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Made in us
The Marine Standing Behind Marneus Calgar





Upstate, New York

Welcome all to the 97th 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 (of which this is the fina round!). This is the first month of the new season, so a great time to get on board!

This month, the theme is our traditional Space Marine round. Tall, short, spiky or otherwise, any flavor of post human super soldier would fit the bill. Alive or dead as base decoration. Pretty much any space-based warrior will work, does not have to be a Games Workshop Space Marine (tm). I’d say the sky is the limit, but we are way past that out into the stars.

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

   
Made in au
Regular Dakkanaut






Sydney

To get in the spirit of things (and not be lazy and just do another chaos marine) I've decided to go way back to the late 90s, when I got the 2nd edition box (a bit before 3rd came out) and added the monopose Tactical squads to my Terminators from Space Hulk to create my first ever army, the Furies:



...yes, female marines. Shut up, it was really important to me that they be as much like Xena as possible.

   
Made in gb
Decrepit Dakkanaut






Mostly, on my phone.

Right, well, rummaging through the pile of opportunity, I have an idea for Suppressor for my Storm Lions I think:

An Eliminator, and maybe some veterans, are also possibilities...

Theophony"... and there's strippers in terminator armor and lovecraftian shenanigans afoot."
Solar_Lion: "Man this sums up your blog nicely."

Anpu-adom: "being Geek is about Love. Some love broadly. Some love deeply. And then there are people like Graven.  
   
Made in us
The Marine Standing Behind Marneus Calgar





Upstate, New York



So in an effort to clear some of the really old stuff out of the primed pile, I’m going to finish the back half the the destroyer squad. You might recognize the front half from Aug ’17 “Brutal” contest.

At the rate I’m finishing squads, I should be up for a game of 30k by it’s 4th or 5th edition.

   
Made in us
Trigger-Happy Baal Predator Pilot





Wisconsin

Here's my proof picture:

Khorne Berserkers

   
Made in gb
Decrepit Dakkanaut






Mostly, on my phone.


Yup. Liking this.

Theophony"... and there's strippers in terminator armor and lovecraftian shenanigans afoot."
Solar_Lion: "Man this sums up your blog nicely."

Anpu-adom: "being Geek is about Love. Some love broadly. Some love deeply. And then there are people like Graven.  
   
Made in us
Walking Dead Wraithlord






Good timing. The school has a burgeoning Warhammer club, and I snapped up a couple of the club kit minis to paint as an example and hopefully as inspiration for the kids. One of them happens to be a Space Marine (shocking!)



Couldn't leave him stock, of course.

   
Made in us
The Marine Standing Behind Marneus Calgar





Upstate, New York

 youwashock wrote:
Good timing. The school has a burgeoning Warhammer club, and I snapped up a couple of the club kit minis to paint as an example and hopefully as inspiration for the kids. One of them happens to be a Space Marine (shocking!)


If they want to join, they are welcome to stop on by and sign up.

Or if you are willing, you could enter their works as a proxy. Just give me a name to put up on the vote thread with a finished pic. You can forward any advice and accolades back to them. We are usually good about constructive criticism.

   
Made in us
Grim Dark Angels Interrogator-Chaplain






A Protoss colony world

I'll join in with some Deathwing:

I need these soonish, so I've got multiple incentives to get them painted this month.

My armies (re-counted and updated on 11/1/23, including modeled wargear options):
Dark Angels: ~15000 Astra Militarum: ~1200 | Adeptus Custodes: ~1900 | Imperial Knights: ~2000 | Sisters of Battle: ~3500 | Leagues of Votann: ~1200 | Tyranids: ~2600 | Stormcast Eternals: ~5000
Check out my P&M Blogs: ZergSmasher's P&M Blog | Imperial Knights blog | Board Games blog | Total models painted in 2023: 40 | Total models painted in 2024: 7 | Current main painting project: Dark Angels
 Mr_Rose wrote:
Who doesn’t love crazy mutant squawk-puppies? Eh? Nobody, that’s who.
 
   
Made in jp
[DCM]
Incorporating Wet-Blending





Japan

I dug into the backlog and pulled out these dudes:



I'm not really an army painter any more, so I'll be giving them each a unique paint scheme, inspired by some of the color illustrations in the original RT rulebook.

Now showing more Samurai Marines, Bad Squiddo Amazons, and an Oldhammer Chaos Thug!

Painting total as of 3/28/2024: 21 plus a set of modular spaceship terrain

Painting total for 2023: 79 plus 28 Battlemechs and a Dragon-Balrog

 
   
Made in ca
Fixture of Dakka





Surrey, BC - Canada

Making my annual protest with an old metal Dark Reaper Exarch.

Converted to make him useful...that bolo thing made no sense.


Cheers,

CB

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Made in gb
Dakka Veteran






 JoshInJapan wrote:
I dug into the backlog and pulled out these dudes:



I'm not really an army painter any more, so I'll be giving them each a unique paint scheme, inspired by some of the color illustrations in the original RT rulebook.


Is that an LE1 marine? Nice! I had one of those but made the mistake of selling it...
   
Made in jp
[DCM]
Incorporating Wet-Blending





Japan

 CancelledApocalypse wrote:
 JoshInJapan wrote:
I dug into the backlog and pulled out these dudes:



I'm not really an army painter any more, so I'll be giving them each a unique paint scheme, inspired by some of the color illustrations in the original RT rulebook.


Is that an LE1 marine? Nice! I had one of those but made the mistake of selling it...


It is, indeed. I got all of these many years ago, when GW mail order would custom cast anything, as long as you had the catalog number for the model. I got a small-but-complete Melnibonean army that way.

Now showing more Samurai Marines, Bad Squiddo Amazons, and an Oldhammer Chaos Thug!

Painting total as of 3/28/2024: 21 plus a set of modular spaceship terrain

Painting total for 2023: 79 plus 28 Battlemechs and a Dragon-Balrog

 
   
Made in us
The Marine Standing Behind Marneus Calgar





Upstate, New York

That is some seriously classic lead.

Lots of good entries so far! Should be a fun month.

   
Made in us
Flashy Flashgitz





MD

Going for the big dog this Month!


3k Points 
   
Made in us
Scarred Ultramarine Tyrannic War Veteran






Maple Valley, Washington, Holy Terra

I'm going to paint some decidedly more modern beakies this month:


"Calgar hates Tyranids."

Your #1 Fan  
   
Made in jp
[DCM]
Incorporating Wet-Blending





Japan

 Pariah Press wrote:
I'm going to paint some decidedly more modern beakies this month:



I love the very old aesthetic on those modern-looking models.

Now showing more Samurai Marines, Bad Squiddo Amazons, and an Oldhammer Chaos Thug!

Painting total as of 3/28/2024: 21 plus a set of modular spaceship terrain

Painting total for 2023: 79 plus 28 Battlemechs and a Dragon-Balrog

 
   
Made in de
Huge Bone Giant






I'm in but I'll need to fiddle around with green stuff for a few days before I have a proof picture.

Nehekhara lives! Sort of!
Why is the rum always gone? 
   
Made in gb
Splattered With Acrylic Paint





Exeter,Devon

I'm painting the quintessential chaplain anyway so might as well throw my hat in the ring. Here's my proof picture!
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Made in us
Scarred Ultramarine Tyrannic War Veteran






Maple Valley, Washington, Holy Terra

 JoshInJapan wrote:
 Pariah Press wrote:
I'm going to paint some decidedly more modern beakies this month:



I love the very old aesthetic on those modern-looking models.


Yeah, the sculptors did a great job of adapting and refining the design elements of the old Rogue Trader era models into a modern kit. I'm really pumped to paint these up in a retro style.

"Calgar hates Tyranids."

Your #1 Fan  
   
Made in gb
Liberated Grot Land Raida






Northern Ireland

 Captain Brown wrote:
Making my annual protest with an old metal Dark Reaper Exarch.

Cheers,

CB


Think I’ll be joining you on the barricades singing the songs of angry Eldar.

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Made in gb
Splattered With Acrylic Paint





Exeter,Devon

This is my final submission for this Month's painting challenge. Hope you enjoy
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Made in gb
Leader of the Sept







Good grief, that’s a bit keen isn’t it? A new record for completion? Also it looks amazing !

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Please excuse any spelling errors. I use a tablet frequently and software keyboards are a pain!

Terranwing - w3;d1;l1
51st Dunedinw2;d0;l0
Cadre Coronal Afterglow w1;d0;l0 
   
Made in ca
Fixture of Dakka





Surrey, BC - Canada

Who let the Flash in?

Great quick submission.

Cheers,

CB

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Made in gb
Dakka Veteran






Furious work! I haven't even decided what I'm painting, yet...
   
Made in us
[DCM]
Incorporating Wet-Blending





Japan

Lovely Chaplain, very sinister.

I have mostly finished the first of my Oldhammer marines:


I'm not wholly convinced I have figured out the Grimdark that I was going for, and there are some little details that I can see that I have missed. There are more photos in my P&M blog (in my sig).

Now showing more Samurai Marines, Bad Squiddo Amazons, and an Oldhammer Chaos Thug!

Painting total as of 3/28/2024: 21 plus a set of modular spaceship terrain

Painting total for 2023: 79 plus 28 Battlemechs and a Dragon-Balrog

 
   
Made in de
Huge Bone Giant






Two finished entries already? I find your lack of procrastination disturbing.

Nehekhara lives! Sort of!
Why is the rum always gone? 
   
Made in nl
Armored Iron Breaker






Struggling about in Asmos territory.

Ahoy captains, my entry for this new years first challenge, spacemarines huh.. well.. I don't build those!..

Look's like I'll have to use a freebie I once got from a store in another city that has a whole Warhammer section upstairs (I don't travel much, only own a bicycle and trains have been getting crazier and crazier past few years.. so only visit that city once every half a year or so.)
That won't be enough ofcourse.. so there's only one thing to do..

GO ORKY WEN ALL THINKZ ARE LOZED OTHAWISE.. *harhar*

wut dat.. engliz orky blah? nut gruk dat.. me blah da blud urukhai!

Ok.. ok.. I'm not going to type the story to my entry in either type of Orkish don't worry. -_-

Let me shake something out of my sleeve here cause I'll have to make up a story right here and right now.. (not having done so when I started with this silly project..) I'll keep it short.

(Ha! right!)

-Gubgreeb'r and his never-stolen vehicle; Zatra Ahrmz.. poor blud klan language for "twelve arms"..

Probably named after the arms of a clock.. because this thing does not have twelve arms..
Can Orks even read a clock? This is something we have to find out right now..
Or wait I'm busy telling the story of this project.. nvm.. we will keep this one for another time.

Anyway.. Gubgreeb'r was an Orkyer than Ork.. 'Ork' in the sense that He was too big for his stance among the Orks.. which made his pressence generally confusing'.. His clan's Ork boss ChokOongk Erd-thuut in particular couldn't stand the guy because he wasn't a full fledged boss (yet) and therefor bullied him until one day Gubgreeb's had enough and put his bosslike strength to good use.

He went to the nearest spacemarine outpost.. (onfoot) protecting himself from incoming fire with a big gun-round cannister he named "Elby hed" after drawing a face on it.. casually he ignored therewith the startled marines and walked into the closest hangar where he ..'obtained' a Cadian warmachine that was decomissioned having lost most of its outfitting.

Being the bigger than ordinary Ork Gubgreeb'r was.. he strapped the entire thing on his shoulder and walked it all the way back to his own clan's territory.
When ChokOongk Erd-thuut saw him approaching.. he emediately recogniced the boss-ness of Gubgreeb'r previously not having been noticed for his strength.. instead Gubgreeb'r had always been a bit of a kitchenrat.. waiting around the butchershop to get dibs on whatever came out of it, which is probably why he became the size of a boss..

Anyway, his Ork boss promoted him to an underboss and never bullied him again, giving Gubgreeb'r the title "da pulra'r" which translates to "the capturer" and allowing Gubgreeb'r to use an entire garage to work on his spoils.

This Gubgreeb'r did.. attaching the craziest Orky weaponry to the Cadian warmachine husk.. customizing it to look as Orky as possible and as the final touch.. loading it with an original chevrolet corvette V8 engine roaring like a bilepiper who's been strapped to a shofar.

Then one day..a few weeks later, gunfire, lasfire and firefire was heard and felt in and around the Ork camp perimeters as the Spacemarine base had unleashed a proper force to deal with the Orks who had the audacity to just "prance around" into their base without even as much as a keycard with clearance.. 'stealing!.. of all things.. the very remains of one of their old Cadian generals gear.. one of the royal bloodline to be exact.. murdered at the hands of the drasted Snikkrot being slightly too careless in trying to encircle an Orkish junkyard..

The warmachine had been tucked in the middle of said camp as a display, with golden decorations and freshly cleaned for the troops to admire (and boost the ego of said general, unaware of the impending doom..)

Alas.. turns out right after the poor sod was geep'd in his back by the gigantic Ork assassin.. the junkyard went up in an explosion so strong that everything apart from Snikkrot already dashing back into the Ork-god knows' which shadow.. was blown into the dirt with the force of a sledgehammer swung by Khorne himself.

Ah.. that also goes for the prized Cadian warmachine..

ALAS!!.. This unruly.. unsocialized.. blunt gourd of an Ork pompously had grabbed this memorial of the empire's finest and dragged it across the mud .. for atleast two thousand feet.

THE MUD!..

No.. this a proud Spacemarine could not let slide.., and thus they had mobilized in full strength.

Gubgreeb'r peeked over the wall at the back of his workshop garage.. seeing Spacemarines take professional effort to assault the area in tactical formation..
He grunted.. and mumbled to himself that this was the best time to test his creation..
For a moment he inspected.. one .. two.. five.. hurghh.. five.. ehghh..
He realised he wasn't good at counting so decided to make up a random number for how many weapons he had strapped to the machine..

Aha!! The mystery is solved dear reader.. it was never about a clock! This was why he called it twelve arms! Not ARMS!! Ha-Ha!! Not like floppy arms with fingers but GUNS GUNS GUNS!! DAKKA DAKKA!! DAKKAAAA DAKKA DAAKKKAA DAKKA ADAKKA!

Gubgreeb'r jumped into the cockpit and pulled the only switch still operable.. (that turns the machine on..) then continuing the test-ride's piloting by smashing his hands down on the the warmachine's hood in front hoping to trigger one, multiple or all of the guns, saws and other crazy stuff attached to it with the banging.

The spacemarines were not prepared..

Muffled screams, marines fleeing in all directions and panicked shooting at everything except Gubgreeb'r swaying from left to right as the contraptions legs proppeled itself no longer in a human running-pattern, the repurposed golem of a rig had itself become proper Orky..

From a distance, sitting at the dining area unfazed while eating a still living giant chicken.. ChokOongk Erd-thuut nodded proudly.. thinking to himself.. that his nudges mistaken as bullying.. had made a real Boss out of Gubgreeb'r.

--++--++--++--++--

And this.. is the story of my project.
Gubgreeb'r shall.. if all things go right (and I figure out how to sculpt properly) most optimally 'be holding a spacemarine in an appendix.. otherwise.. a spacemarine will suffer in a different manner being tortured by Zatra Ahrmz.

So.
This shall by my spacemarine entry, as the victim of a vehicle of the empire repurposed to be Orky.
Wish me luck.
This is a bit much to work on but atleast its fun.

-Leopold Helveine.
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proof pic of this happening


"Why would i be lying for Wechhudrs sake man.., i do not write fiction!"

 
   
Made in de
Huge Bone Giant






I'm done fiddling.

Tomboy, Terra Nova Marine Corps



Originally I thought I'd paint an Imperial Fist or Black Templar for Marine month, but I unexpectedly had time and inclination to sculpt her in the last week of February. It took until now to finish her as even with double shifts one week isn't enough to finish a model with so much going on.

So no GW for me this month. I've been in the mood for 80s and 90s B-movies of late and wanted something to catch those vibes. Now all I have to do is figure out a color scheme. I'm going to have to go looking for a nice camo pattern or two for the pants and armor.

Side note, it looks like I'm about to paint my first female Space Marine. Okay, maybe I'm cheating, but so what? I'm totally going to claim I'm with the in crowd now.

Nehekhara lives! Sort of!
Why is the rum always gone? 
   
Made in gb
Decrepit Dakkanaut






Mostly, on my phone.

Dear God. You're brilliant

Theophony"... and there's strippers in terminator armor and lovecraftian shenanigans afoot."
Solar_Lion: "Man this sums up your blog nicely."

Anpu-adom: "being Geek is about Love. Some love broadly. Some love deeply. And then there are people like Graven.  
   
 
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