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Welcome all to the 136th 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: From the Archives: Librarians, archivists, researchers, wizards, inquisitors, - or old classic minis from the vaults! Knock the dust off the old tomes and bring them to the light. Dig something up from the forbidden stacks.

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

Well, at the moment, I'm thinking more oldhammer. I have a metal terminator librarian that might do the trick, a classic Jokaero, but marines and eldar in the mix too. Pics to follow!

I have some metal Necrons en route from eBay, so I might do one of them... unless I force myself to bang out more metal Maurauders or those metal 80's Khorne Chaos Warriors I have waiting in the wings.

I’ve got 5 minis on deck, with an optional 6th if I change my mind. Probably pick the one I like the best to enter.

Tigurius - librarian.
Old RT chaplain. Be just and fear not.
2 deathwatch marines a sn old scout with a comically large rife. The 3 oldest things in my primed pile I need to knock the dust off and get painted.
Optional - old metal eldar warlock

I have options, but haven't decided yet what to do. I thought I did, but I'm not sure anymore. Might just take a week off and assemble stuff. See what I feel like doing.

 KidCthulhu wrote:
I have some metal Necrons en route from eBay, so I might do one of them... unless I force myself to bang out more metal Maurauders or those metal 80's Khorne Chaos Warriors I have waiting in the wings.

My Necrons came in today and they sent me the wrong blister (doesn't have the pose from the photo), so I have to send it back for the right one.

Would any minis from the assault on black Reach set be allowed? Not sure if those are old enough.


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I actually do have some older stuff I could try painting that is older than that (second edition) that I could also do if minis from assault on Black Reach aren't allowed.

Miniatures would probably be some old deaff copters or 2nd ed Space Marines.

The deaff copters were in rough shape when I got them but I fixed them up decently I think.

KidCthulhu wrote:

 KidCthulhu wrote:
I have some metal Necrons en route from eBay, so I might do one of them... unless I force myself to bang out more metal Maurauders or those metal 80's Khorne Chaos Warriors I have waiting in the wings.

My Necrons came in today and they sent me the wrong blister (doesn't have the pose from the photo), so I have to send it back for the right one.

Oof. That sucks.

Mrangryork wrote:Would any minis from the assault on black Reach set be allowed? Not sure if those are old enough.


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I actually do have some older stuff I could try painting that is older than that (second edition) that I could also do if minis from assault on Black Reach aren't allowed.

Miniatures would probably be some old deaff copters or 2nd ed Space Marines.

The deaff copters were in rough shape when I got them but I fixed them up decently I think.

Old is relative. AoBR was 5th, and we are about to go into 11th, so it should qualify.