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Is it just me, or has it been quiet in here?

The bikes are almost done, but still work to be done on the riders.

Bikes WIP:

OP should now be all up to date!

Also now taking theme ideas for next month, I'll stick a subject poll up tomorrow. I'm thinking I'll try and throw in a couple loosely tied to the new 40k edition but that can be nice and generic as well. Something like 'new beginning' or 'a new age' ect.

I need to put together my own entry as well, come to think of it!

I had come up with some Star Trek-sounding theme ideas:
Energize: Entries should have some kind of energy theme, be it energy weapons or perhaps magical energy.
To Seek Out New Life And New Civilizations: Any kind of non-human would work, but perhaps humans with an exploratory theme would also be good.
Resistance is Futile: Not sure how the theme would be, but it sounds cool, right?

I still want to see Black and White as a theme one of these days. The other idea I had was "Warped" since it ties into 8th nicely but can be interpreted a number of ways. Of course if it wins, I'll have to get pretty creative in figuring out what to model/paint.

To the last... : Any kind of theme of ending/or last resort. A final stand, the last of a kind, etc.

Cold War...: Any kind of secretive, espionage based model - snipers, agents, assassins, intelligence officers, reconnaissance teams.

Trading Places...: Any model from one race/army/faction...remodeled/repurposed or kitbashed into another army's use. And not just an Orky stolen tank...I mean, kitbashing some Eldar into an Imperial Assassin or making a Tau crisis suit out of an Imperial cargo crate, lol.

won't be here much ot June so but seeing as how we have the pre-order for new40k date up and it's pre-release maybe a good theme, if not "new beginnings" might be

-New 40k New Army (totally stolen from Twitter)

-Git Off Mah Lawn (cuz you know some of us are *old*)

-Something Old (or) Something New (or) Something Blue

 Guildenstern wrote:


-Something Old (or) Something New (or) Something Blue

You forgot “Sumpin looted”

Or is it borrowed? Wateves...

Finished.

Mechanicum Archmagos Prime:



++CYRAXUS ENDURES++

themes
Hold the line! - troops with gunz
The Best of the best - super elite units.

WIP getting there. Two of the bodies are done, the others need their second blue and wash. MLs are done, but all the arms needs their second blue/wash as well. Then just the basing. Should just be a couple more days.

Holy Crap! it’s the 24th? Where did the month go? Should be OK, but I need to stop screwing around and get painting. And by that I mean less Civ VI.

 Nevelon wrote:

 Guildenstern wrote:


-Something Old (or) Something New (or) Something Blue

You forgot “Sumpin looted”

Or is it borrowed? Wateves...

^^ that'd work lol

could be a conversion month!

Anyway, working on my guys, they're close to being done. Had a bad week this week, RL sucks, so we'll see, but should get em done I think soon.

whoops...nearly forgot about this a little bit!

...just scrambled around doing finishing touches over the last couple of days...Glottkin > Great Unclean One conversion is done!

here's my final pics (I think dakka's done it's thing with them for some reason, they're looking a little off...ah well )

Oh man Zobo, you've nailed it again!

Zobo that is one of the most repellent nurgle daemons I have ever seen. Top notch stuff!!

Yeah, I didn't even start. Please have the next round be something I can do.

Suggested themes for next month:

-The more things change: Paint a new version of an old miniature, or an old version of a new mini
(I have old metal eldar that need some paintin'...)

-Move, move, move!: In honor of the new "movement" stat, paint up something that has lots of it (or very little, hence the encouragement to get their lumbering asses moving...)

-It's all a game: objective markers, terrain pieces, distance rulers, all the "other stuff" that we use in this game and sometimes get neglected in our painting schedule...

New poll is up, used a few suggestions from up the page.
https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/0/726579.page#9383435

Ok, I threw together something in the last few hours and I think it could work:

Proof:



Not much, its an old conversion from a few years ago and I decided to repaint it.



Does anyone like this photo layout, or should I go back to how I did it before?

Note: this is NOT my final pic. I still need to do the base.

Ok zobo enoughs enough. That thing is stupendously redonkulous. Jeez man thats one hell of a paint job. Shiuld have mine finished next 2 days as gots to go to warhammer fest arrrggghhhh i want that mans model. Good job everyone else but looks like we all showed up for nothing lol.

Proof


And done! Perhaps more boomboomboomboomboomboom than BOOM!, but the sentiment's still there!

Para, that's more BRRRRRT! than BOOM!, but it looks good nonetheless!

hey guys...I've just gotten some better pics, or rather, the exact same pics! ...only this time, instead of uploading straight from my phone to dakka...I uploaded them to my laptop, resized them in paint, uploaded to imgur, then uploaded to dakka from imgur, using dakka's auto-adjust...it seems to have done the trick ...hey Para, mind switching these over for me mate?

So, yeah, I finished my entry around 3 weeks ago... finally got around to taking pics:

Sry I've no been around much, finding it hard to balance being away a lot more and painting, life etc.

Nice work Verviedi, a very cool looking model

The Glottkin/Great Unclean One came out brilliantly Zobo, loads of little bits to take in, (and make me feel unwell, like the slime from his belly to the floor) really like how you have done the bone and the finger nails.

You always get the blood stains and splatter to look spot on Para, nice work again

A WIP of my bits so far, hoping to have it finished this bank holiday

Finished my entry for the month, yet another Deathwatch Overkill marine... you must be sick of these by now!

I have much more fun entries planned for the next two months

Done. Some heavy firepower, straight out of the 80’s.

Love the classics, fun to go back and re-do.

Dude, im actually drooling at the sight of those missiles. Great work!

Yeah, great job Nevelon.

I'm cutting it close this month. Still expect to be finished, but it'll be tight!

I'll be cutting it fine too. It's been a rollercoaster month. I started off very down on my own painting after the results and some comments last month which made me reevaluate whether or not I can paint at all. I thought it was okay, dammit!

I couldn't really find anything that fitted the theme, and committed to painting a dragon miniature for a friend of mine, but didn't think there was much chance of finishing it in time. I painted Jabba The Hutt as a way of trying to teach myself wet-blending in order to use the technique on the dragon, but I still can't think of a reasonable way to make him fit the theme. I started the dragon a week or so ago, still with my confidence really low, which was not a good frame of mind to be painting something for someone else. I've managed to put some time into it this week, so I might actually get it finished in time to enter if I pull my finger out. If so, I will enter it.

I have taken a proof picture last week, but I've mislaid the adapter that allows me to connect my phone to the PC so I haven't got round to uploading it yet.

Unfortunately, I've just got back from Warhammer Fest, and after viewing all the Golden Demon entries there, I've reevaluated my painting again and decided I might need to strip everything I've ever painted and start again. Some of that stuff is completely ridiculous!

Here are my final pics for my entry: