Dakka (unofficial) Monthly Painting Challenge 7: September 2015: "Never tell me the odds!"

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**trob52**

Thanks, the scheme for the guardsmen is from here to give props: http://forums.tauonline.org/painting/44629-ccs-ig-desert-camo-testmini-tutorial-2.html

I really like the 'chocolate chip' camo so I used it for mine

**Matthew**

YES!

**Paradigm**

That's looking awesome!

If you can find one of the various in-scale poster sheets floating around then those would make a nice addition to the statue's plinth.

**GiraffeX**

I'm not sure if I'm going to finish my entry this weekend in time, I will try but I don't think I have enough hours in the day when I get to the pigments stage for them to dry in time.

We shall see though.

**VorpalBunny74**

I'm waiting on some metallic pink paint from Hong Kong - going to be a close one

**Farseer Anath'lan**

Started basecoating one of my warlocks, and realised I hadn't proofed em, so here.

**keezus**

Things aren't looking good timelines on my entry. Here's another proof pic:

**LordRahl**

ok just have touch ups and the energy left to go
do you think the head turned out?
im going to make his eyes look like they are glowing >.<

**Januine**

Am sooooo far behind at the mo. However as of yesterday, I am now 'legally' married!!! 4 day weekend coming up though so gonna have to paint like the devil hiself is chasing my brushes lol

**Talys**

Januine wrote:
Am sooooo far behind at the mo. However as of yesterday, I am now 'legally' married!!! 4 day weekend coming up though so gonna have to paint like the devil hiself is chasing my brushes lol

Whoa. CONGRATULATIONS!!!

Hmmm.... honeymoon... Warhammer World...

**Januine**

Honeymoon already taken. We went to Italy. Warhammer World.......probably wouldnt have gone down too well!!!!!!!

**Buttery Commissar**

Congratulations Januine!

You could have excused it is educational, there's a museum.

... Yeah I'm not fooling myself, either.

**Talys**

And the Tower of London nearby!. Stonehenge and Westminster Abbey are not far away. It's Nottingham too, so you can always say you want to uh... verify the historical accuracy of Robin Hood! Pointed boots north and gone to Scotland. Pfffft!

Glad you had a good time in Italy

Incidentally, showed Mrs. Talys the post, she says we'll compromise... we're allowed to go to WHW next time we're in Europe as long as I take her shopping in Italy too, lol

**SirDonlad**

I have Finished!! My entry - "The Furthest Group Of Thallax"

I'm not one for dedicating stuff to a person, but on the evening of the 11th i was told that my grandma had been taken ill and had been transferred from the care home she moved into 3-4 months ago to stirling hospital' 'acute care' ward and had been found to have 'pancreatic problems' which aren't fix-able.
Me and my dad (it's his mum) cancelled all plans and made preperations to drive from dursley where we are to stirling leaving off at 8am.
We got called at 6 that morning to say she had died in her sleep around 5:45 - All the effort and progress i made after the 12th was made with fond memories of my gran in my head and the sound of chet baker in my ears - and i realized how much warhammer she'd bought me over the years.
So, yeah; I look at these now and all i can think of is that line my gran said so often when i showed off my newly painted toys "Good enough!" (when she said it, it had a positive tone about it)
Oh, and "You don't have to be wealthy to have Class"

Sorry about that - On with the Reason why "The Furthest Group of Thallax" belongs in this months theme - "Never Tell Me The Odds!!"
There is much written before and after this section of text about this particular battle and i have been careful to not ruin the read for you.
You can find this story in full in HH book 1: Betrayal, page 58.

We had chosen the outer concourse to make our last stand, and to draw them in Decima had his last adepts crew a pair of armoured Proteus Land Raiders and a Grav-attack -- battlefield wrecks he'd repaired to the point of bare functionality -- they were to attack a known staging point and fieghn flight. It was a suicide mission, but the adepts did not say a word.

We were granted more than our wish -- one proteus returned to us aflame, and i cannot comprehend how it managed it, and in pursuit came a Fellblade super-heavy, smashing aside anything in it's path at the head of four Rhino-mounted squads, three in Sons Of Horus livery and one of the Death Guard.

Our valiant proteus slewed to a halt just near where our desperate plan had demanded and was a moment later kicked up in flame and tumbled across the concourse like an empty food canister as a shell from the Fellblade's main cannon took it.

We waited as the traitor armour fanned out in a cresent across the concourse, the Fellblades turret slowly traversing to cover them, and was joined a few moments later by a Death Guard Land Raider lumbering on damaged tracks.

The position was far from perfect, but Decima must have judged it was as good as he was going to get and he triggered the weapon. It looked like a brass star made out of twisted clockwork as it rose from the pit he had concealed it in and went skyward -- I know not what it was, perhaps some bastardised bomb made of the teleportation engine of his ship, perhaps something else. There was for a second a flash so bright, i could see the bones of my hand through my armoured gauntlets -- .we had been warned to deactiveate our armour beforehand and switch it on after the blast. When my autosense cleared i sw that half of the Fellblade was simply missing, as if it had been carved away by a knife, and of one of the Sons Of Horus Rhino's there was nothing left but a shadow burned onto the concourse. The rest had a curious, bleached-out qualityto them and had fallen still, save for the Land Raider. Further back and unscathed, it was reversing in retreat as swift as it was able as traitors spilled from the dead rhino's like puppets with tangled strings.

We rose from our concealed positions and cut down the ones in the open with bolter fire while the World Eaters charged in to finish the rest.

The Thallax smashed up from where they had been buried in the earth to block off the traitors' retreat and caught the Land Raider in the converging arcs of thier strange weapons, soot-black corposant dancing across it's hull untill it's tracks disintegrated and cannon sponsons detonated. The machine-creatures left it for dead, flame spewing from it's crew-ports.

Victory was ours, but triumph lasted only a moment as The Furthest Group Of Thallax was blown to pieces -- the shell blast exploding among them before we heard the report of the cannon that fired it. Another Fellblade was smashing through the city towards us.....

- From the Testimony of Crysos Morturg

So - Loyalists on Isstvan3 were the underdogs from the beginning and this particular cohort gets a k-kill and then are immediately wiped out.

~~Having been buried makes them more of an 'underground' dog~~ sorry- joke withdrawn. :]

First pics to show the group as one - i am cutting the individual pics together so each model will have a single picture with all the angles i took as one for those who want a closer look - i will post them in this message when i've done that along with a comparison picture next to my 'factory-fresh' ones..

Edit: Got the first three closeup images...

More to come...

Like this!....

Just got to get that comparison shot...

Here we go...

**Buttery Commissar**

SirDonlad wrote:
So, yeah; I look at these now and all i can think of is that line my gran said so often when i showed off my newly painted toys "Good enough!" (when she said it, it had a positive tone about it)
Oh, and "You don't have to be wealthy to have Class"

I'm glad you've been able to enjoy doing them.

**LeCacty**

Januine wrote:
Am sooooo far behind at the mo. However as of yesterday, I am now 'legally' married!!! 4 day weekend coming up though so gonna have to paint like the devil hiself is chasing my brushes lol

Gratz man!

**Januine**

LeCacty wrote:
Januine wrote:
Am sooooo far behind at the mo. However as of yesterday, I am now 'legally' married!!! 4 day weekend coming up though so gonna have to paint like the devil hiself is chasing my brushes lol

Gratz man!

Cheers folks. We actually got married/had the wedding back in May but been so busy and it takes a bit of paperwork chasing over here to get the official/legal wedding certificate sorted. But, now it's done

**SirDonlad**

Januine wrote:
We actually got married/had the wedding back in May but been so busy and it takes a bit of paperwork chasing over here to get the official/legal wedding certificate sorted. But, now it's done

Bloody hell, that's a long time for some paperwork!

Good excuse for a present to the self? >cough<warlord>cough<

**Matthew**

Congrats, Januine! And SirDonlad, I'm sorry for your loss. They look awesome.

**LeCacty**

Januine wrote:
LeCacty wrote:
Januine wrote:
Am sooooo far behind at the mo. However as of yesterday, I am now 'legally' married!!! 4 day weekend coming up though so gonna have to paint like the devil hiself is chasing my brushes lol

Gratz man!

Cheers folks. We actually got married/had the wedding back in May but been so busy and it takes a bit of paperwork chasing over here to get the official/legal wedding certificate sorted. But, now it's done

So you procrastinate in real life, good to know!

**Januine**

Oh - I could make 'delaying', 'procrastination' and 'manana' into a world ruling religion!! I did have to go to the irish embassy in Seoul to get a document fro them but still.......but manana~ing this since June!!! Glad it's all done and dusted now!!

**aldo**

Do you mean "mañana"? Oh you foreigners and your uncivilised keyboards!

"Vuelva usted mañana" "Come back tomorrow" is already a national religion here.

Good job everyone, happy paperwork januine! and sorry about your loss Donlad, your tallax look great, and the rest of your Ordo Reductor in your gallery is impressive.

**Januine**

yes of course 'mañana' - getting an énye on my korean computer is a pain in the ass and .....well...I'm lazy as hell

Finally - Genestealer #1 is finished!!!! This is gonna be a busy busy 4day weekend o.O

and there we go 'stealer #1 all done. Effects around his maw influenced by some of thirdeyenuke's work. If you havent checked their stuffout......do it. Amazing work

**Midget Gems**

Congratz Jan

Sorry to hear about your mum Theophony

those look really good SirDonlad, they blend it excellently.

A small update from me on Han Solork and Chewborka as they are now called, almost there. I had a bit of an tragedy, I used legs that where already attached to a standard base for Han Solork and for some reason left the removal of that till last. Cutting him off I slipped and bashed his arm against the desk, his gun when flying off and if now somewhere in the room but I have no idea where, my ears told me if hit something solid to the right of me (could have been the desk, radiator, bed frame or window) but after 20 mins of searching its not been found :(

I'm away for a wedding this weekend so wont get time to make a grot2-D2 and a C3-POrk which is a shame. They will go in the ideas book for another time.

Also I finally bought a camera rather than using just using my phone. Enjoy! (still need to work out all the settings)

Spoiler:

**Matthew**

Oh wow. Yes!

**Talys**

@Januine - Whoa! I really like that

Rest of the Space Hulk box done by the weekend, right?

Grats man, looks great.

**LeCacty**

Januine wrote:
yes of course 'mañana' - getting an énye on my korean computer is a pain in the ass and .....well...I'm lazy as hell

Finally - Genestealer #1 is finished!!!! This is gonna be a busy busy 4day weekend o.O

and there we go 'stealer #1 all done. Effects around his maw influenced by some of thirdeyenuke's work. If you havent checked their stuffout......do it. Amazing work

I would join the hell out of that religion. That genie is amazing! I may have to steal the scheme...

**Januine**

Talys wrote:
@Januine - Whoa! I really like that Rest of the Space Hulk box done by the weekend, right?

Grats man, looks great.

Aye Talys.....something like that...Monday or Tuesday at the latest

lol
thx though - very happy how he came out - viscious wee fether that he is!!

Cheers LeC - steal away. Not that hard a scheme to do - just lots of washes and a few layers. The metalwork took a little more. layers of DB and weathering powders

**LordRahl**

@januine congrats!

**SirDonlad**

Matthew wrote:Congrats, Januine! And SirDonlad, I'm sorry for your loss. They look awesome.

Thanks man! I'm wishing I'd had the sense to do a diorama base like you did!

aldo wrote:
Good job everyone, happy paperwork januine! and sorry about your loss Donlad, your tallax look great, and the rest of your Ordo Reductor in your gallery is impressive.

Thank you! The Ordo Reductor fluff just drew me to them like a moth to a lighthouse! Experimental/dangerous weaponry for all!!

Midget Gems wrote:Congratz Jan

Sorry to hear about your mum Theophony

those look really good SirDonlad, they blend it excellently.

A small update from me on Han Solork and Chewborka as they are now called, almost there. I had a bit of an tragedy, I used legs that where already attached to a standard base for Han Solork and for some reason left the removal of that till last. Cutting him off I slipped and bashed his arm against the desk, his gun when flying off and if now somewhere in the room but I have no idea where, my ears told me if hit something solid to the right of me (could have been the desk, radiator, bed frame or window) but after 20 mins of searching its not been found :(

I'm away for a wedding this weekend so wont get time to make a grot2-D2 and a C3-POrk which is a shame. They will go in the ideas book for another time.

Also I finally bought a camera rather than using just using my phone. Enjoy! (still need to work out all the settings)

Spoiler:

Gort2-D2 needs to be done!! Also, Luke skyw-ork-a and C3-POrk along with a suitably orky Landspeeder will be display-shelf worthy I recon! Maybe Obi wan ken-ork-bi and some Tau 'sandpeople' would go well with those?

Also - feeling you on the camera front! My new friend is the 'infinity' setting on the focus selection.

Januine wrote:yes of course 'mañana' - getting an énye on my korean computer is a pain in the ass and .....well...I'm lazy as hell

Finally - Genestealer #1 is finished!!!! This is gonna be a busy busy 4day weekend o.O

and there we go 'stealer #1 all done. Effects around his maw influenced by some of thirdeyenuke's work. If you havent checked their stuffout......do it. Amazing work

I could stare at your work for hours man!

Cheers for your sympathies guys; I've enjoyed this whole month despite the things that life has thrown at me, and this thread has been great to take my mind off things - I can't wait to see all the entries on the 30th!