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Welcome all to the 129th 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 topic is All Your Base Are Belong to Us - A model with an extravagant base. Or a model that is part of a military base or is adept at infiltrating or destroying such bases. It could also be a model of a conqueror such as Genghis Khan or even Julius Caesar who once declared "I came, I saw, all their base are belong to me!" - or something along those lines. Noise Marines or other units armed with sonic weapons are also acceptable entries since all your bass are belong to them. Also models with high pH’s. You could also do a price of terrain to act as a base (preferably with rivets and found objects)

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

Is it fortress smashing time? It's fortress smashing time, isn't it? I think it's fortress smashing time!

Not the most impressive base visually, although I'll do what I can with whichever craftworld colour scheme I end up deciding on (the dread will be Flesh Tearers), but between the solid mound of milliput and the war walker being one of the old metal ones, it is heavy.

(Edit: the walker will be Alai Mercenary Corps.)

For my many, many sins, I am going to attempt to paint the I Am No Jedi diorama this month:

Vader vs Ahsoka on honking great base.

Thoughts and prayers, please

 inmygravenimage wrote:
For my many, many sins, I am going to attempt to paint the I Am No Jedi diorama this month:

Spoiler:

Vader vs Ahsoka on honking great base.

Thoughts and prayers, please

Oh, I'm looking forward to seeing it all painted up. Good luck.

I'll be painting this Deathblow class heavy droid from Citadel's rare and short-lived Slocombe's Warbots range. To make it fit this month's theme, I decorated the mini's base much more than I normally do.

When you need to infiltrate a rebel base deep in the jungle, who will you call in? Naturally, you'd call Major "Dutch" Schaefer and his elite paramilitary rescue team! Sadly, I don't own those models, but I have something almost as good-- the original Catachan Jungle Fighters:

One of these guys. Haven’t decided yet

You have one up on me, Nev; I have no clue what to enter

Throwing my hat in the ring!
... And actually managed to finish already.



For once I did a quick project, which took less than one month to get finished.
A lot less actually; I primed the model on Sunday afternoon and finished it the same day (or rather, the next night at 3am).

The model in question is the Artillery Witch Bust from Trench Crusade. It is based on the artwork of Mike Franchina (in spoilers).
I think it fits the theme quite well, as there will not be much left of your base when she arrives to the scene.


Here's the proof (with a zenithal coat):



And the finished pictures:
Artillery Witch


The model was painted without any metallic paints, but I wanted to make the NMM effect look like it was painted with true metallics.
Instead of blending, I wanted to tackle the piece in more "sketch-like" approach with interesting volumes and high contrast.

Wow Ezki, I'd have been impressed if you said you'd slaved away all month on that, but one day?!


I've been struggling to come up with something for this, best I've got so far is 'all your bass are belong to us' with these fish elves

 Ezki wrote:
Throwing my hat in the ring!
... And actually managed to finish already.



For once I did a quick project, which took less than one month to get finished.
A lot less actually; I primed the model on Sunday afternoon and finished it the same day (or rather, the next night at 3am).

The model in question is the Artillery Witch Bust from Trench Crusade. It is based on the artwork of Mike Franchina (in spoilers).
I think it fits the theme quite well, as there will not be much left of your base when she arrives to the scene.

Spoiler:

Here's the proof (with a zenithal coat):



And the finished pictures:
Artillery Witch


The model was painted without any metallic paints, but I wanted to make the NMM effect look like it was painted with true metallics.
Instead of blending, I wanted to tackle the piece in more "sketch-like" approach with interesting volumes and high contrast.

Absolutely Epic!
And I love those quick projects that get done in a day. Glad you could join.


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The only thing that fits the theme for me are the cannons. Cannons that have not been resin-cast yet.
4 Dwarf cannons with crew.
https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/150/780044.page#11773033





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This is the plan, to make base terrain for the cannons.