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Welcome all to the 65th round of the Dakka Painting challenge. For the unfamiliar, this is a friendly painting competition open to members of all skill levels and experience, whether your entry is your first or you thousand-and-first time painting miniatures. Each month, finished entries are collected into a thread where the community can vote on their favourite pieces, and those votes go towards an annual overall League that runs for 12 rounds, ending in February next year.

This month, the theme is Objective Secured. Your entry should feature models who possess the gear, skills,or sheer tenacity and hardiness,to hold,vital strategic points, or press forward and wrest soch locations from the enemy's grasp. Alternatively, objective markers or pivotal terrain features that reflect such locations are also valid entries.

How To Enter

- You may enter up to five 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.


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

List of Entrants

Squad of infiltrators. Ready to move out and secure the objective.

Battle Sisters from the army box, still on sprue. I'll try to paint all ten and then just pick the 5 most representative

Not sure I'll stick with these girls, my enthusiasm for this army comes in waves, but gonna try to grab five from this set of Basti spear ladies, spoilered because the latest pseudo-egyptian fashions don't involve tops:

I'm going with the varanguard, rank and file of the everchosen himself. I tend to batch spray with my airbrush when I use it, so much like the marauders last month I have already sprayed on a coat of bronze, but as that is only two minutes work and just a base layer I'm hoping it's ok.

Proof;

It's a really long time since I've entered one of these. Great to see lots of the same names here, and a bunch of new ones too!

I really fancied any of the other subjects because my plan for July is Eisenhorn and Cherubael. Could the Malus Codicium be the objective? Eisenhorn has definitely secured that

No problem if that's too tenuous, I'll be painting him either way.

I am going to enter an Eldar Phoenix Lord...because that is all I have left to paint. Perhaps an objective marker that I build from scratch to go with him.



Cheers,

CB

I've not entered one of these before, but this one ticks a number of boxes and helps push me along the route to my new army for 9th. I'll be going for a squad of Tallarn desert raiders that just came off the 3d printer. I'll pick whichever are the best 5 nearer the end

Vejut wrote:
Not sure I'll stick with these girls, my enthusiasm for this army comes in waves, but gonna try to grab five from this set of Basti spear ladies, spoilered because the latest pseudo-egyptian fashions don't involve tops:

Spoiler:

Mind saying what those models actually are? They look like they might make for an interesting cultists of Tzeentch or Slaanesh squad. Or a "counts as" Tomb Kings spears squad.

Nevelon won't be the only one entering with Infiltrators this month. I'll be painting these up for my Dark Angels army. Here's the proof pic:

I'm kind of on a little project to get as much of my Primaris stuff done as possible before the new box set drops, so this will help with that goal.

Hmm, I guess maybe this barbaretta and cyber mastiff? Not really feeling it. Wanted to paint more lotr this month but I guess I could do this one.

 queen_annes_revenge wrote:
Hmm, I guess maybe this barbaretta and cyber mastiff? Not really feeling it. Wanted to paint more lotr this month but I guess I could do this one.

Why not lotr? They have plenty of generic massed infantry to choose from.

 SergentSilver wrote:

 queen_annes_revenge wrote:
Hmm, I guess maybe this barbaretta and cyber mastiff? Not really feeling it. Wanted to paint more lotr this month but I guess I could do this one.

Why not lotr? They have plenty of generic massed infantry to choose from.

... also, doesn't basically every second scene in lotr/hobbit involve someone holding a vital strategic point? Guess you could pick any random named lotr character and some plot point where they're securing some kind of objective would come to mind

 SergentSilver wrote:

Vejut wrote:
Not sure I'll stick with these girls, my enthusiasm for this army comes in waves, but gonna try to grab five from this set of Basti spear ladies, spoilered because the latest pseudo-egyptian fashions don't involve tops:

Spoiler:

Mind saying what those models actually are? They look like they might make for an interesting cultists of Tzeentch or Slaanesh squad. Or a "counts as" Tomb Kings spears squad.

They're mildly reposed and weapon swapped Basti Skirmishers from Crocodile Games, for their WarGods of Aegyptus game, like most of the weird pseudo-egyptian things I post.

I'm putting together an ad-hoc multi-craftworld force in order to select Ynnari/Rhana Dandra kill teams from. Focussing on guardians this month, so here are (nearly) all of the guardian defenders and storm guardians I'm painting. Some of them are obviously painted beyond base colours (two are actually complete) so they obviously don't qualify. There are also custom heads and unorthodox loadouts in there to make things a bit more interesting. I'll select 5 that qualify from the whole lot, and maybe the eldar pillar as an objective, too.

The craftworlds are as follows -

Back row from left: Saim Hann, Biel Tan, Mymeara, Yme-Loc
Middle row: Iyanden, Alaitoc, Altansar, Mymeara, Ulthwe
Front row: Arach-Qin, Iybraesil, Stel-Uit

I've also got a couple of Il Kaithe and a couple of Kaelor built, but I ran out of white primer, so if I decide to enter any of them I'll add proof photos for them later.

My entry should be colourful at the very least!

Vejut wrote:

 SergentSilver wrote:

Vejut wrote:
Not sure I'll stick with these girls, my enthusiasm for this army comes in waves, but gonna try to grab five from this set of Basti spear ladies, spoilered because the latest pseudo-egyptian fashions don't involve tops:

Spoiler:

Mind saying what those models actually are? They look like they might make for an interesting cultists of Tzeentch or Slaanesh squad. Or a "counts as" Tomb Kings spears squad.

They're mildly reposed and weapon swapped Basti Skirmishers from Crocodile Games, for their WarGods of Aegyptus game, like most of the weird pseudo-egyptian things I post.

Thanks! Perhaps a whole pseudo-Egyptian cultist following for my eventual Thousand Sons army. I have one old squad from the previous sculpt era and I always did like their pseudo-Egyptian aesthetic. I hope they can still be used with a normal Chaos Undivided army as Elites though, since I'll probably never buy enough of the actual models for more than a small patrol size. I do really want a squad of those Scarab Cult Terms though. I've wanted Thousand Sons themed Terms since I started playing back in 4th Ed.

Ah right, I plan to enter 5 Kasrkin as my entry for this month. Didn't get to last months for a number of reasons, but I've gained some drive. Helps that the other half the squad was finished 7+ years ago... It does not help that all the original paints are dead and I do not have close replacements for the one I used for lenses and the one I used for the sensors. Oh well, I'll hopefully make it work somehow. I should have proofs by tomorrow.

I’ll try this again!

It’ll either be 5 infiltrators or 5 incursors for my space wolves army.

Proof attached. (On a side note, does anyone else have problems posting photos not rotated from their iPhone?)

These are 6mm scale Regult Tactical Battlepods for Robotech RPG Tactics. They are nimble and well-armed, and their rocket nozzles allow them to double as space fighters. They are, however, very poorly-armored. They are the standard infantry mecha of the Zentraedi. I'll see how many I can paint in the time allotted.

Rather than the guys to secure the objective, I've decided to paint up the obejctive to be secured:



I put together the transporter platform using a container for camembert cheese, with some bits from the Maelstrom's Edge terrain sprue. I'll add some pieces from the Sedition Wars terrain set to be control panels, power sources and such.

Here's my proof pic. My first batch of zombies for Resident Evil 2 board game. I will pick 5 out when they are done for final pics.

And here's some progress, going to be mainly using contrast paints for these so I can work out some schemes for the horde.

Here's my proof pic of Eisenhorn and Cherubael (securing that Malus Codicium!)



Ignore the chaplain. I will be painting him this month, but he doesn't fit the theme.

I will probably paint up something from my Combined. Just nailed the color scheme on a "test" Worm (which I realize in hindsight are supposed to be support models?)

No clue yet which ones I'll pick; we'll see what I manage to get done this month. Will update this post with proof pic later.

I hate to be the third but.... yeah

WIP on the varanguard; I'm going to be working on the bronze highlights for most of the month I think;

Don't have any troops squads at the moment to paint so gonna do up this terrain I got delivered



EDIT: CHANGED ENTRY

416_SpaceWolves wrote:
I’ll try this again!

It’ll either be 5 infiltrators or 5 incursors for my space wolves army.

Proof attached. (On a side note, does anyone else have problems posting photos not rotated from their iPhone?)

100% avoidable if you edit the photo one time with your phone before posting. Works for me though i am also lazy and just post proof pics however they pop up.

Alright, I'm gonna try something crazy, but I'm working with what I got.

I'm going to try painting this squad of guardsmen (please ignore the failed attempt at an ice world flurry camo on three, I will be painting right over it for this):


Using only these paints (hopefully all the Citadel paints still work right after so long):


If this fails miserably, I will be painting the five unpainted Kasrkin behind them and attempting to match the 7+ year old color scheme on the five painted ones using some of the same paints and the red and blue Grumbacher in the picture because that's what I've got for those two colors.

Wish me luck. I'm gonna need it.

 Whittlesey40k wrote:
Here's my proof pic of Eisenhorn and Cherubael (securing that Malus Codicium!)



Ignore the chaplain. I will be painting him this month, but he doesn't fit the theme.

I don't know, somehow the photo looks appropriate with the chaplain pointing a storm bolter at the Daemonhost...

So I watched the first season of BNA on netflix last night and then got stoned and decided to mimic the color scheme for Michiru's eyes... so... yeah I dont know how well it works on the models yet but maybe some input? I'm planning to add some yellow or something to the scopes... idk

The first coat of white has gone surprisingly well! The paint on the first model was dry before I even finished the fifth. It's even doing a decent job covering the previous paint on the three.