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Welcome all to the 32nd round of the Unofficial Painting Challenge here on Dakka. For anyone who's unfamiliar with the format, this is a simple community challenge open to anyone on Dakka, the aim of the game being to paint a model or set of models relating to the month's theme and win points for doing so!

This month, the traditional Halloween/October theme returns with Fright Night. As always, this is open to interpretation however you like, whether that's a Genestealer lurking in the shadows or the terrifying visage of a victim of the Curse of the Wulfen, a ghostly form of a long-dead warrior or the unknowable horror of a Dark Elf sorceress's power. The scarier and more thematic, the better!



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 6 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 5 images and one separate image would count as your 6 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 of October and will end at midnight GMT on the 31st of September. After this, I shall compile the finished entries into a new thread, and voting will run for 5 days.

List of Entrants:

Nevelon: FINISHED


Midget Gems: FINISHED



NathanD298


u971: FINISHED


Retrogamer0001:


Elbows: FINISHED


TheDraconicLord: FINISHED


Lord_Ghazghkull: FINISHED


n1ceguypaul: FINISHED


Modock: FINISHED


electriceve: FINISHED


Power Elephant: FINISHED


ChaoticMind:


Drummernathan: FINISHED


SirDonald: FINISHED


Gulgog TufToof: FINISHED


CREEEEEEEEED:


Moolet: FINISHED


Verviedi: FINISHED


Kustomer D: FINISHED



ZergSmasher: FINISHED


Martinof: FINISHED


EmberlordofFIre8


Paradigm: FINISHED


Chris56: FINISHED


biggie_reg: FINISHED


vejut:


Ustrello: FINISHED


Llamahead: FINISHED


KernelTerror: FINISHED


ZoBo: FINISHED


DanceofSlaneesh: FINISHED


ZenBadger: FINISHED


Keezus: FINISHED


Feltmonkey: FINISHED

OK, bit of a stretch here, depending on how long it takes me to build, and if I get a good day to prime. And then get all that done leaving enough time for my slow self to get paint down. But if all that lines up, I’m going to try to get some hexwraiths done. I’m also going to try do get the skeletons done, to finish off my start collecting box, so might do a mix, depending on my mood and how they turn out.

But if I can’t manage that, I’ll be entering Tippy, the loneliest hormagaunt.

Not really too sure how much I have for this one, so I'll enter this for now, but may change depending on what I find in my collection! So (for now), I'll go for the Tenebrael Shard; I imagine bumping in to him in a dark alley would definitely put a bit of Fright in your Night.



*EDIT* Had to change entry as these Plague marines need to be painted up! One day I might get round to finishing Silver Tower... one day...

I'am in again,might as well been on this roller coaster a few times now,kinda used to it.
Will Be entering the 40k Universes Creepy Crawly's with a Scarab Swarm,Will take a better proof pic when i can.

Love the theme, gonna try to get my Trygon put together for this month.

I'm in...some dungeon beastie from my collection of unpainted stuff. Will decide shortly.

EDIT: This guy'll do. My winged daemon prince - shame I did the other guy too early, he's plenty sick.

Oh boy, I have been waitint for this:

The Carver is excellent - I have him as a dungeon beastie --- didn't use the pumpkin head. The sack is more creepy looking

I been thinking about what I want to enter this month and I did get out a Undead Dragon but thoughts kept bubbling away and I thought i'd go for something much more scary, I was gong down the Orks in Fancy Dress route and remembered this scene.



So thought I would go with an Ork Batman and Robin - These guys coming out of the mist on a dark night, something that will frighten criminals everywhere

Trying to get the bits together now.

Only Fools And Orkses? By Midget Gems? Hell yes!

Hmmm...not sure if I should enter some Poxwalkers or some kind of Daemons for this one. Khorne knows I've got some Bloodletters and Flesh Hounds that really need some finishing, but honestly I feel like I should do some Nurgle stuff in honor of the Death Guard release. I'm most likely going to go with Poxwalkers as I'm working my way through the Dark Imperium set anyways; might as well start with those when I move over to the Death Guard half.

i think this will be my first ever entry but my painting skills arent up there like many of the people ive sene in the threads but for my entry.... My converted Dimacheron.....

Lord_Ghazghkull wrote:
i think this will be my first ever entry but my painting skills arent up there like many of the people ive sene in the threads but for my entry.... My converted Dimacheron.....

Spoiler:

That is exactly what I intend to enter too! Definitely fits the bill for the theme, I think. Few things would give you as much of a 'fright' to put it mildly...

 Oppl wrote:

Lord_Ghazghkull wrote:
i think this will be my first ever entry but my painting skills arent up there like many of the people ive sene in the threads but for my entry.... My converted Dimacheron.....

Spoiler:

That is exactly what I intend to enter too! Definitely fits the bill for the theme, I think. Few things would give you as much of a 'fright' to put it mildly...

i followed a german forum thread tutorial on this guy... but did many extra steps to make it rock solid

Midget Gems wrote:

Spoiler:

Paradigm wrote:Only Fools And Orkses? By Midget Gems? Hell yes!

probably one of the best episodes. I'm looking forward to this one a lot and a brilliant title for it =)

 Moolet wrote:

Paradigm wrote:Only Fools And Orkses? By Midget Gems? Hell yes!

probably one of the best episodes. I'm looking forward to this one a lot and a brilliant title for it =)

Eek hope I haven't set myself up for a fall here. I don't know how well I can do an Ork in Batman Fancy dress (let alone make it look like only Fools and Orkses). Yeah I like that episode too.

Link to a larger bit of that episode if anyone is interested.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93bAdEf0pzc&list=RD93bAdEf0pzc#t=0

I do think I should let Para and you guys name all my entries since they are always better than my own names.

Well in keeping with halloween may i present mr ghouly van ghoulstein. My mourngul for my nighthaunt army thats been doing pretty well at my local gw for a path to glory campaign. Shame i cant use him for that but i think he will come in handy in sigmar.

Oh this month is going to be super fun! Some amazing crazy monsters will come out of the woodwork this month not to be seen for another year! I'm thinking about going classic monsters like King King, Dracula, WereWolf, Lizardman, stuff like that! Daemon princes would be fun, paint up like 5 of them and then go table someone! haha!

Aaaaandd....done. Just so I don't have to worry about catching up at the end of the month.

Done already? You nuts....
Looking great btw!

Haha wow that was so fast! Awesome, those blood stains are sickening! He has been ripping up someone...

Took me 20-25 minutes. So, yes.

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Don't suppose you've got an earlier proof? It's not that I don't trust you, it's just that they look like a fair bit of work has already gone into them beyond the normal rules for a proof pic.

Skin is half done, helmets and pants are just base coated. Everything else is bare primer.
Don't have an earlier picture. I can start something else no prb.

If you don't mind, that would be better. The rules say primed and/or one colour applied, those are just a little too far along to really fit, I'm afraid. Hope that's ok, and do feel free to show those off in here once they're done!

A Better proof Picture than a Box.One Scarab Swarm De-sprued and cleaned.

Perfecty fine really, I don't want to give the wrong impression. Just ignore the proof, I'll delete the post.

Proof.
Khorne Blood Warriors

Just got back to the hobby and Dakka. This is exactly the motivation I need! I am thinking poxwalkers as well. Proof pic will be taken tonight!

-T

Count me in! First entry to this ever! Got Mortarion here. Left some bits off as sub assemblies. Excited to paint this!