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Nids are done (and so is the army for now) but I am going to try to finish up some marines also for the month, so am not finalizing my entry just yet.

It’s ….Alive!

Welp, I finished my Commissar as Inquisitor henchman, only to realize he's not legal in the 4E games my friends to want to run. So he got painted for nothing

I want to see if I can squeeze in a few more rules-legal henchmen before the bell rings on this month.

 KidCthulhu wrote:
Welp, I finished my Commissar as Inquisitor henchman, only to realize he's not legal in the 4E games my friends to want to run. So he got painted for nothing

I want to see if I can squeeze in a few more rules-legal henchmen before the bell rings on this month.

No painted mini is for nothing. Each is a victory against the numberless grey mountain of the pile of shame, a chance to improve your skills, and an outlet for artistic expression.

Keep painting, onward to a more colorful future!

Also month is running out, so pace accordingly.

With my limited painting time, the commissar henchman does feel like a waste because all he'll do is take up space in a box:


Not my final photo

Might have the gumption to finish some henchmen that CAN be used:



Wish me luck!

Much luck has been wished!
Hope you can find some free time.

 KidCthulhu wrote:
With my limited painting time, the commissar henchman does feel like a waste because all he'll do is take up space in a box:

For what it's worth, that's been the fate of pretty much everything I've painted for the last five years...

Good luck with the remaining henchmen!

So done. These are the last Tyranids planned for the swarm. Not that we might not see more, but the primed pile is empty. And while there are some dregs in the Pile of Shame, they will likely stay there for a while.

I painted more then just these guys, but picked a sample of 5.

Not pictured is one more termagant w/ fleshborer who is down at the FLGS entered into the free mini of the month competition (which he won)

Spoilered for size, but here are all the entries from the Hive Fleet. (Not counting the 2 zoats and Tippy, who were one-off painting projects unrelated to my Tyranid army.

As a project this started in the Pandemic in 2020, and ran until now, about 6 years in the making. The flying hive tyrant was the first time I hit the podium here in the challenge, with a 6 way tie for 3rd. From the first test termagant to some 4,750 points of gribbly horrors. Many of which were painted here for the comp, which has helped keep me motivated.


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Running out of month, so get those final touches done and pictures taken. And warm up the space marines for next month!

Daia T'Nara - Stormy the Jump Lord

Adeptus Mechanicus:





Enginseers:



Lexmechanics:



Sicarian Infiltrator:

Snakemen

And done! Huzzah!

Kaboom Girl - Reductus Saboteur

Thanks for the extension Nev, 8 of the 10 veterans are done but they need to be based so it gives me one evening to get them finished and photographed. (I don’t think there is much chance of getting the last two done but I have it a good go!!)

I got one done!
This is a candy toy of the MSM-10 Zock from Mobile Suit Gundam.



Final images in the spoiler.

Lookin' good, everyone!

I also appreciate the extension; I almost finished my Xenos Inquisitor's Eldar henchman and got a good start on her sage.

They're not the best things I've ever painted, but they're looking good and they're interesting conversions, so that's gotta count for something

So earlier this year I picked up a model that had been partially built for the Dakka Painting Challenge Bonus Summer Side Quest https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/816614.page. However, I had not finished the rigging and weathering. I did promise I would do that when finished. With the title of this months challenge I figured I would take the days of work to finish the model.

HMCS Chilliwack 1944 1/72 Scale Flower Class Corvette













Finished It!

Cheers,

Captain Brown

PS: If people are curious this the 1/72 scale Revell model kit. It is about three feet long, of the 1000 pieces I used about 450 of them added some third party railings - weapons sites - oerlikon 20mm cannons, and scratch built, kit bashed the rest (the kit was a bit rudimentary...it was released in the 1970s).

So, tried to paint this hen harrier for another painting challenge a month or two ago, and decided to attempt to finish it this month.


Finished photos:

Great woke, we still have the rest of the day for an extension.

But it’s March, and you know what that means:
All right, sweethearts, you're a team and there's nothin' to worry about. We come here, and we gonna conquer, and we gonna kick some, is that understood? That's what we gonna do, sweethearts, we are going to go and get some. All right, people, on the ready line!
https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/818505.page

Spent a while messing around with microscopic adjustments in paint until I accepted this was as far as my current skillset would allow me to travel…

Looking forward to a simpler model next time!

Anyway, here’s Ushoran:















P.S. That ship is stunning Captain Brown. Well done on completing the project… what an epic result! Love it!

I finished up some orc boar boyz this month, started for a previous challenge last year. I almost forgot to take a proof pic, and put in a bit more work on these before remembering so the red is a bit further along than it actually was at the start of the month
proof:


final entry








And here they are with their previously painted mates, finishing off a small unit (not a challenge entry pic)

I didn't manage to finish as much as I wanted but I'm still happy with this month's progress. Only the 3 Knights and a few details on the Archregent left to have the Spearhead ready.
I could probably finish the Archregent today but I don't want to rush him.
This month's progress


And my entry for this month

Loving that ghoul crew Straken! Nice

Alas, I could not get the beast finished on time. Hell, I'm not even close.
Oh well. I might as well submit it. But at least progress has been made. There are lots of half painted pieces floating through the house and maybe I'll have this finished before another year rolls around.

As always, there are some amazing entries rolling in! Here's my diminutive contribution:












Paint scheme is pretty rudimentry, but mostly I wanted to pick a mini I knew I could finish in a short, busy month. He's another of Pious's retinue; he watches over her from the rafters while she delivers her "fiery sermons".

So i managed to get 8 veterans finished and based, i've selected the 4 favourites as my entry for the competition for the month. Now just need to get the last two done! I'll have to be more patient with my photography skills next month!!

There's some amazing competition this month! I struggled to get table standard paintjobs while everyone else is winning Golden Daemons

Kid Cthulhu-Xenos Inquisitor Artemesia Gabs & Henchmen

@Mr Nobody, I feel your pain! The Tau’nar was just too much for a single month, even in a half finished state, but I’ve made some decent progress, so hopefully I’ll get it finished in a few weeks. Here’s as far as I got:



To everyone else, some fantastic work dropping in the thread, I look forward to voting!

 Mr Nobody wrote:
Alas, I could not get the beast finished on time. Hell, I'm not even close.
Oh well. I might as well submit it. But at least progress has been made. There are lots of half painted pieces floating through the house and maybe I'll have this finished before another year rolls around.

That's an achievement in itself, and hopefully what the challenge can help people with, you made good progress on an epic model.

I had to call time on mine, there are so many bits to this kit I just couldn't finish them all but still happy with how much I got done.

My original fortified manor now has a chapel with a courtyard and lots of field walls, I came into an unexpected issue because there's so much of it now it was quite hard to take photos of it. The Tower was the part that had been already painted.

Respect for the giant epic units, love to see the progress.

XvArcanevX
Bro...

Everyone in?

If so, let’s close this up. If not, paint fast!