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So, almost forgot to snap a proof:


A Deep Cuts Miniatures displacer beast--scary wee critter.

And almost done, thinking it needs one more matte coat (and also I'm moving this month and am not sure I'll finish or he'll survive it, so hey, backup pics):

   
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Nice job, Vejut. The purple highlight looks perfect!

I considered this exact mini myself for this month - the deep cut are pretty good for the price! Well done and I hope he doesn't get displaced on the move.
...sorry....won't happen again...

Loving those pumpkin grots, too, biggie!

Here's the base I'm working on for my Twilight Sister. I have tried to sculpt a face on the tree, will have to wait and see if it turns out the way I hope.
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Skirr and Skiver, Fancyman of Cornwall and Best Friend of your Mother's. 
   
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Chicago

Hopefully the inquisition is spooky enough ( not the custode in the picture)


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UK

Aaaaand I think I'm done...



I've spent far too long staring at the pics and trying to work out what else I could do, to the point where I figure I needed to just call it done and move on. I'm pretty pleased with the result, but you know how it is when you look at something long enough, you start agonising over the tiniest details and flaws and more often than not, I end up making things worse after a certain point trying to 'fix' them. I think this is one of my stronger entries in recent months, so hopefully he performs well come the end of the month!

 
   
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In a Trayzn pokeball

For some reason the pic is quite blurry and zooming in doesn't help, so it's hard to see the details.

 JohnHwangDD wrote:
The hobby is actually hating GW.
 iGuy91 wrote:
You love the T-Rex. Its both a hero and a Villain in the first two movies. It is the "king" of dinosaurs. Its the best. You love your T-rex.
Then comes along the frakking Spinosaurus who kills the T-rex, and the movie says "LOVE THIS NOW! HE IS BETTER" But...in your heart, you love the T-rex, who shouldn't have lost to no stupid Spinosaurus. So you hate the movie. And refuse to love the Spinosaurus because it is a hamfisted attempt at taking what you loved, making it TREX +++ and trying to sell you it.
 Elbows wrote:
You know what's better than a psychic phase? A psychic phase which asks customers to buy more miniatures...
the_scotsman wrote:
Dae think the company behind such names as deathwatch death guard deathskullz death marks death korps deathleaper death jester might be bad at naming?
 
   
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Hmm, it looks fine on my monitor. It's copied at full resolution, so zooming won't help, but at its regular resolution it doesn't appear blurry to me. Is anyone else seeing blur? I edit my pics at 50% brightness, so if your screen is on a darker setting that might cause problems.

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A Protoss colony world

@Paradigm: It doesn't look blurry to me in the slightest, nice work!

My armies (re-counted and updated on 11/1/23, including modeled wargear options):
Dark Angels: ~15000 Astra Militarum: ~1200 | Adeptus Custodes: ~1900 | Imperial Knights: ~2000 | Sisters of Battle: ~3500 | Leagues of Votann: ~1200 | Tyranids: ~2600 | Stormcast Eternals: ~5000
Check out my P&M Blogs: ZergSmasher's P&M Blog | Imperial Knights blog | Board Games blog | Total models painted in 2023: 40 | Total models painted in 2024: 7 | Current main painting project: Dark Angels
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Who doesn’t love crazy mutant squawk-puppies? Eh? Nobody, that’s who.
 
   
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Nottingham (yay!)

Ooh, I only just discovered that we’ve got a painting challenge again. Right, I’m working on a big gribbly Kharybdis, hopefully it’ll be finished in time...


   
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East Midlands UK

Aaargh! Just got back from a nice long holiday and couldn't find anything spooky.

Until this thing fell out of a bag of assorted lead

Spoiler:


No idea what I am going to do with it so I'm probably just in it for a single point this month.
   
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 Buttery Commissar wrote:
I may have to join in here.

(Hi, anyone who remembers me, lol)


Yay BC Welcome back, its great to see/hear from you. Hope you are well.

A really good idea TheDraconicLord, should be a very cool entry.

A very good posse on your entry Kustomer D and the base is also very good.

Para, I like the glow over the dirtty/ragged look on this model, are you planning to do anything with the eyes glow wise, just a thought?

Grot pumpkin heads are great for your first time with GS, biggie_reg, made me laugh.

Apologies I've not been on much for the last week and 1/2, its all gone a bit busy at the moment and next week looks awful as well. No idea how its got to the 18th already and I've only got a few of the base colours on >_<

I did manage to update the league table at the weekend if anyone is interested, (Julys colours went AWOL on the table but will fix that in the update next month).

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

Minor WIP, still a long way to go and not much free time left this month by the looks of it.






   
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Nottingham (yay!)

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(And Waaaghbin, da yoof wonda)


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Oh, I have something for this, bit it’ll have to wait til tomorrow as it is sleepy meds’ time zzz

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Chicago

Just about done with greyfax


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United Kingdom

Here's my proof pic. Hopefully this will be the last month of my Dark Eldar odyssey, but while that is ongoing, I'm going to paint a squad of the most halloween of the Drukhari, Mandrakes.

   
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Done:



   
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This months entry was a fun idea and I knew it was coming, so I'm doing a theme of classic monsters and scary dudes! I found a "King Kong" , "Blob", "Lizardman", "Texas Chainsaw Massacre meets Jason", and Be'lakor to top it off! I'm starting to paint them and I'm super excited, Be'lakor is something I've been wanting to do for a while and he is super scary on the table! I will do a group shot at the end when they are done!
PROOF
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at the keyboard

ok I'ma try to get these guys done, hopefully

PROOF

   
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Guildenstern those two to the right are a little freaky! haha
   
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In a Trayzn pokeball

Finished highlighting and the brass bits.
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 JohnHwangDD wrote:
The hobby is actually hating GW.
 iGuy91 wrote:
You love the T-Rex. Its both a hero and a Villain in the first two movies. It is the "king" of dinosaurs. Its the best. You love your T-rex.
Then comes along the frakking Spinosaurus who kills the T-rex, and the movie says "LOVE THIS NOW! HE IS BETTER" But...in your heart, you love the T-rex, who shouldn't have lost to no stupid Spinosaurus. So you hate the movie. And refuse to love the Spinosaurus because it is a hamfisted attempt at taking what you loved, making it TREX +++ and trying to sell you it.
 Elbows wrote:
You know what's better than a psychic phase? A psychic phase which asks customers to buy more miniatures...
the_scotsman wrote:
Dae think the company behind such names as deathwatch death guard deathskullz death marks death korps deathleaper death jester might be bad at naming?
 
   
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Croatia

Pretty much done, just have to paint the wings, gloss it and add some sand to the base. Didn't put nearly as much effort into this one as I did last month, not feeling particulary inspired both by the theme and the "model" itself. Still, backing out wouldn't be right.


   
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Here's my proof. 70mm zombie by Knight Models.
   
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France

Llamahead talked me into entering my Dark-mechanicus-demon-spagetti-tentacle-magos. Eleven days to paint that beast is probably insane, but who knows... Anyway, here is my proof (and in case that count, building started on october the 5th.)


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Voting for my stuff pleases the Chaos Gods and brings you luck in battle !

 
   
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Nottingham (yay!)

Why. Why am I trying to do this in under a fortnight. Why.

It's taking shape:






   
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Ok Guildenstern, I gotta know what range is the adorbs Cthulhu mini from? May have to paint up one of those just for grins.

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at the keyboard

 Gulgog TufToof wrote:
Ok Guildenstern, I gotta know what range is the adorbs Cthulhu mini from? May have to paint up one of those just for grins.


He's a Reaper Bones beasty: https://www.reapermini.com/OnlineStore/cthulhu/latest/77609

   
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Portugal

Boys and girls of every age
Wouldn't you like to see something strange?

Come with us and you will see
This, our town of Halloween

This is Halloween, this is Halloween!
Pumpkins scream in the dead of night!

This is Halloween, everybody make a scene
Trick or treat till the neighbors gonna die of fright!
It's our town, everybody scream
In this town of Halloween!





Yes. I'm a big fan of the movie and song ever since I saw it, oh so many years ago.

Here's Carver in a much more standard lighting:





"Fear is freedom! Subjugation is liberation! Contradiction is truth! These are the truths of this world! Surrender to these truths, you pigs in human clothing!" - Satsuki Kiryuin, Kill la Kill 
   
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Norfolk, VA

I'm envious of the pumpkin head above! Wish my grots would come out better, but I still like them. I'm working on my sculpting, but they turned out alright. Much more painting to be done, can't wait to finish them!
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Pumpkins and more pumpkins!

Pumpkin grots looking great, reg!
And that led, Draconic, looks freaking cool....I love it. How the heck did you do it?

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A Protoss colony world

I just thought I'd post a WIP shot of my Poxwalkers as they currently stand:

As I said before, I'll finish all of them and pick the five best as my entry. I'm running out of month, so I'd better pick up the pace! Everyone else's entries are coming along nicely, should be a nice freaky selection of creepy models!

My armies (re-counted and updated on 11/1/23, including modeled wargear options):
Dark Angels: ~15000 Astra Militarum: ~1200 | Adeptus Custodes: ~1900 | Imperial Knights: ~2000 | Sisters of Battle: ~3500 | Leagues of Votann: ~1200 | Tyranids: ~2600 | Stormcast Eternals: ~5000
Check out my P&M Blogs: ZergSmasher's P&M Blog | Imperial Knights blog | Board Games blog | Total models painted in 2023: 40 | Total models painted in 2024: 7 | Current main painting project: Dark Angels
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Who doesn’t love crazy mutant squawk-puppies? Eh? Nobody, that’s who.
 
   
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Eugene, Oregon

Ugh, hit a wall with Morty, but he’s definitely getting close just gotta finish some fine details, his wings, and his little cohort of nirglings on his base. Looks like I may indeed finish this month, but probably won’t have enough time to get him properly photographed in the time frame, so though he’ll be finished, expect some pretty crappy pics of my entry this month!

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40k: : 6500
2000(GK allies -Sons of Opet)
3000 Sons of Malice( played as primaris Salamanders)

AoS: 5500 
   
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Portugal

 Chris56 wrote:
Pumpkins and more pumpkins!

Pumpkin grots looking great, reg!
And that led, Draconic, looks freaking cool....I love it. How the heck did you do it?


Agreed, and it's extra cool because you sculpted the heads That's a lot of work!

About the LED:

Spoiler:


- Most of Carver's body is hollow, that helped. I made a hole on his neck to pass the wires through.

- Hollowed Carver's head enough to fit a small LED and cut my way through his eyes and mouth so it was possible to actually see the light.

- Each wire of the circuit goes through one leg. I managed to hollow it some more, but there was no way it wouldn't lead to gaps. After he was glued I had to fill the gigantic gaps with GS.

- Glued the battery slot thingy under the base, around the center where the wires end up. The model is too tiny for a switch, so I turn it off/on by removing or inserting the battery.

And because I'm a complete noob when it comes to wiring and electronics, I solved that problem by throwing money I ordered the LED and the initial circuit from here: https://www.smallscalelights.co.uk/
I had to butcher it because the wires were far too long to fit inside Carver, but it was already a huge help.

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"Fear is freedom! Subjugation is liberation! Contradiction is truth! These are the truths of this world! Surrender to these truths, you pigs in human clothing!" - Satsuki Kiryuin, Kill la Kill 
   
 
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