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Welcome all to the 66th 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 favourite pieces, and those votes go towards an annual overall League that runs for 12 rounds, ending in February next year.

This month, the theme is Mastermind: Intellect is a deadly weapon, whether put to work forging a masterful strategy, developing peerless technology or bent towards the study of supernatural and magical forces. Your entry should feature models famed for their mental prowess.

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 August and will end at midnight UK time on the 31st of August. After this, I shall compile the finished entries into a new thread, and voting will run for 5 days.

List of Entrants

Nevelon

Jadenim -Ariman

JamesY -- Mr. Grimm

queen_annes_revenge -- Magnus a/o Erebus

Captain Brown -- Phoenix Lords and Farseer

Jamie Shred -- indomitus captain and lieutenant.

Dr.Giggles Hive Tyrant

JoshInJapan -- Dwarf General and Engineer

Mothsniper -- Galladon, Male Wizard

Viterbi -- Greyfax

sockwithaticket --Skink Shaman

ZenBadger -- Creed

416_SpaceWolves -- Wolf Priest

MobileSuitRandom -- Broodlord a/o Phobos Librarian

Pariah Press -- Inquisitor Parris

Freya -- Ragnar

ZergSmasher -- Sister Dialogus

ms07b3 --Eisenhorn

I’m in. Figured that Ariman is pretty smart...

Proof;



Mr Grimm by Reaper. Just what schemes is the mechanical man up too?

still no sign of baby, so I'm going to put up magnus, and erebus. and we'll just see which one if any gets finished.

Forgot to photo Erebus head before I'd got a base layer and a wash for his tattoos, all done today. Hope that's still alright

This is going to be a tough one unless I get another miniature to fit the theme better.

Right now, following my theme of Eldar Phoenix Lords either Feugan or Bahrroth was next up...or both...or with a Farseer. Three heads are better than one.





Cheers,

CB

PS: Added Farseer build.

Here's my proof pic, indomitus captain and lieutenant.

This is the perfect time to paint up my Hive Tyrant.

I'm in, but I'm not yet sure what my entry will be.

I am in with
Galladon, Male Wizard

This guy as it turns out can be disassemble into pieces!
Win for me, because I hate detailed undercuts.

Gonna throw Greyfax in, gonna paint her in my Sisters of Battle scheme to accompany them and rid the galaxy of heretics.

Uh, Nev, unless more members of the forum have access to time machines than I'd anticipated you might want to revise the dates for the challenge

After rooting through my box of stuff I've found an old metal skink shaman. Not the skink I was hoping to paint this month, but close. I'll post a pic later once I finish prepping.

 sockwithaticket wrote:
Uh, Nev, unless more members of the forum have access to time machines than I'd anticipated you might want to revise the dates for the challenge

Time travel is the sign of a sophisticated mastermind. Anything else is just the base scheming of savages.

Fun Fact: While I’m not sure what hour Para posts these in his part of the world (I assume GMT) but here in New York, they pop up first thing in the morning, while I’ve having breakfast and my first cup of coffee. Which is my I tend to be the first entrant, as I’m surfing Dakka at that time. It also means that due to my undercaffinated state, I can’t be held responsible for any of my actions. It’s like Dr. Heckle and Mr. Hyde, but the monster is just a lethargic mess staggering around mashing buttons while waiting for the elixer to kick in.

I left the end time as midnight GMT. If Para want to come in and close it then, he can. It’s still his show and I’m just doing the busywork for him. But as timezone math makes my brain hurt, I’ll probably close it down Tuesday morning Eastern time, which should give everyone a few more hours. Extensions are of course, still an option, and as that’s a work day, there is no chance the vote is going up until later that afternoon anyway.

Haven't entered the comp for a few years but since I was back painting 40K stuff any way I thought I might throw my ring into the hat. I have to admit that I have already done some repairs to the back of this "fine"cast monstrosity, it was given to me by someone who couldn't face the remedial work to get it to usable standard. I hope that is allowed in the spirit of the competition.

Anyhoo, it's Creed:

Proof:

This assortment of bits will be a wolf priest.

Proof:

 ZenBadger wrote:
Haven't entered the comp for a few years but since I was back painting 40K stuff any way I thought I might throw my ring into the hat. I have to admit that I have already done some repairs to the back of this "fine"cast monstrosity, it was given to me by someone who couldn't face the remedial work to get it to usable standard. I hope that is allowed in the spirit of the competition.

Anyhoo, it's Creed:

Spoiler:

If you are talking about repairs to the mini, that’s fine. This is a painting comp. Any build/green stuff/sculpting/repair can happen before the month starts. As long as you’ve not put more than a basecoat of paint on his back, you are all set.

Good to have you back.

In with the phobos libby (sprue on the right) and/or the brainy beastie on the left:

Thanks Nevelon, yes it was just the usual finecast horrorshow. Both greatcoat sleeves ended in huge voids, fortunately just after the piping.

Updated Proof- I have kitbashed him together. (in the spoiler)
Built a jump-pack out of two LR lights, two missile "enginges" and an exhaust part from an unknown origin.
The body is a bash of a former assault marine, and various SW bits. I made the crozius arcanum out of a thunder hammer, and a IG skull wing thing that looked appropriate. Looking forward to painting him.

Primed.
And I do not like the staff (fish/dragon)head.
Does not fit the character imo.

I'm trying to make an on-foot version of the jetbike-riding inquisitor I made last year. Of course, I optimized the character to be easy to model riding a jetbike. I've never attempted a kitbash this ambitious before. We'll see how it goes.



Inquisitor Parris examines the dismembered remains of... himself!



Dear God-Emperor! Too tall! Too tall!



Maybe we can work with this...

Heeeeeeeres Ragnar!

My entry, should I actually finish it this month, will be this Sister of the Order Dialogus:

I figure she's gotta be fairly knowledgeable since a Dialogus has to read a lot (even some things that are normally forbidden to others in the Imperium). The new model is such an improvement over the old goggle-eyed one (who looked like Velma from Scooby-Doo!), it'll be a joy to paint. With all the other things on my plate currently we'll see if I find time to finish...

My entry

Here's my proof:



An engineer and a general for my slowly-growing, mostly Mantic dwarf army.

I think we ought to start a summary thread for everyone in the competition who’s done Eisenhorn; seems to be the most popular individual model (mainly because he’s awesome!)

 Jadenim wrote:
I think we ought to start a summary thread for everyone in the competition who’s done Eisenhorn; seems to be the most popular individual model (mainly because he’s awesome!)

I think we'll need a parallel thread for indomitus models as well over the coming months.

 JoshInJapan wrote:
Here's my proof:

An engineer and a general for my slowly-growing, mostly Mantic dwarf army.

You already got my vote!
Anyone with the courage and wit to realize all the glorious benefits of being a proud owner of a respectable army of most feared and revered, unmatched, most powerful warriors in all the lands, the Dwarfs! Deserves an automatic vote at the very least!
I, me self!
Would give my self a vote!
if I was working on my throng for this challenge!







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 Jadenim wrote:
I think we ought to start a summary thread for everyone in the competition who’s done Eisenhorn; seems to be the most popular individual model (mainly because he’s awesome!)

Nha, It is not Eisenhorn who is awesome!
its Dan Abnett, should do a painting competition on him lolz

Going to try to get some animal adventurers wizards.


Either that or the Croc games Tethru harbinger next to them--they're the magic faction in that game, figure a mage hero ought to count.

I think I'll be painting space elves for this month, I've got something for each of the main factions (I'm old and set in my ways so don't count these new Ynnari upstarts)- an old Archon + bodyguard, farseer and shadowseer. Hopefully I'll do them all but more likely just the one