2016's "A Tale of Many Gamers Painting Challenge" MkII: July-December

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**Dysartes**

Nice deep pink on the Paladin, Archer - too often it looks pastel or fluorescent, but that has great tone.

I think today is dedicated to metallics on the Booty, and seeing what I can do with the other set of chests.

Time to make some progress...

**angelofvengeance**

Did you use a 40k power sword for that Knight archer?

Look forward to seeing your Alphas. Are you going for that metallic blue-green?

**Archer**

It is indeed a space marine power sword. Needed something that looked huge.

Not entirely sure how I will do the alphas yet. In the assembly stage.

**JoshInJapan**

One more addition to the Deadzone collection:

More terrible photos can be seen here.

**Azazelx**

I'll get back to updating the monthly showcase threads as soon as i am able...

No spanker jokes, please....

**JoshInJapan**

Dang! Nothing too serious, I hope.

**Azazelx**

Hopefully not, but painful as all feth. A bit of wait and see right now..

**Januine**

Crikey Az - you're turning into a Necron! Hope you'll heal up soon and well

**Llamahead**

Sad to hear about that. Good Luck.

**Archer**

Ah repetitive painting injury. Have heard of that and looks like you have a bad case of it. It's because you have been putting out too much high quality work that the universe got jealous and had to slow you down.

**Azazelx**

The thing is that I'm left handed. Well, I paint and write and draw with my left, but scissors, mice and a lot of other day to day tasks I'm a rightie. I tel you, pecking at the keyboard with my left hand only is slow and uncomfortable....

**Llamahead**

This is going to be the month of Knights for me. I'm going to be a bit crazy on the pledge this month and pledge to finish my Foot Guard Troop, upgrade the original Knight Troop to a Regiment and finish troops of Knights of the Realm and Grail Knights. If I'm honest that's only about 8 models. Assembly wise I've bitzed up all my sprues from the order of doom and I'll see where I get with assembling them.

**JoshInJapan**

Here is my final stretch goal for September:

And here's everything from September:

More here. For October, I plan to build a couple of warbands for Frostgrave-- probably Orcs and Halflings. Also, Blainetober!

**FabricatorGeneralMike**

JoshInJapan wrote:
That's a nice, very dynamic model. Is the combi-melta a conversion?

No, it was just a silencer I put on there, it looks alright IRL but a little odd in the photo's. That's one thing im trying to work out. Stuff that looks good IRL but doesn't look good in photo's...meh ill get it eventually

Here is my Sept entry. It's a Fists Leviathan Dreadnought, I rather like the way it turned out, its not as glossy IRL it's got a nice matte finish on it.

**JoshInJapan**

That's a nice dread. I'm amazed that you got the yellow to look so good.

FabricatorGeneralMike wrote:
JoshInJapan wrote:
Stuff that looks good IRL but doesn't look good in photo's...meh ill get it eventually

Quoted for truth.

**FabricatorGeneralMike**

JoshInJapan wrote:
That's a nice dread. I'm amazed that you got the yellow to look so good.

FabricatorGeneralMike wrote:
JoshInJapan wrote:
Stuff that looks good IRL but doesn't look good in photo's...meh ill get it eventually

Quoted for truth.

Ty on the yellow. It's primed black, with a heavy drybrush of averland sunset then shot with thte Airbrush of Vallejo Premium airbrush 62.003 Basic Yellow, then shaded in the recesses with Vallejo game colour wash 73.200 Sepia Shade.

It wasn't the quickest and I dunno how well it will work on a fully army of Fists, but I guess we will find out next month as I am going to work on my Fists between putting together a friends Warhound Titan ( yes pics will be on my blog )

Dunno why the quote is comming out so wierd...

**ZergSmasher**

For October, I intend to finish up those Stealth suits, as well as paint as many Kroot as I can stand to paint. I'm gonna do the Kroot anyway as part of Paradigm's monthly challenge, so might as well put them here as well (two birds with one stone and all that). Now I have to decide what color to paint the Kroot skin. Decisions, decisions.

**Polonius**

From September 30, and posted in my own plog, but reposted here: I turned my attention back to my Emperor's Children, with the Betrayal at Calth tactical marines forming my CCW equipped tacticals:

**Barzam**

Here's the remaining part of my September pledge. These are the Junktown Scrappers, my Dreadball Mechanite team. The pic is bad and all of the colors are washed out to the point of not even being visible, unfortunately. But hey, it's a full team shot. If you really want to see them in all their rusted, filthy glory, check them out in my plog.

For October, I'm going to attempt to do my old Haqqislam Starter box and the Red Veil Haqqislam starter. With luck, I'll get both starters done.

**FabricatorGeneralMike**

Azazelx wrote:
The thing is that I'm left handed. Well, I paint and write and draw with my left, but scissors, mice and a lot of other day to day tasks I'm a rightie. I tel you, pecking at the keyboard with my left hand only is slow and uncomfortable....

South paws 4 life

**JoshInJapan**

Azazelx wrote:
The thing is that I'm left handed. Well, I paint and write and draw with my left, but scissors, mice and a lot of other day to day tasks I'm a rightie. I tel you, pecking at the keyboard with my left hand only is slow and uncomfortable....

You may want to be careful with your phrasing. Typing one-handed has a specific connotation, at least in the US...

**FabricatorGeneralMike**

JoshInJapan wrote:
Azazelx wrote:
The thing is that I'm left handed. Well, I paint and write and draw with my left, but scissors, mice and a lot of other day to day tasks I'm a rightie. I tel you, pecking at the keyboard with my left hand only is slow and uncomfortable....

You may want to be careful with your phrasing. Typing one-handed has a specific connotation, at least in the US...

oh you crazy...

**Huginn**

Just two figures for me this month, as I switched to single figure mode. Gunnar Gunnarson to lead a unit of (surprisingly) gunners, and Vorghan the Slayer to lead my chaos retinue into action in a little campaign. True Warhammer nerds will recognise the name of the chaos dude.

Next (this) month, back to dwarfs for me, Gunnar's gunners if I can drum up some motivation.

**JoshInJapan**

Here's my first finished model for October-- the Mars Attacks! version of Blaine:

More here. Be sure to check out Blainetober, on the off chance that anyone else decides to post there.

**FabricatorGeneralMike**

JoshInJapan wrote:
Here's my first finished model for October-- the Mars Attacks! version of Blaine:

More here. Be sure to check out Blainetober, on the off chance that anyone else decides to post there.

Great looking model Josh, I love the earthy tone of the model. The weapons looks interesting what is that in his right hand?

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Huginn wrote:
Just two figures for me this month, as I switched to single figure mode. Gunnar Gunnarson to lead a unit of (surprisingly) gunners, and Vorghan the Slayer to lead my chaos retinue into action in a little campaign. True Warhammer nerds will recognise the name of the chaos dude.

Next (this) month, back to dwarfs for me, Gunnar's gunners if I can drum up some motivation.

Looks at your models...looks at mine, looks at yours again, looks and mine.....burns mine

Fantastic job on the skin tones on both models. I really love chaos but I don't like the direction of the new khorne stuff from GW, but that paint job just makes it look fantastic. I love the use of the gold/bronze and the black. The skintones, what else can I say about them other then wow...just wow.

**JoshInJapan**

FabricatorGeneralMike wrote:
JoshInJapan wrote:
Here's my first finished model for October-- the Mars Attacks! version of Blaine:

More here. Be sure to check out Blainetober, on the off chance that anyone else decides to post there.

Great looking model Josh, I love the earthy tone of the model. The weapons looks interesting what is that in his right hand?

It's some sort of energy blade, I think. There are side and rear views on my pblog if you want to see it better.

**Llamahead**

Got this chappy done

Which finishes of this Troop and the first part of my pledge

**Dysartes**

I managed to get the five Boo Booty models and four remaining SDE Treasure Chests done last month - will get pics of them, and the three chests for August up tomorrow.

**Polonius**

My pledge for October is the balance of my Betrayal at Calth box, plus four command models from FW:

**angelofvengeance**

Continuing the AoS Stormcast and Silver Tower crusade this month.