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Welcome all to the 128th 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!

- 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

"Im. Ho. Tep. Im. Ho. Tep. Im. Ho. Tep."
"How many times do I have to tell you? You've got the wrong mummy!"

Going to try to polish off the barrow guard:


Depending how quick that goes, might do some skeletons, or try to catch up on some other projects.

Wargames Atlantic recently released their Survivors/Civilians set:



They can be assembled as Survivors (dudes with rifles and such), Terrorists (dudes with rifles and such, wearing balaclavas), or Civilians, running away with looks of terror. I'll be entering a set of those, trying to escape from all the scary stuff everyone else will be entering this month.

As I did last year, I'll be leaning into the "goblins" part of the prompt. More fantasy miniatures from 1974, though this time from my side of the pond: Scruby Fantasy miniatures.

I'm going to do one or more of the KM Holiday promo minis:

Batman: Red Rain, Bewitched Harley Quinn, and Xmas Lobo. The plan is to mount them on bookends that I've made from some scrap wood at work, so they can also be on display.
Ignore Vader and Kenobi in the background, they're not the toys you're looking for.

Headless horseman from Dragon Trappers Lodge.

In the grand tradition of interpreting the theme to fit something I wanted to paint anyway, I've decided Akira is a horror movie (I mean, it is for Tetsuo), and therefore:



Neo-Cadia is about to explode.

I'll try to pant this bust of Abby from NCIS: