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I like that scheme as well Oppl, Its what I think of when I picture an IG tank. Can I suggest you do a bit of weathering on the Aquilas, they are very white and flat while the rest of the tank has some weathering on so they stand out and draw your eye. I like the mud in the tracks.

Great suggestion - I hadn't even considered it. This is precisely what a second set of eyes can do. Thanks! I'm not overly sure what to do for them, though as weathering white is a tough one for me. Any ideas? I want to roll with it, just wanna try and do it right yknow?

Cheers again.

Sponging on rhinox hide can never go wrong, with moderation. Also some of them look a little shiny, give them a coat of lahmian medium to matt them down.

@bottle and oppl.... uhhhh wow.

 Oppl wrote:

I like that scheme as well Oppl, Its what I think of when I picture an IG tank. Can I suggest you do a bit of weathering on the Aquilas, they are very white and flat while the rest of the tank has some weathering on so they stand out and draw your eye. I like the mud in the tracks.

Great suggestion - I hadn't even considered it. This is precisely what a second set of eyes can do. Thanks! I'm not overly sure what to do for them, though as weathering white is a tough one for me. Any ideas? I want to roll with it, just wanna try and do it right yknow?

Cheers again.

You should chip it with the green underneath to look like the paint is flaking off to show the camo underneath. Take a brush and the green you used and paint tiny dots and scratches, focus on the edges in particular and don't go to heavy. :-)

I may just bow out of this month. Not making any progress on this thing really and not feeling motivated to paint at all lately. Never have been a fan of painting vehicles and I also just don't really know what to do with this thing from where it's at currently. I mean I have ideas and a vision, but no real motivation or idea how to execute it up to a standard I'd be happy to submit on here. =[

Oppl that stormlord is fantastic.
bottle, i was pretty confident in my weathering skills but yours just looks awesome!

Here's a Wip of my Hellhound 6x6. Plenty more on my P&M thread, feel free to stop by.



Colours are all still very flat, will be sorting that out soon. thought you guys would just want to see it before its finished.
Will be adding camo netting and stowage too.

Cheers

Some great bits of armour turning up and fantastic weathering going on. I love it. I also love the cadian stormlord, very nicely done too =)

I've sort of gone the opposite this time, trying to go for a quite clean look though depending on time pressures I may do a few scratches on it.

WIP pic below. Still loads to do but I was hoping for a some opinions.
I'm in 3 minds about the claws. I definitely want to try out doing a bit of lightning running along them but I cant decide on a colour.

*Blue would be typical and match the highlights of the black and shading on the angel wings.
*Red because they are called blood claws or some such and they and fits with the whole black/red motif of death company
*Green as a contrast to the red (especially the little gems that are on the claws) and would make it a little different.

The base will be the normal desert I do (zandri dust + usabti higlights then a few sand coloured weathering powders) for the rest of my armies as it matches the board I made.

 Drummernathan wrote:
I may just bow out of this month. Not making any progress on this thing really and not feeling motivated to paint at all lately. Never have been a fan of painting vehicles and I also just don't really know what to do with this thing from where it's at currently. I mean I have ideas and a vision, but no real motivation or idea how to execute it up to a standard I'd be happy to submit on here. =[

Having the same issues, but maybe an all night push is required. It would be a shame to not see all that greenstuff work come to fruition.

You should chip it with the green underneath to look like the paint is flaking off to show the camo underneath. Take a brush and the green you used and paint tiny dots and scratches, focus on the edges in particular and don't go to heavy. :-)

Good idea. I'll give it a shot on one of the less prominent aquilas and see how it goes - cheers.

 STG wrote:


Here's a Wip of my Hellhound 6x6. Plenty more on my P&M thread, feel free to stop by.

Colours are all still very flat, will be sorting that out soon. thought you guys would just want to see it before its finished.
Will be adding camo netting and stowage too.

Cheers

That looks ace with the large wheels, really changes up the profile of it in a good way. Is that the stock GW kit otherwise?

I may just bow out of this month. Not making any progress on this thing really and not feeling motivated to paint at all lately. Never have been a fan of painting vehicles and I also just don't really know what to do with this thing from where it's at currently. I mean I have ideas and a vision, but no real motivation or idea how to execute it up to a standard I'd be happy to submit on here. =[

Would be ashame to bow out. That thing is looking disgustingly good so far. But I know what its like when you're in a rut or unhappy with produce so I sympathise.

I am done too! Quicker than i thought but i have been waiting to paint that guy since the day he was anounced. It's my first 75mm miniature and im really happy of how he turned out. Hope you guys like it too. Feel free to comment with any suggestions

 Oppl wrote:

 STG wrote:


Here's a Wip of my Hellhound 6x6. Plenty more on my P&M thread, feel free to stop by.

Colours are all still very flat, will be sorting that out soon. thought you guys would just want to see it before its finished.
Will be adding camo netting and stowage too.

Cheers

That looks ace with the large wheels, really changes up the profile of it in a good way. Is that the stock GW kit otherwise?

Yea i had to modify the kit slightly at the back to get it to fit, but yea apart from the sides and the wheels the main chassis is still 100 percent the gw kit.

By the way I bought the 6x6 kit from http://www.modelsandminis.com/ its pretty good stuff but it did take like 5 months to ship. (they were having issues with a mould).

Deciding not to bow out, though doubtful I will finish this model in time. Got a few more layers of paint and shades down today. Slowly but surely it will be done, though it won't be my best work, at least it'll be something.

Kinda feeling you there Drummernathan. I'm probably not finishing the Russ--only thing done is priming and base coat on 2/3 of the hull, and now I can't find the rat rider's gun that broke off, but I'm going to try to at least rustle up SOMETHING, even if its just a quick armored warrior.

Great work everyone - Bottle, that Russ looks stunning!!

Got my entry finished pretty early, by my standards at least, and I even managed to find the Gryph-hound to paint up too!



Dakka always seems to make the images grainier when I upload?

Good luck for the month guys, see you in October!

A little progress... Still a ways to go.

We are working on a Warlord Titan for the competition! Here are several pictures where we washed all the pieces. And one of the weapons assembled standing next to a Tau Pathfinder to give you some understand of how big it is! And the last picture is of the legs mostly assembled. It's a HUGE project to say the least.

Proof


And final:


Phoned it in a bit to be honest, as a couple of people mentioned last month I've not really been pushing myself artistically in the last few months... I'll let it slide this month as I've had less time due to moving back to uni, but next month I definitely intend to try and up my game a little. If anyone has any suggestions of areas I can focus on in that regard and further develop my style, I'm all ears.

Paradigm that turned out awesome! He looks pretty great, I love the red!

My project is entering its final stages, used a pigment on the tracks for the first time and airbrushed the main gun with red. I did have a lot of trouble with the red though. Anyone have any advice on airbrushing red?

I may be (very) late out of the gate, but I'll see whether I can make something work with a Thraka-sized Mega Armor Warboss.

Wow, some great projects - this is turning out to be an awesome month.

Powerelephant - the best trick for airbrushing red that I have seen is to pre-shade with green and then thinly give a translucent overcoat of red...sounds difficult but isn't
Check out this tutorial - just skip through it, it is a pretty simple technique actually and gives a fantastic result...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwUtKx4fYsU&t=2s

Anyhow, I am still getting through models faster than normal, so I'm adding a final Wave Serpent for that mighty SPiced hAM!

This is beginning to look like it might actually be achievable...

Hey guys, I don't know if I can finish my entrance cause life is really taking my painting time right now. But I'll give it a try:

wow, looking great so far man! - hope you manage to get it done on time, but I'm looking forward to seeing it finished either way!

 ZoBo wrote:
wow, looking great so far man! - hope you manage to get it done on time, but I'm looking forward to seeing it finished either way!

Thank you man. I hope so, too.

I'll post the final pics anyway.

Quick WIP shot. The tank is finaly begining to look like something. The OSL is still quite faint, I will build it up a bit more but for now I'm satisfied.

OSL is best understated - it's looking nice..

loving the conversion insaniak! it's like the first time you see the wheeled taurox conversion.

Metal_Man - you are entering the most amount of 'superheavy' by weight, height, displacement, cost, points value, area, effort and complexity i've ever seen entered for the unofficial painting challenge - BRAVO SIR!!!!

 ZoBo wrote:

 doktor_g wrote:
I needed the motivation for this monster. Not sure where to start, but it looks like I will have to.

ohhhh so jealous!!! *grabby hands* good luck man, I'll be pretty impressed if you get that big lug done in a month!

Thanks dude. Im workin like a dog. This is my first contest and it was a bigger project than i was expecting....

How does one mke a photo-montage?

Wow there is some tough competition this month, the conversions and painting is just amazing! awesome!

 insaniak wrote:
This is beginning to look like it might actually be achievable...

If only GW had made this the repulsor model.