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Finished a while back, but only just got final pictures done:




Definitely overshadowed by some excellent entries by others this month, a very high standard!

I present to you, the dakkasaurus rex.
(pay attention to the freehand... there's an easter egg in there)

Awesome - I really suggest posting them with links to the dakka gallery so that we can *easily* admire them in all of their glory! (I have done so for you below)

 Freya wrote:
I present to you, the dakkasaurus rex.
(pay attention to the freehand... there's an easter egg in there)

Catchya,
Arakasi

 Arakasi wrote:
Awesome - I really suggest posting them with links to the dakka gallery so that we can *easily* admire them in all of their glory! (I have done so for you below)

 Freya wrote:
I present to you, the dakkasaurus rex.
(pay attention to the freehand... there's an easter egg in there)

Catchya,
Arakasi

I was just about the mention that. Also, this model reminds me of the old adage "Never bring a sword to a Dakkasaurus fight."

 JoshInJapan wrote:

 Arakasi wrote:
Awesome - I really suggest posting them with links to the dakka gallery so that we can *easily* admire them in all of their glory! (I have done so for you below)

 Freya wrote:
I present to you, the dakkasaurus rex.
(pay attention to the freehand... there's an easter egg in there)

Catchya,
Arakasi

I was just about the mention that. Also, this model reminds me of the old adage "Never bring a sword to a Dakkasaurus fight."

A vintage quote if ever I've heard one.

I really pushed this month to get this guy done; he's a lot more ambitious than my usual one ork boy per month, and the only time I have to paint is weeknights after work when my motivation is at its lowest point of the whole day. Also, I had to wait for 2/3rds of the month for some Mephiston red spray for the squig, so I spent a couple of weeks on the rider, still no base spray; spent a week on the base, and once the paint finally came in, it was a real scramble to get the squig done on time. I hope you like him, I really enjoyed painting and basing this one.
Proof:


and final pics:

Freya - my god. I knew the thing was going to look good, but I didn't think it was going to look THAT good. Truly awesome.

Some great entries to close out the month, folks!

@Maharg- love the palette on those orcs, the skin and bronze armour work wonderfully together.

@Chris56- still better thsn most of us wven when you're a little rusty! Always a fan of fallen Stormcast.

@Freya- magnificent as predicted, but what I love most is the single purity seal, as if some slightly mad techpriest has looked at this and gone 'Yeah, that'll do. Approved!'

 Freya wrote:
I present to you, the dakkasaurus rex.
(pay attention to the freehand... there's an easter egg in there)

Love it :-) the metal looks great, think the model would look bit 'much' if you'd gone with TMM, but yeah... good job :-)

https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/0/801201.page#11229051

October is up, so get out those spooks and start haunting the place up!

We’ll leave this one running for the weekend as requested, so everyone take the time to put that final polish on the Heavy Metal

@Chris56 - Thanks. I know I’ve put together solid lists of Ultras composed of only things I’ve painted for this comp, and had choices on how to fill up the points. Overall I’m not sure if I’ve passed the 500 marine mark. But yes, I have a few Ultras on the shelves...

Finished my entry, albeit rather rushed in a few hours during some zoom calls. There's a nod to a certain other robot in the paint job, so I'll leave it to you to figure that out.

UR-025 - Imperial Robot







Nev/Para, I've spoilered big photos for the voting thread:

Graphite wrote:Freya - my god. I knew the thing was going to look good, but I didn't think it was going to look THAT good. Truly awesome.

Thank you. I wanted to try something interesting with him and ended up getting super inspired. Like the "jurassic park" WAAAGH logo I freehanded. Was just some brainchild of my drunk mind one day.

Paradigm wrote:Some great entries to close out the month, folks!

@Maharg- love the palette on those orcs, the skin and bronze armour work wonderfully together.

@Chris56- still better thsn most of us wven when you're a little rusty! Always a fan of fallen Stormcast.

@Freya- magnificent as predicted, but what I love most is the single purity seal, as if some slightly mad techpriest has looked at this and gone 'Yeah, that'll do. Approved!'

"Eh... good enough for government work" lol

the_balloon_dog wrote:

Love it :-) the metal looks great, think the model would look bit 'much' if you'd gone with TMM, but yeah... good job :-)

Yeah... at one point I was kicking myself cuz I had a week left to paint the entire armor in NMM and I was so worried I'd fail... like I almost just didn't wanna finish this month at all because of it. But... I took the plunge into oil painting NMM and i have to say, I agree with you. This look is pretty solid and I don't think I could have done it justice in TMM.

Great round so far! Here are my SCE:






These were reasonably fun to paint & I think I'll stick to this scheme for the rest of 'em. Need to add some more glowy effects to the hammers tho, they look a bit boring this way.

Ooo, they look so much better than the GW “golden boys” paint scheme! They look like they belong in some Classical Greek myth or something.

 Chris56 wrote:


Also loving the orcs Maharg and MG.

Here is my entry after a few months away. It is meant to be Papa Nurgle taking over and corrupting a stormcast eternal, the rust and corrosion corrupting the shiny nmm armour. I think the idea mostly works...
It was interesting picking up a brush - my hand/eye coordination needs to be remembered but it felt good.

I am really happy to have something finished...now Maharg and MG have me hankering for some orks!!!

See everyone in Halloween month I hope!

Thank you Chris, lovely how you have made the rot/infection seem like its spreading across your model (and the base is rather good too) I need to think what I can dress my Orks up in this year for Halloween

My finish Pics (main camera is RIP so just phone shots, guess thats going to have to go on the xmas list)



Damn it forgot the grots toes!

Lol, funny what you catch when you blow them up to monitor scale, huh?

Still got the weekend if you want to go back and fix it.

I hate pics that show all the flaws in my work. Which is most of them.

 Jadenim wrote:
Ooo, they look so much better than the GW “golden boys” paint scheme! They look like they belong in some Classical Greek myth or something.

Thank you I think SCE sculpts have got so much better than the first cartoony waves, but that golden paint scheme ... yeah, well. But then I remember how WHFB Ogre Kingdoms initially arrived with this weird greyish skin-tone, so maybe GW will also eventually re-think the SCE colour themes ^^

Sorry for the late pics.
Added a touch on the backpack and took the final photos.
Thanks for watching them.

So, I definitely bit off more than I could chew... it's not finished, but I'm going to need a break before I can go back to it anyway .

Ork Deff Dread (Da Deffwing)






Good luck everyone!

Catchya,
Arakasi

I am ready to serve, again ...

Final Images
@Nevelon: I’ve uploaded these at the last minute, only to discover that Dakkadakka isn’t displaying images because of an update. I uploaded nine images and was going to post the best five, but now I can’t see which image is which. I’ll whittle them down once images are being displayed again, but if you get around to compiling the poll thread before I do, please just pick the five you think are best.


EDIT
All fixed now.

Final images in the spoiler for size.

The gallery here was a little wonky today, but hopefully is fixed now. If anyone was having problems uploading, just pop a placeholder post here letting me know. It’s still technically the weekend here for a few more hours, and I’m not going to have a chance to start on the poll until after work tomorrow anyway. I’ll formally close this one tomorrow morning. If I notice any dead links to pics, I’ll reach out to people.


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OK, It’s morning here, weekend’s over, back to work.

I’ll start compiling the vote thread, you start painting for Halloween!

Mmmm *groans* 5 more minutes!

Okay, so I wasn't able to quite finish even with the extension, but I still want to provide proof that I've been working on it:

Vampire:


Dragon:


Base:


All together (in current state):


I'll add final pics once it's completed.

I just finished my dinner and am going to pour myself a drink and start putting together the vote thread. Should be about 2 hours if anyone needs to edit a post last second.


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Is anyone besides me having problems seeing DV8’s entry? I’m getting dead link/server not secure errors.

I sent him a PM, but if it’s just me I can finish up the poll and post it. But going to pause it until that gets straightened out.

His hosting site has a certificate error. Until that is rectified, chances are only out of date browsers are going to be able to see them. They should work again once the certificate issue is fixed...


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Uploaded it to DakkaDakka:

 Arakasi wrote:
His hosting site has a certificate error. Until that is rectified, chances are only out of date browsers are going to be able to see them. They should work again once the certificate issue is fixed...

Thanks for getting that up. With Dakka upgrading and my own computers doing so as well, wasn’t sure if it was me or something else. Fixed with that image for now.

I’ve put up the poll:
https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/0/801270.page#11231067

Go Vote!

As an aside: Could people get in the habit of putting a title/description of their entry with their final pics? A lot of the time I just give it my best guess, sometimes based off of the tags/names of the pics. There are a lot of minis and games out there, and that’s even before we get into self-scupted or obscure kickstarters. For some I can go back through the thread and look at the proof pic/WIPs for clues, others less so. Some names do need to be trimmed for brevity, but a lot deserve more than I can give them. Nothing required, but it might help at the polls if your work was better described.