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I’ll throw in with another super generic entry. I’ll be doing an Ultramarines Tactical Squad. This is my entry pic. I’m still building the special weapons and the Sergeant.

I'm going to try and re-paint at least two units of high elves.

I’ve challenged The Boy to join us for this competition. He’s been into 40k for a few months, and is painting, albeit slowly (like his old man). I figured we could both use the motivation to get a squad of guys on the table. Right now the only fully painted unit he has is a chaplain.

As there is no model limit this month, I’ll be expanding my entry into a joint Ultramarine/Salamander task force, and subcontracting half the work.

He’s already painted 2 of the guys, but the other three will be entered. (I just wanted to picture the squad together)

Proof pic.

Proof:

Heres my proof pic going with some skellies this month. Sepulchral guard for the win.

Cool choice, n1ceguypaul - I am wanting to do a set of those myself.

However, I'm going to do an Imperial Guard duo holding the line against marauding daemons.
It was originally going to be tyranids but I already kinda did that in space marine month.

Anyhow, good luck everyone, it looks like people are gonna be painting up a storm!

You know what, i think i am going to join in this time as well. Looks incredibly fun!

So i am putting up 20 Stormvermin , i think they can go for core infantry for my Skaven army.
I have to paint them this month anyway as my Path of Glory campaign starts in December, so this challenge suits me incredibly well.

Good luck everyone out there competing.

Progress pic,

I'm very very happy with the progress I've made this weekend. I recently got back a dedicated hobby space and it has done wonders for my work backlog...

I've got the silver and the gold on all of them (Thank Kaldor Draigo for leadbelcher spray paint!), and the red on most... From a distance they already look halfway decent. Once done they are finished they should be awesome...

I'm in... busy month, so not a very ambitious model, but it makes one more boy closer to having my Freebooterz Slugga Squad complete.
I wouldn't want to charge a line with this lad holding it.
Proof:

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I've just spent the last month painting up 20 ork boyz and 5 hellblasters finishing the last of them a few days before the vote for this challenge's subject. So i thought to myself, hmm what to do next, well my Blood Angels force HQ options are quite limited at the moment so i should perhaps do a few of those.

Checking through a few facebook group deals i grab myself the bits to convert myself a generic BA captain (from artemis), the sanguinor (from Edryc Setorax) and Dante (Primaris captain), surely one of those will fit the challenge... heh.. no "we're looking for the resolute front-line troops that form the core of any army, standing firm, taking and holding ground" .

Hmm. Time for some lateral thinking if i dont want to have to go get something new.

So what do you think, would Dante fit the bill? In the current fluff apparently the BA are trapped alone on the other side of the big rifty thing from the gathering storm. They are alone out there and are holding the line. Is it a bit of a stretch?


In the foreground of the image below is my Dante to be, and in the back is the captain and sanguinor, who are doing anything but holding the line by running forward.



Anyhow, I'll wait for your collective judgment whether i need to weather the disapproving look of my wife as i arrive home with a fresh 40k purchase =)

Been a long long time since entered one of these! So we’ll have a go with a single model. Inq54 Inquisitor Covenant of the Ordo Malleus. Hopefully will have him done by months end.

Wooooo, Jan is back, and with an epic model to boot! Looking forward to seeing this one! (then promptly snapping at least half my brushes in half out of sheer inadequacy, if your previous Inq54 stuff is anything to go by! )


@Moolet: As always, the theme is as interpreted by the entrants. The description in the OP is more a guideline for anyone who's not sure what to enter (ie. it's the most obvious/literal version of the theme) so if you think Dante fits, go for it! A strong commander is as vital to holding the line as a mass of troops, and Dante definitely fits that bill!

Cheers Para. Only working on 2 models this month but hey are both big 'uns - Inq Covenant as I neeeeeeeeed to get back into my Inq54 stuff adn also working on Ciri from Witcher 3 - 75mm mini o.O Should be able to finish them but knowing my snail's pace of painting................ :/

75mm Witcher models? I might just need to know where one can get such things... Got a link?

Geralt is called 'The White Butcher' & Ciri is called 'The Witch Hunter' They were made by Scale75. Mine was bought for me - will try and find out where adn get back to you

Found 'em with a quick google of the names, cheers... Might have to get one at some point, they're impressive models.

Links, in case anyone else was looking:

Finished

Its one of my old minis i stripped of paint, not sure where the back piece went missing, if i find it i paint it later, but probably calling this finished.

Nice one, Dance of Slannesh... I have a couple of those hidden somewhere in my eldar bits box, you just gave me the notion of fishing them out to add to my forming Ynnari army...

Yes, I know, I have too many things on my plate at the same time...

Thanks I find old models are ussually a pleasure to paint, do it!

I've managed to start painting... anyhow, the Pur-peL Krush are starting to take color:

I figured out the Orc Flesh for the team and painted the first three:



And, I figured out my base colors for armor and clothing (purple will be much brighter).

Front:


Back:

After failing to finish TWICE in recent months (Although last month I did finish... and then went away without uploading the pics ) I'm going to do one of two things for this month!

I should really paint up this Start Collecting Skitarii box - the troops hitting the topic precisely, and the Dominus and 'Crawler being the models that will, when I get round to playing them, Hold the Line! for me at the back of the table.



Alternatively, I really REALLY have an urge to finally paint up some of the Primaris Marines I've had sat in a box since the summer! Either way, something will get painted... probably...



Good luck for this month everyone!

Update on my Stormvermin.

Ive primed them white and started to assemble them, just body and head.
Ive never painted Stormvermin before, so i was not sure on colour scheme or how to paint them, took one for a test run.

This is a great opportunity to try and finish my army, life caught up to me and i couldn't touch a brush for a few months.

My entry is a black templar crusader squad, if they're not resolute front-line troopers then i don't know what is
It is my first time entering a contest like this, I hope i'm doing this right.

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I'll try this month, got a new army I'm working on if work gives me any time. Officially I'll enter the 5 halberdiers out front, but I'm gonna try for all forty along with their accompanying characters.

Not models per se, but my groups been building terrain lately.

So, given I just ripped a bunch of garden stakes out, I'll be building a stockade for Warmachine/Hordes.
Figures that counts for hold the line.

I might add some Pikemen and Riflemen afterwards.

A wee start on Covenant on stream this evening. Basic skinwork sketched in

First model assembled, took some cutting and grinding but im satisfied with the result.
I think I'll keep the remainder of the squad a surprise and only post the finished product, but expect some heavy customisations on most of them

Finished. Might paint more team members, but I dobut it. These take like 8 hours to complete. The paintjob is based on this flag,

and the coat of arms on this one. I would like to zoom in more so you can see the lamb, but the focus just won't allow it.

It is the coat of arms of the city knin, I chose it since the theme is "Hold the line" and Knin holds inside it the second largest perserved military fortification in Europe.

These my precious minis will hold the line with ease especially Kriza Borac ( my all-time favourite mini ) with two tsyklon remotes.
I'm super excited to paint them...so excited...