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I'm in with an old Zoanthrope. Let's hope I get it done this month! Proof will have to be in 2 days as I've just realised that I stuck him in to strip pint about an hour ago and hadn't taken a proof first I have a photo of him in the bat if that would do though!!! (Thought it was quite funny seeing a bunch of Tyranids in a vat of brown liquid)


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I think it's a Zoanthrope anyway??? Who can tell in the Tyranids gloop pit (you can see his leg in the top right photo):


I'll do a proper proof when he's stripped of his shocking old coat of paint.

I am in Proof:



My challenge is actually from a buddy. Our bet -- to make the Pillsbury Doughboy robot look threatening and mean. If I win, he buys me a kit of my choice; if not, I buy his next model

Oh yeah, baby, command tanks, you're comin' home to papa! (I wonder if they're still being released in this SM cycle)

Well, I have a duel, new vs old, High Officer coming from a race that practicess Genocide as a hobby vs Honourless black market trader pertaining to a race of ultra capitalist bug people, an Umbra Legate vs an Exrah Concordat Void Operator, both are pretty monstruous, both physically and psychollogically.

 Talys wrote:
I am in Proof:



My challenge is actually from a buddy. Our bet -- to make the Pillsbury Doughboy robot look threatening and mean. If I win, he buys me a kit of my choice; if not, I buy his next model

Oh yeah, baby, command tanks, you're comin' home to papa! (I wonder if they're still being released in this SM cycle)

Intriguing, I shall watch with interest.

I'm in. Proof and ideas will follow asap.
I got either something orky or deamonlike in my mind.

K D

Gonna throw myself into the ring here. Not shure if this qualifies but he would seem pretty monstrous charging at me on a battlefield.

Let's try this again... Right. Sorted. At last


I'm in! Deathwing Contemptor is absolutely scary as hell to the average human (and probably a good few other races)!

 cuss wrote:
Gonna throw myself into the ring here. Not shure if this qualifies but he would seem pretty monstrous charging at me on a battlefield.

Super legit, thats not something i would want barreling at me...

@TP^DC: That jar looks like it's a biological specimen container in a Magos Biologis' lab lol.

I'm in with a gargantuan squiggoth!

Proof:


My goal is to get the beast done, without the howdah

So, here´s my proof:

I would like to take part in the challenge again, please.

Proof:


I am looking forward to this one.

That's a classic!

Speaking of which, a couple of you have suggested old minis as a theme. While I wouldn't do one that only allowed old stuff (as many won't have that), the next poll will definitely feature an option for minis (new or old) painted in a 'classic' style! Goblin Green Bases for everyone!

 Paradigm wrote:
That's a classic!

Speaking of which, a couple of you have suggested old minis as a theme. While I wouldn't do one that only allowed old stuff (as many won't have that), the next poll will definitely feature an option for minis (new or old) painted in a 'classic' style! Goblin Green Bases for everyone!

If you keep the wording open, you could have old minis in new schemes, or new minis in retro ones. Or old minis in retro schemes, for those with an old-school bent.

Love the screamer-killer there, classic ‘nid goodness. And the rest of the monsters showing up. This is going to be a fun month!

That's very much the plan. I'll just call it a vague title like 'something old, something new' and see where people take it!

 angelofvengeance wrote:
@TP^DC: That jar looks like it's a biological specimen container in a Magos Biologis' lab lol.

It's why I had to photograph it, I chucked em in the nearest jar and realised what I had done!

Cool entries everyone.

Para - please don't make me do green bases Since my return to the hobby I've tried so hard to make my minis look like it wasn't a 3 year old who painted them!!!!!!!

However, if you wanna do the "new in old style"/"old in new style" combined option I'm absolutely there because I only have old stuff

 Paradigm wrote:
That's very much the plan. I'll just call it a vague title like 'something old, something new' and see where people take it!

If you do that, the month after would have to be “something borrowed, something blue” so it would be looted Ultramarines for everyone!

Paradigm wrote:That's a classic!

Nevelon wrote:Love the screamer-killer there, classic ‘nid goodness.

Glad you like, hope I can do it justice.

Paradigm wrote:Speaking of which, a couple of you have suggested old minis as a theme. While I wouldn't do one that only allowed old stuff (as many won't have that), the next poll will definitely feature an option for minis (new or old) painted in a 'classic' style! Goblin Green Bases for everyone!

I was always the odd one out back when I started playing, I painted all my bases with Scorpion Green. I am sure all my friends were impressed.

"I have seen war in all its forms. I have seen feral world savages braining each other with stones, and I have monitored the death of a whole planet at the hands of a virus bomb. I have seen Space Marines drop to certain death, and win. I have seen Titans crush whole platoons underfoot. But there is no more stirring sight in war than the charge of massed cavalry."

For this months entry, that I will actually try and finish, I will be entering in my death korp death riders. Mass cavalry charges already inspire fear into men and xenos alike, but add in together the foreboding appearance of the krieg guardsmen and their modified mounts that can shrug off heavy bolter shots it takes the fear to another level.

Okay, I'm in! I'll hopefully be doing this Helbrute model from the Dark Vengeance box set:

The only problem I discovered when I took this proof pic is that due to the fact that I wasn't very careful when I slapped him together, there are gaps all over the model. If I can't fill them with a little liquid green stuff, I will probably have to do something else (fortunately, I have the DV chaos lord and a Daemon Prince that need some paint, so I have more than one possible plan B).

FearPeteySodes wrote:Nice! Scratchbuild Kataphron type dealie?

I must admit I had to Google exactly what that was - but looking at the pictures, yes, that's what I'm going for. Just with less guns and less wires all over the place.

angelofvengeance wrote:@ 40K Pirate, for a moment I thought that was one of those cute little bomb tanks from FW.

I think you're right! I'm using a template made by Eli Patoroch for a little tank called the 'cyclops'. I had to scale it down to 30% to fit on a 25mm base, but otherwise it looks like it's the same vehicle as the picture you posted.

I'll have to post an updated proof picture once I've got it fully assembled.


@nflagey - Wow! Great job on that squiggoth!

 40k Pirate wrote:

@nflagey - Wow! Great job on that squiggoth!

Thanks 40k Pirate!
I'm not fully happy yet with the howdah but I think the squiggoth is as final as I want.

There's a distinct lack of tentacles in this topic... I'm disappoint.

Oops! It hadn't really dawned on me that a 'past' theme could wind up being restrictive - to me "from the past" could be time travel, retro themed paint jobs, modern minis boggling at older ones (Yarrick meets Yarrick), digging out something you want to revisit (dude by side improvements - a "draw this again" style attempt)... Not just "look how old my thing is, peasants!"
But my logic is extremely opaque by my own admission.

Sorry, Paradgm, I can't participate this time. I don't have a monster.

Best of luck to all of you.

 KaptinBadrukk wrote:
Sorry, Paradgm, I can't participate this time. I don't have a monster.

Best of luck to all of you.

That's a shame Kaptin, do you not have a scary Ork to paint? They would seem monstrous to me!

Paradgm, just noticed that the proof pictures for cuss and TP^DC Deputy Manager in the OP are duplicated.

Yeah, this is my proof, all stripped and out of the gloop!

I'm going to try a new basing technique this time rather than plain/resin. Seen what looks like an easy basing technique which I thought was worth a shot.

I'm planning on doing some friends for him too, but only if there's time, I'll update my proof pic if I do this.

Who asked for tentacles?

Will have to ask for a ruling on this one and whether I can have it, its been basecoated only and I'm now gonna add some more cutty and nasty bits and make the base more interesting before completing. But has it been painted to much to start now?

Yep, that's cool to enter. Basecoated a single colour is fine, it's anything after that I'll ask questions about, and decide then based on how much is done/yet to do. If, say, one member of a squad of five is WIP then that won't disqualify you, whereas one of two probably would it it were near finished.

Next month I'll give the rules a general tidy up and clarify this stuff properly next month.

Hey there, do you mind if I update my proof photo?

At this point I'm calling it done, unless of course anybody has some fantastic ideas to add on?

I'm in! Here is my Arco-Flagellant with chainsaws for hands and a spear through his gut, primed black.

I figure the premise of these guys is monstrous enough, and monsters are normally hard to kill, hence the spear.