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Stitched Together is finished, which yields me 6 SS - more than enough for my Minion pledge All that is left to do is to varnish it, let the varnish properly dry, add some leafs and take proper photos, which I will post on my blog here on the forums with few words. There is also a tattoo on its right arm, that is unfortunatelly not visible on these photos, but I will try to shoot a detail of it when I will be taking the proper ones.

@Franchute, apparently paiting tartan isn't as difficult as and is much more fun than I thought. All that is left to paint on my Stitched Together are NMM on the hooks, which means that I should be able to finish the miniature in time

I am working on my Stitched Together, but unfortunately I kind of already know that I will not be able to finish it in time and will have to use my first mulligan. I am currently working on my thesis and have a lot of school related stuff as such. I probably could finish it in time, but... I am doing some freehand on the model and have few more ideas Monthly Painting Challenge works as intended though I am painting almost everyday and, which is the most important, feel motivated to paint and try new things

Wow, thank you, @Viruk I must say, all these positive vibes, constructive criticism, overall friendliness of the whole Monthly Painting Challenge community... it really makes me want to paint more and I am genuinely looking forward to the end of the month (this one and those to come) to see photos of finished models

Thank you, @Burnin' Coal

The varnish has completely dryed so I could finally add some grass tufts and leafs and take proper photos You can see more pictures on my pseudoblog - Of Swampfiends and Men

Chapter 7 - Lights in the Swamps First of the Will o' the Wisps is finally finished It has been siting on my desk half painted for more than nine months Monthly Painting Challenge 2018 finally motivated me to finish it When I was assembling the mode I immediately broke the antenna. I saw few pictures on the internet of people just puting a ball of green stuff on the stump, but I really liked the original one so decided to repair it if able. I glued the antenna back using a plastic cemment and then took a single ply of toilette paper, cut a small rectangle from it, soaked it in PVA glue and used it as a bandage. Then I used dampen brush to tighten it and smooth it out. It is barely visible and I even dropped the model right on the repaired antenna and it just bounced off Some of the gaps are, unfortuantely, still a little bit visible, but I already purchased silicon sculpting/smoothing tools (from China for like 2 dollars) and it just magically turned the aspect of modelling that I found the most tedious and frustrating into something that I quite enjoy and find satisfying For a long time I wasn't sure what to do with the wings (and colours as such). I tried so many colour combinations. @Joachim's idea to paint them as those of a Monarch butterfly, that you can see here, was brilliant so I asked him if I could use it as well and he agreed Unfortunately on my model it didn't work quite as well - the model was too colourful and clashing. By the way, almost a year ago I promised you, @Joachim, that I would post pictures of my Will o' the Wisp when I finish it so here it is I also tried to do some OSL around the eyes with them being the most bright part of the model but in the end it felt more logical to paint the antenna like that.

This month I decided to pledge my first Stitched Together. I played them only once so far but always liked the model. I usually play more or less the same models so it would be nice to have a little bit more diversity

The Will o' the Wisp is finished and the 3 SS it is worth are enough for my minion pledge Now I have to varnish it, let the varnish dry for at least two days (otherwise dust and cat hair stick to it ), add some leafs, take proper photos and post them here and on my blog The Monthly Painting Challenge helped me to be more organized and disciplined with my painting, which is great. Already looking forward to painting another miniature

@Franchute, the model is almost finished Tomorrow I have the last exam and then I will finish it and post a picture. The model will be finished, but not finished finished I like to let the varnish dry two days, because otherwise it's still a little bit sticky and shiny. After varnishing the model and adding some leaves and such I will take proper pictures and post them on my blog and here as well. I hope this is OK

@Viruk, I am not sure why, but your post looks like this and the link is invisible until you hover over it with mous cursor: And when I click it it shows 0 results in All Listings.

Here is the photo of how I took the pictures above #poor-man's-lightbox #gheto-setup I want to learn how to do infinite black background and how to adjust colours, but for now I settled just with resizing the photos in MS Paint

I started to pay more attention to bases and thus decided to redo Iggy's one. I felt that the old one was due to green grass tufts a bit distracting and clashing and I wanted to create a base that tells a story, one that demonstrates the heat that surrounds him. My first idea was burnt dirt but it wouldn't make sense because his shoes are, unlike his sleeves, unburnt. At first I was hesitant about the snow because my other models all have autumn themed swamp bases but I thought that the snow melting around his feet would nicely demonastrate the heat and that it would be nice to try something new Next model will be Will o' the Wisp - the very first model of my Monthly Painting Challenge adventure

Happy new year, everyone My first model of 2018 and the very first model of my Monthly Painting Challenge adventure is going to be Will o' the Wisp (3 SS) with a simple custom built base that has been sitting on my table half-painted for 6 months or so. My plan throughout the year is to finally finish all the assambled/half-finished models that I have: Zoraida 3 Will o' the Wisps 3 Waldgeists Puppet Wars Nurse 3 Stitched Together Miss Erry That is 12 models, one for each month, but there are also some models that I would like to purchase - Mysterious Effigy, Mr. Graves, Adze and maybe McTavish. I would also like to start to pay more attention to bases - make custom ones that tell a story and complement the model.

I would think that by this time models from Wave 6 are already writen, but there is one thing that I would like to see. Dark grim creepy disturbing stuff from classical fairy tales.

May I ask what Gloom Crows and Gudgeons are? I can imagine, at least I think, what a Gloom Crow is, but Gudgeons... I googled Gudgeons and according to Wikipedia Gudgeon is the common name for a number of small freshwater fish, so that didn't help

In the rules it says: "post a photo of your unpainted minis." Can the model be assembled, gaps filled or even the model primed at the start of the month?

Would you kindly post a picture that explains how this can be used? I must admit that I have no idea what this means in practice

I am not going to repaint any of the models I posted, since they are already varnished, I want to know what to do better next time Bigger difference between highlights and shadows is definitely something I should focus on, looking at the models. This is great, very helpful OK, the first model I would like to paint in 2018 in Monthly Painting Challenge is Zoraida. I have been puting it aside to get more experiance first but this way I would never get to her What would be some general rules? Lighter face than the rest of the model I guess? Should her hands and legs be darker than her face or the same?

Wow, so many great advices. Thank you, guys I will have to read them few more times thought because there is a lot to think about. @Piccio, here is the front of the model. I tried to draw focus to it's face - painted it lighter, but unfortunately not light enough, and painted Voodoo Doll (the thing that actually is the bad juju after which the model is named, if I am not mistaken) light as well and in this... colour I can't describe very well Light brown with red tint. Seems like I should learn more about saturation/desaturation of colours

I have also registered on Guildball forums to contact Mako because he has been off-line here for more than a year and he was so nice that he sent me the article he wrote about colour theory which I wasn't able to find anywhere (the links he posted here were long dead). If someone is interested I could PM it to you

What you say definitely does make sense but the thing is that the best way to become a better painter in my opinion is simply to paint more and so for me it is not about motivating myself to paint a lot of models but rather to paint more I enlisted into the lowest tier - 1-5 SS/month - even though out of my 10 unfinished models 6 cost 6 SS (Waldgeists and Stitched Togethers) and one is a Master that counts as 15 I think. And in the future I would like to purchase Adze (7 if I remember correctly) and McTavish (10 I believe). The reason is that this gives me freedom to paint whatever I feel like Like Mysterious Effigy, jus because I really like the model. On the other hand... it definitely would be nice to have all the models finally painted and not play with just a grey mass

It definitely sounds interesting but since Malifaux is most balanced when played at 50 SS I, personally, would prefer if that wasn't the case.

Thank you I must say that I am really looking forward to this I had some doubts because of how slowly I paint, but... that's the purpose of this, to motivate myself to paint more

C'mon, maaan, gib Adze