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As it was my Birthday in July I got myself some of the newer DZC stuff.

2 troops of Katana light tanks


2 Crossbow lasers and their Raven dropships


Pheonix Command Gunship


Everything that I have painted this month, probably around 2000 points worth there.

I'm pretty sick die to a horrible midwinter cold. I finished a small amount of stuff from my mandatory pics but they still need to be varnished before I can photograph them. I'll also get the latest photos up asap - hopefully this coming weekend. I can't even see them right now due to workblocked.

 Polonius wrote:
Some great work this month!

@FabricatorGeneralMike: I like the weathering on the pod. The yellow is more greenish than I'm used to seeing for Fists, but it really pops!

@Llamahead: Those archers are fantastically dark and gritty, perfect for old school empire.

@Josh: the Melniboneans are cool, very rich color scheme on some vintage models.

Ty for that... the weathering really didnt come out in the pics...it looks much heavier irl. Maybe it was the light i used but it doesnt look that green irl again.

I am a total nub when it comes to taking photos of minis.. oh well you only learn by doing and failing over and over and over

Ok - August's pledges. Main act continues on with SH - four 'stealers and a dead termie and DW:O flyboy for Para's comp.
supporting act - last two harlie troupers and a skyweaver. Groupies in the back - tech priest enginseer and casket (again!!)

My August goals are another unit of questing Knights and hopefully progress on the last unit. The end of the Bretonnians is so close I can taste it.

Been a bit slack last month, I finished a few models but haven't gotten around to photographing them. Hopefully tomorrow won't be as overcast as it has been the last few days so I can get some pictures in.

I finished up quite a bit of the Ghoul Host box. I just got to finish the last 3 Crypt Horrors and the Varghulf Courtier.

Next to that. I picked up the new bases to start redoing my AOS Skaven. Gonna be green and purple.

Puffin - that DZC stuff looks great! I've wanted to try it out for a while now.

My July pledge of an Imperial Fist Tactical Squad is complete but not yet photographed: I'll get the pics taken and posted before the weekend!

Work on my Razorback hasn't begun, but I'm getting quite a few of my DA tacticals painted up. Progress is progress

Nine more Melniboneans finished:


I actually had the HW&S guys finished on July 30th, but I didn't have time to photograph and upload them. More here.

My completed models for last month now, just a couple of days late The new Cryx battlegroup box with Bane Witch Agathia and the Farrow Razorback Crew were the only new models I completed, but I also went back and did some extra stuff on some of the models I worked on in the first half of the year, adding freehand writing onto my other Slayer and some warpaint onto my Gatormen.

Wow fancy stuff guys

I failed the first month of the challenge, I intend to eventually catch up and then retroactively complete any missed goals, but it may be awhile. As long as it's this hot and the baby is this needy, gonna be rare to get any solid hobbying time in.

Feel better Az.

Hey guys, I've been updating the June Showcase post now.

If anyone has posted their monthly pics and I've missed them, please LMK and link to your post with the pics (it happens).

If anyone else has finished stuff but hasn't photographed them yet, please LMK when you do. You might have to PM me when you get them up so they don't get mis-filed into August. (I myself am in this boat. Still need to spray varnish my Undead entry, let it dry, flock and then photograph.)

If anyone has additional models since the earlier post (Mana Press? Throphony?) post a new one and LMK to update the June thread.

For those who posted to let us know you didn't get the month's pledge done, y̶o̶u̶ ̶s̶h̶o̶u̶l̶d̶ ̶f̶e̶e̶l̶ ̶a̶w̶f̶u̶l̶ ̶a̶s̶ ̶t̶h̶i̶s̶ ̶m̶a̶k̶e̶s̶ ̶y̶o̶u̶ ̶a̶ ̶t̶e̶r̶r̶i̶b̶l̶e̶ ̶p̶e̶r̶s̶o̶n̶ no biggie, it happens. See if you can use it as additional motivation for the coming months, like Grimdork.

For those who entered and haven't posted since, try to let us know if stuff just happened and you're still in even though you got delayed this month - which is fine. I'd rather just remove anyone who has withdrawn rather than sort through usernames that are never to be heard from again after the sign-up, which happened a bit with the last one of these.


Ryngan - That's a ton of photos - could you take a group shot and I'll link it to your post with all of the individual shots?

Yeah... that would be me. I got some wee bits done on my Stormcast Lord Relictor, Retributors and Liberators. Nothing finished though. Progress is progress though, right?

Just checked and you've missed mine, I only posted them yesterday and they're a couple posts up. Appreciate the effort you put into running it for all of us though, gives me (and I'm sure everyone else) an incentive to get working on our models

Okay, first few for July in brief!

@Azazelx - Really nice clean painting work! I particularly like the detail on the bolters of the minotaurs - the variation individualises them whilst still looking uniform.

@JoshinJapan - I had actually not seen the Melnibonean line before, classic Citadel I imagine? They're lovely models! I like the freehand dragon designs on your shields, and the way you've picked out the details on the helmets. Nice scheme.

@Archer - Fantastic unit! All the clashing heraldry is very characterful, and again some beautiful freehand. Have you taken the heraldry designs from historical houses, or are they your own designs? I'm seriously impressed that you knocked them out in a month!

@Barzam - More models that I've never seen, and very interesting they are! Reminds me of the Pirates of the Carribean Davy Jones crew, maybe thrown forward a few hundred years?! I really like your gribbly skin tones, and the tarnish on the copper. I enjoyed the PACman nod on the TAG!

@Thraxas - Wow, you're a prolific painter! That's a lovely shade of blue / green on the liberators, meshes really well with the gold detailing. Lovely gemwork on Tycho, and again, great tarnish on the rifle barrel.

Will comment on some others if I have time after shift

Nice work by all participants, it makes my hobby heart throb with pride to see them all together in the showcase thread. A nice variety of different genres, different paint styles, just good to look at.

My August WIP is the rest of the demi-company:



I got most of this done in July, but only one squad fully complete, so I'm excited to put the finishing touches on these lads and get them done. Right now the two tactical and assault squads are fully painted with transfers, they just need to be dull coted, flocked, and have banners added. The Devs need yellow on the trim, blue clean up/highlighting, and then details, transfers, etc.

A friend pointed out that I painted my helmet stripes yellow, when studio Ultramarines usually have solid blue helmets. I never noticed that, but I kind of like the look, and I'm pretty sure I don't want to repaint thirty-some helmets! Any thoughts from the thread?

More Melniboneans:


You can read more here.

Work on my Razorback is...finished. Ripped through it in a day, which in reality would only be about four hours steady work. Pretty happy with the result, though I do realize the assault cannons are a bit out of sync (must have happened during the gluing process when my back was turned! Heresy!)

 Rygnan wrote:
Just checked and you've missed mine, I only posted them yesterday and they're a couple posts up. Appreciate the effort you put into running it for all of us though, gives me (and I'm sure everyone else) an incentive to get working on our models

 Azazelx wrote:

Ryngan - That's a ton of photos - could you take a group shot and I'll link it to your post with all of the individual shots?

Here's all the Melniboneans in my collection, finished.


More here. I'm going to call my August pledge complete. I may get in some more painting before the end of the month, but I want to spend more time with my family when they get back from visiting Grandma.

 Azazelx wrote:

Ryngan - That's a ton of photos - could you take a group shot and I'll link it to your post with all of the individual shots?

Imperial Fists Tactical Squad, painted and photographed! Here's a compilation of the whole squad.



Great work everybody, I'm keeping my eyes on the compilation post and it's looking like we had a good July!

All that yellow is driving me insane. For August, I'll keep it light with a single Razorback, and break up the sea of yellow with some 28mm WW2 British gun teams, for Battlegroup, Chain of Command, and/or Bolt Action!

Remember when I said I was finished with my August pledge? I lied.


More here.

Few days late again but here is the group pic of my July stuff. The pics after that are my pledges for August, a unit of 5 Soulhunters, a Warwitch Siren, and a Necrosurgeon with 3 Stitch Thralls.

You just keep knocking them out, Josh - good work.

Have you many more of this range to go?

If you mean Melniboneans, I thought I was finished, but I found two more today. I have probably another dozen or so wardancers, and a full army's worth of other elves that I want to revisit.

Part 1 of my August goal, the Thallax Cohort is now complete!



Onto part 2!

I got my second goal completed. The Dark Mariner Close Combat Biomech.



Next is the Antipode Assault Pack and then I'll probably do some Mercs or Mantic as stretch goals.