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It's back! This is your chance to show the rest of Dakka what you're made of!

The Rules:
1.) Abide by the spirit and guidelines of the Challenge presented.
2.) Take a WIP shot of your model before painting. Send your WIP along with your entry.
3.) Paint your model!
4.) Take another shot of the completed model and send it in to dakkapaintingchallenge@dakkadakka.com with your Dakka Handle as the photo's filename. Also be sure to include your dakka handle in the email, just in case. Oh and be sure it's in before Midnight Central (GMT-6:00) the night of the Deadline!!
5.) The day after the deadline, all the entries will be presented for all of Dakka to see! Along with this will be a poll for the community at large to pick their favorite from the bunch.
6.) Public voting will last for 3 Days. And the Top 5 Entries will go on to be voted upon by our Judging Panel. The Winner will be announced soon after!

Notes:
The model you enter can not be shown on Dakka or any other website, it's specifically for release in the Voting Poll. Models found to be posted prior to the Voting Poll will be disqualified. This does not claim publishing rights. Once the voting is over, feel free to post your model all over the web ^_^!

Please only send one WIP shot with your entry. If you decide to send more than one final painted shot, I will pick the best of them and post it alone. You may create a collage for the model to show detail (back, front, close ups, etc.) and send it as your entry.

Administrator and Moderator entries will be marked with a "Team Dakka" watermark. Admin and Mod participants can't win prizes, but don't let that keep you from voting for them! Defeating one another is more than enough a reward...


Images:
Pics of your model may be either 1000x800 pixels or 800x1000 pixels . The voting is done blind, that way favoritism has nothing to do with who wins. No text, watermarks, or icons on the entry at all. File Names will be changed after I receive them.

The Prize:
The Winner Recieves: Dakka Bragging rights, A Dakka front page announcement of your glorious victory, the respect from your fellow modelers, and a prize package worth $50 from AwesomePaintjob.com!






The Challenge
Nitty Gritty Armor

The worse the weather, the more you are required to be out in it.



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!

This is just one of a million stories you can create as you move forward with this challenge! The idea is simple, paint a Tank/Skimmer/Walker/APC and make it feel/look real and used! It's time to use all of those techniques you've been wanted to use for all these years but never quite had the right project to try them out on! Water Streaks, Oil Marks, blast damage, paint chipping, rust, mud, dirt, dust, jet exhaust, scorch marks! The amount of weathering is up to you!

The Deadline: November 8th, 2009: Midnight Eastern Time (GMT-5:00)

Challenge Rules:

Model must be a single tank kit. Crew additions such as drivers, commanders or riders are acceptable

If you have ANY questions regarding the competition, please feel free to ask here or email DakkaPaintingChallenge@dakkadakka.com!!

For those of you who might be new to Dakka and haven't seen this before, check out The Dakka Painting Challenge Article.

Happy Painting!

Is this a competition to see who can weather Armour well? can I post a pic of a world war 2 tank i have done?

accordint to the rules you must have WIP pics and started in this month

The entire point of the contest is to start and finish a vehicle/walker/whatever within the allotted period. In this case, from today until November 8th.

Models can not be shown prior to the voting thread post at which time they are unveiled by me for that purpose. When voting is all over and the winner is announced, anonymity is finished and people may post their model as they wish, and I will put names to models so that people will know who did what.

Historical armor pieces are perfectly acceptable though.

Ok thats good i have a dio with it as well should i post that too.

would a =][=mod edit=][= count because im starting a non 40k army

Fantasy pieces such as chariots and warmachines are acceptable.

I have changed my mind and a I am gonna do my newest sentinel which i finished about 30 minutes ago. Some last touches and its now done.

Lanky-feck wrote:I have changed my mind and a I am gonna do my newest sentinel which i finished about 30 minutes ago. Some last touches and its now done.

I don't think you quite understand the idea behind it. You have to start and finish the piece from now until November 8th. Anything that's already done can't be entered.

Oh right can it be my newest =][=mod edit=][= thats basecoated

basecoated models are acceptable. Take a WIP photo before you start the model and include that with the final entry photo.

can you scratchbuild and convert?

Scratch builds and conversions are more than acceptable.

I'm going to go ahead and say Deffkoptas are welcome to join the fray. They're substantial enough a vehicle and will allow for some really fantastic weathering opporunities. Bikes and Jetbikes are acceptable on this same logic.

Are there any limitations on size? Does it have to be just the vehicle or can it be inserted into scenery, as in a diorama?

Hmmm... What to paint...

Still, given the nature of the challenge, and the fact that we've seen GD's models, I'm thinking I have about a snowball's chance in hell.

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I'd paint up a killa kan, but who'd notice the difference?

Valhallan42nd wrote:I'd paint up a killa kan, but who'd notice the difference?

Do a joke diorama with half the vehicle badly weathered and the other half with grots crawling over it scraping off the rust and repainting it all nice and new.

Wow, this sounds really cool. I am a big fan of the APJ tutorials, and I have several Vehicles that need painting.

Fate? I think not

Horst wrote:looks like fun... I think i'll paint up a ****... I was going to paint it anyway, but this gives me a reason to.

You can say that again! ...how fricken awesome is it that the contest is a vehicle; I just finished the **** on my custom EDIT-Vehicle-EDIT...


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So we don't actually submit anything (WIP photo, entry etc) until it's done? Do we need to sign up or just send in the final before the deadline?

We've never had any issues with having your model be photographed with a background before, so I'm going to say Diorama's are more than ok. Just be sure the focus is on the vehicle!

Also, Tau Battlesuits crisis suit and larger are allowed. I think they are suitably walker-ish.

As for sending things in, don't worry about sending anything until you've got your final photos ready to send in. Then send everything at once. This saves me time in the long run.

Would a =][=mod edit=][= work? Its not exactly 'armor' but i'm working mine to be pretty gritty.

Trucks are ok as well.

Remember though, it has to be a model/project that hasn't already been previously posted before.

I might eneter the contest with my ***
If i get the time to put it together.(if i can figure out how )

Guess its time to build that =][=mod edit=][= that is STILL missing pieces, thanks for nothing forgeworld

This is pretty exciting for me... if I can find a way to green stuff these ***** properly I'm gonna give it a run; but Nov 8th is going to be here fast!

I'm in!


If I can ever get around to finishing anything.....ever again!

Hi - thinking of stripping a badly painted/assembled 'tank' and weathering it for this comp. Quick question - should the initial wip be of the badly painted version, or the freshly stripped?

(edited to minimise the 'publically announcing your entry' issue!).

I'll give this a shot, I'm in.

BigJon

Freshly stripped would be best for the purpose of the WIP