Dakka (Unofficial) Painting Challenge Round 25 March 2017: Space Marines

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**RaptorRed**

Right going to have a go at one of these for the firsts time! Blood Angels, Terminator captain conversion, here is proof

**Moolet**

Good work everyone. So many great conversions, its really inspiring me for next months challenge.

I've finished in plenty of time for once. Let see if I can get an ork trukk done before the next painting challenge starts =)

I think this may be the first of my Blood Angel vehicles I've entered. I've done 2 rhinos, a drop pod and a storm raven like this so far, so no experimenting for me this month just applying a formula I like.

Also I tried a cheap light box I bought. But I think I need to take it work (where i took my other pictures) as I cant eliminate the shadows without making the images too dark.

**Paradigm**

Lovely gritty work!

**u971**

I agree with Paradigm awesome work on the weathering.

**Moolet**

Thanks both, it takes about two thirds of the entire time spent painting the model but I did it on one model so now I need to do it to all of them. I'm glad you like it =)

**JamesY**

That looks great Moolet.

Here is my finished entry;

Still getting to grips with my new camera, so not the best picture, but you can get a decent idea of the model.

**NathanD298**

Awesome stuff everyone!! Kharn looks awesome Jamesy!

Managed to finish off my kill team for the month! Pictures came out really badly, however I don't think I'm going to get a chance to take any better ones unfortunately! So, for now at least, here is the finished product(s?)

Spoiler:

**Paradigm**

Very cool indeed!

**ApaceKittens**

I really need to do something on my entry.

maybe tonight.

**Chris56**

Wow, some really great stuff here...it's gonna be a tough one this month!

**ssisal**

Here ya go guys. May it inspire someone to try something like this contest, even as a fairly new painter. its alot of fun. I think ive come a decent way in a year. Cant include the cypher with the challange as i didnt start him this month. did base him though.

Last photo is a pair of dv librarians that are almost exactly a year apart in time.

Lord Cypher ordered us to form a conclave. The Champion has come from meeting with him letting him know mission accomplished.

Strange blue sun light has tinted everything on that world..

**JamesY**

NathanD298 wrote:
Awesome stuff everyone!! Kharn looks awesome Jamesy!

Managed to finish off my kill team for the month! Pictures came out really badly, however I don't think I'm going to get a chance to take any better ones unfortunately! So, for now at least, here is the finished product(s?)

Spoiler:

Cheers mate, that kill team looks pretty damn good too

**KINGPIN54**

Finally got some paint on my converted snapfit marine, a raptor successor from raven guard

**CREEEEEEEEED**

You might want to reupload the image, it's pretty difficult to see anything.

**albinoork**

Hi all!

The Gravatina inspired Assault Marine is complete. It is one of (what will be) six villains from the television show Buzz Lightyear of Star Command.

Inspiration

Gravatina as an Assault Marine

The photos are a bit darker than I cafe for, but I've been experimenting with a new camera app for my phone. I may have to succumb an get an actual light box.

Lots of good stuff this month. Holding it to five votes will be impossible.

Thanks and take care.

**Melcavuk**

Calling it finished.

**Whittlesey40k**

@Melcavuk - that's incredible. Great conversion and a great paint job. Well done!

**Guildenstern**

Good lord so many beautiful jobs in this months! and the conversions oy! and the tanks!!! <3

Ok, well I'm trying to take a pic of my finished ones - but they're coming out really badly (the picture, no comment on the SM). Will have to clean desk and try again (that's gonna take a bit)

Anyone have advice about a good colour to use as a backdrop for black miniatures? I was thinking of using my usual red, but it doesn't seem to help. Anyway, I may go out and get a couple more foam sheets to use, in different colours see if that helps.

**JamesY**

@guildenstern might be an obvious question, but have you tried white or pale grey?

**darkstar6783**

Here is my entry proof & also pictures of the finished products.

**KINGPIN54**

Tried another size of picture hope its right, my snapfit spacemarine convention wip

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Snapfit marine

**u971**

@ KINGPIN54 ,The Model Looks good,Just it's 300x287 pixels and too small to see detail's and there looks like many,use this site it's free,what i use to make 3000x3000pixel collages. http://www.fotor.com/app.html#!module/collage/tool/ClassicTemplate

**Ezra Tyrius**

Got my Fallen Angel based and finished!

Not as epic as certain other entries, but I'm quite happy with him

**Whittlesey40k**

Finally got my terminators finished!

Reasonably pleased with them. This is the 3rd scorched gun barrel I've done, but the first I've been pleased with. Still not exactly what I was going for, but it's okay.

Loads of great entries this month. Looking forward to voting now

**Guildenstern**

JamesY wrote:
@guildenstern might be an obvious question, but have you tried white or pale grey?

Sorry I haven't had time to really read much or take my pics >< I'm fixin to take my #2 son off to visit university campuses since it's spring break and he's graduating this year!

RE: the HL'ing - yeah I went up to Administrum grey, I didn't want to go to white but I'm thinking I might go back in later and do that anyway. I still need to get the pic up here - I'll have to do that by tonight.

**keezus**

Whittlesey40k wrote:
Finally got my terminators finished!

Reasonably pleased with them. This is the 3rd scorched gun barrel I've done, but the first I've been pleased with. Still not exactly what I was going for, but it's okay.

Loads of great entries this month. Looking forward to voting now

I think your scorch mark looks good, but goes too far on the barrel. I think the transition could also be helped with some brown. I think it would be more effective if the black was 1/3 of the length it is now, and the blackness tapers back into the silver. In the past, I'd drybrush the scorch marks onto where I wanted them, starting with a tin-bitz (warplock bronze) onto the gun, with less brown the further back it goes... repeat with dark brown, but drybrushing even less far back, and then black. I don't know if that makes sense or not.

**Drummernathan**

Finally got my photos back from my photographer and am super pleased with them!
Finished entry: "Counts As" Kaldor Draigo, Lord Commander Otep.

Really had a lot of fun with this one! Super proud of how he turned out!

**Chris56**

Mate, some really great minis this month...incredible paint and modelling. I'm gonna be using all of my votes this month for sure.

Anyhoo, here are my finished Tyranid Hunters - I had a great time with this project. Many thanks to Paradigm, Zobo and everyone else for running this challenge, it is really motivating and pushing me to learn to paint better each month. Looking forward to 'primal' April.

Good luck to all!

**u971**

@Chris56,Well cool that looks,neat alien Ichor on the hammer,and an almost cute lone ripper

gotta work out how to make stringy alien blood sometime i have nids in need!

**Vejut**

So, new set of pictures didn't really come out, have a few new and a few repeat of the mousling for my final ones:

Was happy with how it came out, because I was mostly looking at the head, but then I looked at the rest of it when doing the pics, and its really a rather ragged job, isn't it? Shoulder insignia especially are bothering me, and not sure why...