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(To any mods if this is in the wrong forum area please move it)

This is Cystic Fibrosis awareness month and my fiancee has it. I am gana be painting and converting a space marine for her for to show my support to her cause and have her do with it as she pleases.

I purpose a challenge to anyone willing to wana do it. The challenge is to paint an infantry model and then send me a photo through a pm. Please pm me to tell if you are interested in participating in this challenge. I plan on having all photos voted on without names and also have her pick a winner of what she likes. I wana show people with cystic fibrosis that the gamer community does support the finding of a cure or treatment even if it is just us modeling and painting to do it.

(optional) If you wana donate to cystic fibrosis research please do, every dollar helps.
http://www.cff.org/GetInvolved/ManyWaysToGive/MakeADonation/
If you wana donate your model you can send it to me and she will raffle it off at the fair here. The money raised will be donated also the help research a cure. Those who want to pm me and I will give you the mailing address.

Basic rules
1) Any infantry type unit from any game system out there(40k, wh fantasy, WM, Hordes, Infinity...)
2) Main colors are purple and gold, you can mix any other colors in as you wish
3) The symbol for cystic fibrosis is a rose and you mush have a rose on the model some where
4) You have until the end of may to get your models done and photographed and sent to me to set up a voting page
5) My model is disqualified from the contest seeing as I am hosting it
6) One model only per person
7) You may show wip pics but no painted ones

Offical List (so far)
timetowaste85
Squidmanlolz
Space Corsair
PanzerSoldier
n0t_u
heavybolter
LumenPraebeo
infinite_array
carlos13th
Redbeard
Nocturn
Battleworthy Arts
DarkTraveler777
master of ordinance
Bat Manuel
Ratius

Anyone I missed please pm me

Turn in Procedure
Send final photo to me and name it "complete model". I will store it till I have them all and then put up and voting page and let people decided who they think is the best on the dakka community and that will be up for 2 weeks. I will then stop the vote and post the community winner is. While my fiancee will decide the three winners for the prizes in the next week after it ends, those will be posted in this thread. All pics must be in the last day of the month the latest or you will not be up for community voting or her picks. (Unless you had a sudden power failure or your computer blew up then yes I can have some special situation, stuff happens)

E-mail address: sintkor@gmail.com

people who have turned in picks
Offical List (so far)
timetowaste85..............yes
Squidmanlolz................no
Space Corsair...............yes
PanzerSoldier................yes
n0t_u...............................yes
heavybolter.....................yes
LumenPraebeo.............no
infinite_array...................no
carlos13th.......................no
Redbeard........................yes
Nocturn............................no
Battleworthy Arts............no
DarkTraveler777...........yes
master of ordinance.....no
Bat Manuel......................yes
Ratius .............................no

This actually sounds like a cool idea. Why not have each person paypal a dollar with their image, winner gets half, the other half goes to research for CF? Just a thought-applies to peoples' desire to help and get money. I'll get started on my model tonight. Can you open it up as a Fantasy/40K thing? Makes the pool larger and may get more support. I can see WM, Hordes, Infinity and everything else getting involved too-might wanna ask a MOD to put it in general if you do this. Time to start chopping. (PS, I want to do a Fantasy model, could you tell?

one of the rules says all models from all games.

Nice, I missed the first rule-I saw the other ones. Well, my other points still stand
I grew up in farm country in NYS-I started counting at #2

ty and i am gana do it, just pm me so i can add you to a list of names i will start



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All are welcome

MODs, would this be better in general? I feel like more hits will happen there. And this seems like a fun project for all us painters/sculptors to add to. Let's do it guys!

I would love to see this in the News and Rumour section for extra exposure FOR GOOD CAUSE!

I might just do this... I need a model first (I want to go big or go home)

I'll participate in the challenge to show support and help raise awareness.

But I don't want to be involved in the contest/prize thingy.

Sorry to be stick in the mud but I prefer to donate directly to charities. Beside even if did manage to win, I'd just donate the prize to the charity anyways.

Other ways you can get involved can be found here:

http://www.cff.org/GetInvolved/CFAwareness/

I donated my Facebook cover image for the cause

^I was also going to opt to donate any winnings to the charity

I have fixed it so that now it is optional to donate but people who do this it is up to u, those who do ty.\

And if a mod wants to move it to a better place go for it

A letter from my fiancee

To all doing this and future ones to join, thank you for doing something you love in support of all cf people. It means alot to see people express themselves with there creativity. We sometimes can't do such hobbies cause of athritis that we develop. Thank you for your support.

What do you guys think of the winner donating there mini to be raffled away for cf at the local fair here. My fiancee is wondering?

koridon wrote:What do you guys think of the winner donating there mini to be raffled away for cf at the local fair here. My fiancee is wondering?

I'd be willing

cool, anyone one who wants too can, she will be donating it to cf and if you guys know a way to get more people in on this please do I wana see this do well and then next year do it again.

<-- Participant

Id love to get involved in this but I may not get the time to paint a mini because I have a great deal of exams this month. Will try.

thats all i ask is try

No way i could paint a rose and do not have the colors anyhow. However this is a really cool Idea and I hope ya GF enjoys the stuff folks paint.

try making a rose out of green stuff that was fun. Ty for at least thinking about it.

Offical List (so far)
timetowaste85
Squidmanlolz
Space Corsair
PanzerSoldier


If I missed anyone please let me know and i will update the list

I'd be willing to join in this cause as well. So PM sent, can't wait to see all the models for this.

Just sent a PM and have my miniature built and ready for converting.

Alright people we have 6 contestants we officaly have a challenge

I'd be willing to donate my mini too.

If you don't want to sculpt or paint a rose, you can just use the Sisters of Battle decal sheet; the flower design on it is a heraldic rose.

I sculpted a rose design on my shoulder pad with green stuff and then realized I could of just used the SOB decal...

wish i knew

Also as a quick question I usually put my WIP up in a blog I have here on dakka, would it be against the rules to show my entry for this contest?

go for it, maybe it will get more people to join also.

And send me a link to in it a pm also, would love to see what you do



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And for anyone else in the compation, if you wana send me some wip photos, pm me and i will look at them

How about posting links to WIP in the thread, keeps the thread interesting and may inspire others.

I agree if you guys wana post links to wips in here go for it

Here's what I'm working on. I sculpted the rose symbols to look like they had texture, its not just rough GS'ing. Finally found a use for those Blood Angels bits I got for Christmas in my mega grab bags from the Warstore.