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Dakka News
Dakka's Latest Winner
Congratulations to Elotsip for winning the Nitty Gritty Armour painting challenge with his excellent Renegade Valdor. A fantastic piece with a lot of great weathering and varied techniques.
To find out who painted what just check back in the original voting post as we've added the painters user name to each photo description.
Thanks, as always, to everyone who participated and to everyone who voted and supports these Challenges. And a special thanks to AwesomePaintjob.com for sponsoring us this time around! Be sure you guys head over there and support them too!
By legoburner on 2009-11-15 11:17:44
Dakka Painting Contest - See the Entries
Check out the entries in the latest dakka painting contest in the painting and modelling forums.
There are some beautiful pieces of work in this contest and congratulations to everyone for what they've accomplished. The final winner will be announced soon.
By legoburner on 2009-11-13 16:31:55
GamesFest - Oct 24th
Bit of an abuse of power on my part here, but for anyone in London, UK, there is a very interesting games convention on in Watford on Oct 24th. Here's their blurb:
GamesFest is a one-day convention encompassing RPG’s, Board Games, CCG’s War Games, Comics, Books, Film, Video and PC Gaming. Our aim is for an informal event that enables the enthusiast and casual gamer to sample the best the hobby has to offer.
Industry leaders such as Games Workshop, Mongoose publishing, Warlord Games, Battlefront/Flames of War and Triple Ace Games, will be attending. Celebrities from the world of Gaming and Sci-Fi / Fantasy literature such as Graham McNeill, Gav Thorpe and Jervis Johnson will also be attending, with two Black library Seminars on the day.
The event is on Saturday 24th October 2009 and being held Watford Colosseum Rickmansworth Road ,Watford WD17 3JN.The nearest station is Watford junction and is well connected to the M1 and the M25 motorways. Tickets are £5.50 each with a family ticket and concessions available. For more info check out the website www.gamesfest.co.uk
I'll be attending (legoburner) and hope that many of my London brethren will be going too so that we can help grow a great wargaming convention on our doorstep.
By legoburner on 2009-10-06 03:40:57
It's time for another Dakka Painting Challenge. The theme is 'Nitty Gritty Armor'. We've got a great prize lined up - $50 worth of painting products of your choice from AwesomePaintjob.com!
Off the assembly line she rolls, onto the train headed for combat. Six months in and the hatch barely opens any more and the view port has been bashed out by some local kids with rocks! The idler wheel is about to fall off and the skirt armor has holes the size of fists from all of the blasts it's taken! And the dust!! Oh the dust!
For full details please check out this thread in the modeling and painting forum for more details.
By legoburner on 2009-10-05 03:14:11
INAT FAQ v3.0 released
So we've finally put the finishing touches on the latest installment of the Independent National Warhammer 40,000 Tournament FAQ (INAT for short), which includes questions/rulings from the latest Imperial Guard codex.
download the document and read more about it here.
As always, thanks to everyone who helped submit questions and who continues to give us feedback!
By yakface on 2009-09-28 16:21:31
Dakka Exclusive - Next Dawn of War 2 Race Probably Revealed
I got a present in the post from THQ this morning, which was kind of them. It was a miniature, in a standard GW box, but what was more interesting was stuck to the back of the box outside the shrinkwrap - this label:
The model was... a Chaos terminator lord. I think it is a very safe assumption that chaos are coming in 2010 (MMX)! Some new levels with some variance would be most welcome and I'm really looking forward to the horde mode as well.
Discussion here
By legoburner on 2009-09-12 13:08:09
Welcome to the new look dakka homepage
I've finally had enough time to clean up the homepage a bit and have added some nice new features. Project logs will now get the attention they deserve and older articles will be highlighted frequently. You can now participate in daily polls on the right, see some of the top rated images from the gallery (updated every few minutes) and read the latest gaming headlines from Bell of Lost Souls and Tabletop Gaming News, following the links on the right direct to their websites.
Hopefully this will be a useful change to the old fairly stagnant homepage, so let me know what you think in the nuts and bolts forum. If you come across any bugs then let me know as well! Enjoy 
By legoburner on 2009-06-28 19:40:55
Dakka Tutorial Challenge - WE HAVE A WINNER!
The voting has closed for the 'Get Your Teach On!' Tutorial Challenge, and it was an unbridled success with over 45 amazing hobby tutorial entries to illuminate gamers of all skill levels.
All the votes have been counted and we have a winner. . .it is Dakka user whatwhat with his awesome tutorial on basic tips and tricks for sculpting with greenstuff (these are just a few of the pics from his tutorial):
If you're ever intersted in reading some fantastic hobby tutorials you can see all the entrants for this contest along with a host of other incredibly helpful tutorials in Dakka's Painting and Modeling Tutorial Forum.
One final thanks has to go out again to the sponsors for this challenge, WaylandGames.co.uk and Dakka user LBursley.
By yakface on 2009-06-04 12:31:29
'Get Your Teach On!'
-- a new Dakka Challenge
We've done painting and modeling challenges before, but now it's time for something a bit different.
We've recently added a Painting & Modeling Tutorials forum to Dakka to really highlight the tremendous quality and usefulness that tutorial threads about different facets of the wargaming hobby provide.
This particular challenge throws down the guantlet to anyone reading this to create the best possible hobby tutorial you can, both to help your fellow hobbyists out and to possibly win a tremendous prize to boot!
For full details and rules regarding the contest please visit THIS THREAD in the Dakka Painting & Modeling Tutorials forum.
We have our biggest prize ever offered this time, £130 (GBP) in-store credit plus free world-wide shipping from one of our amazing partners WaylandGames.co.uk. That's around $190 in US dollars!
A tremendously huge THANK YOU has to go out to the sponsors for this challenge, both WaylandGames.co.uk and Dakka user LBursley, who not only came up with the idea for this contest (just because he wants to see what amazing tutorials people can create) but also put up a tremendous amount of his own money as part of the prize!
By yakface on 2009-05-01 13:35:49
Dakka Painting Challenge Winner
All the votes have been counted and we a winner in our latest Dakka Painting Challenge, 'Jungle Warfare'.
The winner, with an overwhelming majority, is from Dakka user Mephistoles1, and what an amazing job he has done capturing the theme of this challenge with his incredible imperial sniper model:
Thanks again to everyone who contributed an entry and if you want to see the rest of the amazing miniatures created for this challenge, check out this thread.
Also thanks again goes out to the sponsor of this contest, Rogue market:
By yakface on 2009-04-11 05:04:15
Cool Photography Post-Processing Tutorial
User Coldsnap recently posted a very cool tutorial on creative photography. The concept was so good it forced our hand into creating our new painting and modeling tutorials forum
To see a step by step of how the above went from snapshot of terrain in a local GW to the artisticly brilliant photograph above, check out the full tutorial by Coldsnap.
By legoburner on 2009-04-05 18:09:53
It's time for another Dakka Painting Challenge. The theme is 'Jungle Warfare'. We've got a great prize lined up courtesy of roguemarket.com - $50 worth of any Warhammer 40,000 or Warhammer Fantasy product of your choice (no direct order/bits/specialist games), including free shipping!
It's Green Season! St. Patrick's Day is just around the corner and winter is coming to an end! Our challenge to you now is to model and paint up one of the many jungle fighters from the big wide galaxy. So break out the sniper stalking through the bush for his target, your wanna be Rambo's, camouflaged alien monsters ready to pounce and tear the weak to shreds. So get the green paints out and get your best foliage on! War is hell, and hell is in the Jungles!
For full details please check out this thread in the modeling and painting forum for more details.
By legoburner on 2009-03-03 10:44:26
Dawn of War Contest Reminder
Just a reminder that there is still a week left before the deadline for our dawn of war 2 contest. There have not been a huge number of entries yet, so doing anything cool will give you a good chance!
It is an open contest, so anything cool that is dawn of war related from blood raven paintjobs to artwork or full scale armour plating will qualify for entry. Coolness is all we care about! Check out this thread in the dakka forums for the full details.
By legoburner on 2009-03-01 20:17:36
Battlefoam's bags now have a name!
For those not aware, for the last month or so we've been running a contest in conjunction with Battlefoam.com to help them name their forthcoming miniature bags.
Well, thanks to the enthusiasm of our community (not to mention fantastic prizes), we got a staggering number of entries (over 600 when the dust finally settled).
But the contest is now over and Battlefoam has made the agonizingly tough decision. In the end, they chose one person's entries for both their bags, so that person will be winning BOTH of these brand new bags, plus the foam to go inside them. A prize worth over $400!!!
But Battlefoam was simply blown away by the quantity and quality of entries that they decided, completely unannounced, to also award prizes for their 2nd and 3rd favorite entries along with a prize for the most humorous entry. That means four different Dakka members are walking away with a prize!
Are you dying to know who won the prizes and what the names of the new bags are yet?
Then CLICK HERE TO FIND OUT!
By yakface on 2009-02-24 06:39:07
Dawn of War Contest
To coincide with the release of Dawn of War 2, the kind folks behind the game have offered us some great prizes for a Dawn of War themed contest.
We will be running an open contest, so anything cool that is dawn of war related will qualify for entry. Check out this thread in the dakka forums for the full details.
By legoburner on 2009-02-23 14:33:08
Gorgon's amazing Genestealer Cult Army Profile
If you haven't checked in a while, Dakka has built up a pretty nice array of army profiles from a variety of different users.
Recently, Dakka member Gorgon posted an army profile for his 2008 Baltimore Grand Tournament Warhammer 40,000 Genestealer Cult army that took home the award for best appearance.
It is an absolutely stunning army, with great ideas and conversions found in every unit and his army profile is well written and lets you know the background behind why and how he built the army.
If you haven't taken the time to check out this amazing army profile, I highly recommend you take a moment to do so.
Click Here to See More of Gorgon's Genestealer Cult Army Profile
And remember, the ability to post an army profile on Dakka is open (and free) to absolutely anyone, and its easier than ever now that you can link to photos directly out of our gallery (hosting pictures in our gallery is also free to everyone).
Creating an army profile does require that you learn a tiny bit of wiki coding, but it is really much easier than you think! You can get started by reading our wiki articles tutorial and you can always send a private message to any one of our article moderators or administrators if you ever have any questions regarding the wiki article system.
By yakface on 2009-02-21 06:18:39
I'm on 40k Radio talking INAT FAQ
I was lucky enough to be invited onto the 40k Radio podcast to do a little Q&A session about the Independent National Tournament Warhammer 40,000 FAQ I helped to produce for Adepticon.
Whether you're attending Adepticon or not and whether you love or hate the FAQ, hopefully you'll find the interview informative.
For the record, it is Episode 31 and my segment starts around 21 minutes in. Head on over to www.40k Radio.com or onto iTunes to find their podcast.
If you'd like to comment or discuss anything you heard regarding the FAQ, you can do so in this thread, or in the master INAT FAQ 2.1 thread.
By yakface on 2009-02-13 20:28:14
Dakka is working along with battlefoam.com to run a contest to help name their brand new miniature carrying bags that are soon to be released.
Here's a rough mock-up of what the two cases will look like:
Whoever suggests the name they end up using for each bag will win from them $100 of their Custom Foam Trays as well as the actual bag they helped to name. Yes, the winner(s) will receive the very first Battle Foam bag two weeks before anyone else does!
To read the full list of contest rules and find out how to submit your entries, please visit this thread in the News and Rumors forum.
The winner(s) will be announced on February 23rd, so don't wait too long to get your entries in!
By yakface on 2009-01-31 05:14:56
Dakka's Articles
I've been meaning to post about this for a while, but dakka's articles listing now has over 350 articles. There are some real gems of tactical advice, modeling and painting advice, great army profiles and general interesting things there, almost all of which have been added by the dakka community and articles team.
A lot of the time the articles go unappreciated by people who just check out the forum, so I thought I'd highlight them and even if the articles home page does not change that often, there are constantly updates and new articles are being added in the background at the rate of 2-3 per day.
Anybody (even lurkers) can add an article, and all the information you need can be found on the left hand side of the articles section of dakka so check it out if you have anything wargaming related that you want to share with the world.
View the full list of our wargaming articles!
By legoburner on 2009-01-08 12:32:52
'you GET TO convert DA KOPTA!!!'
WE HAVE A WINNER!
After waaay to long a wait (sorry about that, the holidays got in the way), the judges final votes have been counted, and just as with the preliminary public vote, we have a clear-cut winner by unanimous decision. This amazing Kopta conversion by one of the best conversion modelers on our site, Teek.
We've even got some amazing hi-rez pictures of Teek's winning entry on display in the new Dakka Gallery, so you can really zoom in and check out the amazing detail on his model (click on any of these pictures to jump to them in the Dakka Gallery so you can zoom in on them).
 
So Congratulations goes out to Teek and all the other participants in this contest. Their entries all really were amazing and the amount of creativity and talent on display is truly inspiring.
To see a full list of which Dakka members contributed which entries, and to see how the judges' final voting went, please visit the Mekboy Challenge Voting thread, and don't forget to congratulate and compliment all the entrants!
By yakface on 2008-12-29 21:33:33
Happy Holidays
Just wishing everyone a happy holidays and a great new years and I hope you're getting to spend it with someone you love.
Thanks to everyone who has helped to make this last year at Dakka one of the best ever and here's to many great new things to come in 2009!
Cheers!
By yakface on 2008-12-25 09:10:32
'you GET TO convert DA KOPTA!!!'
VOTING TIME!
The Dakka Mekboy Challenge - you GET TO convert DA KOPTA!!! was a public challenge to see which Dakka user could come up with the most ingenious and cool conversion from the plastic Deffkopta model from the Assault on Black Reach Warhammer 40,000 starter set.
As you can see from the collage of entries above, we got some absolutely amazing entries and it is time for you to vote on which five should be the finalists.
CLICK HERE TO GO VOTE NOW!
To review the full details and rules if the contest please visit THIS THREAD in the Dakka Modeling & Painting forum.
To see full-sized pictures of all the entries, check them out in the new Dakka Gallery.
Thanks again to the sponsors for this contest, www.gorillatactics.org and Dakka member Daggermaw.
By yakface on 2008-12-17 14:42:17
THE DAKKA GALLERY UNLEASHED!
After many long months of development we are pleased to announce that the amazing new Dakka gallery is finally operational.
While at first glance it may seem like our gallery is similar to other popular sites, but once you take a closer look you will quickly see that our gallery contains the total package of fantastic features that NO other wargaming site can match.
- FREE PICTURE HOSTING SERVICE
As long as your pictures are wargaming related, you can rely on Dakka to host your pictures, even for use on other forums and sites!
- AMAZING HI-RESOLUTION PICTURES
Pictures can be up to 10mb each which allows you to show off the most minute details on your models.
- REAL-TIME ZOOM AND DRAG
Dakka's amazing technology allows you to zoom-in and drag around the picture, all without any loading! Don't understand why that's such a big deal? Try checking out this picture in the gallery to see what I'm talking about.
- SOCIAL GALLERY FEATURES
Vote for your favorite (and least favorite) pictures, leave comments and link your pictures to your Ebay auctions.
- UNPARELLELED VERSATILITY
Pictures can be sorted into individual galleries and Dakka instantly allows you to re-size your pics when linking to them so you'll never have another ridiculously gigantic picture ruining a forum thread again!
CLICK HERE TO VISIT THE DAKKA GALLERY
Or to read more about the features of the gallery visit this thread in the Dakka forums.
By yakface on 2008-12-06 17:00:58
'you GET TO convert DA KOPTA!!!'
-- a Dakka Mekboy Challenge
You've seen a Dakka Painting Challenge before but now it's time for something a little different. Get ready for a Dakka Mekboy Challenge!
Mekboy Challenges dare you to create the coolest converted miniature you possibly can within the confines of the contest theme and rules. That means painting your submission is not strictly required as this contest is focused mainly on the conversion aspect of the hobby.
In this particular Mekboy Challenge, your goal is to take the plastic Deff Kopta model that comes in the 'Assault on Black Reach' Warhammer 40,000 box set, use your imagination and skill and come up with the coolest kustom kopta in existence!
For full details and rules regarding the contest please visit THIS THREAD in the Dakka Modeling & Painting forum.
We have a pretty major prize this time around, $60 (USD) in store credit plus free world-wide shipping from www.gorillatactics.org. GorillaTactics regularly offers a pretty substantial discount on the wide variety of gaming products from all the major game companies they stock, so in reality you'll be winning much more than $60 in whatever gaming product(s) you choose!
A big thanks goes out to the sponsors for this contest, www.gorillatactics.org and Dakka member Daggermaw, the latter of which not only came up with the idea for this challenge, but also kicked in a sizable portion of the prize from his own pocket!
By yakface on 2008-11-14 14:07:25
Dakka Painting Challenge - BUMP IN THE NIGHT!
ONE GHOUL NOW STANDS ALONE!
A big congrats goes out to pretty much a brand new poster on Dakka Blended for his perfectly frightful paint job on the equally scary 'Gourmandise Obese' model from the Helldorado line of French miniatures.
I know I'll have nightmares after seeing this model!
Thanks again to to everyone who entered a model, it was again fun and inspirational.
We'll have another challenge coming in a few months, so if you wanted to participate this time and didn't get around to it, you'll have yet another chance soon.
If you missed voting, you can still check out all the other amazing entries in this thread.
By yakface on 2008-11-06 14:06:58
Dakka Painting Challenge - BUMP IN THE NIGHT!
UPDATE: The entries are in so, before you (US members) head out to vote this Nov. 4, make sure you check out our voting thread and cast some votes that will really count!
Want to know more about the Dakka Painting Challenge? Click the link to see past contestants and winners.
By yakface on 2008-11-03 08:51:46
Dakka Painting Challenge - BUMP IN THE NIGHT!
UPDATE: The entries are in so check them out and get voting!
We've pushed up the schedule a bit for yet another Dakka Painting Challenge to make it coincide with this scary season.
This time the theme is: "Bump In the Night!"
With Halloween just around the corner, it only makes sense that it's time to create the absolute creepiest models you can think of! All of those ghosts, ghouls, zombies, demons, vampires or just generally creepy looking models in your collection need lovin too! Break out the pallid flesh paints and test out those blood effects! Pick a model and go jeepers creepers on em!
For full details please check out this thread in the modeling and painting forum for more details.
Each challenge has had more and more entries, hopefully we can continue this trend and see the largest entry field yet!
By yakface on 2008-10-01 14:40:59
Off to Vegas, Baby
To those who are making the trek to Vegas for the Games Workshop Grand Tournament, I'll see you all there.
To everyone else, sorry you can't make it, it's going to be a blast!
By yakface on 2008-09-04 14:14:13
Battle for Tarkonia Secondus
Dakka users AgeofEgos, AshAxe, zulix24 and Pipboy101 recently participated in an absolutely awesome four player Apocalypse game complete with a beautifully painted Warhound on a mind-blowing table.
Lucky for all of us, they decided to use Dakka's wiki article system to create an equally amazing battle report.
If you love Warhammer 40,000 or battle reports in general you absolutely owe it to yourself to check this amazing battle report out.
CLICK HERE TO READ IT NOW
Don't forget to leave feedback regarding the report in the official article discussion thread. This battle report took many long hours to create and they'd love to hear what you think about it.
If anyone else is interested in using Dakka's wiki article system to make a battle report but is intimidated by the thought of it, please send myself, AgeofEgos, or any of Dakka's article moderators a PM and we can help give you any pointers you need to create a battle report article of your own.
By yakface on 2008-08-28 18:33:37
Dakka Painting Challenge - OLD SCHOOL
WE'VE GOT A WINNER!
Congratulations go Wehrkind for his beautiful Wortsnagga model. It is truly an example of how great models age well.
Hats off to everyone who entered a model making this Dakka Painting Challenge incredibly fun and diverse.
We'll have another challenge coming in a few months, so if you wanted to participate this time and didn't get around to it, you'll have a chance to redeem yourself soon.
By yakface on 2008-08-01 16:27:30
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