It’s that time of the month again where we turn our baleful gaze upon the hobby progress of our steadily growing Corehammer Community. It has been really pleasing to see so many submissions from outside of our regular rogues gallery, so please keep on sending them in!
I have said it many times before but it bares repeating, the Single Figure Challenge is not a dick-swinging contest. It’s a hobby progress update, and an opportunity to show what you’ve been working on. Our readers are encouraged to leave thoughts, suggestions and constructive critique in the comments section below as well as a vote for the monthly winner. As of next month, the winner will be receiving a small prize (probably a CH shirt or something similar) to go along with the fawning adulation of their peers.
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Brother Mawdsley gets his hands on another Primarch from the Horus Heresy
This is my own take on Lorgar Aurelian. Complete with gold skin which was a challenge I set myself. I tried to get a more gritty realistic finish by trying out new ways of painting picked up off Kev and also the Miniature Mentor series, highlighting naturally rather than the hyper realism Games Workshop go for.
While it’s not perfect, I’m really pleased how he’s come out and feel confident in pushing my painting forward again for my next Primarch model.
Joe Wilding continues with another boy from Ulthuan
I’ve been working on this for a while now, and just this month I finally finished all the basing for it, as well as some other touches. It’s for the same army I entered last time, The Ashen Host, a bunch of grim High Elves from the mountains. The front was really easy to fit into my theme because I could just paint all the feathers dark, but the back obviously had to be a little different, so I went with snow leopard.
I was intimidated by this model before I started, but once I got stuck in I found it really easy to paint, and it came together really quickly. I spent much more time than I usually would on washes and layering, and despite the fact I’ve made a few mistakes, I think it came out quite well for it. Two things I learned while painting it is that painting patterns on to stuff with a detail brush (ie. his “spots”) is easier than I thought it would be, and second, I learned that painting white is for some reason really difficult to get right.
Tomas Hubbard takes time out from heavy metal to continue on his Araby
I need some magic to go with my Araby army, and it was the perfect excuse to attempt to make the common enchanted item “Arabyan flying carpet”. Colour wise, I wanted him to still fit in with the “fine silk” merchant look of the army. I limited myself to only using a single wash, and minimal drybrushing, as I’m drybrush heavy as a painter. This was one of the funniest models to convert and paint I’ve ever done
Tim Straker repping the CH Southern hemisphere chapter
My entry is the latest addition to my Warriors of Chaos army, a Games Day limited edition Chaos Sorcerer.
I wasn’t quite sure how to go about grey flesh, so I started with a base of Mechanicus Standard Grey and just kept adding Bleached Bone to it for each layer after it, until I was happy with the result. I’m looking forward to adding more units to my Chaos army, before this I hadn’t really bothered with it in a few years, so it’s definitely pulled me back into fantasy.
Josh Bottomley gets involved with a World Eaters Praetor
I’m really happy with the way this turned out, feel like I’m improving every time I complete another more detailed model. This was the first Forge World model I’ve painted and I’m impressed by how good the casts actually are. Tried a few new things out on this, the rust weathering was done with the little Tamiya sets, the ones that look like make up sets! They are really easy to use for the the smaller things, and I think they will get plastered on pretty much everything I paint now. The head took about 3 do-overs, something I need to improve on!
First model I’ve completed for my World Eaters legion army (got some MK II marines almost finished) that I’m gonna be running as a small Chaos army, and hopefully for the doubles event later this year.
Sam Dale showing that it’s not all about GW minis
Dr Arkadius. He’s a Warlock for the Thornfall (Farrow pigmen) subfaction of the Minions faction of the Hordes game. The rest of the faction are pigmen and giant pigmen cyborgs. He’s the Frankenstein character, responsible for the cyborg things in the army.
I paint with white undercoat, then base colours, Nuln Oil wash, then base coat and 2-3 highlights. I use a mix of GW, P3, Coat D’arms and Foundry colours (and I’m using less GW as time goes on). I don’t mix colour much (I’ve a pot of home-mixed brass highlight colour, and a pot of desaturated purple), just have multiple shades of a given colour. One day, I’ll have 50 shades of grey paint. The second pic shows off some of the cannisters of green goop he’s got around his body a bit better.
Mark Frocker finishing it off with a Deathwing Librarian
I picked this figure up around 5 years ago when he first came out and although it’s such a rad figure, I only recently got around to painting him up. Undercoated in black, the main blue colour scheme is a base of Necron Abyss built up by adding Regal Blue and Enchanted Blue in increments, whilst the final highlights are a mix of Skull White and Enchanted Blue. The bone is a mix of Bleached Bone and Gryphon Sepia gradually built up with just Bleached Bone and Skull White – going to have to find another method of getting that colour now, as I’m rapidly running out of the old paints!
My only bugbear with this guy is the base, which was done when I first bought the figure. The rocks look a bit clunky, and although it was fun to paint, the Termagaunt head looks a bit naff now!
