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Welcome all to the 127th 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.

This month the topic is: Chaff - Little guys swarming the battle field. Peasant levies, grots, gaunts, conscripts. Disposable things to clutter up the battlefield and get in the enemy’s way. Or fighter jets deploying countermeasures. Little bits or radar reflective foil marching across the battlefield. Tyranid gaunts being thrown from the back of aircraft to intercept missiles. Due to the nature if this topic, we will lift the normal 5 model limit.

- You may enter up to 5 MODELS AS MANY MODELS AS YOU WANT 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 may enter at any time during the month, up to the last minute. We do encourage people to enter early, as to be part of the community, but if you can’t start until the 11th hour, that’s OK.
- 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 September and will end at midnight EST on September 30th. After this, I shall compile the finished entries into a new thread, and voting will run for 5 days

Once ee walked among da uvver grots, and der was none oo knew ee was diffrent. But den, scavengin after da Waaagh ad got in a scrap wif da oomies, ee found Da Book, wot told im ow to be a proper Grot Marine. Ee is Rowboat Ultraman, and ee and is bruvvers ave returned in da galaxy's Hour of Need.

For September’s painting competition I’m going to be working on some Clanrats. They really are the definition of chaff, so I figured they fit the theme perfectly. I thought about doing skeletons, but I’m going to save those for October since they’ll tie in better with a Halloween vibe.

Looking forward to seeing everyone else’s entries!

I aim to paint these craven, incomp... I mean these valiant and greatly appreciated asset redistribution specialists.

Let’s see how much of this box I can burn through in a month. Starting with the nerogaunts in the back. Their only job is to take up space in a vaguely constructive manor. Not that the rest of the guants are much better, but they at least have guns and claws and such.

 Geifer wrote:
I aim to paint these craven, incomp... I mean these valiant and greatly appreciated asset redistribution specialists.

I am really excited to see what you do with the Weequay! They are among the very few SWS minis I don't own. Speaking of which...

From the perspective of the Empire, all Force Users are chaff to be used and discarded.

I will have to think about this one. Maybe some more 1/72 scale crewmen.

Cheers,

CB

 inmygravenimage wrote:
I am really excited to see what you do with the Weequay!

Hopefully something colorful. Feels like I mostly painted stuff brown or black this year. Which incidentally stopped me from entering something from my box of Inquisitors once or twice already...

 Daia T'Nara wrote:
Once ee walked among da uvver grots, and der was none oo knew ee was diffrent. But den, scavengin after da Waaagh ad got in a scrap wif da oomies, ee found Da Book, wot told im ow to be a proper Grot Marine. Ee is Rowboat Ultraman, and ee and is bruvvers ave returned in da galaxy's Hour of Need.

Loving the grot with the centurion crest, might have to steal that!

Hmmm. If they’re not leaders or heavies then gangers and juves are chaff right?



Or maybe in the eyes of the Imperium all Necromundans are chaff. That’ll have to do anyway. We’ll see how many I get done.

I've got a load of goblins in need of some paint. Unlikely to finish them all but might as well start off optimistically

Proof! Imperial Guardsmen are the closest thing the Imperium gets to chaff, I guess.

Here is my proof.

The fellow on the left is done, but I'm going to paint up the grot as chaff, and if I'm really feeling ambitious the boss who commands where he goes to probably die:

My original plan was to enter as many of the new Wargames Atlantic Citizens as I get done, but as they are still pre-order, I may not have enough time. For the time being, I'll be working on these Martian Grunts:

Going to enter Zarbag's gitz and a couple extra squigs
Not sure how many I will get through....

Let's see if I can get some chaff done this month. Fingers crossed!

Okay I'm officially in with a mob of Kruleboyz Hobgrot Slittaz:

These guys are the definition of chaff, just expendable mooks whose only real role on the battlefield seems to be to get in the way of enemy units and be a speed bump for them. And honestly they're pretty terrible at that, hence why nobody I've heard of uses them outside of very casual games.

 KidCthulhu wrote:
Let's see if I can get some chaff done this month. Fingers crossed!

It's cool seeing guys from the old Lion Heart board game

Hordes of models you say? Oh well. There's been a change of plans!



I'm going to try to get the Battle of Hoth painted up. That's a perfectly sane thing to do in 3 weeks.

 KidCthulhu wrote:
Let's see if I can get some chaff done this month. Fingers crossed!

I used those guys to fill out my cousins empire army 25 years ago. If I remember correctly there were a bunch of farmers that we used as flagellants as well. To be honest I never knew which game they came from or how we ended up with them.


I'm going to try to paint some goblins that I printed off of thingiverse courtesy of MattKing. I say try as I will be making a trip back to the states in a couple days and I still need to print bases. If I can print bases and prime before I leave I will have about a week when I get back for paint. That might be doable.

 Peterhausenn wrote:
I used those guys to fill out my cousins empire army 25 years ago. If I remember correctly there were a bunch of farmers that we used as flagellants as well. To be honest I never knew which game they came from or how we ended up with them.

They do indeed have peasants!



I bought the game at a flea market for $10 last month and 89 out of 92 models were in pristine condition.

Slowly making progress:

Can I join with these scratch built (Chaff - slayers)?

 Mothsniper wrote:
Can I join with these scratch built (Chaff - slayers)?

Of course. What a krazy build!

 Nevelon wrote:

 Mothsniper wrote:
Can I join with these scratch built (Chaff - slayers)?

Of course. What a krazy build!

Awesome!
I knew these krazy containers will come on handy one day. Unless that plastic is too smooth for paint to stick.
Have to justify saving bins of rubish.
https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/30/804229.page

That's a whole lot of hoth

So much drybrushing that the brush snapped.

Twice.

Okay I might have to get that game, those minis look dope!

Making progress...

Last 2 neurogaunts just got their base coat. Rest are waiting to be based.

Some wip pics
Primed everything and painted up a test mini for a color scheme.
Made some base's with clay and got those out the way first.