Teetengee

Apologies for the potato photos, but they're done! Hopefully I'll have better light for photos soon. And much thanks to @Dr_Ruminahui for allowing my out of competition entry, definitely got me off my butt to paint for the first time in nearly a year.

do you mind if I vow them as out of comp, no points?

I suspect that these are too far along (they have a coat of wash over the base metal) but I want to paint something and everything else is either too big or not primed. So, the smaller three little walkers here, jezzail bots for my space skaven. I, Teetengee, heed the Call to Arms and pledge to paint 3 jezzail-bots for 3 (actually 0) points for the Glory of the Realms of Chaos and the Chaos Stronghold on or before 15th September 2025, or bear the badge of failure until year's end. (If these go real quick, I might do the bigger walker as well, but I'll post that as a separate vow. It would count, as it's just primed, but I don't want to rush it too much)

perfect, plenty of time left still for me to vow something

How much time have we got left?

I really like the Blanche masterclass paint series from army painter, maybe something that would help with this part specifically, if you weren't aware of it. Blanche worked with them to create the sets.

More or less accurate. I think because of a number of reasons that it's morally bankrupt, and I agree with the United Nations, every artist I know, and, much to my surprise, the Pope that the best way to use LLMs is to not. Furthermore, this is something that has existed for a only few short years, and everyone on this forum has lived most of their life without it. It is simply unnecessary and counterproductive for the human-engagement focused environment that B&C has cultivated over decades, and will only harm the community. There is a beautiful spark of creativity in every single person who comes to this forum, and I want to see that grow, not be stifled and crushed under the weight of slop we see in so many other places. I come back here again and again over the years because I want to see all of these human endeavors in art flourish.

you can block users which hides and minimizes anything they post (so you have to click in to see them)

If I had my druthers, anyone who intentionally used any genAI/LLM in any way would be banned, zero tolerance, and any unintentional use would be removed with a warning. Since that seems to not be the route this is heading, I'd like to see as much of the following as possible: 1. extremely harsh penalties for intentionally feeding anything posted in the forum into AI, even indirectly. ("How do I respond to..." or photo editing style prompts, mostly) 2. a tagging system for every genAI/LLM involved piece of content that tags at the top, so I can safely ignore it 3. a system to autoblock all genAI/LLM tagged content 4. a system to autoblock all users who have posted any genAI/LLM tagged content, even their non-tagged content.

Excited to hopefully have the full period for painting this time. (and thus finish the models I've hardly touched since last time, even though a good chunk of them are past the allowable point for scoring).

Still haven't finished my vow from last year *however*, I did get more paint down attempting it than I have since ETL days. So I'm definitely in again, and hopefully I can finish painting my current stuff that is too far along to revow before this one starts up!

feels kinda skaveny, tbh. I might get one for a headswap depending on how the sprue is split up I like it as a mini, but it doesn't seem focused to me for ork weirdboy specifically

The fact that the head is specifically called out as word bearers (and not just a clearly word bearers inspired head included in the generic CSM options) means this seems extremely likely.

most of the character models