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Welcome all to the 116th 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 is our annual Halloween Special. Spooks, spirits, ghost, goblins, monsters, kids dressed up trick-or-treating, costumes. Pumpkins and changing leaves. It’s spooky time here in the painting challenge, so break out the pumpkin spice flavored paint and get with the season!


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 may enter at any time during the month, up to the last minute. We do encourage people to enter early, as to be part of the community, but if you can’t start until the 11th hour, that’s OK.
- 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 EST on October 31st. After this, I shall compile the finished entries into a new thread, and voting will run for 5 days.

I thought this creepy old dude who's super into witchcraft might fit the theme. When I asked him for his qualifications, he just said "I am the freak show". I found that very convincing.

Going to try to buckle down and get through as much of my nighhaunt as I can, pick the best 5. There is a little more in the to-prime pile, but getting this done (minus the cairn wraith kitbash) would be the spearhead when combined with what I have already.

Hope this is spoopy enough for you, it is for me.

Harlequin are perfect for spoopy hi weensicals, they already wear masques.
Oh and ofcourse the grand masques I already entertained are also perfect for this chal; Silent shroud and shattered mirage.

Been kitbashing the vehicle a bit already, basecoated it today and did a little on the ship but not enough yet to photograph again.. so here's the proof pic instead.

I'm going to be creating some form of weird mutant sump rat from the new AOS box. #everymodelisanecromundamodel

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Geifer wrote: thought this creepy old dude who's super into witchcraft might fit the theme. When I asked him for his qualifications, he just said "I am the freak show". I found that very convincing.

This gives me Decard Caine vibes all day. "Stay a while and listen!" Excited to see this done! Palpatine is far freakier though.

( Sorry for all the edits. I really should use my computer.)

For this contest I will be doing a "Nagash's chosen horseman" probably a Sleepy Hallow, Headless Horseman" kinda deal with a spooky diorama. Will also try and have some proper scaling.

"Yo Belisarius! Got a request for Primaris kit for the Fire Hawks chapter."
"Ugh, Emperor's plums, it never ends... Fine, authorised."
"'Kay, sent."
"...Wait, the what chapter?"

Going to go for something slightly whacky but on point for the theme…

Gormayne!

Gost_engineer wrote:
This gives me Decard Caine vibes all day. "Stay a while and listen!" Excited to see this done! Palpatine is far freakier though.

Dodgy Old Guy: Stay a while and listen... to the tragedy of Darth Plagueis the Wise.
Questionable Young Hero: Oh no, not again! I just wanted to know what the shiny stick I looted off those Tusken kids does.

Goblins were suggested, so goblins it shall be! Finishing off my collection of 1973 Minifigs goblins this month:

"And I would have gotten away with it if it weren't for those meddling kids!"

I'll be painting this version of the Scooby Gang, from Black Site:



I'll probably also paint the Mystery Machine, but it would take me over the 5-model limit, so it's not part of my entry

It's likely to be 5 of these for the Hallowe'en edition:

The Mascareri, mystical mask makers of Venice. Each can imbue the powers of a faction into a mask for the wearer for one night. How very seasonal I do have a massive vampire beastie also but it's still in bits and I'd need to do it in secret as it's a surprise for my eldest's birthday.

 Daia T'Nara wrote:

Looking forward to how this turns out!



Kingdom Death minis for Halloween. The Watcher and Twilight Cloak are the main entry. Twilight Witch and Bone Eaters are stretch goals, as I would like to see them done, too. Let's see how that turns out.

Not 100% sure of my entry, but I'll throw in my current idea: Lady Maria from Bloodborne.
An old hunter of the Healing Church, she has battled the most horrible of beasts and aberrations, both gothic and lovecraftian.

Proof picture. Showing the intended direction of light.



After an hour or so of rough sketching.


We'll see how this turns out. Way out of my comfort zone.
Might change the entry, might not. Too many projects ideas rushing through my mind haha.

 Ezki wrote:
Not 100% sure of my entry, but I'll throw in my current idea: Lady Maria from Bloodborne.
An old hunter of the Healing Church, she has battled the most horrible of beasts and aberrations, both gothic and lovecraftian.

Proof picture. Showing the intended direction of light.



After an hour or so of rough sketching.



PUSH YOURSELF!! Take this opportunity to challenge yourself and grow as an artist. Make some happy mistakes. You make some amazing work. I believe in you!

Maybe a clown? I have an old Harlequin Avatar that needs painting.

Cheers,

CB

I'm in. I'll be painting the two heavy weapons troops for this month.

I found a load of Tomb Kings skellies on eBay and in that lot there was this one LOTR horse so, needing a mounted Lyche Priest I built this to look like he makes the sand rise up to be his horse.

Oh I like the sand horse concept! Very nicely done.

The Sump Abomination is coming along... still some green stuff left to add to hide some of the joins and rough areas where straps were carved off

 Captain Brown wrote:
Maybe a clown? I have an old Harlequin Avatar that needs painting.

Cheers,

CB

Clowns work. Especially murder clowns.

I wonder how many people read “Harlequin Avatar” and their brains immediately went to the giant metal boy (or the new swirly one) done up in motely? Do they even use that term anymore? I’ve got a pair of them standing in for warlocks on my shelf.

theCrowe wrote:I found a load of Tomb Kings skellies on eBay and in that lot there was this one LOTR horse so, needing a mounted Lyche Priest I built this to look like he makes the sand rise up to be his horse.

Very original idea. You could do something with this with all sorts of animal statuettes (plenty of toy cobras to find I'm sure )

Nevelon wrote:

 Captain Brown wrote:
Maybe a clown? I have an old Harlequin Avatar that needs painting.

Cheers,

CB

Clowns work. Especially murder clowns.

I wonder how many people read “Harlequin Avatar” and their brains immediately went to the giant metal boy (or the new swirly one) done up in motely? Do they even use that term anymore? I’ve got a pair of them standing in for warlocks on my shelf.

I never liked the whole murder-clown idea (I say while doing harlequins but hear me out), Retro halloween took the cake for me, bedsheet ghosts, witches with a black cat and broom, pumpkins and cobwebs..

Halloween really got dunked on the moment people started walking around like michael myers or kruger, and now with the 'terrifier' theme costumes its really gone off the rails.
(I know, offtopic, had to get off chest)

Gost_engineer wrote:

PUSH YOURSELF!! Take this opportunity to challenge yourself and grow as an artist. Make some happy mistakes. You make some amazing work. I believe in you!

This might be the nudge I needed. Thank you.

Edit: Some more sketching and finding the colors.

Always fun when people post rough WIPs better than anything I’ve ever done.. haha.

Lots of great stuff this month! Never a disappointing October. So many inspired entries.

 Nevelon wrote:
Always fun when people post rough WIPs better than anything I’ve ever done.. haha.

Lots of great stuff this month! Never a disappointing October. So many inspired entries.

Dude. Every. Day. This forum really motivates me to push my limits over 9000

Since Ezki is over here killing it here's my updated wip.

I should probably put another turquoise glaze on the spirits. We’ll see how that looks when it drys. Still putting basecoats on the wraiths.

Daia T'Nara wrote:"Yo Belisarius! Got a request for Primaris kit for the Fire Hawks chapter."
"Ugh, Emperor's plums, it never ends... Fine, authorised."
"'Kay, sent."
"...Wait, the what chapter?"

This feels like another oldhammer homage. Primaris Legion of the Damned?

theCrowe wrote: I built this to look like he makes the sand rise up to be his horse.
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That is inspired!

 Nevelon wrote:
Always fun when people post rough WIPs better than anything I’ve ever done.. haha.

Lots of great stuff this month! Never a disappointing October. So many inspired entries.

Yeah let's call it a day and give Ezki the win already, saves us some neckpain under the paintinglamps.

OT: will make a wip pic when I get home today, did some more work on the ship but need some ardcoat (ordered it) to go on with it (making patterns on it without feeling like I may destroy what I've got going so far) -_-
Also did a little bit on one of the passengers, but have been busy taking some other things off my list (unrelated to WH) so that I can focus better on this proj that I really want to enjoy more because its my favorite theme of the year.

 Leopold Helveine wrote:

 Nevelon wrote:
Always fun when people post rough WIPs better than anything I’ve ever done.. haha.

Lots of great stuff this month! Never a disappointing October. So many inspired entries.

Yeah let's call it a day and give Ezki the win already, saves us some neckpain under the paintinglamps.

OT: will make a wip pic when I get home today, did some more work on the ship but need some ardcoat (ordered it) to go on with it (making patterns on it without feeling like I may destroy what I've got going so far) -_-
Also did a little bit on one of the passengers, but have been busy taking some other things off my list (unrelated to WH) so that I can focus better on this proj that I really want to enjoy more because its my favorite theme of the year.

The month is young. We don’t have all the entries yet. And while some might fight for the podium, while some of of fight for “not last” we all fight the good fight against the Pile of Shame and the Grey Menace.