Dakka Painting Challenge Round 111 May 2024: Nice Ride

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**KidCthulhu**

I'm hoping to be able to actually paint tomorrow. I got my chosen entry primed & mounted on a decent base.

**Llamahead**

Finished my entry fairly happy with him. Microworld Games 6mm skeleton dragon with a Vampire rider. Zardoz commander of the host.

**Nevelon**

Nice work everyone, in the home stretch!

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For those of you with time to kill this summer, I am organizing a bonus round of the painting comp, to run parallel to the main event. Don’t worry, you still get your regularly scheduled madness. But if you have a big project that needs extra time, head on over and sign up for Dakka Painting Challenge Bonus Summer Blockbuster: Centerpiece

**Syro_**

I'm calling my taxi crab and friends done:

**Leopold Helveine**

My Entry;

Pale Maggothlord.
"Its mount's breath smells like rotting garlic and cloves"

Spoiler:

**Nilfisken**

I'm sadly going to fail this month, far too many things to do in the past weeks to get enough hobby time and will be gone for most of June and early July for work related travels, but I shall resurface in the competition rounds by the end of the summer. I will post a final WIP before end of this month and cast my votes for this round as well before taking break. Lot's of very cool projects this month!

Cheers,
Oskar

**KidCthulhu**

My first day of painting is not going well. But here's hoping it goes better. Otherwise without this challenge, this guy is never getting painted...

**Lovejoy**

Another great mix of entries showing up - I love seeing all the different ideas people have!

I finally manged to get my entry finished, and took some pics. Here they are, hopefully in the correct format:

Lovejoy - Cavalier Marshall

Spoiler:

Also, here's one of the pics without the spoiler tags, just so my entry doesn't get missed....

**KidCthulhu**

This is what I managed to get done today. Given the weather, I won't be able to prime & paint his sashimono/banner pole.
I'm calling him done:

Not perfect, but he probably wouldn't have gotten painted at all if I didn't have this challenge

**youwashock**

Ships are done.

Fun little things.

**Gulgog TufToof**

I've got mine finished. My homage to the dying sun of the ork's homeworld, my Evil Sunz Gnot Tank:

Great work so far everyone, good luck to all those still finishing up, there's still time!

**halfling84**

I managed to make my old camera work again, and my model finally doesn't look ugly in the pictures

These are final pictures of my model, I'll remove the old ones to avoid confusion.

Also, code to paste for the voting thread:

halfling84 - Aethon heavy sentinel 
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**Leopold Helveine**

Gulgog TufToof wrote:
I've got mine finished. My homage to the dying sun of the ork's homeworld, my Evil Sunz Gnot Tank:

Great work so far everyone, good luck to all those still finishing up, there's still time!

Hey those colors emediately made me think of matchbox cars I used to have which you could change the color of when dipping them in either warm or cold water.

**phoenix89**

ShadowsAndDust wrote:Nice work on the Troggoth, phoenix89.

Mothsniper wrote:
phoenix89 wrote:
As long as my proofs are acceptable, here is my finished entry - GW Breaka-Boss on Mirebrute Troggoth.

Nicely painted! And the details in the base.

Not sure if it's customary to post a follow up, but thank you for the compliments! 😅

**Geifer**

Done, and with over a day left. I should have procrastinated more.

Bo-Katan Kryze and Tooka:

Do you know what I never said? That I feel a desperate desire to freehand icons 1.5mm in diameter. Thanks, unknown Lucasfilm artist for giving Bo-Katan the same crest twice. I really appreciate it.

I suppose casting got in the way of having grooves on the shoulder pads like on the helmets. I said it before, but once again I'd wish for a little consistency from AMG. Either make all patterns sculpted or none. I don't feel like the shoulder crests are any less significant than the pattern on the helmet.

**inmygravenimage**

^ looks great. I know exactly what you mean. Why does Asajj Ventress have no facial carving, but Maul and Ahsoka do?! Madness.

**CancelledApocalypse**

Think I'm going to have to ask for my now customary extra day. I'm painting a Raven Guard veteran rhino (with a single veteran to go with) and I have too much still to do in one day. Proof pics attached.

**Nevelon**

CancelledApocalypse wrote:
Think I'm going to have to ask for my now customary extra day. I'm painting a Raven Guard veteran rhino (with a single veteran to go with) and I have too much still to do in one day. Proof pics attached.

No problem. Extra day granted.

**ZergSmasher**

I'm gonna probably need that extra day too, so thanks Nev!

**Geifer**

inmygravenimage wrote:
^ looks great. I know exactly what you mean. Why does Asajj Ventress have no facial carving, but Maul and Ahsoka do?! Madness.

Thank you.

**Nilfisken**

As I said a few posts earlier I wont be able to finish this months task, these are the final WIP and hopefully JZ will be waiting for me when I get some time back at the hobby desk again mid July. Only taken part in these challenges for three months, but really enjoyed the boost in inspiration they give. Looking forward to see everyone else final entries!

Cheers,
Oskar

**Nevelon**

Shame you can’t finish; she looks so close! We do have an extra day if that helps?

**Nilfisken**

Nevelon wrote:
Shame you can’t finish; she looks so close! We do have an extra day if that helps?

Thanks for the offer, sadly I paint with glacial speed and I am just on my way out the door to go to the airport for a flight to Nigeria for three weeks of biological fieldwork so no more painting for a while

Cheers,
Oskar

**phoenix89**

Lovejoy wrote:
Another great mix of entries showing up - I love seeing all the different ideas people have!

I finally manged to get my entry finished, and took some pics. Here they are, hopefully in the correct format:

Lovejoy - Cavalier Marshall

Saw these in the wild on Twitter the other day, absolutely incredible conversion/paint job!

**Maharg**

No problem. Extra day granted.

Thanks for the extension Nev. Could've probably finished something this evening but better tomorrow when I'm not so tired

**Xyabis**

Mid way post for my entry! Will have it completed soon ^^ I have been busy working on models for a LGConvention competition this weekend.
Excited to see everyone's entries in the poll!

**Xyabis**

Nice rides!
Final shot in

it’s not great but it’s done, and that’s worth something to me

**Pariah Press**

Sentinels and Squat Sky Surfer, complete!

**Nevelon**

Leaving this open for an extra day extension, but go start on June’s comp:

https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/813915.page

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I finished my chaplain yesterday, just need to do the formal photoshoot today.

edit:

Sneak peek. I could have used this mini for both Nice Ride or Glow Up. He’ll be replacing the venerable bike chaplain in the modern era. A worthy successor.

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And done.

**Maharg**

Just the one horseman finished