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Welcome to May's Dakka (unofficial) Monthly Painting Challenge. For those who aren't familliar, this is a no-prize-related challenge open to any and all painters and hobbyists. Anyone can enter, from a newcomer to the hobby with your first box of minis to a multiple-time Golden Demon champion, and the winner each month will be decided by community poll, not just on the paintwork but on the effort, creativity and awesomeness of the finished piece!


For this month, the theme is: Fast And Furious

For example, this includes:
Any kind of model described in its rules or background as faster than normal models
Any kind of transport, from a unicycle to a tank, a horse or a jetpack
Any model in a running/flying pose
Any model renowned for being angry/furious

Slight rules change, you can now have 5 pics for your final entry as opposed to 4, in the interests of making it easier for people doing full squads.



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 could be unassembled, primed or even basecoated, so long as we can see where you are starting from. Entries that do not submit a Proof Picture will not be elligible 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. If you do not finish in time, the single most recent WIP picture may be submitted.



So What Do I Win?
- Points... and points mean... bragging rights for the next month Following the vote, points will be awarded for the following:

1st Place: 10 points
2nd Place: 8 points
3rd Place: 5 points
Non-placing Entrants: 1 point

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 Friday 1st May and will end at midnight GMT on the 31st May. After this, I shall compile the finished entries into a new thread, and voting will run for 5 days.


Voting Guidelines
When voting, consider the following as well as the quality of the paintwork:
- The creativity and originality of the entry
- The overall composition of the piece, such as basing, conversion and coherency between the models
- The relevance of the entry to the theme
- The effort the painter has put into the entry

Gentlemen, start your engines!


List Of Entrants


NidLifeCrisis: FINISHED


Aldo: FINISHED


KaptinBadrukk: FINISHED


Nevelon: FINISHED


Matthew: FINISHED


FearPeteySodes: FINISHED


SJM: FINISHED


TP^DC Deputy Manager


ZergSmasher: FINISHED


Stormwall: FINISHED


Buttery Commissar


OneManNoodles: FINISHED


Ustrello


RageQuitRabbit


Kustomer D: FINISHED


SilverMk2


Ruberu


Drakheart


Wilson: FINISHED


El-torminator


skid13: FINISHED


GiraffeX: FINISHED


Inspector #264: FINISHED


queen_annes_revenge: FINISHED


AUGmaniac: FINISHED


Peregrine


Januine: FINISHED


tomcat31


Arclaw


Inflatable love badger: FINISHED


Bi'ios


jah-joshua: FINISHED


Talys


TazN: FINISHED


Spuj


Zefig


jb1981


FakeBritishPerson


Curtassion


Djphranq


GrimDork


Albinoork: FINISHED


Midget Gems: FINISHED


Paradigm: FINISHED


WinterHound: FINISHED


pinkmarine: FINISHED


Polecat99e


40kPirate: FINISHED


TheDraconicLord


Calibanite Lion


Iliu: FINISHED


mad_eddy_13: FINISHED


Angelofvengeance: FINISHED


ckig


nflagey: FINISHED


zoat


Farseer Anth'lan: FINISHED

OK, I have to admit that this month's category is SUPER convenient for me because I was planning on painting this guy next anyway:



What I wasn't planning on was painting his Nob Biker entourage at the same time, but heck this is supposed to be a challenge..



To be clear, I enter the Painboy and his three Nob Bikers for this month's challenge!

I failed the last one but I wont fail this one, here is my entry, a guy on a horse, which makes him fast, and he is finecast so he is probably pretty angry.



Amdûr, lord of blades, not the TES blades, the weapon ones.

OK Paradigm, sorry I didn't finish last month. My camera broke, and I got a new one (not as good) a few days ago.

I have 3 cardboard grot tanks, would those be OK?

Yep, those would be fine!

I know the bike is an old crappy one, but I’m not rebuilding this guy. Jetbike Autach. He might get some boys to fly with, but I’m trying to keep my goals reasonable.

I'm in, just let me get to a GW store and buy something!

Lets do this!

Venom!


Raider!
(NiB)

Probably 2 fast 2 furious though

...Sorry I'll see myself out.

As you can see I'm starting from scratch, I'm hoping to get 5 Cyboars out of this pile.



Cheers.

 SJM wrote:
As you can see I'm starting from scratch, I'm hoping to get 5 Cyboars out of this pile.

Cheers.

Nice bitz pile! Look forward to seeing those!

Nothing quite like shaking a box of parts and watching the minis grow out of the chaotic mess.

I'm in but trying to decide between ravenwing standard bearer or a Vindicator tank. I fancy making something bigger this month, but do we call tanks fast? Let me know Para then I'll post the proof.

 TP^DC Deputy Manager wrote:
I'm in but trying to decide between ravenwing standard bearer or a Vindicator tank. I fancy making something bigger this month, but do we call tanks fast? Let me know Para then I'll post the proof.

BA tanks are fast.

Vindis are defiantly furious. I think the ravenwing fits the theme better, but a case could be made for the tank. And frankly, that’s what matters.

 Paradigm wrote:
Yep, those would be fine!

Count me in!

I'll be painting the Vindi up in DA colours and it's faster than a snail

I got his urge last night to paint something that wasn't too fiddly, looked mean and would destroy stuff with he flick of a switch (I may have watched Band of Brothers again, oh dear)

Tanks of any kind are fine! So long as it's faster in some way that walking, it goes!

Excellent. I'm in with this:

*grumble, grumble, [silence], BOOM!!!!!*

After some deliberation, I have decided to enter my Khorne Daemonkin Raptors:

I should have a new camera very soon so people can actually see my stuff better and critique it!

Btw TP, that rhino kit looks like the same one I've built, but that box art looks way different. Is it an older release of the same kit?

Did some prime work at 100 last night. Proof and prime are from today the first.

It goes vroom and pewpew. You know. With it being a Missile Jetfoil ship. I guess it counts. Put it up as my proof Para!

I'm in... will post proof pics when I get home

I'm in, I just have to err..... Build my proof first! Lol

 TP^DC Deputy Manager wrote:
Excellent. I'm in with this:

*grumble, grumble, [silence], BOOM!!!!!*

That must be old.

Kaptin, it is love. It is life. It is old.

You can get things like that cheap on ebay used. Restore them to their former glory. I mix new with RT and second for instance.

If you think that is old, I got a GW mini from 1985.

 Stormwall wrote:


If you think that is old, I got a GW mini from 1985.

Lead poisoning!

Count me in, seems like a good excuse to finish this thing (only primed it in red so far):



I may add a second jet, but I've a convention to sell at this month, so I don't want to bite off more than I can chew.

 FearPeteySodes wrote:

 Stormwall wrote:


If you think that is old, I got a GW mini from 1985.

Lead poisoning!

Flashback Friday is that way. I almost snapped a picture of an old RT rhino box I’ve got in the basement. I had the camera in hand even. But thought it was too much effort for a gag.

Maybe next moth we can have “Relic” as an option. See how much old lead gets dragged out for fresh paint.

 Stormwall wrote:
Kaptin, it is love. It is life. It is old.

You can get things like that cheap on ebay used. Restore them to their former glory. I mix new with RT and second for instance.

If you think that is old, I got a GW mini from 1985.

I see now.

I'll throw my hat in, here is my proof pic:



(ignore that the base on the right has paint on it, that will be repainted when I fill it in).

Damn it!!!! I just finished my 3 Deffkopta-to-Quads-Conversion.

If I had just waited a few more days, I would throw them in.
Now I need to do something else.

I ll see if I'm in.

Good luck to everyone.

Already have a model for this challenge! Just need to take some pictures when I get home.