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inmygravenimage wrote:Well That's stunning.

Thank you - I'm well pleased with it!

Dirk Deadly wrote:...that looks absolutely *expletive* amazing! Great idea, great execution, and I for one hope you get it painted up for this month's competiton!

Cheers - painting is under way now...

Vejut wrote:Agreed, very charachterful knight there!

Thanks!

Mothsniper wrote:Lovejoy Thank you for sharing that! I absolutely admire and envy sculptors. And hate my self for missing 3 écorché classes during my school days.
The rider is Epic

Cheers - you should just give it a go! In all seriousness, I was crap when I started. It's just one of those 'get better by doing it' things.

Nilfisken wrote:Stunning sculpts @Lovejoy

Looking forward to see the rest of the work!

Thank you!

Leopold Helveine wrote:I feel like I would need to get an AI-driven augmented arm to ever be able to sculpt as intricately a detail as these amazing bits.

I started off mostly sculpting 6mm infantry, so 28mm+ stuff feels really big to me! But I still tend to sculpt with the armature about 3 inches away from my eyes.


Also, sorry for the delayed responses - I totally missed the rest of page 2 of the thread, somehow!


Loads of great minis popping up now, too - I can't believe so many people have finished already!

I'm making some very slow progress on mine now (bad pics, but there's no light here at the moment):

That dapple effect is fantastic Lovejoy, very nice!

 Gulgog TufToof wrote:
That dapple effect is fantastic Lovejoy, very nice!

Thanks - I always find horses tough to paint, but I quite like the way this one's turning out!
A bit more progress:

This is looking bloody stunning mate

Late entry, Horticulous riding his trusty snail!

Lots of fun models so far. Keep up the good work, everyone!

I think this second strider is finished:




I have a lot more walkers in the pipe, but I'm out of 60mm bases. If I get around to having some shipped (there are no local games stores where I live), I can probably get one more done before the end of the month. Then I have to the proper photos of whichever I select for my final entry.

Lovejoy - that is great, both sculpting and painting.
Maxwin's guy on a snail in nice too

I too have finished my vehicle. A nice custom ride for the discerning warboss. Complete with axe wielding doorman.

Let me know what you want to paint next month:

https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/813829.page

From the depths of Rogue Trader:







(Katy Manning's nude photo shoot with a Dalek on the shoulder, naturally.)

Worked on the basing all evening yesterday but still not happy with it, used desaturated/bleached grey-blue and grey for the rocky structures and made everything inbetween a gore of sponge-cuts(very finely) and decorative grass smeared around with glue to make it into a grime, painting it bloody with fleshy pinks.. but the latter is so saturated it just comes at you too hard and probably would distract the eyes away from the "mini".

I'm considering drybrushing the whole thing with dark grey and bone tone beige.. hmm..
Its also that the palet reminds me too much of a certain flag with all the lilac, pink and blue tints.. I don't want people to get the wrong idea about it.. happened before on reddit long ago when I painted my tree revenant in pink yellow and blue -_-

Well, as they say- "Good enough for government work". I'll get other photos later on, just bummed right now that white balance and zoom were off, so others are washed out/ blurry.

Here's my progress so far

Hi! New-ish here and I had a model I wanted to submit but was most of the way through it when I found out about the contest, and then the rules for proof. I didn't take any pictures before I started work on the model, any chance the box and sprues would count?

phoenix89 wrote:
Hi! New-ish here and I had a model I wanted to submit but was most of the way through it when I found out about the contest, and then the rules for proof. I didn't take any pictures before I started work on the model, any chance the box and sprues would count?

People do post box/sprue pics as proofs, so that would be fine.

As long as all the actual work was done during the month, you are OK.

 Nevelon wrote:

phoenix89 wrote:
Hi! New-ish here and I had a model I wanted to submit but was most of the way through it when I found out about the contest, and then the rules for proof. I didn't take any pictures before I started work on the model, any chance the box and sprues would count?

People do post box/sprue pics as proofs, so that would be fine.

As long as all the actual work was done during the month, you are OK.

Oh awesome, thanks! It was all done this month, I just didn't know about the painting challenge until I was already working on the model.

 Syro_ wrote:
Here's my progress so far

Moving along nicely! Standing by for more

Time permitting, I might be able to do one of these:

This is my first entry here so forgive me if I mess something up with the submission. These are the best I have for proof, sprues and box from the GW Breaka-Boss on Mirebrute Troggoth. I started it earlier this month and finished it up yesterday. I'll make a follow up post with the finished pictures.

As long as my proofs are acceptable, here is my finished entry - GW Breaka-Boss on Mirebrute Troggoth.

 Daia T'Nara wrote:
From the depths of Rogue Trader:

I always wondered what happened to that guy. Now I know.

Nice work on the Troggoth, phoenix89.

phoenix89 wrote:
As long as my proofs are acceptable, here is my finished entry - GW Breaka-Boss on Mirebrute Troggoth.

Nicely painted! And the details in the base.

Here's two pics of the basing, do note after the "ride" has been glued to it (still need to paint some of its bulbous growths on one side) I will give the now pink spaces a wetlook and probably add some blood.

Also added a few more props to the base (skeletal remains) after taking these photos but it will give you guys some impression of what I've been doing.

It looks great so far.

I'm calling these guys done:

Deadzone Striders

Love those Striders … probably the best miniature ‘mechs’ I’ve seen in my view…

Nice work on ‘em Josh!

WIP:


Slowly getting there. Got like a week left people, start wrapping things up!

Yeah this last week is where it is at for me, been doing all the remaining zits on the maggothbeast today, still need to darken them with a shade, highlight them and grue them though.. eep.. (there are so many.. I really underestimated that -_- )
(oh and I forgot a few veins apparently x_x )

Also noticed the thing has a few maggots here and there I should still paint and then some minor tidying up where paint landed it shouldn't have, then still to lace it with varnish and when glued as I said before grue the base a bit and make it wet look around his feet.

So that's still a lot of work ;(

And its not even fun work..

I'm making reasonable progress. It was a bit bogus to find my trusty Ultramarines Blue suspiciously dried up, but a bit of water fixed it. Would have been a problem otherwise as I'm not sure I'd be able to get new paint within a few days. So after a nice Sunday with a fair bit of painting time for a change, Bo-Katan is in pretty decent shape.