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I was able to dig out my primed box and dust off the marauders for a pic. They’ve been lurking around the back of my workbench for a long time now. I’d going to try to do at least 4 of them this month.



Still need to find their shields...

Going to try to get tgis guy done

Really tempted by the rat ogre terminator kitbashes I did, snd I might do them instead, but we'll this thos first.

I will be entering Croak Hunter from Privateer Press: Hordes.

Vejut wrote:
Going to try to get tgis guy done

Really tempted by the rat ogre terminator kitbashes I did, snd I might do them instead, but we'll this thos first.

That's awesome... What is the crocodile from?

Not really sure what to do this month. Whittlesey is doing heroquest again, perhaps we could have our own little challange. The only non-marine figures ive got unpainted are a couple hordes of heroquest undead and greenskins. I'll poke thru the box of random figures and see if anything catches my eyes.

I honestly don't know. I could enter my Mechanicus Avitarius Assassin? Primal fear of death, and being relentless hunted? Maybe?

ssisal wrote:
Not really sure what to do this month. Whittlesey is doing heroquest again, perhaps we could have our own little challange. The only non-marine figures ive got unpainted are a couple hordes of heroquest undead and greenskins. I'll poke thru the box of random figures and see if anything catches my eyes.

Go for it - do some more HeroQuest minis!

Keezus: Croc is a sebeki harbringer from Crocodile Games (appropriately enough). https://www.crocodilegames.com.
Ssissal: I'd figure the orcs would count at a minimum.
Verviedi: I'm not the authority on it, but I'd be cool with that.

Seeing how good people are here I'm not very confident that I will receive any votes, but I really want to challenge myself and see what I can do in my current skillset. Also first time entering!



Is it okay if I have base already done or do I need to make a new one?

@Ninjapirate ,I'am Not going to win many if any votes either,you will likely get some entering a dragon if you paint it ok,i'am just doing some tiny spore mines,ohh and good luck with your first entry.

 u971 wrote:
@Ninjapirate ,I'am Not going to win many if any votes either,you will likely get some entering a dragon if you paint it ok,i'am just doing some tiny spore mines,ohh and good luck with your first entry.

Well Ive never painted one before so its going to be a challenge for me. Thanks and good luck to you aswell!

Progress has been made.

Welcome to the challenge Ninjapirate.

I just started painting figures about 14 months ago. I highly recommend this challenge. Your first few figures will end up looking like poo in your eyes compaired to the work of some of the dudes and chicks here.

Thing you gotta remember is alot of these people have been painting for 5, 10, 20, 30+ years in some cases. So DO NOT get discouraged or look down on yourself. Look at it more like.. Your painting in the same room as all these other experts. You will learn so very much, specially from the few that post their progress pictures or desciptions of what they did to get what color/effect on something.

Do not hesitate to ask questions, alot of them. The people here are just like you and me. I dunno about you, but i love talking about my figures that ive painted. stuff ive tried that worked and stuff i tried that failed badly. Nobody cares if you dont finish by the deadline. I promise nobody will track you down and hold a gun to your head to paint, or to post pictures of your figures. I started most of the challenges last year, didnt finish all of them on time.. some took a few extra months, cuz life happens or ohh shiny new figure happens.

And for the love of God, before your start painting make damb sure you know what "thin you paint means" Because if you do not thin your paints. You will end up with stuff like these pictures below. I was like.. its thin-ish.. no if its not flowing like skim milk its not thinned enough. You will thank yourself for taking the time to learn how to do that properly. These three bikers were first things i painted, before a codex or reading the instructions on how to build them that came in the pack. I keep them to remind me where i started at. They lead my ravenwing attack squadrons 1 and 2 and the combat squad of 1 for the normal biker.

I apparently have a large box of the wow boardgame minis, so i have tons of non-marines or dnd figures that i can call on for this stuff in future.

This month ill be working on some of this green horde. I think one of each "type" as a test model to do the rest of the force over the remainder of the year.

OK so seeing as I didn't finish the last one thought I might try and get in on the action a little earlier this time around. So I will be entering two plague bearers and a herald of Nurgle this time...and will get them finished before the end of the month this time

Never done this before but I am up for the challenge. So I'm going to enter by painting up this old Ork Snakebite Runtherd with Banner

SymbioticKaos wrote:
OK so seeing as I didn't finish the last one thought I might try and get in on the action a little earlier this time around. So I will be entering two plague bearers and a herald of Nurgle this time...and will get them finished before the end of the month this time

I thought you were going for some of your GoreChosen?

Good luck finishing this month

I shall enter this one as a reason to get back to painting after moving.

Going to enter Xarsiss the harpy queen as... well it's the only semi-primal miniature I actually have available at the moment.

I'll attempt to enter one of these units of Tzaangors, possibly the Shaman aswell:

As far as Star Wars goes Wookiees are rather primal.

Feel like I need to up my game after the last couple of months so I'm going to try and tackle a model that's been sat unpainted in my collection for well over a year now!! A Great Unclean One (using the Glottkin set)



Good luck for this month everyone!

I have this ogre boss Kagunk from Reaper Miniatures. I think he will be perfect for primal theme.

Had this Minotaur looking dude on my desk for 3 or so years, might as well try and finish him. Was hoping to have him 100% scratch built but i may resort to using bitz to finish him. I likely wont be using much of the bare musculature aside from the chest, am hoping to achieve a ye olde carnival o' horrors look for the finished creature if you're curious.



For the record, it's been five months since my last, i keep them around... For some reason. Also the contents of that chicken bucket were slightly disappointing

Halfway through the first of the Tzaangors:

Good luck everyone.

I am up for the challenge this month. I went to Adepticon and got a swag bag with this model in it. I don't know of more things primal than the ultimate killing machine.



I've started the painting already too.

My entry, looks plenty primal to me

If you're not in it to win it....

j/k

I think the whole point of this is to get minis painted that maybe would sit on the shelf or in the drawer of shame for a long time If I get pointers along the way, grand, if I improve even better. But the end all be all for me is seeing all the pretties done

Anyway, so first attempt ever at doing anything other than really priming with my airbrush:

Welcome to the challenge Ninjapirate (a dragon is a pretty impressive way to start ) and Shuma-Gorath, Good luck

Some pretty impressive entries already.

The colour transition on the wings looks great Guildenstern


@everyone - Let the Wookies Win!

My proof - Going for a savage ork/snakebite chariot conversion, as always haven't figured it all out yet but theres an idea in there somewhere.


p.s My job changed location on the 1st of April so I won't be around much during the week, ill still try to keep doing the challenges etc but will be on less. :(

A little update on progress.

So it begins, some early progress as I had a spare hour or so:

Whats more primal than our fear of sneks?

First Tzaangor is pretty much done, starting on the Disc now: