready I found a picture of the actual uniforms from that time with armour, and used it as a reference:



I plan to use these guys on diorama, so they have no bases at the moment. I present:

halfling84 - French soldiers from the steampunk Great War

Since I'm pretty sure I'm going to finish this guy in the next hour, here's the proof photo:

 KidCthulhu wrote:
Since I'm pretty sure I'm going to finish this guy in the next hour, here's the proof photo:

What did you add to the shield? It's hard to make out in this photo.

It'll be easier to see on the painted version. I'm just waiting on the clear coat to dry, then I can start photographing.

Sorry guys I've not been around much to comment on things, its been a busy few months.

I started this month by making and undercoating some Witch Hunters for this challenge as they always seem to be on foot but part way through the month I had a change of heart and quickly knocked out a few Bretonnia Peasant Bowmen after randomly watching the Kenneth Branagh Henry V Saint Crispin's Day speech, I thought they fitted the theme better (both them footslogging around after the nobility and also in an Agincourt type sense with some muddy battlefields firing volleys into the incoming men at arms) and I was interested in painting them on a long base.

and here they are, a happy few.

Proof


Final Pics

I've gotten two colors down so far, will try to get them done in the next few days.

Okay, my knight is done and here are the photos just in the nick of time:

Proof

Kid Cthulhu-Knight of the Order of St. Lacrimosa

Finished my entry with time to spare for once. Here are the final photos of my Tomb King:



I used Army Painter Speedpaints for the vast majority of the model, and I kind of phoned it in on a lot of it. I was also having to work around a bad prime, as when I primed the model with Wraithbone spray it was too hot and humid outside and the model ended up a bit chalky. I feel like I managed to salvage it adequately, and it looks good from tabletop distance, so I guess I'm happy with it. Don't spray primer in high humidity, kids. Wait for cooler dryer weather if possible if spray priming.

Late entry for me (and yes I've got them further on than this but only during this month)

I'll see how many i can get done of these Heretic Troopers for Trench Crusade based on Wargames Atlantic French with mixed heads from the Germans and French. I was going for a faceless industrial vibe.

I'm finished my five nob body guards in time for the competition.

A little close, but done, some Oathsworn Miniatures critters from Lovejoy's latest kickstarter:

Proof:


And finished:


Didn't figure out what the little bit on the shield below the hourglass is, (maybe its holding strap?), and not painted up to Lovejoy's standards for here, but still fun to get back to the line all the same.

While running out, still some time left. Time to wrap up the procrastination and get to work! Grab some good pics to make sure you have the best angle in good light.

If anyone needs an extension let me know.

 Nevelon wrote:
If anyone needs an extension let me know.

*Tentatively raises hand...*

I dunno, I might be done in time. It's very hot here at the moment and I have no air conditioning, so painting is a bit of a struggle.

 CancelledApocalypse wrote:

 Nevelon wrote:
If anyone needs an extension let me know.

*Tentatively raises hand...*

I dunno, I might be done in time. It's very hot here at the moment and I have no air conditioning, so painting is a bit of a struggle.

No problem, extension granted. So everyone has until the end of the first. Or more realistically when I’m at my computer early on the 2nd having my coffee before work.

Stay frosty!

 Nevelon wrote:

 CancelledApocalypse wrote:

 Nevelon wrote:
If anyone needs an extension let me know.

*Tentatively raises hand...*

I dunno, I might be done in time. It's very hot here at the moment and I have no air conditioning, so painting is a bit of a struggle.

No problem, extension granted. So everyone has until the end of the first. Or more realistically when I’m at my computer early on the 2nd having my coffee before work.

Stay frosty!

Thanks - I was going to ask as well. I have a research paper for a class for my Master's degree due tomorrow. I've been giving myself painting breaks when I achieve progress, but I have to knuckle down and write another ~1500 words. Not going to be much painting in the next 36 hours.

 DJJazzyJeff wrote:

 Nevelon wrote:

 CancelledApocalypse wrote:

 Nevelon wrote:
If anyone needs an extension let me know.

*Tentatively raises hand...*

I dunno, I might be done in time. It's very hot here at the moment and I have no air conditioning, so painting is a bit of a struggle.

No problem, extension granted. So everyone has until the end of the first. Or more realistically when I’m at my computer early on the 2nd having my coffee before work.

Stay frosty!

Thanks - I was going to ask as well. I have a research paper for a class for my Master's degree due tomorrow. I've been giving myself painting breaks when I achieve progress, but I have to knuckle down and write another ~1500 words. Not going to be much painting in the next 36 hours.

I wonder how long an essay you can write on purity seals? Some models have a lot of real estate. Or for the more chaoticly minded, you could enscribe your thesis on a word bearers land raider or titan.

Academic needs are no excuse to stop painting!

Ahem! Landraider would not fit the theme of foot slogger (though you could probably argue for a titan and have plenty of room for that thesis on the pauldrons )

 KidCthulhu wrote:
Ahem! Landraider would not fit the theme of foot slogger (though you could probably argue for a titan and have plenty of room for that thesis on the pauldrons )

Sorry, got caught up in the idea for using miniatures as a writing medium. LRs are right out. Titans it is.

The beginnings of my Blood Pact are ready. And I have lots of pictures this time.

I’ve switched my entry. The A-Team is too much to chew in the time crunch. I want to do them the service they deserve, and I am still struggling to figure out the bases and I want it to be good. The only thing I’ve figured out is I’m putting a box of Trash Bags! on Murdock’s base.

I’ll post a proof pic soonish. It’s a bit out of the box, but I think it’s going to work out. I’m not writing my paper on the model, but I am going to put something in there about it. I like the way you think, Nevelon.

Finished my footsloggin' footslogger.
Ork Freebooter Shoota Boy (final pics)










Great stuff so far, and good luck to all still trying to squeak in under the deadline!

Almost there. Needs decals and baseing. Maybe a touch up or two.

 Nevelon wrote:


Almost there. Needs decals and baseing. Maybe a touch up or two.

Hey Nev, this is looking really good. Is that Scale 75 Decayed Metal you've used on the aquila?

 XvArcanevX wrote:

 Nevelon wrote:


Almost there. Needs decals and baseing. Maybe a touch up or two.

Hey Nev, this is looking really good. Is that Scale 75 Decayed Metal you've used on the aquila?

Nope.

Mechanicum standard grey base
Leadbelcher drybrush
Nuln oil wash
Little touchup highlighting with the leadbelcher (sometimes I’ll use a brighter silver if I have it open)

Grey first with a leadbelcher drybrush? Interesting...

I usually paint leadbelcher, then Nuln and then a light leadbelcher drybrush.

I'm gonna have to try your technique just to see the results firsthand, Nevelon.

I have a few ways I do silvers.

Black with silver drybrush, no wash (bolters, guns, marine belts)

Grey/silver drybrush/wash (trooper skulls aqilas, terminator honors)

Silver with wash (eldar infantry weapons, DW arms and shoulderpads)

The results are similar, but a little different. Not sure if I have a model with all 3 teqniques.

I'll tell you a simple metallic that looks good, i was doing some chainmail on Chaos Knight barding and just painted it a dark muddy brown then one light drybrush of Gun-metal. It looks 400x better than it has any right to and chainmail in particular is now a solved issue for me.

Also well shoot looks like i'm going to have to miss this one. I made some decent progress early on but i've been giving basing, weathering and some minor scheme elements a rethink for the force as a whole and don't want to progress the unit past where they are. Also i am waiting on a couple paints/basing products.

Oh man. I will try to get something done tonight PST.

We have the day extension, so don’t rush, but get it done soon.

Just put decals on. Will base and photograph tomorrow.

Decided to do a last minute entry with a few Hunters from the Bloodborne boardgame.

I have tried to enter these models for a challenge some months / half a year ago. Rather, I did post a proof picture back then, but did not manage to get them done.
So here's another go.

This time I painted the three hunters that only had the primer on and left the two that had some paint on them untouched (and left them out of the final pictures).

Proof from my messy "on the go" setup from our gaming room. The ones I painted are the rightmost three.
Edit: the proof picture is two weeks old (the most keen eyed of you can see the "Centerpiece" entry in the works there). Most of the painting was done during a couple of remote meetings and over the last few nights.



Final pictures.
"Spartans of the Church". The foot soldiers of the Healing Church, fighting against the Beast Scourge on the streets of Yharnam.












I was a bit conflicted with these models.
Bloodborne is maybe my favorite video game of all time, but the details on these were a bit fuzzy at times. Quite fun to paint though!

OK, we have an extra day for this, but get started on the next month

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I've got the mini done just need to take photos tonight!

 Olthannon wrote:
I've got the mini done just need to take photos tonight!

Same. Finished my base over lunch, just need pics.

Looks like I'm going to be painting long into the night to get my entry finished...

 CancelledApocalypse wrote:
Looks like I'm going to be painting long into the night to get my entry finished...

On the bright side, should be cooler then…

Well I got 3 of the Heretic Troopers done. Hope you like them. I went for faceless and bright with red colours stereotypical of devils.

Mighty Matilda is here to kick ass and chew gum. Looks like she's all outta gum.

Honestly, I'm just happy I managed to get this painted in time. That was an achievement in itself.

Well done everyone!

I got a few Bretonnian men at arms finished this month

So I got one guy done. Better then zero. Lost a week to vacation, and life is up to its tricks again. I put him and his mates together for the prior edition. He was the recon/scout guy. Hence the auspex, pointing out targets, and the phobos shoulderpad.

Anyway, done now.

Nothing got done, I am out for now.

 Nevelon wrote:

 CancelledApocalypse wrote:
Looks like I'm going to be painting long into the night to get my entry finished...

On the bright side, should be cooler then…

More flies and moths, though... my fan seems to be keeping them away for the moment, fortunately.

However, I'm a bit stymied. I'm trying to come up with a logo to freehand onto some shields. It's for an Order aligned warband, who I was intending to call the Bloodbound. I was going to just use a bloody handprint style logo, but I've gone off that idea. Thing is, I can't seem to come up with anything else.

The idea behind the warband is that they come from all different factions (though the three I'm painting right now are all freeguild) and are tied together by fate - and possibly some higher power pulling strings. All of the members have had visions of their own deaths while fighting alongside their warband comrades, so they all think they're in this warband just to die at some important time - though some are actively trying to change their fate.

The logo needs to be pretty simple as I need to be able to free hand it quickly. Something to do with blood/fate/death etc.


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Okay, I've given up. If possible, I'd love a second extra day to get them finished, but if not, don't worry, I'll bow out of this month.

Alright. I managed to finish an entry.

Proof:


It was base coated with a black wash. Hopefully that doesn't go too far past the "primed or coated a single colour" rule of the competition. Do the rust effects and freehand graffiti push it far enough along to ignore the wash?

I'm submitting a piece of terrain. How is this a footslogger you ask? Well, take a look.

Foot:


Slog:


-Ers:


Also, the other side:


From an angle:



It doesn't have any purity seals, or lots of text on the hull, but the names and tags that aren't specifically theme related are sources/authors I referenced in my paper.

Looking good everyone

Sadly I'm wasn't able to finish my entry this month, covid free now but still really tired all the time / little energy and struggled to get much painting done.

I can give you guys an extra ~10 hours. It sounds like there are a few people who are just missing it, so I’ll close this up after work.

Lots of great stuff.

Just finished painting, didn't manage to do any freehand on the shields. Just need to whack some grass tufts on the bases, but I need to go eat...

Here's a proof of completion, I'll get proper pics up later tonight.

 Pursuit Of Happiness wrote:
Looking good everyone

Sadly I'm wasn't able to finish my entry this month, covid free now but still really tired all the time / little energy and struggled to get much painting done.

I'm glad to hear that you are Covid free now. I hope the energy comes back soon.

Final entry photos:



Sorry it's late!

No worries. I’ll be spending most of tomorrow on the road anyway, so the vote thread is going to be a few days out anyway.

Great work all, now go get beep-booping.

Go vote!

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