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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.

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

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

Thanks guys!

The sculpt itself is mostly to thank for the speed, as it allowed for interesting volumes.
Sketching was done using an airbrush to get the main colors in place (actually the jacket was left to it's "sketching stage").
Then all the areas were very quickly glazed over with various tones and the metallics refined with very broad brush strokes and quite thick paint. A few white / orange dots and edge highlights for reflections in key areas.
The embroidery and buttons on the clothing took the longest, as I had to slow down a bit to get the paint where it needed to be.

Really fun experiment and a stress free project, where I did not have to worry about color transitions or making everything smooth
It really is quite rough up close haha.

 Ezki wrote:

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

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

Thanks guys!

The sculpt itself is mostly to thank for the speed, as it allowed for interesting volumes.
Sketching was done using an airbrush to get the main colors in place (actually the jacket was left to it's "sketching stage").
Then all the areas were very quickly glazed over with various tones and the metallics refined with very broad brush strokes and quite thick paint. A few white / orange dots and edge highlights for reflections in key areas.
The embroidery and buttons on the clothing took the longest, as I had to slow down a bit to get the paint where it needed to be.

Really fun experiment and a stress free project, where I did not have to worry about color transitions or making everything smooth
It really is quite rough up close haha.

W is a W
It looks good!
I wonder...a possible color scheme for an army?
I always wanted to turn a day-project into a day-army-project.

I ask because I saw this very tempting speedpaint example. A lot of heavy lifting in this case is done by the blood effects but still. Can your example apply for an army, and look good, and be time efficient?

 Mothsniper wrote:

I wonder...a possible color scheme for an army?
I always wanted to turn a day-project into a day-army-project.

I ask because I saw this very tempting speedpaint example. A lot of heavy lifting in this case is done by the blood effects but still. Can your example apply for an army, and look good, and be time efficient?

Not a bad idea at all. Could be an interesting project.
After all, many armies look very cool with a simplified, yet impactful color schemes.

I've done half a kill team with that approach (random colors from my palette from the previous night, broad strokes etc.) and those are some of my favorite tabletop minis. Roughly 20-30 minutes per guy, but even that would be too much in an army scale.

Awesome.
Any shortcut to save time for is always of value.
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Progress.
There will be rivets. In memory of the (The League of Extraordinary Riveters)
https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/30/804229.page#11787981

Mmmmm... Rivets!

I try to make sure a few LoER friendly topics get included in the polls. They don’t always win, but I try to keep the spark alive.

Nearly halfway through the month?! Better get some paint on this thing!

Aaaaaaaargh

Yeah, November is way shorter than I remembered it to be. I've put steady work into Lysander, but it looks like I might benefit from upping the pace a little.

He's one of those models where painting him after full assembly counts as a bad life choice. Luckily I'm all about playing life on hard mode.

Daia T'Nara - Brother Gatekeeper





Originally from the Flesh Tearers, on extended loan to the Eagle Warriors to satisfy an honour debt, and they were only too happy to 'volunteer' him for the Empyrean Crusade because even for a Flesh Tearer he's difficult. Did not appreciate being upgraded from a Boxnought to a Redemptor the most recent time he took catastrophic damage, and only stopped shooting servitors when they promised not to cover up his sarcophagus. Shot the chainfist off the War Dog that destroyed his power fist, and forced the nearest techmarine to attach it to him, despite it not having been properly sanctified; he said he'd sanctify it by pushing it through the head of the next heretic he saw, and if the techmarine kept arguing he'd consider that heretical enough to count. Keeps insisting "everything was better in the 90s" and refuses to explain what that means.

First time doing a painting competition on this forum can’t wait to see everyone else’s entrys

 Katzzone wrote:
First time doing a painting competition on this forum can’t wait to see everyone else’s entrys

Welcome to dakka and the painting comp!

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You guys who are already done are making the rest of us look bad. And we don’t need the help! Learn to procrastinate. Month is a bit shy of halfway over, so plan accordingly. As we head into the holiday season time has a habit of becoming unstuck. One day it’s early November, the next you have a crippling hangover, it’s mid January, and you have no clue what happened. As a reminder there is no vote for December; it’s out annual open round.

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Started with the basecoats on the eldar spirit seer. Red and black down, slow progress but I’ve picked an entry and started.

To get close to the theme, I am going to make another Eldar base terrain. Second one like this:


Cheers,

CB

Ok,had no clue what to do for this challenge until I was at Daiso and came across a couple of these guys. Good for constructing a base or tearing it down I reckon. I already have a couple standard versions of these so I think I am going to do some converting for the new ones.

Got my entry built and started painting. Pretty much finished the fish, so at least I'll definitely have something done by the end of the month and started on the bases of the rest of them

He's one of those models where painting him after full assembly counts as a bad life choice. Luckily I'm all about playing life on hard mode.

I think I'm going to have the same problem with my entry. I'm already regretting gluing the crab to the base as it's tricky getting to the base and its legs. And I'm really not looking forward to getting at the leader's cloak...

Have the conversion work done for the first one. Did some crafting and cutting and now have a crane. The weather was nice so I took the opportunity to prime it. Time to get working on converting the second one.

Well this month has posed a challenge, or rather, I posed one to myself with the Shatterpoint deluxe I Am No Jedi diorama set.

Yes, more scratch builds!
@ Maharg - Love the table

Progress

I think I'll work on some kroot. Those krootox riders have large bases to get a bit more creative with.

Deathblow class heavy droid