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Welcome to the inaugural Dakka (unofficial) Monthly Painting Challenge. For those who haven't seen the other threads on it, this is a no-prize-related challenge open to any and all painter and hobbyists. Anyone can enter, from a newcomer to the hobby with your first box of minis to a multiple-time Golden Demon champion, and the winner each month will be decided by community poll, not just on the paintwork but on the effort, creativity and awesomeness of the finished piece!

For the first month, the theme is: Space Marines

Your entry should be Space Marine themed and related, but does not need to be a Space Marine itself. To give you an idea of the scope this can cover, all the examples below would be perfectly elligible for entry:
- Any Space Marine, Chaos Space Marine, Grey Knight or Horus Heresy model in Power or Terminator armour
- A Dark Eldar Wych decaptitating a Space Marine, or an Ork Meganob in looted Terminator Armour
- A Warpath/Deadzone Corporation Marine
- a WW2 US Marine that has unexpectedly found himself in SPAAAACE!



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 MUST post a 'proof' picture of your entry in the thread of the state it was in before you started working on it. This could be unassembled, primed or even basecoated, so long as we can see where you are starting from. Entries that do not submit a Proof Picture will not be elligible 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 4 final pictures IN THIS THREAD that will then be used for voting. If you do not finish in time, the single most recent WIP picture may be submitted.



So What Do I Win?
- Points... and points mean... bragging rights for the next month Following the vote, points will be awarded for the following:

1st Place: 10 points
2nd Place: 8 points
3rd Place: 5 points
Non-placing Entrants: 1 point

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 Thursday 26th February, and will end at midnight GMT on the 31st March. After this, I shall compile the finished entries into a new thread, and voting will run for 7 days.


Voting Guidelines
When voting, consider the following as well as the quality of the paintwork:
- The creativity and originality of the entry
- The overall composition of the piece, such as basing, conversion and coherency between the models
- The relevance of the entry to the theme
- The effort the painter has put into the entry



List Of Entrants

Grimdork: FINISHED


nettraper

Nevelon: FINISHED


purerockfury

Zambro: FINISHED


Matthew: FINISHED


mad_eddy_13: FINISHED


SQRT (-2)


ScootyPuffJunior


OneManNoodles: FINISHED


Paradigm: FINISHED


Eggs


Gitsplitta

gohkm

kb_lock



Schlyne


SonofUltra


Captain Galenus: FINISHED



Toastedandy

40k Pirate: FINISHED


hutber


commissarbob: FINISHED


Drakhart


MysticAngel.9

SlaveToDarkness

MangoChutney: FINISHED


IGtR=



Januine: FINISHED


Angelofvengeance: FINISHED


Aldo: FINISHED


queen_annes_revenge: FINISHED


Winterhound: FINISHED


Melcavuk: FINISHED


thenoobbomb


Ezra Tyrius: FNISHED


PaintingNub

Kavik_Whitescar


TC^DC Deputy Manager: FINISHED


LordRahl: FINISHED


Jokerkd:


OptimusPrimer:


Sm3g: FINISHED


jb1981: FINISHED


Perkustin


Stormwall


KAPcom: FINISHED


Buttery Commissar


timetheheirodule: FINISHED


Loken31809: FINISHED


KaptinBadrukk: FINISHED


TheDraconicLord: FINISHED


lliu: FINISHED


Edreynaline: FINISHED


Polecat99e: FINISHED


Squall018: FINISHED


Reenon: FINISHED



Barzam: FINISHED


jah-joshua: FINISHED


KommissarKiln: FINISHED


Darktrix:


Belec Ynnead: FINISHED


Fifty


Garrior: FINISHED


TazN: FINISHED

Now, to find some space marines I can bear to paint...

do we have to start from scratch ? or can it be a marine we "just" put together ?

 nettraper wrote:
do we have to start from scratch ? or can it be a marine we "just" put together ?

So long as you post a picture of what it looks like when you enter, then anything short of starting painting is fine. I will post this 'starting' picture when it comes to voting, so people can see where it's come from, but yeah, already assmbled/primed is good to go. The only reason that rule is there is so you can't just dig out something painted years ago, as that somewhat defeats the purpose.

These contests sound like they are going to be fun. Good luck to all those who enter. I need to find me a space marine now.

I’ve got an honor guard primed on my bench, I’ll slap some paint on him. I’ll grab a “before” picture next time I break the camera out.

I shall be entering.

A pre-starting paint picture will be up when I buy the thing.

Count me in! WIP Photos coming soon.

I'm in, I need to ask would Imperial Navy Armsmen be allowed?

If not I have a few spacemarines kicking around...

OP updated! Welcome aboard everyone!

@mad eddy: Aye, that would be fine! He's a Marine (ie naval military troops) and in space, so go for it!

Sounds fun, I'll have to think about what to make. Hum...

Sure, why not...

A squad of Space Wolves Blood Claws, currently in pieces waiting to be mounted on corks and primed/painted:

Marines it is...

Just as well I have a model that I've had sat around for 2+ years

Ooh and a nice one at that.

Awesome 10 entrants already!

@OMN: that chap looks very nice indeed. Got a Chapter scheme in mind?

The glorious Imperial fists, he'll be the captain of the 5th company.

Here's hoping I can still remember how to paint yellow!

Ok so I've got a few things that are space marines I could do... I'm not gonna do Enforcers now because that scheme isn't complicated enough to win a challenge (not that I really plan to win anyway ).

So I could do one, or possibly upwards of five terminator-legged Honor Guard. Elaborate dudes with lots of extra kit, bells, whistles, you name it. Kind of over the top just shy of being silly.

I've also got dreadnoughts. If I'm going to make a solid effort I'd have to keep to doing just one of those. I think I'd go with an AOBR dread customized into a veteran/deathwatch/whatever-old/elite/snowflake-dread-you-wanna-call-it that would do well for this kind of thing.

Thoughts?





Huh, the only way I ever figured out to paint yellow was to airbrush it over white

I'm in too. I have a squad of devastators that have been in the to do like for ages. The legs and torsos are started, with a base coat and a couple of colours blocked in, but weapons, arms etc aren't even cleaned up yet, so lots of work to be done on them.


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I'll post a starting pic tomorrow.

 OneManNoodles wrote:
The glorious Imperial fists, he'll be the captain of the 5th company.

Here's hoping I can still remember how to paint yellow!

Ah, a man of good taste! I just did up a model of Hagen (5th Captain, then Chapter Master) myself. It depends on the tone you want with yellow, but for mine (nearer ochre in the darkest bits) I did Averland Sunset blended up to Vallejo Ivory before washing the whole thing with Agrax, looks pretty good for how relatively simple it is.

@Grim: a Dread would be very cool, I am possibly going that way myself. I'm actually struggling to find something, believe it or not, as I don't really want to repaint something, definitely don't want to move onto a new army, and I'm not sure my Fists are up to scratch. I'm toying with a Lysander conversion, but again I'm not sure I can make it work that well. I could do a mini-diorama with some Corp Marines and the Mantic Zombies I have coming, I guess. We shall see.

I think I'm gonna have to get new magnets or just glue the dread's arms down. Since I don't really play 40k anyway... doesn't need to be modular so much anymore. I've gotta replace the multimelta, I'm thinking assault cannon. I may also go a little silly and give him weapons dreads can't take, or at least not in quantity.

I've been wanting to use up all of my marines by super-condensing them all into a smaller force that's more elite, more badass, and that doesn't necessarily follow standard unit conventions for 40k since I'm not really trying to play.

I'm in.

That's my first WIP!

Welcome aboard Gitsplitta!

I forsee some great stuff coming over the next month!

Nice selection of parts there, Matthew! Looking forward to seeing what you come up with.

I'm sure I have a CSM or two somewhere that might suit.

 Paradigm wrote:


Ah, a man of good taste! I just did up a model of Hagen (5th Captain, then Chapter Master) myself. It depends on the tone you want with yellow, but for mine (nearer ochre in the darkest bits) I did Averland Sunset blended up to Vallejo Ivory before washing the whole thing with Agrax, looks pretty good for how relatively simple it is.

That's cool, the 5th has the best colour scheme, yellow with the black trim.

I should still have my old Iyanden darksun and golden yellow in a useable condition. Is agrax the new sepia wash? I suspect I may try something different combining my new style of painting black -> white + colour with the way I painted my Fists which was darksun +> golden yellow +> skull white with brown and sepia washes mixed in.

It's going to be interesting getting the right balance of the gold with the yellow.

Agrax is the new brown wash (Delvan Mud replacement). I think there's an actual Sepia one but personally I prefer the depth you get from one coat of Agrax, and it works better on reds which I also paint a lot.

Seraphim Sepia - great over white to make parchment, or over bone for skulls.

Also, I am on a bit of a roll at the moment, so I will be in.

Deciding on Ultramarine Dreadnaught (I undercoated it last night, after saving it from someone's bits box and stripping it), or some deathstorm Blood angels, or space hulk stuff.

Thoughts?

Welcome aboard kb_lock. This is really starting to take off now! Great to see so much enthusiasm.

I can tell you you'll have a whale of a time painting anything Space Hulk, those minis are stunning!

Not a lot of customisation that I'd want to make on them though, still I could make up on that with the base I guess.

Or, I could start doing my hirst arts space hulk corridors...

Oh good, I'm glad somebody mentioned Space hulk...I guess I could paint one of the blood angels in there...

I really don't want to start on my space wolves...I haven't even picked out a color scheme for them yet...other than I think I might do a icy theme...like extreme frost.



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Actually, now that I think about that, i take that back. My toxicrene comes with a lovely space marine pinned under its foot...he qualifies. Now I just have to figure out if I should still paint him as blood angels or not...

I'll post a picture when I get it completely built. right now I still have a hollow toxicrene body.