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

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**Tyranid Horde**

Not sure if I'm going to enter them all, but here's something that reflects an aspect of the Art of War. Main entry will be the Fire Dragon Exarch but will do one or two with him.

**Deadshot**

Decided to snap some quick WIP shots from my worktable

Got some basecoats going on it here and a bit of washing

Mixing water and wash sucks

Was aiming for a more grey, HH style SW palette for Ragnar but it ended up slightly blue-ish anyway?

Bling-bois in town

**queen_annes_revenge**

So horus new head and worldbreaker arrived yesterday. I'm stuck on a bone night watch keeper duty at work so I'm painting in works time. WIP photo of the face.

**Chris56**

Great work! That face looks amazing.

**Gulgog TufToof**

I'm in. Last two Vanguard for my Skitarii Kill Team, this is the Alpha and a Heavy Weapons troop. Proof:

**Jadenim**

Theoretical: the Adeptus Astartes are the true masters of the art of war and among them the warriors of the XIII are the pinnacle of tactical acumen and skill.

Practical:

**queen_annes_revenge**

Until a religious boi and angry boi come and decide to have a go... :p

**Delirious**

Cool, this sounds like the type of event I need to make me complete something on time - Canoness Veridyan

IMG_20190406_104108 by Wayne, on Flickr

**CREEEEEEEEED**

Delirious wrote:
Cool, this sounds like the type of event I need to make me complete something on time - Canoness Veridyan

Spoiler:

IMG_20190406_104108 by Wayne, on Flickr

Hold on, isn't she finecrap? Where's all the air bubbles, bent weapons and flash?

**lipsdapips**

Reposting my proof picture because I have decided to re-model Alavaan to make him more like an Ultramarines successor. I am still likely to add a couple more proofs of his brothers soon if i’m on schedule

**queen_annes_revenge**

I'm still stuck on night shift so posting another WIP. I hate night shifts but on the plus side 12 hours of sitting doing not much is letting me forge ahead with horus. Got the base done and made a start on the armour.

**Flinty**

The marble staircase is looking great. Nice progress.

**Maharg**

Looking good so far QAR, particularly like the eyes.

I've got to paint a load of Ad Mech this month so my entry will probably be this tech priest. Not the best fit to the theme, more of a technical drawing of war rather than art, but it will have to do.

**Jammer87**

The mastermind behind pushing my troll army out of the caves? I guess he's using strategy when he's sacrificing minions to save himself?

**Tyranid Horde**

@QAR, the geologist in me approves of those steps, awesome progress!

**queen_annes_revenge**

Thanks! I'm pretty happy with how they turned out. Just regret gluing him to the base as I'm rubbing the tip of the eagles beak off with my finger.

**lipsdapips**

This is, I can gladly say, the final proof pic I'll be posting for the month

A couple vets to accompany Alavaan into battle:

**Flinty**

Haha. Playing with fluorescent paint on Mallex

May well end up painting over the fluorescent bits to get normal light OSL a bit better sorted, but its been fun for a bit

**AUGmaniac**

Well, I finally have things picked up to paint for this, and a fun little twist
For me, I have a GSC Clamavus, or as many people have called him in my group, DJ 4AE

And also, the twist. My Significant Other was interested in painting stuff, and she really liked the look of the Black Legion. As such, she took a stab at Obsidius Mallex and his two CSM bros from Blackstone Fortress.

Cheers guys!

**Modock**

I will be painting Heckler and Raoul Spector for this month. For the first time I also did some minor conversion.
It's quite a bit more difficult with metal miniatures.

Heckler and Raoul Spector

**Rybrook**

I dont believe it!
I have gone against my no gold paint but artificer armour needs to be grand and ornate looking.

Will edit with a pic when I get home

**ShadowsAndDust**

I'll be painting Blood Angels Lieutenant Tomeron for this contest. I'll update later with a pic of the unpainted model.

UPDATE: And here he is.

**DanceOfSlaanesh**

Proof:

Gonna challenge myself with this liberator prime. Going for full gold nmm armour. Not sure what I will do with the steel parts. might do them with metallic paint as I never did steel nmm on something before as far as I remember. Or maybe some kind of magic weapon?

**Tyranid Horde**

So to change my entry slightly, rather than just enter one aspect shrine, I want to do multiple aspects to embody the art of war. So I'll have a Fire Dragon, a Swooping Hawk, a Warp Spider and a Howling Banshee. One of each obviously, not whole squads

Proof (s):

I'll have the Banshee proof later on, I'm waiting for them to appear in the post.

**ShadowsAndDust**

Here's a WIP of Tolmeron so far.

**Deadshot**

I was really really excited for this month as I was finally able to build and paint my plastic, bits-box-style models for Dante and Ragnar. As such, I have completely finished and here they are!

Ragnar is made from the Space Wolf Pack (legs, torso, cloak, pistol) kit and the Space Wolf Upgrade set (Head, backpack, icon, sword). Dante is made entirely from the Sanguinary Guard kit with the Upgrade kit head. I see a lot of people using existing models, like the Krom Dragongaze or Blood Angels Chaplain, as a base for conversion, but in line with my other SM special characters, I wanted to make them fully buildable using only multipart plastics. Brother-Captain Stern is made purely from the GK Terminator set.

And comparisons to official models for the conversions

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**Rhomen**

I hate that I just banged out Interrogator-Chaplain Seraphicus, without checking what this months challenge was first.

It's alright though, my painting is not that great.

**ZergSmasher**

Rhomen wrote:
I hate that I just banged out Interrogator-Chaplain Seraphicus, without checking what this months challenge was first.

It's alright though, my painting is not that great.

That's okay, pick something else and enter anyway! I'd be interested in seeing pics of that Chaplain if you'd care to share a link or PM me, as it's a very cool model. I have one, but I haven't painted it yet.

As for my entry this month, I'm making progress:

Plenty of work left to do, but he's coming along.

**Captain Brown**

Tyranid Horde wrote:
So to change my entry slightly, rather than just enter one aspect shrine, I want to do multiple aspects to embody the art of war. So I'll have a Fire Dragon, a Swooping Hawk, a Warp Spider and a Howling Banshee. One of each obviously, not whole squads

Nuts, and here I was thinking we would be buddies doing a similar themed single Exarch and some members of the same shrine.

I have made zero progress since my proof models [feels shame], too caught up in making terrain.

Cheers,

CB

**Midget Gems**

Good work so far everyone

I've had a very hetic few weeks at work so not been able to do much but I'm on Leave now so can finally get around to posting a proof pic

My entry for this month will be a small scene with an Ork Blood Axe Warboss and his troops around a map, planning their "tactics" heres the proof