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Welcome all to the 111st 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: Nice Ride - An entry where the "rider" gets around on anything other than his own two legs - weather it be a tank, a mech, a noble steed, snake monster, chariot, or even Professor X's wheel chair. MasterBlaster runs bartertown? Yes he does. Frame of mind and point of view are also important thing. To the mouse tucked in the druid’s hat, he’s got a nice mode of transportation. And the raven perched on a staff can save some wear and tear on his feathers. Vehicles where you can’t see the rider are fine if you have closed cockpits on giant mecha and the like. Let someone or something do all the hard work, and sit back and enjoy the ride!


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

This month I'm going to enter... indecision! If I find it too hard to decide how to paint indecision, I may switch to something else. Proof picture to follow down the line.

 Geifer wrote:
This month I'm going to enter... indecision! If I find it too hard to decide how to paint indecision, I may switch to something else. Proof picture to follow down the line.

Seriously considering just uploading a pic of the corner of my primed pile with all the bikes in it. I feel the indecision.

Edit, and did it:


Bike chaplain, Shining Spears, Shroudrunners, and hey why not add the War Walker to the list of options. If I really wanted to push it out, I’ve got 3 marine tanks that need paint as well. But with my motivation levels these days, those would not be pretty to get done.

The funny thing is that I'm not even hurting for options. Just variety. Cavalry and bikes aren't really my thing, and the few I have need assembly, conversion and context. I do have vehicles of all shapes and sizes. But I'd have to be in the mood for painting a vehicle...

I'm going to have to give it some time and see what I might settle on.

He be rollin', the Inquisition be hatin':



Technically also counts as Glow Up, since a loyalist version was featured in the Warhammer 40,000 Compendium. What made him turn to heresy? All the jokes about stairs.

So... anyone want to one-up me in the tragic old nerd stakes by painting a black and white Space Marine on a black and white bike?

Was planning on working on reaper dwarfs, yet the topic poll did me wrong.
Dusted off old box from the Motherland of - Tehnolog Robogear
Jumping right into this because I have time! And also because got new airbrush pump and gear from harbor freight on a sale.

Look at all this delicious plastic!!! Back ten I got each unit for like 3, 4, or 6 bucks a piece. Now on ebay they are all waaaay overpriced, it is Polyethylene plastic after all.





Selected the bags with most wear and holes in them.



4 Demolishers it is.




So many cool bits. These are cheap cheap Polyethylene army-men-type toys from the early 2000.







Took a while to remove mold lines, assemble, and keep intact all shooting mechanisms



The lads are not the best, however I did find enough left and right arm bits.




Lots of gaps




All parts snap tightly, all joins move and I will keep them that way. The gluing was not needed if only to reinforce the joints. The big guns have spring mechanism that shoots plastic projectile, and I will keep those working too. Also, ran out of the guard head bits.

I'll be going the Mecha route this month. I'm spoiled for choices. For example, I have at least a half-dozen Striders for Deadzone, along with one each of Iron Ancestor and Stuntbot. Here are the ones I pulled out of storage:

Prpbably going to try to get this steam tank for warmaster done, but may try some other cav or the like.

For me, it's star wars shatterpoint


Mandos with jet packs, and a happy little loth cat (which, granted, has been two tone primed)

Wait, does the tooka riding the droid count? Because that's why I suggested the fluffy theme for April.

 Geifer wrote:
Wait, does the tooka riding the droid count? Because that's why I suggested the fluffy theme for April.

Is it moving under it’s own power, or hitching a ride on something else? (Even if that “something else” is currently not working)

My general rule of thumb is if you think it fits, it’s fine.

Well, I think the droid moves at the speed of a planet revolving around its sun. But I have funny thoughts like that.

I might just go with it. Cat on the back of something was one of my favored things, but I'm short on kitties (and possibly somethings to lend their back).

My entry will be a rottbringers maggoth lord
https://warhammerfantasy.fandom.com/wiki/Orghotts_Daemonspew


Just basecoated it yesterday, for a change in light grey (amsterdam paints) because the palet will be easier to manage then considering I will be using many bleached tints.

Contrary to my trial-run (see sep thread if you want) of my new Nurgle mortal line palet I will keep the armor of this cat-rider (or is it a horse?.. hold on let me google..)
(yep, its a horse.. ok)
correction, the armor of this horse-jockey will be polished and shining' (while my earthbound mortals will have their armor dusted and deteriorated)

I think it is important here to give the horse a name, Hay fever is apparently too easy here but let's stay in the season regardless.

Orghotts horse shall hereby be named "Norbert no nose" or "no no no" for short, sneezing for Norbert is probably easier having such a gaping hole where normally a beautiful horse nose should be.

 Geifer wrote:
Well, I think the droid moves at the speed of a planet revolving around its sun. But I have funny thoughts like that.

I might just go with it. Cat on the back of something was one of my favored things, but I'm short on kitties (and possibly somethings to lend their back).

I can’t fault strange thought processes.

I started with “would it be OK if someone wanted to paint someone sitting on the crashed/broken wreckage of a bike/plane/other?” Sure. Sounds cool. Cat riding on an R2 unit? Hilarious, good to go. Cat on a wrecked droid? Logically it follows.

On second thought, while there is no question who the star of the show is, I'll throw in Bo-Katan so inmygravenimage and I can have ourselves a proper Mando'n'cat-off.

Sprues are out of the box. Time to get some models assembled!

I’ll be taking this opportunity to complete Dredd on his Lawmaster!

Lol, I read “lawnmaster”, was picturing dredd on a riding mower

 Gulgog TufToof wrote:
Lol, I read “lawnmaster”, was picturing dredd on a riding mower

You just know Dredd is on the board for the local HOA.

Progress.
There are two options for the overhead launch tubes. Spring powered launchers and these awesome missiles.



This gun comes only one per demolisher and goes only on one side. Flipping the attachment pins to have 2 vehicles equipped with both.



Guns are primed black and getting sealed.



Not guns are primed red and getting hairspray.



Ready for basecoat

Tbh Tooka riding the droid was an after thought to make it up to 5. It is, however, both funny and on brand...

 inmygravenimage wrote:
Tbh Tooka riding the droid was an after thought to make it up to 5. It is, however, both funny and on brand...

And it gave me an idea what to do this month, so there's that. Speaking of which. Don't mind the reflections. The glue was still wet.

I might be pushing it this time around?

I initially planned to enter a farseer on a jet-bike, but at the same time I really wanted to have an excuse to paint up a more epic hero for my Biel-tan army.

Had the afternoon off today so ended up assembling and cleaning up & gap-filling Jain Zar that I bought a few months ago. I got so excited about painting the model that I first thought I might skip this months challenge, but the more I looked at her, especially in sub-assembled form it became clear that she is literally riding her own hair! The hair could even work as a furry snake-like beast in a kit-bash...

So I shall enter the ancient screaming space lady and her ferocious hair-piece

Cheers, Oskar

Here is my proof picture. It's a Blood Angels Leviathan Dreadnought that I primed last month. My "painting" table is a bit of a mess as I'll be painting Seraphon and a BA Terminator Captain at the same time.

Nice! Lots of good stuff this month.



Jumping in with the Green Knight. Skipping the back banners for a cleaner profile.

Green Knight! Love that model. It's one of the all-time classics. Looking forward to seeing what you do with him!

I'm thinking I'll continue my Stormcast army this month. I want a pair of Fulminators, but I reckon the official models are horrible:




So I've converted a couple using the Gryph-chargers from a chariot and a couple of the freebie Vindictors:





That's my 'I can definitely get it finished' idea, anyway. But they may get replaced mid-month, if I can find time to do another idea I have... just requires a bit more model-building and converting first. We'll see!

cheers
Michael

Those are way better and more dynamic then the offical models. Well done kit bash

 Nevelon wrote:

 Geifer wrote:
This month I'm going to enter... indecision! If I find it too hard to decide how to paint indecision, I may switch to something else. Proof picture to follow down the line.

Seriously considering just uploading a pic of the corner of my primed pile with all the bikes in it. I feel the indecision.

and did it:

That's a good idea, and might be an entertaining new trend to have pictures of piles of minis with "I'm entering something from here" as an early proof picture

 Syro_ wrote:

 Nevelon wrote:

 Geifer wrote:
This month I'm going to enter... indecision! If I find it too hard to decide how to paint indecision, I may switch to something else. Proof picture to follow down the line.

Seriously considering just uploading a pic of the corner of my primed pile with all the bikes in it. I feel the indecision.

and did it:

That's a good idea, and might be an entertaining new trend to have pictures of piles of minis with "I'm entering something from here" as an early proof picture

To be fair, it might help to have a little second hand excitement.

“Ooh! you’ve got <squad> sitting around? I’ve always wanted to see those painted...”

Or just viewer’s choice. Tell me what to paint.

Or just a different pair of eyes on the theme that you may have missed. “Unit X fits the bill because of <angle>”

Some (for faster painters then I) are planning on painting the whole lot of it anyway, and are just going to choose the best to enter.

I have a pair of old metal Solitaries that need to be painted...



Better start picture.


Cheers,

CB

Progress
Chippy chips





Pro tip - nearby cardboard box is a great toothpick mount system



Delicious Tiberium core missiles



Only the top half need to be painted. I was thinking of Heavy-Metal when painting these lads.