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Looking brilliant folks, good luck to all !

Good evening folks, how is the riveting going ? Two more weeks do go, will that be sufficient ? Or do you feel a deadline extension would help ?

Hi Kernal- life is so crazy right now, if I make it in two weeks great, if not, there's no telling when- don't extend the deadline for me.

As for the E.A.T.M.E., the tower base is mostly done(needs some gubbins attached) and the base of what will be a spiral metal stair up to the fighting platform is done.



The 'ship-killer' laser cannon is starting to come together too. We have a lady at church who can paint the inside of a Christmas ornament by working the brush through the small hole where the hanger attaches at the neck of the ball- it's amazing. I have a _much_ larger opening to work with and want to paint some 'lightning in the bottle' if I can manage to represent that titanic forces waiting to be aimed an unleashed on a low-orbit warship:



These bits and bobs are to make the stairway and two of the inter-changeable platforms to allow the tower to provide a multitude of functions, depending on what the game calls for:



More follows soonest.

My project is nowhere near as involved as the others--I'm essentially finished. I'll try to get some photos in the next day or two.

I'm a little panicked at how far behind I feel... no real progress since I finished cutting and cleaning all my materials. No paint so far, not even undercoats, although once I get going it should go quickly as there's very little detail work. And then there's the big hurdle... figuring this stuff out:



That said, I'm not looking for an extension... nothing motivates quite like a deadline, so I'll cut whatever corners I have to and get something over the line before the clock winds down.

I'm calling the hills done.

After the last photos I shared I:

added some flock
scraped some of the flock off with a wire brush
added some tufts.

There are more photos in my P&M blog (linked in my sig below).

Great progress gentlemen, allright leaving the deadline as is for the moment then, good luck in the last straight !

Congrats on being the first finished Josh, PM well received. No a big deal, but would you mind however editing your post to remove the picture ? I did not make these, but I think the LoER rules states that pictures of the finished entries are to be saved for the final voting thread/post, and not to be displayed in this thread before that (main idea is to not intimidate other entrants, or let the judge be able to discover all entries at once I think...). Post on any other thread such as your blog are of course perfectly fine.

Edited. I didn't know about that rule--I'll remember for next time.

Well, I got everything undecorated and started figuring out the wiring for the LEDs, but I've realized that with just a few weeknights til the deadline I'd have to make some serious compromises on my original concept, and for the work I've put in already I'm not really willing to do that. Regrettably, then, I'll bow out for this cycle and try again in the future. Thanks to all for the support and inspiration and apologies for the late bailout... I just bit off more than I could chew this time. I'll post some pics when I do get this thing done eventually.

@MacPhail: Sorry to read that and hope to see it finished in the future.

@KernelTerror: I'm done, just have to crop the pics and upload. Will send you a link to my little piece Wednesday next week.

Good luck, all!

Aaaaaand I just realized there is a whole extra weekend before the deadline... my kids had me thinking Halloween was this week (wishful thinking). So I may yet make something happen... well have to see what kind of productive weekend I can manage. There was a nice sense of relief when I'd had to let go of the project for a few hours.

Awesome Max Moray, looking forward to it !

Good luck MacPhail, you can do it !

I got my legs back under me a bit and got everything painted, assembled, and wired up. I want to do a little detail work, photograph it, and call it good. I'll likely get pics in right at the deadline... woohoo!

Glad to hear this, macphail good luck !

Good luck MacPhail, and nice work everyone. I'm sad that I wasn't able to join this contest with the move and trying to sort out my life in a new country. I really liked the contest theme. But, I have been following the contest thread closely.

No worries Syro_ that move must be quite the adventure.

One one entry submitted so far, would a deadline extension help ?

Sorry Kernel, I'm going to have to drop out. I didn't have much time to model these past few weeks because of Life (known and unforecast incidents) and much of what time I had was sucked up trying to make a defective Ender-3 Pro 3d printer work. Incredibly frustrating working with Creality to troubleshoot and getting the same "try adjusting this setting in your slicer" over and over again. I'd use it as a boat anchor except it's too light.

An extension won't help me, I'm afraid. No time for the foreseeable future.

Sorry to hear this Meer_Cat, but I of course understand, been there too. Good lusk, and I still hope to see your finished piece somewhere on dakka at some point !

I've made it... finished some touch up paint tonight, so I'll photograph and deliver pics tomorrow. Thanks for the support, everyone! I had to let go of some of the more grand schemes, but I got something I'll call complete. You can do it, last minute entries! Go go go!

@KernelTerror: Pics uploaded and PM sent.

@MacPhail Great you did it!

@Meer_Cat: Have fun with the Ender! Hope to see your platforms done in the future.

@Everyone: Looking forward to see the finished pieces. Good luck to everyone!

 Max Moray wrote:


@Everyone: Looking forward to see the finished pieces. Good luck to everyone!

Agreed. All the WIP photos have been decidedly inspirational, and I can't wait to see what everyone came up with.

Final pics are PM'd... can't wait to see all the entries, great job everyone!

Entries well received Max and MacPhail !
Happy Halloween dakka !

Cut it pretty close, but the final pics are PM'd, Kernel.

Good job everyone, I'm excited to see the final results!

Well received ThumpingBear !
Congrats to all the entrants, finishers or not for the work done, you may now relax. Time now to compile all this and create the public voting thread.

Good luck KernelTerror, judging is the most challenging and stressful part of these contests. Nice work all entrants

The public voting thread is up, and ill run for 10 days.

Since some of the entrants added some short descriptive text to their entries, I added them to the post, @Josh and @ThumpingBear let me know if you also want some text added to your entries, I can edit.

Time is up, after several weeks of buildings for the entrants and a few heartbreaking days of choosing for me, it is time to close round 30 of the LoER challenge. Congrats to all the entrants, finishers or not, It was very inspiring to follow and I'll probably end up stealing many ideas from here. Don't feel bad if you did not finished, I know how the end of summer and the months of september october can be hard on hobby time. I still hope to see the finished pieces some day, do PM when they are !

All four completed pieces had a legit claim at the title, end perfectly fitted the topic, here they are in no particular order :

MacPhail

MacPhail produced a series of five mechanical blocks made out of plastic wrapping, metal grills and many inside components. Each element can be lit with lets of different colours, and recombined in different positions for usability. I am very fond of MacPhail's signature rust and weathering technique, working perfectly well in that industrial settings. Each pod has internal mechanics made of various plastic bits. I identified different type of caps, parts of paint bottles, all of them integrating well in a complex machine. These pods will also integrate perfectly with your previous entry, I hope your rust city will keep growing in the future.





Rest of the entry :

MacPhail wrote:My claim to "double entendre" is two-fold... wide spacing for boulevards passable by heavy armor vs. tight corridors only accessible to infantry, and lights-off vs. lights on. I chose pics that show the two different spacings, pics that show with and without lights, and a couple of detail shots. I also have all the top-down and all-sides varieties...

Thumpingbear

Thumpingbear built a Mordheim style set of buildings, out of tiny planks, foam gravel, and various additional bits. In contains and house, stairs, a bridge, a cabin with a chain. It can be disassembled in 4 for transportation, or separate use as distinct terrain feature. The entry perfectly captures the Mordheim vibe and many skirmishes can easily be imagined just by looking at the piece. Some character will definitely end up hanged at that chain, while another may decide to blow up the bridge (making its removal very convenient).





Rest of the entry :


JoshInJapan

Josh built to hills based around some fish tank cavern rocks, and hand building all the rest of the pieces, adding space for models to take position, plants weeds and additional rocks. I am quite impressed with how integrated the final entry ends up looking, and would definitely not be out of place on a shelf in a wargaming store. The shape of the final pieces makes them easy to integrate on a table, while keeping the possibility of hiding a few models inside the cave for more complexes setups.





Rest of the entry :


Max Moray

Max Moray built a Mausoleum for his Sister of Battle army. Build around a plastic bucket, that piece is extremely rich with handmade sculpture and tiny details, with almost no part of it left bare. The chosen color scheme, and the addition of foliage and red flowers completes the piece perfectly, making it cohesive with Max's Sister of Battle army. The Mausoleum can also be split into different elements (using the statue as an objective marker) or inverting the floor for a roof. I must also acknowledge the quality of the pictures, with perfectly chosen backdrop and ground.





Rest of the entry :




Four to choose from, but I had to pick one.

ThumpingBear, you are the winner of Round 30 of the LoER Competition as well the dakka's public voting.

When I went back through this thread to pick a winner, I falsely remembered that you based your work from official Mordheim Artwork, then re-discovered your post, and your self made art :

On top of the qualities I mentioned above, this, imho, adds to the power of your piece by capturing's mordheim's misty, decayed, ruined and dark atmosphere with your own design.
You may now proudly bear (pun intended) the LoER's banner in signature, and are now in charge of organizing round 31. You may also, if you wish, PM me your postal address, I'll send a modest bag of modeling supply as an additional prize.

Kudos to all of you fellows, hope to see you in Round 31 !

Congrats,ThumpingBear, on a well-deserved win!

Congrats to all and especially to ThumpingBear for his superb piece. Thanks, KernelTerror for hosting this round.