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Lots of good stuff this month! My votes go to:

Best Painted- Lechine (simply amazing stuff, most would struggle to produce a model like that in a year, let alone a month!), Lipsdapips (when am I not fanboying over your Ultras? ) and El-Torminator (that is a simply perfect rendition of the monochrome Harlequin style I love!)

Most Improved: DaMekBoy1997: not seen a huge amount of your work, but it looks like there's a few new and certainly well executed techniques from you there! Keep up the good work! Love the base and the melta barrels and power weapon blades look ace!

Funniest Entry: Midget Gems has got my vote for this one so many times that I think he needs his own digital parking space! Cracking stuff as ever!

And a Couple That I Just Really Like: TP^DC, GiraffeX and Ubl1k, good work y'all!

7 votes now!!!!

Time to crown our first winner of 2016!

In joint third place with 37 votes apiece, we have El-Torrminator with his superb Harlequin Shadowseer






And Lechine with a fantastic Ta'unar Battlesuit
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In second place on 46 votes, we have Lipsdapips with an awesome Ultramarines Command Squad





And in first place, way out ahead with 54 votes, Midget Gems with Santork Klaws











Another fantastic month, here's to a 2016 full of fantastic paintwork! Thanks and congratulations to everyone who's taken part over the last 10 months!

Congratulations to our winners, well deserved

Fantastic job guys, really inspiring work

Well done folks - really great stuff

Congratulations! Some really fantastic and diverse entries this month, a real pleasure to watch them come together.

Bloody well done, guys! And happy new year!

When I first started these competitions never in my wildest dreams did I think I would ever win won. Thank you so much to everyone that voted for me. You have made me really happy and so motivated to continue my random conversions and mods, maybe even start my own blog to keep a track of all these things I'm creating.

Congrats to El-Torrminator, Lechine and Lipsdapips for placing and to everyone that entered. Its be a joy to watch all the entries take shape.

To top off this awesome month (What could top winning a Dakka challange?) I thought I'd also share with you I became a father for the first time on the 5th Jan to a beautiful baby Girl called Ava. Loving every minute of it so far.

Congrats MG - for the win and becoming a papa- great stuff and what a wonderful start to the new year

Grats to the winners. And double grats to MG!

 Midget Gems wrote:
To top off this awesome month (What could top winning a Dakka challange?) I thought I'd also share with you I became a father for the first time on the 5th Jan to a beautiful baby Girl called Ava. Loving every minute of it so far.

Congratulations mate. I've got my third coming in about 6 weeks. Girls are the best.

Hey thanks a lot for all of the votes everyone, congrats to all of the tops spots and entrants.

Ahhh hey, right on! Thanks everybody for your votes, this is the first time I entered and I did not expect such a positive and motivational environment - you guys rule! Congrats to all the placers, and kudos to everybody who entered - and go you Midget Gems! Sounds like you're gonna make an awesome father mate

An awesome competition - you've got me hooked for all the others to come, over the month I fell in love with the mini community that has been forged around your comps Para

If you teach me how to do such small text on the shoulder pad, I will teach you all I know about bolter barrels and model cleanup

 Midget Gems wrote:
When I first started these competitions never in my wildest dreams did I think I would ever win won. Thank you so much to everyone that voted for me. You have made me really happy and so motivated to continue my random conversions and mods, maybe even start my own blog to keep a track of all these things I'm creating.

Congrats to El-Torrminator, Lechine and Lipsdapips for placing and to everyone that entered. Its be a joy to watch all the entries take shape.

To top off this awesome month (What could top winning a Dakka challange?) I thought I'd also share with you I became a father for the first time on the 5th Jan to a beautiful baby Girl called Ava. Loving every minute of it so far.

Grats!! here's to the future modeler! ;D

And grats as well on the well deserved win, as well as to everyone who placed! There were soooo many beautiful unique pieces it was extremely hard to vote but such a privilege to watch ya'll work!

Congrats, Midget Gems, VERY well deserved!

Now you can tell your new daughter when she grows up that you're famous!

Congrats to the winners! Well-deserved indeed! And congrats to Midget Gems on your new little future wargamer!

Congrats to everyone, and a big hand to Midget Gems!! I love it . So many awesome models this month.

Congratulations to the top 3, and to others that entered, your work is truly inspirational.

Midget Gems - congrats not only on winning with such a creative piece, but also on becoming a dad. Having kids is one of the best things to ever happen to me and I wish you all the very best with it and the many happy years ahead with your own. Looking forward to seeing your future projects on dakkadakka. Just be careful not to spill any coffee over your painting area - you'll be needing it with a new born baby

I also want to give a shout out to Paradigm for putting together such a fun competition and putting the time and effort into maintaining this thread and putting the entries up there. Great job there buddy, thumbs up

Congrats MG! That's amazing, all the best to the three of you!

Thanks to everyone for all your kind words