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Tried some edge highlights today but made a big mistake in going straight for pallid Wych flesh. I thought I had thinned it enough to be transparent but unfortunately not.
Anyway I think I have saved it with a glaze of the original Russ grey. Will try fenrisian grey for next highlight. Dude underneath is pretty much done too but will be getting drowned in blood for the blood god.

You should consider putting some colour onto that base. There isn't much contrast between the grey of the shark and the base.
You could make the metal panel rusty or give it a mossy green look.

Cheers for the tip. As you may have noticed from my entry a couple of months ago I do a really simple cobblestone for all my Carnevale bases.

That being said there will definitely be loads of blood on this one too and I could add a barrel or two as I have some really small ones that I have no idea what else to use for.

Is it a must to have a theme? because i would like to put Abaddon in.

Yes, the entry should in some way reflect the theme. Doesn't have to be a literal interpretation and is always open to imagination, but there should be at least some connection between the theme and the piece you choose to enter, otherwise there's little point having one.

Save abaddon for another month.

True, thank you.

For this month's entry, I will be painting up an Abyssal Ravager from the Chainmail skirmish game (c. 2000-2002). We started playing this at my FLGS of the time, then abruptly stopped when it became clear that the system was not long for this world. As a result, I have a nice little warband of Gnolls painted up, and then a few models from the second wave that made it to the assembly and primer stage before falling by the wayside; this fierce fellow is one of those.

Early progress.

So I started with the scatter camouflage pattern, but found that my edging highlight was too bright, so here is the Wave Serpent in mid-correction (with the overly bright blue at the rear).


The wraith bone underside.


Cheers,

CB

Looking good Cap, always a fan of the bone coloured undercarriage.

Hello and Welcome Tim the Biovore

Interesting story behind you owning that model Oryza, I hope the 17 year wait was worth it

About time I got around to deciding what I'm doing and posting a proof. I'm going along the same lines a Jadenim and going for some Snakebite Ork Cold One Riders

Ride'em Orkboyz there Midget Gems.

My progress:




Cheers,

CB

Nice choice MG, looking forward to those snakebites.

I'm going with Beastmen this month, definitely the warthog thing and maybe some of the others time permitting

More progress.


Still lots to do (like the shield jewels), but it is starting to look like a Wave Serpent that could grace the table top.

The long painting war continues...

CB

I'm going to do a creature that is both animal AND vegetable - Swamp Thing.



I think he fits - he's completely connected to the wild world of nature and the swamp, to the extent that he can feel the presence of every plant on the planet through "the green" and if I remember correctly, can even regrow himself from any plant. He's also the star of arguably the greatest run of superhero comics ever written - Alan Moore's run on the Swamp Thing books. There's an outstanding appearance from Batman in there too.

The miniature itself is a typical Knight Models nightmare. He's a big lump of metal that absolutely does not fit together. One of the joins between shoulder and torso was so bad I had to cut a large chunk of it off and re-sculpt it with green stuff. Now it's primed, I don't think you can tell which one it was, can you?

The right one? Ironically because the join is more visible on the left, which I guess is the one you haven’t “adjusted”?


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Note that I don’t think it looks bad at all, either way.

Started my conversion, not much so far apart from a head swap and some weapon swaps. Going to be painting it in a sub assembly because this lady's cloak is fiddly to paint if she was fully built.

Felt

That reminds me of tarman from return of the living dead

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The right one? Ironically because the join is more visible on the left, which I guess is the one you haven’t “adjusted”?


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Note that I don’t think it looks bad at all, either way.

Thanks. I can't remember which one it was now! It was ages ago I built and primed it, but never got around to painting it until now. I remember sculpting vines and trying to match them up with the ones already on the miniature.

Rybrook - Yeah, I can see that. A more buff version of him, maybe? But then when Swamp Thing later grows a big plant beard he looks like a buff Alan Moore, so I don't know what that means.

Manfred von Richtohofen, Der Rote Kampffleiger. Finished. This was super fun to do and now I can't stop looking at more busts to do in the future.

I tried to be freer with my paint, doing a lot of mixing and wet blending on the model itself. The larger scale means you don't have to force the contrast as much while highlighting to acheive a realistic look, but by the same token I did force the contrast a lot more than the box art when it came to shadowed areas.

I also had fun going crazy with stippling and drybrushing too, and used some oils on the jacket. For his metal cane topper I used ak interactive true metal polish paint.

The other pro to this piece is that I can display it on my living room mantlepiece, unlike my warhammer stuff which is too geeky for my wife's liking ha.

Excellent job on the Red Baron! You whacked that one out fast!

Yeah I got sent on a course with work so I had many hours free in the evenings, and I found the larger scale easier to work quickly with.

Nicely done QAR! I'm struggling to find time right now to knock this one out as well; it's the end of my summer term and I've got so much on my plate it's brutal.

Beautiful queen_annes_revenge,

Mrs. Captain Brown would never let me put that up in the house, anywhere.

More progress.




Cheers,

CB

Great to see progress everybody, these models are looking good. QAR, that's a great bust - really well done to get it finished this quickly.

I would share a WIP shot of my phoenix, but it's at that early stage in the paint process with some base colours blocked in where it looks pretty awful and I wonder what on earth I'm doing, so I think I'll hold off on sharing it! I think I'm reasonably well on course to get it done in the next week or two.

Well if it’s not too late I’ll join I need too. I was planning on painting this guy anyway and had base coated him in mournfang brown earlier this week and haven’t gotten any further yet. Getting to sit and paint for about an hour now, so hopefully some progress.

Nice Captain Brown, that camo looks awesome.

Good luck every one!.

Here's a WIP, shouldn't be too much longer then will be finished

Got to paint for about two hours last night, so a bit of progress on Mr. Moo.
p

At about 3-4 hours of painting into the Minotaur now, I think he’s coming along well.