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Great job! I love those bases. I too make custom sculpted bases. I must have made well over 200 by now.

Edit: stupid new page

Great job! I love those bases. I too make custom sculpted bases. I must have made well over 200 by now.

Thanks, they are quite fun to make while chilling out watching a film

So I have interpreted it as the hordes of imperial soldiery and rebel troops of the Battle of Hoth - plus vehicles and installations.





79 minis is a perfectly reasonable number to enter, right?

Well done, Graven! Suddenly my horde isn't so horde-y

And I thought I was doing well getting 11 little guys done in only half the month!

Still need flock, but almost there.

Started on some ripper swarms to help them clog up the battlefield.

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Month is half over, plan accordingly.

19 clanrats
-1 because I painted 1 earlier this year

KidCthulhu wrote:Well done, Graven! Suddenly my horde isn't so horde-y

Thanks KC I did wonder if I'd bitten off more than I could chew...

Progress

Making much more progress now. Still have to make a base for the last three I intend on entering:



I still need to add woodgrain to the hafts and trim the bases in black... and three primed guys in the back that aren't even started.

My entry is coming along, still plenty to do though:

Got the last three primed and glued onto a wide base. I want to get those three to the same stage as the previous 12 before moving on to what's next.

Daia T'Nara: Rowboat Ultraman and da Grot Primarchs:



In da Imperramum's gratest Hour of Need, dey ave returned.



Da finder of Da Book wot tells ow to be a proper Grot Marine, Rowboat Ultraman, wif Jiggly Kan (ee's jiggly on account of all da bacon butties, do not mock im, ee is grate man) an Fuelkan (ee likes burnin' stuff):



Leakin Rust (wif da Wolf Pelt ov Raggirock, it's not a rat stop saying it's a rat), Sam Wingiest (da wingiest primarch, coz ee's got wings), an Curvy Thorax (wearin da Helmet of Artie B Owen):



Furious Anus (if you ad to scratch wif a metal claw, you'd be angry too), Regal Don (master of Seege Warfare, which is where you stay in da camp coz it's comfy) and Unforgiven Lionel (ee knows what ee did):



And for da First Time Evvar, da mystery Tenth Primarch, Miss Ing (ee's da one wot makes da skinny space marines wif da chest bumps and pretty hair, dunno why oomies fink dis is such a big mystery, but oomies are pretty fick):



Dey are da Grot Marines, and dey fear no nose!

(Noses isn't dat scary really, cept da Warphead when ee sneezes, we do fear dat. But uvverwise, no.)

Hee hee hee! Hilarious write up, Daia T’Nara. What a fun project!

Hey all, a little update

Calling these guys done and about to start some goblins

Hello painting challenge team,

I took the proof photo a few weeks ago with best of intentions and haven't touched a brush since then.

I've got a week off work though, so hopefully that's enough time to churn out some grunts. I have a bunch of troopers for my Ashlander Exodites to paint up.



Let's gooooooo

Keep up the good work everyone!
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I hate rippers. So small and fiddly. Not helped by me cramming 5 on a base for these guys. Makes it hard to get a brush where it needs to be.

 Nevelon wrote:
Keep up the good work everyone!

I'll take some liberties with this and keep up my barely adequate work, if you don't mind. I do so enjoy prioritizing boring real life stuff over painting...

Currently it looks like I'll be cutting it close again this month.

 Geifer wrote:

 Nevelon wrote:
Keep up the good work everyone!

I'll take some liberties with this and keep up my barely adequate work, if you don't mind. I do so enjoy prioritizing boring real life stuff over painting...

Currently it looks like I'll be cutting it close again this month.

I almost put a qualifier on the “good work” bit but decided to play it straight. People can keep up whatever they can, at whatever pace.

And as always, if anyone needs an extension, just ask.

Optimistic me wants to finish properly so as not to slip into bad habits, but this month there's a real risk that I may have to take you up on that extension.

But all in good time. We're not there yet. Positivity. It's all about positivity.

I finished off the Martians:







Not my best paintjobs by any means, what with the impossible-to-clean restic mold lines, but they are finished, and they look alright at tabletop distances. Working on them, I remembered why I don't enjoy batch painting units very much. I still have a week left, though, so I pulled out some civilian survivors that may or may not get added to my entry:

Whilst I only have one of them to enter, the Zaku is the original enemy mook-mecha of the Gundam franchise. Its name was inspired by the Japanese word zako, meaning small-fry.

Proof

 JoshInJapan wrote:
I finished off the Martians:

Spoiler:

Not my best paintjobs by any means, what with the impossible-to-clean restic mold lines, but they are finished, and they look alright at tabletop distances. Working on them, I remembered why I don't enjoy batch painting units very much. I still have a week left, though, so I pulled out some civilian survivors that may or may not get added to my entry:

Ack ack ack!

Ack ACCK ack!

(my first thoughts as well)

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Finished up some rippers, waiting to be based:

Started 4 spinefist gaunts. See how many I can cycles across the bench before we run out of month.

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We have one week to go. As a reminder, no vote for next month as we have our annual Halloween Special. Get the ghosts and goblins prepped and ready.

Better late than never, I suppose! Chaff is the perfect theme for the humble, human soldiers in Trench Crusade. May God guide my little trench sweeper!

Work continues on the Hobgrots:

Glad I decided to do an all-over wash, it really helped to tone down the bright yellow-green skin, and it made them look more grimy too.

Clanrats done

 Misclicking ork wrote:

Clanrats done

Don’t forget you can have up to 6 pictures. While a mess of rats is an appropriate and thematic way to display them, maybe break them up into some smaller groups and get some better pictures? Like a few lines of 5.

 Nevelon wrote:

 Misclicking ork wrote:

Clanrats done

Don’t forget you can have up to 6 pictures. While a mess of rats is an appropriate and thematic way to display them, maybe break them up into some smaller groups and get some better pictures? Like a few lines of 5.

I was tired and just wanted to get the photo in. But now that I'm not tired, here's some better pictures

Nice! Can see them a lot better now.

Okay, I think I'm as done as I'm gonna get...

Kid Cthulhu-La Palaisian Met-At-Arms









Not my most impressive paintjobs, but they really elevate these simple game pieces into something I can actually use in Big Fantasy Epic.