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The drop troops look great! With that yellow, I'm reminded more of those atmospheric diving suits used in deep sea exploration. You have a really good look going for those guys.

I've actually made good progress on my goals for the month. All three Icarus Class airships are complete and I've begun work on the Daedalus Class, which has had its magnets installed and most of the base coats applied. It will be done by the end of the week. I've also already tackled two of the seven Iron Empire girls and even done six Mercs: Recon figures.

I'm also started to put together my plan for the next Tale of [x] Painters challenge.

Out with a bang, here's a bonus goal:



Troll regiment.

Whoop.

So a couple days after the fact, here are my first pledges through! Jack Daw and his crew for Malifaux, from the "Guilty as Charged" box plus a box of The Hanged, and Targ for Hordes.

My next entry for June: Asterians!


More here.

Nice stuff folks

I may see if I can get some more flattering group photos.. but here's what everyone so far (and possibly all I get done within the first instance of the challenge) looks like together:





Zoom in if you like, whatever ended up in focus should be more readily visible if you do

Like I said, needs better photos when I get a bit more time to deal with them.

Damn, Grim - that's a bloody nice army all laid out there. Exactly the reason I started this thing - thank you!


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Also - Signups are NOW OPEN for MkII - July-December. While I'll be attempting to keep it to a slightly more manageable size, all (active) participants in this one are guaranteed a spot.
http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/694103.page

Missing a month or 2 because of RL gak happening does not disqualify anyone from being considered active!

I'll throw my hat in the ring. RL gak been kicking my ass hobby wise.

No, thank you, this is the most coherent collection of minis I've put out in a long time. Thanks for running the thing and thanks to everyone for the inspiration and motivation.

Still gonna try to crack out the giant to cap this challenge, but if I don't he can be the leader of wave 2.

Well not the total for the month, but here's my start. ZBP second wave hit and I couldn't wait. I'm on vacation right now and using roaming data, but everyone's asleep still .



All my paints are at home. I didn't want to risk driving 4-5 hours in 90degree heat with the paints in the car.

I will continue to participate, although I am looking at the rapidly dwindling days of June and getting a little panicked if I will get anything photo ready for this month. I did get a good session in yesterday evening which gives me hope though.

I will continue into the second session with the Bretonnians and if I get through them I will let you know what will be next......

Progress not slowgress today

Okay, I've finished off the final two airships from my Aerial Battlegroup. Hurray!





Any now, the completed Aerial Battlegroup!

Ok so here's the first 15mm mini I've finished for years. One of the 26 minis I posted a photo of pre priming on the last page. Apologies for the relatively poor quality of the photo, taking a photo of something so small is really tricky.



As you can see this poor fellow needs a touch up to his tache and left glove at some point but overall I'm really happy with this mini. The paint job is quite literally just base colours and a brown wash but it works really well at this scale. I should also have the first group of 8 grenadiers finished sometime today, I'll be basing them once the brown wash I just slopped over them dries. I hope to get the remaining 16 grenadiers and the officer on horseback also done this month but I'm not sure if I will or not. I'm painting in batches of one group and a relevant office at a time (In Sharp Practice you buy troops in groups, the number of men per group varies from 6 to 12 depending on unit type) simply because I can't face painting 26 minis in one go, I'm not a natural production line painter.

EDIT: Ok that took a lot less time than I expected. I didn't think these guys would be finish until this afternoon, oh well here are 8 grenadiers for you plus the officer from the previous photo.

I've really been slacking off when it comes to painting over the last couple of months but I have got some stuff done.


First of all, 5 Martian Banshee Linebreakers for my Warzone Capitol.


2 Purple Sharks (I definitely wasn't going to be painting them purple though...) That finishes of my Warzone Capitol at 1000 points,I will probably add to it if I can find someone who plays it though...

Since January I have painted:

My completed Capitol


A Van Saar gang for my club's sadly shortened Necromunda campaign and my Frostgrave warband


2250 points of Epic Speak Freaks. Many, many warbikes to go....

Quite impressive when you put it all on display like that Silent Puffin.

I love seeing painted Warzone Resurrection stuff. Gets me motivated to paint my own!

When I get home I'll have to post a post-June photo. I finished some restic Enforcers from Deadzone right before I left, so technically I did paint them in June...

I think Silent Puffin puts us all to shame. Here's all of my Antarctic forces together.

Silent Puffin you have gone mental, that is a Gakload of miniatures. Nice group shot from Barzam as well. I m going to call it a day on this Tale of Painters, am very happy to have met my monthly target every month even though some of them have been meagre amounts. This month has also seen me hit a few stretch goals...all continuing the GoA theme:

So this months initial pledge, 5 man drop squad and 5 man strike team:





As stretch goals I have added a C3M4 Combat Drone, X-Launcher team and unit of targeter probes:







So here is my June work:



And thanks to Azazelx...here is my 6 months Tale of Painters picture:

All of these forces are awesome to see laid out like that. Since some of you guys are so bloody prolific and we've still got the remainder of this weekend and half of next week, I'm going to hold off on July and "showcase" photos until after the month has expired.

After a month where I basically did nothing for the first half, I've managed to finish a couple of things myself (still no Gondor component, though) but since it's so cold and wet here right now it takes models forever for models to get to the varnish station and then dry - and then I need to photograph them - so mine are still coming...

You guys are killing it, awesome work

One more set of minis to share:


More here.

I've finally gotten some stuff completed this month. A unit of skeletons for the undead!



More here.

Oooohhhh - nice!!! Lovely classic feel to them. Love the emo looking fella at the front with the two swords

I pledged a lot for this month, but ultimately wrapped up the Leman Russ, the Surgeon-Primus and (finally!) the Malcador Infernus, more or less, still need to do the trailer, but shush! I also did some more work on my vanilla Malcador tank.







And while we're at it, the Malcador again, for which I've finally pieced together both a banner and a tank commander:





I've also decided to take a picture of everything I've painted over the last six months for this venture.



In the end, I've painted up..
- 2x Leman Russ Exterminator
- 2x Leman Russ Executioner
- Leman Russ Vanquisher
- Leman Russ
- Malcador heavy tank
- Malcador Infernus
- Dracosan armoured transport
- 4x Auxilia tank commander (Vanquisher, Malcador, Malcador Infernus, Leman Russ)
- Strategos
- Surgeon-Primus

I'm personally quite pleased with these numbers, it may be something of a personal record even.

Well not too much to report, painted a few zombies today.

Hopefully can knock more out over the next few days. My three day weekend (sat-Monday) will kick off the next round.

Love the skeletons Azazelx .

Nice work everyone not only this month, but for the whole 6 month span.

 Thraxas Of Turai wrote:
Silent Puffin you have gone mental, that is a Gakload of miniatures.

It seems that when I am busy I procrastinate by painting but when I don't have much on I don't need to procrastinate and I hardly get anything done

So as always I have managed to achieve my planned goals at the end of the month. Seems to be a running theme for me. But thanks to Az and his little challenge here and all the other great contributors I just don't want to fail. So, here is my June results. A unit of Knights of the Realm with a Damsel hidden among them. I swear she is in there, maybe just flick over to my plog if you would like to see her in greater detail.



Looking forward to next month.

Very nice tank platoon there BrookM, Glad that you may have hit a personal record, one of the joys of this thread has been seeing so much stuff getting done.

Very nice Brets Archer,back in the day I went for a unified colour scheme but all he individual heraldry looks great. I really love the orange and green on the standard, no chance of his brethren missing him on the battlefield.

Lovely work guys. The Tanks and Knights both look ace, and Theo's zombies look typically disgusting.

I'm still trying to get one more thing finished for the challenge - for Gondor which I haven't gotten anything done for as of yet this month since the challenge ends (for me) in 8 and a half hours.




A couple of simple things here - two "Swarm" units for Undead in Kings of War. I've got one more undead unit finished as well, but I'll show that one tomorrow, and then hopefully finish the Gondor one tonight, varnish it tomorrow and have photos by the weekend - as well as a "showcase" photo for each of the armies as so many others have done here.

I'll be updating the OP probably late this weekend as I get past my own hump as noted, and also giving others time to get their final month pics done as well as any more "6-month showcase" pics.

And especially for the participants here - don't forget that Part 2: July-December starts in just a few hours....

Ooooh if you are doing a group shot of everything done in the challenge for the month then I will cut together my progress to date. Has been an excellent motivator for my painting progress this year. Really hope to get at least three armies done and I am already 1 and 2/5ths armies done this year so it's looking ok.

I'll go ahead and post a pic of all the stuff I did during this challenge, but to me it's pitifully few models (even if one was a Stormsurge).