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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 $50 worth of any Warhammer 40,000 or Warhammer Fantasy product of your choice (no direct order/bits/specialist games), including free shipping, from Rogue-Market.com!






The Challenge
Jungle Warfare



It's Green Season! St. Patty's Day is just around the corner and winter is coming to an end! Our challenge to you now is to model and paint up one of the many jungle fighters from the big wide galaxy. So break out the sniper stalking through the bush for his target, your wanna be Rambo's, camouflaged alien monsters ready to pounce and tear the weak to shreds. So get the green paints out and get your best foliage on! War is hell, and hell is in the Jungles!

The Deadline: March 31st, 2009: Midnight Central Time (GMT-6:00)

Challenge Rules:

Model must be a Single model.

Based on a single square, round, or hex base. 50mm or smaller accepted.


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!

sounds interesting mate
any limits on scenery on base? (height wise)

Hmmm. Never Entered a painting comp before. Lets see what I can do...

Very cool! Where's that pic from, GD?

wait, so it just needs to have a jungle theme? :|

Some Replies:

JD21290: No limits on height ^_-.

Jimi Nemesis: Welcome to a wonderful new world! Painting Competitions are a great driving force to try out different and new techniques.

scarab: Not sure what site it's from honestly! Google Images ftw...

WaaaaghLord: Yup! That's it! Our themes are wide reaching intentionally so that we can have maximum participation!

May give it a go i think (starts digging thougt his jungle fighters for a good model..................)

Very convenient, what with Lizardmen getting released and all...

Quick Q, is it ok to use a bike base for the old school jungle fighter sniper (the one thats laying down)????

You could use a 50mm round or square base for the lyi9ng down sniper, it'd fit fine, and have room for some cool jungle scenery.

Damm, I just finished a miniature which would have been perfect for the job, but I didn't take a pic of it before I painted it.

Two kwick kwestions:
1) Is your 'Dakka Handle' your username i.e. P4NC4K3 for me
2) Does it have to be 40K, or can it be any game system?

A tank is a single model... [/loophole]

Syhrus wrote:A tank is a single model... [/loophole]

If you can properly mount a tank on a 50mm base (ie, not just balancing it off a rock that's on the base), I'll really be impressed.

Malfred, I hadn't even thought of that! Good catch. Lizardmen would be a great entry indeed.

Fynn, the old squared bike bases are good to go. So long as it's 50mm or smaller, you're good to go!

P4NC4K3, 1 - Yes! 2- No! You can enter any mini you want from any game system! Even minis without game systems!

Syhrus, Tanks at 40k scale really wouldn't fit on a 50mm or smaller base >.>...Epic on the otherhand....


...And yes that means if you want to model an epic tank on a 50mm base and jungle theme it up...you can ^_-.

JD21290: No limits on height ^_-.

ok, it has my interest now
wouldnt fit much on a small ish base, so the only way is up

Lizardmen ftw. I'm betting on Lizzies taking it home.

hehe if i had the cash to do that, I'd try... until then:

Awesome! Thx GD, I will definately be entering this one! I just hope my possibly broken finger doesn't hinder me :X

Sweet, I might have time to get in on this one.

Now If I can just figure out what model to use...

Dang, he didn't use my idea. Sounds cool though. Huge armed catachans for the win!

Conversions cool? if so, do we have to have the completely converted model finished and photographed....or can we photo the parts for the conversion before converting and then assemble and paint?

Ozzy can vouch that I don't have a pre-made model ready to enter....just curious, don't want to give away the conversion before submitting...

Thanks!

Fango

Fango wrote:Conversions cool? if so, do we have to have the completely converted model finished and photographed....or can we photo the parts for the conversion before converting and then assemble and paint?

Ozzy can vouch that I don't have a pre-made model ready to enter....just curious, don't want to give away the conversion before submitting...

Thanks!

Fango

Conversions are more than welcome! WIP just needs to be a wip of some type, before construction, after, during painting, whatev!

So.... I have never entered a painting contest before. I am about to get dead last but, oh well! We can use models from Fantasy and 40k. Does anybody have tips about getting good pictures? Look what my two pictures turned out to be! If you want to see them check out Red Consul Space Marines in the search engine! I didn't have enough time to figure out how to add the link!

Anybody know where you can get some scale ferns in the US? I know there are some brass etched foliage sellers in the UK....

One last question, if I take multiple pics of the finished model from different angles, would these be shown? Ow would I be wasting my time?

Noise wrote:So.... I have never entered a painting contest before. I am about to get dead last but, oh well!

I don't know about that... I'll be entering for the first time as well... so it seems the race is on for dead last!!!!

Can't wait to see all the jungle goodness

good luck everyone!

I will throw in my bid for last place too, but the competition is getting pretty stiff!

The race is on for last place! The bases have to be 50mm, wich is LOTR horses, right?

Gen. Lee Losing, I like your message thingy! "Anything but a 1.... ... Dang!