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Hey guys been busy mulling over what to do this month as I'm super excited about the Malign portents for age of sigmar. That being said I picked up a copy of the burning of prospero game and got slightly distracted by that too. As with all hobbyists I seem to have a problem with the plastic crack and buy more than I should. So I finally settled on these guys. Gonna try my best to finish all five but I make no promises.

Here's my proof pic.

Right I'm having a nightmare. Painting space marines is hard to do right. Much respect to all you guys who get it done here on the challenge as I suck at it.
So I'm gonna give it a bit more time but might have to switch out the old space dudes for something else.

Still going with my Spartans. Just need to figure out how to base them.

Cryocat wrote:
The sound of Jadenim sliding down another place in the rankings...

Sigh. The quality in here is getting ridiculous!

A few quick pics. I tried to finish them today, but wasn't able to. I'm completely spent. I wonder If I'll be able to finish 3 of these this month, or if a cultist or two will have to fill in.
What do you think of the NMM? There was a lot to cover on an already confusing model so I'm worried I didn't spend enough time on it.

The parts on his back look great! I'm not sure the knife looks as good, to be honest. The dark areas need to be darker, and the light areas a bit smaller, perhaps.

I'm going ahead and calling my entry finished. Here are the final pics of my Alpha Legion Chaos Cultists:



They were fun to paint, but realistically I know the quality is not great even for me. I mainly painted them as part of preparing for Adepticon, so I really needed to just move on with other models, hence the relatively sloppy work. I needed something to enter for the challenge and these loosely fit the criteria. They are tabletop standard and they are just grunts after all, so I'm satisfied.

I still have to take care of the individual photos, but here's my Warband in all it's green glory. I'll either update this post or post another with all the final photos

WIP pic. I think I’ve got my scheme sorted out. Now to finish his bolter and then squad mates.


In a semi-related note, played a game yesterday vs. The Boy, where my 2k list consisted of nothing but minis painted for this challenge. A little dysfunctional, but enough for victory!

Finished version with slightly better photography. Two more to go. Now that I've got the colour scheme figured out I'm hoping the other guys will turn out a bit better.

Am getting there - need to figure out the basing. I do think I'll be keeping them on the 32mm bases, cuz they're more sturdy (for the model I mean) Need to take better than phone pix sigh =/ This is flesh done, working on metals atm

Finished my Spartans, sorry about the poor quality pictures

oooh those look awesome, Cryocat!

Thanks! I was going to include more arrows on the bases in a homage to the "Our arrows will block out the sun" quote. But they turned out to be rather fiddly and I'm kind of lazy, so I went with one as a more subtle reference lol

I'll do some Malifaux Changelings I guess:

Proof:

For once, an entry from me underway before the end of the month! A Vostroyan Company Command Squad built from Anvil Industry's new Dress Uniform range.

Proof


First one/test paint done:

Figured I would actually post my proof pic.

Guild Ball Engineer's Guild

In my sleep deprived state I've managed to do the league table so thats updated now but not any of the bonus stats my brain can't cope with those at the moment.
https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/732117.page#9481149

 Apollinaire wrote:
Got my copy of Necromunda today, so I'll be painting up a few bad women this month...

Proof:

thoughts for my entry where either House Escher models, some custom built Tanith or Orks.

I've gone with the Ork Tank busters since they are nice models and I don't have to do anything to them which is good because I am very short of time this month. Also I do have quite a large queue of Ork models to paint without doing my normal conversions

Proof (The burna boys do have goblin green skin painted on from about 5 years ago but will be painting over that with a darker base)


Welcome back Ratius and Jadenium

Cryocat, the Spartans look great, well done.

A question for Modock and Mootlet (i think it was you 2), you have convinced me to get the Vallejo German Gray paint but I was wondering how you used it. e.g. German Gray as the base and Nulu Oil wash over it or Choas Black base with German Gray highlights or something else?

Hey MG!

I use German Grey as a base coat and then shade it (recesses only) with a diluted pure black. I use Scale 75 flat black cause it's the flattest black I have, I believe abbadon black has quite
a glossy finish so it's not that great for shading German Grey. You can then highlight it with any medium grey you have, I use light grey or even white for maximum contrast.

I'm afraid nuln oil won't shade it enough because how dark the German Grey is. I've used Army painter's dark tone = nuln oil but I wasn't satisfied with the result. You'll have to try is yourself.

Unconverted Orks, Midget? HERESY! Automatic disqualification ect!

Just kidding of course! Looking forward to those, your paintwork is often every bit as impressive as your conversions!

Update on my own entry, I started doing a freehand banner. It was going well, until I realised I'd been holding the part upside down and the 'V' for 'Vostroya' was more of an 'A' for
'Absolute Idiot who should look where he's painting...' Oh well, the models I ordered came with a few different banners, so no harm done! I'll use one of them for now and I'm sure I'll get around to re-purposing this this one at some point!

Throwing my hat into the ring with these vintage GW Valhallan Infantry Squad

This stage is right after stripping the paint off.

 Paradigm wrote:
Update on my own entry, I started doing a freehand banner. It was going well, until I realised I'd been holding the part upside down and the 'V' for 'Vostroya' was more of an 'A' for
'Absolute Idiot who should look where he's painting...' Oh well, the models I ordered came with a few different banners, so no harm done! I'll use one of them for now and I'm sure I'll get around to re-purposing this this one at some point!

Sorry to hear about that. It's nice to know I'm not the only one who does that kind of thing (although with me it's usually gluing the wrong part on or upside down or whatever rather than painting). With your skills and speed I'm sure you'll get a new beautiful freehand banner painted in about half an hour.

Good Luck womprat49

Thank you for the tips Modock, I'll bare those in mind and have a play with washes and colours.

 Paradigm wrote:
Unconverted Orks, Midget? HERESY! Automatic disqualification ect!

Just kidding of course! Looking forward to those, your paintwork is often every bit as impressive as your conversions!

I know it feels wrong, but probably more of this to be expected in the next few months until the new baby is a bit more independent. Thanks although the painting this month is really just to get it done rather than going for a top paint job.

Hope the banner works out

Right I've had enough of trying to get the space marines right and am calling it a day. Here is the new proof pic going for some tzaangors for a change. Really love these models and hopefully I can get them done soon. Sorry guys for the change.

A question for Modock and Mootlet (i think it was you 2), you have convinced me to get the Vallejo German Gray paint but I was wondering how you used it. e.g. German Gray as the base and Nulu Oil wash over it or Choas Black base with German Gray highlights or something else?

Hey Midget,
sorry to hear about your lack of sleep... it'll only be for a few months ;-)

Firstly I’d say Modocks advice comes from much greater experience than myself but I’ll still tell you what i think anyhow

I was looking for a way to highlight abaddon black and any GW greys were just not cutting it. I wanted to layer up from black a little to give the area a bit of variation before an edge highlight. I was on the lookout for a grey that was just a little above black and that i could thin down a lot. I found the GW greys all lost their smooth consistency when i thinned them down using my standard flow improver + tap water (we have very hard water in this area of London), lahmian medium wasn’t that much better. I have been mightily impressed with the smoothness of Vallejo’s ghost grey that Sockwithaticket suggested to me some time ago so I thought I’d give Vallejo another shot. I found that as well as it being a dark but slightly cool grey, it thinned down to a very smooth consistency. Alternatively layering, almost glazing with german grey then abbadon black is how i got the black-grey transitions on my death company dread and snikrots blades.


The blood angel intercessors I’ll enter this month are a mephiston red (surprisingly!) and german grey colour scheme. I’ll post photos in a few days. I’ve tried using german grey for a base then shading with nuln; and as Modock notes it didn’t seem to work as well as I’d have liked and ended up as more or less as a pin wash. Perhaps thinning the nuln with lahmian medium may help, but i like the sound scale 75 flat black he mentioned (i’m just about to order some now to try). Personally i don’t think German grey + nuln will give a quick easy black, (i wish it did) but you may fair better than i did. I’d say German Grey's strengths are the darkness of the grey, its coverage and its smoothness after thinning. For me it’s now up there with nuln, agrax and ghost grey as my ‘never, ever let this run out’ category of paints.

It depends on the black your after:
Below is abaddon black, layer or almost glaze german grey, then a edge with german grey mixing in a tiny bit of steggadon scale green (GW) then a cool off white (i really like ghost grey for this i think ulthuan grey would be a similar GW paint).

Below is the same but exchange the steggadon scale green for dark reaper (GW).

And this is the same but going straight from german grey to ghost grey.

My second dude is only halfway done... I think I might have to get creative with the third one. Maybe I'll make him dead, dying, exploding or something like that and put him on a base as terrain.

I'm finally getting round to uploading my proof pic. I took this at the start of january, and I've actually painted two of the minis now. They're a gang of bloodthirsty pirates! I'm taking a month called A Few Good Men, and three quarters of my squad are women.



I'll aim to paint all four, but the likelihood is it'll only be three of them, as I'm very very slow. Earlier today I took four and a half hours painting the hair and skin of the one second from the left.

Almost done with the first 3, pushing for 5. Pretty happy with how these guys are turning out.

And all done, here are the final pictures for my dark mech sigmarines:

Uff, had one heck of a week with lots of D&D Prep work, but managed to finally take my official "Final" pictures. I did my best to up my photo game, I hope they look better this time:

Gurzag:


Hakka:


Basha:


Bonekutta:


All together: