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Welcome all to the 135th 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: Hunter and the Hunted: Rangers, inquisitors, assassins, snipers, and other combatants who search for the enemy and destroy them. Also woodland creatures, grots or othering things targeted for the hunt. Or cross the streams and paint up a fox assassin. Lots of woodland adventure minis out there. Things that stalk the night and their prey.


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

With a theme like that I should really paint the dude with the bow...



Hawkeye was one of the first Crisis Protocol models I assembled but I never got around to painting him. I should do something about that.

Archers? Check.


Getting back into the Cursed City models. And the first hero from the box to hit the paintbench.

Someone said something about minis with bows?

Nothing turns the tables on a squad of space marines who think they're the hunters on this hulk than opening a door and finding a dreadnought staring back at them:

Hunters, eh?

Yup, oldhammer Jes Goodwin Harlequins ... along with a bit of restored tech from the vaults:

So a partial deldar raider that's going to become a Harley party bus; being old flat metals you can fit on a surprisingly number of them. I've sculpted up the face, but if I am unhappy with it, I have an stl to try also. And as for the colour scheme... joke's on you

I dug out a selection of Oldhammer elves. I7lln paint them all up and choose my favorites.

@ inmygravenimage
Perfect! I need to dig out my DE

Well since these are on the painting table to finish priming, it would seem obvious who the hunters need to be. A few random unfortunates from the unpainted mountain and we have the hunted.

Welp, I want to actually chug along this Ogre army a bit more, so I dug up the Hunter from the 'to be primed' pile. I'll probably do a couple of the ones from last month I didn't get to painting to go alongside him.

Probably the wytches

And I just finished this guy like two days ago



Oh well I'll see if I manage something during the month !

Well once again I'm a bit stumped on what to do. I have like half a thousand project "in progress" so cannot get a before picture... I thinks it's gonna be some cursed city heroes if I can find them haha.

Need to have a little scratch of the noodle for this month. Think I've got an idea.