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Welcome to the voting thread of June's challenge. This last month, the theme was Boots on the Ground, giving us a great array of entries ranging from the Poor Bloody Infantry to enormous walkers, humble footmen to giant creatures that cause the very earth to quake at their passing.

As always, you can vote for as many entries as you like, for any reason that they catch your eye. You're also very welcome to leave feedback for the entrants, and many of the images link through to the Dakka gallery if you fancy leaving a vote or two there as well.

The entrants:



FrozenDwarf: Axis Heavy Grendadier Assault Squad


queen_annes_revenge: Gimli and Dwarf Smith


Aash: Chaos Marines and Lord


DV8: Radukar The Beast


Pariah Press: Chaos Sorcerer and Familiar


Mr Nobody: Stormsurge Battlesuit


lifeafter: Space Marine Reivers


the_balloon_dog: Imperial Guard squad


Endtransmission: Ulfenwatch Skeletons


KidCthulhu: Imperial Guard Squad


Graphite: Orlock Servitor


Flinty: Stargrave Crew


Captain Brown: Arbites Squad


Ezki: Drukhari Incubi


Commissar Yarrork: Deff Dread


ms07b3: Thanos and the Black Order


Nevelon: Assault Intercessors


FundoMental: Raptors Scout Squad


JoshInJapan: Stargrave Crew


Freya: Lion Warrior


Yorkright: Heavy Intercessors


Aelyn: Skeleton Warriors


Pneumo: Imperial Fists Bust


Arakasi: Ork Slugga


Jamie Shred: Bladeguard Veterans


Paradigm: Plague Knight of Nurgle


MobileSuitRandom: Ogors


vejut: Barbarian


Dr Giggles: Soviet Soldiers


Maharg: Fire Wizard


viterbi: Stargrave Troopers


Tim 121RVC: Rock Golem


Turaxa: Cadian Squad



Horla: Colonial Marines


ShadowsAndDust: Dark Apostle and Disciples


E3DD: Idoneth Deepkin



Midget Gems Jr: Gryph Hounds


Midget Gems: Tanith Troops


ZergSmasher: Sisters of Battle


DJJazzyJeff: Wood Elf Archer

Lots of great entries this month! It really made it hard to narrow it down to 5 votes. The ones I picked:
queen_annes_revenge: I'm a huge LotR fan, so seeing you paint Gimli this well really made me smile. The other dwarf looks excellent too!
Mr Nobody: I don't care what anyone says, the Stormsurge is an awesome model. I had one and painted it before I sold my Tau army, and so I'll always have respect for anyone who can do one to a good standard, which you definitely did.
Ezki: Honestly these are some of the most crisply painted Incubi I've seen. They could almost be on the GW box art for the kit.
Yorkright: These turned out fantastic! The armor is really smooth and crisp, and the weathering on the melta weapon barrels is a great touch and done well. Also, @Paradigm, these are Eradicators, not Heavy Intercessors.
Jamie Shred: Some of the best sword blades I've seen, and really smooth paintjob on the armor and shields too.

Everyone here should be proud of their entries. Really great stuff here. I'm certainly happy with my own entry, even if it is fairly basic. At least I can take decent photos now thanks to my lightbox. Shout out as always to Paradigm for taking time to run these things, even in the middle of moving (a chaotic time for anyone!). See you all in the next challenge!

Some voting is happening, but where is the conversation at? Usually everyone is giving feedback and/or just talking about their entries, but this time around it's way too quiet.

Speaking from the UK, too damn hot…

It was quiet, too quiet. The heat lay over the Dakka forums like a 30 tog duvet...

Maharg - I get a real 60/70s psychedelic rock vibe off your Fire Wizard (Crazy World of Arthur Brown?)

Turaxa - great urban camo, I have to say: The eyes have it

Horla - cracking detail, but messing with my OCD: the names are behind the characters and look off centre!

Jamie Shred & Queen Annes Revenge - just beautiful, when I grow up I want to be able to paint to that level of detail

MobileSuitRandom - My personal favourite & vote

Everybody else - you all give me inspiration and something to aim for as I try to improve in our hobby.

FundoMental wrote:Turaxa - great urban camo, I have to say: The eyes have it

Thank you, I'm glad you liked the eyes. I've painted that camo scheme before, but painting the eyes was me trying to stretch my skills this round.

ZergSmasher wrote:Some voting is happening, but where is the conversation at? Usually everyone is giving feedback and/or just talking about their entries, but this time around it's way too quiet.

I'm hardly the most qualified person to comment on others' work, but I shall try.

FrozenDwarf : The weathering brings out the detail on these nicely.

queen_annes_revenge : Both of these are up to your usual high standard. The OSL on the smith lends a nice atmosphere.

Aash : Nice to see a metallic scheme on Ultramarines.

DV8 : This piece is amazing. Is the blood done with resin of some kind?

Pariah Press : Old school cool, and nice freehand on the scroll.

Mr Nobody : Surprisingly moody for a giant orange mecha, and much better than the official colour scheme.

Lifeafter : This is a excellent dirty white scheme.

the_balloon_dog : Awesome. Have you tried it with a yellow LED under the explosion effect?

Endtransmission : A simple yet effective colourscheme.

KidCthulhu : Solid generic mooks. I don't think the plasma coil glow quite works, but I don't know how you'd improve it, sorry.

Graphite : An interesting conversion. He looks very 80s (90s?) Necromunda.

Flinty : These are cool, I like the ice-white trainers on the guy with the pistol. Using the same blue for hair and clothing makes the hair look artificial though.

Captain Brown : A classic scheme well executed.

Ezki : Sharp edge highlights and solid bases. Nice.

Commissar Yarrork : This is solid paintwork and the LEDs elevate the model as a whole.

Ms07b3 : Smoothly painted chibis.

Nevelon : Nice. The snow spatter on the legs adds to their sense of movement.

FundoMental : I think the captain's face and the skull he's holding would benefit from additional highlights, but these are solid tabletop standard.

JoshInJapan : Colourful without being garish. The variety in the way the heads are painted helps to sell these as different kinds of alien.

Freya : The NMN, the loincloth and base are all very good, but I feel the fur/skin/cloak all being a similar white makes them look a little unfinished. Have you considered doing a warm white for some parts and a cool white for others?

Yorkright : Nicely painted. I like the face on the sergeant.

Aelyn : This is an interesting scheme, and could look very striking at army size.

Pneumo : A nice yellow (never an easy colour) and very neat freehand on the fist icon.

Arakasi : A solid ork boy. That's a nice shade of red on the gun.

Jamie Shred : Your NMM technique is coming along nicely.

Paradigm : I won't nit-pick the base rim on this since I know you were moving house. Is this painted with contrast paints? It's quite Blanche-y.

MobileSuitRandom : Very good. Nice naturalistic colours and a very rusty rusted effect on the axe blades.

Vejut : It's difficult to judge with such a small picture, but it seems like a solid paint job.

Dr Giggles : These are neatly painted for what I imagine are fairly tiny figures.

Maharg : Painting the eyes on this would enhance the model. Every other part of it is well-painted.

Viterbi : This colour scheme works well with the VSF feel these models have.

Tim 121RVC : For some reason this reminds me of a Henson animatronic. This simple paint scheme suits the natural materials and I like the glowing eyes.

Turaxa : I painted the eyes and they weren't all terrible! The bases turned out a bit chunky though and some of the camo stripes could be thinner.

Horla : A good basic paint job. Is that Newt in the second picture?

ShadowsAndDust : I like the multi-coloured flames, I might have to pinch that idea. Did you freehand the picture in the book or is it a transfer?

E3DD : A pretty colour scheme with good edge highlights. The faces of the bare-headed ones lack definition, though that might be the sculpts?

Midget Gems Jr : These meet the “three-colours-minimum and based” standard. It's a good start.

Midget Gems : Nice kitbashes, these really demonstrate the versatility of the older kits. The bases give a colourful contrast to the models.

ZergSmasher : A nice yellow that pops against the darker robes and bases.

DJJazzyJeff : It's a well-painted model, but what I really like is all the little twigs and leaves on the base.

Not Contrast, it was actually a first and largely pointless stab at using oil paints. Not sure I achieved anything I couldn't have with acrylics to be honest, as much as I do quite like the final overall look. Blanch-y is always a compliment in my book!

On the base rim, not sure whether you mean the specks of paint or the fact the photo background remover has taken a chunk of it away on one of the pics, but either way, ta for bringing it to my attention, the former issue at least I can fix!

With so many models it can be hard to come up with comments.

Commissar Yarrork: Those LED's are looking great with a solid paintjob. If you ever use LED's again, I think a black background would help your model stand out more.

@Turaxa - It's from a transfer sheet of pinup girls that I bought a few years ago.

Thanks for the comments and votes everyone, never thought i would get lumped in with queen annes revenge so thanks for the very high praise indeed!

I'm glad everyone seemed to like the LEDs, I'm not a very good painter so I figured it'd be an easy way to improve the model a bit. It's honestly pretty easy to do LEDs in a deff dread, they're huge inside, just leave the top unglued. My killa kans with LEDs, on the other hand.... big oof, or should I say small oof.

@ Mr Nobody, I'll keep that in mind in future. I have a very crappy photo setup that I did last minute, that's literally just some printer paper and some desk lamps, and the photo was with a phone. I might have some dark cloth I can use next time.

EDIT: For anyone that does want to try doing LEDs, check out evandesigns.com, these ones were done with the "small coin cell holder with separate switch" and their "LED chip lighting kit". You could probably get the next size up for coin cells if you're working with deff dreads or similarly large models, but I did the small ones so I could fit them in my kans too.

Thank you for the comments and praise Turaxa and ZergSmasher! I'm flattered.

I second the notion that it has been way too hot lately. Already sitting on a computer for a living, so the more I can keep the thing from producing heat in the apartment, the better
Been a bit quiet on the painting side as well. The Incubi has been pretty much the only models I've done since early June.

Keeping this short this time around: Stellar job everyone! I'm impressed every time.

And the scores are in!

In third place, Ezki's Incubi squad:



Taking second, DV8 with Radukar The Beast:



And taking the win, a pair of Dwarves from queen_annes_revenge:

Grats to the winners, everyone who participated, and those who commented. Well done all!