Forum adverts like this one are shown to any user who is not logged in. Join us by filling out a tiny 3 field form and you will get your own, free, dakka user account which gives a good range of benefits to you: No adverts like this in the forums anymore. Times and dates in your local timezone. Full tracking of what you have read so you can skip to your first unread post, easily see what has changed since you last logged in, and easily see what is new at a glance. Email notifications for threads you want to watch closely. Being a part of the oldest wargaming community on the net. If you are already a member then feel free to login now.

You're welcome
Looking forward to seeing your pit finished!

Im still working, honest!

Should be able to start painting tonight or tomorrow morning. Hopefully the blasted weather cooperates!







Ive decided to go the Trukk-smashing-into-the-back route with the raised platform. Just need to build a trukk to fit there in time!

Hey guys I did indeed get hit by the hurricane posting from smrtphone, my power will be out maybe for another week and a half so don't wait up for me, there is a small chance I mite get it in by tomorrow but who knows. It is a real life figtin pit here except douchebags are fighting at the gas station!

Damn dude. That sucks! Stay safe and hopefully your power returns soon!

Yeah, save your batteries man. I'm so sorry, I hope for the best for you.

 Meade wrote:
Hey guys I did indeed get hit by the hurricane posting from smrtphone, my power will be out maybe for another week and a half so don't wait up for me, there is a small chance I mite get it in by tomorrow but who knows. It is a real life figtin pit here except douchebags are fighting at the gas station!

Need anything shipped out to ya? PM if so.

@Ramos: That pit looks awesome so far, man. Can't wair to see it finished!

@Maede: Damn I'm sorry to hear that.... mind if I use your wips for judging?
I hope everything is allright at your place!

Got the power back! I'm one of the lucky ones I guess. Thanks for the well wishes but I am in no way harmed, aside from the inconvenience of having to chainsaw up a tree or two, and not having the internet/power for three days. I pretty much just built a fire and drank hot cocoa, I have plenty of supplies set aside for the zombie apocalypse anyway. Of course some people were not so lucky, but that was more down south.


So my project is like 98% finished, so as soon as I do some chores today I just need to get the pics done and I can send in for judging.

Glad to hear your power is back, mate. I'm very much looking forward to the pics!

@Maede: Stay safe. Hope you and your friends and family are safe and that all your stuff is ok. Let us know if there's anything we can do. (I never realized that this forum would be part of a person's community, to the point where you'd check in with us - that's pretty cool)

And here is Battleshrine Beleg'dea



I'm working on a beauty shot (with a background that isn't my dining room), but work has been insane today so I might not get it out until this afternoon. Again, thanks for the inspiration, critiques, and push to get it done. I can't wait to see everyone else's stuff!

@Mars, thanks man, but yeah I'm doing fine, it really is the people by the water that got wiped out. But there is still no gas in our area because it is being used for emergency stuff and people hoard it for the generators. Awesome Battleshrine! It reminds me of a battle shrine on the planet Vulcan in Star Trek.

Here is my final entry, after a bit of a photo shoot today. I dub it "The Octagon". Edit: the picture in this post is high quality, and linked from elsewhere, but if you want to vote/comment for this in the dakka gallery (it freezes every time i upload a high quality pic) then click the direct link below.



http://www.dakkadakka.com/gallery/427512-The%20Octagon.html

GL everybody!

@Meade: That's awesome! I love the croud. I can almost hear all the cheers and jeers as I look at the images. Very nice.

Here's the beauty shot for the shrine.



It's a little rushed, but I wanted to get it in in case I get slammed more this afternoon.

HO-LEE SH....!!

Guys, these are awesome. I can't wait to see everyones work finished tomorrow!

@Mars, that shrine absolutely rocks! I love your beauty shot!

and @Maede.... sadly the dakka rules forbid me to use swearwords to emphasize how much I like your pit! Top notch work dude, top notch!

meh, i cant get mine done, to much stuff i had to do in the house etc

So when you put an item on the grocery list (lets use Superglue as an example) what is the one item that ends up forgotten, regardless of the texts and requests made earlier in the week and the many "I'll grab it tomorrow" 's received?

Ill give you a hint. Its Superglue :/

I ran out a coupla days ago, and thus far have not secured another supply. Unfortunately, elements of my Pit (the stupid shiny grey plasticard) refuse to stick with anything else. This leaves assembly of the pit unfinished, and no way of getting it painted. I wont be able to get glue till late tomorrow.

Sorry guys, but looks like this one wont be completed in time

Once again I have let you down as I have been hit with a plague of man Flu dam you Nurgle the only thing I have been producing is large masses of green glupe, and trust me you don't want pictures of that.

I lost interest in just about everything, even had to put the builder of starting work on the kitchen for a week.

But all the entries so far look cool, mars2024 love the copper structure really has that bashed metal finish to it and the flags really makes it feel like an event.

Meade As I favour the chaos inspired this is one epic piece, my favourite part being the blood drain that was a great touch indeed, did you airbrush the circle lines and chaos star ?

Good luck to all

very sorry to hear you guys are out of the race....

btw... who's in atm? Vik, Maede, mars.... what about MauS for example? Didn't he also want to enter this??

anyway, even if it's only you three guys.... you did some absolutely awesome work, all of you!! It will be tough picking a winner tomorrow morning (its midnight here in germany atm)
maybe some more entries turn up during the night....

see ya tomorrow, when we have a winner!

Next time ill get an earlier start. I think what killed me is that i began it too late. Supply line issues took their toll, naturally, but ah well.
Next round will be MINE!!

darn... thats some heavy competition and i am even late due to being ill... i think there is no way someone else could compete with meade atm...

darn... well for completition i will do some finished shots and put them here even tho i am way too late for getting in the vote...

Ok we have a winner, guys!

First, I want to congratulate and thank all of you for the outstanding work you've done. Every WIP pic in this thread was a joy to look at, and you did some great work, everyone!

But, there can only be one winner. And since we only have so few finished entries, I didn't have such a tough job judging this as vik had with the previous contest. I asked my brother to help me, and after a while we came to the conclusion that.....






Thanks again all for participating in this contest.

Meade, the next one is yours!

Congrats Meade!! This was a tough one!

Congrats Meade! Really nice job.

Well done mate well deserved

Grats Meade!! Excellent terrain piece with a truly grimdark atmosphere!

I look forward to your competition!

Congrats Meade really well done

Such an amazing bit of scenery. I think the models really help bring it to life as well - and I still just love that little psycho with the knife. I think he is one of my favourite ever minis - what parts is he made from again? I can just imagine him circling the slow ogryn, darting in to cripple with well placed stabs. For some reason it really reminds me of Trott's duel in the Malazan books if anyone has read those.

What's under the ogryn? A pool of blood? My only criticism would be that the blood is a bit bright red, the best blood recipe is tamiya clear red mixed with some black ink, it really looks a lot more realistic.

A justified victory. Alas, I had no time to finish mine, its gathering dust on my workbench as a client of mine died this week and i'm way to busy arranging his funeral and stuff. Not nice to do, but it must be done.
I promise i will finish my arena in my own thread, and i'll keep an eye out for the next one.

Congrats Meade!!! sorry to the rest of you guys

Sorry guys I was away for a family thing over the weekend. But thanks everybody! And I'm sad there wasn't more entries at the end... but honestly I barely made it there myself so I feel lucky.

*walks to podium*

-I'd like to thank all the chaos gods first of all, especially my man Khorne, who was clearly very inspiring for this piece, and my man Slaanesh for urging me to be sadly obsessed over details. And my man Tzeentch for twisting the fates so my power comes back on in time to enter. And dakka people for being supportive as well. And props to Mars2024 and Vic for the stiff competition.

@LDD yes the concrete barrier was airbrushed with stencil, the closest thing to freehand in this thing is the khorne blood drain that's scratched out. The other details on the center piece just came out through drybrushing and such. Sorry to hear about your plague dude!

@Bruticus yea I know about the blood, thanks for the tip dude usually I just mix together some VMA mohagany and other reds combined with water effects or gloss medium. I might have fixed that with a bit more time but gak happens. In this case my original blood mixture kind of seeped into the foam and i had to improvise a bit.

The Ogryn is standing on a scibor corpses base, they are half decayed corpses and skulls and a freshly murdered one. Like I said it's removable so I could game with the ogryn when I like.

The psycho with a knife is actually a wargames factory celt figure, I got some and they make good random cultist parts, with the knife and DV cultist head added. And yes I still have the psycho halfling... would have been in the final entry had I not been a bit cut short/distracted by other things.

@Mr.Merlin thanks for all the awesome compliments.

So this means that I get to pick the next contest and judge it? Mwuhahaha. I have some awesome ideas already.

Do share those awesome ideas mate

My favorite idea atm is for an epic shrubbery contest. Who would be interested in this?

Also a ruins contest hasn't been done, that might be cool.

Also a robot/mechanoid contest of some sort.

The thing is I want to do something fun and different but also so people could build things that are usable for their own hobby. That way nobody can say they don't have the time to participate or don't need the thing in question. And even if they are not playing to win.