STS Model Painting Month 2024 Announcement and your BEFORE pictures

Hello STS Forum friends!
There has been some interest in our forum's new edition of Painting Month. I'm happy to announce it will come again this year!


As previously we will start painting our chosen model in May and try to finish it within one month
If you succeed and you agree to it I'll add a photo of your work to the final collage. Last year we even had a chance to have a dedicated forum logo for an entire month, showcasing the finished figurines. I think that was pretty great! Of course, it's not a competition, no worries!

To not open too many topics about this event I decided that this is also the signup space for this year. Here you can show us the BEFORE photo of your chosen, unpainted, or original finish model and tell us your plan for its color.

There will be two more threads coming in May. One for work in progress and one for finished models.

All animal models are welcome, any material, scale, realistic or not, wild, domestic, prehistoric, or fantasy, whatever makes you happy! All techniques are fine, acrylics, oils, pencils, markers, mixed media, decoupage, you can go wild if you like

Technical questions are always welcome! You can also check the tutorials section of this forum for more inspiration and help



Important: We don't start painting the official model before May. But you can start prepping your model in April already. It means removing seamlines and any annoying elements. Resculpting and customizing if you wish. You can also cover the model in primer, gesso, or basecoat.

Please choose one official model and don't change it after committing to it. I believe choosing one official project helps with motivation and focus. All extras and side projects can go to the general topic of the event (work in progress). Of course, we'll be happy to see them too!

Anna, this is great, count me in!
Now I need to look for a proper victim.  

That's fantastic, Shanti ! I'll be excited to see what you choose to paint!

Can't wait to see what everyone does!

I will play the game too

Awesome!
I still need to decide what to paint too

Same here : definitely count me in, but haven't chosen this year's subject yet!

Here's my victim should I be able to participate.
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 I hope to participate too, I will look around in my boxes to find a subject to work on!

Yay, we have a small group of participants! Still not sure which model to paint! As always I will be late for the date!

Yay, great to see you all joining!

I'm trying to choose one project, I found those three models in my box with unpainted figures and can't decide. All three models are sculpted by Mountain Animal Studio. They are Pygmy Hippo, Leopard, and Jaguar. If I choose any of the big cats I would go for melanistic color variation. Which one do you think I should paint?
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Ooooh, difficult choice! I think I would go for the cat to the right but they are all beautiful and need their coats!

And I really need to choose a victim as well...

I think you should paint three May models this year

This is the same issue I end up with, not being able to decide and now I have a stack of figures on my desk to pick just *one*!!

I vote for the jaguar also.

Yes, it's so hard to decide! Even if there are no wrong choices

I see the jaguar is the most popular so far I think I'll go for it. Now I need to find some good reference pictures

Oh wow, that jaguar and leopard are beautiful. Whichever you choose I know will be beautiful!

I limited my possible victims to two models. A Mr.Z Great Dane and Bull Terrier.
The Bull Terrier has a rather ugly tatoo which I want to be gone. This dog is otherwise almost ready to paint.
With the great dane it is different. I would love to have a great dane with flopped ears. If I would chose this model first I had to remove the cropped ears and sculpt new flopped ears. Not sure if I could finish this until April 30th. But I could try.
What do you think? Which dog should I chose for STS Model Painting Month 2024?

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The great Dane should be a very nice challenge but, please, save the poor Bull Terrier first

Kikimalou wrote:

The great Dane should be a very nice challenge but, please, save the poor Bull Terrier first

I think the same!

Thank you! I think I will go for the Bull Terrier. Time is running short. Maybe, just maybe the Great dane could be a side project or just a later project.

So my entry will be a brindle Bull Terrier.

A shame the bull terrier has such a beautiful sculpt but ugly tattoos... Can't wait to see how you paint him!

I like that Bullterrier. Which brand is it? ^^

Thank you! These tattoos are truly ugly. Not sure why anybody would do this...

@Tupolew Tu-154: The Bull Terrier is made by Mr.Z But he ist much larger than the other standing Bull Terrier (without Tattoo).
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I shall participate too if my camping site let me enough time! To save time, I think I shall paint a jungle cat of my own production that I have to paint anyway! :)

Yay, sounds great, Caracal!