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Looking awesome Dave! I'm loving how the billboard came out!

Some excellent work here! Very inspirational. Good luck everyone.

Just for fun, I enter my wrecked rhino. ^^

DAM! Shame, if i found this eairler I may have enetered!!!

Only just found out about this, but loving what i've seen so far, might be interested in entering if i have the time... when does the compitition end.

 Bruticus wrote:
The deadline is Sunday the 10th of March.

Dsteingass - That's looking great, the billboard in particular looks fantastic, really good work getting the print out to mesh seamlessly with the frame. I was making a billboard for Necromunda but yours is so much better I may have to try harder! I guess the only thing I am unsure about is the cobblestones which somehow look a bit clean to me, perhaps a bit of tonal variety? Pigments or dirt?

Minus - fantastic level of painting, like all your stuff. And the scratchbuild is good. I would have really loved to see a BFG vehicle scenery piece, maybe a drifting hulk or wreck? That'd be great.

Everyone - the deadline is the 10th but if you need a few more days that is OK. The whole point is to get people to build cool things and limiting the amount of entries would be counter productive. But only a few more days, so the next competition can get under way.

Wow! some truly amazing entries!

In other news i added slime.
Used Watery base paints washes and gloss varnish to counteract the '2 tone' feel of my terrain.

Managed to pick up 3 more robogear models for a pound on eBay so will probably do the same to them (see pic).

Great thread btw

Hello,

Minus send me here, and I will participate with pleasure!

Here is my Ammo Truck to play as a ammo dump in the 40k V6 rules.

Its little story:
This old truck at the color of my friend Minus's 5th company transports a lot of ammo. It has been seeing better days, long ago, very long ago, and surely in another arm of the galaxy. It has been forgotten somewhere near a battlefield and it's really a shame to let so much ammo unattented. The techpriest thinks that it can still work, but recommanded not to rush it.



Based on a gorkamorka truk and the all other bitz are from Rhino, Chimera, Leman Russ, Land Raider...
I don't have a picture, but you can open the roof and the back door to see the ammo!

Thanks Bruticus, but it's not supposed to be cobblestones, but rather 200 year old asphalt streets

I'm would be happy with a few more days to the contest, if there's anyone who thinks they might not finish up in time. Don't think anyone is in a rush for the next one, I've got another painting contest I'll want to participate in after this is over. But I think mine should be done in time.

@ Arkall: That's a cool looking truck, all it's missing is a hunched-looking chapter serf offering up some bolter ammo like it's holy

@Andy: Definitely an improvement! anything that gives it more variation in color, texture is good. I'd save some of that Robogear though, they are great bits for building other stuff besides terrain.

Some cool looking models appearing in these pages now.. That ammo truck is a great use of bitz.

The downed Eldar is excellent, I remember one of mates started doing something similar back in the early 90's (don't think he ever finished it though)

Scratchbuilt Rhino, FTW...

Rodogear model is cool, love the cables coming out the broken leg joint.

Dave's Corvega plus billboard - the billboard alone is awesome and then consider that the car is scratchbuilt - A.M.A.Z.I.N.G

Sorry if missed any others along the way, but keep 'em coming folks, there's a real strong skill base in Dakka, puts WD to shame...

 Ruglud wrote:
there's a real strong skill base in Dakka, puts WD to shame...

That^^ is absolutely true!

there's a real strong skill base in Dakka, puts WD to shame...

I think they still make some good scenery in WD, but they certainly do depend too much on plastic kits nowadays. Even that cool asteroid base thing is only quite impressive as opposed to amazing, due to the fact that to some extent it looks like anyone with enough money could have made something similar. I'd like to see them do more scratchbuilding but I guess they want to sell kits.

So the deadline is nearly upon us, does anyone need an extension?

Have you seen this months WD? On the Ork Terbo-Dakka jet (witch is a vey nice conversion) theres fingerprints on the GS!!!!! And it was made by a GW employe!!!

I agree there is a bit of a decline in quality in some areas (the painting for all the hobbit miniatures has been terrible) but I think the scenery articles they do are still decent, they just depend too much on kits. I really liked the asteroid base for example but it would have been much better with some scratchbuilt areas. Oh and I love the goblin town stuff.

Yea golbin town was nice. But the only good secenery in WD is often £150 worth of kits?!!?!!? (when you could spend that on a set of secenery for your gaming table). Tbh then new look WD is very nice and prefer it. Deffently work the extra £1 but not worth £5.50 (witch is a pound more than the other monthly mags).

TBH, WD has been one big advertisment for a long time now, it's more a trade catalouge than a hobby magazine. The days of it being a magazine with actual articles relating to the hobby are long gone - I recall issues with templates where they actually encouraged you to build your own scenery and vehicles from scratch - such as the infamous Baneblade templates... I also stopped buying Wargames Illustrated when Battlefront boought it out as the majority of the magazine bacame their advert for FoW.

Dakka is an awesome resource for articles, tutorials, pictures, etc. Why spend £5.50 per month on a trade magazine when I can get all this info online? Plus you get to meet some great people - the community here is great, especially in the P&M section...

 Bruticus wrote:

there's a real strong skill base in Dakka, puts WD to shame...

I think they still make some good scenery in WD, but they certainly do depend too much on plastic kits nowadays. Even that cool asteroid base thing is only quite impressive as opposed to amazing, due to the fact that to some extent it looks like anyone with enough money could have made something similar. I'd like to see them do more scratchbuilding but I guess they want to sell kits.

So the deadline is nearly upon us, does anyone need an extension?

I could use a day or two. I'm going to try to take a few pics tomorrow when I work on it though, so you guys see where I'm at. Painting extreme weathering is FUN.

I think they would sell more kits from white dwarf if they showed terrain that was made highlighting a kit or two, but the greater share of it was made from everyday materials. The same goes for them showing masterpiece-quality terrain, I think most people might be a little turned of like "I could never do that". As it is, it's "I could never pay for that". If they inspire people to make terrain and the make good kits, people will simply buy more kits, and I actually think the terrain kits' GW makes are awesome.





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 Ruglud wrote:
the community here is great, especially in the P&M section...

I venture out of P&M. only because I like a good verbal bludgeoning once in awhile.

I agree Dakka has a very nice and strong coummintiy!

I'd appreciate time till end of weekend here...

WIP dump













gonna paint the truss on the back rusted like everything else... just that it had to go on separate after I had painted the stuff underneath.

That is very pretty. I love how much texture you've got on it.

1-2 more days then OK for everyone to get finished?

Aye sir

 Meade wrote:
WIP dump

dump...well...i can see someone ditched that tank allright^^

very convincing looking meade!

Good lord Meade, that's an amazingly rusty hulk of a tank/crawler... The second shot is reminiscent of the images of the Titanic resting on the sea bed

thanks guys, so it's cool if I get this in sometime on tuesday then?

 Ruglud wrote:
Good lord Meade, that's an amazingly rusty hulk of a tank/crawler... The second shot is reminiscent of the images of the Titanic resting on the sea bed

that's kind of what I was going for, emphasizing the 'land-ship' aspect. I really didn't have the bits around to make it more cathedral-y, maybe next time on some other mega tank.

It's still going to be a long haul to get the whole board finished... I wanted to do a half-buried chemical plant and then the river of rust. still on the table.

American Tuesday sounds fine to me. Not sure what time that is in real money but don't worry, I won't close this competition if you are desperately trying to finish. I think we are just waiting from entries from Meade and Maus?

If anyone else has an entry almost ready let me know, a few folks have said they will enter but no sign so far. Maybe a last minute surprise entry?

These pieces are amazing guy's, that crawler looks like its been there for thousands of years, really cool.


PS wish I had never bothered now. only had 8 views of my entry hehe SAD.

Still I am inspired to go do better. Keep it up, glad I am not a Judge.

Mine is done, and I just made my pics, but cannot upload till i return from work somewhere tonight. But done it is...