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Congrats and well done Tikay Fortooun for finishing your entry, the dripping blood on the hand looks very good

Heres My latest WIP, fair bit done over the Easter bank holidays and hopefully will get it finished this weekend.

I would like to make a last minute entry for my cunning orc warlord. I've started and will hopefully get it wrapped up.


Midget Gems- that WIP looks great, very characterful story to it!

Thanks Midget Gems the blood feels like it was the easiest bit! Fishing line, blood for the blood god, and PVA to thicken it to create and shape the droplets at the end.

I don't think I'm going to.make.it this.month :(

Easter and guests and work and life and raaar.

Maybe get some time amd enthusiasm over the weekend. Bleh.

So my finished entry. Metal Eldar Dark Reaper Exarch and Squad

Looking at a comparison of the converted Exarch with the regular Dark Reapers it does look a little like he is compensating for something. I obtained the model in a trade and wanted a model to standout as the Exarch.







The long painting war continues...

CB

Some great entries so far guys, I love the range of stuff that's coming out for this challenge - it feels like a shame to single out praise for particular models so I'll keep it at a general well done to all.

After somewhat ambitiously posting those four primed Autarchs, I've managed to get one of them just about done - I should be able to finish and photograph it tomorrow. I think posting the proof for all four of them was more about leaving my options open for which one I was going to do rather than any serious expectation that I'd be able to get them all painted in time!

Finished Nagash the Usurper.

Was a real challenge from start to finish; unable to do the bulk of the body in subassemblies meant a lot of finnicky angles to paint in, and then even harder to photograph because of the size (and I lack a proper lightbox).

But enough jibber jabber. PICS!

Amazing! The transitions are lovely and smooth, the armour is great, and the fallen leaves on the base are fantastic. Nice work!

Damn man....WTF did you bring this masterpiece here .
Marvelous, truly marvelous!

Wow, that Nagash is glorious.

Makes me feel bad to follow it, but oh well, someone has to.

Finished my Biel-Tan Autarch today. As i said in my last post, I only got one done out of the four I posted in the proof photo:



But I always expected I'd be pressed for time and I'm pleased how it came out:





Now to go add it to my blog...

The panel lines are maybe a bit heavy for my liking, but the white is nice and smooth and the sword gradients are brilliant. Great cloak too. Grats!

I will enter my final later tonight close to midnight maybe NZ TIME. Its 3 18 pm now, so please try keep this thing open until nz time has passed the final mark . ( taking me ages to make a base )

The round doesn't close until the 30th.

That said, just in case I don't get better photos:
Completed crocogamer, recruiting his next army to lead to victory.

Amazing work everyone.

Getting close to the wire, but I should be able to make it. Latest WIP:

Still need the second blue coat and wash for one of the HG, but the other one and the big guy are ready for edges. Bit of touch ups still need doing, and then the bases.

edit - IGNORE THIS POST. Tomorrow ill try fix base and take a pictures with better lighting and background, mayber with our camera flash but brighter lights, or outside natural light.

You could easily rework that base if you wanted.

GUO looks good, but your photos could be improved massively, by curving a sheet of paper behind the model and shining a desk lamp onto it from slightly above and on front, then take your photos. That's how I used to do mine before I got my light box.

Yeah ill try again tomorrow, well it is tomorrow now but i mean yeah. But the problem is i really wanted a smooth surface for the lava, and was going to add some bubbles, but yeah it all ended up badly because the stuff i made the balls out of for the "bubble effect" started making all the paint chip and then i chipped some of the varnish etc etc. I guess i could just make some texture with putty over all the mess on the thing..

So ill see what happens, i guess i get some sand paper or some thing. Yeah the pictures fethed ill do it again tmoorrow.

Thanks!

I'd also suggest getting some weathering or corrosion on that sword. It looks very bright. You could paint it a muddy brown, then drybrush with a metallic, then apply rust powder (or an orange brown wash if you don't have any powders)

Wow DV8 that's beautiful

You have some really good details on the model Bellerophon, nice entry and well done

@Stormatious, with your Pics I'd also recommend cropping them so more of the model is in view and making them bigger (not so massive they take up several screens but bigger so we can see all your hard work and you get the votes you deserve )

 queen_annes_revenge wrote:
I'd also suggest getting some weathering or corrosion on that sword. It looks very bright. You could paint it a muddy brown, then drybrush with a metallic, then apply rust powder (or an orange brown wash if you don't have any powders)

Yeah its the flash on the camera, ill take pictures in good lighting with out flash tomorrow, it just makes every thing bright as hell im pretty sure but yeah i know what you mean, hopefully other pics tomorrow will show difference.

I know you cant see sword much in the picture, but you can sort of get idea, any way tomorrow ill do again .

 Modock wrote:
Damn man....WTF did you bring this masterpiece here .
Marvelous, truly marvelous!

Hah! This coming from the guy who pumps out super clean Infinity models every month.

Get outta here!

I'm dead serious and I'm really impressed with the armor highlights. The color transition on the cloak is seamless and smooth. Amazing work man.


Here is my entry for the month. I just managed to finish one model, been working on other projects so I ran out of time.

Raoul Spector.

So these definitely aren't going to compare to some of the amazing work that is being posted up (that Nagash, jeez!), but I did at least finish this month, all models and with a little time to spare:













P.S. Can you spot which one is the Assault on Black Reach easy-to-build marine?

Bottom guy on the right? Only the ETBs can hold their bolters that close to their chest Nice clean work all round.

After a burst of progress after my panicky wobble a couple of days ago, I've managed to finish my BSF sergeants and psykers. Nowhere near finishing the big man, so I think I'll post now as finished.

Most happy with - the shading on the cloaks, helmets and coats. The transitions are a little rough but I think this is the first time I've gone through so many shades and highlights on anything other than grey

Least happy with - the psyker faces. I was trying for a green eldritch glow, but what I have is a bit of a scrubby mess. If anyone has any ideas on how to fix then I'm all ears...

As the gator above will attest, I'm not great at it myself, but my first thought would be "more contrast", using a different, more contrasting color for the mouth and eye glow-- they're definitely there, but the light blue-green feels like its blending in with the yellow green of the skin. I'd also see if you could maybe work more of that dark green into small creases and that with some blending, should help define the shapes of the lumps a bit more.

Also, unrelated, but i like the glow on the noses, just for the silliness of the evil psyker sneezing us all to death.

 DV8 wrote:
Finished Nagash the Usurper.

Was a real challenge from start to finish; unable to do the bulk of the body in subassemblies meant a lot of finnicky angles to paint in, and then even harder to photograph because of the size (and I lack a proper lightbox).

But enough jibber jabber. PICS!

Such amazing work. Looks Excellent!

Far out...great work all round.
In the interest of hitting every month, I am going to enter a farseer for a new army I am putting together.

Inspired by Nevelon, I have made a promise to myself that I will put together a whole army this year. This girl will be the first...as long as I get her finished in time!

Here's my final entry.




This is the worst lava base ever, so please ignore the base and dont vote on the base. I rushed the base, and also used the one i previously ruined to make this one, so the surface is crap and yes i realise the base looks like gak. But it could have looked better but i fethed it up and dont have time to restart again so this has to do.


Would have bought a new base and done a better job etc but shops closed today, and i needed more time.

Thanks !

that lava base doesnt look too bad to be fair. could do with a little higher contrast.. some yellow and bright white areas buts its pretty good.

Yeah i know, i accidentally put too much paint on the rocks ( i had a nice looking highlight on rocks before but ended up stuffing it up so painted the entire thing with the lava colors which has also ruined it but yeah ) so i had to try match it up so did it every where, and yeah i spent ages trying to get a good lava look but ended up with this crap lol. But yeah it looks not the worse but yeah its definitely going to be replaced after this voting has been completed.


Thanks.


edit - lets just not talk about the base, its ugly IMO, and yeah ill throw away after voting etc and do it the way i was supposed to before i rushed/stuffed this one up. COuld have left with out the base but i thought it would be more appropriate to just show it on this crappy one any way since its all i can manage to get atm.