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Haha, I'm just so sick of painting right now, so I spend a bunch of time procrastinating, kitbashing and staring at my bits box. Tonight I made a base for a duel entry, so next year I'll have the advantage of having had a whole year to prepare.. If I tried hard I could enter every category if I tried hard enough

Abby will be finished, theres only a few more bits need finishing now, and then I'll probably touch him up before entering him in next years contest.

Some very good stuff so far

Very cool idea Tikay Fortooun, hope you can get it done in time

Great work Para, nice to see you branching out, I remember the Eshers you did with some vivid colours on got lots of votes as well

Thats a lot of Wraithknights Bellerophon, you have positioned them is some very good dynamic poses.

Hope you get him done Queen Anne, I've been enjoying your entries the last few months

Small update form me

Mostly done the base and got the skin to where I'm happy with it on the dwarf, then realised that the beard covers most of the body anyway (no were near as good as queen annes flesh)

I'll give this one a go...

WIP on my native American Indian inspired Primaris based on the limited edition Lieutenant Amulius:

 Midget Gems wrote:
Some very good stuff so far

Very cool idea Tikay Fortooun, hope you can get it done in time

Great work Para, nice to see you branching out, I remember the Eshers you did with some vivid colours on got lots of votes as well

Thats a lot of Wraithknights Bellerophon, you have positioned them is some very good dynamic poses.

Hope you get him done Queen Anne, I've been enjoying your entries the last few months

Small update form me

Mostly done the base and got the skin to where I'm happy with it on the dwarf, then realised that the beard covers most of the body anyway (no were near as good as queen annes flesh)

Great looking base!


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 queen_annes_revenge wrote:
Haha, I'm just so sick of painting right now, so I spend a bunch of time procrastinating, kitbashing and staring at my bits box. Tonight I made a base for a duel entry, so next year I'll have the advantage of having had a whole year to prepare.. If I tried hard I could enter every category if I tried hard enough

Abby will be finished, theres only a few more bits need finishing now, and then I'll probably touch him up before entering him in next years contest.

You deserve a break, sit back for a while and admire all your hard and amazing work you have done!


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 Paradigm wrote:
First draft of my entry for the month, I may change a few things but I'm pretty happy with how it's come together. Continuing my theme of trying to push the boat out a bit and try some new things, a more colourful entry than usual, building on some of the stuff I learned doing Theoden last month. I've always liked the Empire/Freeguild look but never really managed to pull it off convincingly, but I think with this one I've just about managed it. A fun one to paint, I might have to track down some more of the old WFB clampack characters (this one was tucked away at the back of a paint stand of all places, behind 2 basing kits and a template set... A lucky find! )



As always, any thoughts welcome!

Wow nice, no criticisms because he looks fantastic!!!

Good luck !!!

Going for something a little different this month.



Still waiting on a few parts but feeling good about this one.

 Deadshot wrote:
Going for something a little different this month.



Still waiting on a few parts but feeling good about this one.

Good luck!!

Jamie Shred wrote:
Nice start Flinty, very neat work. What greens are you using there? Green is one of the colours I don't have many shades of.

Forgot to reply!

The lighter green is P3 Traitor Green, the darker green is GW Caliban Green. I have lots of greens. Not as many as I have blues, but definitely a few.

Thanks for the kind words. I've managed to finish off blocking the colours out but forgot to take pics. On to the washes, starting with boots and rust with the wondrous Armour Wash from days of yore

My wraithlord is coming along, but I'm getting a bit side-tracked...

If you are going to get sidetracked, that is a good.model to do it with

Cheers Flinty and looking forward to seeing more pics

This will be my entry, a converted orc.
Still needs some gap filling and sanding here and there.
I'd love to hear your ideas about the colour scheme! With all that metal going on I don't want to make him look like one chunk of silver.

Another thing: how would you call this? I'm not that familiar with the lore and orc/orruck ranks, so is it a Black Orc warboss, champion, warlord, brute ......?

Made some progress on my entry, I've done more since but here she is so far (apologies for the awful photos):




So blending with ushabti bone, coverage is absolutely awful.

Getting somewhere...

Plugging away...

Abaddon is done. He's not upto demon standard, but I've run out of time as I'm moving house next week and need all my modelling stuff packed up, so I've got him to an acceptable finished point, with plans to touch up later... I've got a whole year before the next WHF so I should be alright ha. Photos tomorrow.

Photos of Abby. Tried to push the contrast more on things like the talon, his armour and the trophy helmet, and work a little subtle OSL into the composition. I thought the dead primaris base furniture was a bit lame so I built my own base.

Eesh, silly me following a great looking QAR wip.
But here is my completed entry. Painted using only washes, glazes, inks and shades.
I wanted to try a new technique so am happy enough. Don't think I will repeat the experiment though.
Was certainly very quick.

I think you’re underselling yourself there Justalittleorkish, they look pretty damn good to me, particularly the bodies and the clothes. The coloured weapons and the slime on the bases are very extreme; wouldn’t be my first choice, but they do work in a Ghostbusters spectral goop kind of way.

 queen_annes_revenge wrote:
Photos of Abby. Tried to push the contrast more on things like the talon, his armour and the trophy helmet, and work a little subtle OSL into the composition. I thought the dead primaris base furniture was a bit lame so I built my own base.

OOOOOOOSSSSHHHHH! That's done impressive work right there! Base is much better than the contrived Primaris one.

More work on my conversions.

So to make a Plasma Gunner's backpack I took a VOX Operator backpack and cut some parts off. Added some styrene strips and used part of a Flamer hose.



For the Troopers I used Catachan hands as I intend to add some putty to bulk them out as gloves.


Flash has not been removed yet.

Cheers,

CB

Wow, incredible work here, very high standards. Good luck to all.

OP should now be all up to date, shout if I've missed you!

Made a start on the freehand today lining the logo out with a micron pen. What do you think of the proportions?
Edit: blocked it in and tidied up the sickle a bit.

Looks good. Are you going to do anything else like highlight the black? Black over red is quite a jarring contrast so the black would definitely benefit from some sort of embellishment, maybe put a highlight on the top of the tool handles, and get some grey gradients into the hammer head and the sickle blade.

I'd maybe red line between the tools and the pole aswell to show a bit of differentiation too, as atm it's a little blocky.

Cheers QAR agree it does need a highlight. I think the hammer head is a little too big too so will try shrink it a bit.
The logo is usually red on white so it appears white lined. Do you think white would work to outline the weapons and pole?

I wouldn't outline the design with white. That would be too jarring I think, to have the colour extremes so close with red. You could whiteline the High points (so a dot on the pole top, and lines down the upper edges of the tools etc) if you get my meaning.

Finally got around to doing the league table

https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/0/732117.page#10452138

Looking very interesting already at the top

No pictures since the MIL is visiting but I've gotten the models themselves done, just need to finish the bases and do a few touch ups.

Just need to try fix the logo on the Baroni. Pretty happy with the rest of them.

Here's my proof pic for this month. It's always difficult for me to pick something that refers to how a model behaves in-game, because I generally have no idea of the rules of anything I paint! This guy is no exception. He's from a now defunct game called Anima Tactics. When the game was declared dead, my FLGS had a load of their minis for sale dirt cheap, and I bought about thirty of them because they're just cool. They're all inspired by Final Fantasy and JRPGs like that. I don't know who this guy is or what he's supposed to do, but he looks the type to fight To The Death, don't you think?



I took the photo a week ago, and have made a start painting him. The armour is a nightmare, and whatever I do it just looks like paint paint paint. I'm just seeing the mistakes at the moment. Looking forward to painting the sword though.