Dakka (Unofficial) Painting Challenge Round 16 June 2016: Mighty Heroes and Nefarious Villains

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**TP^DC Deputy Manager**

I'm in and hopefully will finish this time. I'll be entering some Doctor Who minis with Davros being the Hero/leader person. A certain Time Lord may appear if I feel brave enough to try.

**Jadenim**

OK, Tau Commander time:

His name is Shas'el Dak'e-Anuk and what could be more mighty and heroic than zooming through the sky to punch someone in the face!

**Zach**

Whittlesey40k wrote:
A Hero becomes mighty only by completing an epic Quest...

This is the guy who started it all for me. HeroQuest was my first foray into minis as a small boy. After quarter of a decade of looking like this -

Spoiler:

- it was time to strip him and start again.

Duuuuuude...my childhood...

**Buttery Commissar**

This is the first month where I find that I'm not racing to complete a team for a tourney, trying to finish work, or busy with sewing...
I'm completely free to paint what I like.

...What do I like? :s

**Midget Gems**

2 pages already, people have certainly been waiting for this one. Good Luck All

I've got many many heros, leaders etc to paint and many more ideas for conversions but trying to work out which one was hard.

Then I watched a trailer for Warhammer Total War and saw they had Grimgor Ironhide as a Orc Hero (I could also have done Azhag the Slaughterer but think I'll be short on time this month to paint a dragon). So that has lead me to my choice.

Proof
Grimgor Ironhide (base not yet arrived)

Spoiler:

Terrible Photo I know I had to use flash in the end, the black just would not come out on the phones camera.

**Januine**

Automatically Appended Next Post:

Januine wrote:
@keezus - she's a 54mm fig from thirdman studios called 'the nurse'

Ah...! They ran a kickstarter.... I almost backed it, but it looked like it wasn't going to come close to being funded, so I passed. No wonder it looks so familiar.

**ssisal**

Whittlesey

You inspired me to finally put some paint onto my old hero quest figures, ive miss placed the wizard.
Proof with base coats.

**keezus**

@Midgetgems: I love that model. Actually, I love all the Brian Nelson Orcs.

**Adamski Alders**

A Librarian would count as a Mighty Hero yes?

**Paradigm**

Of course.

**Pacific**

Really like the idea of the theme! Although it's not immediately obvious what some of the entries are, I must admit.

Definitely think this is a great idea to prompt working through a back-catalogue of unassembled stuff

Now to find something to enter..

**Kyratos**

So this will be my entry for this month Arkhan the Black.

**kryczek**

Is this karlaen too far gone? I didn't remember starting him. If not then sign me up.

**Kleggt**

Argh, wish I could enter my Wurrzag but I started him last weekend already.

Since I have my painting groove back now though I'm going to put these couple of cool dudes to task.

**kb_lock**

Day 2, the project has already broken me lol

**ZergSmasher**

Okay, I am now officially throwing my hat in the ring. Here's my proof pic:

I think a Bloodthirster of the Sixth Host (Insensate Rage) qualifies as a mighty hero (or a nefarious villain, depending on your point of view). I'm looking forward to getting some paint on this big angry guy!

**Gulgog TufToof**

I'm in. Proof:

**Bottle**

I'd like to enter this month :-)

Brakar, Hero of the Ratskins

Proof

Spoiler:

**Januine**

Waheeeeyy - Bottle's in!! And with a sweet necromunda fig

**Bottle**

Januine wrote:
Waheeeeyy - Bottle's in!! And with a sweet necromunda fig

Haha, cheers man! Looking forward to painting some Necromunda too :-)

**queen_annes_revenge**

Darkoath chieftain

**queen_annes_revenge**

Well I was going to do my darkoath chieftain, but then I found this.. It is the anniversary of d-day this month after all.

**Januine**

Airfix!!!! Awesome!!! What got me into hobby many many years ago. Sweet choice!

**queen_annes_revenge**

yeah haha ive had it for ages and totally forgot about it.. I'm hoping something outside the box may pip me a few points

got a cool sheet of pin up decals from ebay too but im not sure if they may be a little too big :(

**Januine**

I was sure that air fix always included the appropriate transfers in the box with the kit,no?

**Paradigm**

Looking forward to seeing the Spitfire get some paint, I've been wanting to dip back into scale modelling myself recently, maybe this will inspire me!

**kb_lock**

I am SOOOO tempted to make an Orky A-10 warthog.

The WAAAAAGHog, I can't imagine anything more orky than this;

BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRT

**angelofvengeance**

I'm throwing my hat into the ring for this one with my Excelsior War-priest from WHQST (and if I can manage it, his Gryph-hound too) Just Vallejo primer and textured paint for the base if that's OK Para?

Proof:

**queen_annes_revenge**

Januine wrote:
I was sure that air fix always included the appropriate transfers in the box with the kit,no?

yeah they do, but nose art was a personal/crew thing and usually against regulations, so you rarely get pin ups or kill tallies on the transfers.

**TP^DC Deputy Manager**

Whoops. Forgot to post my proof!

Here you go: