Dakka Painting Challenge Round 63 May 2020: Old-School Cool

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**Viterbi**

Cool theme and the perfect excuse to paint those mild-mannered men of the cloth to accompany my equally non-zealous Sisters into battle.

**queen_annes_revenge**

Ah man that preacher with the chainsword and carriage clock was one of the first models I ever had! Amazing.

**Jadenim**

queen_annes_revenge wrote:
Ah man that preacher with the chainsword and carriage clock was one of the first models I ever had! Amazing.

“BUY OUR OVER-50’s PLAN AND RECEIVE THIS FREE CLOCK!”

**Nevelon**

MacPhail wrote:
I just want to salute everyone on here with stuff in blister packs.

My stuff in blisters is too new

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Or too random

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But I will join you in saluting those opening up decades lost sealed product, and taking a breath of that venerable air.

**A Town Called Malus**

Nevelon wrote:
MacPhail wrote:
I just want to salute everyone on here with stuff in blister packs.

My stuff in blisters is too new

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Or too random

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But I will join you in saluting those opening up decades lost sealed product, and taking a breath of that venerable air.

Such a hoard makes you the lucky winner of a round of applause from an orchestra of red whippy sticks

**queen_annes_revenge**

I refuse to open my stuff in blister packs. I have the first metal necron with the white dwarf it came with, and a RT era terminator. I'm not usually one for the whole geek, not opening boxes thing but I cant with these.

**Viterbi**

queen_annes_revenge wrote:
Ah man that preacher with the chainsword and carriage clock was one of the first models I ever had! Amazing.

Funnily enough, it is one of my last buys

**Rybrook**

I have to wait a few days for my enamel to dry on the main bodies, I really need to get better base coat,

I will start on the weapons and shade the backpacks in the meantime.

**carlos13th**

Viterbi wrote:
Cool theme and the perfect excuse to paint those mild-mannered men of the cloth to accompany my equally non-zealous Sisters into battle.

Really looking forward to seeing what you do with these. Considering ordering them

**Excommunicatus**

I don't really have anything to fit the theme, so excuse the stretches...

Syll'Esske/The Bogatyr 'cause I've entered it before and four Possessed 'cause the sculpts are old.

**Ezki**

Thinking of taking part with this. It's a conversion I did a couple of months ago from the shokkjump dragsta kit. Been waiting for the right time.
The base model is far from old and definitely not a classic. But maybe you could say that in the world of 40k a mad maxey style vehicle powered by a good old carbureted V8 engine is... classic tech?

I might figure out something else. If I do, I will post a new proof pic.
Or if this entry is not sufficient for the theme.

**ZergSmasher**

Okay, as promised here's the proof:

2 concerns:
1) Logan Grimnar's armor was basecoated previously but I never got any further on the model. I can still enter it since it's only one color right?
2) Technically Azrael is 2 models since he's accompanied by his helm bearer. Do I need to leave out the helm bearer for my final entry so that it's 5 models?

**Rybrook**

I had to check the bible for the missile launcher design and will give the flame go,

Zergsmasher

If you want banners PM me and I'll take pictures of the ones in my books, they are black and white so you can colour them yourself.

**CancelledApocalypse**

I'm pretty much set on fire dragons, though I've got so many eldar models I want to paint. The good thing about collecting eldar is that virtually all the models could be considered retro! And by "good", I mean "update the damned line, GW!!!"...

I'll post proof pics in the next few days.

**DJJazzyJeff**

A great excuse to paint up this little goblin bagpiper!

**JamesY**

Think this might be time for my annual entry. One of mine is enjoying an isopropyl bath, so I'll post proof tomorrow after he's been scrubbed and both are based.

Edit.

Proof

Two sorcerers for my StD army.

**Captain Brown**

Very early WIP shot.

Cheers,

CB

**Rybrook**

Nice Jain Zar, haven't seen that model in years

Had to get this out to see have to paint space marines

And also two paints that should also fit the theme

**Jamie Shred**

Here's my proof pic and a little progress pic too. Harlequins of the masque of the soaring spite. Pretty sure these are the oldest models I have, they are stamped 1988 but I bought them 3 or 4 years ago.
Going for a couple of quartered schemes and diamond schemes where I can. This is my first time painting Harlequins so feedback and tips especially appreciated for this month.

**inmygravenimage**

Loving the oldhammer. I may have to change track and dig out old nurgle metals.

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This should work. Rescued, and now reassembling!

**Arakasi**

Well, I thought the theme was going to be more retro than aged, outdated or historical, so my original idea to do Sally Starfield from Bombshell Miniatures will remain on the backburner for now.

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Which means I had to look for other options - and preferably not more Chaos Warriors or Chaos Marauders/Thugs. I could go head to head with previous (monkeytroll) or current (Snrub, JoshInJapan) entries:

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More likely I'll do one of these, leaning towards a Chaos Sorcerer:

A "better" proof when I've chosen / stripped.

Catchya,
Arakasi

**kavika0311**

Well I'm just going to call this guy done. The first of my Thunder Warriors.

**feltmonkey**

Like Jamie Shred, I'm going to be painting some old Harlequins. Probably not all of them, but hopefully two or three of this selection.

edit - forgot the actual photo.

**Paradigm**

Arakasi, that retro mini is totally a fair interpretation of the theme if you'd prefer to paint it,

**lifeafter**

How about some metal inquisition?

**Jamie Shred**

A little progress today, starting to come together.

**Pariah Press**

The more I work with these miniatures, the less I'm impressed with them. It's going to take a long time to get these to the standard that I can more easily achieve with Citadel miniatures. I have a lot to paint, so I think I'm going to try to find short-cuts whenever possible.

For these, I primed them with Citadel Wraithbone, then shaded with Contrast Apothecary White, then drybrushed them with Vallejo Dead White. I'm reasonably satisfied with this stage. Here's a WIP picture.

**posermcbogus**

So, had some pretty bellicose, outlandish ideas when I first bought this mini. Parts in hand? Looks like some of those ideas just might not be feasible...

...however. First batch of parts I got off of a Japanese second hand site just landed. Initially, I hadn't planned to include the torso - I was hoping a little to hang on to it, as it also came with a 'nid Warrior(?) head. Just for funsies, because I wanted to extend the torso/shoulders, I test-fitted it and...

...I think it works? I'm gonna hold off until those those final parts land. Should be tomorrow or Saturday. Nothing major, really. I also repaired some cosmetic damage at the temples, by adding some neat little mandible/antennae/psyker dongers. I quite like 'em.

Lemme know what ya think!

**queen_annes_revenge**

Work in progress on my daemonsmith. Going for a non metallic metal copper armour. Needs some smoothing and hard points of light.

**JamesY**

@quuen_annes_revenge that armour looks great so far, lovely colour blends in there. Good luck with the highlights!