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Normally, I am loathe to share WIP photos, but I've put so much time into these dudes already that I feel that I almost have to:]



The flaming skulls look pretty good on their own, but once attached to these chunky bodies, they looked tiny and very much out of place. I tried sculpting some flames to try and tie all the parts together. I think it worked OK, but the real proof will be in the painting.

Looking good Josh!

I have finished my Space Wolves marine, here are my five pictures:

 JoshInJapan wrote:
Normally, I am loathe to share WIP photos, but I've put so much time into these dudes already that I feel that I almost have to:]



The flaming skulls look pretty good on their own, but once attached to these chunky bodies, they looked tiny and very much out of place. I tried sculpting some flames to try and tie all the parts together. I think it worked OK, but the real proof will be in the painting.

I don't think so at all, it makes them look bulky in a good way.
I used to do the same with skulls from the skullbox placed on the bodies of StD units to make my own vampire-coven before the vampire faction was released for AoS.

Good stuff.

Flames look good to me, both in quality and in placement.

Same. Nice touches but not overpowering. Now how much OSL is going to be gone for?

Thanks, everyone. I'm still very much a novice at sculpting, so the positive feedback is nice.

 Flinty wrote:
Same. Nice touches but not overpowering. Now how much OSL is going to be gone for?

That's very much up in the air at the moment.

Finished the next three old metal Harlequins.








Cheers,

CB

Bloody Nora it's already the 14th, I better pick something to paint and get cracking.

Some lovely entries so far, nice work on the Harlequins CB!

@JoshInJapan those flaming skull priests are awesome!

I think I'm pretty much done with mine, only the bases need a little more work. Sadly my camera broke, so for now here's some less-than-great pics from my phone:




Should be able to get some better photos by next week.

Love the patterning. Great spots.

Lotsa good stuff so far. Harlies are always fun to see, and the spots are spot-on, so to speak.

I made some progress on the Burning Men:


All the non-fire stuff is painted as if it isn't burning. I'll paint the flames and then try to figure out the OSL.

I finished one of the Burning Men:


I don't want to clog up the thread, so I'm only posting this one photo. There are more photos from different angles in my P&M Blog.

OK, on the move. Trying to hold myself to at least one layer a day. Slow but steady progress. Browns down tonight.

 Syro_ wrote:
DJ is that a mind flayer pin-up in the center?

Finally posting my start photos:





A lightly converted Phobos Lieutenant and four flamethrower marines for this scorchio challenge!

Butros Butros-Ghali.

The Burning Men are pretty much finished:



There are more photos in my P&M blog if you're interested. I'm not entirely satisfied with the molten metal weapons, and I may or may not go back and see if I can't improve them. I'll post final photos in a few days, after I finish their bases.

We're in the last third of the month and summer has returned with a vengeance. Some may like it hot but my paints and brushes sure don't, so my already plodding progress has been slowed even further.

The upside is that I have time to get next month's entry into a paintable state. But I sure hope temperatures drop again later this week. Painting works so much better when the paint doesn't dry on the way to the miniature.

 JoshInJapan wrote:
There are more photos in my P&M blog if you're interested. I'm not entirely satisfied with the molten metal weapons, and I may or may not go back and see if I can't improve them. I'll post final photos in a few days, after I finish their bases.

I like the weapons, but I have no idea how something like that would realistically look. White hot metal that shines brighter than the flames coming from them? Just a little brighter orange or yellow? I do like the look they have now, though. It gives them a nice, unified overall appearance.

I really ought to take photos; I finished on Friday...

 Jadenim wrote:
I really ought to take photos; I finished on Friday...

You get your procrastination in where you can. Take your time. If everyone gets done early, it makes the rest of us look bad.

Same here dw, I'm in a shin destroying summer camp (already 2nd day my right leg is unusable for the remainder :/ ) and 4 more days to go, so I have no time (nor energy) to work on my entry until the 27th.

Month is ticking away, try to keep up the pace.

If people are trying to plan out the rest of their year, we are actually mostly set due to this month’s tie.

September: Sun’s Out, Guns Out
October: Halloween Special
November: <still need to set poll and vote>
December: Open Round.

So if you have stuff cluttering up your workbench, and can plan ahead, 3/4ths of the next competitions are already set. Feel free to earmark project for the months to help your overall workflow and goals. I’ll start accepting bribes mid-October if you want to get a fix in for November.

I'm calling these guys done:

Burning Men

Okay, I'm throwing my hat in the ring this month with this hideous fire Oni nice lady...

Struggling to paint my three little guys as my son has dropped another deffdread on my painting desk. Didn’t think to take a before pic but it doesn’t even have a flamer so whatever.

I’ve got two of them done nearly so we’ll see if the old box-set plastic guy gets any further before the deadline.

High Elf Sword Masters


Proof, white rims were ebay rescues primed white, black rims are a separate, blank ebay set.

(Some testing in the background, progressing in general)


Progress



Will probably submit 5 at black rimmed tabletop stage, hopefully.

Nice going all

Older proof

Hi All

The Meks have been on holiday this month so haven't had a chance to get much done and after a couple of bigger conversion a break has been nice.

They have managed to coble something together.

A Scorcha Buggy, Proof






Also league table updated

https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/732117.page#9481149

Here's some better pictures. Still getting used to the new camera, but it's miles better than the smartphone pictures already.

A Harem Girl and a Courtesan from Wargods of Aegyptus. To me it looked like they're wearing bikinis, so I went with that.
Working titel: Beach Kitties.

I have definitely made progress although no photos to show for it.. will try to take some tomorrow

Elemental is painted and varnish is drying. Pics before the deadline.