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 Jadenim wrote:
I probably ought to take some photos of the miniatures I finished two weeks ago!

Now don't be hasty. There's still time to procrastinate some more.

Speaking of procrastinating... I guess I'll enter this thing sooner or later.
Ship-based combatant? Check.
Trained to fight on land or at sea? Check.
Unhealthy obsession with his standard issue Ka-Bar knife? Check.
In Spaaaaaace? Check!
Proof:

and here's a WIP:

He's basecoated by now, but there's still a whole lot of details, highlighting, and shading to be done in the next few days (plus the base!)
Nice entries so far everyone, and good luck to all like me who are still scrambling to get something across the finish line.

 Gulgog TufToof wrote:
Speaking of procrastinating... I guess I'll enter this thing sooner or later.
Ship-based combatant? Check.
Trained to fight on land or at sea? Check.
Unhealthy obsession with his standard issue Ka-Bar knife? Check.
In Spaaaaaace? Check!

Spoiler:

Proof:

and here's a WIP:

He's basecoated by now, but there's still a whole lot of details, highlighting, and shading to be done in the next few days (plus the base!)
Nice entries so far everyone, and good luck to all like me who are still scrambling to get something across the finish line.

Kommandos are always a great choice, but I hope you can paint quickly. I'm curious to see what the base will look. Some kind of ship interior would sell the whole marines in space vibe.

A Famous 90s DJ

 theCrowe wrote:
A Famous 90s DJ

Very nice. I really like Harlequins in monochrome.

Monochrome harlis are cool. And the only way I’d personally be able to paint them. I tried some different schemes back in the day, none worked well. Maybe someday I’ll try again.

Almost there!

Bases and decals left to do, but everyone is off the handles.

I had to downsize my entry due to many and varied commitments in the latter half of the month. On the bright side, as soon as I was no longer batch painting, I felt a whole lot better about it. Guess mass battle games aren't really for me.

Imperial Fists Rhino:

XvArcanevX wrote:Lovely submissions.

My mini is still in the model cupboard, still wearing nothing but a coat of primer.

I’ve just not got it in me this month, I seem to have lost my ‘mojo’ a little for some reason. I think I just need a bit of a break. I’ll be here to vote for you all.

Nevelon wrote:
Would an extra day help? I can give you an extension.

It’s only a marine. You can speed-paint one drunk in a couple hours. Grab a brush and shake off those blahs!

Or not. Whatever you need to do to be happy. Cheers!

Thanks for the offer Nev. I reckon it’s passed that point for me. Even if I did some slap chop approach I’d still probably not finish it up now. I’ll sit this one out and enjoy seeing the results and votes come in!

I've fully painted a grand total of one Fire Dragon. Four more aren't far behind, but I may have left it a bit late to get everything done on them (unless I go ham on them in the next couple of days). Still, I at least have one little guy that I'm very happy with, so he'll be entered whatever happens.

I had so many cool tempting ideasto paint for Space Marines this month, but I've been so busy and tired that nothing has even been started. I'll see if I can bang out this single head swapped Dark Angels sargent, this weekend.

And done.

Start wrapping things up folks, almost out of time.

Great entries all around. Here's my contribution:






Unfortunately I won't get a chance to finish it properly within the month... It's about 85% complete here.

Hi all, I'm away with work tomorrow so will get final pics up on the evening of the 1st April if that's ok.

Busy time with the house extension taking most of my focus atm. For this month I went for a minor conversion for a custom chapter Honour Guard, I've hidden most of the larger Ultramarines sigils but cant get rid of them all.

Knights Sanguine Space Marines Honour Guard



Just got to finish up the bases, swords, banner and gold highlights when I'm in the hotel tomorrow night

Ok, we can go an extra day to give people a little more time. I’ll close this up over breakfast on the 2nd.

Tada - allmost finished - but that has to suffice - I don`t have time left...sry.

Here is my Space Ma...-wait a second. He has got to be somewhere arround here.
I swear I left him standing there for a second - primed, based, shadows with contrast paints, highlights and all.

Oh damned - I got a suspicion coming up....









And Seargent Ugly S. Fuk:

Ok, we can go an extra day to give people a little more time. I’ll close this up over breakfast on the 2nd.

Thanks Nev, I think I'll need it. Wasn't sure what to do for this month so decided to join in with all the Ultramarines being done this month

proof and progress so far

Thought about joining the revolution with something from my two space elf armies (Eldar and Dark Eldar), but ended up painting a Pan Oceania Fusilier from the Infinity miniature game.
They are soldiers and they fight on various planets, therefore also in space. And I guess they could be marines as well. So I guess she's somewhat fitting for Space Marine!

Proof





I wanted to go with an alternate take on this one.

As the gamers among you might recognize, the color scheme is very much inspired by D'va from Overwatch, even though I took a lot of liberties (such as the pink metro camo).
I've never actually played the game nor know much about it, but I liked the colors of the character.

I wanted to portray this miniature as two different characters: a cosplayer from our day, cosplaying an alternate and dystopian version of D'va as a regular soldier from another universe.

The shading is done mostly by stippling, as I wanted to produce a bit rougher texture. This might represent foam / worbla or any other similar material from which the armour and weapon could have been made.
Also wanted to break the very smooth look of most Infinity models I've seen, even though it looks very fitting and cool most of the time!

Currently the base just a round display plinth. I'm thinking of creating a larger display base for it, but I'm not sure how to do it yet. Likely something representing a cosplay contest stage.
Anyway, I'm calling it done for now, as the idea needs a lot of refining. Plus I kinda like the clean look of the plinth!





Finished pictures.
I think I'm calling this "From another world".






A bonus scale comparison picture. A friend of mine suggested that I should start doing these every now and then.



Good luck for the final stretch!

I ended up having a lot less time than I thought this month but I managed to get in under the wire with this Titus! I had a blast painting this guy, and probably would have been too scared to attempt it without the challenge, so I'm glad I tried. I also got to practice a few techniques I've been afraid to attempt in the past like facial hair and freehand chapter symbols/letters, thanks in no small part to how obnoxious Ultramarine decals are on rounded shoulderpads.

Good luck to everyone else in the home stretch, the submissions I've seen so far are looking great!

P.s. I hope I uploaded the images correctly, last time I did them I was advised to upload them to my gallery and link them here, so please let me know if I should do something differently!

Small edit: I saw the deadline was extended slightly and I found some more time today, so I got a chance to fix a few of the things I wasn't super jazzed about and added a little weathering.

Well, first one finished in a very long time!

Congrats to everyone - a lot of really great work!

Anyhow, here is my terminator - straight-forward Blood Angel that reminds me of the original Space Hulk that got me into the hobby oh-so-many years ago. I forgot how much the photos 'wash out' the shading - I'll have to try be much more aggressive with it next month!







It feels good to have finished.
Good luck everyone!

Procrastination over! Time for Papa's pestilent Plague Marines:

Some fantastic stuff coming in!

Glad we've got an extra day, I might actually get a second Fire Dragon done! I've very nearly finished the exarch...

Here's Dante finished up. Hopefully this is the right spot to post him.

Finally got around to pictures.
War peeg heavy suppprt tank proof, hopefully not too far along to count:


And finished:

I love the variety of entries rolling in, great work everyone!

Here's my green space marine finished:

I'm glad we have the extra day, as I'm too tired to take nice pictures tonight. All hail our benevolent overlord Nevelon!

I'll have my pics tomorrow. The models are done already, but like I said I'm just too worn out right now to set up my lightbox and take photos.

Ultramarines Through the Years:

From left to right: LE2 Imperial Space Marine (1985), Plastic 2nd Edition Marine (1993), 3rd Edition Tactical Squad (1998), Space Marine Heroes Series 1 (2017), Horus Heresy MKVI Marine (2023)

Hey all

My entry for this month.

Finished just in time last night, there's been some nice weather lately and got distracted from painting.

Struggled with the head, too much caffeine again when painting, I'll need to stick to tea or hot chocolate one night and try and neaten them up.

Nice stuff folks!

We’ve got the extension, so you have about 24 hours to wrap things up from the time of this post.

But go get painting on April:
https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/816204.page

Heres my final pics, overall middle happy with how they turned out, I didn't want to/couldn't grind all the U symbols off the models so managed to cover the larger ones best I could, painting is ok could do with a few mnore details in areas and would have lights to spend more time on the blending the weapons, I tried marble effect on the base quite was again ok but not perfect. Just happy I got something done during a busy time in RL.

Knights Sanguine Honour Guard

Didn't have as much time as I thought I would, so just got this marine up to tabletop standard for this month. Really must start these challenges earlier in the month