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Is it too late to leap in on this one? I'd love to take part and paint up some of the various monster models I've accumulated for futuristic RPG type encounters - I could probably do a 'unit' of a couple of creatures and maybe a scavenger-type character model each month?

Cheers Az. Feel focusing on Space Hulk will be much better than the hodge-podge I tried last time. Can see why Tale of Painters came about. Have nearly finished up my Broodlord - am trying to learn how to use some of the GW technical paints so taking longer than I could have done otherwise

And I've finished the board.... well mostly anyway I need to track down some dark wood filler to get the corners looking really good and paint the brass nails brown but aside from that it's done.

So here's an overall view of the board, the 15mm minis which were my June entry for the last thread should give an idea of the size.



And a cheeky side view with the bonus of a little piece of one the otherwise useless weights (a 6th ed 40k BRB ) I used to hold everything down as the glue dried.



I reckon the total time I've spent working on this aside from waiting for stuff to dry is little more than 2 hours. I'd say that's a pretty good use of my weekend.

I guess I'd better paint some actual minis now.

I have only just discovered this post, hopefully not too late. I have so much unpainted stuff and this would really help me to get stuck in to some of it.

Rohan
Anglo Dane (Saga 4 point starter plus extra levie troops)
Ork Nobs
Undead vikings
Dwarfs

Well, work has begun:


More details in my plog.

Here's my pledge a full militia platoon ill try to for next month have them fully painted

Renegade commander arkos wrote:
Here's my pledge a full militia platoon ill try to for next month have them fully painted

Always good to see someone just as bonkers as me . That will be a glorious platoon and worthy of many merits if you get it all done in a month.

Thanks Theophony It must just be the warp fingers crossed I can dark gos be praised if I do

Renegade commander arkos wrote:
Here's my pledge a full militia platoon ill try to for next month have them fully painted

Assuming your brain doesn't explode first-- that's a lot of models...

Fingers crossed it won't i just hope I have enough paint

Doing fair progress since it's the weekend I guess. Got 12 guys from mars attacks and my current 4 USARF grunts prepped and primed today. Got 3 more guys coming for usariadna and anything I can come up with for terrain.

Miniaturemarket was closed today for the holiday . Guess I'll have to pick up my birthday project tomorrow on my actual birthday. Then this months build and paint can begin. I've kind of burnt out on zombies so I need a crafting break. Plus I've been working on my gaming area which got ruined last fall when we had water in the basement and I gave up my shelving/gaming table base.

My first 8 of 12 Skeletons are done, barring the bone that I'm saving to do at work. And their shields. Unfortunately I've somehow lost my tub of shields. I spent an hour looking for it yesterday. Not bloody happy!

I've added Scarper and Huginn. And with that, we hit 34 (35 if Da Boss returns) so in the interest of keeping it manageable for me in doing the "paperwork", I'm closing participant entries - barring anyone active from the first challenge I've missed, etc.

I have some WIP shots up on my P&M blog, but I'm stuck on where to go next. Anyone reading this should feel free to weigh in.

 JoshInJapan wrote:
I have some WIP shots up on my P&M blog, but I'm stuck on where to go next. Anyone reading this should feel free to weigh in.

Gotta make it to the end of your thread first, Josh, having started it on Sunday evening

Going to post some stuff later today. Been rather busy the last couple days.

Ok here's how July is shaping up......or should be

Front row - main event for the month. Need to get 4/5 Space Hulk figs done per month.
Second row - supporting acts - stuff that needs to be finished up but not at the expense of the main event - skitarii Dracosan, DW:O Raven guard marine, and Casket
Back row - groupies - stretch goals and maybe hopefuls - chaos sorcerer Lord, familiar and tech priest enginseer. Only get paint if main event and supporting act are totally sorted.

Fingers crossed

Here's my first batch of Anglo Danes, I am hoping that these will be easily doable in this month.

There we go. A part of my King Vlagorescu's Ghoulish Host buildt and a part of it painted. Still have 6 Crypt Horrors left, 20 ghouls, a Varghulf and a Terrorgheist.

Most of the easy stuff is done now, just got the metallics, black leather and a few odds and ends to do, aside from the skin of course........

I hate painting skin so I always leave it till last.

My Rhino, ready to be painted! And yes, that is a twin linked bolt gun from the old Land Raider crusader kit.

Now to decide on a paint scheme. I was thinking bronze with white weapons but would that look too similat to the Minotaurs?

Go for whatever you want TheCustomLime, there's a huge amount of repetition amongst the official chapter colour schemes anyway. There's at least 3 official "minotaur" chapters all with similar colours schemes, the Minotaurs, the Brazen Minotaurs and the White Minotaurs. Though admittedly you don't see the latter two that often since Forgeworld started featuring the Minotaurs in IA books

Looks like there's going to be a lot of interesting stuff this month, I can't wait to see the finished minis.

To give an idea about what I'll be working on, here is a demi company of marines, lovingly stripped, broken down, and reassembled:



The same Marines after a nice coat of white primer:



I didn't get a group shot after the Army Painter Ultramarine blue, but here's a representative squad:



And that same squad, painted up aside from decals:



For those curious, here's a group shot of the army prior to stripping:

 Nick Ellingworth wrote:
Go for whatever you want TheCustomLime, there's a huge amount of repetition amongst the official chapter colour schemes anyway. There's at least 3 official "minotaur" chapters all with similar colours schemes, the Minotaurs, the Brazen Minotaurs and the White Minotaurs. Though admittedly you don't see the latter two that often since Forgeworld started featuring the Minotaurs in IA books

Looks like there's going to be a lot of interesting stuff this month, I can't wait to see the finished minis.

That's fair. There's a chapter that looks almost identical to the Ultramarines all save for their chapter symbol.

Edit:

Slight project update. As it turns out, Balthasar gold does not work well as covering large, flat surfaces. So the Rhino needs to be redone. In the mean time, I'm going to paint up a Storm Talon instead for your viewing pleasure in a new paint scheme.

I am going to shift my painting focus this month to my RG contemptor. But i have a good reason rather than laziness! A recent blog has inspired me to true-scale my 30k marines. So while I'm taking a lighter load painting-wise this month, I will also be chopping up my marines' legs so that they will be ready next month.

And for those curious, the 30k blog that inspired me is linked here: http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/694362.page

EDIT: I've attached a picture of the dread pre-paint. Some minor conversion work and battle damage has been added.

I am going quite light for the first month, so am going to be doing a 5 man Blood Angel Tactical squad:



Hopefully can add to it with some stretch goals.

 angelofvengeance wrote:

Spent an hour or so working on my SE Retributors and tried out the Reikland Fleshshade Gloss on the gold. Not entirely happy with it. I may go back and hit it with the normal stuff. What do you guys think?

Also added a couple of layers of Ironbreaker to the silver armour, but leaving enough to show off the Coelia greenshade.

Gonna start a Razorback for my Dark Angels Lion's Blade, put the kit together last night (including converting the HBs into ACs).

Well I'm going to call these my July submissions. I'm also doing terrain, but that's separate, so here's a unit of 20 zombie berserkers for zombicide. They are all the prison guards, and their uniforms match Phils. This helps bulk out my prison outbreak set, next month I'll focus on doing the prisoners.

Some close ups.

jumped off course a bit and painted this guy coz......well, he's a cool fig
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