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Welcome all to the 84th 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. The 2021/22 League wraps up this month, so this is your last chance to get that last handful of points before we reset the scores!


This month. the theme is Age Before Beauty. You've got two options here, first being to paint up something venerable and ancient within the fiction of the game, and the other is to dig out an old model from your collection and paint that up! Obviously definitions of the latter option will vary from painter to painter, and I'm not going to put a hard rule on what's considered 'old', but ideally if you go this route the minis would have a noticiably 'old-school' look to them (perhaps accentuated by a more classic paintjob) rather than being a kit you can still buy off the shelf even if it's just because your range hasn't been updated in a decade or so!

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.


How Long Do I Have?
This challenge begins 1st of February and will end at midnight GMT on 28th February. After this, I shall compile the finished entries into a new thread, and voting will run for 5 days.



List of entrants:

Mothsniper: Dwarf King and Tomb


angrygriffin: Classic Ultramarine


queen_annes_revenge: Numenorian warrior and Jakob Bugmannson


ShadowsAndDust: Abbadon The Despoiler


DV8: Emperor's Champion


theCrowe: Ashen Eagles Terminator Squad


JoshinJapan: Howling Banshees


KidCthulhu: Howling Banshees


Nevelon: Howling Banshees


Captain Brown: Howling Banshees


Spyro_: Grandmother


Freya: Warrior


SergeantSilver: classic Guardsmen


ViterbiL Gollum


pinkLight: Ork Boy


Flinty: M-35 Mako


vejutL Lizardmen


PeterHausenn: Death Guard Terminators


ZergSmasher: Galadriel and Celeborn


the_balloon_dog: Samurai Demon


ChaosDad: Howling Banshees


Jamie Shred: Hancock and Nick Valentine


MobileSuitRandom: Orc Boys


Maharg: Snotling


Midget Gems: Kharn The Betrayer


Pariah Press: Man-orc and Goblin


Paradigm: Old Troll


Rybrook: Blood Angels Statue

Little history for this guy. He’s the oldest thing in my primed pile right now. I bought him as part of the first supply drop when I started my blog. Page 1, back in 2013. Ravenwing battleforce, what a great box. Didn’t get built and primed until Sep ’15. And he’s been waiting since.

I’ve heard that they re-cut the speeder sprue to make it better. Not this guy. 3rd one I built, first 2 from splitting 3rd ed starters. Not fun getting things lined up. There are some gaps. It happens. The kit was notorious for being bad. And every new kid with the starter got to feel the frustration!

While those new Storm Speeders might pack more guns than sense, the Typhoon was doing that long before they were a thing. New kids. Feh.

See later post on 2022/02/10 14:22:34 UTC for new model.

OK, changed my mind.

Going to do some OOP metal Howling Banshees for the Banshee Scream.



Cheers,

CB

What is this talk about 'old models' I'm hearing?



(proper proof later when I'll pick out 5 and clean/re-prime ... also got another idea if those turn out to be too boring :p )

 MobileSuitRandom wrote:
What is this talk about 'old models' I'm hearing?

Spoiler:

(proper proof later when I'll pick out 5 and clean/re-prime ... also got another idea if those turn out to be too boring :p )

I know my model isn't "old" per se, but it was one of my first.

My first choice was the metal Abaddon model (I think that qualifies as old right?), however it turns out that it's already partially painted. :(

 MobileSuitRandom wrote:
What is this talk about 'old models' I'm hearing?



(proper proof later when I'll pick out 5 and clean/re-prime ... also got another idea if those turn out to be too boring :p )

Great Caesar's Ghost! I split about six of those boxes with my gamer friends back in high school! I think I still have some unpainted elves lying around somewhere...

I was hoping that "We Are Legion" would be the theme so I could paint up a Rebs starter set for Deadzone. Instead, I dug these guys out of my 40L/SF minis Box of Storage:


Actually, it looks like I'll be doing Banshees as well.

I‘m going to enter these three halflings. Old metal and the fish-eating one is supposed to be hundreds of years old

What is this talk about 'old models' I'm hearing?



(proper proof later when I'll pick out 5 and clean/re-prime ... also got another idea if those turn out to be too boring :p )

Classic old set, I still have some of those orcs painted, and I'm sure the other races are languishing in a box somewhere



With GW redoing the Eldar range I thought I'd do one or more of these really old models of that ancient race


I thought I had a couple more, certainly one with a missile launcher, but couldn't find them

Edit: found the missile launcher guy when I went to put the others into the dettol bath, he was already in there. I must have been considering him for a previous old model painting challenge. Not the best proof pic, but added in case I forget to take one when they come out

Crypt of the Dwarf King Boxed Set
Ancient dwarf tomb.

WIll attempt the
King Durnan's Crypt (with removable lid and corpse)
and Ghost of King Durnan

I was going to enter some Rogue Trader space pirates, but two proof pics have already been submitted with miniatures that are older than them! I might reconsider and paint something even older.

 Pariah Press wrote:
I was going to enter some Rogue Trader space pirates, but two proof pics have already been submitted with miniatures that are older than them! I might reconsider and paint something even older.

The Bob Olley pirates or the Naismith/Perry pirates? If you're thinking of the latter, they can't be newer than my dudes.

Bob Olley pirates. A couple of your minis have got 'em beat by like a year!

I've decided to go all-in on this challenge, and paint the oldest minis in my pile of shame. This is a goblin and a man-orc from Minifigs' "Mythical Earth" range. They're even older than me, dating back to 1974!

I recently got airbrush, Fastest finished mini for me. The ghost took a 2 dustings from the top to call it done.
Now I know why people like airbrush so much

The crypt was a fun quick, mostly washes. All Done!



Progress images here: https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/90/780044.page#11302866

 Captain Brown wrote:
Going to do some OOP metal Van Saars.



Focusing on the Gang Leader who looks like Rutger Hauer and the other gangers (particularly the Juve...although the sculpt of the Juve is not very good).

Cheers,

CB

Ah CB if only I hadn't started my van saar gang we could have our own competition.

I will retake a picture of my devastator squad with a timestamp

I'm ticking both boxes:
-old in-universe
-old models
So I'm entering these first edition howling banshees from the days where the banshees had laspistols instead of shuriken pistols...

Heh, I was seriously considering entering MY oldskool Jes Banshees too!

The more the merrier!

You know what? Maybe this is the push I need to finally finish my ladies. Decision made!

Thanks, ChaosDad. I was really agonizing over what to enter.

Love those sculpts. I have a dozen of them who had their laspistols replaced with extra blades to join my WHFB chaos army back in the day. Now I wish I hadn’t chopped them up. Although if I could get some shurican pistols, maybe they could come back.

Hmmmm.

If I don’t use this chance to paint these bad boys then I may as well sell them.


Some RTB09 terminators with a few plastic arms and a history of being stripped primed and abandoned for more than a decade.
I could make a squad of 5 with a choice of heavy weapons.

I’ve always had a notion to invent my own chapter some day but my enthusiasm for 40k in general over the last few years has waned to the point of background noise. I’m hoping maybe this will kindle a new spark of interest.

I love how I feel like I’m just phoning it in with a 3rd edition era mini.

Great choices for entries everyone!

Okay, I'm officially in...



I gave the Exarch mirror blades and they rest have shuriken pistols courtesy of plastic Harlequin sprues.

I'm in for this month. I'll be doing Abbadon, the Despoiler. It's the newer model, but I've had him primed for the better part of a year and isn't he over 10,000 years old by the time the 41st millennium rolls around? I'll post proof pics tomorrow.

 KidCthulhu wrote:
Okay, I'm officially in...

I gave the Exarch mirror blades and they rest have shuriken pistols courtesy of plastic Harlequin sprues.

Well, now that I have direct competition, I'll have to up my game... Looking forward to your entry!

 ChaosDad wrote:

 KidCthulhu wrote:
Okay, I'm officially in...

I gave the Exarch mirror blades and they rest have shuriken pistols courtesy of plastic Harlequin sprues.

Well, now that I have direct competition, I'll have to up my game... Looking forward to your entry!

I kind of wish I'd known there would be a mini-comp going on in the main competition...

Only 3-days in, you could switch your entry?

Ah, yes, all Banshees, all the time, you know you want it!

Hm. On the one hand, I've finished 1.5 of the three models in my proof pic. On the other hand, Banshees are sweet models. Let me check whether I have any unpainted.

Since I am still trying to get the hang of this painting thing I think I'll give this a try. They say practice helps. I'd like to enter some Death Guard terminators. While the models are new the figures they represent are supposed to be ancient warriors. Hopefully that means they count. Here is the proof picture as well (I am still magnetizing the arms).