Welcome to the June 2013 Painter of the Month Competition.

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. 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. On the 15th of month, a list will be posted by one of the moderators listing all eligible contestants for that month's competition. No entries will be accepted after that post. 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 between the 15th and the 27th of June and must posted in the competition gallery. No entries will be accepted after midnight GMT on June 27th. 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 June 28th until midnight GMT on June 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 are still working on getting prizes for the year end winners. More on that as it becomes known.

Good luck to all the contestants!


Entrants so far:

Cain Tiberius - Crashed Thunderhawk
Talus - Battlestar Galactica and Pegasus
Kmb - Eurofighter
Paulmc - Messerschmitt bf109e
Timewizard - Robby the Robot
Bob_to_Some - Eye-Bot
Spack - Epic Thunderbolts

excuse the double post, but to continue the new tradition of me ninja'ing my entry in before anyone else, please allow me to submit the following:

Battlestar Galactica*



Battlestar Pegasus*



So say we all!


* Some assembly required

Since building the Thunderhawk, I'd had the idea of a crashed Hawk. And obviously FW had to go and do one >.< But I'd thought about making it a little more wrecked. If you've played Space Marine, you'll know what I mean about the wrecked Hawk on Shattered Bridge.

I do intend doing several pieces of wreckage scenery, but I don't know how long each piece will take, so I'm just going to enter one for now.

that hawk is next to one of my favourite las cannon sniping spots <3

What game system do you play on?

pc or ps3, got it free off the PSN

i'd have to reinstall it though

Man, you guys all do all your jibberflappingjaw aching chattboxing in these threads.. so I figure.. if the conversation won't be aboot playing games the gamer shall come to the chattboxxing thread.

Aim is to skip pieces 50-65 and have it in flight... only issue is adlibbing a base , probably using twisted thick copper wire... Update probably tommmrow as kids will return to school and give me a bit of time to kitbash (if anything fits its a 1:72 or something)
Oh its a europfighter.. the co-op near me was closing down so it was £6.50

Well no kids, but gout flaring up.. on the plus side... the pain kind of gives me nervous energy.. so I've been quite productive.

So lets see, assembled all the bits I wanted to.. its fiddly this tiny things stuff.
Got some copper cable, realised it wasn't strong enough.. wove it together.. Cut a small piece of wood , drilled two holes in it.. stuck cable through it (and stuck piece of wood to dining room table).
(Noob error avoided in that I haven't stuck the clear plastic canopy down before spraying)

Next step. cover base with rocks (fish tank stones from attic).. glue the crap out of it to reinforce base and add some weight... Then wait until this afternoon when it should be dry enough (glue is dripping from it) to spray grey to start any painting.

Looking good KMB. I was watching one of these being tested at Warton near Lytham - Saint Anne's on Friday. Kept doing fly bys, landing just enough for all the wheels to touch the Tarmac. And then blasting off again, doing a circle and repeating several times.
They have to be the loudest aircraft I've ever heard when after burning. At Southport Airshow last September, they had a single Eurofighter, and it was 10+ times louder than 7 Red Arrow Hawks put together.

Nice KMB. I've got one of those in the attic in 1/48 scale waiting to be built, along with an F-22 Raptor 1/48 - both aircraft that I worked on while I was on my year out at Uni working at Dowty Aerospace in Wolverhampton (they built the foreplane actuators on the Typhoon, and I think one of the rear aileron actuators on the F-22) ; as well as main wing actuators on the Airbus A330/340 and Boeing 777, and rear aileron Learjet 45 One of my friend's, who used to be here on AoS back when it first started, was (and possibly still is - been out of contact for a long time) Eurofighter project manager at BAE Warton.

keeping with the 'aero' theme, this month I too shall enter a model plane - Messerschmitt bf109e 1:24 scale airfix kit.
I have some history with this model, I first got one of these for Christmas when I was 11 and it was the only model that I never finished, it sat in the loft at my mams for nearly 20 years mocking me with its half-finishedness before I finally binned it when my parents moved house.
my father-in-law bought me this kit for Christmas last year not knowing it was my childhood nemesis and it has sat in my spare room ever since. I think its about time I slayed this dragon

Very nice. At 1/24 that will be a big kit to get painted up!

couple wip shots here for you guys

brass application to pegasus

before



after




cutting into those flight pods was... terrifying!

honest to god my hands were shaking thinking i was going to rip into the hull or something :S


here's a size comparison for people too




ive got two bigger kits waiting for other contests too

Well, I seem to be cursed with the guillotine.
After getting work done on it, we had a death in the family, and then I got hit with the flu.
I think I'll finish it up anyway, but I'm not going to try to enter it again.
So instead, for this month, it will be....



Robby the Robot from Forbidden Planet.

Looks like a bit of filling and sanding work to do, then to come up with a color that is the same as how he appeared in the movie.

But this one I hope to finish.

This time... I'm going to enter an Eye-bot.
Will upload picture shortly.

TW, sorry to hear about your loss.

How big is Robbie? Looks like a few big models this time around. I was toying with some 28mm figures, but beginning to think I might have to go larger just to outdo the rest of you! The Phantom Titan should be about large enough ... maybe not.

Will try to sort out my entry by the weekend, going to have to dig in the attic since everything got moved around and packed up when I swapped all the shelving around.

Sorry for your loss TW :/ My condolences to you and your family.

But the seems to be some good work going on here guys. keep it up

Here's a little update on my entry.

Spack wrote:TW, sorry to hear about your loss.

Me too.

Spack wrote:The Phantom Titan should be about large enough ... maybe not..

Do you really want to rush a centre piece model??.. looks at army of 30 titans, oh yeah go ahead spray paint that thing..

Looking good Cain Tiberius

if he thinks the phantom is big enough to keep up, he obviously hasnt seen what i have lined up for the next few months

Lol... Well, I don't need to post big models... this month something small.

that makes 6 entrants so far!

lets see if we can get 6 people finishing! -looks to timewizard-

Talus wrote:if he thinks the phantom is big enough to keep up, he obviously hasnt seen what i have lined up for the next few months

The Phantom will have to wait, it needs a lot of work before it's even ready to be base coated as the previous owner tried to undercoat it with GW Chaos Black spray and make a poor job of it. GW sprays are, at least in my experience, crap at being used as a primer, and it'll have to be removed. Also being an old early Armorcast resin model the surface it quite badly pitted, so it'll need some filling and sanding too, and two of the vanes were broken and need pinning properly before filling and sanding where the cracks are.

I'll pop up to the attic in about an hour and pick something out. I can go as small as an epic space marine (got a bunch of metal Mk6 figs kicking around) but after the German infantry figure I'll think I'll stick to something a bit larger, I'm getting too old to paint little things; back in the old days I amazed myself, given at how I don't paint, that I managed to paint a pupil on an epic space marine sgt (the other eye being bionic), and also a banner on an epic Ultramarine captain with the omega wet blended from yellow to red - I think I'd be lucky to paint one a single colour these days.

Failing that I need paint the garage door and front door very soon - would either of those count?

Spack wrote:Failing that I need paint the garage door and front door very soon - would either of those count?

depends, is it an unpainted or unassembled front door and garage door? if not do you have a primed shot of it?

Talus wrote:

Spack wrote:Failing that I need paint the garage door and front door very soon - would either of those count?

depends, is it an unpainted or unassembled front door and garage door? if not do you have a primed shot of it?

LOL, good that Talus! You're reading my mind again.

Thanks for the condolence messages mates, appreciated. My best friend and former partner in the Police Dept. (hence the family member) lost his 43 year old son to a massive heart attack. Came out of the blue. I was a week solid with him and his family. Still not 100% but getting there.

@Spack, Robby is going to be roughly 7" tall when finished. If I can get it done this month, I am going to really blow away the suggested time on the side of the box.
It says "10 years and up", I can't believe it would take 10 years to build this kit. After all, it's not like it's a guillotine!

Talus wrote:

Spack wrote:Failing that I need paint the garage door and front door very soon - would either of those count?

depends, is it an unpainted or unassembled front door and garage door? if not do you have a primed shot of it?

I have to strip it and prime it before painting, so yes I will be able to provide photos of a primed shot before the entry date