Yeah, I know.
“Wait, dickhead. I painted a model for this thing last year and you never bothered to do a community round-up post.”
Well, fair point. Though as you may know if you’re a regular here, the latter half of 2019 was quite difficult for me IRL and burned me out of blogging for quite a few months, and then even painting for several months. You’re probably also aware of the shitshow that 2020 has been if you’ve been awake even a little bit. So while I am now actively working on the 2019 Jewel of July Community Round-Up (which will hopefully go up in a week or so – I’ve got the first three submissions done). I thought I’d announce the 2020 Jewel of July Painting Challenge. Kinda works a little better this way, since the recycled images I’m using from last year’s announcement post from other people in the community won’t be doubled-up in a week or so’s time when the 2019 Challenge Round-Up post goes up.
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To celebrate the middle of the year, it’s time to run The Jewel of July Challenge, the first challenge I’ve run for 6 months now.
Oh – and all of the images I’ve used in this post are illustrative of things that do indeed count for challenge purposes. July is a wide-open month that above all, aims to be fun. Just as importantly, all images are clickable and will send you to that person’s blog post. So do indeed check out some stuff that’s new to you!
I’m under no delusion that everyone I’ve linked here will have the time/inclination/etc to participate this next month, so don’t feel “called out”, but I did feel like this post would be a good opportunity to provide a ton of examples of stuff that can be considered valid models for July, and rather than just populate it with models from my own collection beyond the intro image – use models from your collections instead with links so people can check out more of one anothers’ blogs. Because community and all that.
The Jewel of July is about painting (almost) anything you want that you think will be cool, or impressive, or just nice.
It’s for Heroes. Big or small. named or otherwise. A Lieutenant or a Medic or a Warlord Riding a Dragon. An Inquisitor’s aide or a Star Player or a Bounty Hunter.
It’s for Vehicles. A Motorcycle or a Maus. A Starship or a Gaslands Car. A Panzer IV to a Kettenkrad. A Rhino APC or a Konigstiger or a War Rig or a M’ak I. (or M’ak II?)
It’s for the more impressive scenery pieces. A desert oasis or a (ruined?) temple or a bunker complex or a single bunker or a skyscraper or a Ferratonic Incinerator or a Kwik-E-Mart. A forest worth of trees or a jungle worth of plants.
It’s for Monsters. Ogres or Ogors. Dragons, Giants, decent-sized Daemons. Bronze Bulls and Dinosaurs and Great Wight Sharks and Goremaw and Cthulhu.
It’s for Dieties and Demi-gods. Primarchs and Titans. Atlas and Aeres and Abaddon. Horus and Hercules. Venus and Vulkan. Saturn and Sanguinius.
It’s for Mechs and the Mechanicum. Steampunk walkers, Dreadnoughts, Imperial Knights, Warjacks, Tripods, Titans.
It’s for Dioramas and Vignettes. Historical, Fantasy, Sci-Fi. It’s all good. Even better if they also feature something from the above!
So yes. Anything from a USMC Corpsman to a 28mm scale Warlord Titan counts for this coming month’s challenge.
What isn’t it for? It’s not for the truly small stuff – units of line infantry, or barrels and crates. Little bits of scatter terrain.
Units are okay, if they would individually fit in with the above categories. This means units of tanks, or Inquisitors’ retinue members, or units of Ogres or Carnifexes (Carnifii?) or what used to be Space Marine Command Squads all work, but an Imperial Guard squad, or a Space Marine Squad, or a unit of Fallschirmjaeger don’t.
As always, the biggest distinction between this painting challenge and many others out there are that I only care about you completing these models. It’s not a “start-to-finish” challenge set during a single month, so regardless of whether you just missed out on finishing that diorama or tank this month, last month, or six months ago – or you’ve got stuff that you’ve been chipping away at for six months – or, indeed – if you’ve got models that have been shelved for months or even years, feel free to dig them out and join in.
Similarly, if you want to go start-to-finish, then feel free to go right ahead. It’s about completing cool things. The challenge is designed to easily fit into your (and my) painting schedule and be flexible enough to encompass quite a lot, and hopefully just act as a bit of an impetus or inspiration to get this stuff completed.
As I said up the top of this post, I don’t expect that everyone shown above will be able to join in, but if you’ve been on the edge of joining in on one of these challenges, or just painting some stuff anyway that fits into the many categories, please do feel free to join in. This goes for you, too Marouda! AGAIN.
Paint that effing treeman or those Turtles!
Or both.
Once again, I will NOT be posting regular updates over the course of the month on it. I WILL do a round-up of all the participants I’m aware of following end of the month, though – so once again – please DO LINK to this post when you finish something that you want counted in the round-up – because I WILL forget your post otherwise. It happens every single month that I ran these things.
ooh, lovely! It won’t be the prettiest jewel, but I will paint up my Plagueburst Crawler for this!
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That sounds like it’d fit spiffingly!
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Looking forward to it. I have started to make plans!
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I have to figure out what I’m going to do myself. I’ve got plenty of unfinished stuff that qualifies, but I’d like to do something new and special….
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Yeah I’ve got some models that need finishing but I’ve committed to do them. I’m thinking a kytan ravager would be a great fit.
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Yeha, that would do it….! 😀
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Good to see that you have returned to your challenges, I’m sure like a lot of others I’ve missed them, and fully appreciate how much time and effort you put into these. I’m sure I can find something in my pile of unfinished that will qualify so I’m in
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Thanks Dave. They won’t be monthly but I would like to have a few over the course of the year every couple of months. I’ll be looking for something cool of my own to work on as well. 😁
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Here’s my entries for the challenge mate https://wargamesculptorsblog.blogspot.com/2020/08/jewel-of-july-roundup.html
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Damn! I’m pretty sure I promised that if you did this I’d tackle my Chaos Knight. Me and my big mouth eh! Right *rolls up sleeves* let Operation Just Paint The Blasted Thing begin!
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I’d love to get a knight done, but the assembly really does put me off. Definitely looking forward to seeing yours hit the finish line!
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Sounds fun; and I love a good community painting challenge. I’ll probably tackle Cerastus Knight-Castigator finally (owned it a year before building it…and now’s it’s been at least another year since I did that…)…or maybe horus heresy Dark Angels…or…well, it’ll be cool anyway.
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Figure out what works for you and have at it. No reason you can’t drop in more than one if you get them done.
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I’m up and painting at https://262krieg.blogspot.com/
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I leave you with a completed Cerastus Knight-Castigator in House Taranis Baronial livery.
https://262krieg.blogspot.com/2020/07/jewel-of-july-house-taranis-cerastus_29.html
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Ace, I have a couple of Word Bearers heroes (if you can call them ‘heroes’) in need of a push.
On a side note, Pandora’s Norris Thing marine is properly disgusting, I love it 😍
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Well, villains count as well! 😆👹
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Will try and get something done.
Cheers,
Pete.
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Looking forward to seeing what you manage, Pete! 😁
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If I manage to see through my Scibor Dwarf and I’m certainly working hard on that goal, consider him entered! 🙂
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That would work, and based on how nicely Theoden turned out I’m sure he’ll be well worthy!
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Blasts from the past! I’ll see what I can get together – always enjoyed participating in your painting challenges, and seeing others stuff especially.
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Cheers Mark – new stuff (from last year) will be up soon(ish!)
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Alex’s Kal Jericho and Scabs are awesome!
The Fantasy Island is great too!
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Yeah, there was sone great stuff finished! 🙂
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Some great stuff and blasts from the past here. Mr White’s Terrorgheist is a particular highlight. I very much enjoy taking part in your challenges.
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Cheers, AB – hoping you’re able to do something for this one 🙂
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Great to see another challenge, I’ve been missing them! I’ll try to participate, now I just have to figure out which model to paint.. Probably something on the small side, as during these summer months I tend to have less time for the hobby.
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Thanks mate – I’ll be trying to run a few each year, but not every month. I may do something like what Ann has done (and now Dave Stone) and run them over 2 months. But even then it’ll be maybe 4 a year. Running them every month leads to a fast burnout!
Anything you can do I’m sure will look bloody amazing, though – knowing the standard of your work! 🙂
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Great work there mate ,so much talent ,thanks for showing it!!
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Very welcome, Pat – hoping you’ll be able to drop something in yourself 🙂
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Oh mate if only I had the time and energy, works just gone crazy, Ive never been busier in the nine years Ive been in this industry! I would never have imagined that the last six months before I retired would be the busiest, Ha Ha ,Though I’m not complaining as its great to be able to be in an industry that is very much required in our current situation.
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ooooh, I want in on this, is that OK to join in?
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Of course, mate – go for it!
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Splendid and tremendous. Now… what to paint….
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Oh man… I love community painting challenges. Is it ok if I start late on this one? I have just started working on the Librarian from Space Hulk!
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Go for it, mate!
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I managed to finish my Librarian a little early! I have posted the final picture here: https://oldschoolg4m1ng.blogspot.com/2020/07/the-jewel-of-july-2020-lexicanium.html I’ll see if I can do a second miniature before time runs out 😉
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Hi there! I’m new to this… Wudugast suggested my July-born Plague Doctor pseudo-knight could be fitting… I have just received your blessing! So I will be painting this one!
https://tvcgartist.wordpress.com/2020/07/09/wip-40k-nurgle-titan-apocrypha-the-plague-doctor-part_7/
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I managed to finish it within the original timeframe! Hope you guys like it! Just entering was incentive enough to keep at it, so cheers!
My Nurgle Knight McFarlane Pattern … Is it a Titan, a Knight… Don’t ask me! I don’t do rules… Was it one day an Elder… Imperial?
https://tvcgartist.wordpress.com/2020/07/30/finished-40k-nurgle-knight-apocrypha-the-plague-doctor-part_26/
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I also got this Great Unclean One done… Took me years to dare put paint on it! In the end it was a breeze and a pleasure!
https://tvcgartist.wordpress.com/2020/08/31/finished-40k-aos-skaveiathrax-great-unclean-one-nurgle-greater-demon-part-9/
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I submit my effort for the Jewel of July in the form of Malifaux’s Hinamatsu (https://thebovineoverlord.wordpress.com/2020/07/18/painted-hinamatsu/); thanks again for organising the challenge.
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A couple of entries for the Jewel of July.
https://theimperfectmodeller.wordpress.com/2020/07/25/quadrophenia/
https://theimperfectmodeller.wordpress.com/2020/07/18/knights-hospitaller-28mm-diorama-no-2/
Thanks for organising.
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My entry for Jewel of July.
https://262krieg.blogspot.com/2020/07/jewel-of-july-house-taranis-cerastus_29.html
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I managed to finish it within the original timeframe! Hope you guys like it! Just entering was incentive enough to keep at it, so cheers!
My Nurgle Knight McFarlane Pattern … Is it a Titan, a Knight… Don’t ask me! I don’t do rules… Was it one day an Elder… Imperial?
https://tvcgartist.wordpress.com/2020/07/30/finished-40k-nurgle-knight-apocrypha-the-plague-doctor-part_26/
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Managed to get my Scibor dwarf done and am happy to include him in the challenge!
https://battlesinmiddleearth.wordpress.com/2020/07/25/scibor-project-finished-and-40k-started/
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Here is some recently finish work…
http://knightsandtitan.com/2020/08/24/display-board-part-6/
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