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Welcome all to the 131st 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 topic this month is the Shiny New Toy - something fresh from under the Christmas tree? Ork boss with a swanky new boomdakka? Tanks rolling fresh off the assembly line? New captives for the dark gods or archon? Parade ready fresh recruits? Your entry should be something new. Or shiny. Polished chrome and steel. Or a toy. As always you can let the topic be your muse and take it away, but make sure the results tie back to the theme.


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 January and will end at midnight EST on January 30th. After this, I shall compile the finished entries into a new thread, and voting will run for 5 days.

I picked up a Blighthauler to see how my inks-only Death Guard look works on a vehicle:



So it's new to me, and once I'm done covering it with disgusting fluids and giving them all a gloss coat, it'll be shiny too.

I'm in. This is the only "named character" mini I've ever bought and is perhaps my favorite mini of all time. It's finally time to conquer my fears of screwing it up and put some paint on her.
Proof: Pious Vorne defends her church w/ her shiny new toy:


Happy New Year All!

Right, so I've 3d printed the new boxser for Carnevale

I'll be painting Commissar Yarrick this month, seen here showing off his shiny new toy, an power klaw given to him as a gift by an ork!

I originally hadn't intended on joining this month, but I was able to prime some of my shiny new toys yesterday. I almost finished painting one today since I have off from work:



I intend on doing a review on my Big Fantasy Epic blog this weekend and I'm trying to get a few painted by Saturday night. Might as well enter 'em here while I'm at it

Stay tuned.

While it's a stretch to think of anything from WWII as "shiny and new," these models are new to me, having arrived about ten days ago: