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Awesome scourges, I really like how you did the wings. I can't wait to see more.

Thank you very much kitbashermagos, I'm very glad you like them. I always strive to add more interesting and unique things so with any luck I'll be able to impress you again in the future. I may be mistaken but is this your first time here in the thread? If it is then welcome! Glad to have you along for the ride.

Scourges look very good, there is enough in each model to tie them together as the same unit. Well done.

Cheers,

CB

Great job on the wings! They give the group a nice touch of individuality without making them too different.

Sorry for the late responses, I've been out of town at a tattoo convention for the past couple days.

Thank you very much Captain Brown and aku-chan for your kind words, I'm glad the scheme has worked out for these guys.

Scourges are looking fantastic I_F. You've done a beautful job on the wings. really top work

Thank you very much Januine, I'm super stoked you like them. I really want to do more scourges actually these guys were a ton of fun to paint and really let me try new things. For now it's Armies on Parade though then after that it'll be working down the backlog a bit.

Making stuff from scratch is certainly a whole new art form over simply painting something that someone else has made. I admit, I'm not very good at it, nor do I have the patience for it. So here is my very humble attempt at an armies on parade board for this years competition. It's simple, but hopefully once the force is on display they can mask the obvious flaws with my board. What do you guys think, is it perhaps too simple that it'd be an embarrassment to put on parade with all the others?

Oh by the way tatsymuffintop wants me to tell you all that he loves you.

Nothing to be ashamed of there, quality work.

The one thing that stands out to me is the webway gate itself. It looks like it was just placed on the ground, as there is a slight curve/gap at the bottom. It should be more sunk/rooted into the ground. A simple fix would be to build up a little more rubble debris at the base to help ease its transition into the board.

Thank you Nevelon for the feedback, I appreciate it. I agree it is just kind of "put there" and it'd be nice for it to have a more built in feeling. I'll have to look around to see what I got left to base around there with and do a bit of experimenting. The nice thing with being done my entry a week in advance is I have some time to fine-tune some parts. None of this "up at 4 AM the night before finishing up a model for a comp that day" business usually get into.

A lot of lovely work going on here, as for your web way portal perhaps some ornamental flagstones around the base?

Thank you very much Yorkright, glad you like the project so far. I'm out of the house tonight but I hope I'll have some time tonight to do some experimenting with the WWP to dress it up a bit, it could definitely use a little extra.

I think the barren, bleak look will serve as a nice backdrop for your army. And I love the webway portal. Building up the connection between the ground and the portal is probably a good idea. I am not a huge fan of the large grey area behind the portal. Not being familiar with any stipulations for AOP, I do take know if that is required or functional. I almost want to see the board without it. Maybe if it could be darker, or have something else added to it to break it up. It looks very flat compared to the reat of the board. The texture/cracks on the "ground" are very effective and visually interesting but not overpowering. Not sure how much fiddling with it you want to do at this stage, though.

Yeah great work I_F it's interesting enough to provide a good backdrop to your models, but not so busy that it steals the limelight.

Agreed that building up a little rubble around the base of the webway portal will make it look sunken into the ground which would look great

youwashock: There are no restrictions saying that I have to have a backdrop but for this year I wanted to have one to help "frame" my army. It also helps to mask the setup I have on the back end of the board to seat the light device in. I do however agree that it is far to plain and quite boring. With the time I have left before the event I'm not sure I'd be able to do any major changes to it however. Time allowing I may try to put a "poor mans" galaxy paint scheme to it. I'm glad you don't think the ground is too overpowering though, I definitely didn't want to make the board so detailed that it detracted from the army I put on it so hopefully that will come across well.

Ynneadwraith: Glad you and youwashock are on the same page for this, I'm hoping the board will complement my force as opposed to compete with it. Tonights project will certainly be to build up the base around the portal and perhaps where the backdrop meets the board.

Interesting that you may want to try a galaxy paint scheme. I didn't suggest it before because I wasn't sure what you had in mind regarding the background, but I thought a starfield would be a possible approach. Also, now that I am thinking about it, a starfield with the black silhouette of a city (Comorragh?) across the horizon line could be something and still provide a suitable backdrop. Not too much, not too plain.

Yeah a starry backdrop was my first thought for adding some life to the backdrop. I love the idea of a silhouette of Commoragh in there two but I feel artistic skill and most importantly time are not on my side to attempt that.

As I type this the glue is drying on the extra basing around the portal though so hopefully that works out well.

Quick update on the board, got the paint down on the extra basing and just put on the wash, it's drying up in this photo. Hopefully this helps blend things in a bit and tomorrows project will be to start fixing up the backdrop.

Much better, that blends in with the rest of the board and draws the eye to the portal.

Thank you very much Yorkright, I'm glad I'm on the right path here.

 Inevitable_Faith wrote:
Making stuff from scratch is certainly a whole new art form over simply painting something that someone else has made. I admit, I'm not very good at it, nor do I have the patience for it. So here is my very humble attempt at an armies on parade board for this years competition. It's simple, but hopefully once the force is on display they can mask the obvious flaws with my board. What do you guys think, is it perhaps too simple that it'd be an embarrassment to put on parade with all the others?

Inevitable_Faith,

I would not worry about the others. As long as you complete and show your models your army will still be the focus of lots of attention.

My two cents,

CB

Thanks CB, I appreciate the vote of confidence. In a few hours after all the trick or treaters are done making their rounds through the neighbourhood I'm going to sit down to put the last little bit of work into the board to finish it off.

Awesome!

Thank you very much Scarsminiaturemadness!

Yep I'm liking the improvements. Especially the little low walls which sort of break up the joint between the base and the background. It also makes the suggestion that there's supposed to be a foreground (models), mid-ground (portal and walls) and background sky behind it all

Thanks Ynneadwraith, I'm happy it's working out better now. Tomorrow is the big day so I'll make sure to post pics of the event when I get back into town (event is 200km away, I'll be spending the night in the city and coming back sunday).

In other news I was excited because I was finally whittling down my unpainted minis. I had taken this force from untold boxes of units to 1 Raider, 10 Wyches and a voidraven bomber. I was stoked that for the first time since getting into 40K I'd have officially painted every model for a force I had. Then last night happened... A few friends of mine came over for a gaming night and one of them had found his boxed up DE force while cleaning his house and decided I needed it. I now have:
21 Kabalite Warriors
10 Incubi
6 Reaver Jetbikes
11 Hellions
2 Raiders

They're all the newer models so they'll match nicely with the rest of my force in that regard however not all of them are in good shape (particularly the Incubi) and so I may have to do some part donations to make full models out of some of them. I expect to lose a few models in each group to these donations. Suffice to say it looks like I'm not likely to have that "all models are painted" feeling for a long time to come...

Yes, but there is little better in life than free minis. Good luck at the event.

 Inevitable_Faith wrote:
Thanks Ynneadwraith, I'm happy it's working out better now. Tomorrow is the big day so I'll make sure to post pics of the event when I get back into town (event is 200km away, I'll be spending the night in the city and coming back sunday).

In other news I was excited because I was finally whittling down my unpainted minis. I had taken this force from untold boxes of units to 1 Raider, 10 Wyches and a voidraven bomber. I was stoked that for the first time since getting into 40K I'd have officially painted every model for a force I had. Then last night happened... A few friends of mine came over for a gaming night and one of them had found his boxed up DE force while cleaning his house and decided I needed it. I now have:
21 Kabalite Warriors
10 Incubi
6 Reaver Jetbikes
11 Hellions
2 Raiders

They're all the newer models so they'll match nicely with the rest of my force in that regard however not all of them are in good shape (particularly the Incubi) and so I may have to do some part donations to make full models out of some of them. I expect to lose a few models in each group to these donations. Suffice to say it looks like I'm not likely to have that "all models are painted" feeling for a long time to come...

This is why I always end my posts in my PLOGs "The long painting war continues..." Just like the wars in the 40K universe we love and enjoy, the painting is never finished.

Good luck on the next additions.

Cheers,

CB

The models weren't free unfortunately. He did offer them for free but I couldn't in good conscience take this much for nothing so on my trip up to the city for Armies on Parade I picked him up a box of Wulfen as thanks. Speaking of AoP, here's my entry. I didn't place in any category.

Sad to hear you didn't place, got any pics of those that did, because they must have been really special?