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Welcome all to the 125th 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: Sidekicks - Hirelings, henchmen, pets. Loyal butlers, assistants, minions. They support others, always ready to lend a hand in times of need.

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

I haven't painted a Crisis Protocol model in a while so I was thinking of painting Thanos's favorite henchcyborg.



I had to add some load bearing smoke to the model. Her entire weight is attached to the jet engine by some tiny, maybe 1mm by 2mm plastic connection. The thing gave me Vietnam flashbacks during assembly, and I've never even been to Vietnam.

I hate micro-thin attachment points. especially load bearing ones. It never ends well.



So someone needs to keep the shambling hordes running while the vampires are off being noble and brooding and crap. Enter the Wight King on foot. Not important enough for a steed of their own. Just a humble foot character to support the big fang crew who’s out hogging glory.
Also some animal friends. See if we can get this thing going like a morbid Disney musical number.
Stretch goal will be more assorted CC critters and/or some Dire Wolves.

A sidekick with a sidekick: Apothecary Brother Cholet with his Medi-CAT, which I built out of odds and ends I had lying around.

 Nevelon wrote:
I hate micro-thin attachment points. especially load bearing ones. It never ends well.

Definitely. I suppose really dumb ones like the one on Nebula are at least so obvious that you do something about them right from the start instead of waiting for the inevitable mess of fixing them halfway through painting. So I guess it could be worse. Would be nice if sculptors thought better of making models like that begin with, though.

I might actually have a couple of models that are not terrain...just acquired two old metal Eschers.

Cheers,

CB

This month I'm going to a stack of extremely kickable gnoblars

I got excited, and started painting their bases whilst I was doing other BB stuff.

Hope that's OK.

Gangers and Juves are sidekicks, yes? The leader is clearly not a sidekick but might also get some paint if he's lucky.

I present the ultimate sidekick, Samwise Gamgee!

 bantha_beast wrote:
Gangers and Juves are sidekicks, yes? The leader is clearly not a sidekick but might also get some paint if he's lucky.

I think they are.



Cheers,

CB