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FWIW, my vote for next month's theme can most certainly be bought. I accept cash, minis, bits, teef, and gubbins.

 Gulgog TufToof wrote:
FWIW, my vote for next month's theme can most certainly be bought. I accept cash, minis, bits, teef, and gubbins.

"Beef, teef, and gubbins" would get my vote for next month's theme.

That just sounds like a Slaaneshi Minotaur to me.

 Geifer wrote:
That just sounds like a Slaaneshi Minotaur to me.

On the other hand, that category would make room for some ancient times barbarians.

Some more suggestions for themes (not at all influenced by things I want to paint, honest!):

Angels and/or demons
On holy orders
Death comes from afar/on high
It's dirty work, but...

I’m up for magic, mercs, heroes, wings, pirates, veterans, vintage metal, machines, cute and fluffy… not so many orks looking paint in my collection but whatever comes up I’ll try to find something to fit the theme. I want to make it to October to complete my first year of monthly painting challenge entries.

Subject poll for next month:
https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/0/806633.page#11422223

Here we go, my Helping Hands: Gan'eek (the alien civilian), XL (the yellow droid), Stilts (the red droid), Yeti (multi limbed small alien technician) and Bullworth (the big alien with the prospecting rig).




Final pics, these, I reckon.

Here's my finished entry: Astromech, medical droid and comms specialist unit attachments.

WIP

Need to do the blue ink stage, then a lot of highlighting and cleanup, but getting there.

Okay, I ran out of time on this (I'm not able to paint for the rest of the month). I managed to finish Iyanna, but I got nowhere near completing her wraithlord companion. Fortunately, I was able to build a quick eldar guardian to go with her (her helping hand - though really she's the helping hand, herself, as she's a spiritseer guide for eldar wraith constructs) and get him painted up quickly. So here's my entry:



And here are the proof pics. The guardian has a headswap from Artel W, but I forgot to photograph that bit before I started painting him (I was in a rush). Hope that's okay?

Finally got these finished. They've been a real slog, TBH... I just wasn't feeling the 'Helping Hand' subject. Back to something a bit more fighty next month, thankfully!

I've tried to go for some textural stuff on the various textiles, which was a bit of an experiment. It's gone OK, but I reckon there's a fair bit of development possible. I'll have to do a bit more, and see how it goes.

Anyway - finished pics:













cheers,
Michael

They look spiffy. I’m enjoying the purple and green combo, and the seeing-eye mole especially.

Wow Lovejoy! I really like the light tan leather, that's come out beautifully!

Here's my entry, Bishop, the artificial person always willing* to help you out:











* Obviously, by "willing" I mean "bound by programming"

Okay, looks like I only had time for four this time around, but I'm pleased with the results.









I went back in and touched up a few things (like the Mystic's cloak or the wires on the Scribe). I'm working on a project that involves four Inquisitors and their crews, so each of these guys "belongs" to a different Inquisitor. That's why the Scribe's purple wires/shoes got repainted red.

Calling him done. A helping hand in multiple ways, offering buffs and repairs to the chapter’s vehicles. Also more literally with mechadendrites and a servo arm for when 2 hands just aren’t enough.

These guys are finished:



I added a little static grass to the bases, but otherwise haven't done anything since I last posted. The solitary guy flat-out refuses to take in-focus photos.

After the spoiler, I have a couple of photos with these models as parts of the units they are meant to fill out. These are for context, not voting.


The teppo dudes are at least ten years older than the ammo bearers, and it really shows, at least in these photos.

Took a while to get him based but here he is. Mantic orc musician. Painted with speed paint for the red. Which bled like a stuck pig into the silver.. like it for blending highlights in, not for making my orcs shiny pink..

Yo7 wrote:
Took a while to get him based but here he is. Mantic orc musician. Painted with speed paint for the red. Which bled like a stuck pig into the silver.. like it for blending highlights in, not for making my orcs shiny pink..

I like that orc, especially the red armor. This guy, at least, doesn't mind standing out in a crowd!

Finished up my submission:

I struggled to get a good picture of this. And my other Apothecary wasn't finished in time so it's only the one dude.

Oooh, I'm liking that dude.

Ok, the Ork Kommandos are done! Threw on last coat of varnish last night and voila. Tabletop standard, but still good for me at least.











I learned a decent amount from these guys, first of which was that while going with varied garb looks good, it would probably be easier to paint a handful of them uniformly in one go and then just mix them into units later, instead of remembering who got what paint where. I also learned how to, and not to paint Ork skin. Believe it or not the one whose skin kind of looks blue and splotchy looks really good from a distance, but zoomed in not as much.

Tested out a bunch of new paints, learned that Army Painter's Speedpaint isn't for me. I'm too sloppy and it spreads too thin, so cleanup took too long in some places, and on others I gave up and essentially did a different color on top. The guy in the blueish green onesie was originally both skin and onesie Speedpaint, but ended up throwing a light blue on top of the outfit since otherwise I'd need like 5 coats to cover up the spots on it. That outfit is also where I experimented with "how would it look if I threw a green wash on this light blue", to which the answer was surprisingly not terrible.

While the Speedpaint isn't for me, I rather like the Army Painter Metallic I had bought on a whim and tested. The blue metallics are that, and I liked it enough that I bought 3 or 4 more of them at the shop a few days back even though I have no immediate plans for them.

All in all, a pretty fun time toying with various paints I've had laying around for ages that never got used.

Speaking of ork kommandos, I just finished my comms boy and I’m dying to enter him since I finally finished on time for once. Now I just have to carve out the time somehow tomorrow to take and post pics.

Actually managed to finish something this month, here's my Techmarine:


Proof picture:


Finished:


And some more pictures in the spoilers:

Damn, I finished on Sunday, but haven’t taken good pictures. If possible I‘ll take nice ones tomorrow, but here is the proof that he‘s done.

Hi All

I took this Bank holiday in the UK to paint with my "Little Helpers" was really nice being able to share this with them and they seemed quite interested in it, i didnt get much painting do though I as I was just mostly helping them

Midget Gems Proof
A Ork Mek who keeps the Waaagh running with his Grot Helper


Midget Gems Jr (6 yrs)
A Stag that helps carry around its rider and a Witch Elf who helps Morathi


Midget Gems Jr Jr (4 yrs)
Another a Witch Elf who helps Morathi


Will get the final photos up tonight/tomorrow

Managed to get some photos in the nick of time. My ork comms boy in case you need to call in "A Helping Hand".
I've been wanting to generally up my painting game, and I keep telling myself that I'm going to try new techniques like creating volume, and NMM, and OSL and such, but I never remember to when I'm grinding away trying to get these things done. This guy actually had a light on the underside of his gun, so I had no excuse; this is my first attempt at OSL and I'm pretty darn happy with how it turned out. I followed the basic idea I saw on a couple of videos that suggested adding blue tones to the rest of the model to suggest a night time scene which gives reason to the red light shining so brightly. I hope you like it, and good luck to everyone still trying to finish last minute!

Oh, yeah, I needed to take final pics of these guys:
proof in case I forgot:


Finals:

Lectro-Maester finished!