Welcome all to the 118th 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 is the Open Round. Subject to the normal rules, but paint whatever your heart desires. This is a busy month for a lot of people so paint what you have time for. Have a hobby related New Year’s resolution you need to do a few more models for? Now’s the time! Let’s finish 2024 off with some fun and amazing entries!

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 December and will end at midnight EST on December 31st. After this, I shall compile the finished entries into a new thread, and voting will run for 5 days.

I had this bozo sit in a box for who knows how long. I should probably do something about that.

Alright, let's do this:



That was a few days ago, it's had its wraithbone spray put on, but no other work yet. About the back of the starboard track, it wouldn't fit right anyway (see the port side) and I wanted to have a couple of links stuck on the front like the old ones, so I ripped them out and just glued in random chunks of resin that were vaguely track-link-sized. Get a techpriest to bless it enough and it'll work just fine.

But that's being pretty ambitious, so in the event that I get fed up with trying to paint a big-ass vehicle in one go (or it falls apart, because I didn't assemble it carefully, it's just a whole mess of superglue), I've got a backup plan:



Heavy melee weapons - two aspiring champions, one regular legionary, who between them will finish off the eight I need for my current 1K list. They're unrelated to the Land Raider - it'll be Blood Angels, in Bantax desert camo - so my entry won't be both of them, just the tank if finished, the heretics if not.

Going to paint these barbgaunts. They should go quick and will let me field the combat patrol. I’ve got a few other projects I want to clear up by year’s end.

So… we move into the end of the year once again!

For this month I’m entering my customized Hive Tyrant modeled to replicate the version seen recently in the Space Marine 2 video game… steel impaled carapace and all.

I have spent a considerable amount of time trying to get this guy to look as close to this version as I could given my current skill level in the hobby… and I’m overall fairly content with the results so far. There are a few details that I lacked the skill/materials/knowledge to replicate but, taken as a whole, I really think I’ve come pretty close.

Everything rests on the paint job now, which I am already planning a slightly more ‘gritty’ feel for than the version in game while staying true to the general scheme and colour.

I’ll be writing up a Blog detailing how I managed to go about this later today but, for now, in the words of one hapless Cadian trooper upon witnessing the Hive Tyrant emerge from a tunnel:

Behold…

THE ATROCITY!”

P.S. I will provide a reference pick from the game if some are not familiar with this awesome depiction of a Hive Tyrant the artists involved in the game managed to dream up.

I plan to enter with vk.100.01 Mammut tank (not to be confused with Mammoth tank from Command & Conquer series). It was early concept of German WWII superheavy tank Maus. But the designers of this model let their imagination run wild, designing huge cannon and a secondary turret on the top of main one. In reality however the upper part cannot rotate on its own, it is just single two-story turret. It looks so ridiculous that I had to build it . So far suspension and lower part of the model is painted with base colour.
Proof:



It is good to see it is not the only tank in this month's competition

I'm struggling with some painting mojo, and I've been stalking the forums for the past few months after a (very) long break from them, and could do with the self imposed pressure to get on with some painting.

A Caiman Master, for The Ninth Age.



There is a huge Ninth Age tournament in Feb in the UK. And concurrently, there is a painting competition. I doubt I'll win best army, but I plan to flood all the categories and see if I can go home with something.

 Zambro wrote:
I'm struggling with some painting mojo, and I've been stalking the forums for the past few months after a (very) long break from them, and could do with the self imposed pressure to get on with some painting.


There is a huge Ninth Age tournament in Feb in the UK. And concurrently, there is a painting competition. I doubt I'll win best army, but I plan to flood all the categories and see if I can go home with something.

Good to see you alive and kicking! Glad to have you back.

Facebook today is worthless. My feed is chock full of ads from Temu and suggested pages to follow. That said, every once in a while, something good comes up:



Here we see a five-stage character, going from Chaos Initiate to Daemon Prince, based on illustrations from this flow chart from Slaves to Darkness:



The models are from a boutique miniatures maker whose name I cannot recall at this moment. I'll try to get as many models finished as I can before the end of the year.

Right, indecision time!
I have still not got anywhere with the Mascareri:

Well, I put some skin on. Either I'll submit the 3 without any skin or, if our lord and master okays, the best 5 of the 6.
However... I also have a LOT of Shatterpoint to paint:

 inmygravenimage wrote:
Right, indecision time!
I have still not got anywhere with the Mascareri:
Well, I put some skin on. Either I'll submit the 3 without any skin or, if our lord and master okays, the best 5 of the 6.

That looks fine. Not serious progress, just a little splash. You can pick from any of them.

Link to a blog I’ve made for anyone interested in the building process of the Hive Tyrant:

https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/815237.page#11714180

This December I will finally attempt to complete working on the Doggy Henchmen Band



These will complete a full block of 20 For R-Mour Dogg and the Doggy Henchmen.

I think I will try the 'Arch Zealot of the
Redemption'



Cheers,

CB

Man, I wish I still had my Archzealot! That and the priest with flamer & sword are the only original Redemptionists I'm missing!

I had this neat idea with wooden boxes I want to try. Maybe move away from the tabletop and make something decorative.

Going to try to put some non-dead, legit GW models for the 3D wraith project. Hoping to pull off the sniper and an assassin/seeress at least.

 Mr Nobody wrote:
I had this neat idea with wooden boxes I want to try. Maybe move away from the tabletop and make something decorative.

That looks ripe for an underground scene with OSL from the staff, Sting and Glamdring; orcs are near!

Is the lizard a GW model i like it it gives a feel of a hunting predetor.

I'm going to try to get these three Stormcast done. Proof:

Vanguard-Raptors with Longstrike Crossbows are currently a hot meta choice, so maybe it's high time I got mine painted. Eventually I need to get another set of them, but these will do for now. It's been a while since I painted any Stormcast, so I hope I haven't forgotten how!

I'm lazy, but also stubborn, which leads me to situations like 'I can't be bothered getting an airbrush, I'll just paint this entire tank by hand instead'.

For the money you pay for large GW models, they really should paint themselves. I'm only halfway through basecoating Girlyman and I'm already sick of all the tiny swirls that complement the armor trims.

Edit: @ Daia T'Nara, hand painting a tank is the only way to go. The other only way to go is not painting tanks at all. Hmm. I don't have an airbrush either. I'm starting to see why so few of my vehicles are painted...

 Geifer wrote:
For the money you pay for large GW models, they really should paint themselves. I'm only halfway through basecoating Girlyman and I'm already sick of all the tiny swirls that complement the armor trims.

Edit: @ Daia T'Nara, hand painting a tank is the only way to go. The other only way to go is not painting tanks at all. Hmm. I don't have an airbrush either. I'm starting to see why so few of my vehicles are painted...

That armor trim on Guiliman nearly broke me. So much overwrote fiddly detail...

I also lack an airbrush and hate painting vehicles. Maybe one of these days. Until then fuzzy sticks and regret.

Yeah. The swirls also feel kind of shallow compared to the depth of detail I've come to expect from GW models. I'm hoping a good wash will give them solid definition and help with keeping highlights where they belong.

At least I started early. This one's likely going to take a while to paint.

It’ll be two years in December since I painted that first Stormcast Eternal my stepson had lying around and I will celebrate by having my first airbrush.

I KNOW it’s going to be a confusing and frustrating experience before I even lay my mitts on the thing but I also genuinely think it will help me paint more models when mastered.

In particular I know it is going to help with any models that have large flat panels. I’m even thinking of buying an Apache model kit (I love Apaches) simply because I will now be able to spray a nice even coat of olive drab.

I think the brush will always be my favourite way to paint and an airbrush will never change that, but I’m super excited to know I have such a potentially useful tool on the way!

 XvArcanevX wrote:
It’ll be two years in December since I painted that first Stormcast Eternal my stepson had lying around and I will celebrate by having my first airbrush.

I KNOW it’s going to be a confusing and frustrating experience before I even lay my mitts on the thing but I also genuinely think it will help me paint more models when mastered.

In particular I know it is going to help with any models that have large flat panels. I’m even thinking of buying an Apache model kit (I love Apaches) simply because I will now be able to spray a nice even coat of olive drab.

I think the brush will always be my favourite way to paint and an airbrush will never change that, but I’m super excited to know I have such a potentially useful tool on the way!

I think if I ever get an airbrush (if I can ever afford one), it'll mainly be used for putting down basecoats quickly, and maybe for masked off stripes and things like that, so it wouldn't be for any special kind of effects or anything. I wouldn't use it for fades, or blending colours or anything like that. Just a useful tool for speeding up the basics. Because lord knows getting a solid basecoat down often takes a bloody age! Especially for colours like yellow and orange... Which would mean actual squads/armies of Iyanden or Yme-Loc would suddenly become a possibility for me. And, like you say, vehicles, of course...

 Jadenim wrote:

 Mr Nobody wrote:
I had this neat idea with wooden boxes I want to try. Maybe move away from the tabletop and make something decorative.

Spoiler:

That looks ripe for an underground scene with OSL from the staff, Sting and Glamdring; orcs are near!

You know, that's not a bad idea. I was going to do a basic, sunlit fantasy forest, but that sounds much cooler.

CancelledApocalypse wrote:

 XvArcanevX wrote:
It’ll be two years in December since I painted that first Stormcast Eternal my stepson had lying around and I will celebrate by having my first airbrush.

I KNOW it’s going to be a confusing and frustrating experience before I even lay my mitts on the thing but I also genuinely think it will help me paint more models when mastered.

In particular I know it is going to help with any models that have large flat panels. I’m even thinking of buying an Apache model kit (I love Apaches) simply because I will now be able to spray a nice even coat of olive drab.

I think the brush will always be my favourite way to paint and an airbrush will never change that, but I’m super excited to know I have such a potentially useful tool on the way!

I think if I ever get an airbrush (if I can ever afford one), it'll mainly be used for putting down basecoats quickly, and maybe for masked off stripes and things like that, so it wouldn't be for any special kind of effects or anything. I wouldn't use it for fades, or blending colours or anything like that. Just a useful tool for speeding up the basics. Because lord knows getting a solid basecoat down often takes a bloody age! Especially for colours like yellow and orange... Which would mean actual squads/armies of Iyanden or Yme-Loc would suddenly become a possibility for me. And, like you say, vehicles, of course...

I got a basic airbrush a few years ago (Amazon deal complete with tanked compressor, etc.) and that’s exactly what I use it for, and it helps no end. Not just because it speeds up the process, but because you can at least have base coated units, rather than a sea of grey or primer when you play a game. Also saves you a ton on rattle can primers.

Mr Nobody wrote:

 Jadenim wrote:

 Mr Nobody wrote:
I had this neat idea with wooden boxes I want to try. Maybe move away from the tabletop and make something decorative.

Spoiler:

That looks ripe for an underground scene with OSL from the staff, Sting and Glamdring; orcs are near!

You know, that's not a bad idea. I was going to do a basic, sunlit fantasy forest, but that sounds much cooler.

Glad I could help?! Either way, look forward to seeing the end result!

CancelledApocalypse wrote:
I think if I ever get an airbrush (if I can ever afford one), it'll mainly be used for putting down basecoats quickly, and maybe for masked off stripes and things like that, so it wouldn't be for any special kind of effects or anything. I wouldn't use it for fades, or blending colours or anything like that. Just a useful tool for speeding up the basics. Because lord knows getting a solid basecoat down often takes a bloody age! Especially for colours like yellow and orange... Which would mean actual squads/armies of Iyanden or Yme-Loc would suddenly become a possibility for me. And, like you say, vehicles, of course...

I hear ya. I think the thing that ultimately made me take the plunge was attempting to think of something for my partner to get me for Christmas. Frankly, I’m gonna say it, I have enough minis. A surplus you might call it. If you were to be a master of understatements that is.

I also have a lot of paint. A lot of brushes. I have an excess of lots of things.

So, given that and the fact I don’t want any more socks, deodorants, books or jeans….

Airbrush seemed obvious.

I will be happy if I can achieve consistently smooth priming and basecoats. That alone will be worth the effort. That said, if I like it enough, I’ll for sure experiment with other techniques.

I'm going to enter this month's competition with Blood Angels Inceptors.

I’m going to try to paint this Cargo-8 Ridgehauler. Who knows if I’ll have enough time?

I finally finished all these wheels on mammoth tank. the wheels and suspension are painted because later it would be hard to access all the details. The iring part is done, now it is time for the fun

Some great looking entries here.

I'm very much looking forward to seeing that Hive Tyrant being painted! I bought SM2 30 mins before the steam Black Friday deal ended (my willpower didn't quite hold out). No regrets though - I'm loving killing bugs and kind of want to paint SMs...

Update on my entry - the ground is done.



Debating on skin colour. Current front runners are red and albino. We'll see what paint ends up on the brush.

 Zambro wrote:
Some great looking entries here.

I'm very much looking forward to seeing that Hive Tyrant being painted! I bought SM2 30 mins before the steam Black Friday deal ended (my willpower didn't quite hold out). No regrets though - I'm loving killing bugs and kind of want to paint SMs...

Update on my entry - the ground is done.



Debating on skin colour. Current front runners are red and albino. We'll see what paint ends up on the brush.

I thought SM2 was a wonderfully punchy game and the atmosphere and art direction was pulled off with genuine panache and enthusiasm. Just a damn good time is how I’d describe it. Not really a big video game player but I am so glad I checked it out.

After aggravating my back problem putting some (much bigger than I would have liked) steels in place yesterday I have decided to take a day off today… which means I can get to work on the skin of ‘The Atrocity’. I’m aiming for the same general colour scheme as the game but an overall more ‘gritty’ vibe. Selecting the right colours for certain parts is proving more challenging than I at first thought but it will reach a point where I stop procrastinating and just go for it.

I think one of the most challenging things is going to be giving the impression of texture to the skin. Surprisingly the model has huge areas on the arms and legs that are relatively smooth and free of real detail. I have something in mind to tackle that problem though.

Anyhoo, looking forward to seeing what you do with that awesome looking beast too!

Finally done with the tedious basecoat, and starting to have some fun. I'm being super messy with the shading - partly because I'm going for a 'been fighting non-stop since the Heresy' look, mostly to cover up how half-assed the basecoat is. I think for future vehicles I'll go find a spraycan that's the right colour for whatever chapter they're going to be.

My tank has no color yet, but at least it is assembled and the preshading is completed. It doesn't look as "cartoonish" as I expected, but the second "turret" looks a little out of place

I'm in, last two minis from the Kill Team box set I bought back in 2018. Take that pile of shame!

Course, now I have to get them painted in the busiest month of the year.

It’s a busy month, get what you can across the finish line.

--



So I thought I was done. No eyes, so just skip the final detail pass? Forgot the teeth. Back on the painnting handle. And now that I know what I want to do, the other 4.

Also looks the the brain parasite has it’s own claws. Not sure if I want to pick those out in red or not. Not a fan of that part of the model anyway.

 Nevelon wrote:
Also looks the the brain parasite has it’s own claws. Not sure if I want to pick those out in red or not. Not a fan of that part of the model anyway.

I think the area could use a touch of color to break it up a little. Maybe go with a dark red like the main creature's front claw so as not to draw too much attention to it.

Nevelon wrote:
So I thought I was done. No eyes, so just skip the final detail pass? Forgot the teeth. Back on the painnting handle. And now that I know what I want to do, the other 4.

Also looks the the brain parasite has it’s own claws. Not sure if I want to pick those out in red or not. Not a fan of that part of the model anyway.

Maybe grab some of that mid purple tone you have, throw in a touch of white, get down to a fairly watery mix and put a faint line from a third down each of the vents right up to the top (staying within the mid tone). That would add an extra zing to the carapace?

Looking nice though mate

Afterthought: If I was to add that line of lighter purple on the vents I would reduce the length of it on the final two vents (at the rear) to three mil or so…

Geifer wrote:

 Nevelon wrote:
Also looks the the brain parasite has it’s own claws. Not sure if I want to pick those out in red or not. Not a fan of that part of the model anyway.

I think the area could use a touch of color to break it up a little. Maybe go with a dark red like the main creature's front claw so as not to draw too much attention to it.

Right now it’s just the base red. I normally put a layer of Nuln oil on top of that for the rest of the hoof/claw/guns. Might just leave these at the base, so they are a little softer. Also notice that the little slug has eyes, so put the yellow on them. Most of my nids get a vertical black slit cat’s eye. But small guys like rippers don’t. These eyes are more bulging like a frog, and not recessed into sockets as normal.

XvArcanevX wrote:

Nevelon wrote:
So I thought I was done. No eyes, so just skip the final detail pass? Forgot the teeth. Back on the painnting handle. And now that I know what I want to do, the other 4.

Also looks the the brain parasite has it’s own claws. Not sure if I want to pick those out in red or not. Not a fan of that part of the model anyway.

Maybe grab some of that mid purple tone you have, throw in a touch of white, get down to a fairly watery mix and put a faint line from a third down each of the vents right up to the top (staying within the mid tone). That would add an extra zing to the carapace?

Looking nice though mate

Afterthought: If I was to add that line of lighter purple on the vents I would reduce the length of it on the final two vents (at the rear) to three mil or so…

One thing about my nids is that they are designed for paint speed and efficiency. All the purple? Just bang out of the pot shyesh purple contrast paint. The closest I come to mixing paint is diluting the contrast for some applications. Mostly for the stealth bugs, but I also water down the red to use for exposed brains, like on this guy. The whole army is straight from the pot, and only like a dozen paints.

At some point I do plan on going back over everyone and doing a little edge higlighting, an/or pick out some of the vents. But at the start of the project I set myself the goal of first getting them to a decent table-top standard. I knew if I pushed too hard to get them to a higher standard, they would never be a playable army. I’m not a particularly quick painter, and a proper swarm requires carpets of little gribbles.

While I appreciate your advice, that level of detail is beyond the scope of the project at this time. But I’ll put a pin in it for later. Thank you!

 Nevelon wrote:

Geifer wrote:

 Nevelon wrote:
Also looks the the brain parasite has it’s own claws. Not sure if I want to pick those out in red or not. Not a fan of that part of the model anyway.

I think the area could use a touch of color to break it up a little. Maybe go with a dark red like the main creature's front claw so as not to draw too much attention to it.

Right now it’s just the base red. I normally put a layer of Nuln oil on top of that for the rest of the hoof/claw/guns. Might just leave these at the base, so they are a little softer. Also notice that the little slug has eyes, so put the yellow on them. Most of my nids get a vertical black slit cat’s eye. But small guys like rippers don’t. These eyes are more bulging like a frog, and not recessed into sockets as normal.

I think it looks better this way. It's not a bad thought keeping the base color if you put it like that.

I'd still introduce a wash around the edge of the claws to delineate them from the parts underneath, not the least because you wash the rest of the model and get that effect everywhere else. It's not a lot of work on small bits like that, but adds depth and definition and brings it in line with the rest of the model.

 Geifer wrote:

 Nevelon wrote:

Geifer wrote:

 Nevelon wrote:
Also looks the the brain parasite has it’s own claws. Not sure if I want to pick those out in red or not. Not a fan of that part of the model anyway.

I think the area could use a touch of color to break it up a little. Maybe go with a dark red like the main creature's front claw so as not to draw too much attention to it.

Right now it’s just the base red. I normally put a layer of Nuln oil on top of that for the rest of the hoof/claw/guns. Might just leave these at the base, so they are a little softer. Also notice that the little slug has eyes, so put the yellow on them. Most of my nids get a vertical black slit cat’s eye. But small guys like rippers don’t. These eyes are more bulging like a frog, and not recessed into sockets as normal.

I think it looks better this way. It's not a bad thought keeping the base color if you put it like that.

I'd still introduce a wash around the edge of the claws to delineate them from the parts underneath, not the least because you wash the rest of the model and get that effect everywhere else. It's not a lot of work on small bits like that, but adds depth and definition and brings it in line with the rest of the model.

You are probably right. I’ll hit it with the wash next time I’m at the bench

Nevelon wrote:
One thing about my nids is that they are designed for paint speed and efficiency. All the purple? Just bang out of the pot shyesh purple contrast paint. The closest I come to mixing paint is diluting the contrast for some applications. Mostly for the stealth bugs, but I also water down the red to use for exposed brains, like on this guy. The whole army is straight from the pot, and only like a dozen paints.

At some point I do plan on going back over everyone and doing a little edge higlighting, an/or pick out some of the vents. But at the start of the project I set myself the goal of first getting them to a decent table-top standard. I knew if I pushed too hard to get them to a higher standard, they would never be a playable army. I’m not a particularly quick painter, and a proper swarm requires carpets of little gribbles.

While I appreciate your advice, that level of detail is beyond the scope of the project at this time. But I’ll put a pin in it for later. Thank you!

Yeah I hear ya. This is why it’s taken me nearly two years to get something akin to one army together… and I am still missing troops. I get too bogged down in the details to complete them in time.

I need to start to change that if I want my 40k stuff done…

 XvArcanevX wrote:

Nevelon wrote:
One thing about my nids is that they are designed for paint speed and efficiency. All the purple? Just bang out of the pot shyesh purple contrast paint. The closest I come to mixing paint is diluting the contrast for some applications. Mostly for the stealth bugs, but I also water down the red to use for exposed brains, like on this guy. The whole army is straight from the pot, and only like a dozen paints.

At some point I do plan on going back over everyone and doing a little edge higlighting, an/or pick out some of the vents. But at the start of the project I set myself the goal of first getting them to a decent table-top standard. I knew if I pushed too hard to get them to a higher standard, they would never be a playable army. I’m not a particularly quick painter, and a proper swarm requires carpets of little gribbles.

While I appreciate your advice, that level of detail is beyond the scope of the project at this time. But I’ll put a pin in it for later. Thank you!

Yeah I hear ya. This is why it’s taken me nearly two years to get something akin to one army together… and I am still missing troops. I get too bogged down in the details to complete them in time.

I need to start to change that if I want my 40k stuff done…

When I started my nids they were a tertiatry project. My Ultras are my primary, with Eldar being my seconday force. While the bugs might ave usurped the space elves, they very much started at a low level side project. And I am self aware enough to know my flaws. I will get things to like 95% done, and just not be able to muster the motivation for that last 5. Because it’s finicky detail work that never turns out how I’d like it. While I do occasionally get some nice sharp edge highlights, my eyes and hands are just not what they were 20 years ago. So it’s a frustrating step that I hate the results of. But even a bad application does improve the look of the mini, so I keep at it. If I needed that step on the nids? They would never get done. The glory that is contrast paints makes it less required. Sure, the results are not as good as if I took a fine brush and put some shading down and bumped some highlights up. But it does it in one quick sloppy step.

So at the start I knew I needed to put a cap on how much effort I was going to put in. I don’t put unpainted minis on the battlefield. So expectation management was the word of the day when I started the army. And you know what? It worked. I enjoy painting my nids a lot more then the other things crossing the bench. It’s all fun and happy steps. And the swarm has gotten pretty impressively large in the few years I’ve been working on it.

Nevelon/ wrote:

When I started my nids they were a tertiatry project. My Ultras are my primary, with Eldar being my seconday force. While the bugs might ave usurped the space elves, they very much started at a low level side project. And I am self aware enough to know my flaws. I will get things to like 95% done, and just not be able to muster the motivation for that last 5. Because it’s finicky detail work that never turns out how I’d like it. While I do occasionally get some nice sharp edge highlights, my eyes and hands are just not what they were 20 years ago. So it’s a frustrating step that I hate the results of. But even a bad application does improve the look of the mini, so I keep at it. If I needed that step on the nids? They would never get done. The glory that is contrast paints makes it less required. Sure, the results are not as good as if I took a fine brush and put some shading down and bumped some highlights up. But it does it in one quick sloppy step.

So at the start I knew I needed to put a cap on how much effort I was going to put in. I don’t put unpainted minis on the battlefield. So expectation management was the word of the day when I started the army. And you know what? It worked. I enjoy painting my nids a lot more then the other things crossing the bench. It’s all fun and happy steps. And the swarm has gotten pretty impressively large in the few years I’ve been working on it.

You make some great points here. Obsessing over tiny details and various painstaking techniques in order to highlight/shade/blend one or another area ‘just so’ might be someone’s idea of fun, but it certainly isn’t for everyone! Furthermore, as this monthly challenge demonstrates, not all completed models are striking on the basis of a smooth blend or hyper contrast finish. There’s so much that makes a mini a good job, and sometimes it is just a good clean use of contrast paints and a nice base.

Sometimes I look at some finished armies and, taken as a whole, I am just awestruck by how cool they look as units even though they might have been individually painted with very simple and quick techniques. Vince Venturella really hammers this point home in many of his vids and his army painting vlogs are testimony to what can be achieved with the mindset you are describing in this very post. It’s something I desperately need to force myself to do if I want to finish a couple of forces I already have ready to go. I was thinking I might select the Stormcast Eternal part of the Skaventide box for this very project. Sit down, pick say… eight paints… and commit to FINISHING the units in batches.

P.S. I say all this while I am painstakingly painting hyper thin lines on my Tyranid skin to the point I feel like putting my underpants on my head and embracing insanity.

I am debating entering these guys, as I decided to sculpt up some fire for my Elite Flametrooper Clone, which comes as part of the Good Soldiers Follow Orders pack for Shatterpoint:

Here's the dude himself

Very pleased with my sculpted flame. It's a paper clip in a __) shape mounted in the barrel, gs'd over.


And the rest:

Crosshairs, from Bad Batch S2. Only black on the model is Nato Black (which is actually just dark grey) on the cloth, everything else is greys and nightshade wash.

And the elite team. Need a better pic if entering them, but I'm tempted just to do the flametrooper and let him do his thing.
Oh, and made a couple of bits of scatter from the remnants of the Weapon X Bunker:

Thoughts?

Nice flame effect and OSL. Sure looks like something I'd vote for. But I also like the grey troopers so I don't know if my approval is saying much.

 Nevelon wrote:

One thing about my nids is that they are designed for paint speed and efficiency...

I'm the same with my nids, I want to get them painted as quickly as possible. Though, admittedly mine don't look as good as yours.

 Syro_ wrote:

 Nevelon wrote:

One thing about my nids is that they are designed for paint speed and efficiency...

I'm the same with my nids, I want to get them painted as quickly as possible. Though, admittedly mine don't look as good as yours.

Contrast paints do like 95% of the heavy lifting for my nids. Magic in little bottles, especially for organic models.

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We are about a third of the way through the month, and there tends to be a lot packed in at the end of the year, so procrastinate accordingly!

Mammut tank is painted I could use darker shade of green, but I'll darken it a little more with weathering.

Lookin' good, guys!

I've been painting Christmas scenes on little canvasses to give as gifts this year, so I likely won't have anything to enter this year.

 KidCthulhu wrote:
Lookin' good, guys!

I've been painting Christmas scenes on little canvasses to give as gifts this year, so I likely won't have anything to enter this year.

How little we talking? This is the open round. You go small enough we might allow it…

 Nevelon wrote:

 KidCthulhu wrote:
Lookin' good, guys!

I've been painting Christmas scenes on little canvasses to give as gifts this year, so I likely won't have anything to enter this year.

How little we talking? This is the open round. You go small enough we might allow it…

You could add a little nativity scene to a space marine shoulder pad.

Edge highlighting finished (I had a chuckle at highlighting to make the shapes of the hull stand out after putting on camo to avoid exactly that) - one last look before it gets covered in ten thousand years' worth of grime and mud and chipped paint.

Real camo is boring. If it does its job, minis just end up looking like indistinct lumps. My goal with camo is give the impression of the theme, but still enough bright points and detail to make the mini stand out. and not be forgotten in the trees. Which has happened a number of times, even with the details. Sometimes to my advantage, others my opponents...

 Nevelon wrote:
How little we talking? This is the open round. You go small enough we might allow it…

They're like 4 inches by 4 inches but I didn't take any blank canvas proofs, so it's a moot issue

It's okay, don't worry about it. Non-wargamey snowmen paintings don't really belong here (except for maybe the one that's toy solder inspired)

 KidCthulhu wrote:

 Nevelon wrote:
How little we talking? This is the open round. You go small enough we might allow it…

They're like 4 inches by 4 inches but I didn't take any blank canvas proofs, so it's a moot issue

It's okay, don't worry about it. Non-wargamey snowmen paintings don't really belong here (except for maybe the one that's toy solder inspired)

Worth pointing out that four by four inches is smaller than the billboard I painted last year, and that counted just fine.

I'm going to try and work my way through this batch of Word Bearers for the slowly growing HH force... most of them are converted in some way, shape or form to show their faster descent into chaos when compared to other traitors. I'll end up picking the best couple to submit as a group

I had a game cancelled today, which turned into unexpected painting time. Quite happy with the progress on this one.

Weathering on the tank is partially done, it begins to look less like a toy



Also proof picture ot the figures and decorations. This time it will be mechanics fixing the thing.

I haven't made too much progress on the Inceptors, but I'm done with the smoke plumes on the bases.

Slow progress. I do so love the holiday months. Base for Shadowguide, new ears and a ridge reduction for the Yvraine conversion.

Daia T'Nara - Land Raider Proteus





Based on the Blood Angels desert camo Land Raider in White Dwarf 105, the first issue I ever owned, plus the gold to show it's now serving in the Empyrean Crusade.

I love everything about that.



Filling in the legs.

The land raider look fantastic. Well done!

I think this is my last update before the finished picture. Most colours on, just some touch ups to do. I think I need to do something to the skin - there is something not quite right and I can't put my finger on what it is.

The tank itself is ready Since I have a lot of time until the end of the month, I'll make a base too. The tank and proof picture of the base (so far just a piece of styrofoam):



youwashock - the model modified with green stuff looks great, I'm curious how it will look like completed. It reminds me my army of daemonettes made in similar way

@Daia T’Nara - I used a camo pattern inspired by that same pic for my first LR. One of these days I need to either fix it or finish the job the sun did on the back deck of my car and turn it into wrecked terrain.

@Zambro - I agree that the skin could use something not sure what though. It feels a little flat? Same-y? Like maybe there should be a little more contrast between the soft underbelly and the crunchy armor bits? You have dark claws and tail spikes, mabe take a little of that shade and drybrush? it on the scales to deepen them a little?

Just a random thought, no idea what the rest of your army looks like and I’ve only ever painted one saurus (and that was mostly as a test bed for a new contrast paint)

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The month is half over, and there are a bunch of holidays at the end, so plan accordingly. Also, now is the time to start tossing out ideas for January’s competition.

 Nevelon wrote:
Also, now is the time to start tossing out ideas for January’s competition.

Maybe "Two-Faced" in honor of the ancient Roman god Janus. So, Models that seem sneaky, lying, likely to betray, physically have two faces built into the model like D&D ettins, models where both head swaps will be painted and swap-able, a certain Batman villain, etc.

 Zambro wrote:
The land raider look fantastic. Well done!

I think this is my last update before the finished picture. Most colours on, just some touch ups to do. I think I need to do something to the skin - there is something not quite right and I can't put my finger on what it is.

Hey, just want to say I think that feathered head-dress is looking great! Regarding your comment on the skin, I can offer an observation.

In short, the skin needs more contrast; in particular shadows.

If you look at the deepest crevices on the model, say, inbetween the toes, you’ll notice the colour is nearly the same as the lightest mid tones on the upper torso. This is immediately obvious to the human eye. In reality, those deepest crevices should be far, far darker… even in a model with such light skin.

My suggestion would be to take a wash, say something dark blue/purple like Drakenhof Nightshade, and apply that to the skin and then highlight back up to those lighter tones. It shouldn’t be too difficult as that heavily textured boy will accept a good drybrush no problem at all. You could then reserve the very lightest tones for the face, fingers and upper body areas!

Another option, if you don’t fancy having to reapply the mid tones and highlights, is to take a wash and simply carefully apply it into the deepest cracks and crevices with a very small brush. This should add that extra punch and you wouldn’t need to bother adjusting anything else.

Anyway, that is what I think is missing, hope my suggestions are helpful in some way!

I'm not entering this year (since it's not wargame-y and I didn't take proof photos) but I did want to share:



Happy holidays and good luck to everyone this month. Your entries are amazing!

Taking part with this fun little scene by BigChild Creatives, "Kat, the Witch's Apprentice".
It is very possible that I won't get it done before the end of the year, but I'll do my best!
I do once again have a backup mini that I finished recently though.

Proof:


Quick color sketching:

Lot of cool stuff happening this month!

A WIP:

3 done and ready for baseing, 2 just got their flesh wash.

All built.

I'm merrily painting my Primarch. I think I'm on schedule, and yes, I am painting to a schedule because I don't think I'd get a large model like that done in a month if I went about it casually, but half the month is over already and there's not just the model itself but also his humongous base. At this rate I may have to add a second painting session each day. I guess if I were inclined to say something nice about GW's prices, it's that you get a whole lot of painting time for your money. Bit of an issue when you're painting to a deadline, though.

I haven't even given any thought to what legion the dead Chaos Marine on the base is going to be.

 Ezki wrote:


Quick color sketching:

That "quick color sketch" is probably better than mine completed miniature ever will be

Calling these guys done. Nothing fancy, but more bugs for the hivefleet. And they check a lot of boxes on my to-do list, so glad to get them painted.

 Nevelon wrote:
Also, now is the time to start tossing out ideas for January’s competition.

Not sure how much scope it's got as a theme, but 'frugal' has been swimming around in my head these past couple of days. Could be in-universe penny-pinching, like troops equipped with bargain basement gear, or ruleswise, for miniatures with a low points value, or real-world, like making a character out of a regular trooper tarted up with accessories from the bits box and a fancy paint job instead of paying top dollar for the actual Captain/whatever miniature.

Ooo, I like that idea Daia

No idea what I’d run with, but that does sound fun.

I’ll aim to put the poll up for next month on Sunday if people have more ideas.

Frugal sounds interesting, although I am also not sure what I would choose.

I would propose "Leftover" as well. Maybe you built a unit, but one or two models more than you needed to fill the movement tray. It could also be the last survivor of an otherwise defeated unit. Alternatively, you could kitbash something from the remnants of a sprue or two.

I have my entry finished, I just need to break out the lightbox.

@halfling84: Hardly! You have put out some magnificent pieces


Well, I did a full 180 degree turn with the color scheme. Took a WIP photo with a black background while I was photographing some other minis.


I liked the previous iteration as well, but it resembled the cover art a bit too much.
I wanted to go my own "cartoonish" way with it.

For themes, what about Motley Crew?

Progress! We're blocking in the basic colors.

Alright, finished the 'Arch Zealot of the
Redemption' and a Redemption Priest...but the photo is poor, (as were all the other side and rear views. I will have to take it again)

Poor lighting photo:


Entry pictures (uploaded on the 26th):





Cheers,

CB

I like those Redemptionists-- especially the crazy eyes on the Arch Zealot.

I'm in the same boat as CB: I can't seem to get good photos. I need to get a second light source, I think. For now, here's a mostly-acceptable group shot:

Some awesome looking stuff coming through now.

I’m just getting back to the table after coming down with a pretty nasty winter bug of some description. A vile experience, but I think it’s on the way out.

I imagine I’ll be done some time after Christmas Day…

 Captain Brown wrote:
Alright, finished the 'Arch Zealot of the
Redemption' and a Redemption Priest...but the photo is poor, (as were all the other side and rear views. I will have to take it again.



Cheers,

CB

You have the only two I don't have and you did an AMAZING job

 Nevelon wrote:
Also, now is the time to start tossing out ideas for January’s competition.

New & Shiny : Apprentices, new recruits, factory-fresh tanks etc. Could also be painting a mini with glossy/metallic paintwork, or painting a newly released/purchased mini.

Slow & Steady : Shambling hordes, lumbering vehicles, tortoises winning against Hares. Slow and inexorable. Or perhaps the subject looks like they are taking it easy, and are living life in the slow lane.

The Squad : Paint at least two minis which are from the same unit, group etc (or look like they could be). This might be one to relax the "number of models" rule for.

(Saturday Morning) Cartoons : Paint a mini which is from an IP which has appeared in animation, or paint one as if it had done. Or, paint something using an 'animated' style, eg cell-shading. [This is not my idea. Some-one else suggested it in a previous month, but I like it so I'm suggesting it again.]

Going to submit this Familiar for Trench Crusade

Appalling photograph. He's based on a Kobold from Archon games with a headswap and a pistol from Wargames Atlantics French kit. He's a little but whimsical for Trench Crusade but I like him anyway.

Nice progress everyone! Keep at it.

Poll up for next month, gave it 3 days to run

https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/815404.page

And finished before Christmas! I don't if I really got the lighting as gloomy as needed but i like it. But that bilbo sculpt was a little limited on the details in the face. Gandalf was fun though.

That's brilliant!
Reminds me of Roman Lappat's framed Balrog diorama.

Great atmosphere!

I had a chance to actually sit down and paint today, so I have an entry now.

Proof Pic


Kid Cthulhu-Mordheim Swordsman



He's in good company:



I'm slowly trying to make a warband using only plastic models. Given my love of metal Oldhammer models, it's been quite the challenge

I don't know if I will have the time to paint for this month's comp, but if so it will be these guys (from last month):

Bad Doggies




Not a spectacular job of work but yet again participation in this great monthly challenge has given me the push to finish a project that otherwise would’ve sat untouched and incomplete probably indefinitely. Thanks to all of you for being here, for being awesome, being an inspiration and for tolerating my middling to bog-standard painting every month. I really do appreciate the monthly painting challenge a lot.

I'm going to try to get a building done to go with my troopers. I didn't want the building that's also in the Shatterpoint core set to look identical, so I got to work:

First, removed the light fitting.

Then, added new door, vents, sign, hatches and a different light.

And minor changes to the walls

I want it to feel as if it's consistent without being the same, and I also want it to feel a bit seedy and grubbier.
Gotta love the MEdge sprue
On we go!
Graven

Right…

Pin in bottom leg of model to place on base - check

Paint base areas model will cover once mounted - check

Snap model in two whilst mounting on base ….

Um…

Check :(

 XvArcanevX wrote:
Right…

Pin in bottom leg of model to place on base - check

Paint base areas model will cover once mounted - check

Snap model in two whilst mounting on base ….

Um…

Check :(

Ack! Still have time left in the month to fix and patch. But that always sucks,

Time to express my sympathy. Between assembly and now the stupid bird on Girlyman's backpack broke off four times. Horrid design.

Don't let mishaps stop you!

Proof of my (heavily mutated) Traitor Guardsman

Working on the seer.

I shouldn't be having trouble deciding what to paint so close to the deadline, but this Tyranid prime is one more possibility.

Seer is done except for varnish and basing. Quick teaser image.



Now to try to get the sniper done.

Slowly and surely, we are getting there:

Still some more work to be done, but these models are coming along nicely. Stormcast are oddly satisfying to paint for some reason.

Sniper gathering momentum.

I found some time to take some acceptably clear photos of my entry:

The Path To Glory:







There are a few more photos in my P&M blog, but those don't count towards the vote.

Four days left in the month-- plenty of time to get your models done. See you all at the finish line!

Almost finished.

All done. Just the two minis. No time for any more.

Eldar Seer and Sniper.





And some individual pics of the seer, as she is less 2D than the sniper.





Nice work, everybody who is finished. To all those still working, finish the year strong!

Lots of great stuff everyone! Still have some time left, but if you need the extension, let me know.

Lots of great models, I especially loke the frame from Lord of the Rings and converted Yvrinne.
The mammut tank is ready. I also had a time to make wo figures and a base. it is supposed to represent a workshop or factory floor.

Halfling84 - Mammut tank

That tank is fantastic, the guy at the drafting board is a great touch!

I've been re-engaging too, should be able to get these in on time. Base coats and first round of washes done:

The eyes on the one guy are driving me nuts though! Actually, it drove me to buy a new super detail brush which I hope solves the problem, although it's possible that I've glopped enough layers on at this point in my many failed attempts that he may be beyond salvage. Basing, detail work, final pics, and that'll be another year wrapped up.

Hope everybody has had a great Christmas…

Alas, I’ve finished this months entry after several hiccups (including gluing the head on in the wrong place and snapping the model in two whilst fixing it to the base)

Anyway, after having finally dealt with those … ahem… setbacks… here is my conversion of the Hive Tyrant kit inspired by the version seen in Space Marine 2 … otherwise know as:

The Atrocity!













Definitely been a challenge trying to convert and then paint this model to look as much like the battle damaged monster from the game as possible but I’m satisfied with the result. He has an ‘angry’ vibe to him, and that makes me happy as the example in the game is rage incarnate. Hope you like.

In before the end of the year!

I love the guy adding crudely-rendered additional weapons to the blueprints, halfling84. (Also the tank looks great, and you've chosen some good angles to photograph it from!)

And done. That turned out to be a lot of work.

R. Booty Goldiman, Bling King of Ultramar

Not done yet, but put a few colors down.

Looking good everyone! Time to get those final touches on.

Forgot to say thanks to Nevelon and Geifer for the encouragement after my mishaps during the final stages of this months entry. It was, um, a little frustrating to have that model snap on me fixing it to the base but fortunately it did so in the huge ‘ball and socket’ area of the torso/pelvis joint. Gluing the head on in the wrong place was even more of a disaster but, after geeing myself up a little, I simply went all out and applied the force needed to snap it off (thanks to superglue for being brittle)

Still not 100% convinced on the position of the head but, as I painted this big bug in a ton of subassemblies, I found it very awkward to handle and ‘dry fit’ the painted pieces when putting it all together. Seriously, this model is just a pin cushion of spiky bits. It was a case of apply a spot of glue and hold in position whilst muttering a short prayer the thing would actually stay in place!

Ah well, it’s all part of the fun!

I am currently in alien territory right now… working on a WWII Corsair kit! I got that airbrush for Xmas so am keen to mess about with something with alot of flat panels. To say I’m lost is putting it mildly… here’s my hobby bench at the moment:

I'm probably going to need a couple of days extension, I've been struggling with flu since Christmas and I won't be able to paint tomorrow because of New Years engagements...

The stuff I'm painting is just random Eldar (mainly) models, and they're not even that complicated, I just hadn't had the motivation to get stuff finished before Christmas and then flu has taken away the time after.

 CancelledApocalypse wrote:
I'm probably going to need a couple of days extension, I've been struggling with flu since Christmas and I won't be able to paint tomorrow because of New Years engagements...

The stuff I'm painting is just random Eldar (mainly) models, and they're not even that complicated, I just hadn't had the motivation to get stuff finished before Christmas and then flu has taken away the time after.

I was thinking when ai put up this month if I should just end it on the first anyway. Give people the new year’s day to finish up. December is a hot mess for a lot of people in a lot of ways. You need a couple of days, we can do that.

I will close this first thing in the morning on Friday the 3rd, eastern time. So a bit of extra time to work with.

Woo! More time!

 Nevelon wrote:

 CancelledApocalypse wrote:
I'm probably going to need a couple of days extension, I've been struggling with flu since Christmas and I won't be able to paint tomorrow because of New Years engagements...

The stuff I'm painting is just random Eldar (mainly) models, and they're not even that complicated, I just hadn't had the motivation to get stuff finished before Christmas and then flu has taken away the time after.

I was thinking when ai put up this month if I should just end it on the first anyway. Give people the new year’s day to finish up. December is a hot mess for a lot of people in a lot of ways. You need a couple of days, we can do that.

I will close this first thing in the morning on Friday the 3rd, eastern time. So a bit of extra time to work with.

Wanted to make sure this was not lost in the page rollover.

Some fantastic submissions so far! I'm not sure if I'll have more hobby time before the end or not, so here's 5 of the Word Bearer tacticals that I managed to undercoat at the start of the month

I'm about 95% with the star wars scenery so just need to try to finish the speeder bike and get a photo with it all.

I'll be damned, managed to get this done!

I was confident that I would be able to finish the Witch herself, but did not realize how much of a time sink the base and the "magical explosion" would be.
Good thing I had a lot of spare time after Christmas. I think I have painted close to 20 hours over the past three days haha.

Finished pictures of "Kat, the Witch's Apprentice"


A really fun project to paint!
It offered a lot of challenges and opportunities to learn something new, such as working with bright colors, magenta OSL, stockings and fur.


Brilliant stuff appearing. Good luck for everyone who is still finishing theirs!

You're a hard act to follow Ezki, but I'm calling my entry done too (even with a new detail brush, I still chickened out on adding eyeballs). Final pics:

GSC Neophyte Hybrids






Hope everyone had a happy holiday, see you all next year!

And done!



Nice way to wrap the year up if I do say so myself. Vanguard-Raptors with Longstrike Crossbows are a staple of competitive Stormcast Eternals armies in AoS currently (or at least they were until the recent balance update) so it was nice to get mine battle ready. I slopped paint in a few spots, some of which I missed in my cleanup pass unfortunately, but these will do the job from tabletop viewing distance. Lots of nice entries coming in from the rest of you, too, so please keep them coming so we have a nice voting thread to kick the new year off!

Looking like a strong month from here!

Ezki, man, what a stunner! Lol

Working with bright colours is so rewarding when you pull it off, and you’ve pulled it off beautifully. Love the POW! Haha

That impact font is top notch, looks like it’s floating!

XvArcanevX wrote:

 Zambro wrote:
The land raider look fantastic. Well done!

I think this is my last update before the finished picture. Most colours on, just some touch ups to do. I think I need to do something to the skin - there is something not quite right and I can't put my finger on what it is.

Hey, just want to say I think that feathered head-dress is looking great! Regarding your comment on the skin, I can offer an observation.

In short, the skin needs more contrast; in particular shadows.

If you look at the deepest crevices on the model, say, inbetween the toes, you’ll notice the colour is nearly the same as the lightest mid tones on the upper torso. This is immediately obvious to the human eye. In reality, those deepest crevices should be far, far darker… even in a model with such light skin.

My suggestion would be to take a wash, say something dark blue/purple like Drakenhof Nightshade, and apply that to the skin and then highlight back up to those lighter tones. It shouldn’t be too difficult as that heavily textured boy will accept a good drybrush no problem at all. You could then reserve the very lightest tones for the face, fingers and upper body areas!

Another option, if you don’t fancy having to reapply the mid tones and highlights, is to take a wash and simply carefully apply it into the deepest cracks and crevices with a very small brush. This should add that extra punch and you wouldn’t need to bother adjusting anything else.

Anyway, that is what I think is missing, hope my suggestions are helpful in some way!

Thanks for the advice here - you were right.

Here is my finished effort, with an 'action shot':








Really great looking entries across the board.

Zambro wrote:

Thanks for the advice here - you were right.

Hey glad you thought the same! I have to say he’s looking better with those darker areas . Lovely looking work

Ok, well, I've decided just to enter Firebrand on her own:





Very happy with how the green stuff fire turned out)

That's some nice OSL there Inmygravenimage.

I've been painting some tiny Mechanicum this month
proof:


Got some infantry finished so far, and the next batch are in progress - should be able to get some robots done as well with the time extension for a bit more variety and pick five for the final pics

 Pariah Press wrote:
I love the guy adding crudely-rendered additional weapons to the blueprints, halfling84. (Also the tank looks great, and you've chosen some good angles to photograph it from!)

Thanks

 Nevelon wrote:

I will close this first thing in the morning on Friday the 3rd, eastern time. So a bit of extra time to work with.

That will work wonders for me, I've had a very busy work run up to xmas them mostly family stuff so really had very little time (or motivation tbh) to get a entry done.

The kids got me this for xmas so will be entering this chap, hes partly painted now but that extra time will let me finish it at least



Sorry I've not been around much, I hope you all had a good Xmas and have a good new year.

Amazing work as usual, Ezki My brain can't even comprehend how you are able to do what you do with a brush.

Certainly far from my best work, but my Tyranid Prime is done. I didn't want to use the extension since it was a personal goal to get this mini done before the new year.

Got some skeletons done:



Proof:


Actually done a bit ago, just was hoping to get better paint jobs done on other stuff and din't quite happen.

New year, new contest!

OK, it’s the same old contest, just with a new topic for the month. Who can afford a new contest in this economy?

Pinch pennies, be frugal, get painting

https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/815473.page

And happy New Year everyone.


Leaving this one open for 2 more days. Take your time, but get it done.

I’m in for the first time in a while. Finished the model, I’ll take some pictures tonight.

Cargo-8 Ridgehauler

That's really cool, Pariah Press

Well, I've finished painting my Traitor Guardsman; but ran out of time to base him nicely. I'm still pleased with how he turned out.

Final picture:

The Ridgehauler is awesome, those skulls make it look like something from Mad Max.

Final pics, a selection of Legions Imperialis Mechanicum

Adding my Final pics into the mix, a little rushed but got something done in the end, and also the kids did some last minute painting with me as they wanted to enter too

Midget Gems - Da Red Gobbo's A-Bomb-Inable Snowman


Midget Gems Jr (Age 8) - Wood Elf Fairy with Fox familiar


Midget Gems Jr Jr (Age 6) - Trident Warrior with Cat

Hard act to follow, but here goes:

This is Gargamar, the exiled son of the Goblin King, and a Paladin. Seen here activating his Divine Smite.

He's a character one of my students made for our campaign in my D&D/Warhammer Club at school.
He struggles in school, but can remember every detail of the campaign. As we're setting up I usually let him recap last week's session.
He can't read or write on grade level, but he wrote about three pages of backstory for Gargamar.

And, he loves Divine Smite.

The free hand on the shield comes from a drawing my student did and was inspired by the player's handbook.







Proof:

So the flu has defeated me. I haven't been able to paint at all the past three days. I'm going to have to duck out.

The juniors are both doing a great job for their respective ages Midget Gems

 CancelledApocalypse wrote:
So the flu has defeated me. I haven't been able to paint at all the past three days. I'm going to have to duck out.

Oof. Sorry to hear you are not feeling good. Get well soon.

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That should be the end of the bonus time; closing this month. I’ll try to get the poll up this weekend.

Go Vote!

https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/815510.page