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Welcome all to the 104th 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 is our annual Halloween Special. Spooks, spirits, ghost, goblins, monsters, kids dressed up trick-or-treating, costumes. Pumpkins and changing leaves. It’s spooky time here in the painting challenge, so break out the pumpkin spice flavored paint and get with the season!

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

Tomboy: "I don't know what's scarier. The zombie apocalypse or that we let the teenage trainee run around with guns and a chainsaw."
SS: "Eh. At least she's no longer stoned."

There're a few scary freaks of various sorts about the place - the last free mini of the month turned into a daemonette with hormagaunt limbs, and there's that Terminator champion with tank treads - but I didn't want to pick just something I was going to paint anyway. I was thinking of getting one of the new set of blind-boxed marines and painting it up as Legion of the Damned, but turns out they're not being sold in GW stores (interesting choice) and I couldn't be bothered going to find wherever they are, so I started having a think about alternatives, and honestly I wound up liking this idea better (it's more me anyway): Order of the Damned.



(They're probably not actually called that, I doubt Sororitas would call themselves 'damned' even if they are undead, but I'll have a think about lore later on.)

Right o, Vampires it is!

So we have the keel of Schooner, which may or may not get built as a backdrop, Gypsy, Rotters, leeches and a ferry-person. 5 from that lot, probably.

Going to try to get these vamps done.

I'm going to skip this month as I need a bit of a break and I don't have something spooky immediately to hand.

Good luck everyone!

I’ll he painting those buck-toothed cosmic horrors, the tyranids.

In with the larger Gwenom print.

YouWasShock… that thing looks badass!

I am very happy to be using this months theme to get to half of the Royal Beastflayer box set; an exciting addition to my FEC army (which is growing slowly but steadily)

These sculpts are super interesting from a lore point of view and to say I am keen to see them lined up next to my other ghouls is an understatement. Hopefully I do the little fellas justice!

Lots of spooky stuff, so far.

I'll be painting the Candlejacks for Frostgrave:

And now that it's October, I can finally start working on Hopkin HeldenFuss-Halfling Witch Hunter:



(plus his faithful hound and his current quarry)

Hmm, can't think of anything traditionally spooky this time, so I might go with the halloween dressing up in costumes approach - some Marvel superheroes

Think I'll try to paint up this crocodile games nekharu witch master.

Day one and this thread is already jam-packed with jaw-dropping, mind-blowing stuff! Halloween really is the best holiday of the year.

I will try to do some more clowns.



Cheers,

CB

Darn, hoped for the theme be something that will let me finish the squats.
Last of the heroes left from the (Blackstone Fortress) box then, the Pumpkin Kroot.

What’s Halloween without ghouls and goblins:

Sigh, was going to pass this month due to too much everything and backlog pileofcitiesofsigmarshame on the table but..
but.. I.. I..

I cannot pass up on a special

I did still have unopened harlequin packs laying around, among which two death jesters..
I guess I can do a death jester for samhain.

I'll even try sculpting a pumpkin from greenstuff -_-

prooky pic;

I would love to enter the new Gorgers but I doubt they will be here in time to paint them.
So instead I will paint my Royal Beastflayers and the King in order to make room for the Gorgers and the CoS Hunters.

I hope i paint them all by the end of the month but I'm not sure I can so I will pick 4-5 from the ones I have ready at the end of the month as my entry.
Also it seems I am on a similar journey as XvArcanevXMade. I haven't seen a lot of painted Beastflayers so I am looking forward to see more!

A bit of progress on the Rotters and Leeches


Just blocking in base colours, but it's a start.

 straken619 wrote:
I would love to enter the new Gorgers but I doubt they will be here in time to paint them.
So instead I will paint my Royal Beastflayers and the King in order to make room for the Gorgers and the CoS Hunters.

I hope i paint them all by the end of the month but I'm not sure I can so I will pick 4-5 from the ones I have ready at the end of the month as my entry.
Also it seems I am on a similar journey as XvArcanevXMade. I haven't seen a lot of painted Beastflayers so I am looking forward to see more!

Looks like we are on similar paths my friend. I, however, am already putting obstacles in my own way by not having the good sense to build the Royal Flaymaster in a subassembly

Anyway… it is going to be pretty sweet comparing notes!

I was thinking I might have to skip this one but then my latest project (Tonks!) got enthused by a bout of inspiration from my Halloween-loving son. So assuming I can put this think together in time this month I’ll be building and painting a possessed-flaming skull launching pumpkin tank!

If Spirit Halloween made a suit of powered armor it would look like this guy.



I wonder how Khorne feels about chrome.

It's the season of fright, so it shouldn't be surprising, but so early in the month I've already made frightening progress. I'm thinking of converting some zombies with the time that leaves me, and add them to my entry. Can't have a zombie apocalypse without zombies, right?

I'm already getting frustrated with some of my model choices and might swap some out.

This is why I take photos of just about every miniature I own before I start painting...


Automatically Appended Next Post:
Okay, here's some more Halloween WIPs. I will take the actually completed best five models:





Wish me luck!

Good luck!

Here's a samhain story..

Once upon a thyme, there was this y'olde gent, his fingers soaked in glue, his neck kept forewardth bent.
His eyes were reddish hue, that darnest orange lamp.. did gleam his guise pretend a smile where gloom was yet present.

Death Jester was his trial, a gun arm stiff and floppy cape and toss across the room he staked were discipline not so..
That Jest had met that throw..

Now spoopy autumn would demand that rather than a hissy fit. contender Leo would admit his troubles through a rhyme.

And as dutch sayings go; shared pain halves pain, I'll have something to show;
https://www.reddit.com/r/Harlequins40K/comments/ya8ji3/i_feel_so_bad_for_whoever_designed_the_death/
(apparently I'm not the only one who's tearing out hairs at this point)

Huh, it's been so long since I finished my Death Jester but I don't remember having any assembly issues

We're talking about the plastic one, right?

May I present Sister Superior Ardere of the Martyred Order:






Painting speed's got a boost now I've 100%ed Lego City Undercover. I was originally going to go full Legion of the Damned with bones painted on the armour and flames on the cloak and sleeves, but I was trying to think of something to do with the weapons and remembered JoshInJapan's Burning Men from a couple of contests back, and after doing those and the Object Sourced Messy Drybrushing I kind of liked it as-is. Gave her a little motto on her backpack just to carry through a little of the retro Legion of the Damned style.

That's pretty sweet!