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Welcome all to the 69th 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 favorite pieces, and those votes go towards an annual overall League that runs for 12 rounds, ending in February next year.

Saints and Sinners: Faith plays a major part in many settings, whether it is show to holy celestial beings, dark gods or ancient monstrosities older than time and space. From Clerics to Chaos Demons, you entry should emphasise faith and devotion to a particular deity or pantheon.


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 November and will end at midnight Eastern time on the 30th of November. After this, I shall compile the finished entries into a new thread, and voting will run for 5 days.

List of Entrants:

Nevelon - Repentia


JoshInJapan - Basilean Abbess and Abyssal Seductress


MobileSuitRandom - Penitent Engine


queen_annes_revenge - Fabius Bile


Rybrook - Cawdor gang


Horla - Judiciar


maxwin - Belasarius Cawl


hotshot - Inquisitor


spetex - Ork


Jamie Shred - Vatican gang


Captain Brown - Shining Spears


Freya - Indomitus chaplain as a space wolves valkyrie


Jadenim - Sister, Inquisitor, Commissar


Vejut - Two priests and a witch


Gitsplitta - Bloodthirster


Pariah Press - Various Imperial religious types.


endtransmission - Kal Jericho, Scabbs


Archer - Herald of Nurgle


Tyranid Horde - Judiciar


Yorkright - Callidus assassin.


ZergSmasher - Primaris Chaplain, Judiciar


Garrlor - Swordmasters of Hoeth


Blackheart77 - Dark Elf Queen


Warpig1815 - 'lords in white capes'

JustALittleOrkish - Blood Bowl Beastmen


Viterbi - Stormcast vs. Barbarian OR Hellboy vs. Rasputin

I'm in. I'll be painting the Basilean Abbess and Abyssal Seductress for Vanguard.

Yeah! Going for the same saintly/sinful sprue as Nev, I'll be painting the Penitent Engine, tho. There's already a bit of ochre paint on some of the parts, most likely because I had put too much on my palette and didn't want to 'waste' it, lol

You guys always choose the worst categories... ha. Don't really have much. Gonna go for fabius. Guy doesn't believe in saints or sinners, despite living in and dabbling with the warp. And is he a saint or a sinner?

Going to do it properly and paint him in sub assemblies instead of doing my usual of building everything and struggling to paint the hidden areas.

Going with my Cawdor gang, will batch paint and choose the best 5

I’m going to paint the first miniature from my new Blood Angels army, starting in the Reclusium with the Judiciar model from Indomitus. I know it got a mixed response here on Dakka but I think it’s a great looking miniature. I mean that ridiculous executioner’s sword is just amazing.

Going with Belasarius Cawl, a true devotee to the Omnisire ... whoever that may be ...

I'll throw my custom inquisitor into the running, my fiance sculpted the body from greenstuff and I added the GW bits and did the finishing work.





Hopefully I actually get her painted this time, I'm great at entering these challenges but terrible at finishing

The only true religion is Gork and Mork!

I hope this counts, I have just started it tonight, but its a coat of a single color, if there is any problem please let me know and I will find something else.

Here's my proof pic and first bit of progress. The models are from the heresy labs redeemers range and i will be using them as a Vatican gang in Carnevale.

I will be doing a squad of old metal and plastic Shining Spears.



Cheers,

CB

Indomitus chaplain as a space wolves valkyrie

So we’ll start with the Sister and move along from their with this load of hardcore believers:

No saints or sinners in the eldar faction (unless you want to count all eldar as sinners for murdering Slaanesh into existence), so looks like I'll have to finally start painting my long neglected sororitas...

Are we supposed to have a representation of both a saint and a sinner, or is just one of those acceptable?

Going to try to get this group of two priests and a witch for WarGods of Aegyptus this month, to try to practice some more flesh tones.

In.

 CancelledApocalypse wrote:
No saints or sinners in the eldar faction (unless you want to count all eldar as sinners for murdering Slaanesh into existence), so looks like I'll have to finally start painting my long neglected sororitas...

Are we supposed to have a representation of both a saint and a sinner, or is just one of those acceptable?

Either or both. Or something close to one or another. It’s more a guide then a restriction.

I have a squad of seraphim and repenta, and thought about doing a mix, but the sinners won out in the end. Easier to do a coherent squad.

 Nevelon wrote:

 CancelledApocalypse wrote:
No saints or sinners in the eldar faction (unless you want to count all eldar as sinners for murdering Slaanesh into existence), so looks like I'll have to finally start painting my long neglected sororitas...

Are we supposed to have a representation of both a saint and a sinner, or is just one of those acceptable?

Either or both. Or something close to one or another. It’s more a guide then a restriction.

I have a squad of seraphim and repenta, and thought about doing a mix, but the sinners won out in the end. Easier to do a coherent squad.

I have a Celestine to do who would have been perfect. Unfortunately, I've already put several colours on her. :/ I could possibly do her Geminae bodyguard, I've only put gold and silver on those. Or I could just do the headswap battle sisters I've been intending to do for ages...

 CancelledApocalypse wrote:

 Nevelon wrote:

 CancelledApocalypse wrote:
No saints or sinners in the eldar faction (unless you want to count all eldar as sinners for murdering Slaanesh into existence), so looks like I'll have to finally start painting my long neglected sororitas...

Are we supposed to have a representation of both a saint and a sinner, or is just one of those acceptable?

Either or both. Or something close to one or another. It’s more a guide then a restriction.

I have a squad of seraphim and repenta, and thought about doing a mix, but the sinners won out in the end. Easier to do a coherent squad.

I have a Celestine to do who would have been perfect. Unfortunately, I've already put several colours on her. :/ I could possibly do her Geminae bodyguard, I've only put gold and silver on those. Or I could just do the headswap battle sisters I've been intending to do for ages...

I have 3 extra sets of wings sized for primaris if you wanna make a primaris angel ill gladly send you one.

Various Imperial religious types. We'll see how many I can complete in the next month. (Spoiler warning: It won't be many. I have a lot of writing to do.)

I think I'll be going for one of the biggest sinners in the underhive (according to Cardinal Crimson anyway) and paint Kal Jericho. If I get time I'll look at Scabbs too

I would like to drop my hat in the ring finally after much lurking. I would like to enter this guy.....



I can't be sure where I actually got him, from a job lot of models most likely as I didn't even realize he was a Forgeworld Herald until much later. He didn't come to me intact, so the other parts in the photo will be cut up to fill some gaps.

Well I made a start on my cult of redemption,
Turns out they are crimson fist aspirants

Going to make a stab at entering this one, and I have two models that fit the bill for this category.

I'll throw my Judiciar into the ring, and maybe if I finish that I'll throw up the other one. Proof below:

She’s not a saint but she brings absolution to sinners of the Imperium. Usually at the end of blade, poisons or a blast from her pistol. My entry is the callidus assassin.

 CancelledApocalypse wrote:

 Nevelon wrote:

 CancelledApocalypse wrote:
No saints or sinners in the eldar faction (unless you want to count all eldar as sinners for murdering Slaanesh into existence), so looks like I'll have to finally start painting my long neglected sororitas...

Are we supposed to have a representation of both a saint and a sinner, or is just one of those acceptable?

Either or both. Or something close to one or another. It’s more a guide then a restriction.

I have a squad of seraphim and repenta, and thought about doing a mix, but the sinners won out in the end. Easier to do a coherent squad.

I have a Celestine to do who would have been perfect. Unfortunately, I've already put several colours on her. :/ I could possibly do her Geminae bodyguard, I've only put gold and silver on those. Or I could just do the headswap battle sisters I've been intending to do for ages...

Go for the headswap sisters. It will give you an excuse to get them done. And we do prefer models start with only one color basecoat on them.

Well, I didn't finish in September, and I didn't even bother entering in October, but I'll go ahead and submit a proof for November. I'll be trying to get one or both of these guys done:

I figure a Primaris Chaplain and a Primaris Chaplain-in-training fit the bill for religious types. Honestly it'll be cool seeing everyone's takes on these models since I'm not the only one entering one or both of them.

So I will throw my hat into the ring with some Swordmasters of Hoeth... Dedicated to the sword in the world that was, I am going to be using them as counts-as Alarith Stoneguard which means that they have shown utter dedication and selflessness and serve the spirits of the mountains. Pretty saintly in my book!

Hello all! This will be my submission for the month.



This is very early concept, I still need to base the stairs and prime everything. I will prime the spider black and take an updated picture before I start working on the whole paint job.

Did the primer on my Judiciar tonight and now have just noticed the massive mould line on its head. Doh!