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There's some truly monstrous entries this month! Great work, everyone!

My Zagstruk must be finished before Thursday because we're moving house.. So far, Da Boss has got his base colours mostly down (I always leave a couple of armour plates till last so I can decide if he needs more colour) and most of his washes applied.



I'm not looking forward to painting the plumes of exhaust fumes tbh. Anyone got any good tips?

@Nidlifecrisis: That is very snazz conversion.

@Bottle, that looks really awesome!!

@NidLifeCrisis - very cool - love those metals, that gun's especially beautiful. I find it hard to get decent detail on the guns, to make them look interesting.

Despite all you industrious souls getting a lot of your stuff actually done done (you make me sick ), I did get mine primed and basecoated. Weather was too horrid again for spray priming and I've broken my airbrush so I used my brush on Vallejo. Love that primer, but the grey is quite a light colour so I have basecoated based on what colour's going on top, even more so than usual. So a lot of the grey painted areas are going to be leadbelcher, mournfang brown for the bronzy as well as woods, etc.

Also decided to do some of the stones on the base near his foot like they're warpstone as well, will probably add warpstone overall to his base (if I get it finished in time!!)

Thanks for the props and directions guys. Will put up properly aligned and cropped pics once i get in in the morning. Should i delete the prvious entries or would it be better for me to pm paradigm?
Keep it up yall

Unfashionably late again, but I'm in! This month, Matthew, I'm going to be painting Bashful Boris from Super Dungeon Explore.

Proof:

Oohhhh. That's a sweet looking fig there feltmonkey

Yeah, a lot of the Super Dungeon Explore minis are really great. This is from the second edition of the game, The Forgotten King. It's worth looking out for on Amazon, because sometimes it's really cheap. In the UK it's about £45 at the moment, which is a good deal considering you get about 50 miniatures, including several quite large ones like Boris up there. You get a whole stand-alone board game in the box too. I've never played it so I can't report on whether it's any good.

3 upright shots on top of what i already put up for 5 finals

I love your take on that genestealer.. beautiful..

My proof pic, I'm a bit late starting this month as I've been away. I've been wanting a crack at this guy for a while now.

I got a fair bit done on the Landraider the past couple of nights. Here is a wip shot of all four sides. Needs a bit of cleanup. and ive got some oil to wash it with, but im going to get it finished first.

Drac is coming along. Need to get that skitarii gunner sorted though. Totally forgot about the wee fella

I may have an entry.

It's an otterhound I'm working on.

And of course no muddy dog would be complete without a muddy base.
Needs a few more layers of effect paints and varnishes and leaves, and the dog needs detailing.

I can't pretend to keep up with the various big leagues we get entering these days, but I can paint a puppy.

here is a horribly out-of-focus shot to mess with your eyeballs...
hopefully, i do better with the finished shots

i am loving many of the AoS minis...
this one has got to be the biggest Fantasy Orc i've ever seen...
he truly is a beast



this will be my first try at painting a plastic mini with no primer, just base coats directly onto the bare plastic...
i'm curious to see how it works out...

good luck getting done by the deadline, everyone...
i know i'll need some

cheers
jah

Here be my entry, something a little bit smaller than the past:

@jah-joshua: I'm just curious, why no primer?

 Gulgog TufToof wrote:
@jah-joshua: I'm just curious, why no primer?

just an experiment, to see how it works out...
i love painting over black primer, am indifferent to grey primer, and hate painting over white primer...
since i don't use acrylic for its translucent qualities on my base coat, but rather for its opaque qualities, i wanted to see how it acts over bare plastic...
so far, the experiment is turning out fine...
it is pretty much like painting over grey primer...
the paint is slightly more susceptible to rubbing off of the edges, but not by much...

in the end, i think i'll just stick to my P3 black spray primer...
i love that stuff...

i also use Vallejo grey primer to brush on when i travel, and can't take spray cans...
i don't love that stuff, but if i let it cure enough, and then paint black over it, it does the job...

it is nice to know that i don't HAVE to prime plastic, and the paint will still stick well...

cheers
jah

To be honest, what I call 'priming' is actually just painting a flat coat of black over everything to act as a basecoat, I actually can't stand the texture you get with 'proper' primer, so I just use the black to get a solid coat to paint over. Metal minis do need a good varnish to prevent chipping, but that's par for the course anyway and it beats having to paint over that horrible grainy surface any day!

@Zach: looking through the thread, I'm not seeing a Proof, you mention that you'd forgotten to upload it but apparently haven't yet! Not to worry if you've lost it or whatever, just asking for the sake of neatness. Lovely paintwork though, proper spooky!

not to be a jerk, but if you are getting a textured surface from your primer, Para, you are either doing it wrong, or using GW Skull White spray
a good spray should go on really smooth, unless humidity is rearing its ugly head

to be honest, plastic and resin also benefit from a good coat of varnish, too, if they are going to be handled at all...

cheers
jah

Varnish stops moisture, oils and some damage, but for metal I do find that a proper primer protects from chips. I run 90-120 metal guard which I primed myself, and I've dropped them on stone flooring in handfuls, they've survived. They're not varnished, either.
But then I've had unprimed but varnished metal minis shed layers of paint from just being in a mailing bag. It's Sod's law.


Anyway, doggle is getting somewhere.

And the other side.

The water needs to cure, and I need to detail the pup properly.
I live for fun basing though. Even have water dripping off his waggy tail.

 Paradigm wrote:


@Zach: looking through the thread, I'm not seeing a Proof, you mention that you'd forgotten to upload it but apparently haven't yet! Not to worry if you've lost it or whatever, just asking for the sake of neatness. Lovely paintwork though, proper spooky!

Duuuude you are totally right, and at this point Im pretty sure I deleted the pics off my camera. Just pull me out of the comp, I dont wanna raise any eyebrows with it. Maybe I can enter something else before the
end of July.

Don't worry, you're in! Made the same mistake myself last month, so I'm not going to pull you out!

@jah: my only experience with actual primer is buying minis second hand! I learned to paint from the old LotR magazine GW produced, that always started the tutorials with a basecoat of black acrylic, so that stuck and I've never done anything else myself. Never had a problem with it!

 Paradigm wrote:
Don't worry, you're in! Made the same mistake myself last month, so I'm not going to pull you out!

@jah: my only experience with actual primer is buying minis second hand! I learned to paint from the old LotR magazine GW produced, that always started the tutorials with a basecoat of black acrylic, so that stuck and I've never done anything else myself. Never had a problem with it!

oh man! that LotR magazine...I only got the first issue of that, with the tiny little moria goblins...they really threw you in the deep end starting with those tiny gits...I'd never even heard of warhammer or miniatures in general really at that point, so naturally my efforts at painting them were...not great (with no painting experience, and that orrid starter brush that came with it, I don't think you could really expect much though) ...I did give them some nice metallic blue armour though

Yeah, those goblins are still a pain to paint... although I've not tried any in a while, I might dig a few out now I think about it... I was way too young to be painting when they first came out, so I didn't have to start with them, thankfully!

To be fair I didn't post proof of the dog, I have some, but I can't remember which mate I sent it to on messenger.
I'll find it by the end if that is my entry.

I really need to get myself a Lightbox & some decent lamps, waiting for 'good' weather here in
northern Germany is a real pain in the bum

But he's done - was really fun to paint my Defiler, although i think i have gone a bit overboard with
the weathering.

Nice! No such thing as overboard with weathering!

oh yeah! that looks great man! ...easily one of the best-looking defilers I've seen in some time, in my opinion

as for the weathering, I paint orks and nurgle stuff, so that looks "clean" to me ...but I think it's a nice balance...it's noticeable, but it's not too much, and it works well all-round

Speaking of weathering... not final pics, and needing feedback and touchups, but here's my entry this month!


Any thoughts welcome, I want to make this the best I can!