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Welcome all to the 92nd 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, we rivisit the annual Halloween round, which gives entrants a nice wide pool of options and interpretations. Whether it's trick-or-treating orcs convincingly disguised as Space Marines, or true eldritch horrors set to warp the mind and haunt the nightmares of all who see them, all your entry has to do is evoke the spooky season in some way. It can be funny, horrific, maybe even both!

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



List of entrants:

Daia T'Nara : the Edenborn, Slaaneshi cultists (NSWF)



Mr Nobody: Perfectly Normal Furniture (definitely not mimics)


theCrowe: Granny Weasley and the Black Cat


KidCthulhu: Yokai


Nevelon: Hive Tyrants


Yo7: Tree Spirit


SirOllox: Spider Girl


Tallandra: Bladeguard Captain and Ancient


ZergSmasher: Warriors of the Dead of Dunharrow


Lovejoy: Vargskyr and Freeguild General


Hankovitch 807125 11447324 null]Ghost Rida


401st: World Eaters Master of Executions


JoshInJapan: Shub-Niggurath


Geifer: Vampire


Pariah Press: Zoat


Jadenim: Fishmen


darkkt: Dreadblade Harrow


Rybrook: Dark Eldar Syrabite and Salamanders Sergeant


Vejut: Skeletons


inmygravenimage@ Hellboy- Drinking with Skeletons diorama.


Maharg: Vampire


Midget Gems: Pumpkin-headed grots:


Turaxa: Chibi Gundam

With apologies to The Bard:

When shall we three meet again? In thunder, lightning, or in rain?
When the hurly-burly’s done, When the battle’s lost and won.
That will be ere the set of sun.
Where the place?
Upon the heath.
There to meet with Macragge.

Maiden, Matron, Crone. The 3 witches. Fates. Furies. We see them all the time in stories, even beyond the bounds of the galaxy. I give to you, three sisters:


A trio of Hive Tyrants from across the ages.

Not a difficult category for a chaos army, but I've had these gals sitting in primer for a couple of weeks waiting for horror month:



Got them off etsy, they're meant to be dark elves or something, but I've decided they're chaos cultists, specifically the insane Edenborn, the offspring of the denizens of Daemonworld Eden, because I figure if you get enough Slaaneshi followers on one planet some of them are going to wind up mating in the boring old biologically-plausible fashion, if only by accident because they're too high to realise they're not doing something more horrific to each other. Hopefully once I've slapped some contrast paint on them they'll be something other than pale silhouettes.

Aaahhh! Vampire!

I've had last year's Warhammer Day model on my desk for almost a year, but never felt like painting it. Let's try to change that this month.

I am at a bit of a loss...maybe some terrain and I will save the Eschers for next month.

Cheers,

CB

Two cute and fluffy witches from me.



I’ll start with Kitty-Muma. If I get her finished it’ll be on to Granny Weasley.

So many cool entries already! Not sure what I'm doing yet...

 Captain Brown wrote:
I am at a bit of a loss...maybe some terrain and I will save the Eschers for next month.

Cheers,

CB

Let’s think CB, you got any unpainted wraithguard? They’re kinda ghosty. Got any witch-hunting ghost-busting SoB’s? Got anything necromunda zombie related? Any horror movie gribblies or unlikely cross-overs? Paint up a spare Eldar guardian in a scream mask? Freddy Krueger inquisitor?

 theCrowe wrote:

 Captain Brown wrote:
I am at a bit of a loss...maybe some terrain and I will save the Eschers for next month.

Cheers,

CB

Let’s think CB, you got any unpainted wraithguard? They’re kinda ghosty. Got any witch-hunting ghost-busting SoB’s? Got anything necromunda zombie related? Any horror movie gribblies or unlikely cross-overs? Paint up a spare Eldar guardian in a scream mask? Freddy Krueger inquisitor?

Or Dark Reapers?

I've got another wraithlord conversion that's based on the Dark Reapers, so I'll probably end up doing that.

True horror isn't discovering which piece of furniture is a mimic, it's discovering which piece is not!

I'll spend October painting up some Call of Cthulhu minis from RAFM.



I'll enter whichever looks best for my final entry.

 Mr Nobody wrote:
True horror isn't discovering which piece of furniture is a mimic, it's discovering which piece is not!

Mimics are one of my players most hated enemies, thus they've become one of my favorite monsters! Love the designs

 Captain Brown wrote:
I am at a bit of a loss...maybe some terrain and I will save the Eschers for next month.

Cheers,

CB

Death maidens would fit the bill, if you have any of those in the Escher queue?

Wasn't sure what to do this month. There's so many great options and I remembered I had a gift malifaux Box set called witches and woes bad harvest.. I'm never going to paint it for any other reason so here's my excuse to get it out of the back log.

It's unfortunately made of restic so the clean up isn't perfect. They're going to be part of my Kings of war nightstalkers warband so they got square bases. I don't know how many I'll get painted and I'm really not a fan of the pin up Pandora but that's my pledge for this month.

Was trying to think what to do for this month and then realised that the Abominations from HeroQuest fit the bill quite nicely; they always scare my victi… I mean players when they appear. If I have enough time, I might add in the gargoyle too.



I even managed to make some immediate progress!

 Jadenim wrote:
I even managed to make some immediate progress!

That's amazing! What paints did you use for the skin? I think I need to copy it for my vintage metal Kroxigor

Howdy, figured I might enter this one one Dreadblade Harrow:

 Jadenim wrote:
Was trying to think what to do for this month and then realised that the Abominations from HeroQuest fit the bill quite nicely; they always scare my victi… I mean players when they appear. If I have enough time, I might add in the gargoyle too.



I even managed to make some immediate progress!

That's an awesome fishdude!

KidCthulhu wrote:

 Jadenim wrote:
I even managed to make some immediate progress!

Spoiler:

That's amazing! What paints did you use for the skin? I think I need to copy it for my vintage metal Kroxigor

JoshInJapan wrote:

 Jadenim wrote:
Was trying to think what to do for this month and then realised that the Abominations from HeroQuest fit the bill quite nicely; they always scare my victi… I mean players when they appear. If I have enough time, I might add in the gargoyle too.

Spoiler:

I even managed to make some immediate progress!

That's an awesome fishdude!

Thanks guys, very pleased with how he’s come out. Fairly simple method, base of Stegadon Scale green, followed by a heavy dry brush of Kabalite green and then a lighter dry brush / highlight with bone tinted with a tiny bit of the Kabalite (just to knock out the yellow).

I'll try these two guys, they're super excited about setting up the Halloween decorations:

Looks like every day is halloween for those guys

 Jadenim wrote:
Thanks guys, very pleased with how he’s come out. Fairly simple method, base of Stegadon Scale green, followed by a heavy dry brush of Kabalite green and then a lighter dry brush / highlight with bone tinted with a tiny bit of the Kabalite (just to knock out the yellow).

Thank you! That's gonna work great for my Kroxigor (and my other vintage metal Lizardmen)

I'm in.

Working on Hellboy Big Box of Doom stuff, so there's going to be something there, right?

Got a bit excited, started on the Black Flame, Nimue et al.

I'm in this month, I have a Dark Eldar Sybarite and a Space marine sergeant.

These will be my testers for Salamanders and Drukari old enemies.

A cosmic horror, its motives completely unfathomable to the human mind, a mighty zoat!

I might not get time this month, but just in case I do, here's a proof pic. I can't remember the names at the mo, but they're from the Cursed City box:



cheers,
Michael

So it's spooky and it's orktober? Time to actually get cracking on Da Ghost Rida.

Orkcellent.

Yeah, looking forward to seeing that one completed!

I'm making very slow progress:



This is RAFM's Shub Niggurath. The metal tentacles are so heavy that she falls over easily, so taking these photos was quite the challenge. The feet are wonky, and will need to be repositioned. After that, gap filling.