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Holy crap LDP! Even with your high standard, that guy’s amazing.

Thank you Jadenim, that's very kind. I took Feltmonkey's question (if I would ever consider a different style of painting) to heart last week. It's baby steps to be sure, but I introduced some dark glazes to contrast the scores of edge highlight that my miniatures get. I'm pleased overall and generally took it upon myself to be more patient with my entry for this month. I had already cast sacrilege on one of the best natural sculpts in the primaris range, I owed it to the kit to do it justice as best as I could!

Some WIP:


Almost done with the last guy's basecoats (and did the drybrush already) just need the red down. Other guys are waiting for decals and base work, which I’ll do when all 3 are ready.

@lipsdapips: The glazing was a good choice, the model looks amazing! Will be hard to compete with that

At first I thought about skipping this one, as I don't currently have any marine armies. Then I started thinking that I actually have some space wolf terminator pieces that I acquired from a friend.
Now I have always loved to look and idea of terminators, especially Wolfguard. So without thinking about it more, I laid down all the bits I had and started sorting them trying to build one complete model.

This also works as my proof pic. Hopefully it's acceptable.


I was supposed to take another when I got the model assembled, but forgot it in the heat of the moment. So instead I present to you an early WIP image:


Another purpose for this entry is for me to have a crack at trying to paint non metallic gold. It's something I've never done and I thought it would be a fun thing to try.
On another note, it would have been a shame not to attend to the first round of the year.

I had forgotten how big that guy is Zobo, Good luck with it

Looking really good Lips, well done for trying something new can be a bit daunting sometimes but has really worked with that entry, great start to the year and nice detailing on the face

Cool looking model spiralingcadaver, looking forward to seeing that one painted.

Well done for trying the NMM Ezki, its on my list to try as well but not been brave enough yet. Arm is looking good so far.

The final League table for last year is done here

https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/732117.page#9481149

Now I just need to work on some Stats for the year

If I finish this with time left I'll do the other guy from the MKII command set.
Also MKII pauldrons are huge, not sure how I'm gonna superglue this to the shoulder and body.

I'm in this month! I don't really do space marines typically, but I have this bust of a Mobile Brigada from the Infinity Nomads faction.
She lives in space
She wears power armor
She participates in boarding missions, raids, and similar things
Sounds like a space marine to me.

Hopefully I'll get it done this next week.

Ok.
Picture of models, out of all this I shall get one painted up. Should still have time!
Maybe even two!

This chap's been looking for a bit of paint for a while - a little late in the month to start, but hopefully I can get him finished.

Finished

Not sure why this site constantly borks up my photo uploads.


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I changed the head to a modified goliath head. Think it works a little better.

Nice work Queen Anne, yeah the goliath head was a good choice. I like the scaring on the the chest and the red leather looks very well weathered

Cool looking model SmallChanges, the spear is a really nice addition.

Looking forward to seeing another bust from you dukeofbeer, the last one was good

First draft of my entry for the month, also my first try at painting a Marine over white using washes rather than layering up from black.


Got a few more veterans on the way after some late-night ebaying, but I don't think they'll arrive in time to be part of this entry.

That’s interesting Para. Many paths to the same place. Because if you hadn't said you had used a different technique, I’d have not guessed that. That marine is still very distinctly in your style (and well done, as usual)

To be honest, that's kind of what's bugging me a bit about it. While the blends are a it smoother, perhaps, and some of the detail sharper, but it's not really any better than doing it the other way, but was probably a lot more effort... So while on its own the mini is fine, it's not the breakthrough I was looking for in upping my game.

 Paradigm wrote:
To be honest, that's kind of what's bugging me a bit about it. While the blends are a it smoother, perhaps, and some of the detail sharper, but it's not really any better than doing it the other way, but was probably a lot more effort... So while on its own the mini is fine, it's not the breakthrough I was looking for in upping my game.

Still good to try it out and see what happens. Good growth. It might be interesting to paint him a battle-brother with your old techniques, and have a side-by-side comparison.

I kind of feel I should've held off on the weathering and blood effects, that might have let the somewhat cleaner work underneath speak for itself a little better.

I do still think the mini is solid, definitely a style for IFs I want to try out on a few more models when I get them. This is just off the back of the retrospective thread where I noticed the entries I did well with were the ones where I did something a little different rather than the same old style. That's what I was shooting for here, and I think I missed the mark a little in that regard.

 Paradigm wrote:
I kind of feel I should've held off on the weathering and blood effects, that might have let the somewhat cleaner work underneath speak for itself a little better.

I do still think the mini is solid, definitely a style for IFs I want to try out on a few more models when I get them. This is just off the back of the retrospective thread where I noticed the entries I did well with were the ones where I did something a little different rather than the same old style. That's what I was shooting for here, and I think I missed the mark a little in that regard.

I can’t speak for how others vote but...

For the established painters, particularly you guys at the top, I generally only vote you you if I see you go above and beyond what you normally do. Sure, when you phone it in you are still better then 4/5s of the other guys, but that’s not getting my vote. (I know you aren’t really phoning it in, it takes a lot of work to get those results, but I hope you know what I mean). I generally try to keep myself down to 5-7 votes. I’d much rather use one of them on someone like Vejut, who’s results might not be technically as good, but has entered every month, with each month an improvement on the last. Or someone who caught my eye posting WIP stuff where I hear how they are trying new things. And sure, sometimes I do end up voting for the winner when something really mind-blowing comes up. But most of the time I try to vote for the painter, not necessarily the model.

Started late, so I´m pushing myself to the time limit:

Whoah, how the heck did it get so late in the month?

Looking good Para and queen_annes_revenge - great work.

I have started the Captain here but not the other two, so we'll have to see how much I get finished. These guys are going to be the command units for a small Emperor's Spears variation force that I've wanted to do for a while now.

 Nevelon wrote:

 Paradigm wrote:
I kind of feel I should've held off on the weathering and blood effects, that might have let the somewhat cleaner work underneath speak for itself a little better.

I do still think the mini is solid, definitely a style for IFs I want to try out on a few more models when I get them. This is just off the back of the retrospective thread where I noticed the entries I did well with were the ones where I did something a little different rather than the same old style. That's what I was shooting for here, and I think I missed the mark a little in that regard.

I can’t speak for how others vote but...

For the established painters, particularly you guys at the top, I generally only vote you you if I see you go above and beyond what you normally do. Sure, when you phone it in you are still better then 4/5s of the other guys, but that’s not getting my vote. (I know you aren’t really phoning it in, it takes a lot of work to get those results, but I hope you know what I mean). I generally try to keep myself down to 5-7 votes. I’d much rather use one of them on someone like Vejut, who’s results might not be technically as good, but has entered every month, with each month an improvement on the last. Or someone who caught my eye posting WIP stuff where I hear how they are trying new things. And sure, sometimes I do end up voting for the winner when something really mind-blowing comes up. But most of the time I try to vote for the painter, not necessarily the model.

I have a similar attitude; no offence, but I don’t want to vote for the same five people every month (Modock, Para, LDP, etc.), so I normally limit my votes in the “Premiership teams” to entries that are better than their average or particularly speak to me. Quite often that’s when you do something different or where your style adds a different perspective. For example, your gritty/weathered style really adds something extra to fantasy models (e.g. Theoden), which are more often done in a cleaner, more colourful style by other painters.

I don't think I'll have another chance to sit down and work on him this month, so here is my final entry.

Actually disappointed I didn't get a chance to enter this one, I thought I had no proper entry but I do indeed have a space marine in my pile of shame. Ah well, great entries so far! I'm keen to see how the voting turns out!

Well done for trying a new technique Para, it would be odd to have an entry from you without the grime and blood.

Nice positioning of the arms Tim 121RVC, hope you can get it painted in time.

Well done for finishing DrGiggles, the Krone symbol on the ruined wall is a ncie touch

No idea how its got to the 25th already, feels like I have been so busy with work recently.

Heres a terrible WIP, lots more still to do.

lipsdapips wrote:Thank you Jadenim, that's very kind. I took Feltmonkey's question (if I would ever consider a different style of painting) to heart last week. It's baby steps to be sure, but I introduced some dark glazes to contrast the scores of edge highlight that my miniatures get. I'm pleased overall and generally took it upon myself to be more patient with my entry for this month. I had already cast sacrilege on one of the best natural sculpts in the primaris range, I owed it to the kit to do it justice as best as I could!

I hope you didn't take my question as a criticism! Having a style is no bad thing, particularly when you're very very good at it. Your latest entry looks incredible though, so if I somehow contributed with my feedback I'm definitely going to try to muscle in and take some of the credit.
The face is absolutely amazing. How did you do his eye?

Paradigm wrote:To be honest, that's kind of what's bugging me a bit about it. While the blends are a it smoother, perhaps, and some of the detail sharper, but it's not really any better than doing it the other way, but was probably a lot more effort... So while on its own the mini is fine, it's not the breakthrough I was looking for in upping my game.

I don't know why you're down on it, it looks fantastic. To have used a different technique but still produced something in your own style is, again, no bad thing. Perhaps if you'd layered up from black to yellow it wouldn't have looked as good, so that's worth bearing in mind. To my eyes it does look a touch more vibrant, but still with all the atmosphere, character, and narrative your stuff tends to have. If you want the best of both worlds, you could always use zenithal priming.

While I'm here - queen_annes_revenge, I think that might be the best thing I've seen you do, even more than that big armoured digger you painted last year. Spectacular work!

I still haven't got round to posting my proof, and my Space Marine is 70% finished. I've been experimenting with Dalor-Rowney inks, an airbrush, and trying to do a slightly weird lighting thing (not airbrush OSL - for some reason I have an irrational hatred of that.) Not sure how it's going to turn out, yet. I shall get it finished, though.

Wow thanks. I'm surprised with the amount of love it's gotten. Over 3k likes on instagram. It started as a gladiator kharn project about 3 years ago. But I hated it and threw it in a box. Fast forward to the start of this year and I'm trying to figure out what categories I want to enter for golden demon, and I need a third model so I can enter Angry and kharn into squad... So I'm searching for an appropriate model online then I remembered this, dug it out, modified it with the red butcher arms and threw some paint on it.

Found a photo of the original build.

feltmonkey wrote:

Paradigm wrote:To be honest, that's kind of what's bugging me a bit about it. While the blends are a it smoother, perhaps, and some of the detail sharper, but it's not really any better than doing it the other way, but was probably a lot more effort... So while on its own the mini is fine, it's not the breakthrough I was looking for in upping my game.

I don't know why you're down on it, it looks fantastic. To have used a different technique but still produced something in your own style is, again, no bad thing. Perhaps if you'd layered up from black to yellow it wouldn't have looked as good, so that's worth bearing in mind. To my eyes it does look a touch more vibrant, but still with all the atmosphere, character, and narrative your stuff tends to have. If you want the best of both worlds, you could always use zenithal priming.

Well if it's good enough for the guy who won the whole thing...

But nah, I take your point that I should be pleased enough with turning out a decent mini, rather than trying to reinvent myself overnight. I think Zenithal is out of the question without an airbrush, but I might experiment with some pre-shading using washes over white before colours, that might do something fun (or look horrible, I've never seen it done before).

Looks like the other vets might arrive just in time, so while I have 2 lectures, a 10-hour Avengers mathathon and a D&D game to fit in this week, I might just manage to expand my entry with another couple of minis. Sadly, what was available on ebay at the time only turned up 3 good condition sculpts I liked, so I'm one veteran short of a squad, but it's better than nothing.

Just dropping in to drop off my entry. i'm particularly proud of this one because of the amount of specialist bits I had to get for this. Every single part was hand-selected and purchased from bits sites and ended up being just as expensive as the official model. That said, I am still particularly proud of how it came out, so much so, I even took the extra time to base and put transfers on!

Martellus, Master of the Forge, Blood Ravens














@Paradigm

I agree with much of what has been said, your model looks amazing and in keeping with your unique style as well, but there's also very subtle differences. Its not a waste of time to experiment - who knows, maybe you'll find the technique useful down the line for an Eldar or Tau unit. At least now you know that the technique can be done and still come out looking as smashing as ever!

Finished.

I wonder if I should name him "Frankenstein Marine" as there are six different models/sprues that contributed parts. As well as some sprue itself to make some of the extra armour.








Cheers,

CB

Nice to see all the final entries marching in! Great work everyone. Still more time to finish up, month’s not over yet!

My entry:


Not 100% happy with the pictures. After I had put the lightbox away and the minis back on the YTD shelf, I downloaded the pics and realized they were very same-y. Normally I get more pics from assorted angles to make the collage more interesting. Still, pretty happy with the way these guys turned out. Two minor conversions (the hand swap for the sarge’s sword, and the AGL for the demo guy. They match up to my tabletop+ that I’m working on these days, with the edgeing and decals.

These 3 fill out my second 5 man DI squad, each with an ALG and powersword sarge. I’ve got another 5 which will finish up my intercessors, already build the sarge (with a powerfist) and will get around to the other 4 at some point. They will probably end up in one of these comps.