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Welcome all to the 75th 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 From Ages Past. Whether it's ancient relics, weapons of legend or just really, really old guys, your entry should have some ties to the history of its setting or faction. Also, any kind of old-school or retro models are of course suitable entries, being from the extensive and often confusing lore of the well-known Real Life setting.

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

List of Entrants

Captain, Veteran, and Assault Marine.

Oooh - never owned it myself but that beaky with terminator honours was my fave SM model in my teens, at least when browsing the WD catalogue part

I'll be in with some 90ies Eldar but have to assemble/convert/re-basecoat them ...

I’m in! Necromunda this time. In this group are examples of ancient archeotech (spider rig lady and spider tank) and humanity’s oldest companions, in the form of DOGGOES!



1 classic doggo, 1 fully Robot doggo, and the piece de resistance, an enhanced doggo. Look how happy she is, yes she issssss

I have a Standard Bearer from the 1998 command squad with the Sang guard banner

First time painting a figurine, so you guys are going to witness my success or likely doom

Aristodemus, Hero of Plataea, 479BC:

Landspeeder Vengeance / Darkshroud:


On one hand I want to keep the typical Ravenwing black, but I also want to tie it in with the rest of my custom chapter. Not quite sure yet how I'll do that.

I'll paint these Imperial Army... er, Imperial Guard... er, Astra Militarum figures.

Going to paint some old metal Eldar.





I will see how many of these I get painted.

Cheers,

CB

This Champion of Chaos has been waiting for paint ever since I bought him new, way back in the Lead Age:


Flinty: where is that spider tank from? I've been looking for a multi-legged mech model for a while, but have had no luck.

Love the theme this month. Have a few things that I could enter, will have to take a few days to decide. Might paint up some Mythic Americas, might work on my Necrons. This was the theme I voted for so I've got quite a few good options in my backlog!

I went for something a little different in theme, I've gone for a Necromancer bringing back to life those from ages past! (hopefully this slides into the theme)

There is a lot of classic lead happening in this thread so far

@JoshinJapan - it’s from Matstation

https://gumroad.com/l/ldKBM

I bought the set just for the mech really. Burned through quite a bit of resin getting it right, but it’s worth it!

Sorry for blanking last month. Had a rough month and haven't slept in a few weeks cuz noisy neighbors moved in. Can't hold a brush without shaking. So I'm gonna airbrush this months competition and hope for the best.

A long long time ago... in a galaxy far away...

Ulfenwatch from Cursed City fit the bill nicely, methinks!

 Freya wrote:
Sorry for blanking last month. Had a rough month and haven't slept in a few weeks cuz noisy neighbors moved in. Can't hold a brush without shaking. So I'm gonna airbrush this months competition and hope for the best.

A long long time ago... in a galaxy far away...

Is that a Dark Moeder I spy?

I'm gonna paint some of the baddies of Cursed City. Not sure which, but I want to get as much done from the box as possible in May so there should be something fitting in there.

Well all right then, somebody's already snaffled Imperial Army.

So I'll go with this old geezer, who I believe I bought off Flinty a Looooooooooong time ago.



Might swap out a lascannon for a heavy bolter, and I'm going to see if I can do something different with the Grot. This'll be the first miniature I've stripped, so I'm off to buy some meths tomorrow...

Yup, that was my first try at painting yellow when I was about 11. I really hope I’ve advanced a bit since then

I think you've advanced more than a bit!

I'm still rubbish at painting yellow, so I don't think this is going to be a Bad Moon.

WIP-1. I managed to snaffle a few hours yesterday to work on the skin. I hate skin. The airbrush helps in speeding up the process and laying down smooth layers and the zenithal effect is really helpful on musclature - but I still hate the process. I'm not so convinced on the effect, but I guess we'll see when the other colours get blocked in. Anyway - tips are most welcome!

Still not sure of the base, so suggestions for that are welcome too.

It depends what effect your looking for; I wouldn’t say that works as photo-realistic skin, but it is very VERY good artistic style skin effect. Looks like he’s stepped out of one of those professional history illustrations.

Proof pic and first days progress. These are the main enemy that players face in core space and are known as the purge. Will choose 5 at the end for pics.

 SergentSilver wrote:

 Freya wrote:
Sorry for blanking last month. Had a rough month and haven't slept in a few weeks cuz noisy neighbors moved in. Can't hold a brush without shaking. So I'm gonna airbrush this months competition and hope for the best.

A long long time ago... in a galaxy far away...

Is that a Dark Moeder I spy?

It is indeed! I couldn't help it when I saw the theme...

Jadenim wrote:It depends what effect your looking for; I wouldn’t say that works as photo-realistic skin, but it is very VERY good artistic style skin effect. Looks like he’s stepped out of one of those professional history illustrations.

I think that sums my feelings up quite nicely actually. There's something subtly off about it that doesn't make it click into that photo-realistic category. I think it may be the over-definition of the muscles or maybe the highlights aren't quite right. The current satin sheen isn't helping either. Anyway, thanks for the alternative perspective Jadenim. I think, for my sanity, I'll have to leave it as-is, but skin is definitely something I need to work at.

Looking forward to seeing more entries coming in

Speaking of more entries:



"Game over man, game over!"

Well, I'm 0 for 2 so far this challenge season due to losing my motivation halfway through both months, but I'll keep entering even if I never finish one this year. This time, I figure I'll try painting Sammael on his jetbike, Corvex. Space Marines haven't fielded jetbikes widely since the Horus Heresy, and Corvex is a venerable relic of the Dark Angels, so I figure it qualifies for the theme.
Proof:

I'm hopeful I can stick this one out, if for no other reason than I really need to get a bunch of Ravenwing done if I want to play in any tournaments this year (pandemic allowing).

I know how you feel Zergsmasher; another reason I chose the Xenomorphs is it’s just dry brushing and washes! You can get it done

Base coats progressing on the doggies.

Well i reckon most of my stash is 'from ages past' (i.e. metal or oop) so i could have picked anything but i went with this classic terminator captain which i still think looks the business and fits the bill this month as well.