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Welcome all to the 103rd 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 "Sun’s Out, Guns Out". Rip off those sleeves and flex those muscles. Let’s see those arms. Or, if you have been neglecting time in the gym (do you even lift bro?) go more literal and overcompensate with some massive cannons. Or just double down on the theme and paint some guns that shoot suns! Either something like a plasma gun, or some star-eating doomsday device. Desert or other sun-baked scenes would also be good. Maybe the beach?

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

I'm going to work on these Ogres that I've had lying around for years:]

Angron this month

Roll up those sleeves or compensate with a big gun? Or? What do you mean, or?

That's a job for another Marine. I'll be painting Tomboy's sniper buddy SS.

Wow, you guys are hot out of the gate. Sun is just barely up here and we already have a few entries.


Going with a HB scout. I also have one with a comically oversized sniper rifle, who I may also do. But he has his sleeve's down.

Glad to be back in the fray this month…

I have opted to tackle this monstrous fella… I’m going to need a bigger brush!

So the guns are certainly there, and the sun has gone out as its been eclipsed by their stompiness!

I have 4 big mech things that are needing some love. One is fully assembled:



The rest are awaiting some works:

I had Plasma Gal ready to go last month whichever theme won the poll, but since it was a tie I held her back for this one. She'd be a cultist presumably, for tabletop purposes I'll say the plasma gun's in poor repair and just belching out unfocused gouts of plasma so ruleswise it behaves like a flamer. Captain Fugly's just there because it's been sitting around in undercoat for months now - maybe I'll get around to finishing it this month, maybe not (not in much of a painting mood TBH, but I expect I'll at least be able to finish off the Escher), we'll see.

Immortal Hulk for me this month:

Still needs a bit of gap filling, but then he's definitely green stuff I suppose...

 inmygravenimage wrote:
Immortal Hulk for me this month:

Still needs a bit of gap filling, but then he's definitely green stuff I suppose...

Well, there is not a giant hole in the middle of his chest, so less gaps then the last time we saw someone enter that mini in a competition.

One thing I like about this monthly challenge is it forces me to look through my old piles o' shame and find stuff to paint. So- I give you Krystal, a limited edition mini from Newwave games for CMON. She definitely speaks softly and carries a big gun- buuuut, the sculpt hasn't held up well- the fact her waist is the size of the scope should tell you that. But I think I can go for a more cartoony/ anime style to bring out the wierdness, as a more realistic paint job may make the strange proportions more evident. I don't think the fact she used Rob Liefeld as a fashion consultant helps either..

New Wave! There's some fond memories.

3D printed Leviathan on deck.



Some neat looking stuff already this month. And another Hulk is always a good thing!

Pile of High Elf Archer bits



Assembling now

I doubt I will actually be able to finish, but with the theme I was thinking how cool it would be to make and paint an earthshaker cannon for the Death Korp of Krieg to use in the Siege of Vraks. If I actually finish building it, painting it should be easy.

Starting point:

Ooh, scratch build, nice.

I’ve now assembled all the big boys, barring one set of legs that didnt print properly. These things are big enough that I think I’ll try black basing again and do these mostly with the airbrush. I am gravitating to a mid-grey scheme again I think

Some cool entries this month!

So sun's out guns out eh?

My entry ticks all the boxes.



The first half of Thegn Idryc's Salvagers. The Norhymbre Cooperative finally have a Kill Team. I had a lot of fun today snippin', cuttin' and convertin'. So we have got Vasqa with a BFG, then "Boom-Boom" Makaz showing off his guns, we have Eata carrying a load of guns, Ytharus who has quite a small gun and of course Thegn Idryc who has a gun that fires out a small sun.

I'm away on holiday next week so I'll have to crack on when I get back..

I’ll paint this Basilisk that my son built. If I have time to paint more, I may add some crew members to my entry.

Gunz out?

Like out of an APC right?

That's what youz meant innit boz..

I think I'm going to try to paint up some of these kitbash ladies:

Planning on painting some Dreadnoughts this month:


Probably gonna pick whichever I'm happier with for the challenge.

 Tallandra wrote:
Planning on painting some Dreadnoughts this month:


Probably gonna pick whichever I'm happier with for the challenge.

If you like them both, you can enter up to 5 models.

 Nevelon wrote:

If you like them both, you can enter up to 5 models.

If I'm happy enough with both of them, sure. Gonna have to see how productive I'll be this month.

Arms. Check
Guns Check

BigMek DreadHead enters the fray!

Thanks Flinty
And it looks like Pariah Press and I had similar ideas.

I have been working on sculpting on top of the torso and legs of a chaos cultist to make a Death Korp of Krieg model. The Earthshaker cannon will need crew.

I do not have much that fits the theme…so perhaps I will do some more Harlequins or some classic Necromunda terrain.




Sun’s Out, Guns Out







Cheers,

CB

I knew this day was coming, and had prepared for it. But my old pot of RT-era Dark Angel’s Green finally gave up the ghost and dried out. New stuff looks to be a decent match on color, but doesn’t cover as well. Probably because the old stuff was getting pretty thick and sludgy near the end. The green is dead, long live the green!



The less old, but still ancient hexpot of Goblin Green I use for the scout’s fatigues and bases is still going strong.

Currently in the process of ruining bits and pieces failing (and sometimes succeeding! yay!) to make the most orky outfitted APC (see proof pics earlier)

Still contemplating wether to 1: paint the APC in camo (which is a lot to paint in camo -_- ) so that it is extra stealthy as it earthquakes all over the place while shooting everything equally stealthily.
2: add more Orks to it than the current 3 planned to.., don't want to put too much hay on my poseidon's (lord of the earth mind you!) trident.

Feel free to chime in your thoughts.

 Leopold Helveine wrote:
Currently in the process of ruining bits and pieces failing (and sometimes succeeding! yay!) to make the most orky outfitted APC (see proof pics earlier)

Still contemplating wether to 1: paint the APC in camo (which is a lot to paint in camo -_- ) so that it is extra stealthy as it earthquakes all over the place while shooting everything equally stealthily.
2: add more Orks to it than the current 3 planned to.., don't want to put too much hay on my poseidon's (lord of the earth mind you!) trident.

Feel free to chime in your thoughts.

There are a lot of styles of camo. Some just need a bigger brush to work on larger things. Or just splash some purple on it, as IIRC that’s the sneaky color. Red + purple camo for fast stealth?

(take with a grain of salt, just started my first cup of coffee for the day, brain not really up and running yet)

Consider the wagon's previous owner when you think about camo schemes. You could look up Rogue Trader era Marine camo patterns and make a weathered and beaten version of that, with welded on extra gubbins in bare metal and maybe some Ork glyphs painted over the original paint.

There's no such thing as too many passengers. With Orks you have the advantage that you have Grot riggers that you can add for extra flavor even if you stick with the original number of Orks. It's always worth sneaking in a few of those.

 Nevelon wrote:
I knew this day was coming, and had prepared for it. But my old pot of RT-era Dark Angel’s Green finally gave up the ghost and dried out. New stuff looks to be a decent match on color, but doesn’t cover as well. Probably because the old stuff was getting pretty thick and sludgy near the end. The green is dead, long live the green!

Spoiler:

The less old, but still ancient hexpot of Goblin Green I use for the scout’s fatigues and bases is still going strong.

It's always a sad day to see a trusty out of production paint dry up. :(

Nevelon wrote:

There are a lot of styles of camo. Some just need a bigger brush to work on larger things. Or just splash some purple on it, as IIRC that’s the sneaky color. Red + purple camo for fast stealth?

(take with a grain of salt, just started my first cup of coffee for the day, brain not really up and running yet)

Purple is out of the question, I reserve that for my holy mountain sized pile of mortal Nurgle shame clothing.
Also I really don't like purple and green together, hurts my eyes (and feelings)

Considering my Orklings are of the best Ork clan (bloodaxes) they cannot be fast, they have to be precise and sneaky.
I will probably either go with Urban (grey blue) camo or classical GREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEN. (probably will be green, even the green bits of it)

Geifer wrote:Consider the wagon's previous owner when you think about camo schemes. You could look up Rogue Trader era Marine camo patterns and make a weathered and beaten version of that, with welded on extra gubbins in bare metal and maybe some Ork glyphs painted over the original paint.

There's no such thing as too many passengers. With Orks you have the advantage that you have Grot riggers that you can add for extra flavor even if you stick with the original number of Orks. It's always worth sneaking in a few of those.

I still have plenty of Orky transfersheets and am trained since birth in the martial art of using a sponge to make decal look weathered.