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Cool. Thanks for your explanation.
You've made me really excited to try something with led lights. Now I just need to find a project!

New poll is up:
https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/742887.page

And as a reminder, this month's round will be running until the 2nd November as I'm away all day on the 1st, so you do all have an extra day should you need it. November's round will go up on the 31st October so as not to delay anyone's plans for that.

ok, sod it, I'm in - I really should just keep chugging away with the army I'm currently working on...but it's starting to grind on me a bit, and I need a bit of a creativity break...

picked up this Creature Caster "Treewalker" in a bit of a sorry state off ebay a little while ago on a whim...I've just got done fixing her up, now it's time to get some paint on her - in keeping with the scary theme, I'll be going with a "glowy burning charcoal tree" look, rather than a typical "normal, living tree" look...an angry giant burning tree-lady sounds pretty frightening to me!

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well, that was a fun ~5 and a half hours
done!

I'm worried that this might be the first month since I started entering these that I'm not going to finish. I've picked up a really nasty virus and as a result I'm not able to paint at all. So unless there's some major improvement in the next day or two, I'm probably stuffed. Sorry everyone. :(

@TheDraconicLord - well done on Carver - nicely painted and executed!

I've pretty much only got a base coat on one of my models and... that's about it sigh. Just loads to do atm.

Sorry to hear that feltmonkey, I hope you get better soon.

Finally bought the 8th edition starter set. Going for a poxwalker.

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Feltmonkey, get better man.

To everyone else: PAINT NOW! HE'S OUT, YOU CAN WIN THIS MONTH!

 Elbows wrote:
Feltmonkey, get better man.

To everyone else: PAINT NOW! HE'S OUT, YOU CAN WIN THIS MONTH!

LOL nice... - Get better feltmonkey!



actually got something done last night, just a bit

 Elbows wrote:
Feltmonkey, get better man.

To everyone else: PAINT NOW! HE'S OUT, YOU CAN WIN THIS MONTH!

Low blow man!

Well I finally finished an entry for the unofficial and the first in a while

Here she is, Inquisitor Greyfax ready to strike fear into whoever decides to challenge the Imperium

Greyfax looks awesome! nice Ustrella

Finished, radioactive zombie

No excuses @FELTMONKEY get ur painting hat on.

Oh well never mind gives the rest of us a chance now. When ur up and about though im in need of a game of sigmar. New nighthaunt army wants to stick it (haha) to those pesky sylvaneth of yours

My entries finished




Really happy with the model actually.

 Elbows wrote:
Feltmonkey, get better man.

To everyone else: PAINT NOW! HE'S OUT, YOU CAN WIN THIS MONTH!

Haha cheers Elbows!

I am feeling better at the moment, and I'm finishing up one of the Mandrakes tonight, so I will have something to enter, even if it's not the full squad. Don't worry though, it's not going to win any awards. They're amazing miniatures (and considering they're finecast, I've been very lucky with the quality of the sculpts) but they're quite hard to paint. Lots of fiddly runes.

Done. I almost changed the caption to “Fright Knight” but thought I’d just keep with the official tittle.

Painting these guys was a mixed bag. I pushed some techniques I normally skimp on, such as edge highlighting the metallics and weathering the horse’s robes. Had fun doing that, and in general painting the wraiths. But the sculpts of the horses (and the wraiths in a few spots) were chock full of details that kinda blended into other details due to the lack of undercuts in the plastic. Most of them you will never see from the table-top view, but having a hoof smeared across into the robe irked the modeler in me. Keeps the part count down and assembly easier I guess.

Finished at last, it's been in the dettol twice! Never start painting without a plan!



Image is a bit fuzzy, the camera is on the blink again. Must see if Santa can rustle up a new one.

Really cool, ZenBadger. Great OSL, and a cool model. What's it from?

Finished my entry, The dark mechanicus Overlord Magos deum :

 feltmonkey wrote:
Really cool, ZenBadger. Great OSL, and a cool model. What's it from?

Thanks Feltmonkey, he is Mhorgoth the Faceless from Mantic's Kings of War Undead range.

Done. Not my greatest work, but I felt I had to finish it since I enroled.

Looks like I won’t be finishing or photoing Morty to the standard I’d like to have him at for this but I will still post pictures of him before the deadline. Looks like tomorrow is crunch time to get as much more as I can done!

Well, I've gotten my entry as done as I'm going to get it. I selected the five best of my Poxwalkers to use as my entry, so here they are:



I do consider these models finished as they are at least tabletop standard, but they didn't turn out as well as I had hoped. Whenever I do my other set of 10 from Dark Imperium, I think I want to make the skin lighter. Since I'm starting from black primer (never had much success with white primer, brush or spray), I really need to go with Rakarth Flesh and then Pallid Wych Flesh instead of just the Rakarth. Still, I think these are okay, and they certainly fit the theme for the month (because zombies!). Looking forward to the voting; there are some pretty nice entries here so far!

Oh, and I'll post pics featuring the models that didn't make it into my final entry, as well as a group shot of all 10, in my blog shortly.

Loving the variety of spooky things from mad spellcasters to masses of tentacles out of an hentai

I may even be able to finish my entry. My order of Blood For The Blood God got delayed, anyone know how to homebrew some?

 Verviedi wrote:
I may even be able to finish my entry. My order of Blood For The Blood God got delayed, anyone know how to homebrew some?

not sure how well it'd really work, but do you have any 'ardcoat/other brush-on gloss varnish?...mix a little red in to it, or brush some over some red, depending on what you're going for?

Yeah, I have a fairly respectable collection of paints. I’m just out of purple and blood for the blood god.

not sure ill be able to finish my model :( threw out my back 2 weeks ago and nearly done with the mini ... but its base isnt even close...

Lord_Ghazghkull wrote:
not sure ill be able to finish my model :( threw out my back 2 weeks ago and nearly done with the mini ... but its base isnt even close...

That bites man, my hubby has a lot of back issues - they really suck!

Fraid I'm gonna have to bow out, been sick as a dog just don't have the energy to finish these atm sadly