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Sorry all feel like I've been letting you down by not updating the league table after each vote but I've finally got around to it now.

Feels like I've been stuck in a bit of a rut the last few months so finding it hard to get any motivation for hobby things, not sure if I'm going to make this months challenge which would be sad has I've not missed one since almost the start of this many years ago

https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/732117.page#9481149

27th place, not bad! Perseverance has paid off where skill and talent may still be lacking.

Here's my finished entry for this month, a radical inquisitor. I sculpted the thighs and butt myself! I think I need to level up my eye-painting technique for next month.

Changing it up to a Solar Watch, Venerable Contemptor Dreadnought. These vehicles house ancient warriors who are renowned for their wisdom and fury. They are both living war machines and strategic advisors.

 Ezki wrote:
@Freya: That's hell of a sculpting work, especially for something that's "out of your comfort zone"

I had a "blank" female head that was 3d printed. I added the neck cowl and hair on the head then the pony tails are from the original models head so I just glued them on my sculpted one. I'm not hardly so good as that.

EDIT:
Might change the photos to ones taken with a real camera and not my phone for once if I can get the card reader to work with my computer. We'll see. If not then these first ones will be the thing

Midget Gems wrote:Feels like I've been stuck in a bit of a rut the last few months so finding it hard to get any motivation for hobby things, not sure if I'm going to make this months challenge which would be sad has I've not missed one since almost the start of this many years ago

Speed paint a grot. Keep whatever forward momentum you can muster. But it would be great if you could get something done. We have faith!

Pariah Press wrote:27th place, not bad! Perseverance has paid off where skill and talent may still be lacking.

Heh, that’s been my M.O. since the start of this. Kicking out table-top quality entries, but every month. I think my best entry might have broken into the top 3rd of the pack, and still well shy of the podium.

Speaking of entries, finished with mine.


There is a shadow in the warp coming, and the seers from my armies can sense it. The need to band together, or my new quarentine tyranid army is going to devour them and claim their shelf space.

I’m not unhappy with the way they turned out, but they don’t really excite me. But they get to move from the primed pile to the YTD shelf, so that’s a victory against the Pile of Shame.

(note to self, thread is not updated to this point. Go back one post)

Just started painting a couple of days ago. I've scaled myself all the way back from Eldrad to a couple of warlocks (now probably just a single warlock). But hey, I might at least have something to submit.

I'll post proofs along with my entry, assuming I get it done.

 Nevelon wrote:

Midget Gems wrote:Feels like I've been stuck in a bit of a rut the last few months so finding it hard to get any motivation for hobby things, not sure if I'm going to make this months challenge which would be sad has I've not missed one since almost the start of this many years ago

Speed paint a grot. Keep whatever forward momentum you can muster. But it would be great if you could get something done. We have faith!

I think we all have hobby (and life) up and down times. If it's all starting to feel like a chore, maybe just do something that makes you happy, even if it's completely not part of the plan. I find I get much more out of converting models than painting them (seriously, my pile of converted figures waiting to see a little colour is getting silly, even without buying more stuff in a while), but occasionally I make a model I'm so happy with that I can ride that energy through a couple of evenings of painting, and put it away pretty close to how I'd imagined. That said, even when I do get motivation for painting, it doesn't always last, and the scheme doesn't always go as intended. Recently mucked up a new Deathwatch venerable dreadnought with some really bad Abaddon black (too thin to cover, yet somehow drying in ridges) which threw me out for a while, until I decided to park it and do something else. I suppose what I'm saying is much like Nevelon says - do what you want to do, at your pace, and don't beat yourself up about it.

Shalaxi finished! if I have to paint one more gem stone I'll cry

Wow thats gorgeous maxwin. Speed mode activated for me and this is where im at.

Ow, my neck! Nice models, Shred!

That is shaping up to become once more a very hard voting with so many great entries. Finally managed to get the photos of Greyfax done. Light was a bit too harsh, may need a weaker bulb.

A very late proof photo, taken tonight... I mean this morning. If I can pull this off-- no promises-- it will be pretty much a one-sitting paint job, as I also need to launch the next round of the LoER Terrain Contest this weekend. If anyone can do it, the Inquisition can.

Well I managed to bump myself out of the “no motivation” rut today and got Ahriman finished; pictures to be taken later tonight I think.

Good luck MacPhail, you can make it!

Just took my finals:


Kinda annoyed on the badger's robes, that varnish said it was matte dangit.

A late entry from me, an Eldar warlock. More comments in my painting log.

Proof

(The picture was upright when viewed on my computer, but the Dakkadakka gallery insists it's sideways.)

Final Images

Looking good, everybody!

Here is a late proof. I also had plans to do an eldar but I need to paint something nice and quick, so a necron seemed to be the best choice.

Right, these guys are as finished as they are going to get:

Finally got my entry done, and then just a bit ago Dakka wouldn't load at all (on my computer at least, or even on my phone). But it's working now, so here are my final pics of a Sister Dialogus in the custom color scheme of my Sisters of Battle army:



I'm very happy with how she turned out. Very fun model to paint, too. Some great entries coming in from everyone else too; should be a good month for voting.

I've been away so need to update my completed picture- I saw a couple of errors that I've corrected since I took it. Will get it taken and uploaded later.

My humble entry for this month - Sven Stoneshield, the Wolf Priest. Kitbash out of an assault marine, space wolf sprue leftovers, two lemman russ spotlights, and some other bits to make the jump pack.

(SoulCalibur Announcer Voice: ) Now! Two Minds are Fiercely Entangled!

Erebus. Not sure what's going on with my photography today. This is the best I can do for the minute. Might try and re do them later.

Super nice, @MobileSuitRandom! You can tell they're thinking really hard because they both have their fingers to their temples.

I bet they're playing mental checkers.

@queen_annes_revenge Superb as ever! That freehand on the cloak... holy hell, I hope I'm even somewhere close to being that good some day.

Stunning work popping up, great work guys!

Finished mine. As suspected, I was able to finish only one of the leaders. The chaos leader is still badly WIP.

So, here's the Escher leader:


It was fun painting something a bit brighter and colorful than rusty ork vehicles or rugged kriegers, which feel more familiar to me.

Goals for this model were to practice painting the skin and highlighting black.
Had to rush a few things and the cloak is a bit messy here and there, but all in all I'm actually quite happy with it.
Especially the skin: even though it could be a lot better, painting it was really out of my comfort zone. After this, I feel a bit more confident about painting faces and bare skin, so a milestone achieved there!

Edit: Updated the pictures

Cheers slavetodarkness! Excellent work everyone, very high standard across the board again. Here's my final pics, as always feedback is most welcome and appreciated.

See you all next month

Here's my entry, then. Considering I banged it out in only a few days, I'm pretty happy with it. At least I've got something to enter this month. It's the first time I've used this technique for the sword - could have been a lot neater (especially on the reverse), but considering I was almost speed painting, it's not too bad.

Proof pic first (obviously). Only managed to get the warlock on the left done.

Woosh. Slipping this in right under the wire again. Combination of losing the first half of the month to the tail end of the MBA (but I'm done, finally!) and then the stress of job-hunting and my father's health issues has sort of undermined my motivation to paint this month.

I tried something a little more ambitious with this piece in terms of dramatic lighting. Didn't quite pull it off, but it was a good learning experience and fun to experiment with. I'm also getting better at this photography thing!

George Washington, Valley Forge 1778, by FeR Miniatures.

Proof pic


Completed piece

Not expecting many votes with the quality of other entries this month, but I am happy with the finished piece, especially as it is so different to what I am used to doing;



@Nev if you could update the previous image with this one, I'd be most grateful

Some incredible work across the board here. It amazes me how the field gets stronger and stronger every month, everyone's bringing their A game these last few rounds and it shows.

Despite the odds, I've technically managed to throw together and entry this month, but I shall have to request the pics amnesty for a bit, hoping to get them done tomorrow morning. It's definitely not a good entry, but until yesterday I didn't think I was going to be in at all, between my eyes still on the blink (pun very much intended) and the 3d printer failing to complete the model I was going to throw in (first world problem, I know )... At the very least, the streak goes on.

Here are my final pics of Mollog.













I really like the newer Gloomspite Gitz sculpts, and have a set of the three Rockspite Troggoths as well, and a bunch of squigs. I have this ridiculous dream of painting an entire Gitz army in this sort of style, but all I've managed so far is this trogg and Zarbag's Gitz. It might be possible, but it would take me until the heat death of the universe to finish it.