Dakka (Unofficial) Painting Challenge Round 50 April 2019: The Art of War

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**Captain Brown**

DV8,

That is a most impressive painting of Nagash, right down to the dead leaves on the base.

I am Exalting it here and in your PLOG.

Sincerely,

CB

**Tikay Fortooun**

I’m just happy to be in the same thread as everyone here. The standard is insanely high.

**DV8**

Modock wrote: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.

Well, thank you man! I love your work and it's definitely motivating me to step up the consistency of my work as well!

Your entry, as always, is super clean and sharp! I love the mix of various neutral tones in the armor and that ridiculously sharp red faceplate!

Captain Brown wrote:DV8,

That is a most impressive painting of Nagash, right down to the dead leaves on the base.

I am Exalting it here and in your PLOG.

Sincerely,

CB

Cheers!

**feltmonkey**

Chris56 - You can do it! Go Chris!

DV8 - That's just stunning.

I'll say more in the voting thread when it's up, but suffice to say you're getting a vote.

Modock - Great work as ever.

Midget Gems - That's coming along nicely. Looking forward to seeing the finished article.

Stormatious - Nowt wrong with that lava base, it looks good. I like the bubbles.

Lovely work also coming in from Flinty, Jadenim, Bellerophon and others, too many to mention without this turning into one of my mention-everyone posts. They take like an hour to make, so I'll stop here.

I've just finished my elves. I'm definitely not winning this month with all this quality on display, but I'm keeping my streak of entries going. The last bits of paint aren't even dry but I'm photographing them anyway because I'm a maverick like that.

Automatically Appended Next Post:
So here are my final pics - Elf Wanderers, the Waywatcher and the Waystrider.

**Nevelon**

Chris56 wrote:
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!

Glad I can help motivate!

Slow and stead wins the race. Just keep painting, and you’ll be shocked how fast things pile up. Nice looking Seer, where is she from?

Finished my entry:

Almost didn’t include the guards. They are not bad at arm’s length, but the models are really lackluster. Too many compromises for getting them to sprue in too few pieces. The feel like cheesy push-fits, but should be character level of detail as befits their station. As they had to be fully assembled so mold/join lines could be smoothed, it was a real bear getting a brush to places. So up close, they have a lot of bad angles.

Calgar on the other hand was a lot of fun. Big guy, nice details, but not too over the top. Looking forward to getting him on the batlefield and doing some harm. I’m sure my son will be glad to see him as well, as he’ll take the place of Guiliman as my new shiny warlord.

Special bonus pic (not for voting)
“You never grow old, you are old when you stop growing.”

Spoiler:

**StormX**

Amazing work everyone.

**JamesY**

Unfortunately no time left to set up for a decent picture, but finished;

Not expecting (m)any votes with some of the great entries this month

**Gulgog TufToof**

Sadly, the gunner w/ the plasma caliver won't be done in time, but I finished my AdMech Skitarii Alpha. The Art (and Science) of War:

Great work everyone!

**Tyranid Horde**

Looks like I'll be rushing to get this one done, but I'll get there! Some gorgeous entries this month!

**Paradigm**

In what is possibly the most 'last minute' of my last minute entries so far, I just about managed to get something suitable done amongst all the Batmans. Started at about 8PM last night after a day of travel, and photograhped this morning before I head off to a Captain Marvel/Endgame double bill, just about done in time!

Of the three Theodens I've painted recently, I think this might actually be my favourite. As great as the new plastic versions are, especially when it comes to things like the armour and sword holding finer details, this is definitely my favourite pose and the face on this one is an even better likeness to the actor. I've gone for a somewhat brighter look here, emphasising the green and red of his tunic a lot more, and I think that suits him nicely.

Any thoughts welcome!

**StormX**

Excellent work Paradigm, and also is a very cool looking model.

**queen_annes_revenge**

you painted all night? nice. I want to do some of the LOTR/Hobbit stuff, but didnt have time to get one done for GD. I might do the Azog duel next year.

**Paradigm**

Nah, I didn't quite have to pull an all-nighter, got it done by about 11:30, just had to do the photos first thing today as by then I was knackered!

I'd love to see your take on some Middle Earth minis, I think they'd suit your style nicely.

**queen_annes_revenge**

yeah I think they'd be a nice change from heresy era, its just finding something cool that would be fun to paint. forge world have some nice hobbit stuff, but it will probably have to wait until next year.

still got Sanguinius and Daemon Magnus to paint. hopefully get those into one of the up coming months. Sanguinius would be good for 'to the death' (too soon?) but with a house move this month I don't want to assemble him and risk damage during transit.

**Chris56**

So many awesome minis!
The quality seems to get higher and higher every month, I swear.

This farseer conversion is the Mistweaver from the Warhammer Quest reboot with an Eldar head swap...I'm going to use the original head on a different farseer body to add to my seer council.

The idea for my Eldar is that they are seeking the primordial gods that existed when the universe was in its infancy, to replace the gods lost when Slaanesh rose. Each of these primeval forces embodies one of the elements of the universe, such as 'Fire', 'Earth', 'Water', etc.

This girl is the Seer of Air.

Finished.

All the best to everyone and see you in 'To the Death'.

**Vejut**

Chris56: Thats some fine looking blending on that farseer.

Squeeking in under the wire with actual attempts at quality pictures. Probably could crop 'em a bit, admittedly...
Final pics:

Can't believe I missed that stain on the loincloth, but I did until the photo setup was put away, so sadly, it stays.

**Midget Gems**

Some nice entires coming in, hope to see some more tonight before the deadline

Getting my Final Pics in while I can for my little scene, seem to be saying this on most entries recently but ran out of time to finish all the little details but its mostly there.

My Ork Blood Axe Warboss - The Art of Waaagh (By Mork Tzu)

**DV8**

Yeh! Fight the enemy where they isn't! (Inner monologue: but that's not what it means!!)

**Ezki**

Wow, great stuff guys!
As already said, I think the quality of the entries gets better and better by the month.

Got mine done just in time!
Not very happy with the painting on this one, as I did not have much painting time during this month. I actually started painting this yesterday.
Well, one can't succeed every time.

What I'm happy with though, is the conversion itself.
Succubus for my upcoming vampire / horror themed army. The conversion is somewhat based on a hero in Dota 2.

The source of inspiration in the spoilers. Note: NOT my image and this is not part of the entry.

Spoiler:

**Flinty**

Love the blue skin. Very vibrant scheme.

**Rybrook**

Im done just need to let the base dry and then take appalling pics as usual

**Peregrine**

DKoK master of ordnance and Good Boy

Proof:

**StormX**

Damn, nice work Peregrine that looks brilliant. Love the dog especially.

**Tyranid Horde**

Pushing to get my entry done and I'm almost there! Bear with me!

**dukeofbeer**

Just got my warboss done and photographed! Just in under the wire. Not perfect, but more importantly done

Grimgor is a cunning warlord, even though he didn't go to no fancy military academy.
Great stuff.
Midget Gems- that is amazing. Love the concept and the colors! Great execution of a great idea.

**Maharg**

Some great entries this month, really high standard. Here is my entry (and an updated proof pic as I did a few extra models):

**Tyranid Horde**

Hope I'm allowed a slightly late entry! I finished before 12 but I wanted some decent photos. Only the fire dragon exarch got painted... I was a tad ambitious with 5 models lol.

**Paradigm**

I'll leave this open for a few more hours, but in the mean time, here's the new round, To The Death:
https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/774863.page

**CREEEEEEEEED**

So I may not have finished, but I blame that on Easter holiday and not having a paint setup at home because I left stuff (most importantly my half finished entry) at uni. But there's some great entries here, I look forward to voting.

**Rybrook**

Done