Welcome to Wave 3 of Month 1 of the 40k Second Edition Challenge Mark VI! Let’s get right to the entries!
Hello!
So, first month of the challenge! Awkwardly I was going to be traveling over the holidays until the 3rd week of January, leaving me a lot less time than normal for this entry. I quickly decided to paint the Bloodletters up. This might seem strange as it’s the largest squad I have to paint for the whole challenge, however they are single part models (just mould line removal you’re done!) and I already knew how I was going to paint them – which is to match my contemporary plastic Khorne Daemons army. I like how they turned out! I’ll finish the icon / banner during another month, so you’ll see him again hopefully. Next month will probably be some Terminators or Berzerkers I reckon! Cheers!
Points painted this month:
10 Bloodletters – 350 pts
Wachtmeister: I must be getting bleary eyes or conspiracy minded as I keep seeing patterns emergeing in these posts. In this case two entrants in a row have been on vacation during the month cutting down their painting time! I love the look of these Bloodletters, the look like they just climbed out of the fire depths of the warp ready to collect skulls in Khornes name! I particularly like how the swords came out!
The threat of failing the Emperor is real and the motivation of a good painting challenge is true and steadfast! I managed to spend some hobby time on 25/31 days for January which is unheard of for me. I was aiming to try and produce results which look good from two feet away on the tabletop and I’m pretty happy with the final outcome. I also wanted to continue to try and improve my skills, experimenting with oil panel lining for just the 2nd time and also airbrushing and applying decals which is all pretty new to me. Also the first time trying to take “proper” photos.
It wasn’t all plain sailing though and despite only trying to finish a measly 5, single marines I nearly missed this months deadline. It took 10 days until I even managed to get my brushes out. I completely underestimated how long it would take to fix/repair and build old miniatures and my modelling skills proved somewhat “rusty”. It was a great nostalgia trip however. Highlights included my first time ever building Rogue Trader Terminators and the slightly younger Marine bike kit (hopefully a bonus entry into the challenge). Lowlights included the sheer horror show of the old Devastator heavy weapons which were nearly launched across the room in a fit of rage several times! From running out of paint, losing arms and jet packs, breaking chainswords and dropping the sergeant and watching him smash into three pieces, the struggle was real but ultimately rewarding.
I’ve come to realise though that maybe I should just accept that I’m slow at painting. I should maybe try to enjoy the journey more rather than the final destination. I actively ignored my kids for a couple of nights in a rush to get these finished which completely goes against why I entered in the first place. I’m expecting a bit of hobby burnout next month too and I might need to mix it up a bit, to maintain my enthusiasm for painting yellow. I’m already bored of shoulder pads and painting metallic tubing!
Month #1
Total Miniatures finished: 5
1x Assault Combat Squad: Consisting of 5 Marines equipped with jump packs, bolt pistols, chainswords and Frag/Krak grenades. Also includes 1 Marine with hand flamer and 1 Sergeant with Power Axe.
Total Value = 199 Points
This will eventually form one of six infantry squads in my Imperial Fists army (three others have been previously completed).
Other miniatures built/repaired, primed and airbrushed yellow in preparation for future months: 20 plus 2x Rhinos and 5x Bikes
Wachtmeister: Wow. TJ has conquered a lot of firsts in month one of the challenge for himself and the results are terrific! The panel lining in particular is a wonderful idea and helps make the yellow pop. Having done Space Wolves a few challenges back I know how difficult painting light colors are and yellow is the king of difficulty, perhaps second only to white, and TJ has done an inspired job. I look forward to his next entry!
Hey hey.
After much procrastination I managed to paint my Vindicare assassin this month. I was meant to paint the Eversor, but I’ve lost his backpack so need to figure out what to do. All in all 1 model at 215 points this month. It’s not much but it counts. I spend of my energy working, the rest I spend on drawing and then I have a tiny fraction left for this… So my armylist is so far quite fitting.
Vindicare 215 pts
Wachtmeister: Dr. The Viking has added some long ranged support to his Dark Angels army this month with the classic Vindicare assassin. His black bodysuit really help him blend into the goblin green turf, but with a rifle of that size he probably wasn’t planning on hiding much anyway! Terrific job Doctor, glad to have you with us!
Good night!
Just minutes before deadline!
This first month I’ve started with the 5 member tactical squad, sergeant equiped with chainsword (2) and a marine with a meltagun (8), so we have 160 points here. It’s been very satisfying to dust off the brushes and recover those sensations. Being a father of a demanding 3 year old kid does not leave too much time for hobbies.
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jaimes_workbench
Regards,
Jaime
Wachtmeister: For a guy with not a lot of time Jaime sure knocked it out of the park! These are some box art worthy marines, a full force painted to this standard will be something to behold for certain!
Hello all,
Well that was close !
20minutes to midnight !!
So slice 1 –
5x Chaos Terminators, Twin bolters and Chain axes – Pts 255
Love these guys and they add something new to my forever growing Iron Warriors.
Sorry for the short write but I only just made it haha
Wachtmeister: These chunky boys are incredible, I’m so glad Shepherd got them finished in time for submission. I’m not sure who makes this sculpt but I wouldn’t mind an armies worth of these bad boys, they are just that intimidating!
When you think of Eldar, you think of Jes Goodwin. But when it comes to Orks, Kev Adams is king. Sure, he may be the “Goblin Master” in Warhammer Fantasy, but he’s the “Warboss Boss” of 40k. His 40k Orks are unrivaled.
This month we have a mob of 20 Rogue Trader orks. The RT Ork line of models is so extensive, with several variants for each base pose, that you could paint for a long time before you would need to start repeating a model, and this mob is comprised of 20 different poses. My hope is to finish 20 models every month of this challenge, so I’m afraid my writeups and photos will start to blend together. However, at the end of 6 months I hope the final family photo of the horde makes up for it!
Blood Axe Mob: 20 boyz (flamer, heavy bolter, and Nob) 277 points
You can follow my hobby progress on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/pygmyhippo/
And you can find many more photos of my miniatures and hobbies on my blog at https://giantpygmy.com
Wachtmeister: I am super jealous of the wide range of sculpts available to PygmyHippo with the Orcs. My guard poses are very limited, and even midway through month two I’m already getting bored! I love the helmets on the banner pole, but as always all of PygmyHippo’s brushwork looks ace!
This month’s goal was 5 bikes, but i ended up doing 3 bikes and the Chaplain. I guess it is a real obsession!
The Chaplain, 100 pts:
A hero level equipped with a bolter and a Crozium.
Also comes with a purity seal and a melta bomb
Bike Squadron, 163 pts:
3 bikers
The squad leader has a power sword and the rest of the squad is equipped with a meltagun and a plasma gun.
this is 25% of the army painted in points. Next month, I’ll clear the two additional bikers as well as the speeder.
Cheers
J.
By the way, i have an instagram account now… @Delayed_Painting
Wachtmeister: I’ve never seen Blood Angels bikers, before, these look terrific! The Chaplin looks great as well, black armor isn’t easy to do but Julien certainly pulled it off. Even though this is a Death Company chaplain I feel he is THE iconic chaplain of 2nd Edition and Julien really did him justice!
So I completed my 1st part of the challenge during the 1st 2 weeks. I really enjoyed the process. There is something really nice about knowing you don’t have to rush and get loads of models done. I find it takes the pressure off me and allows me to enjoy my painting.
Been painting and playing for yrs(since Rogue Trader) but this is the 1st time I have owned a marine army. Also this Dark Angel army is the 1st time I have used decals. They really make the models pop.
So here we have the 1st half of my assault squad who will be known as “The Seventh” due to the fact they have the No7 on their shoulder and who doesn’t like the 7th cav coming to the rescue?
3 marines with chainswords and 2 with powerswords and all with bolt pistols. These guys will be looking for armoured warriors for the pwr swords to cut through.
Total pts 187
Model count 5
Roll on next month
Keep up the good work everyone
Richard
Bring and Battle Wargaming
Wachtmeister: Having completed Dark Angels last challenge I’m happy to see another member of the Unforgiven! These guys look terrific, and being placed on a classic piece of terrain makes it even better!
As I have a fairly aggressive plan for bonus entries I started this month painting an infantry squad and the mortar squad instead of just an infantry squad. I was surprised I didn’t mind the batch painting as much as I thought I would but in the end I started to run out of time so I focused on the infantry squad. The mortar squad had a lot of progress done on it so at least I’m ahead of schedule for next month!
10 miniatures – Infantry squad w/chain sword, las pistol, missile launcher, grenade launcher 142 points
We had a few mulligans, some closer to making the deadline than others. Let’s check out what some of the contestants have been up to who didn’t quite make it across the finish line.
Hello there from the frozen tundra that’s been Maryland. Been a crazy couple of months with the holidays and the fantastic wife dragging me off to Hawaii. I admittedly haven’t worked much on my force other than trying to strip old 25 year old primer and paint off. This has been a fail for me, that kinda backed me into a hobby corner of relying on an air brush, thin coats. The whole force was sprayed first with a royal purple, then a zenith highlight of plum and white ink before I came in with a dark blue ink all over through the airbrush. Speaking of airbrush’s any one else still waiting for the 2024 infinity? Pre ordered mine the beginning of November. A fellow warrior in this competition and my best bud “aka FE Warrior” pointed out this is supposed to be a 2nd edition style of painting, I assure him and this captive audience that this is just for the armor, bright ivory skulls and tusks are coming as well as bright metallics and of course rimmed in the goblin green like the great ones once decreed.
DJ
Wachtmeister: While DJ did not finish anything this month it looks like he made some significant forward progress to completing his entire army. While most people do a “2nd Edition” style of painting it’s cool to see a different take on these classic models!
Wachtmeister: I’m looking forward to Hams Fan’s triumphant return next month, I’m sure he’ll enter the competition stronger than ever!
Hello everyone
Although I started the challenge with high expectations, this month has not been very good, for various reasons. I changed jobs so I had very little free time, but I joined this so I had to paint! Most of the time I spent painting has been trying out different paint schemes to find the tones closest to the old Citadel paints (those wonderful, hexagonal pots with white or blue lids) and in that process I had setbacks that forced me to strip the paint on some models. But that’s already done! I already have my paint scheme, both for the models and the bases, so from now on everything will go better.
The first squad I have painted is the terminators. The classic, nigh mythical 2nd edition Space Hulk box terminators, that were sold in the final years of 2nd edition as plastic Space Marine terminators. The models, which I got second hand, were in a rough shape, except the sergeant that, honestly, looked as if he had tanked a multi-melta to the face, so I had to do a thorugh restoration job with greenstuff to resculpt some damaged areas. Despite the low hopes from my chapter’s apothecaries, I had Juan Diaz’s help, the classic sculptor (Be’lakor, daemonettes…) and his great advice. The “surgery” was successful and the sergeant will be able to fight on without being interred in a dreadnought.
Next month I promise a fully painted terminator unit, and I also plan on painting the Chaplain. Have a little patience with this poor Spaniard!
Wachtmeister: While Manu didn’t finish his unit he made some really great progress. If he didn’t tell me he had to do some resculpting I’d never have noticed. If you are going to do greenstuff surgery you’d be real fortunate to have someone of Juan Diaz’ caliber to help! I can’t wait to see these guys finished next month, along with a Chaplain to lead them!
KC ran into the dreaded real life but he almost finished his first unit and plans on returning next month back on track. I look forward to seeing his work! I hope this isn’t a case of the Space Wolves curse rearing it’s ugly head once more!
I hope you’re well! I just wanted to let you know that I’m going to have to use my mulligan for this month’s Warhammer 40K second edition painting challenge. Life has gotten in the way, and I won’t be able to meet the deadline this time.
That said, I’m still very much committed to the challenge and have completed test models for the guardians and fire dragons and plan to catch up next month. I appreciate your understanding, and I’m looking forward to getting back into the hobby and making some solid progress!
Cheers,
Hams Fan
The following contestants are missing in the warp. I hope the Astronomicon can reach them next month!
Edit: Marty reached out me after publication, he wrote me at the wrong email address. He had this to say:
I’m going to have to use my mulligan month first up. I know this isn’t ideal because I no longer have a buffer, but I spent all January painting a Nighthaunt army for an Age of Sigmar tournament. That’s done now, and my painting desk is clear. I’m ready to get to work on some Genestealers.
With that month 1 of the 40k Second Edition Challenge, Mark VI is a wrap! See you all in a few weeks for the start of month 2! -Wachtmeister
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