Welcome to the July 2013 Painter of the Month Competition. Changes from last month's post are in red.

Each contestant must submit a photo of an unopened box, unassembled model or unpainted model or models or submit a drawing or photo describing the project into the "Painter of the Month April 2013" thread by July the 10th. Primed only models are acceptable but completely unprimed models are preferred. All genres of modeling are acceptable; i.e. any 40K, WFB, LOTR, FoW, plastic, metal, paper or collectable model as well as any scratch built project including terrain pieces. A list will be posted by one of the moderators in this post listing all eligible contestants for that month's competition. No entries will be accepted after the 10th of July. No exceptions.

During the month, wip photos can be put into the thread, and in fact are encouraged, but may not be placed in the competition gallery.

All completed entries must be submitted by the 28th of July and must posted in the competition gallery. No entries will be accepted after midnight GMT on July 28th. Only one entry per person will be permitted and the entry must consist of a single image. Multiple photos on the image are allowable but if more than one photo is uploaded to the gallery by any one entrant at any time, that entrant will be disqualified.

Voting will be held from just after midnight July 28th until midnight GMT on July 30th. At that time voting will be closed and the winners will be announced.

Every registered member of the site may vote. The total number of votes each member may cast will depend on the number of entrants as follows;
Up to 5 entries - 1 vote per registered member
6 to 10 entries - 2 votes per registered member
More than 10 entries - 3 votes per registered member
You can change your vote(s) until the poll is closed. No poll results will be revealed (even to the moderators) until the poll has closed.

The first place winner will be named the "Painter of the Month" and will be listed on the site. In addition, first place gets 3 points, 2nd place 2 points and third place 1 point.

In the event of a tie for any place or position, both entrants will receive the appropriate number of points. At the end of the year a "Painter of the Year" as well as the 2nd and 3rd place finishers will be announced. The winner will be determined by the total number of points received throughout the year.
If an entrant has not completed their project by the deadline, they may still enter an incomplete entry if desired, but it will of course be judged as such. The only requirement is to post the entry by the deadline. The members of the site have the final word after all!

We have a tentative list of prizes for the year end winners. These include, but are not limited to;
AOS Commemorative Dice
A GM limited edition collection figure

We are working on additional prizes as we speak, and should have more on the list within a couple of weeks.

Good luck to all the contestants!


Entrants so far:

Talus - Iron Man
Time Wizard - Tigers Marsch
Baragash - 12 Dreadball robots
paulmc - Aggro bobbies
Spack - Thunderbolts
KMB - Eurofighter
mattjgilbert - Enforcer Captain
Cain Tiberius - The Arcanist; The Steamborg Executioner
hunter - SPARTAN ASSAULT TANK

as per the standard, here is my ninja entry for July!

da da da di dum, doodle doodle doodle di da dum dum

Iron Man MkIII

bare white metal is a nightmare to photograph on this desk >_>



shall be painted in the traditional red and gold since its modeled for the mark III armor from the first movie

Curse you Talus!

I can't start this thread and get my entry in at the same time to ninja you!

One of these month's though!

So anyway, for July, and in keeping with how fast the German tanks responded to the D-Day invasion, I'm going to do up 5 Tiger tanks. The set is called TIgers Marsch, and is out of production. Thanks to Talus for helping me find one on the net!



Sooner or later, I'll start getting some infantry done!

Because restic is a pretty crap material and this particular set has bastard levels of flash, I rate my chances of completing this as slim to none, but I'll give it a go

12 Dreadball robots.

Excellent Bara!
Welcome to the asylum!
(added to the first post)

i went to wartorn at the weekend hoping to find something inspirational for this months comp. nothing really jumped out at me until I spotted my dad in 28mm glory. I nearly dropped my drink. it was a little diorama of football hooligans at a match with a couple of bobbies (policemen) looking on. the policemen were the double of my dad and his mate in their 1980's hayday when they used to police the matches at middlesbrough. i was overjoyed when i found i could by the policemen separately, best 3 quid I ever spent, I hope I do them justice and when they are completed im going to present them to the now retired misery arses

Nice! Will be a nice gift too!

Added to post #1.

Well, some progress, have a couple of tigers just about complete!



Each tank is slightly different (equipment, battle damage, etc) so doing these will be really nice!

Should have entered the garage door.....freehand an aquila on it, job done

Baragash wrote:12 Dreadball robots.

They don't look like their promo pictures

Sincerely -Good luck and welcome to the frustrated painters union of the painting thread.
Like Spack I guess if I say now I'm carrying over my eurofighter I'll feel some pressure to do something with it.
Last month I got this far
events/aos-painter-of-the-month-competition-june-2013-t6789.html#p71413
events/aos-painter-of-the-month-competition-june-2013-t6789.html#p71429

I've now attached it to base and sprayed it grey..haven't stuck canopy on or decided what to do to the pilot to coolify him (raf are soo geeky)

spack, you have to post a pic of the door even if you dont enter it. the epic saga of your battle with the sanding......... the strength and fortitude required to get it primed........the tale kept me going last month, I feel I need some closure with a pic

I'll enter an enforcer captain - will take a picture of his bare-metal self later.

killmaimburn wrote:

Baragash wrote:12 Dreadball robots.

They don't look like their promo pictures

Wouldn't be much of a painting challenge if they came already painted

Okay, Spack, KMB and matt have been added to the first post.

Just make sure to get your project pictures posted please!

Here's the Enforcer Captain. I assembled him months ago but he's been sitting around on the shelf since then lost and unloved.

He looks cool!
What game system is he from?

And are you planning the dip treatment for him?

Warpath.

No, not dip.

-goes off to buy a bunch of them-

i see potential in that guy!

Wait 6 months or so and they'll be available in squads of 5 in plastic.

small update already

so far i think its a nice shade of red, but it'll darken quite a bit once i start doing corrections from the gold and silvers going on, and i gotta pop his detailng some how



i'd also like to give a big thank to timewizard for sending me this kit!

Talus wrote:i'd also like to give a big thank to timewizard for sending me this kit!

My pleasure mate! (Remember that when voting everyone!)

What that you paid for talus' vote, ii and we can get some too if we fall in line or
to vote for you double as any work talus does on it is fruit of the diseased timewizard tree and all credit must flow downwards to youz

killmaimburn wrote: ...as any work talus does on it is fruit of the diseased timewizard tree and all credit must flow downwards to youz

Perish the thought!

But, if not for me, he would not have that incredible Iron Man sculpture to enter this month! Not to mention the Pegasus and a few other items that were available on this side of the pond! However, the new charges the Royal Mail are slapping on packages are making these shipments tougher to justify!

Okay, bit more, have 3 tanks built. Bashed a figure from a different tank to put Whittman on his tank.



So only 2 more to build, then I can get started on the painting.

The plan is to do them up in a Normandy 1944 camouflage pattern similar to my panzers.