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Welcome to the 21st Unofficial Painting Challenge here on Dakka! Each month, entrants use these challenges as motivation to get painting, push their skills, clear their backlogs and get feedback from the amazing P&M community here. Anyone is free to enter, whether this is your first model or your thousand and first!

This month, the theme is 'Heavy Metal'. This basically covers everything that's bringing a lot of armour, from a Paladin in full plate mail to a Spartan Assault Tank. If it can take a beating, it's the kind of thing we want to see this month!


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 5 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 4 images and one separate image would count as your 5 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 November and will end at midnight GMT on the 31st November. After this, I shall compile the finished entries into a new thread, and voting will run for 5 days.

List of Entrants:

SirDonald: FINISHED


Jadenim:


Nevelon: FINISHED


Bottle: FINISHED


Possumcraft: FINISHED


ZoBo: FINISHED


Kustomer D: FINISHED


Whittlesey40k; FINISHED


DAJimmyK


Zergsmasher: FINISHED


Buttery Commissar:


Januine:


rollawaythestone: FINISHED


Vejut: FINISHED


Hawky:


Modock: FINISHED


Xeanee:


Red_Ink_Cat:


Verviedi: FINISHED


kb_lock:


sparkywtf:


Midget Gems: FINISHED


Elbows: FINISHED


GulGog Tuftoof: FINISHED


Guildenstern: FINISHED


Lazzamore: FINISHED


Ratius: FINISHED


feltmonkey: FINISHED


Moolet:


Sauragnmon:


Farseer Anath'lan: FINISHED


Dakkamakka: FINISHED


Paradigm: FINISHED


Manalishi: FINISHED


RageQuitRabbit: FINISHED


methebest: FINISHED


moodster95: FINISHED


keezus: FINISHED

I'm entering a Thanatar-Cynis conversion - Mechanicum FTW!

Hey Para, is it alright if I enter my Predator conversion?



It's technically only primed and base coated blue, so meets the rules, but it feels a bit cheeky having a base coated tank! Having said that I do only have two weeks before I go on holiday to get it finished.


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Also, shameless plug for my P&M blog on how I built it!

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/707076.page

No problem!

I’m going to start out with my Honor Guard chapter champion with thunderhammer.



Depending if I can get mold lines cleaned and a good day to prime (which is very sketchy at this time of year) I might swap my entry to the tartaros terminator sergeant I’ve got tacked together at the moment.

 Jadenim wrote:
Hey Para, is it alright if I enter my Predator conversion?

Spoiler:

It's technically only primed and base coated blue, so meets the rules, but it feels a bit cheeky having a base coated tank! Having said that I do only have two weeks before I go on holiday to get it finished.


Automatically Appended Next Post:
Also, shameless plug for my P&M blog on how I built it!

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/707076.page

Don't worry, I'll compensate for you by starting with a Land Raider that needs its previous paint removing first! I'm clearly over-committing but I didn't want to miss another month! Pics to follow tonight.

Cheers Whittlesey, glad someone is picking up my slack!

I doubt anything Eldar fits in to "heavy metal", so unless a "slight wraithbone" Fire Prism counts, I'm out for this one.

Here's my choice for this month:

Aspiring Deathbringer

 Elbows wrote:
I doubt anything Eldar fits in to "heavy metal", so unless a "slight wraithbone" Fire Prism counts, I'm out for this one.

Fire Prisms are tanks, close enough for me.

These are the only really heavy units I'll have this month but I'd already based, washed and dry brushed when the poll was chosen. Would they still be acceptable?

G'day...now see, I've had a stompa sitting around for about 2 years now...I've made a couple of starts on it, but never got close to finishing it...currently, it's primed, sprayed silver, and has a smattering of panels based in red, white, yellow, blue, brown and olive...is that too much pre-work done on it to enter it as-is?...I mean, there is 7 colours on it already I guess, but then it is huge, with a lot more work to go...

If it is too much to go as-is, that'd be fine honestly, I've been contemplating respraying it and going with one of several other possible schemes anyway, so I could just do that if it makes everyone comfortable

Anyway, I want to (at least try to) get him done finally!...and really, what's more "heavy metal" than basically a walking pile of scrap metal/machinery?

Anyway, proof pic...taken and uploaded entirely with my phone, because my laptop's still dead...praying to mork this works!

Hey guys, I ll either try my Land Raider or a scratch built Ork Trukk.

Oh man! Love that trukk KD!

Okay, this is my entry. It's an original RT Land Raider I've had since I was about 12 (which was really longer ago than I'd like!). I need to strip the paint off, then fix it (I think I tried giving it battle damage, but basically just smashed bits!), then I can start painting it. That's a lot to do in a month for me, but I don't want to miss another month, so I'll give it a shot!!

I doubt I'll be able to take it apart, so I've got to live with 12 year old me's gluing skills :(







It's currently covered in Biostrip. Might get chance to clean it up later tonight.


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 ZoBo wrote:
Oh man! Love that trukk KD!

Yeah, you totally need to do the trukk KD!

Thank you guys. I might give it a try. I m a bit tired of Orks right now but maybe the Trukk is going to get some paint on it.

Ooof...that'll be a cool/fun/tough project. Good luck!

Fire Prisms are fine, the topics aren't meant to be taken 100% literally. Any kind of tank is good.

And yes, Possumcraft, those are fine.

yay, thanks

Okay I'm in for my first squad of Deathwing Knights.

Is it okay if the interior of my tanks were painted 3 years ago, assembled, primed and now sit with (some) basecoat? I hope so, because I am going to be doing my land raider!

I'm in with these Centurion Devastators:

As you can see I'm going to do the heads separately, as they will be impossible (or nearly so) to get to once glued in. I figure Centurion suits are suitably heavy and metal, huh?

@DAJimmyK: I look forward to seeing those Deathwing Knights. I did some of those as my first ever entry into one of these painting challenges (way back in April 2015). They really are awesome models!

I'll enter a Crisis Iridium battlesuit. Will take photos in the morning.

Well.

Definitely in for this one.
Latest addition to my admech war convocation

Buttery strikes gold again!

Also..
Januine; giving lurkers a purpose since 2014/12/21 04:47:33

I'll give this one a shot. I have a few things around I could paint. FW DG Contemptor, centurions, Blood Angels Contemptor, .... . Now to make up my mind.

I'll be painting this Lord of the Rings Cave Troll is rescued off ebay. Just finished paint stripping him. He'll become a Super Mutant Behemoth for my Super Mutant warband for our second local This Is Not A Test campaign.

Literally "heavy metal", noice

Finished his stop-sign maul, got him primed, and basecoated. I think he's going to turn out pretty cool.