Dakka (Unofficial) Painting Challenge Round 28 June 2017: Legendary

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**CREEEEEEEEED**

If I can get it done then a blue lord of contagion is my entry.

**Elbows**

Very cool - intrigued to see where you go with that.

**Chris56**

Awesome stuff here as always...really looking forward to that blue lord, Creed. I have one of my own to paint soon, so I am really interested to see him done.

Love the blending on the wizard's robes, Tittlemanscrest and looking forward to Modock's Iguana and feltmonkey's Nazgul.
I hear ya, Zobo...I'm thinking of painting finecast as well and it reminds me why I hated the stuff when it first came out...mine has all these pockmarks and repairs needed...

**ChaoticMind**

Finished my entry.

**moodster95**

Hopefully going to get my Spacewolves vs Nids diorama finished

**CREEEEEEEEED**

As cool as it looks, I thought the rules limited an entry to five models.

**Nevelon**

Getting close to done:

Repair work after the lamp incident. And I thought he was a pain to put together originally.

And here is me pushing my comfort level out a step. Going for the transition on the cloak. Just put the first red down ATM. The tips will match the skulls/ghosts.

**moodster95**

moodster95 wrote:
Hopefully going to get my Spacewolves vs Nids diorama finished

Sorry my Bad, i ment to post this in the "what are you doing hobbywise" forum.

**Kustomer D**

So here is my Kaptin Badrukk Conversion.
I´m happy with him but not at 100%. I tried to get a smoother (?) skintone but are not totally happy with the result.
Any tipps are welcome!

Looking good so far guys.

K D

**Chris56**

Very cool Badrukk, there.

Coming in late this month - things have been a killer at home and work...
Hopefully, I should be able to get one of my favourite characters done over the next week - Deathmaster Snikch!!!
It's a shame that GW have 'unnamed' all of the cool characters in AOS...with a title like 'Deathmaster', he has to be a legend, I reckon.
Had to do a bunch of repairs on the crappy finecast model and the surface is as rough as guts, so I don't know how well it's going to go...

**Nevelon**

Final shots of Mannfred.

He stayed together for his final shots, then fell apart again. Going to pin the little bugger this time.

**ApaceKittens**

Nevelon, goodness gracious that is.... magnificent. shame about the attack of the lamp.

**EmberlordofFire8**

I AM DONE!!!

This is the first time Im actually happy with my photos. Thanks again to Para for showing me his setup

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On to next month!

**Chris56**

That is cool, Ember...
Loving that scarab on the right pauldron - it really pops!

**Ustrello**

So para please spare me but I forgot about this competition, I already finished what would be my entry but if you look back I didn't start painting til the middle of the month. Could I still enter my custodes?

**CREEEEEEEEED**

The metal is done for those interested.

**EmberlordofFire8**

Thats pretty cool. I can't wait to see the finished armour.

**Paradigm**

Ustrello wrote:
So para please spare me but I forgot about this competition, I already finished what would be my entry but if you look back I didn't start painting til the middle of the month. Could I still enter my custodes?

Yeah, no problem. I saw you start them on your blog this month in any case, so I know you're not trying to pull a fast one. If you can just post up a WIP if you have one I'll use that as proof, if not then don't worry!

**Ustrello**

Paradigm wrote:
Ustrello wrote:
So para please spare me but I forgot about this competition, I already finished what would be my entry but if you look back I didn't start painting til the middle of the month. Could I still enter my custodes?

Yeah, no problem. I saw you start them on your blog this month in any case, so I know you're not trying to pull a fast one. If you can just post up a WIP if you have one I'll use that as proof, if not then don't worry!

Awesome thanks!

My entry will be 4 custodes here is the WIP shot

and here is the final product

**Bottle**

Nevelon wrote:
Getting close to done:

Repair work after the lamp incident. And I thought he was a pain to put together originally.

And here is me pushing my comfort level out a step. Going for the transition on the cloak. Just put the first red down ATM. The tips will match the skulls/ghosts.

Do you always drink martinis while you paint?

The finished article looks amazing though. You've really pushed yourself this month!

**Nevelon**

Bottle wrote:

Do you always drink martinis while you paint?

The finished article looks amazing though. You've really pushed yourself this month!

Generally when I break out the martinis, I’m either done with the painting for the night (which is often when I’ll take pictures, post, etc) or just doing sloppy basecoats. Hard liquor and detail work do not mix.

I’m quite pleased how well he turned out. The cape especially. I started out aiming for a smooth transition, but once the more jagged look started to take hold, I just ran with it. Makes for a ragged, torn transition. which fits the undead.

And after some pins and superglue, he’s now standing on his own again. I normally build plastic minis with plastic glue, and he was fine before he broke. But there is too much torque on the parts with all the stuff together for the plastic glue to fuse solidly.

**Paradigm**

Just a reminder that there won't be a subject poll this month, as there was a tie last time. Instead, the theme 'Fun and Games' carries over to the next round, which basically means any sort of gaming aid, terrain, objective markers, comedy models ect, basically anything that's not 'regular' painting fare.

**ZoBo**

oof...I have no idea what to do for next month then...I mean, that's not Dark Imperium Death Guard

hmm...I guess I do have that that terrain box with the crane and the two little tractor things...might paint that if I finish/want a break from the death guard...we'll see

**n1ceguypaul**

Hey here is my entry for this month.

This is Praetor/captain/whatever he is now that 8th is here. Havent had a chance to read any thing to do with 8th, what with work/kids/wife/lots of other plastic distractions. His name is Tarren Cemantarious. He is the epitome of all things Salamander. He is tough caring and devoted to his legion and his Primarch.

His armour is the same armour that he wore at Istvaan. He still mourns his fallen brothers and uses the pain and suffering from that day to stoke the fires of righteous fury that burn deep within him.
He longs for the day when Vulkan is found to enable him to bring the full might and fury of the fire born against those who decieved him and his brothers and who continue to reek chaos across the emperium.

"Into the fires of battle, unto the Anvil of War!"

**Elbows**

Paul, you need to figure out some lighting or after-effects from a photo program. Your pics are showing up super dark and contrasted.

I'm not a photography expert, but maybe try a dark background and better lighting?

**n1ceguypaul**

Yeah i know. Theres other things that need attention first though before more lighting such as bills and actually feeding everyone ssshhhhh dont tell. I know all the money should go to the plastic but hey needs must. Its a vast improvement on my first effort but will see if i can do something about it sooner rather than later.

Had another try hopefully better and thats my entry done.

**CREEEEEEEEED**

That looks much better.
I actually finished, which probably only surprised me. I've also hopped on the collage bandwagon.

**n1ceguypaul**

Is it wrong that im now considering asking for daylight bulbs for my birthday in a weeks time lol.

**Nevelon**

n1ceguypaul wrote:
Is it wrong that im now considering asking for daylight bulbs for my birthday in a weeks time lol.

Nothing wrong with that. We spend a lot of time painting out minis, getting decent pics so we can show them off is not an unreasonable goal. And a perfect gift idea is something you want, but don’t want to spend the money on yourself.

A few years back my wife got me a lightbox/photobooth setup. Costs about the same as a box of marines (well, maybe terminators) but has done wonders for my photography. I’d strongly recommend picking one up for anyone who wants to step up their pictures. Sure, you can make one out of a cardboard box and paper, but I knew I could do that for years and never got around to it. And the one I have folds up neatly for storage and came with a pair of high powered LED lights.

**Gulgog TufToof**

I need some better lighting too.
On another note, I'm in for this month's challenge. I've wanted to do an ork mek w/ killsaw for a while now and when I have time, I'll post the backstory that makes him... Legendary! Proof:

and he'll be standing on a base like this:

As usual, my remaining painting time for this month is running out, but so far, I've gotten him to where he just needs metallics, green highlights/washes for skin, and assembly. Oh yeah, and a right arm; not quite sure what to do about that one yet.