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Welcome all to the 107th 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, keep an eye out for what comes From the Shadows -- A knife in the dark, camouflaged sniper, or any blow that your opponent will never see coming. Subtlety and deception should be the order of the day. Or go metaphysical; things live in the shadows... Frightening things. In the places between the lights is another world full of horrors and danger. Sometimes all of the above, as the warped cultist slinks out of the shadows to slip a knife in with the 3rd hand he shouldn’t naturally have.

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

I have a few assassins and bushwhackers to pick from. I'll see what I feel like working on the most. Currently Rebel snipers for Legion and Hawkeye for Crisis Protocol are at the top of my shortlist.

Guess I'm first. (I don't have hangovers because I don't drink, not even on newyears eve)
edit: GEIFEEERRRRRRR!!! AAAAAH

Well, decided to go with my kitbash.

It will be a Biovore, but not as spidery as its new version but with a proper tyra head, dunno what the spider thing is about, I don't like it.

Also been really focussing on the base this time, will ofcourse get more bulk to make the vore look like its standing over a nest.

Here's my proof pics;

The way of the ninja taught me to be sneaky and not give away my presence with flashy pictures.

True to this month's theme.

Everything in Kingdom Death comes from the shadows, especially a ninja. Black Friday Ninja Variant (like Loki?).

Well I figure one of this lot came from the shadows.


I saw gobert’s painted cluedo set on here and remembered that I had intended to do this at some point, so here goes. Mrs White has already been started but then I can’t enter more than 5 anyway.

Hmm, first thought for this month was some old Necromunda Delaque gangers, but appropriately enough, I can't find the sneaky little buggers. So instead I might paint some of these elves and skaven

I may do some more old Necromunda terrain. I acquired some more old bulkheads.

Cheers,

CB

Hello! I am a hobbiest painter looking to improve my socialization in the miniature painting community and try my hand at some friendly online compititions.

I am certianly a fourm noob, so my advanced apologies for any mistakes.

My entry for "From the Shadows" will be this Banshee bust from Loot Studios. Im thinking of trying out OSL and an airbrush to help fit the theme

I was actually at a bit of a loss for this one, since my Slaaneshis do it with the lights on and insist on their enemies seeing them coming - but moving swiftly on from that mental image, then I remembered I'd picked up that Battle For Eternia game a while back with all its expansions, including the perfect candidate, Shadow Weaver:



...and the Horde Wraiths, because I've got a couple weeks off this January so just one mini feels a bit lazy.

Nobody expects a bunch of miners to actually be GENESTEALER CULTISTS! I'll enter this Goliath Truck and some Neophyte Hybrids.

I'm back at it. From the shadows, more Kommandos:


Going to try to paint this guy like he's emerging from the dark, proppa sneaky like.

I literally have no idea whatsoever to do for this round…

Well, at the top of my list is the new Flesh Eater Courts box set. However, I am still very undecided on how to tackle the skin, and this gives me pause as I really want to do a nice job on them. Soooo… even though it fits perfectly, no can do…

That leaves, um, well got some deadwalker zombies I could build up and they might make good practice for FEC skintones. Failing that, could tackle the Vargskyr or maybe the Lictor I bought on a whim a couple of weeks back.

I’m feeling a bit lost

 XvArcanevX wrote:
I literally have no idea whatsoever to do for this round…

Well, at the top of my list is the new Flesh Eater Courts box set. However, I am still very undecided on how to tackle the skin, and this gives me pause as I really want to do a nice job on them. Soooo… even though it fits perfectly, no can do…

That leaves, um, well got some deadwalker zombies I could build up and they might make good practice for FEC skintones. Failing that, could tackle the Vargskyr or maybe the Lictor I bought on a whim a couple of weeks back.

I’m feeling a bit lost

Zombies to test skintones sounds good. Lictors are also very on-brand for the month. Do both, and see what you like best to enter.

I’m going to try to get the combi weapon LT and the VR leapers from the leviathan box done.

Nevelon wrote:

Zombies to test skintones sounds good. Lictors are also very on-brand for the month. Do both, and see what you like best to enter.

I’m going to try to get the combi weapon LT and the VR leapers from the leviathan box done.

Yeah I think you’re right… doing say 10 zombies should give me a good canvas to try out skintones for the ghouls. I think I’ll go with that. Cheers for the final push, I was having trouble committing there!

Look forward to seeing those VR Leapers… they’re great models! I’ll save my Lictor for another month I think… unless I get ahead of schedule!

I have some Escher gangers and also some eldar rangers to do, the rangers need stripping.

I'll have a think about it.

From the shadow of space mine came the space dwarves (who are technically humans) - Votann warriors for my Sagitaur I made in the previous month . I know there are only five models allowed, I will choose the best ones from the squad for the competition.

Well, I got this fella for Xmas in my nerds' secret santa, and I primed him with half a mind to do him last month before I actually stuck to my guns and finished what I'd previously started:

The Black Spectre is a literal being of living shadow, torn apart and reassembled by the energies of the apocalyptic Rent of the world of Carnevale.

I've got an entry that is probably appropriate for this month:

After all, they mostly come at night. Mostly.

Ere's my wip, only wip I'll probably give.

Base was done and basecoated, kitbash done (as best I can sculpting the openings with greenstuff I'm not that good at but whatev) to make the carpace look the way I wanted it (and yes I first looked if it would fit with the gun yes).

Started a bit with the bottom layer green. Gonna be groovy.

Xyabis wrote:
Hello! I am a hobbiest painter looking to improve my socialization in the miniature painting community and try my hand at some friendly online compititions.

I am certianly a fourm noob, so my advanced apologies for any mistakes.

My entry for "From the Shadows" will be this Banshee bust from Loot Studios. Im thinking of trying out OSL and an airbrush to help fit the theme

I've painted that miniature before! The full model is pretty cool but a little small for detail work. I'm looking forward to this one.

I did it again... I started painting a model on a whim, almost finished it, realized it would have actually fit this month's theme... and I don't have a proof photo

Shuffle, shuffle, groan….

Zombies emerge from the darkness…

I’ll paint 10 and pick the best 5

I'm in!



I'll be painting The Thin Man and these Black Eyed Children from Gangfight Games.

 KidCthulhu wrote:
I did it again... I started painting a model on a whim, almost finished it, realized it would have actually fit this month's theme... and I don't have a proof photo

Get in the habit of taking start pictures of everything. You have an older build pic you can use as proof? The pic itself doesn’t need to be from the first of the month, just to show where you started on the mini. There is a lot of trust here. The reason for proof pics is less about keeping people honest about doing everything in the month (although it does that job) but to help give people ideas, crossfire inspiration, and build community.

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On that note, I should post mine:


Standoff in the shadows.

Out of curiosity…and so I know in time for next months submission.

I know you can submit your entry photo assembled and primed, but does that include zenithal priming?

I will be doing a zenithal for next months so thought I’d ask rather than hazard a guess and get shot down in flames….

 XvArcanevX wrote:
Out of curiosity…and so I know in time for next months submission.

I know you can submit your entry photo assembled and primed, but does that include zenithal priming?

I will be doing a zenithal for next months so thought I’d ask rather than hazard a guess and get shot down in flames….

Yah, that’s fine. Nobody said your prime job needs to be uniform. Mine are often spotty as heck, but not in any controlled, intentional way.

 Nevelon wrote:

 XvArcanevX wrote:
Out of curiosity…and so I know in time for next months submission.

I know you can submit your entry photo assembled and primed, but does that include zenithal priming?

I will be doing a zenithal for next months so thought I’d ask rather than hazard a guess and get shot down in flames….

Yah, that’s fine. Nobody said your prime job needs to be uniform. Mine are often spotty as heck, but not in any controlled, intentional way.

Haha! Thanks for the heads up! Talking priming, I have used chaos black from a can and going to zenithal with mechanicus standard grey can over that tomorrow. Hopefully I don’t get too bad a ‘mottled’ effect as people seem to mention but my theory goes, if that happens, I can tidy it up with a dry brush of grey anyway…

Let’s see just how spectacularly wrong I am this time…lol

WIP






Used the original tower and bulkheads, and plastic card for the platforms. I have been adding bits to make a more 3D look.

Painting comes next.

Cheers,

CB

Welcome to the party Xyabis!

I'll be most likely painting Shadowheart from Baldur's Gate. NomNom Minis released their version two weeks ago and I had to have it. I'll post a proof picture when I get the model from a friend who is printing it.

Been lining up half a dozen prints for him and somehow more and more are emerging to the queue