NEW YEAR PAINTING CHALLENGE

[Sabious]

You're just a master with those skin tones, Errd

[Diobarach]

A lot of great work, nice job to everyone completed so far!

[van Awful]

my vampire!





Wellllll i'm a bit late! But ill try to paint him up before this weekend. Still a couple of days to go.

[Amboadine]

Sea Dragon Vampire. Nice

[Errdrigar]

You're just a master with those skin tones, Errd

Playing with colours keeps me away from getting bored

[Lord Drakon]

Wow incredibly cool priest on manticore! All great work people!

[Amboadine]

Well treeman will be my entry. More photos on my plog.

KOW plog

Here are a couple though.

[cultofkhaine]

Amboadine - is your model finished for this month? I think there are a few more things you could do to it to bring it to life. You need a few bits of clump follage on it and some moss growing in between the branches (its just lacking to me at the moment)

[Amboadine]

Amboadine - is your model finished for this month? I think there are a few more things you could do to it to bring it to life. You need a few bits of clump follage on it and some moss growing in between the branches (its just lacking to me at the moment)

Hmmm. Trip to the hobby shop at the weekend potentialy.
I had thought about this indeed but am not sure if I will get there before the end of the month.
I do agree however. There needs to be something to break up the block of brown.

If I manage to get this resolved I will update the photos.

[cultofkhaine]

Here is mine for the month bit of a rush job. I will say this model is a pain to paint, there are so many hard to get places on it I almost thought about pulling it apart, painting it then assembling it again.

[DarkSky]

Any preview, what the challenge for February will be?

[Lord Drakon]

Great work Cult and Amboadine!
@ Cult I don't always prefer your painting schemes, but this is one is absolutely stunning!
@ Amboadine, amazing model and job, I think that with some highlights on edges and face could already break the block of brown too large extent. You could also try a technique I recently learned from CMON and used on my Dragon. This is subtle 'striping' the areas of gaps with light brown, yellow or white so the trenches come more to live.

[Amboadine]

Thank Drakon, I will give it a look.

[cultofkhaine]

Cult I don't always prefer your painting schemes,

LD What's not to like

Any preview, what the challenge for February will be?

I think for next month most people seem happy to work on 5-10 wounds, that way it leaves it fairly open. Same criteria as before, post a before pic so everyone can see what you are working on and then an after shot - so we can see the final job.

[Diobarach]

More impressive stuff! Great work. I love the fleetmaster model, he seems so over the top in details but somehow manages to bring it together. I have the same problem with some models, I can't paint them if they are fully assembled, I just can't do it, too hard to get at certain places.

If next months is 5-10 wounds, I should be able to squeeze something in for that too!

[DarkSky]

I think for next month most people seem happy to work on 5-10 wounds(…)

Ok, sounds good, I think I'll do two Dread Reapers and hope that nobody notices, they only have four wounds

[Lord Drakon]

I think for next month most people seem happy to work on 5-10 wounds(…)

Ok, sounds good, I think I'll do two Dread Reapers and hope that nobody notices, they only have four wounds

hehehe

[Sabious]

Ta-daa! This. Is. UNGRIM! Enjoy!

He is my entry for this month. I hope you like him. Finally got to finish painting him

I don't mean to spam so if you want to see more pictures and read my thoughts on him, WIP pics etc, go here https://sabiousblog.wordpress.com/

[Errdrigar]

@Sabious: I love the way you have converted that cloak, very nicely done.

@Cultofkhaine: Superb Fleetmaster, but even your painting won't make me to like this model's sculpt

@Amboadine: Good job with that Treeman.

About February challenge - I'll probably join in. 5 wounds is an excellent idea, leaves alot of free choice - good excuse for me to paint 5 Shades.

[Malys the younger]

I'm about to leave my paints behind while I travel abroad for a a couple months. Will anyone have any heartache if I submit a unit of Blackguard before I go as my February goal? If so I'll just PLOG it instead. Full disclosure, I started them shortly after I submitted January's goal and don't have any awesome pics of them covered in primer...

[cultofkhaine]

@ Sabious nice job love the axe and cloak - great conversion.

@Malys post away and happy traveling

[DarkSky]

My blog also has an update of the complete Dread Legionnaires unit, including the champion from the painting challenge. I don't want to picture spam the thread so here is the link only: https://bleaklegion.wordpress.com/2016/ ... ionnaires/

[cultofkhaine]

This thread has been a great kick start to the year - good to see some activity happening in P&M.

Now that we are underway what does everyone plan to paint next month. We going to up the requirement this time and aim for 5-10 wounds.

[direweasel]

I'm going to repaint my "Batmobile" chariot. It's already had the paint stripped.

See my Plog (linked in signature) if you don't know what that means.

[Malys the younger]

I am painting the first 10 of my 21 Black Guard. I am deviating slightly away from the "black" by keeping the colors in line with the rest of my army. I justify this with Malekith sending a retinue to Ghrond to "protect" (or spy on...) Morathi while she only agrees to allow them in her city if they swear to wear her colors. I feel this brings the models in the army together and represent their "tit for tat" while letting me feel the models I like. I'll post pics soon!