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 Buttery Commissar wrote:
Does the entry have to contain an actual space marine, or would clear evidence that there is/was a space marine in extremely close proximity suffice?

I swear I'm not being awkward on purpose, there's a diorama I've wanted to do for a while, and it ties in with the theme.
It would make total sense when finished, but the "before" figures may well make it look like I didn't understand the subject at hand.

So long as it's at least tangentially related, then you're good to go! If you want a Demon Prince bursting from the remains of a Chaos Sorcerer, or what's left of an Ultramarine after a Carnifex has been through town, then go for it!

Nice stuff guys!

I really dig the harness and pads for that Guardsman, well all of the custom work really.

Nevs honor guard looks like he's coming along well, nice smooth gold.

Tech-skull biker with a giant hammer is also pretty darn cool

I think I have that cybermonical head one a marine or two, I like it. If you aren't going to wear a freaking helmet you may as well have a sick bionic eye and be screaming


I'm puttering about with the Dread. I cut the fuel tanks out of the arm and the power supply is gonna fit, but now I've gotta put it in place and fill a bunch of gaps left over from removing the tanks =/

Dag.. that biker... I wonder if runninga bike list would be the way to get over my issues with space marine height, its not as noticeable on bikes!

 Paradigm wrote:

 Buttery Commissar wrote:
Does the entry have to contain an actual space marine, or would clear evidence that there is/was a space marine in extremely close proximity suffice?

I swear I'm not being awkward on purpose, there's a diorama I've wanted to do for a while, and it ties in with the theme.
It would make total sense when finished, but the "before" figures may well make it look like I didn't understand the subject at hand.

So long as it's at least tangentially related, then you're good to go! If you want a Demon Prince bursting from the remains of a Chaos Sorcerer, or what's left of an Ultramarine after a Carnifex has been through town, then go for it!

Awesome! In that case, here's my entry's "before".

Going to strip the grot, it wasn't mine.

Started painting.



Sooo many people have now joined, I may have to step up my painting.

No threat from me, but dag, that model is gonna be pretty when it's done. That halo is crazy over the top but so awesome it works.

Challenge accepted.

OP updated, and it is one behemoth of a post! I'm trying to figure out how to 'super-spoiler' the list on entrats, but can't seem to get it to work (it just closes the spoiler at the next /spoiler tag, is there a way round this?).

Anyway, some numbers:

- 47 people have entered the competition!
- 33 of those people have posted Proof Pics

Like I said a while back, this is going to be one hell of a poll if everyone finishes. Does anyone know if there's an upper limit to the number of poll options? If there is, and we end up going past it, anyone got ideas on how to do voting? I was thinking heats of (insert number here) with the top 2-3 from each Heat going through to one final poll?


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And we just got featured on the Dakka homepage! Hooray.

*thinks of the extra entries that might generate, sees the size of the OP already, dies a little*

Worth it, though, as already we're getting a flood of awesome ideas in here!

It might have been a few months before your time but i believe the Infinity painting competition had one heck of a lot of Entrants. Actually IIRC it wasn't done by Poll, you'd have to look it up.

I must agree that there has already been some very inspirational stuff. It's increased the time and usefulness I'm getting out of Dakka no end, and I've even decided to start a plog because of this comp!

You could always consider putting them all in a gallery and then either trying to keep it on the homepage for a while or getting people to click on the blog and rate people's modes and then at a certain time check the ratings and just say what the highest ones were. It would open to some sort of abuse but it depends how trustworthy we believe the people of DakkaDakka and the wider internets are.

Or the really annoying solution could be to get people to PM you with their top three (ranked of course)

My other suggestion is a massive google docs spreadsheet.

I know these are pretty obvious and not massively helpful but I just wanted to chuck them out here to see if they could inspire a good solution to the problem, you know brainstorming and that or whatever we're supposed to call it now.

Anyway I realised although I have got my WIP phots I haven't put them on here. Oooops! Well hopefully this has fixed it. If anyone is interested in their progress feel free to clicky on the plog linked in my sig.

Cheers

Ig

Power fist is looking pretty slick

Dark Angels command squad

I finally got my idea! I guess it will be a mini diorama. I have a 'spare' Sister of Battle and Marine, I will put them fighting back to back. I may scale up the space marine a little so they are the size they are supposed to be. I am stripping the minis now. . .

 SQRT(-2) wrote:
I finally got my idea! I guess it will be a mini diorama. I have a 'spare' Sister of Battle and Marine, I will put them fighting back to back. I may scale up the space marine a little so they are the size they are supposed to be. I am stripping the minis now. . .

Sounds sweet!

Horrible ipad wip photo. Test model just about done. BIt of weathering and staining still to do but gonna leave that till the end. Just gotta base the bugger now!

Terminator looks really cool. Going to do up a whole squad?

A lot of nice work going on here

That is one sexy Terminator.

cheers folks. trying for a cooler less warm scheme. gonna try and finsh the whole dark vengeance deathwing squad by the end of the month. that fella was the test model

OP udated again!

@SQRT(-2): Love the diorama idea. True-scaling the Marine could work well in that context.

Here is my WiP pic:



Trying not to rush into it too much

Awesome! How'd you get that yellow?

It's VMA Gold Yellow over grey primer
I use an airbrush for my yellows. Speeds up the process considerably.

^

I wouldn't even consider yellow w/o my airbrush.

 Matthew wrote:
That is one sexy Terminator.

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 Januine wrote:
Horrible ipad wip photo. Test model just about done. BIt of weathering and staining still to do but gonna leave that till the end. Just gotta base the bugger now!

Came out pretty well to be fair Januine Nice work btw!

here is the first one from the squad all finished up

Bwahahaha.

Nice.

 angelofvengeance wrote:

 Januine wrote:
Horrible ipad wip photo. Test model just about done. BIt of weathering and staining still to do but gonna leave that till the end. Just gotta base the bugger now!

Came out pretty well to be fair Januine Nice work btw!

Thx very much. working on the base now. Will get decent photos in the end )too lazy to set up lights/tripod et al just yet lol )

Here's my WIP:

Started doing some painting tonight. Mixed feelings. Messed up my apothecary to the extent that he's currently in the Dettol bath to strip the paint off - bit of a morale killer. Still managed to get these bits down, but took far too long! (Not to mention that their pads and highlighting aren't done ). I'll never get the whole squad done by the end of March for the painting competition deadline and the face is pretty terrible, I just can't seem to get it right. Pretty despondent right now. Here's a photo:

 TP^DC Deputy Manager wrote:
Here's my WIP:

Started doing some painting tonight. Mixed feelings. Messed up my apothecary to the extent that he's currently in the Dettol bath to strip the paint off - bit of a morale killer. Still managed to get these bits down, but took far too long! (Not to mention that their pads and highlighting aren't done ). I'll never get the whole squad done by the end of March for the painting competition deadline and the face is pretty terrible, I just can't seem to get it right. Pretty despondent right now. Here's a photo:

wouldnt be too down fella. The sword looks awesome. White paint could be thinned down a little more though. For the face, I'd apply an overlayer of thinned fleshtone to soften it and then add a thinnned wash and highlight again