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Welcome all to the 86th 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 theme is Reborn, Remade: From constructs forged from scrap metal to Space Marines enhanced by age-old genetic modification, many creatures find themselves remade to better serve their masters or achieve their goals. Your entry should feature such creatures as have been altered in some way to improve, evolve or develop beyond their original forms.


How To Enter

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



List of entrants:

Hairesy: Raven Guard Sgt.


Mothsniper: Bulldog mechs


theCrowe: Ghost warrior


Freya: Horathuin, War God


Graphite: Dakkabot


Jadenim: Thousand Sons Contemptor Dreadnought


Captain Brown: Necromunda Redemptionists



KidCthulhu: Moto Tsume


MrNobody: Stompa


Geifer: Darth Vader


Pariah Press: Zentraedi Regult Tactical Battle Pods



Arakasi:Trukk Rokkit Launcha:


SmallChanges: Chaos Lord


Nevelon: Ultramarine Captain


Viterbi: Jules, the Living Saint


JoshinJapan: Zombie Horde


Turaxa: Noise Marine


TheLastTemplar: Black Templars squad


DV8: Captain America


vejut: Undead


ZergSmasher: Stormcast Vindicators


SergeantSilver: Assault Marine Squad


Midget Gems: Ork Warcopta


Maharg: Bonereaper


Tallandra: Crimson Fists Dreadnought



Flinty: Raygun Raptors


Rybrook: Cypher


TooFast: Black Templars Dreadnought

Reborn in plastic, a classic captain will once more lead his troops into battle!

I have Lord Cypher to do, with a modified lion sword.
Will edit with pictures when I get back from Türkiye.

Right back in Blighty, here is Lord Cypher carrying the Lion sword, looking for absolution and forgiveness from the emperor of mankind.

Going to do some old metal Necromunda Redemptionists.



Reborn and remade in the fires of their renewed faith.

Cheers,

CB

I'm going to paint this dude who was in a workplace accident and had some surgery to fix him.

Twice reborn, first as a Space Marine and then as a Dreadnought:


Had this guy gathering dust for a looong time now, got it when Dreadnoughts were still sold as Cybots here. Needs some touching up, but I'm still mostly happy with the conversion I did ~15 years ago.

How about a Chaos Lord, first remade by the Emperor's science as a Space Marine, then remade by the fell powers...?

Hmm, most of my stuff slots in nicely here, I'm thinking something from the dark mechanicus should fit the bill.

Probably this guy, but a little dog around may change that...



Also, hopefully not such a terrible paint job this time around

Here is my entry for this month: a Alpha Legion contemptor.

 SmallChanges wrote:
How about a Chaos Lord, first remade by the Emperor's science as a Space Marine, then remade by the fell powers...?

What is the base model there? I don't recognise it (and it looks cool!)

I have two options this month; my first thought was the recently purchased Thousand Sons Contemptor (shakes fist in defiance at FW last chance to buy!):



But then I suddenly realised I recently got something else reborn, straight from the nostalgia of my childhood, the HeroQuest heroes:



I'll see how the month takes me as to which I decide to enter.

Life was simple in the time before. You were born, lived your life, and then you died. Now, after you die, you come back.

I've been on a zombie apocalypse kick recently, so I'll be painting up these zombies from Project:Z this month. I plan to finish them all, and submit the best five for consideration.

Proof:

Same proof pic as for the mouslings. Turned out I haz 2 IMEF Bulldogs and will work on those.

Going to try to get all six of these guys done this month, and then pick which ones come out decent:


Oathsworn Undead for badgers and burrows, dead critters reborn into unholy life...

Am kinda tempted to join you in doing some IMEF Bulldogs or mouse marines though Mothsniper...

Cloned and biogenetically grown to 30 feet or more in size by the Robotech Masters, surely the Zentraedi qualify for this challenge. I'll paint some of their Regult battlepods this month:

 Jadenim wrote:

 SmallChanges wrote:
How about a Chaos Lord, first remade by the Emperor's science as a Space Marine, then remade by the fell powers...?

What is the base model there? I don't recognise it (and it looks cool!)

Thanks - as a spur-of-the-moment conversion, I'm happy with how it came together. Hopefully it will be easier to see once it's painted up, but it's based off of the Blackstone Fortress Chaos Lord, with backpack and axe from the Master of Executions, lightning claw from a Possessed (the older kit) and a Corpse Grinder Cult head.

Airbrush really speeds up the process.

In an unusual move for me, I've made some early progress (which should help you see the model better Jadenim).

I was thinking maybe I’d skip this one but since I see a few folks interpreting the theme toward the undead I’ve decided I’ll jump in with this fella.



Bit of a putty monster right now. I made him for an anthro animal ghost-type fella. Fox-ghost w with solid looking weapons… not sure how I’ll go with the paint.

I am going enter a Raven Guard Legion HQ dude, plus four guys from a Legion Tactical Squad. I'm going to batch paint 11 models but only the HQ and four other guys will be entered, most if not all of the four should be my own custom Mk5 power armour made from the appropriate bits, GS, and a lot of drilling. These guys are all in one coat of black after black primer.

These Raven Guard are survivors of Istvaan V, so they have been reborn and remade in the aftermath of that tragedy. Hence the Mk5 armour, which in itself is power armour reborn and remade in the fires of battle. The Mk6 suit worn by the commander is a prototype as well, signaling yet more rebirth and remaking goodness. Also I chopped up his power sword and made it bigger so, bam, remade that as well. Now he's ready to rebirth that sword in some heretic chests. Sorry, I need a lot of theme to make up for the fact that these dudes are gonna be mostly black.

I am really struggling to find something to fit the theme this time around. I really want in, but it's not easy for some reason...

Poxwalkers for me. Humans that have been reborn and remade to spread the gift of Papa Nurgle. Also the models themselves will be remade as I picked up a bunch of used poxwalkers off of ebay that aren't to my liking. I'll start by cleaning off the bases of whatever the material is that is on them and reattach them. Since it looks like washes or contrast were the main paint used I think I am going to skip the paint stripping and just paint straight over it saving a bit of hassle.

 SmallChanges wrote:
In an unusual move for me, I've made some early progress (which should help you see the model better Jadenim).

Spoiler:

Thanks Small Changes, that’s a great conversion, everything really meshes together so well, you can’t see the joins.

 KidCthulhu wrote:
I am really struggling to find something to fit the theme this time around. I really want in, but it's not easy for some reason...

What do you have laying around or may want to do in broad terms? Maybe we can offer some suggestions for a good fit?

An update on the Raven Guard, here they're drybrushed with silver a bit. Not much difference really, but I figured I'd pull out the four custom doods. I'll save pics of the full squad for later.

I got carried away on the HQ last night.

He is now 90% complete. I know this isn't common RG heraldry, or even maybe HH-esque, but I wanted to do something fun with this model since it is really just a dude with a power sword and a plasma pistol. Also I'm gonna count this as a warm-up for the Lamenters badges I'll have to do soon!

Anyway, without further ado, RG Praetor with quartered armour and hand painted chapter badge. Also going to fix up the eye on that bird so it doesn't look like a dead chicken...

Raptors... with laser guns (amongst other things). Surely they aren't natural... I suspect some kind of uplift scenario. However, the raptors themselves seem to be perfectly happy with this situation! (I mean look at that smile!). I think I have 10 of these things lined up ready, and I'll pick my favourite 5.

I think I'm going to take a page from Nevelon's book and do an update of old, finished model.



Back when Mordheim was new, I made a Marienburger captain out of Lucrezzia Belladonna. Well, the warband never came to be, so I based a D&D character on the swashbuckler I created. I always intended to make an updated version, but I never finished her. I guess now is as good a time as any.

Well, I got some zombies for Zona Alpha, I might do those. Or, there are the zombies from Cursed City that could work. I suppose most of the baddis from Cursed City would fit the bill. I also have Truckzilla from Gaslands that I recently built and primed.
Who knows, who knows . . .

I also have this cheaply printed super sax marine, when he plays it rejuvenates the troops and inspires much like the chapter standard.

I'm gonna try my hand at one of these three that fit the theme rather well. It'll either be the dreadnought (reborn marine), the living saint (remade sister) or Mr. Sinister (remade and reborn clone master).