Dakka Painting Challenge Round 98 April 2023: Doomsday

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**Nevelon**

Welcome all to the 98th 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, we are prepping for Doomsday: The end is nigh! Whether a crazed cultist prophesising the end of the world, or a vicious warlock ready to commit such acts themselves, your entry should be themed around an apocalpytic event, either one to come, one that has already happened or one that will occur as soon as your entry opens fire!

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

**Leopold Helveine**

Here's what I'm going to enter with first proof pic added.

Name: Belok the Ork devil.
Type: kitbash between daemon prince and loads of Ork bits.

Background story: (long read)

Spoiler:

Proof pic:

**CancelledApocalypse**

So, after discussions in the previous month's thread, I've decided Eldar is okay for this challenge, however I now realise that exodites are even better - they were fleeing the Eldar apocalypse, after all.

My entry this month is going to be a model I started converting four or five years ago, but never got round to finishing because I couldn't work out how to do it. It's Astreia Solbright's dracoline with a kitbashed/converted rider - I love the dracolines in the Stormcast range, and really wanted to add them to my Exodite project, so here she is: Anand Starfall, the Ash Queen of the Exodites, riding Aedh the dracoline.

Anand herself is going to be painted with a dark green coat, white armour and red accents, but I have no idea what colours to paint the dracoline... I'm open to any suggestions if people have any? I have a vague idea that I want him to be forest-y colours (or, at least, he wouldn't seem out of place amongst trees) as he would be a forest dweller in my lore and she would originally be from a forest clan before ascending to queendom... but beyond that I have no idea. Help would be very welcome!

**Geifer**

I have a rules question. I was thinking of painting Anakin, but Anakin's basecoat and his base's basecoat aren't the same color. Is this allowed? I did that a year and a half ago when I prepped a batch of models. Never thought at the time that it might get in the way of anything.

**Nevelon**

Geifer wrote:
I have a rules question. I was thinking of painting Anakin, but Anakin's basecoat and his base's basecoat aren't the same color. Is this allowed? I did that a year and a half ago when I prepped a batch of models. Never thought at the time that it might get in the way of anything.

You are fine.

**Daia T'Nara**

Say hello to Sister Verity, keeper of the Domesday Book of Slaanesh, which like the real one is actually a census rather than a foretelling of the end of everything - in this case, the book knows everyone's deepest darkest fantasies, which Verity shouts out at the top of her lungs mid-battle, because there's nothing for making infantrymen question whether they're really ready to lay down their lives for their CO like hearing how he's got a secret stash of Ork porn. Plus Verity's daemonette-lectern-amplifier, so everyone down the back can hear her clearly.

Actually bought that Dialogus last year for the 'helpers' topic, but didn't really develop a solid idea for how to convert her, so the Warpsmith got all the attention back then.

**Geifer**

Nevelon wrote:

Spoiler:

Geifer wrote:
I have a rules question. I was thinking of painting Anakin, but Anakin's basecoat and his base's basecoat aren't the same color. Is this allowed? I did that a year and a half ago when I prepped a batch of models. Never thought at the time that it might get in the way of anything.

You are fine.

Thank you! In that case consider that my proof picture, please.

Hopefully he'll finally see some paint after all this time.

**Nevelon**

Death to the false emperor!
Glory to the four-armed Emperor!
...

Wait, am I at the wrong riot?
You here you overthrow the corrupt government and welcome our saviors from beyond the stars?
Well, from beyond reality from the warp, but basically the same.
Cool! After we are done burning down the governor’s palace, come on over to the lair, we have grenades and cupcakes.
Sounds like a plan!

--

So from past months of GW’s free minis, I’ve got a chaos cultists and a GSC acolyte. Time to get the out of the PoS and onto the streets. That society won’t tear itself down for our uncaring masters.

**Gulgog TufToof**

CancelledApoc - that is a fantastic conversion

Daia- no need to keep it secret, make the stash a gallery here on Dakka like the rest of us

**JamesY**

Maybe over the next couple of weeks I'll be able to get one model finished...

Praetor of the Sons of Horus. Bringer of Doom.

**CancelledApocalypse**

Gulgog TufToof wrote:
CancelledApoc - that is a fantastic conversion

Thanks Gulgog! Any suggestions for colouring for the dracoline?

**Nevelon**

CancelledApocalypse wrote:
Gulgog TufToof wrote:
CancelledApoc - that is a fantastic conversion

Thanks Gulgog! Any suggestions for colouring for the dracoline?

You might want to go with tiger stripes, if not tiger colors. They are orange because many animals can’t tell the difference between orange/green. This may or may not hold true on other planets/ecosystems.

But if you go green tiger, you get battlecat, which may or may not be a bad thing.

**CancelledApocalypse**

lol, I don't think I want to make my Exodites into a MotU faction...

Orange is an interesting idea, though. Maybe more towards the brown or yellow end, with a white underbelly and black/dark grey scales/spikes... hmmm...

**youwashock**

However it gets painted, that Exodite model is going to rock.

Jumping in with a model I have been thinking more about painting lately. The Apocalypse from The Others. Picked him up cheap at a game swap meet.

**theCrowe**

He wields a heavy book and wears the robes of a religious order. Of course he digs a bit of doom and apocalyptic fear.

“The denizens of the underworld are arising, bringing anguish and terrible lingering un-death! I should know I’ve been down there! I’ve seen ‘em! The end is indeed nearer than you think! Just below your own running feet.”

**ShadowsAndDust**

Here's my proof picture for the Avatar of Khaine.

**Captain Brown**

This is going to be a hard one for me...maybe combine some things together.

Doom of the Eldar or something...because I have a second Dark Reaper Exarch conversion to do.

CB

**JoshInJapan**

I'm in, of course, but I haven't decided which models I should paint. I put up a poll on my P&M blog, so if you have a moment take a look and help me decide!

**Pariah Press**

Crazed cultist, you say? How about this redemptionist?

**Daia T'Nara**

Gulgog TufToof wrote:
Daia- no need to keep it secret, make the stash a gallery here on Dakka like the rest of us

I don't want to start painting them until the Really Very Regrettable Life Choices painting contest rolls around.

Revised proof pic, because I just undercoated these other two - Verity and her lectern are still the focus this month, but chaos being naturally blessed with doomsdayness anything could really qualify, and I feel like these make a nice group together.

**Leopold Helveine**

Holy heck there's alot of really promising competition this challenge.

Its almost as if its doomsday and you're all desperate to shine one last time

**Nevelon**

Daia T'Nara wrote:

I don't want to start painting them until the Really Very Regrettable Life Choices painting contest rolls around.

Noted on the idea file.

Might need to be broadened up a bit, “Poor choice” or "Mistakes were made” “Bad Call’. Many times people are in a bad situation, often due to their own poor choices etc etc...

**ZergSmasher**

Gonna really go with a blast from the past on multiple levels. Anybody remember the Assassinorum: Execution Force boxed game GW made as a way to sell their new Assassin models? Back in 2015 I think? I realized that I still had some unpainted models from that set, those being the Chaos Sorcerer Lord, his familiar and the three push-fit Chaos Marines. I used to play Chaos Space Marines but don't anymore (no, Dark Angels don't count, they are the most loyal Marines of all), so this will be the first time in a while that I've painted any of those. Here's the proof pic:

This fits the theme very well because in that game, the Sorcerer is performing a ritual that will destroy an entire star system (doomsday indeed). The familiar is the game marker that counts down the time until the ritual completes and it's game over for the billions of Imperial citizens living in that system. And the Chaos Marines are the most formidable enemies trying to prevent those pesky Assassins from stopping their lord doing his wicked work. This will be a fun little side project, I think; just don't tell the Inquisition!

**CancelledApocalypse**

Nevelon wrote:
Daia T'Nara wrote:

I don't want to start painting them until the Really Very Regrettable Life Choices painting contest rolls around.

Noted on the idea file.

Might need to be broadened up a bit, “Poor choice” or "Mistakes were made” “Bad Call’. Many times people are in a bad situation, often due to their own poor choices etc etc...

Love the "mistakes were made" title. I can just imagine a guardsman lying on the ground as a carnifex towers over them, then the obligatory *record scratch* *freeze frame* "Yup, that's me. I bet you're wondering how I got myself into this situation..."

ShadowsAndDust wrote:
Here's my proof picture for the Avatar of Khaine.

Holy heck am I looking forward to this! You're a braver human than I am, taking that challenge on! I tip my imaginary hat to you and wish you the best of luck.

**Maharg**

Chaos seems to fit the Doomsday theme pretty well, so I'll go with some of these

**Geifer**

Hmm, I'm having second thoughts. We all seem to be in agreement that this month's theme of Ascension Day lends itself to particular individuals and I'm kind of getting in the mood. I might just switch to a different entry.

On a positive note, there's always a second chance for Anakin if we get the recently discussed Mistakes Were Made as a topic.

What to do, what to do...

**inmygravenimage**

So, Carnevale is all apocalyptic doom in Venice, so here's my swarm of Guild as proof:

Automatically Appended Next Post:
I'll do the lot and favourite five will go in.

**Geifer**

For the time being I have a really good feeling about Kaboom Girl, so I'm going to try and paint her.

And to preemptively address the inevitable rumors, she is definitely not crazy, undoubtedly not a cultist and most assuredly not trying to bring about the end of the world. That's just Imperial propaganda. Her job is to provide fireworks on Ascension Day. Because everybody loves fireworks!

**XvArcanevX**

My entry for the first time in this community event is…..

A Chaos Lord (with custom head)

This is exciting!

**inmygravenimage**

Huh. 3 down.

The Duke and Zorena. She's a firestarter

And, for the Guild, the Capodocina:

The boss. Absolutely murderous.

Love a cape.

Quite a few to go

Graven