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So the FLGS does painting comps for the free mini of the month, one week speed paints. Decided to push to get this guy done. Tried to work some directional splatter on the gore. DW was a bad choice for the armor chipping, and the black line under the silver just matches the armor. Oh well. Done.

Still might do the necrons this month, but really need to focus on the soulblight for the summer comp.

We are off to a flying start. Lot of good in here already.

Including some finished minis! Looks good Nev, he's definitely got the look of a weathered veteran. The splatter of snow up his legs is a nice touch and something I've always forgotten on my 120+ snow-based imperial guardsmen.

Great job Daia T'nara - wonderful dirty muted palette - and testament to what you can do with washes, a happy accident for sure.

Stoked for the big clay boys and that lovely gobsmasha to get some love Syro and theCrowe!

I've had these $2 crates from DAISO sitting around for a while so today I stuck some gubbins on them and primed them up for the contest.

Not going to be the world's prettiest paintjob - I have limited patience for painting at the best of times and terrain has always been a slog - but that's kind of the point this month right?



Good luck to everyone!

 Nevelon wrote:
DW was a bad choice for the armor chipping, and the black line under the silver just matches the armor. Oh well. Done.

Back in the day when I gave chipping on black armor a try my solution for that was to use a dark grey green for a base and shade. Something granite. I don't even remember the paint's name anymore. Shame GW discontinued it.

It's still dark and a contrast to silver, but also looks noticeably different to black. Worked decently for me.

Got some base coats down last night.

Does anyone have any experience with making washes out of craft paint? I think my next step is going to be to dunk them in a bucket each of black and brown wash.

Going to attempt to finish and weather one or more of these vehicles

 tzurk wrote:
Got some base coats down last night.

Does anyone have any experience with making washes out of craft paint? I think my next step is going to be to dunk them in a bucket each of black and brown wash.

I have never made a buckets worth for dunking but the method I use is I take an old paint pot and I start with a 5 to 1 water/paint ratio and the smallest drop of dish washing soap. Give it a good a mix and then I start applying to a test piece and add paint or water as needed to get the right effect. Cycling back to the bucket, I would recommend just making smaller batches and apply with a brush. Those look like large pieces so you would need a decent size bucket of wash and then you would be left trying to store the excess wash. On the plus side if you could store it you would probably have enough wash for the rest of your life.


Base coats on and time for weathering.

The rear part of fishing boat is completed

 halfling84 wrote:
The rear part of fishing boat is completed

Wow. Very impressive weathering.

First proper attempt at using chipping medium and streaking grime.

I feel more could be done (going to watch some tutorials before the next sentinel) but it’s done and will form part or all of my entry for this month.

My Bone Dragon is coming along:

Plenty left to do on this undead beastie, but it's getting there.

 Nevelon wrote:

 halfling84 wrote:
The rear part of fishing boat is completed

Wow. Very impressive weathering.

Thanks

The boat is almost completed, the only things left are rope with hook for the crane and some proper base, better than the current one . It was very fun to paint, and I like the effect. I was planning to add some sailors, but the boat looks like it is abandoned for a very long time.

We are getting about halfway though the month. Plan your progress appropriately.

Also, any ideas on what to do for September?

 Nevelon wrote:

Also, any ideas on what to do for September?

"All Your Base Are Belong to Us"
A model with an extravagant base. Or a model that is part of a military base or is adept at infiltrating or destroying such bases. It could also be a model of a conqueror such as Genghis Khan or even Julius Caesar who once declared "I came, I saw, all their base are belong to me!" - or something along those lines. Noise Marines or other units armed with sonic weapons are also acceptable entries since all your bass are belong to them.

"Somebody Set Up Us the Bomb"
A model that deals with explosives or sabotage. It could also be a character that's a master of deception who could work his way into a position to set up you the bomb. It could also be an exploded piece of scenery or a destroyed/derelict military base that is now belong to us.

"For Great Justice"
Police? Palanite Enforcers? Vigilantes? Judges? All are acceptable entries for this theme of seeking or enacting justice against those who set up you the bomb. Any who hunt down and punish criminal scum fit this theme. As the great philosopher Robocop once said, "Your move creep!"

NOTE: All the above potential themes come from the English translation of a Sega Megadrive game called "Zero Wing" that was released in Europe and contains some of the greatest meme material of all time.

Maybe "playing with toys" or something similar? Paint a toy as a terrain, or for example rubber dinosaur as wargaming model. Also soldiers with their favourite weapon or vehicle, Orks with everything hey have, chaos followers or genestealers being toys in the hands of their gods. Dark Eldar or Slaanesh followers with their slave.

 ShadowsAndDust wrote:

 Nevelon wrote:

Also, any ideas on what to do for September?

"All Your Base Are Belong to Us"
A model with an extravagant base. Or a model that is part of a military base or is adept at infiltrating or destroying such bases. It could also be a model of a conqueror such as Genghis Khan or even Julius Caesar who once declared "I came, I saw, all their base are belong to me!" - or something along those lines. Noise Marines or other units armed with sonic weapons are also acceptable entries since all your bass are belong to them.

"Somebody Set Up Us the Bomb"
A model that deals with explosives or sabotage. It could also be a character that's a master of deception who could work his way into a position to set up you the bomb. It could also be an exploded piece of scenery or a destroyed/derelict military base that is now belong to us.

"For Great Justice"
Police? Palanite Enforcers? Vigilantes? Judges? All are acceptable entries for this theme of seeking or enacting justice against those who set up you the bomb. Any who hunt down and punish criminal scum fit this theme. As the great philosopher Robocop once said, "Your move creep!"

NOTE: All the above potential themes come from the English translation of a Sega Megadrive game called "Zero Wing" that was released in Europe and contains some of the greatest meme material of all time.

I love this so much.

@halfling84: holy heck that is impressive!

A fitting theme, as I'm in the middle of a "vehicle boom". Started painting an Immolator for my veeeery slowly growing SoB army.
Also building a Death Guard walker kitbash, but that will take way longer than the challenge allows. So I'm going with the Immolator.

Here's the proof. Picture taken a little over a week ago.


Work in progress. It looks very clean currently. So... time for oils and enamels!



It will not be overly weathered, but I want it to look like a machine of war.
Trying to rehearse the weathering steps we were taught at a workshop by Gregor Pilarski a couple of months back.

The boat is gorgeous, halfling84! Love the consistent weathering across the two primary colours - looks suitably lived in and worked on!

Great start Ezki - looking forward to seeing the progress on the tank, and the stained glass window looks super promising!

Thank you for the tips Peterhausenn - I had definitely meant buckets in a figurative sense but I used your recipe - would never have thought to add dish soap!

They're sitting here at the moment. They are darker in real life - think the lighting and the camera were playing off each other. Think next step is to sponge on some highlighting and then go back and re-wash a bit more carefully around panelling etc.





Fun stuff,

The first four peacekeepers are essentially finished:





There are still a few models remaining in the set. I'll get as many as I can done this month, take better photos at better angles of whichever I decide are the best.

 tzurk wrote:

Thank you for the tips Peterhausenn - I had definitely meant buckets in a figurative sense but I used your recipe - would never have thought to add dish soap!

My pleasure, it looks like it turned out well. To be honest I'm not sure how much the dish soap helps, but that is something I read a while back when I first tried to do this. I don't think it hurts anything so I keep doing it.


And speaking of washes, I have completed the wash stage on my model as well. Next steps will be to build up some highlights and add some rusting.

That scale mail soaks up the wash really well. Will look great highlighted up!

@JoshinJapan, lovely colours on your band so far. Love the simple but well executed basing to tie them together too.

Been playing around with the best way to get photos of the terrain, and I've gone from too light to too dark, but this captures where we're at with the weathering much better. I'll show them off together and spoiler the rest for cause there's quite a few massive pics.

Just some detail work to do now - pipes and lenses and so on. Though I've also got half a jar of Vallejo Thick Mud that I'm tempted to use to crust up the bottom sections and cake around the greebling...we'll probably see how we're going for time at the back end of the month.

@tzurk: Thanks! That's my go-to basing-- white glue+sand, with a couple layers of drybrushed browns. Normally, I'd add some tufts, but the only ones I currently have are too big for these bases. I'm really liking your cheaphammer buildings so far. They'll look great on the tabletop.

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Papa bless and keep you!

@inmygravenimage
The models look great. Out of curiosity, is there a significance to your models have different colored bases?


Added some rusting and started to work on the highlights.

Thanks! Yeah, it's so they're clearly marked as different positionals for Blood Bowl. A holdover from 2nd ed.

Ezki, tzurk - thanks

The boat is finished. It was experiment, and the results exceeded my expectations

halfling84 - abandoned fishing boat

https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/817256.page

Poll for next month’s topic is up

Five figures...1/72 scale.



Cheers,

CB

Let's gooo CB!

I'm calling painting finished here. Will see if we get time to add some weathering.

Turns out they stack up nicely together too - happy accidents!

Behold, the Immolator! - The Dawn of War voiceline lives rent free in my head

Finished pictures. Immolator


A bit more weathered than your usual Sororitas vehicle. But this thing fights in the front, so it's bound to take a few dings here and there.

Crossing the North Atlantic can leave you Weathered.





Cheers,

CB