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 Nevelon wrote:
Good to see you did not omit the required toothy grin.

Nice to see some old lead getting some love.

oh how could I not? - and it even works for salamanders too!

Right, keep failing with these, this time i promised myself i'd only post when i had a completely assembled model, primed and ready for paint.

Here is my Rogue/Scoundrel, noticed a few DE minis so i thought i'd join in the fun, Goodness knows i had enough DE minis/kilos of sprue to choose from .

So many awesome entries so far, I'm quite intimidated from posting mine now. I guess it's too late since I already entered so here's what I got, these are finished. Please pardon the terrible photos, I've spent way more time learning to paint than I have learning to operate a camera.

Here he is! Renegade inquisitor Mikael Holtz of the Sons of Malice!
Had a ton of fun painting him up and being that he's my first completed mini in just about two years I'm relatively proud of how he came out!

Inevitable_Faith I think those models are excellent. I think the colour scheme and its execution are great.

Dakka always seems to blur my image, more than it used to, does anyone have any tips? I think I may start hosting them elsewhere.

Anyhow, this is my entry for this month. I nearly finished the other 4 models but I think it will be a stretch to get them done and photographed by Tuesday, but I may modify.

Below is my entry for the Forgotten king from Super dungeon explore: Forgotten king. So this is the end of game boss. I've been enjoying a change of style with these SDE models but their casting leaves a little to be desired. I guess I've been spoilt with GW models. On this one I had to carve and clean a lot, especially its hands and bend the plastic with a hairdryer. These things are not talents of mine! I think next month I'll go back to some thing a bit darker.

I must admit usually I've never played with cool or warm highlights before and I've just always gone for something brighter (usually what GW suggests). So on this model I wanted to experiment a bit. I painted his robes and cloak the same purple (pink horror), then shaded it with red and brown shades (carraboug and agrax). I reapplied the base colour, then from there I highlighted the cloak by adding a light blue to the base, Lothern blue. I think I went a bit too blue and it should have been a bluish white rather than a light blue but so I toned it down a bit by using some thin glazes of the base colour. For the cloak I mixed in Cadian flesh tone as the highlight and I really enjoy its warmth, I'll definitely use this combination again. At a couple of stages in the highlight process I smoothed it together with a glaze of the base tone. The end effect looks a bit silly on the model as a whole and I have the warm and cool highlights with no guiding 'theme' to it but I will use this as a reference model for future experiments. I'm having problems matting things down as the whether for the last month has kept me far away from my varnish sprays. =)

Am I allowed to swap a couple pics from my post? I forgot I took a few more pics with a dark background the other day and wanted to include them!

Yep, post them and I'll add them in. If that takes you over the 5-pic limit, let me know which ones you want to replace.

 Paradigm wrote:
Yep, post them and I'll add them in. If that takes you over the 5-pic limit, let me know which ones you want to replace.

I just edited my post to take out the last two and replace them with the new ones

so hey all these posts are looking great however in the Original post, mrhappyface;s photos are not visible to me, they are in his post though!

Thank you very much Moolet, I appreciate it. I love what you did with the armor on your Boss guy there, the transitioning green is wonderfully executed and gives a sense of movement to the model. Trying to get transitions like that is a skill I'm still working hard on mastering.

Well, finished. Gotta sort through all the pics to figure out which ones to use though. A lot of them came out really blurry and washed out for some reason, and the gal on the far left didn't really want to get a good pic taken.

Moolet: I rather like that guy. Some of the colors are a bit cartoony, but seems about right for the model. Comes off very Rats of NIMH to me for some reason, and that's not a bad thing.

Inevitable faith: I wouldn't feel bad about those at all, they look great, and they definitely photographed better than mine.

My entry is done.
Lots of great work here, hopefully I can enter next month.

Finished, got a bit bored painting the weapon but entry successfully completed! Pleased with the conversion work here, looks like an off the sprue model.




You can zoom a fair way in the gallery. Didn't take anything too close as i cringe when i see how poorly my paintwork holds up.

 Moolet wrote:

Great entries so far. With the iconic X-wing I can see midget getting another top 3 spot

eek cheers Mootlet, got to finish it first though. The robe and cloak on your entry is excellent.

Congrats on finishing your first min in two years Drummernathan, keep em coming

Your entry has a very purposeful feel ChaoticMind

I've managed to get some battle damage/weathering and a few more bits done.

Is it bad that that's an Ork flying an X-wing and the first thing I noticed was that it was a new-trilogy ship in old-trilogy colours? Still looks fantastic though!

Going to have to be a bit lazy with my entry and just go with something I painted earlier in the month; between the back end of Christmas and then exams painting time has been pretty thin on the ground this month, so I've not been able to plan a dedicated entry.

But anyway, here he is, a Gnoll Chieftain from Otherworld Miniatures, a really nice model to paint, loads of great textures to work on and he's proper mean.


Any thoughts welcome!

 Midget Gems wrote:

 Moolet wrote:


Congrats on finishing your first min in two years Drummernathan, keep em coming

Thanks man it feels good to be back in the hobby!

Great work so far everyone - looking like it'll be tough to narrow down the votes again!! I've managed to finish off my entry for the month - cannot say how much I love this mini! Not as happy with the paintjob as I'd like to be, but I've got no more time to put in to it unfortunately!

Awesome stuff! I really want to have a crack at that model, but all the prices for it on ebay are ludicrous at the moment and (aside from maybe Celestine) I'm not massively keen on the rest of the set.

 Paradigm wrote:
Awesome stuff! I really want to have a crack at that model, but all the prices for it on ebay are ludicrous at the moment and (aside from maybe Celestine) I'm not massively keen on the rest of the set.

Thanks very much!! That wasn't a problem I had! Initially Cawl was the only one I wasn't fussed by, but after putting him together I can't wait to throw some paint at him!

Great work on the Chieftain by the way! Love the scruffy, post-battle look you've created!

 Paradigm wrote:
Awesome stuff! I really want to have a crack at that model, but all the prices for it on ebay are ludicrous at the moment and (aside from maybe Celestine) I'm not massively keen on the rest of the set.

now that's kinda surprising to hear honestly...with your usual style, I would've thought you'd be all over Cawl

Its a great sculpt technically, don't get me wrong, it's just a combination of size and fiddlyness that makes me think I'd find him more of a chore than anything, so many tiny little bits. I think the regular Archmagos strikes a great balance between looking suitably ad-mechy but not being too busy, Cawl is just the wrong side of that for me.

Very nice models Para and NathanD298. My view of the world is pretty much GW and Ork related, so its interesting to see what else is out there and people paint.

 Paradigm wrote:
Is it bad that that's an Ork flying an X-wing and the first thing I noticed was that it was a new-trilogy ship in old-trilogy colours? Still looks fantastic though!

Theres a perfectly good reason for that, Orks are huge fans of nostalgia......... and the Red ones go faster.

Done! For this challenge, I had a hard time trying to wrap my head around a rogue or scoundrel ork, since rogues are usually slight, stealthy, thief-like characters (and before you gets any idears, we don't let none uv dem worfless Blood Axe gitz in dis mob!), so I did a little research. I did find a D&D reference to a "brutal scoundrel", and a WOW reference that kindled the idea of an ork assassin; an ork who actually has some skill with his blade instead of relying solely on brute force:

Orcs aren't exactly known for their agility or subtlety, but orc rogues are among the strongest and most enduring enemies any fool with a price on his head could possibly have. Cunningness and stamina makes for a deadly combination together with the Horde's nimbler races. Orcs are extremely resilient, have incredible willpower and will stop at nothing until their chosen target lies dead. Although many members of the Alliance view the orcs as brutish creatures their method of combat holds a certain beauty, while other more agile races dodge and weave through enemy blows, orc rogues simply use their massive strength to punch through their opponents defences, while their carefully honed blades strike at the very heart of the enemy with incredible efficiency. Even though underappreciated in their culture, many orcs choose this darker path as their way of life and Thrall knows full well their incredible value.

So without further ado, here's the final pics of my ork assassin:
Front


Left


Back


Right


Iso

FINISHED!
My first completed challenge!

Well, here's my entry. Chaos Space Marine Sorceror Lord. Certainly a Rogue, and almost definitely a Scoundrel.

Proof:


Finished Entry:

@Verviedi
That base is really nice! What did you use for it?

Warhammer TV lava base tutorial, and three layers of drybrushing. Eshin Grey, Stormvermin Fur, Mechanicus Standard Grey.

Thanks.

Finished!

So here's Captain L'Olonnais from Rum & Bones.

Going to be starting on my piece tomorrow... (or rather today I guess)... whenever I get out of bed haha.