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Longtime Dakkanaut






UK

Nice progress, though!

   
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Thank you, Slinky!

Found myself home with the kids, so I wrapped Raziel up. Fairly happy with the end result. Waiting on varnish and final pics. B&W teaser in the meanwhile.



Thanks for looking!
   
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Nottingham

Raziel looks great. Are you doing a Kain to go with him?

Have a look at my P&M blog - currently working on Sons of Horus

Have a look at my 3d Printed Mierce Miniatures

Previous projects
30k Iron Warriors (11k+)
Full first company Crimson Fists
Zone Mortalis (unfinished)
Classic high elf bloodbowl team 
   
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Japan

Intriguing. I look forward to color photos.

Now showing more Samurai Marines, Bad Squiddo Amazons, and an Oldhammer Chaos Thug!

Painting total as of 3/28/2024: 21 plus a set of modular spaceship terrain

Painting total for 2023: 79 plus 28 Battlemechs and a Dragon-Balrog

 
   
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Thanks, guys! Ask and receive.

Raziel, savior, destroyer, soul reaver. Happy with the results. Always something I would change or approach differently, but I do like him. Sort of a pain to photograph, though. Lighting ended up a little dramatic, but I think it works.









No plans for a Kain at this time. However, one should never say never. Time to pick something Space Mariney. Thanks for looking!
   
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Death-Dealing Ultramarine Devastator






Wow, very dynamic. I really like the black outlining on the scarf.
My hands are not steady enough to paint that way.
   
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Albany, NY

Great work on the huge dude, lots of good textures going on

Also I had forgotten how weird Raziel looks, anatomically speaking He's not just a blue ninja guy with a psyonic blade like I remember from *checks wiki then chokes on his coffee* 1996!

KOW BATREPS: BLOODFIRE
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Nice job on Raziel, but wow, super impressed by the Succubus Queen considering she's an old gummy Bones figure.
   
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Thank you all, very much!

Stop it, Boss Salvage, you'll make me feel old.

What's that the Cap'n is always saying? Something about a long painting war? He's not wrong. Here we go again.



Primed most of Cammy, another Randolorian and Velma 2.0. When my friend printed her, I wasn't sure which options I would be using so I had him print everything. This included a nude torso, which I certainly wasn't going to let go to waste. Initially I planned to do it up as a 3/4 bust or something, but I got industrious and boldly printed another set of legs on my home printer. Seeing as how they are textured, I figured it could handle it. So far, it looks like I was right. Cammy is going to need a little more clean up, as some artifacts jumped out after priming.



Also trying to get some more Dice and Fire minis done. I wish THESE were the veteran models and not regular grunts. They are so much more dynamic and their swords are way more over the top. I don't know when I will play again. Between this game and Crisis Protocol, I don't like feeling like my knowledge of what my models do is probably outdated. I guess GW players deal with this and the associated fatigue as well. But that is one reason why I don't play 40K, either. BB Zoat is lurking, too.

Plenty on the go. Thanks for looking!
   
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Toyed with the idea of entering Cammy for Space Marine month. She's MI-6, which is military, so sort of like a marine. And she takes up a lot of space, see? But I went with the Sicaran instead.

   
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Wow, those are like Noise Marine level of colors.
   
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Heh. Yeah, I was just using whatever filament was loaded at the time. Looks like Skeletor's tank to me.
   
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Cross-posting the round-up from the monthly challenge. This was the first year I tried to take part every month, and I found it to be a lot of fun and a boon to motivation. Prior to this go-round I think I had only entered once, maybe twice.

Space Marine



Doomsday



Mistakes Were Made



Centennial Challenge



Renewal



Some Like It Hot



Sun's Out, Guns Out



Halloween Special



Wrecking Ball



Open Round



From The Shadows



Out With The Old, In With The New



Hopefully I can keep it up for this next year. Looking back I am happy with the entries, and I feel like they display the diversity in subjects and manufacturers I am sort of known for. That's a nice way to say I can't stick with anything. Velma, Gwenom, Raziel and the dragon stand out for me as successes. Thanks for a great year, thanks for the votes and thanks for looking!
   
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Japan

Thanks for posting this retrospective. It's cool to see the variety models all in one place.

Now showing more Samurai Marines, Bad Squiddo Amazons, and an Oldhammer Chaos Thug!

Painting total as of 3/28/2024: 21 plus a set of modular spaceship terrain

Painting total for 2023: 79 plus 28 Battlemechs and a Dragon-Balrog

 
   
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Longtime Dakkanaut






UK

I think it's safe to say you nailed it, competition wise

   
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Not where I should be

That is an awesome display of true talent!




 
   
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Greatly appreciated, fellows. Cam, you are too kind.

Snow makes priming an issue, but I finally got to spray another coat on Cammy and Velma and I got a few tank parts, too. In the meantime, I polished off the Night's Watchmen that have been stinking up my desk for a while. I feel they will look ok on the table if I ever play again.



And the aforementioned spraying.



Moving along. Thanks for looking!
   
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Albany, NY

Lovely flesh tones. Also Cammy is laaaarge

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Thanks, Boss Salvage! She's a hefty piece of real estate.

Got the base sprays done on the Sicaran. Sort of a hassle, but I think better than brushing.



Curious how quickly I will be able to finish this up. May need to consider a stretch goal if it goes well.

Thanks for looking!
   
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Starting to give it some character after partial assembly. I like vehicle models quite a bit, but always shied away due to size intimidation. I mean, my Armorcast titans have sat unpainted for decades. Looking for an effective method, and I hope this is a start. Also, eyes ain't what they used to be, so bigger models seem to be a thing I am easing into. Who knows. Rambling on a Sunday after losing an hour for no reason.

Thanks for looking!
   
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Japan

 youwashock wrote:


Starting to give it some character after partial assembly. I like vehicle models quite a bit, but always shied away due to size intimidation. I mean, my Armorcast titans have sat unpainted for decades. Looking for an effective method, and I hope this is a start. Also, eyes ain't what they used to be, so bigger models seem to be a thing I am easing into. Who knows. Rambling on a Sunday after losing an hour for no reason.

Thanks for looking!


I was kind of hoping for a bright blue-and-purple tank...

I don't do a lot of vehicles, but when I do I find that Gundam markers make panel lining much easier.

Now showing more Samurai Marines, Bad Squiddo Amazons, and an Oldhammer Chaos Thug!

Painting total as of 3/28/2024: 21 plus a set of modular spaceship terrain

Painting total for 2023: 79 plus 28 Battlemechs and a Dragon-Balrog

 
   
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That Sicaran coming along nicely.
My biggest fear of large vehicles is them going to Legends after paying for them.
   
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Upstate, New York

 Tommygun1918 wrote:
That Sicaran coming along nicely.
My biggest fear of large vehicles is them going to Legends after paying for them.


I agree that the Sicaran is looking good!

Also the worry about rules. 10th dumping a lot of rules for the 30k stuff into legends took a lot of wind out of may sails. And I have troubles with painting tanks to start. I love the look of them when done, but they just take so long to paint. Hard to keep up motivation

   
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You’ve been busy youwashock. Benchtulu came out amazingly well, not a print line to be seen! Succubus Queen looks great with her slime buddy too.
Edit: I really am behind there’s a whole other page here!

Raziel looks amazing and the painting comp recap was really cool, masses of diversity and the bigger models look great. The Nights watch chaps look great, the ASOIAF unit bases always look super cool and the have great poses to boot. Sicarian looks sick… sorry, I’ll get my coat

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Goberts Gubbins - P&M Blog, started with Oldhammer, often Blackstone Fortress and Void Panther Marines, with side projects along the way 
   
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Thanks, you three. Very kind words.

Sicaran has limped along. Not a lot of painting going on. May not finish in time if I can't get out of my head. Feeling a little disconnected.



In other news, a long time friend finally sold his house here in town and decided to pretty much dump all the game stuff that had been chilling in the garage for about 16 years. It was a lot. Most went to a friend with a game store, but I took a few shinies.



A grip of Rackham, 1999, and the requisite GW among other things. Sealed copy of Ragnarok and Hybrid. Warmaster, which I guess I now own again. There was a small painted Empire force to go with all the blister packs.

Also this guy:



Painted one many moons ago as a Black Knight for Mordheim. This one will be green.

And an absolute ton of random CCGs, which I pulled this guy from.



Never played, but I'll take a Fett where I can get it.

Thanks again for the comments, Tommy, Nev, gobert. Plenty on the go. Thanks for looking!

EDIT: It appears that I came out on top of the monthly challenge for the last year. Thank you to all who voted and to Nev and Midget Gems for keeping it running. I attribute my score to some early successes and to entering every month. Here's to another year, if I can keep it up.

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Upstate, New York

Don’t sell yourself short! Take pride, pat yourself on the back, pop the champaign. You earned that win with your mad skills.

And while yes, your podium spots were more skewed to the first half, it’s not like you were an also-ran in the second. Took a prize more often than not overall. And while showing up does help, you were still well ahead of the pack, even for other people who were in every month. You still had an average entry score higher than anyone in the top ten. If Ezki or CanceledApocolypse had entered every month and maintained their average, they might have been able to knock you off the high spot. But they both missed half the comps, so that’s a lot of speculation.

You ended with a 7 point lead over second place, which is like a full month gap. That’s not winning by a nose, photo finish stuff. Whole horse length.

(Not to throw shade on everyone else in the comp. Amazing work from everyone, up and down the pack.)

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That is quite the pile of retro goodness! Always fun to paint old stuff, so much character in classic sculpts. Enjoy.

I played a little of the SW card game back when it came out. I remember it being fun, with some quirky mechanics. It did tend to suffer from PTW. While you could make some halfway decent decks with assorted cards, it suffered from the “I have all the title characters in my deck, I win” So more so then MtG, where you could make somewhat decent decks spamming commons/uncommons, it was a lot more pronounced. Still have them in a box somewhere.

Good luck getting the tank done. Motivations and time at the bench can be rough some days. Hope you can make it!

Speaking of which, I need to get some paint down...

   
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A Protoss colony world

Congrats on the big win, it was well deserved! You always enter quality stuff that I can only dream of doing. Also, very nice haul there! I love the classic Star Wars CCG and have a large collection of the cards in my closet. It was a better game than it got credit for even if, as Nev mentioned, power levels of decks was skewed towards the more rare cards (particularly the main characters). The company that made it, Decipher Inc., also made a very good Star Trek CCG and an amazing Lord of the Rings TCG, probably my favorite trading card game of all time.

My armies (re-counted and updated on 11/1/23, including modeled wargear options):
Dark Angels: ~15000 Astra Militarum: ~1200 | Adeptus Custodes: ~1900 | Imperial Knights: ~2000 | Sisters of Battle: ~3500 | Leagues of Votann: ~1200 | Tyranids: ~2600 | Stormcast Eternals: ~5000
Check out my P&M Blogs: ZergSmasher's P&M Blog | Imperial Knights blog | Board Games blog | Total models painted in 2023: 40 | Total models painted in 2024: 7 | Current main painting project: Dark Angels
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Japan

You've made a lot of progress on your tank. I hope you can get it finished-- your challenge entries always inspire me to up my own game.

Now showing more Samurai Marines, Bad Squiddo Amazons, and an Oldhammer Chaos Thug!

Painting total as of 3/28/2024: 21 plus a set of modular spaceship terrain

Painting total for 2023: 79 plus 28 Battlemechs and a Dragon-Balrog

 
   
 
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