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Damn, those are some sweet looking entries. It makes me wish I would have entered this month with all the fun you guys are having. Oh well, based on the poll for next month, I'll have an excuse to finally do a Magella Attack Tank from Mobile Suit Gundam for next month's contest.

Valkir done:

Heres mine, my take on the original Baal Predator

I'll try and add my entry later today. Almost done!

@QAR Per your suggestion, I've tweaked the tires a bit and added a bit more weathering to bring back some of that grit that was lost from the repeated coats of Purity Seal!

EDIT: (OG post with finished photo has also been amended, so either-or will work for final shots.)

gak, that Chaplain is AMAZING! Great work DV8!

 Horla wrote:

 Viterbi wrote:
And with the driver in no one will ever know he has a nice leather seat

You'll know and that's the important thing. The amount of time I spend on details that will become obscured by other parts, weathering or basing materials is ridiculous. But it's important to me!

I shy away from Rhino insides, but it feels good knowing the seat is there. And I'm happy you are dedicated to the details.

I'm done with my entry, just need to do the glamour shots this evening.

Great entries, everyone!

Well, my goal to avoid leaving things until the last minute failed miserably!
I have to come up with some kind of strategy to force myself to paint early in the month...

Anyhow, here are the first marines for a new army that I am starting this year (I'm starting another this coming month as well!).
I'm thinking of simply calling them Rising Sun but maybe I will think of something better soon.
The captain is painted with a bit more care whilst the others are super-fast so that I can churn them out over the next couple of months.
The idea is that the more senior the marine, the more red is on their armour.

Hope you like him!






All the best to everyone and see you next month...errr....tomorrow!

Leaving it to the last minute as appears to be my style these days...

Dark Vengeance Dark Angels Terminator - to go with my one from the same time last year....

Proof (on left, last year on right)


Current state if I don't make it in time



Catchya,
Arakasi

Those guys are awesome Chris, Samurai Marines are something you don't see nearly enough of and the red and white is striking!

Nice neat work on that Terminator, Arakasi! Feels like only yesterday my mind was blown by the awesome Dark Vengeance plastics, but no doubt someone will be along soon to remind me that it was the better part of a decade ago...

As for my own entry, he was mostly done a week or so ago but since then, I've really struggled to finish him to a point where I'm actually happy with the end result. This is the first smaller, more detailed model I've attempted to paint to my best standard for a while, and it's been a struggle as my eyes still aren't what they were (fingers crossed I should be getting some new contact lenses shortly, which might help). Overall, I'm really very pleased with the colours, they've come out exactly how I wanted and it looks good at arms' length, it's just up close that it gets messy.

Sons of Horus Captain, sporting a small Luna Wolves badge as a nod to the Legion's former identity. In my head this is somewhere around the Istvaan massacre, hence the corpse on the base featuring Emperor's Children colours.


Any thoughts welcome! Please bear with me on getting the admin done for this round, I don't think I can quite match
Nevelon's efficiency!

Ooh, I really like how that turquoise and red go together, Para. I didn't get nearly as much done as I hoped, only managing to finish the squad sergeant.

Pictures:



I'm kinda ashamed of the freehanded chapter symbol, but I don't have enough time to even out the quarters.

Still unable to get my wife's camera to set the focus on the stuff I want focused (although have some nice sharp images of the surrounding terrain ) so the phone's camera it is instead. Here are my final pics:

I'm going to call He Man done before I run out of time to submit - not entirely happy with my first ever go at battle damage on black armour, and the photos have shown me there's something odd going on with the face, but overall I think he looks the part...

And here's my Greater Possessed - overall a bit tired this month so I managed to finish just one of these dudes. Fun minis to paint tho!

I only managed one Inceptor this month. So, here he is:

Another last minute entry. I have been way too distracted with video gaming recently and had to knock the bases out today.

Feedback is welcome as always but these are nothing special just some quick troops. I did paint the eyes on the seargent but they are kind of looking down so you cant really tell in the pics, plus blurry face, sorry about that.
I got the 5 intercessors painted too just havent done their bases yet.

Blood angels getting heavy rep this month...

Great to see all the entries coming in! Amazed by all the red too!

Okay, hear me out.

Sooooooo, a "Marine" is just another word for a soldier really, isn't it? And "Space" doesn't have to mean outer space. Could it perhaps refer to a small space? So my "Space Marines" are a couple of soldiers who operate in very small spaces - Rat Soldiers from Mice and Mystics.



I know, I know. It's pretty spurious. I recently got hired on a probabtionary basis as a painter for Siege Studios, so all my painting time has been taken up this month painting a large Marine army - hours and hours every day. I don't have the time or the willpower to paint another space marine of that type right now, but I do have an urge to try out a Grisaille method on these guys so I can play the board game with my family, and this is the only way I'm going to get an entry in this month to keep my streak going.

Is my justification too tenuous? I throw myself on the mercy of the jury.

 feltmonkey wrote:
Okay, hear me out.

Sooooooo, a "Marine" is just another word for a soldier really, isn't it? And "Space" doesn't have to mean outer space. Could it perhaps refer to a small space? So my "Space Marines" are a couple of soldiers who operate in very small spaces - Rat Soldiers from Mice and Mystics.

Is my justification too tenuous? I throw myself on the jury.

Get it done and let the voting decide, can't have you missing a round

My Finished Pics of the Knights Sanguine Space Marines, I feel this was better than previous month for me.

I'm not on a jury, but I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night. I say go for it.

'Fraid I'm gonna have to bow out this month. Again. I'm just not finding the inspiration I need, and I'm not likely to find it in the next 12 hours so...

Cheers MG and JazzyJeff.

It's too late to take photos now, so I'm going to take and post them in the morning if that's okay.

It's still March somewhere on the planet, right?



I spent so much time struggling with this one that I didn't manage to finish the other two marines. I'm not really happy with it, the gem effect on the eye lenses didn't work and the edge highlights are sloppy. I'll get you next time, black armour painting technique.....

Final Images in the spoiler.

Round 74 is go, I'll leave this one open a few hours more to catch any stragglers.
https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/0/797319.page#11091659

I should have an updated pic before then...

Well here they are. An embarassingly poor entry, but a streak-maintaining exercise really. Sorry everybody.

Rat Soldiers from Mice and Mystics







If you knew how many hours I've spent this month painting Space Marines I'm not allowed to post, you'd understand.

Okay - this is as close as I am going to get:

Dark Vengeance Dark Angels Terminator



Catchya,
Arakasi

And that's all, folks! Calling this done, vote coming soon.

Go vote!
https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/0/797398.page#11094189