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I took a better photo of my entry (and updated my photos post to make things easier for Nev):

"Where is everybody? I guess I'm in charge now."

B1 Battle Droid

Finished pics

Little necromancer made from a spare dark angels set with a simple weapon swap.

Here is my (off the cuff) entry for the month…

A marine painted in the Soul Drinker colors.

I couldn’t get any decals to arrive in anything resembling a sensible timeframe, which was a little irritating but there we go.

This guy I painted with very a specific goal… to emulate the Eavy metal style. I limited the spec to no more than two highlights for… reasons.

It was an interesting experience to limit myself to a specific approach and style and, despite the simplistic look of the mini, I have to say, painting all those edge highlights really required some intense concentration!

One wrong brushstroke and… arrrrgh…

I also had a total unmitigated disaster involving varnish gone wrong that nearly crushed my desire to continue, but here he is.

Hope you like…









Video Image link below… don’t forget to unmute it!

https://imgur.com/a/U0jY9Ej

Great work everyone! We are in the home stretch. There is an extension, so you have an extra day, but start wrapping things up and getting those final shots.

Ok, so I didn’t know if I’d have time to get these done before the end of the month (only started them this week, having waited for the backpacks to arrive), but here’s five lasses from the 331st Tallarn. Final pics to come tomorrow, but proof that I’ve finished!



I figure basic Imperial Guard are pretty frugal, particularly when they’re 90% 3D printed…

Proof pic:

its hit midnight now so ill put my paint brushes down, will get the photos up tomorrow (i notice you said till Sunday Nev but ill aim for Saturday ).

Good Luck everyone hope people get any last minute entries in

i went for the cheap in points approach for the theme with these night goblins

Oh, yeah, should probably submit some pics for this, given theu've been done most of the month.

Did some of those old cheap battletech standbys, the light lance. For when its important enough for mechs, but notnimportant enough for good ones.
Proof:


And finished
Light mech lance:


The classic cheapys of a wasp and stinger, and then a spider and a valkyrie because I couldn't find my locust and was originally aiming more fed suns with their classic light trooper.

Got my Peasant Bowmen Command done (In the nick of time too!)



Different angle for the banner. Waiting on transfers but that's true for the whole army.

The finished pictures, taken a few weeks ago. I was hoping to get a replacement light in time for this comp, but it hasn't arrived yet.






Nice job on the finished entries all. Roll on February!

OK, here's the final images of my Tallarn:

OK, we have an extra day here, but go get painting on the next month while you are waiting for the photos to come back from the developer.

https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/815729.page

Also, did nobody notice that for the whole month we were painting in 2024? While doing the copy/paste for all the boilerplate I saw that I had put the wrong year in the title and we all just ran with it. I bet you all put the wrong year on your checks when you write them out... Heh.

This month got away from me completely, and I never got further than base-coating. Even with the extension I won't have time to complete anything, so unfortunately I am out for this month.

Phew, I almost wasn't able to post my pics, the internet has been off all day.
(Please excuse my terrible photography, all I have to take pictures with is my phone, and it doesn't have a very good camera)

Finished Godling:

Well, I was too frugal this month to expend any paint on the squat from my proof pic, but I did get my Fellgor Ravager done. He was a free mini of the month, and lives in a mud wallow, so probably about as frugal as it gets. It was pretty fun painting a bipedal water buffalo. Final pics:

Wow! Love that Fellgor Ravager, the colors are awesome and you’ve really brought it to life! Nice!

I quite enjoyed this project, got me thinking and being creative with what I can do with sprue, the model is mostly sprue with some bits from the bitz box and a few Grot Rebels. hopefully a double Frugal hit here with the GRC having to be frugal with their vehicles and weapons and that it is made out of left overs I went for very muted earth/Sandy tones for most of the piece.

Final Pics of my Grot Cutter (Made from sprue)

In at the buzzer. Or almost. A Black Ark of Naggaroth. Frugal as can be, being a 3D print of a free STL. Not super thrilled with parts of it. Some of the paint is so thick it looks like frosting. I was under the gun on this one, and I feel it shows. Should be neat on the table, gets the job done, but not much else. Looking back, I struggled to accomplish much at this time last year, too. Guess January isn't my month.

Oh damn, I've just spent ages taking photos and setting up my entry and I've realised I've destroyed my proof pics! I've only got a really old one which has two of the three models I've painted (circled in yellow). Is this okay?

Here's the entry (and the ancient proof pic):

We all good? Calling this closed. Go work on your surprises.

https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/815762.page

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