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Welcome all to the 121st 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 the topic is: Space Marine. Our annual start of the competition. They come in many sizes and types. Loyal, traitor, colorful or camoflaged, clean or weathered, dead or alive. And not just GW’s take. Any future soldier that does the job across the galaxy from LV-426 to Klendathu. Check your gear and get ready to drop, it’s time to exterminate species!

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

I've been meaning to see how I feel about assembling and painting Epic sized models for a while. I don't have a set goal beyond that. Hopefully I'll end up with five painted Rhinos by the end of the month, but I'll settle for less if I'm not thrilled painting super tiny stuff.

Goal is to paint the captain, stretch is to have the pair of BGVs join him.

Well it's either going to be this...

Given that I nabbed this with the contest in mind when it came out.

Or, as I like to be awkward:

This is the way.

 inmygravenimage wrote:
This is the way.

This is the way.

I have a couple of ideas. The first is Generations:


going from the earlist RT days up to the Space Marine Heroes blind box. My other idea has to wait until I have time to pull stuff from the Closet of Shame.

Going old school:



Because while every other chapter had to wait until the 2010s or whatever to fly the friendly skies, the Mentor Legion had had these in their garage so long they'd already made stained glass window art of them in the Rogue Trader days:



Not an exact match of course, but good enough; despite the visible wings between the fuselage and engines I've decided it's a Stormtalon because I think it looks cooler and I want to use the modelled cockpit. Consequently, unlike most models which I glue together completely and leave trying to get my paintbrush into the difficult-to-reach bits as a problem for future me, this one's being done in sub-assemblies - partly so I can get at the cockpit and pilot, partly so I can spray the main fuselage and cockpit module separately because I don't want to be trying to paint smooth white over dark green.

Not much conversion this time, although the pilot's got Primaris shoulder pads since the rest of the body's going to be mostly obscured anyway, and I've used a bare head so I can try that facepaint look Nisk Ran-Thawll's rocking.

I finished this 2ed plastic in about two sittings:



He still needs his shoulder emblem and something on his base. I'm mostly using him to confirm the colors I want to use on the rest.

 Daia T'Nara wrote:

Because while every other chapter had to wait until the 2010s or whatever to fly the friendly skies, the Mentor Legion had had these in their garage so long they'd already made stained glass window art of them in the Rogue Trader

They were known for testing out experimental gear, so it tracks that they were using them early.

I swear I've had these queued up for months, JoshInJapan! I didn't steal your idea! Really!

 Pariah Press wrote:
I swear I've had these queued up for months, JoshInJapan! I didn't steal your idea! Really!

No worries. We can have our own little mini-comp.

My second possible entry-- Up Through The Ranks:


We'll follow the career of Brother As-Yet-UnNamed, from scout to assault marine (I don't have any unpainted tacticals) to Primaris to Lieutenant.

Just for the record, Mentor Legion were my return to the hobby faction after a 20 year hiatus. Bloody love some experimental space teachers!

Here we go again


Just need to decide on a Chapter

 JoshInJapan wrote:

 Pariah Press wrote:
I swear I've had these queued up for months, JoshInJapan! I didn't steal your idea! Really!

No worries. We can have our own little mini-comp.

You guys are making it real hard not to scrap my plans and dig into the pile of shame. I know I’ve got more RTB01s, and plenty of 2nd bolter huggers. Probably a whole 3rd marine loose in the bits box and some 7th tacs, HH Mk 4 and 6 on spure, plus some intercessors. But by the time I excavate the PoS and get them built and primed, it would be some time in April.

Hey everybody! It’s been a long time since I had time to paint for a challenge, so I’m really excited to throw my Titus in the ring!

phoenix89 wrote:
Hey everybody! It’s been a long time since I had time to paint for a challenge, so I’m really excited to throw my Titus in the ring!

The Codex does indeed support this action

 Nevelon wrote:

 JoshInJapan wrote:

 Pariah Press wrote:
I swear I've had these queued up for months, JoshInJapan! I didn't steal your idea! Really!

No worries. We can have our own little mini-comp.

You guys are making it real hard not to scrap my plans and dig into the pile of shame. I know I’ve got more RTB01s, and plenty of 2nd bolter huggers. Probably a whole 3rd marine loose in the bits box and some 7th tacs, HH Mk 4 and 6 on spure, plus some intercessors. But by the time I excavate the PoS and get them built and primed, it would be some time in April.

Hey, don't be shy. Everyone is welcome in our little mini-comp! Besides, digging though the PoS is one of the most enjoyable parts of the hobby for old guys like us!

I was trying to decide what Marines to paint when I happened to be going through my Blackstone Fortress box and realised I need to paint the Plague Marines:



And a few hours later:

 Jadenim wrote:
I was trying to decide what Marines to paint when I happened to be going through my Blackstone Fortress box and realised I need to paint the Plague Marines:



And a few hours later:

Dude, that rust is top notch. What is your secret?

I'll go ahead and enter these guys:

These will help with my goal of finishing the Leviathan box set models, and they shouldn't be super difficult to paint. Contrast paint ftw!

 JoshInJapan wrote:

 Jadenim wrote:
I was trying to decide what Marines to paint when I happened to be going through my Blackstone Fortress box and realised I need to paint the Plague Marines:



And a few hours later:

Dude, that rust is top notch. What is your secret?

Basic gunmetal metallic, Typhus corrosion technical and then dry brush with a bright orange. And yes, I’m very pleased with how such a simple method gives such a great result!

"Brother-Techmarine, how can it be that flight prep for our chapter's mighty Stormtalon requires this two-by-four to be shoved up my freckle?"
"It is not for us to question the wisdom of the Omnissiah, Brother-pilot."

I will continue my annual protest.

Although I am out of dead Marines to place on bases...no more Eldar, Orks, Sisters, or Imperial Guard to paint.

So terrain it is. A second kit of three containers with crates and barrels.



Do you hear the painters sing?
Singing the song of angry artists
It is the music of the painters
Who will not paint marines again!
When the tapping of your brush
Echoes the beating of the jars
There is art about to start
When tomorrow comes!

Will you join in our crusade?
Who will be strong and stand with me?
Beyond those Space Marines
Are there other models you long to see?


Cheers,

CB

 Captain Brown wrote:
I will continue my annual protest.

Although I am out of dead Marines to place on bases...no more Eldar, Orks, Sisters, or Imperial Guard to paint.

So terrain it is. A second kit of three containers with crates and barrels.



Do you hear the painters sing?
Singing the song of angry artists
It is the music of the painters
Who will not paint marines again!
When the tapping of your brush
Echoes the beating of the jars
There is art about to start
When tomorrow comes!

Will you join in our crusade?
Who will be strong and stand with me?
Beyond those Space Marines
Are there other models you long to see?


Cheers,

CB

Maybe I should paint some Eldar in your stead, then?

I've got a load of RT/2nd edition Fire Dragons I've been meaning to paint for ages, that I actually almost completed a couple of test models for last month. One of the schemes is in the style of (or a poor imitation of) Hendarion's old Fire Dragons, and I'm pretty pleased with it, even if it's not up to his standard.

Then again, I've still got a ton of Raven Guard yet to paint...

I'll get in on this action lol.



Gonna be my hipster self and do some classic Grenadier 1983 Imperial Marines in Battle Dress...who happen to be in space

I've been playing MegaTraveller 1 alot lately and am in the mood...

Second Marine finished apart from his base, third one started:

I can’t see anything suitable for this month lying around so I’m just going to paint up this old Harlie DJ

Looks like the revolution is forming up on the barricades again this year…

 Nevelon wrote:
Looks like the revolution is forming up on the barricades again this year…

Vive la révolution!

If I do revolt, it will be with some of these...

For those who are new to the challenge, we do have a protest group who likes to paint Eldar every year. We’ve not been able to stamp them out, so just need to accept them.

I can’t officially condone them, but if you don’t have marines to paint, and want to join the revolutionary faction, just be prepared to have to sing rebel anthems while you paint your space elfs.