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Welcome all to the 126th 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 the topic is: Weathered - Rust and Dust! Mud and Blood! We want to see the dirtiest, nastiest model put on a base. Practice those weathering skills. None of that parade ground clean, spit and polish stuff. Revel in the filth, play in the dirt, show some wear, tear, and decay.

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

I'm going to give this here swamp golem a try, partially in the hope that painting animated mud is so easy it doesn't cost too much time. I'm going to need it if I have any hope of finishing the summer side quest.

I will be building a fishing boat So far it is painted with base, with preshading. Proof:



It should look like this:



I also plan to make some fishermen for the crew, but so far i haven't found proper figures.

Khorne cultist. Going to try to dust up the legs to match a rubble base and splash some blood around.

I'm not really fond of painting vehicles, so I've opted to enter these Grizzled Lawmen from the Wasteland:


These are from Blacksite, the same outfit that makes the mutants I shared back in June.

I actually really want to enter my Tomb Kings' High Priest on Necrolith Bone Dragon for this month, but I've got to hope I get a window in the weather to get it primed. Today was a nice temperature and low humidity, but it was too windy. A lot of models I might otherwise use for this challenge are similarly unprimed as of now. Here's hoping something gives.

I think I have something to fill this with some really small 1/72 scale figures. Weathered sailors of the Battle of the North Atlantic.

Photos to follow.

Cheers,

CB

Time to go open the Necromunda boxes I feel.


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Time to go open the Necromunda boxes I feel.

I'm going to double dip on my Summer Side Quest entry this month, as it will involve plenty of weathering. I'll enter the five pieces I like the best.

Going to decide what to submit today. Lots of Krieg to choose from.

Time to open up that set of cult marines they did made-to-order a couple of years back:



The colour on the base is just the technical paints, it'll all be sprayed over, when I can - currently we're being weathered in a direct sense by constant rain.

Maybe I'll try one of the Trench Crusade Models I have. Plus a terrain piece or two for the summer side quest. My Brets aren't really in the bloodied and weathered category this go around!

I'm in the middle of moving from Washington State to North Carolina, so we'll see if I can get back into my monthly painting routine. If I manage to get my models unpacked and my painting station set up, I’m planning to work on a couple of Death Guard Kill Team figures from the starter set.

If the timing's tight, I’ve also got a metal Fenbeast prepped and ready to go—that could be a solid fallback. We'll see how things shake out!

 Daia T'Nara wrote:
Time to open up that set of cult marines they did made-to-order a couple of years back:



The colour on the base is just the technical paints, it'll all be sprayed over, when I can - currently we're being weathered in a direct sense by constant rain.

Looking forward to seeing this guy painted. That was my first Plague Marine.

Love me some classic nurgle. I think I'm going to the BB Team, just ordered them for this. Excuses, excuses...

With decay listed in the description for this month, seems like the perfect opportunity to try to paint up my three homemade Nurgle greater daemons. They have been sitting untouched for close to 10 years after making them.

As I sat down to start thinking about how I wanted to paint the khone guy, I was just not feeling it. So change of plans.

***RESURRECTION PROTOCOLS ACTIVE***

Fishing boat is painted with basic colours. Now it is time for weathering.

I'm intending to enter three converted female wizards, one each of amber, grey and jade. Unfortunately, for the grey and jade wizards I'm struggling to get hold of appropriate conversion parts, so all I can work on is the amber wizard at the moment. I've attached a proof pic. It's actually one I converted for a previous monthly challenge, but didn't get round to painting. Amber wizards are notoriously out doors-y, weather-beaten (and animal-bitten) wizards, so I hope that fits the challenge. The more appropriate wizard for the theme is the grey wizard as grey magic extremely weather oriented, so here's hoping I can get her completed in time. Jade wizards are, again, very nature oriented, so hopefully she'll be okay, too.

I’ll enter this slasher necron. I might try some gore effects on it.

Proof

Might also try to get some gore and armor chipping effects on the free mini of the month. I should really make up my mind and get the brush moving...

I guess if I piss and moan about the weather it'll change for me. Got my entry primed so I'm entering officially now:

This will be a High Priest on a Necrolith Bone Dragon. I think something as ancient as the Tomb Kings is generally pretty weathered, and indeed the howdah thingy for this model has some chipping and stuff on it to show the passage of time. I'm not gonna lie, this is one of the more daunting models I've tried to tackle for this challenge, so wish me luck!

Good luck, ZergSmasher!

Let's go!

Starting to get a little paint on them.

Daia T'Nara - Plague Marine



I ended up painting this chap almost entirely with shade/ink paints, apart from the shoulder badges and a few spots of brass - wasn't planned, but I started weathering the white armour before basing the shoulders and equipment, and just kind of kept going.

That Plague Marine turned out nicely. And as someone who always preferred white as the main color for Death Guard, thumbs up for that little mishap.

Is my scratch-built GobSmasha already too painted to enter? It’s had a coat of yellow wall paint and some black undercoat on the foam wheel bits.

 theCrowe wrote:


Is my scratch-built GobSmasha already too painted to enter? It’s had a coat of yellow wall paint and some black undercoat on the foam wheel bits.

You are fine.

A chaos spearman from Knucklebones minis who has spent years wandering the harsh wastelands.