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a few WIPS before the last push...
some fun experiments going on with this guy...
i didn't start with any sort of plan, except to try painting directly over the plastic, but it branched out into trying all sorts of new stuff...

first up, the red armor:



if you look at the boot on your right, you can see where the red is fairly oxblood in color, with some P3 Coal Black shading...
on the groin plate, you can see the fine dots of pure P3 Underbelly Blue...
the boot on your left has been given a few washes of nearly uncut P3 Red Ink, which makes a rich darker red, and tones down the U.B. dots, and is my finished color...

the back shows even more contrast on the leg armor:



the front of the Megaboss shows the base green that i went with on the head, P3 Thornwood Green...
the shoulders, neck, arms, and back show the layer color, P3 Traitor Green...

the finished hands show the first stippled highlight, P3 Thrall Flesh, the shade, P3 Beaten Purple, and the final highlight, T.F. stippled again...





the claws started with P3 Thamar Black, then a layer of Coal Black, and a wash with P3 Armor Wash, plus a highlight of pure Underbelly Blue...

next up i'll show the axe handle, and some base construction, but i don't want to carpet-bomb this post with too many pics...

i hope you like the experiment, so far

cheers
jah

 Soldier0Fortune wrote:
That warboss looks awesome, very cool conversion and very imposing looking. Paint job is fantastic love the wear and tear. I'll admit when I had Orks in 40k I also didn't like using the Ghaz model as a base for Warbosses but never made one up myself. This is the kind of thing I definitely have in mind Well done !

Thanks! He was a bit of an experiment and was great fun to do. Give it a go I'd love to see the results. I really want to get myself some of those AoS orks to try some more conversions.

ZoBo wrote:@Moolet - that is a great looking megaboss! plenty of armour and an appropriate amount of lights and gizmos ...ah man, I've been wanting to do something like that for a long while now, this's making me want to even more - love the mean-looking little caged snotling too - he'd make for a good lucky stikk too

Thanks, I loved your warboss last month. I've been tempted to get that model for a while now. I'd really want to do it the justice it deserves, as you did. I'm looking forward to see how the squiggoth turns out, and WIP pics? =)

As usual, there are lots of great entries but my favourite is Bottle's genestealer... so far, its so well done it should be official publicity pic for the model. I've love the different styles everyone has and I've been very much enjoying the character Gulgog puts into his models. I also always envy the neatness and the cleanness of sockwithaticket's entries.

Jah-Joshua, that Orruk Warboss looks amazing so far!

@Jah-Joshua: That ork looks great. I've been itching to get some to paint myself, but I'm balking at the cost a bit.

Love the skintone in particular!

I'm debating whether or not to try and get something done for this month. I'm still struggling to get stuff done for Gencon. Madness, I know!

Here's mine. My photos aren't great, but I'll be busy till the 3rd, so probably won't get to redo them.

here are a few more WIP shots...

the outside face of the axe gets a lot more light than the inside...
the wood is a base coat of P3 Battlefield Brown, shaded with P3 Coal Black, layered with P3 Beast Hide, and finished with fine dots of P3 Menoth White Highlight...
the leather is based with P3 Bloodstone, shaded with Coal Black, layered with a 3-1 mix of Bloodstone and M.W.H., then stippled with pure M.W.H. and given a thin glaze of Coal Black...



the inside edge of the axe is all the same, but glazed heavier for a darker look:




i bought this Epicast base on clearance, but it has too many skulls, even for me
for many years, i wondered what i would ever use it for...
the other day i got inspired to just sculpt over the damn thing...



it just happens to fit perfectly on top of the Megaboss' plastic base:



i really don't care for the look of "base overhang", so i hacked all the skulls off of the edges:



now i just need to sculpt some rock on top, and only leave a few small areas of skulls...

hope you enjoy seeing some of the process...

cheers
jah

Looking awesome Jah. I really need to get off my ass and finish my own entry. 10 more mins in bed first - lol

very nice Jah - I love those tones, they look really cool

I agree with the base too - there is sometimes such a thing as too many skulls lol (Heresy, I know!)

That's a really cool model I can't wait to see the whole thing!

Jah, this is going to be incredible. The tiny stripping effect you are doing for the final highlight looks so good and must require bomb-defusal level dedication!

Cannot wait to see the finished product. And how have you found painting straight onto the plastic?

I have finished, well not quite as i forgot about some things on the goblin but the brush is down.

been a while since i was online, did a osl on a old beastman model , cant remember if i did any proofs, will be posting my progresws and final soon. hope all is cool with a proof and final on the last day.

@Moolet: Thanks for the encouragement, I'm kind of in a painting rut lately but I have been really trying to put some personality into the poses and stuff.

@Jah-Joshua: That's looking amazing so far, and it's really neat to hear about the process. I may well borrow some of those techniques.

@All else: as usual, some fantastic entries, and if you haven't finished yet, keep pushing, you'll make it!

I've finished one of the Dreadball Xtreme free agents, so I will have something to submit. I'm gonna try to finish at least one more, but we'll see if I can work fast enough to beat the deadline.

Not quite happy with him, but that’s kinda par for the course. Final pics.



Behold, the Zoat, beast of myths and legends. Tried a new technique here. I used the new soulstone blue as a glaze over black for a chitinous look for his gun/breather/shoulderpad. I think it turned out OK, but the high gloss did not want to photograph well. Also a little BftBG on the pad and tubes, to help make things more organic.

Also, little fun fact: The basecoat blues used were from my collection of old, still working RT-era paints, just as old as the mini himself!

 Nevelon wrote:
Not quite happy with him, but that’s kinda par for the course. Final pics.



Behold, the Zoat, beast of myths and legends. Tried a new technique here. I used the new soulstone blue as a glaze over black for a chitinous look for his gun/breather/shoulderpad. I think it turned out OK, but the high gloss did not want to photograph well. Also a little BftBG on the pad and tubes, to help make things more organic.

Also, little fun fact: The basecoat blues used were from my collection of old, still working RT-era paints, just as old as the mini himself!

Always good to see someone keeping RT alive Good work on keeping those old paints working, mine have all died now

This month has been so diverse, it's awesome.
I'm not sure I can finish my Libby to the level I want in time. Being doing some subtle metals rather than usual gleaming stuff, and it's sloooow.

Here are my final images for the completed Bashful Boris.

I went full Colonel Kurtz on this one. Towards the end, I was feeling so anxious about painting him that I was making excuses not to. I just had the club to do, but I was so convinced that I was going to do something to mess up the whole miniature that I was terrified of touching it. I would say, "Well, I can't finish Boris off, I have to empty the bins" and my wife would reply, "It's not bin day until Sunday, what are you talking about?" "Well, maybe I should get them done early." If it hadn't been for the deadline imposed by this thread, I probably wouldn't have finished him. I'm glad I did, because I used some techniques I'm quite new to, and painted in a style different to how I usually paint, which I've been trying to use on my Super Dungeon Explore miniatures. The metal is all painted in Non-Metallic-Metal style, which took hours and hours, and was really hard, particularly for a noob like myself. The leather straps also took a long time, as again I went a bit crazy on them, trying to make them look worn and weathered. I've included a close-up so you can see the extent of my chicken-scratch craziness on them. It's a bit of a shame that some tiny bits of dust show up in the close-ups. That stuff is not visible to the naked eye at all, it's virtually mircoscopic. I kept blowing on the mini, gently dusting him, and retaking the photos, but there's always a few specks that remain in the photos. I'm just going to have to live with them.

Overall, I'm really happy with the finished miniature, and as I say, I probably wouldn't have pushed myself so much without the existence of this thread, so thanks to Paradigm for running it each month, and everyone for participating. I think we collectively push each other to improve as painters. You can see that from how the standard keeps creeping up and up. This month is another spectacular collection of minis!

So here he is, the finished Boris:

 feltmonkey wrote:

Spoiler:

Here are my final images for the completed Bashful Boris.

I went full Colonel Kurtz on this one. Towards the end, I was feeling so anxious about painting him that I was making excuses not to. I just had the club to do, but I was so convinced that I was going to do something to mess up the whole miniature that I was terrified of touching it. I would say, "Well, I can't finish Boris off, I have to empty the bins" and my wife would reply, "It's not bin day until Sunday, what are you talking about?" "Well, maybe I should get them done early." If it hadn't been for the deadline imposed by this thread, I probably wouldn't have finished him. I'm glad I did, because I used some techniques I'm quite new to, and painted in a style different to how I usually paint, which I've been trying to use on my Super Dungeon Explore miniatures. The metal is all painted in Non-Metallic-Metal style, which took hours and hours, and was really hard, particularly for a noob like myself. The leather straps also took a long time, as again I went a bit crazy on them, trying to make them look worn and weathered. I've included a close-up so you can see the extent of my chicken-scratch craziness on them. It's a bit of a shame that some tiny bits of dust show up in the close-ups. That stuff is not visible to the naked eye at all, it's virtually mircoscopic. I kept blowing on the mini, gently dusting him, and retaking the photos, but there's always a few specks that remain in the photos. I'm just going to have to live with them.

Overall, I'm really happy with the finished miniature, and as I say, I probably wouldn't have pushed myself so much without the existence of this thread, so thanks to Paradigm for running it each month, and everyone for participating. I think we collectively push each other to improve as painters. You can see that from how the standard keeps creeping up and up. This month is another spectacular collection of minis!

So here he is, the finished Boris:

@Felt, those eyes are amazing! I always screw up eyes

Few final touches in the morning and this beast of a machine is done and ready to join her Rangers

Awesome job, felt! Really like those eyes and the strapping.

Whittlesey40k wrote:
@Felt, those eyes are amazing! I always screw up eyes

Buttery Commissar wrote:Awesome job, felt! Really like those eyes and the strapping.

Thanks, guys.

I painted the eyes the way I paint gems. A black circle, then a little sort of u-shaped bit of colour at the bottom of the eye, then a smaller "u" of a lighter shade just inside the other u. Then a little spot of pure white in the top corner and Bob's your uncle. You need a steady hand, and have to be prepared to go back and start agin, but it's do-able. I think those particular ones came out well, but I consider them a bit of a fluke!

Just about to actually start the washes on everything, paints all been dried for a full day. if it works good, i should have the photos of the land- aider and tech marine and servitors all posted before the sun sets in the midwest. Im also going to wash the Jetfighter and the Vindicators for the Hammer of Caliban, ill post those as well.

its too bad i put the jetfighter together this month, as i have nothing that flys or jumps thats not already at least halfway painted. But the Jetfighter Just may help to inspire one of you to try something different, So ill post that as well.

As usual there are far far far too many photos of WIP and finished works that look amazing. By the looks of things, ill be voting for all you again this month. A couple months ago someone commented on everyone's work, that was awesome of them. It got me thinking. Everyone here, random photos in the gallery too, inspire me to be a better painter, a better modeler. This month, I will be commenting on all the finished photos and let you each know how you inspired me.

I havnt done a thing with my bases beyond a single color, but thats cuz i want to do the whole Lions Blade Strike Force with one base, which will give my chapter about 8 different styles of bases. But i dont wanna just do like 5 guys, id rather buy the stuff in bulk and do a few hundred at a time.

@Jan - love your tank! he's a beautiful machine and an awesome job per usual on him!

@feltmonkey - good lord that's amazing. Seriously, incredible. You should be very proud of yourself you did a fabulous job!

Thank you!

As promised some pictures. Im happy with the wash.. sorta, i can see the brush strokes. But the five people that have seen them, of which all paint, tell me it looks like smoke or mud and not repaint things. Let me know what you guys things, its my first time washing anything.

Well, I know it's the absolute last moment, but I'm in!

My entry's a small HH diorama in which a World Eaters marine unleashes his berserker rage on an unfortunate smurf.

Proof:


Final:

Righto, calling the squiggoth done I think...scraping in at the last minute here!

Well, I'm happy enough with it, it's properly big an' stompy, and chompy! ...the paint scheme is something of a fusion of snakebitez and dethskullz style, with the orks deciding the blue drop pod looked lucky, and doing their best to replicate the scheme on the squiggoth's armour...with a little proppa orky flair too of course

Nice! Glad that one made it in time, as it was an eyecatching project when you first posted about it.

Squiggoth is
Incredibal
Unstoppabal
Unbeatabal
Invincibal

Or(k)

Increduhbooh
Anstoppabooh
Anbuytabooh
Eenvincybooh

Soooo cool very orky! Love it!