It's an arbitrary number yes, but we're getting close!

Welcome to the DakkaDakka Gallery - 995785 Images and Counting!

At over 150 images a day we're not far from that milestone of one million gallery images.

I've been the gallery mod since... oh dear... let's just say several years OK. And reviewed the lion's share of these images and they never fail to impress me with the quality, work and originality I see every day. I can't say how much money this job has cost me when I was inspired by someone's work.

Of those (almost) million images I think this Falcon by Kiril Kanaev/The Yellow One" is the current winner with almost 5000 votes and a nearly perfect score.



But honestly this Crisis Suit by atropos907 may take the crown, fewer votes but a stunning conversion.




But my personal favorite is this sculpted figure of Haviland Tuf by Nakatan. Not only is it amazing but it got me to read the Tuf series of novels to see what inspired such devotion.



The novels are good too.

So let's take a minute to appreciate all the incredible work that has gone into the Dakka Gallery since it opened in 2006 with our founder Russ Wakelin's preview of the Starship Troopers drop ships (which I don't think ever came out )



https://www.dakkadakka.com/core/gallery-search.jsp?dq=&paintjoblow=0&paintjobhigh=10&coolnesslow=0&coolnesshigh=10&auction=0&skip=90&ll=2&s=mb&sort1=8&sort2=0

What are your favorites?

Links to those pictures or they never happened .

Of course they load after I posted .

As an avid user of the gallery I am always blown away by some of the images I see. Well done everyone.

I should spend more time voting on images. The gallery is full of great stuff.

That's a Hazard suit, not a Crisis suit. More specifically, it's Shas'O R'alai.

That's a incredible milestone and those pics are just insane!

Thanks for your hard work getting us there Kyoto, you are literally the man behind the curtain in this case (with legoburner behind another curtain after that )

Amazing milestone — and a wonderful resource! Now on to 2 million!

Here's a question Kid. As contributors and users of the Dakka Gallery is there something we could be doing better that would make your job easier or the gallery a better resource?
More votes? better tagging? Image titles? What's the thing that would make a real difference?
I can imagine a million images might be a pain in the throne to curate.

Thanks for asking!

Tags are certainly the most useful thing to add both for searches on Dakka and for search engines. I don't know how many times I've been looking for some information or ideas and google had brought me back here with the image I was looking for.

It's more of an art than a science, but usually I like to put game/manufacturer, faction and whatever unique point I see about the image. Basically what might people be looking for whens searching.

WIP shots are also really useful, even if you don't want to expose them for votes they're good for anyone wanting to see how a model was done or what it looked like raw.

Ok thanks. I'll try to remember that when voting in the future. Actually with the amount of pictures I've uploaded myself I should try to better at tagging my own images too. I'll have to sit down some time and make an effort.

Thanks for all your work keeping the Dakka Gallery awesome. Come to think of it it was someone else talking about getting lost down a rabbit hole of Dakka Gallery voting that pointed me to Dakka in the first place, and loving it that made me want to know more and ultimately become a log time Dakkanaut.

I always get excited when someone comments on my artwork I have in the gallery. Much of it was drawn specifically to be posted here.

Once a month or so I’ll take 10-15 minutes to just wander through some random images and leave some votes and tags It’s quite relaxing and I figure every little helps in terms of improving the database. Plus occasionally you stumble on something really amazing or inspiring.

I've gone through the galleries a lot and tried to vote some time, but i admit that i haven't tagged anything. I'll try doing it more often!

Any which way it's an impressive milestone so well done to... everyone. All the peoples and their pictures.

I make it a point to try and tag at least four or five other pictures after posting my own or voting for something that shows up on the front page.

I find it funny how often I see family members stuff front and center when loading the page up though!

Uploading my stuff is easily one of my favorite parts of this site, and for at least a few days after I've put something up, I go back to check on the veiws and votes. It's always really fun to see comments, what's getting a lot of attention etc (for the life of me I'll never understand why my most viewed image is a Dark Eldar Kabalite with an unfinished base, but there we go...). One of the best things about this community, and one that I think doesn't get talked about very often is just how positive the modelling side is - People being gakky and snobby about less-than-amazing paint jobs isn't really a thing. Most people are full of tips and positive criticism, and I think that's really great. As someone who was new to the hobby when they started posting here, I really appreciated the P&M crowd, and I'm proud to say that to this day everyone seems as supportive as ever. It never fails to make my day to see a new vote, or comment or some sudden extra veiws!

Special shoutout to the Mods, and to anyone who regularly peruses the Gallery - I try to, when I can! - but super super special shoutout to KidKyoto, your effort is pretty plain, and your enthusiasm for stangers work is as admirable as it is heartwarming. Thanks for doing what ya do!

Pretty impressive milestone! I always spend a few minutes looking through the random galleries every time I log in. Even stuff that's non-40k related. I love seeing people's creativity which now seems to be absent in a lot of the Geedubs showcase stuff and things like WhiteDwarf.

Agreed it's such a great resource. And a great way to spend 10 mins each time you visit the forum.

My only desire for change is some way of viewing only pictures of completed/painted minis. I seem to get a lot of photos of the back of a leg (often blurred) on a sprue. I know these are just WIP pics from someone's blog though and it's not too onerous to just move to the next one.

Also - where is the picture of the warbikes riding upside down on the ceiling when you need it?

Couple of other beauties picked up at random

I remember when the Gallery started, it was great to finally host pictures onsite instead of linking to photobucket. There was a big push in the beginning to vote on a bunch of images because nothing had ratings.

I'll shamelessly plug my highest rated image:
https://www.dakkadakka.com/gallery/12141-Blood%20Angels%2C%20Detail%2C%20Forge%20World%2C%20Plasma%2C%20Titan%2C%20Warhound.html

How bloody awesome is this?

 Pacific wrote:

My only desire for change is some way of viewing only pictures of completed/painted minis. I seem to get a lot of photos of the back of a leg (often blurred) on a sprue. I know these are just WIP pics from someone's blog though and it's not too onerous to just move to the next one.

There sort of is, but it relies on users marking the 'Disable voting' box when they upload their WIP pics.

I did not know that. Guess I will get back to my WIP stuff and disable voting then.

Generally I turn off stuff that is clearly not to be voted on, but when there's a figure there, even the most generic, I leave it turned on.

So yeah I'd ask people to turn off images that are just for reference. An unpainted but assembled model... maybe. Unpainted and converted certainly. But please do turn off any pictures of bits, paints, workspaces etc.

Done.

By the way: is there any way to filter for "only untagged images"? Now and then I'm in the mood to help tag a bunch of stuff to improve the gallery, and it would be a pretty cool feature if I could filter explicitly for those.

Not that I know of, maybe Lego knows a way?

Ah yes I do tag mine like that.

Has anyone seen the upside down ork bikers recently?

I know it's stupid and really just where someone uploaded and upside down photo but I find it so funny for some reason.

I love the gallery, it's a great way to spend a few minutes, as well as being a brilliant resource to store my own pics!




edit - Wow, I seem to have voted on 14k images

Some very nice looking minis!

Yes unfortunately mine have not got too many votes.. Showing some of my own here, I refuse to believe that there are not 5 Bill Hicks fans on Dakka who won't vote on this one!

This one is great. A supreme freehand.


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Or this...

Mind blown!

In the absence of upside-down biker boyz I may have found something even better..upside down tyranid thing

 insaniak wrote:

 Pacific wrote:

My only desire for change is some way of viewing only pictures of completed/painted minis. I seem to get a lot of photos of the back of a leg (often blurred) on a sprue. I know these are just WIP pics from someone's blog though and it's not too onerous to just move to the next one.

There sort of is, but it relies on users marking the 'Disable voting' box when they upload their WIP pics.

Would it be possible to have voting disabled be the default and require uploaders to choose to enable voting on their pictures? @Kid_Kyoto

I'm pretty sure 99% of WIP pictures up for voting is not pictures that people want rated, but just that they didn't notice the option. It would motivate me at least to do more rating of pics, if I could avoid getting so much unpainted and clearly unfinished stuff popping up.

I try to remember to click off the vote for most of my WIP, but sometimes forget. Same with the “I own this”. I don’t re-post stuff from elsewhere; everything I upload is a pic I took.

I remember this question being brought up before? Forget how long ago.

I used to try to keep my number of votes around the level of pics I uploaded. Just to try to pay back all the votes I (theoretically) got. Fell behind on that, I should get back to it.

 Zywus wrote:

 insaniak wrote:

 Pacific wrote:

My only desire for change is some way of viewing only pictures of completed/painted minis. I seem to get a lot of photos of the back of a leg (often blurred) on a sprue. I know these are just WIP pics from someone's blog though and it's not too onerous to just move to the next one.

There sort of is, but it relies on users marking the 'Disable voting' box when they upload their WIP pics.

Would it be possible to have voting disabled be the default and require uploaders to choose to enable voting on their pictures? @Kid_Kyoto

I'm pretty sure 99% of WIP pictures up for voting is not pictures that people want rated, but just that they didn't notice the option. It would motivate me at least to do more rating of pics, if I could avoid getting so much unpainted and clearly unfinished stuff popping up.

The counter argument is that voting is how the site ranks searches, so models without votes tend to vanish into the aether.

So did we officially cross the milestone yet . Awesome work, Kyoto and Lego!!!

996228 as of today.

So maybe a week?

I’ll post more WIP pics and try to get those numbers up. And maybe be the 1 millionth. That’d be fun.

 Kid_Kyoto wrote:
Thanks for asking!

Tags are certainly the most useful thing to add both for searches on Dakka and for search engines. I don't know how many times I've been looking for some information or ideas and google had brought me back here with the image I was looking for.

It's more of an art than a science, but usually I like to put game/manufacturer, faction and whatever unique point I see about the image. Basically what might people be looking for whens searching.

WIP shots are also really useful, even if you don't want to expose them for votes they're good for anyone wanting to see how a model was done or what it looked like raw.

Thanks for this info, and thanks for modding the gallery. Here's to a million more!

Ive also for a bunch of pics of games in progress from battle reports that I wouldn't be interested in having votes on.
The easiest thinking is to sort your personal gallery and have a Work In Progress gallery and a Battle Reports gallery. Then you can select Disable Voting on each of them. This will apply to every image in the gallery and will automatically apply to any image you move into those galleries too.

Welcome to the DakkaDakka Gallery - 997500 Images and Counting!

Twenty, twenty, twenty five hundred to go!

I want to be sedated!

 Kid_Kyoto wrote:

Welcome to the DakkaDakka Gallery - 997500 Images and Counting!

Twenty, twenty, twenty five hundred to go!

I want to be sedated!

And now that’s stuck in my head. Not that I’m complaining, just wanted to let you know your work was well done.

Uploaded another pic, doing my part. After all, with the quarantine

Nothing to do, Nowhere to go, oh.

This is 10 years old but these Guardsmen's bad day seems worth mentioning here.

The gallery has always been a stream of amazing miniatures for me (and a source of frustration at my own lack of skills!).

A favorite of mine:

About 500 to go! Who will be the millionth image?

I feel like everyone is going to slow waaay down on uploading in an attempt to the be lucky # 1 million.

999892 as of 2130 EST, so probably tonight either way.

Dakka really has come a long way since the original crummy website...

Alright, I've done my bit for Emperor and Imperium. Took about a hundred photos of everything painted in my collection that doesn't already have a place here. I think that should push us over the top...

The Dakka gallery is really impressive, and the ability to add to it and maintain my blog has always been my main motivation for posting here. My blog is nearly ten years old now, and would not be if it were not for the gallery.

Also, Kid Kyoto, I've always appreciated the comments you have posted on my gallery images, thank you!

Edit: Also, as of this moment there are 1,000,022 images in the gallery!

Almost 1 million gallery images, of which none are very good

 sing your life wrote:
Almost 1 million gallery images, of which none are very good

I mean, I know you have a smiley face there, so not entirely serious, but you've looked through this thread, right?

And per Legoburner, the millionth image is...

(Drumroll)



Whatever that is!

A video game? A real model with some digital elements? Tactics guide? I can't zoom in on the text to read it...

Well whatever it is, congratulations Lord of the Swarm!

And thanks to all the great contributors over the years, it really is a great resources and a pleasure to tend to.

Given the bases and the meeple logo on top, probably one of those (with or without permissions) board game simulators so you can play remote (and/or because you don't want to buy the game...)?

He's got a thread for it, he was demonstrating a specific tyranid tactic for 9th edition using tabletop simulator . Pretty cool actually!

https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/790270.page

However, that thread and the images in that gallery were seemingly uploaded on July 23rd, so I'm hoping we can confirm if this really is the millionth image or not. Really cool use of TTS regardless though! The same poster has a nice active P&M blog here:

https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/789127.page

 RiTides wrote:


However, that thread and the images in that gallery were seemingly uploaded on July 23rd, so I'm hoping we can confirm if this really is the millionth image or not. Really cool use of TTS regardless though! The same poster has a nice active P&M blog here:

https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/789127.page

Lego mentions that people can delete images so it is possible that it was the millionth image posted historically but not the millionth active image.

Maybe?

Anyway since there's no money and no prize I won't lose sleep over it.

Congrats Lord of the Swarm.

I need to look at that simulator, is it an update of Vassel?

 Kid_Kyoto wrote:
I need to look at that simulator, is it an update of Vassel?

TTS I believe is unrelated to Vassel, though yeah people have done some impressive work modeling games in it, from what I've seen.

Am I the only one silently judging people with "Gallery votes: 0" in their profile?

 precinctomega wrote:
Am I the only one silently judging people with "Gallery votes: 0" in their profile?

Not everyone comes here for the pretty pictures.
But also, I'm curious as to how accurate that is... I'm sure I've voted on more than 31 (at time of writing), and there are a handful of pictures that seem to keep cropping back up when I use "random image" for some reason.

 precinctomega wrote:
Am I the only one silently judging people with "Gallery votes: 0" in their profile?

I judge them way less than people who vote on their own pieces (almost invariably 10s, visible when they comment).

Congrats to the winner! Was there a prize?

Big thank you to everyone making this possible and running the show from behind the curtain

I too love the fact that the gallery never stops growing. I gotta get back to dumping photos of stuff nobody's heard of on it.

The next major milestone should be one million Kid Kyoto comments on images in the gallery.

Get to work Kid!