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Welcome all to the 58th round of the Dakka Painting challenge. For those who haven't seen the challenge before, it is a community-focused friendly competition open to anyone on the site, regardless of your skill level or experience. Every round contributes towards a League table, which ultimately means nothing but is a lot of fun to keep an eye on and jockey for position with Dakka's other painters.

This month, as is traditional for December, we have the Open Round. There's no theme to stick to, so while as the usual rules apply as far as proof pictures and model count ect, the choice of miniature is entirely open to you. Need to get something painted for a Christmas gift, or eager to get started on your own new shinies, or just looking for an excuse to paint the cool model that's been sitting on your desk for months, now's the time!

How To Enter
- You may enter up to 5 MODELS as a SINGLE ENTRY, and are permitted one entry per member per month. If you enter multiple models, they should ideally be related in some way, such as part of the same squad, unit or scene if you are doing a diorama
- You MUST post a 'proof' picture of your entry in the thread of the state it was in before you started working on it; this must be either unassembled, unpainted, primed or coated a single colour. Entries that do not submit a valid Proof Picture will not be eligible for voting.
- After this, you may post WIP pictures in this thread and your own if you wish, and on completing the entry, you may post up to 6 final pictures IN THIS THREAD that will then be used for voting. Please note that pictures in a montage or collage picture will be considered individual images for this purpose, so while these types of presentation are certainly acceptable, please keep the image limit in mind when compiling them. For example, a collage of 5 images and one separate image would count as your 6 picture allowance.


So What Do I Win?
- Points... and points mean... bragging rights for the next month! Following the vote, points will be awarded to every entrant. This year, the Points you receive will be equal to the Percentage of Votes your entry receives in the final Voting thread; if you get 10%, you get 10 points, if you get 6% you get 6 points, so on and so forth.

These points will be used to form a league table, which will be updated month on month as the results come in. The overall winner of the League for this year will receive a set of Dakka Dice.


How Long Do I Have?
This challenge begins 1st of December and will end at midnight UK time on the 31st of December. After this, I shall compile the finished entries into a new thread, and voting will run for 5 days.

List of Entrants:

Some Deathwatch. These should be the rest of the guys to fill in my Fortis Kill Teams.

This Corvus Blackstar has been collecting dust for some while now (can't even remember which grey I used for the drybrush test). Will probably go over it with black and try something completely different.

Nother bust for me. This is for my old man for Christmas. Young miniatures RAF bomber pilot. Got a little ahead of myself and basecoated the face before I remembered to photograph it.

I'm going to finally get around to something that's been sitting in the bottom of my cabinet, resplendent in grey, for the last year or so...

 Bellerophon wrote:
I'm going to finally get around to something that's been sitting in the bottom of my cabinet, resplendent in grey, for the last year or so...

/drool.

Love the Eldar superheavy tanks. So jealous.

I will try to do these two old boys


I'm moving house atm so will be doubtful that I'll be able to finish them

Damn that command squad kicked ass! I had them back in the day.

One of the best box sets GW made. All the minis in there rocked.

I am going to try and do two (soon to be obsolete) Immolators, that I had traded for to replace my very obsolete Mark I Immolators. Goal is to finish at least one, and stretching for two.

Proof picture.



Cheers,

CB

I'm going to finish the rest of Bane's crew for this month.

Ignore the Infinity in this proof pic; that's a next year problem!



Are we going to treat the teddy bear as a "6th member" because honestly, it's like a nothing figure.

That Avatar is gorgeous, are you gonna enter dakka challenge with it. I'd like to see your take on Infinity.

Not for this month. I am doing my best to stick to my plan of getting specific projects done by end-of-year (Necrons, Nighthaunt, Titanicus, and DCU Bane).

I'm definitely going to be painting a lot more Infinity next year though so the Avatar will definitely be submitted at some point!

I have painted Infinity before, albiet a couple years ago (I believe my YuJing were from early 2018). It's definitely a game I care much more about spending time-per-model on, so expect more than my usual AoS/40k efforts!

Wow, those are stunning! If there's ever a month where you and Modock have an Infinity-off, the rest of us might as well pack up our brushes and take a holiday!

Hot damn ...what a beautiful sight. I didn't know you're into Infinity.

 Paradigm wrote:
Wow, those are stunning! If there's ever a month where you and Modock have an Infinity-off, the rest of us might as well pack up our brushes and take a holiday!

...nah

Thanks! I've dabbled, but never actually picked up the game to play seriously. The YuJing were done for doubles at Adepticon last year, and that was the last time I "played" them!

My goal for 2020 is to become much more familiar with a handful of new game systems, Infinity amongst them. The Combined will be my first serious foray into learning the game; I love TAGS and the Avatar seems like the most competitive option available (plus I love the entire Combined range), so hopefully I can stick with it!

Converted Raptor to Black Legion chaos lord with jump pack.

Finally got some financial stability here so picked this guy up and planning to do something special to convert him into a Blood Raven!

Hello, I would like to enter my Cadian Lascannon. In all honesty, the proof picture was taken on the 29th of November, but since it's far from finished, I hope to squeeze it in anyway.



I'm looking forward to seeing the other entries painted! It looks like we'll have some nice variation.

I think my entry this month will be an imperial admiral for ing28

I painted up a single CSM ages ago so want to finish up the other 9 in the squad. I'll pick 5 out of whatever I finish for final pics.

Primed with Army Painter Chaotic Red:

Here's my proof pic, tactical marine for scale.

Meet the limited edition morgraur rashaar for Carnevale!

Finished. Busts are awesome. 4 days to finish this as opposed to 2-4 weeks for a single 28mm miniature. Weird.

That bust looks great, the skin tone looks so natural!

I started painting and am already hating myself for attempting this color scheme. There will be a lot of cleanup neccessary after I have finished with the "edge" highlighting

WIP:

(ignore the reiver with his gun, he was halfway done at the start of the month, but is getting his finish with his brothers)

Reiver bodies are done, started on the arms and put the first black down on the agressors. I need to have them all wrapped up and done by the 18th, so not a huge amount of spare time this month. Plus I need to bake a few dozen cookies.

Lovely work as usual QAR. Set an early marker for this round.

 Nevelon wrote:

/drool.

Love the Eldar superheavy tanks. So jealous.

Yeah, they're lovely. I think I surprised myself when I bought it - I was at Warhammer World, wandering around the Forgeworld store and I saw one on the shelf. Couldn't resist. But that was over a year ago and although I'd built it I'd put off painting it until now.

Progress, I've pretty much got the green done. Now to paint a forest of Biel-Tan thorns all over it, and keep working on the white...

I always look forward to Decembers challenge, you never know what you are going to get, good luck everyone

Wow done already Queen Ann. You make me cry, takes you 4 days to create a masterpiece, takes me 4 days to clean the model lines off a model.....
also the 2nd photo looks a little blurry/out of focus.

That green is looking mighty fine already Bellerophon

I normally do quite a big Xmas scene with Orks but I've been really struggling with time the last few months and this month looks no different, so this will likely be my entry:

Proof pic and WIP. Really it's already done, I just need to make a base for it. The original plan was to have it be a part of a diorama, and in fact I have already made most of it. I have, however, decided to get a few more models and basing materials to put onto the diorama, so I will finish it at a later date. For now I will just make a base for this model so I can enter it here, and then put the model back onto the diorama at a later date.

Lots of great looking figs already. I know it’s only the 1st week of December but I finished my entry. Black Legion jump Lord.

Great work Power Elephant (really like the coat) and Yorknight (good pose like the red should pad to add some colour to the model) two really good entries finished very quickly