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Welcome all to the 60th round of the Dakka Painting challenge. For those who haven't seen the challenge before, it is a community-focused friendly competition open to anyone on the site, regardless of your skill level or experience. Every round contributes towards a League table, which ultimately means nothing but is a lot of fun to keep an eye on and jockey for position with Dakka's other painters. This is the final month of the 2019/20 rotation, and the league table is still tight, so this is your last chance to pull out all the stops and score some vital last minute points!

This month, the theme is “Final Boss.” Whether a Big Bad Evil Guy or whatever the Good Guy equivalent of that is, your entry should represent the biggest, toughest combatants your collection can muster, likely to be the last foe to face before they are defeated.



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. The overall winner of the League for this year will receive a set of Dakka Dice.


How Long Do I Have?
This challenge begins 1st of February and will end at midnight UK time on the 29th of February. After this, I shall compile the finished entries into a new thread, and voting will run for 5 days.

List of Entrants

Jamie Shred; FINISHED


Excommunicatus:


MobileSuitRandom: FINISHED


Jjohnso11: FINISHED


Nevelon: FINISHED


Yorkright: FINISHED


Tyranid Horde:


MacPhail: FINISHED


Captain Brown: FINISHED


Barcode:


spetex:


Rybrook: FINISHED


LordMcAllister


Viterbi: FINISHED


DV8: FINISHED


Keezus: FINISHED


queen_annes_revenge: FINISHED


Llamahead: FINISHED


Modock: FINISHED


Maharg: FINISHED


Elnibbus: FINISHED


Ferrous695:


SmallChanges: FINISHED


CragHack:


Arkanid: FINISHED


sockwithaticket:


Deadshot: FINISHED


ZergSmasher:


ShadowsAndDust: FINISHED


Midget Gems: FINISHED


Feltmonkey: FINISHED


Paradigm: FINISHED


dukeofbeer:FINISHED



Jadenim: FINISHED


Chris56: FINISHED


Pneumo: FINISHED


Vejut FINISHED

Here's my proof. Morgraur rashaar for Carnevale again but this time the green stuff is done

Syll'Esske/The Bogatyr

I'll be finaly painting this ole Black Reach Boss. I already found all the parts!

Ogor Tyrant proof.

Hmm, do I do kharn, or calas typhon this month? Kharn was my initial choice, but then typhon was like the final boss mortarion had to face to save his legion from nurgle. (yeah I just finished buried dagger)

Rumors of plastic? Feh. Go metal or go home.

The true final boss is your nostalgia.



Zoat 2, this one has a bigger gun...

My entry for final boss is the new chaos sorcerer. He is part of the Black Legion army I’ve been working on. Good luck everyone, always inspiring to see finished projects.

Posting to sub - waiting on my mum posting the last of my models from her house and my bitz supplier restocking. For a change I think I'll NOT be doing a damn Blood Raven

I'll enter an Autarch I've been kitbashing. Will probably add some more bits to him but here's some proof:

This is going to be an amazing round... I dig all of these selections. Nevelon, I had one of those when my collection was rattling around in a K-Mart tackle box!

Here's the new Boss: The Canoness from the Sororitas Army Box. Note the "just got errata'd into legality today" plasma pistol. I'm thinking she needs a head swap, rod-for-gun swap, and a mean old chainsword in place of the power sword. Maybe do something about those dangly censers, too. If you've played or played against a Bloody Rose Canoness with the relic chainsword Beneficence you know she's a 45-point blender, so I definitely need to stop proxying her and get on with building these new plastics!



Also, which outrageously-oversized grimdark chainsword gets to be Beneficence? Sororitas-sized, Militarum-sized, Astartes-sized, or which-model-even-had-a-massive-chainsword-that-says-REPENT-sized?

So I am having to do a deep dive to figure out a final boss.

As of now I have settled on an Escher Gang Leader on some Necromunda terrain.




Cheers,

CB

PS: Adding a henchwoman to the final boss scenario. Proof photo.

I have definitely picked a big project for this one but I am pretty excited to try and complete this one as I have been wanting to paint it for a while!
I was stuck between the Avatar of Kane or The Balrog decided on the latter with a whip I found from an older model - fully Metal model - Half primed

The one and only Final Boss is my Warboss - The Iron Boss from ArtelW Miniatures.

I am so looking forward to paint him. My plan is to learn more about painting true metalics and washing with oil paints.

Found a chaplain, spiritual leader and maker of pain
(15 minutes in the pain glove)

 MacPhail wrote:

Also, which outrageously-oversized grimdark chainsword gets to be Beneficence? Sororitas-sized, Militarum-sized, Astartes-sized, or which-model-even-had-a-massive-chainsword-that-says-REPENT-sized?

Possibly an eviscerator or an ork sized one

I will join this competition with Belisarius Cawl! Not sure if I will be able to finish, though, but I will be giving it a shot.

My entry will be the GSC gunslinger, he's been collecting dust for too long.

 Rybrook wrote:
Found a chaplain, spiritual leader and maker of pain
(15 minutes in the pain glove)

That guy is tending to the spiritual well-being of my Ultras, as he’s done for many years now. Probably one of my favorite sculpts ever.

 MacPhail wrote:

Also, which outrageously-oversized grimdark chainsword gets to be Beneficence? Sororitas-sized, Militarum-sized, Astartes-sized, or which-model-even-had-a-massive-chainsword-that-says-REPENT-sized?

How you you turn down the one that says “repent”? My only concern is that if you are going to keep the pose, you either need to get one the right length, or add to the base. Either raise her up, or find a rock/heretic for her to be resting the blade on. Depending if it’s too short/long.

Bit of progress. Attacked the stone first then spent most of the afternoon getting the blue down.

Annnddd my bitz reseller did restock today but not what I needed :/. Gonna have to hope they put a shift in next week or I don't think I'll be able to do what I planned

Some really cool entries already hitting the page!

Totally-generic-shield-captain-and-absolutely-not -Constantin Valdor for my Long War Doubles Custodes for Adepticon. I'm trying to grind through this army quickly as I don't have a lot of time between now and Adepticon (51 days) and I have far too much on my plate, so this'll have to be a quick one.

I am a slave to analysis paralysis. So... taking a page from Shia "Just DO IT" LaBeouf... Proof for Feb.

Decided to go for calas typhon, final boss in mortarion fall.

Reaper Bones Bone Dragon should fill the bill rather nicely!

So many cool entries coming in so far. This could be one of the most epic rounds we've had in quite some time, a great close out to the rotation!

Well my base is now ready for the final fight scene.







Now I wonder if my Final Boss should have a minion you have to defeat first or at the same time...since I have one more Escher to paint?

Cheers,

CB

I'll join with Szalamandra a TAG from Nomads, the most expensive (point wise) unit they have and my most precious mini I have.

I'm going with a daemon prince for this month

Proof of my Praetor:

I will once again attempt to join one of these challenges to motivate me to get some painting done. I will be attempting to paint Lelith Hesperax, but I haven't been able to get a start on her yet due to the very damp weather. I've only just started building my Wych Cult army, and I'm still kind of deciding on a colour scheme. At the moment I'm set on a sort of retro style with glossy black, purple and green.
Anyway, here's my proof, in all of it's finecast glory (actually my first finecast model, I can see why finecast isn't popular)

Image is sideways again, I'll see what I can do for next time