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Welcome all to the 133rd 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: Space Marine. Our annual start of the competition. Do want want to travel to distant planets? See exotic creatures and planets? And kill them? Then sign up for the Space Marines today? Not just GW’s Space Marines, but any future soldier that fits the bill. Day in the Marine Corps is like a day on the farm, every meal's a banquet, every paycheck a fortune, every formation a parade. All right, sweethearts, you're a team and there's nothin' to worry about. We come here, and we gonna conquer, and we gonna kick some, is that understood? That's what we gonna do, sweethearts, we are going to go and get some. All right, people, on the ready line! Are ya lean? Are you mean? WHAT ARE YOU?


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

For space marine month, I will be painting space marines:

 Daia T'Nara wrote:
For space marine month, I will be painting space marines:

Look, I’m having enough problems deciding what to paint. Don’t make me break out the 2nd bolter huggers.

Nice vintage squad there!

As we all know Space Marine is short for Marine Life... in SPAAACE!. So I'm going to paint this fishy looking space wizard apprentice.

Hmm, do I support my Eldar brethren in the long war or do I paint that old RT Tzeentch marine I finally tracked down after 30 years?

 KidCthulhu wrote:
Hmm, do I support my Eldar brethren in the long war or do I paint that old RT Tzeentch marine I finally tracked down after 30 years?

Paint both the sorcerer and a seer if you have one for the ultimate showdown between magical masters of fate.

Painting duel dioramas is perfectly fine. Don’t even need to have them on the same base. Just a group of minis facing each other in the lightbox is fine.

Just try to keep some thematic connection. While the goal here is to fight the long war against the pile of shame, we don’t just want random collections of minis entered.

I've not quite decided what to paint for this month, it's either going to be this squad of Iron warriors

or one of these random marines I found skulking on the painting desk


Need to decide if I want to go with a more basic paint scheme for models that will join an army and see some use on the tabletop (Iron warriors), or put a bit more effort into a single model who's only use will be to look nice on a shelf

I'll paint these Chaos Space Marines this month:

I have four potential entries for this month:

1) Kharn the Betrayer, assuming I can find his head and pistol


2) The original Space Marine scout, possibly accompanied by his carapace armored friend


3) A demi-squad of Chaos Marines, left over from a long-abandoned army project:


4) A selection of Dudes With Rifles, some from Kryomek, others from RAFM: