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Wow, very impressive work everyone! My favourite is probably Power Elephant's trooper, it looks so naturally water-coloured. Here's my entry, painted and assembled.



For your information, the 414th Cadian are deployed by Adeptus Astra Telepathica to hunt for mushrooms, as explained in my blog here on Dakka. The giant stag beetle is just one of many dangerous animals that they encounter in their duties.

Haha nice. Shoot that MF!

Took this pic a few days ago, forgot to post it! My proof pic:

I'm entering a Dark Angels Primaris Master. It's based on the limited edition Primaris Captain with Power Fist and Plasma Pistol, but I added some Dark Angels stuff (like a winged helmet) to make him look more unique.

queen_annes_revenge wrote:Finished. Busts are awesome. 4 days to finish this as opposed to 2-4 weeks for a single 28mm miniature. Weird.

The bust looks very nice QAR! I'm usually of the opinion because busts are of a larger scale, the details are less finicky. There's a lot more room to work with where you can really just lay in with a brush. I find I'm also much more textural with my paint (brush strokes, blends that aren't as smooth, etc.) on larger pieces too which makes them paint much faster than single minis would.

Power Elephant wrote:Proof pic and WIP. Really it's already done, I just need to make a base for it. The original plan was to have it be a part of a diorama, and in fact I have already made most of it. I have, however, decided to get a few more models and basing materials to put onto the diorama, so I will finish it at a later date. For now I will just make a base for this model so I can enter it here, and then put the model back onto the diorama at a later date.

Really love the textural work on this guy, especially the back of his jacket! Looking forward to seeing the full diorama!

Bane's Crew is finished. While I hated the casts and the material, painting these guys up was a lot of fun and I'm really happy with the results. It was also a nice break from the previous months of army grind to paint 5 (6 if you count the bear) unique models, even if the colors were similar.

 DV8 wrote:

queen_annes_revenge wrote:Finished. Busts are awesome. 4 days to finish this as opposed to 2-4 weeks for a single 28mm miniature. Weird.

The bust looks very nice QAR! I'm usually of the opinion because busts are of a larger scale, the details are less finicky. There's a lot more room to work with where you can really just lay in with a brush. I find I'm also much more textural with my paint (brush strokes, blends that aren't as smooth, etc.) on larger pieces too which makes them paint much faster than single minis would.

Yeah this is definitely the case.

Wauv! some really good stuff this month!

I can feel December running past us fast, and with Christmas and the family holidays coming up, I'm not 100% sure I'll finish that admiral in time. Since I missed my entry last month, and I don't want to end up late again, I have decided to finish something tonight.

Proof of life:

I have made progress...I think that I will drop most of the magnetized weapons and extras until I get the two tanks finished.



Cheers,

CB

A fun little project. I somehow forgot all about paint thickness and my wet pallet in the late hours, but I think there is a potential at least. He needs a few layers on the base and his hands and other small areas need rescue after the base work/sloppy brushes, also better pictures. Let us see what December brings, he got done in the late hours of a single night, from conception to (almost) completion, so I declare victory non the less . I imagine a lone guardsman, conscripted from an affluent mining world rich with lesser minerals. He got caught on an ancient spacehulk, where he sadly starved to death, lonely and cold. Before getting back up again. He doesn't taste great, which is why he isn't more mauled.

Well I don't have a ton of time for this month, but I thought I would chip away at some DnD minis I got months ago that are sitting on the old shelf.

Proof pic (hope the one color is ok, i forget the rules!)

The sculpting tools I ordered for the morgraur still haven't arrived yet so I'm going to need to change my entry. Here's the new proof pic, we have 3 gifted and one black lamp from Carnevale.

I will enter with a full unit of Frontoviks, need more force for my TAK sectorial.

Got most of the base coats down this afternoon, washes and details tomorrow.

Still plugging away. Hope to finish before the weekend’s over.

So, as with last year, I think I’m going to do some terrain over Christmas:



Hope nobody minds that I’d started stippling one tile before I remembered to take a photo.


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And a bit of work in progress; first tile done!

Here's my proof pic. I'm going to paint the new Jain Zar model.



I'm quite trepidatious about painting her, to be honest. She's a complicated, intimidating model. There's a lot that could go wrong.

Here is my finished entry. Some people have been complaining that the pictures I post are too big, so I shrunk these in half. Is this better?

Some really good stuff so far everyone - and we're only halfway through the month!

Finished my entry too. Here she is - Biel-Tan Scorpion super-heavy grav tank:


Remainder of the images in the spoiler:

Yeah some fantastic entries coming in, well done Bellerophon and power elephant.

Here's my current progress, thinking I'm going to have a stab at the osl used on the studio paint job for black lamp shown below. If anyone has any tips I'm all ears.

The number one tip for OSL is to lighten the area where the light is hitting first. This seems obvious, but a lot of painters just jump in with the colour the lamp or whatever is giving off. Also, and this is quite a personal thing, don't use an airbrush. Light does not act the same as paint, and airbrush OSL only ever looks like a squirt of paint, not light coming off something. In my opinion at least.

 feltmonkey wrote:
The number one tip for OSL is to lighten the area where the light is hitting first. This seems obvious, but a lot of painters just jump in with the colour the lamp or whatever is giving off. Also, and this is quite a personal thing, don't use an airbrush. Light does not act the same as paint, and airbrush OSL only ever looks like a squirt of paint, not light coming off something. In my opinion at least.

Cheers Felt monkey. I don't have an airbrush so no worries there. Was planning to highlight the whole coat then go over that with the blue effect so the highest points should already be brighter.

Jamie Shred wrote:

 feltmonkey wrote:
The number one tip for OSL is to lighten the area where the light is hitting first. This seems obvious, but a lot of painters just jump in with the colour the lamp or whatever is giving off. Also, and this is quite a personal thing, don't use an airbrush. Light does not act the same as paint, and airbrush OSL only ever looks like a squirt of paint, not light coming off something. In my opinion at least.

Cheers Felt monkey. I don't have an airbrush so no worries there. Was planning to highlight the whole coat then go over that with the blue effect so the highest points should already be brighter.

That only works if you highlight the jacket as if the lamp were your only light source.

The lamp, as a light source, will create additional highlights on top of whatever other light source (directional or ambient) that is illuminating the model. And simply applying a blue wash will also be insufficiently convincing, IMO (I don't think the studio's blue OSL is terribly convincing either). Light affects color, and you need to mix your colors and apply your highlight colors in consideration of that.

For example, a brown coat being hit by a yellow light (sun) will have a different highlight color than a brown coat being hit by a blue light (lamp), because the two colors are interacting with the object's local color in a different way. And likewise, an area that is being illuminated by both will have another color of highlight.

 Power Elephant wrote:
Here is my finished entry. Some people have been complaining that the pictures I post are too big, so I shrunk these in half. Is this better?

Banging!
Where did you source your scenery bits? The road signs and barriers etc?

Ha-ha! Interesting that osl is the topic just previous - my project this month is all about that...we'll see how it all goes!

Thanks for the input DV8. So are you suggesting mixing the bright blue lamp colour with the black of the coat to make the highlights for the areas lit by the lamp? Then use something more subtle for the rest of the coat highlights?

Real noob when it comes to this so any advice however obvious would be appreciated.

 queen_annes_revenge wrote:

 Power Elephant wrote:
Here is my finished entry. Some people have been complaining that the pictures I post are too big, so I shrunk these in half. Is this better?

Banging!
Where did you source your scenery bits? The road signs and barriers etc?

The barriers are just a wooden stick (the kind that you put meat onto) carved and sanded into something a bit more rectangular.
The signs were printed onto paper and glued onto a straightened aluminium can.
The road is made of plaster that I cut, sanded down and smashed into smaller parts.
By the way, does the pole and the back of the sign look metal to you? I painted them in nmm because the kid had a bit of nmm on him so I didn't want to have both nmm and tmm on the same diorama, but I also didn't want to spend too much time doing the nmm.

Pole looks spot on

Here is my entry for this month, another wargames atlantic skeleton!



He was the king's court musician, both long ago killed, but now he is the hornblower of the wight king's undead army!

(Who knows how he blows that horn without lungs )

It was possible to switch the entry? Because I'll never finish the corvus not even if the time is extended to the end of January

Would instead paint up the primaris psyker baldilocks. Proof pic:

Finished. And with these guys, the last of my primaris Deathwatch Fortis Killteams are complete. Half of them done for the comp here, and enough for a solid, flexible team..


The other KT snuck across my bench between painting the competition works.

But don’t fret, this is not the end of the Deathwatch. I’ve got one squad of normal vets (with all sorts of toys) just waiting for the right month to come out to play...

Wow there are loads of great entries already finished.

I have to pick up the pace. I might have to only do one set of magnetized weapons per tank and leave the alternates to January.

WIP


Cheers,

CB