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 Rybrook wrote:
A pair of nice looking models you have there CB

You as well old boy. A pair of fine fellows.

This should about do it. What's more showy than a space viking psycher? One who's casting some sort of ice lance.

Did all the sculpting on it over the last month. Then realized I missed an opportunity for another piece so that's why it's got some white lol.

JoshInJapan wrote:I knew Anne-Marie was OOP, but is she actually rare/sought after? I think I have one more somewhere...

I haven't really thought about it very much, but the pink/white color scheme feels a little too on-the-nose.

Well, rarity is relative - it's dreadball, so cheap plastic and all that. But she goes for 5-10, usually. Can't wait to see your take!

Here is my entry a custodes shield Captain.

Bases needed tidied, but pretty much there:

Ghazghkull has arrived! hopefully get cracking on him next week.
Proof ...

Who's a show-off if not a dude with a silly oversized helmet sitting on a decorative plinth that is magically balancing above a runestone on a patch of magically hovering soil?*
(might also add his frenz from the Direchasm box)



*I guess I should model him with hovering above Alarielle's beetle that would then stand on top of an Idoneth Leviadon, but ...

Progress of a kind...

... I am not enjoying painting these at all. There's just too much "stuff" on the models. Too much detail and overlapping bits getting in the way and I don't even want to think about having to glue the arms/guns on, then fill in the gaps with milliput over the paint, but I couldn't think of any other way to do them and I'm committed to that plan now...

... anyhoo, one should always finish what they started. Might be a total disaster but at least it will be a learning experience.

Got the silver metallics down tonight, theres a lot of it!

 The Pig-Faced Orc wrote:
Progress of a kind...

... I am not enjoying painting these at all. There's just too much "stuff" on the models. Too much detail and overlapping bits getting in the way and I don't even want to think about having to glue the arms/guns on, then fill in the gaps with milliput over the paint, but I couldn't think of any other way to do them and I'm committed to that plan now...

... anyhoo, one should always finish what they started. Might be a total disaster but at least it will be a learning experience.

Your making it quite difficult, there should not be any gaps when the model is finally assembled and definitely no need for putty after painting.

 Rybrook wrote:

 The Pig-Faced Orc wrote:
Progress of a kind...

... I am not enjoying painting these at all. There's just too much "stuff" on the models. Too much detail and overlapping bits getting in the way and I don't even want to think about having to glue the arms/guns on, then fill in the gaps with milliput over the paint, but I couldn't think of any other way to do them and I'm committed to that plan now...

... anyhoo, one should always finish what they started. Might be a total disaster but at least it will be a learning experience.

Your making it quite difficult, there should not be any gaps when the model is finally assembled and definitely no need for putty after painting.

Well, there is. And just saying, "there shouldn't be" is not helpful.


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Edit: well, I am down to four models. This is very much un-me, I'm usually pretty chill, but I am ashamed to admit I lost my temper. These scions are without a doubt the most frustrating experience I have had in many years of miniature painting.

The solution with super-glue and modelling putty worked surprisingly well on the others, but on one, for whatever reason the glue just would not stick. Which is extremely frustrating considering it sticks like concrete to everything else (including all over the model where I don't want it).

Every time I tried to glue it down, the joints got caked with more super-glue that would not not come off but also would not stick and the model looked uglier and uglier until I gave up and threw it out.

I'm half tempted to swear off ever buying such fiddly, detailed models in my life again and half tempted to buy the same packet again and give it another shot from the start, god help me, but I must be doing something very wrong or every 40K enthusiastic would be going mad.

I just can't see how it is possible to paint them nicely without painting all the bits separately and then gluing them together. Even with the arms not connected, the hose really got in the way as well as various bits of over-lapping armour and backpacks! I would have liked to have them even more separated! How do people usually work with these things? God knows it would be impossible to paint them fully assembled to any decent standard.

You can see in the photo below and example of where I have filled in a gap between the forearm and shoulder joint.

I finished the first Dreadball captain:



The rules describe him as a martial artist, so I gave him Shaolin orange robes while keeping the same gold and grey accents as the rest of the team. Being restic (and older restic at that), the details are soft, but he'll work well enough on the pitch.

The test banshee is off to a good enough start that I’m going to get the rest of the gals to follow. Still need to do all the edge work and highlights, but the color palette works for me. And is pretty quick to do, so that’s a plus.

 The Pig-Faced Orc wrote:
Progress of a kind...

... I am not enjoying painting these at all. There's just too much "stuff" on the models. Too much detail and overlapping bits getting in the way and I don't even want to think about having to glue the arms/guns on, then fill in the gaps with milliput over the paint, but I couldn't think of any other way to do them and I'm committed to that plan now...

... anyhoo, one should always finish what they started. Might be a total disaster but at least it will be a learning experience.

Sounds frustrating. The green and gold look really good. An excellent color scheme. Monthly challenge aside, it may be a good idea to step away from the models for a while.

Keep the faith, man.

Here's the second model for this month's pledge, the captain of the Crystallan Dreadball team:




I took more than my usual care (read:none) in cleaning mold lines-- old Mantic restic is just too terrible to do more than a cursory cleanup. The character is described as a veteran of the game, thus all the extra cybernetics. Being older restic, the rock, metal, and crystaline parts all look sort of the same, so I had to keep going back to the rulebook the figure out what was what. He'll work well enough on the board, though.

Very nice take on perhaps the deadliest, most synergistic captain in the game?

Here's my weekends progress. Got all the main colours down now so going to be working on the skin tones next.

A lot of great work early on this month! Here's my progress from this weekend. Deviating from the GW scheme just a bit but still attempting to maintain the Slaaneshi feel.

 The Pig-Faced Orc wrote:

Edit: well, I am down to four models. This is very much un-me, I'm usually pretty chill, but I am ashamed to admit I lost my temper.
...

I'm half tempted to swear off ever buying such fiddly, detailed models in my life again and half tempted to buy the same packet again and give it another shot from the start, god help me, but I must be doing something very wrong or every 40K enthusiastic would be going mad.

Sorry to hear that. I know this feeling all too well. Happened a couple of times, even to the point of taking a long break from the hobby.

 The Pig-Faced Orc wrote:

How do people usually work with these things? God knows it would be impossible to paint them fully assembled to any decent standard

For regular game models I usually glue them together anyway, and do my best to paint all the detailed areas. Washes are my friend here.
That being said, doing that is not always possible. When I have to paint in sub assemblies, I use blue tack or something similar to test fit the pieces together to see that they fit well before painting. If there are any gaps when I actually start to assemble the painted pieces, I usually fill the attachable area with greenstuff, using it as "glue" to fit the pieces and filling the gaps. Then I remove the parts for briefly to cover the "mold" with a tiny amount of super glue and then press the parts together once more. The leftover stuff coming out off the joints gets wiped carefully with a knife or a mold line remover tool. Slight paint fixes must be done usually.

 The Pig-Faced Orc wrote:

 Rybrook wrote:

 The Pig-Faced Orc wrote:
Progress of a kind...

... I am not enjoying painting these at all. There's just too much "stuff" on the models. Too much detail and overlapping bits getting in the way and I don't even want to think about having to glue the arms/guns on, then fill in the gaps with milliput over the paint, but I couldn't think of any other way to do them and I'm committed to that plan now...

... anyhoo, one should always finish what they started. Might be a total disaster but at least it will be a learning experience.

Your making it quite difficult, there should not be any gaps when the model is finally assembled and definitely no need for putty after painting.

Well, there is. And just saying, "there shouldn't be" is not helpful.

I didn't mean to be rude, could it be possible that the arms have been mixed as they are numbered for certain weapons?

Thanks for all the replies and the support everyone. This really is a nice forum with good people.

Yes, I have decided to step away from the models for a while as somebody suggested, so I am withdrawing from this competition, but I will be back. It's a great idea to run competitions like this.

I have decided I will keep and finish two of the five models. The other three I am just not happy with as there is glue everywhere and I have no motivation to finish them. And I will buy another packet at some time and try again painting them in smaller assemblies, using what I learned the first time to avoid getting bits caked in glue and avoid having to paint parts that need acrobatic brush work to get the bristles to the model.

 Rybrook wrote:

I didn't mean to be rude, could it be possible that the arms have been mixed as they are numbered for certain weapons?

That's not rude at all, and I did indeed make that mistake at first with a few of them, assuming that the parts were interchangeable. However, I did realize the mistake before starting to paint, so snapped the parts off and got them all organized properly. By then it was a bit too late however, as the the superglue had caked onto various joints making the fits ugly and difficult to work with.

Mind you I'm still sceptical about how easily they "just fit" considering the shoulder joint can be attached at virtually and rotation and some slightly different angles which would throw everything else off a lot.

If nobody objects, I'd like to modify my project for the month:


The models I chose are proving to be much less fun to paint than I'd planned. Instead, I'd like to paint Anne-Marie Helder (assembled) and her team, the Void SIrens. Rather than the official pink-and-white colors, I'll be doing them in pink and black. If I manage to find the inspiration, I'll work on the other captain models this month, but I doubt they'll turn out well enough to share in the Challenge.

So I’ve been struggling to find motivation to paint and I really didn’t have a good idea for this month’s theme, until I realised I have just bought the Aliens board game, so I’m going to go with the ultimate badass, PFC William L Hudson. The man with everything from particle beam phalanxes through to sharp sticks most definitely counts as a show-off in my books!

I'm in with this guy. He's ultimately going to be a Nob w/ Waaagh! Banner, but since it's a short month and I'm a slow painter, he may just be a nob for now (I can finish the banner next month when you are all busy painting up your beekee boyz)

Bit of progress from me. Dirtied up the bases so they are ready for rust and started highlighting the skin tones.

I'm going to paint an ork this month, I think a Flash Git fits the theme pretty well

Five of 40K's flashiest fighters (or as many as I get painted) - Eldar Harlequins.

Proof

Instead of Space Marine month, we should do a Harlequin month.

 JoshInJapan wrote:
Instead of Space Marine month, we should do a Harlequin month.

I could probably dig out some old lead and join in. Next time we ask for suggestions, toss a few harlie ones up there. Nothing too obvious/restrictive, but something like “dancers of death” could cover not just clowns, but also any swashbuckler or agility based fighter.

This month actually fits them very well, as they do tend to showboat around the battlefield. Would be a laugh if we could get a whole troupe painted up and entered.

Couple of WIP. Kingdom death order knight pinup.