Welcome back to the June installment of Preening Dandies, being published in late July. It's slightly delayed but we have many, many excuses. The entire team has been knocked out of action by their own personal issues.
I've spent the last three weeks hunting the deadliest game through the mountains of Kerry.
Maynard is busy alternating between fits of frantic writing and black-out drinking.
We believe Welshman is being held by Dagestani insurgents somewhere in Central Asia (this may be true).
And poor Bristolscale7 has spent every waking moment, surrounded by spreadsheets, meditating on pairings in the upcoming Flames of War ETC.
But enough excuses, break out a cup of tea and gaze over last month's work.
Epic Thagrosh (Hordes)
This month's entry comes from one of our most prolific painters, after his exploits at Hobocon we were going to call him "Painted an entire Legion army in one night" Lowry but it's really just a terrible nickname. The grey skin, cloth and armour are all very nice but it's the blade that draws the eye. That particular shade of green contrasts extremely well with the brass detailing.
Chapter Master (Warhammer 40K)
Newbreed gives us Proximus the posing Rune Priest. He needs to start using a lower resolution camera to show his work in its best light as this photo highlights some patchy bits. But the work on the blade suggests that he might be moving away from the "throw paint at model" approach. Now if he could start produce detailing that doesn't look like someone spunked on the model's armour/helmet.
Chaos Space Marine Dreadnought (Warhammer 40K)
I was about to sneer at the sight of another Ultramarines model but a closer look reveals that this war machine has thrown its lot in with the Ruinous Powers. Spikes and Chaos insignia are present along with a ... thing.... a weird fleshy squiggly thing, curled up above the cupola. What is that, Sycopat?
Ironclad Dreadnought (Warhammer 40K)
We see a Forgeworld entry as Welshman sends in his Ironclad Dreadnought. Not satisfied with imitating Sycopat's choice of entry, he's begun mimicking Newbreed's detailing work. Shame on you, comrade, wherever you are. And I'll also have to grant some grudging respect for the neatness of your paintjobs.
Land Raider Achilles (Warhammer 40K)
The Dark Angels are about to get a splashy new release in the 6th edition starter set but here's an entry from a Dark Angels player who has been sulking about their lack of cheese since the advent of 5th edition. It's the infantry-mangling Achilles. The Mechanium type cog looks good and the khaki paint does offset the vast amounts of Dark Angels Green very nicely.
This is a Warheads blog (allegedly) so it's high time we started ranking people. Here are the scores as they stand.
Preening Dandies
| Player |
Score |
| Lowry |
3 |
| Newbreed |
3 |
| Welshman |
3 |
| Sycopat |
3 |
| Trget |
2 |
| Bristolscale7 |
1 |
| Crazy Aido |
1 |
| Nosediver |
1 |
We'll be doing
another roundup at the start of August so get your works into
prd@onthestep.net before the end of July. I've been informed by our local tech adept that photos above 5MB in size
tend to bounce back so keep your entries below that size.
Rules Refresher
1) Each participant may only send in one entry for a given month. You can send in multiple photos of the entry but only one will be used.
2) The entry can be a single model or single unit. The smaller the unit, the more detail in the photo so aim low.
3) The model can be from any game system. If it's particularly esoteric, we'd appreciate a covering note explaining what it is.
4) The entry must have been finished within that given month. You can't submit completed pieces from your back catalogue.
5) If you want us to include a link back to more of your work, we'd be delighted to do that.Labels: Community, Painting and Modelling, Preening Dandies
