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2015/09/30 15:40:13
Subject: Dakka (unofficial) Monthly Painting Challenge 7: September 2015: "Never tell me the odds!"
Some great entries on the last two pages! Voting should be pretty fun as always. Just as glad I sat this one out, as real life has been a pain lately and I haven't been able to spend as much time painting as I would like.
@Buttery: I hope you finish your mini completely. I'm sure we're all looking forward to it!
My armies (re-counted and updated on 11/7/24, including modeled wargear options):
Dark Angels: ~16000 Astra Militarum: ~1200 | Imperial Knights: ~2300 | Leagues of Votann: ~1300 | Tyranids: ~3400 | Stormcast Eternals: ~5000 | Kruleboyz: ~3500 | Lumineth Realm-Lords: ~700
Check out my P&M Blogs: ZergSmasher's P&M Blog | Imperial Knights blog | Board Games blog | Total models painted in 2024: 40 | Total models painted in 2025: 21 | Current main painting project: Warhammer 40k Leviathan set
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2015/09/30 19:34:50
Subject: Re:Dakka (unofficial) Monthly Painting Challenge 7: September 2015: "Never tell me the odds!"
Fantastic final rush everyone, great to see so many finished entries popping up, looks like another tough month for voting!
Here are my final pics, with thanks to my Dad for taking them this month, as going to work in the dark and coming home in the dark is not helpful when you are trying to take some decent pictures!
Colonel Tigh Vs Carnifex:
Good luck to everyone that has taken part, and I will see you all for the next one!
'Fraid I'm out of this one folks. Not been feeling well recently and ther's no way am gonna finish in time today.Good luck all and great great stuff coming up here so far
Sorry, had to post this as a mate came round and we realized something about the fluff of my entry.
Assuming normality is present for the 'to hit' stage - six lightning guns at BS4 is four hits. The lightning gun is S7 AP3 heavy1 rending shred, so they would need four sixes to rend.
It says it's sponson weapons detonated and it's tracks disintegrated - we took that to mean both which means the rending rolls had to all be better than 1.
The 7th ed damage roll would therefore need to be two sixes and two fives.
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2015/10/01 02:16:44
Subject: Re:Dakka (unofficial) Monthly Painting Challenge 7: September 2015: "Never tell me the odds!"
Well it's been a crazy month and I there was a lot that I didn't get finished up the way I wanted. I thought I was well ahead of schedule earlier in the month but getting my kids back into the school routine really ate up a good portion of my painting time.Here's my final entry as I won't have any more time to finish up the remaining Marines:
From the Commissar's point of view - "Flaming Marine on top of a fuel depot. Never tell me the odds"
2015/10/01 05:42:03
Subject: Dakka (unofficial) Monthly Painting Challenge 7: September 2015: "Never tell me the odds!"
Sorry all, I am out I was so tired yesterday that I was blabbering incoherently and then passed out at 9 only to wake at 6 this morning. All components need far too much work to be considered an entry. Great entries from everyone so far.
@Buttery - great entry this month, I really hope the last push was enough
GW - 670 pts || - 354 pts || - 46 pts || - 106 pts || LoTR - 400 pts (Evil) vs 0 pts (Good) || Space Hulk - 1/35 || Deathwatch Overkill - 0/50
OtherMEdge: Karists - 23 points || Epirians - 0 points Shattered Earth: Awaiting delivery "Awakening" Terrain: Awaiting delivery DWMG2: 4/54
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2015/10/01 07:51:46
Subject: Dakka (unofficial) Monthly Painting Challenge 7: September 2015: "Never tell me the odds!"
Last few hours, guys! If you need more time, let me know and there's an October 1st amnesty on submissions!
Crikey it seems like September has been a very tough month and lived up to its name.
I'll have to do a tally but I'm surprised at the number of entries. And after hearing how much work has gone into all of them, I'm struggling not to want to vote for every entry from everyone else.
Personally I woke up with a fever, I'm glad I got most of the work done last night because this morning will consist of stumbling around looking for a camera.
Nowhere near as intricate as the rest, but decent.
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My $0.02, which since 1992 has rounded to nothing. Take with salt.
Elysian Drop Troops, Dark Angels, 30K
Mercenaries, Retribution
Ten Thunders, Neverborn
2015/10/01 08:23:05
Subject: Dakka (unofficial) Monthly Painting Challenge 7: September 2015: "Never tell me the odds!"
@Winterhound: that's awesome! I'd love some close-ups of the participants if you get the chance!
@Januine and TP: Nooooooooo! Such a shame you guys couldn't make it, your entries were both looking very promising! Take care of yourselves, and remember that even if you only have a couple of minis done you can submit them and still get the point! Similarly, if either of you finish in the next few days then let me know and I'll see that you get completion points.
You have an hour to check over this list, make sure I haven't missed anybody, and give me fluff and titles if I missed them.
Gives me time to finish punching my camera.
aldo: "The Maid of Orléans"
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Buttery Commissar: "Dakka Monthly Painting Challenge 7"
[Pic in camera]
Farseer Anath'lan: 30k Dark Angels Praetor vs Eldar Wraiths
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GiraffeX:
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"Sketylshsss I don't think poison darts will work against themssss"
"Neversss tell me the oddsssssss!"
Inspector #264: Colonel Tigh Vs Carnifex
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Januine: Termies V Nids
[On Hold]
keezus:
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Rutger grit his teeth. He should have known better than to expect the Kayazy to hold up their end of the bargain...
Rutger Shaw: Do you expect me to talk?
Kayazy Underboss: No Mr. Shaw... I EXPECT YOU TO DIE!
Kustomer D:
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LordRahl: Gambit
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Matthew: "Bravery of the Guard" Diorama
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"What do we do Sir!?"
Guardsman Jonah shouted. He was aiming his flamer at an approaching Tyranid, a fierce creature, that had killed all of his squadmates. The ground around him was on fire. "We have to warn the HQ, we should run for it!"
Captain Hogar shook his head. A beheaded Tyranid laid at his feet, his chainsword covered in blood. Human blood. He had been forced to kill several of his friends after they had been wounded by the monsters.
"We won't make it if be both run... You go. I'll distract them."
Jonah's jaw dropped. "What? No, you can't do that!"
"Yes, I can. You run. Run as fast as you can. Get to the HQ. Warn them. And Jonah..."
Jonah turned around and faced his captain, just in time to see him running against the edge of a cliff, preparing to jump.
"NEVER TELL ME THE OOOOOODDS!"
Jonah heard the fizz of a plasma pistol being fired and a chainsword whirring. He knew that although his captain was going down, he was going down in style.
Midget Gems: Han Solork and Chewborka
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and finally a close up of the big guy
Nevelon: "The Captain’s final charge"
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The frozen tundra exploded upwards, foul magics coalescing into a demonic form. “At last you show yourself. This madness ends now!”
“The madness is only just beginning” the demon chuckled “But your life is at an end, mortal.”
“We’ll see about that, warp spawn. For the Emperor!”
The roar of the relic chainsword vies with the crackle of eldritch energies as the Captain rushes towards his fate...
Paradiigm: The Fall of Sauron
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Victory was near, but the power of the ring could not be undone. It was in this moment, when all hope had faded, that Isildur, son of the king, took up his father's sword, and Sauron, enemy of the Free Peoples of Middle-Earth, was defeated.
SirDonlad: "The Furthest Group of Thallax"
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The Thallax smashed up from where they had been buried in the earth to block off the traitors' retreat and caught the Land Raider in the converging arcs of thier strange weapons, soot-black corposant dancing across it's hull untill it's tracks disintegrated and cannon sponsons detonated. The machine-creatures left it for dead, flame spewing from it's crew-ports.
Victory was ours, but triumph lasted only a moment as The Furthest Group Of Thallax was blown to pieces -- the shell blast exploding among them before we heard the report of the cannon that fired it. Another Fellblade was smashing through the city towards us.....
- From the Testimony of Crysos Morturg
sockwithaticket: Deathwatch marine
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Sometimes, in the heat of battle, there's no time to do anything but fight, not even reload. Good job the side arm has a full magazine and the grenades on his belt are in place. Space Marines never relent in their duty. If at all possible, this is even more the case for those called to serve in the ranks of the Deathwatch.
Talys: Mephiston, Lord of Death
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Against impossible odds, seven nights after being crushed under the Ecclesiorum building during the Second War for Armageddon, Calistarius conquered the Black Rage within him to smash his way out of the rubble and emerge as the mighty Mephiston, Lord of Death:
Theophony: Iron Warrior Pre-Heresy Knight
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trob52:
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VorpalBunny74: "Brown Pants"
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WinterHound:
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From the Commissar's point of view - "Flaming Marine on top of a fuel depot. Never tell me the odds"
Paradigm has only one 'i' (which is admittedly better than only having one eye!), but beyond that typo I see no problem!
Gotta dash now, I shall check out everyone's entries in detail later on! I thought this month had been a tad slower than usual, but we seem to have a lot of entries, which is great!
2015/10/01 11:49:49
Subject: Dakka (unofficial) Monthly Painting Challenge 7: September 2015: "Never tell me the odds!"
I may be the special-est person here by having just realised I didn't include the miniature that the commissar was painting, it's still blu-tacked to my cork.
It just looks like he's flipping off Dakka. [Sighs] I'll get the camera again.
I've just spent the last hour doing battle with my 8 year old SLR to get the pictures of the model that's THREE INCHES AWAY FROM MY SCREEN into the compuer.
I should fething smear the thing into the monitor at this point.
My entry or no, the thread's going up, I'm fed up.
Buttery Commissar wrote: I've just spent the last hour doing battle with my 8 year old SLR to get the pictures of the model that's THREE INCHES AWAY FROM MY SCREEN into the compuer.
I should fething smear the thing into the monitor at this point.
My entry or no, the thread's going up, I'm fed up.
At the very least put up one of your in-progress pics as an entry.
- 670 pts || 
- 354 pts || 
- 46 pts || 
- 106 pts || LoTR - 400 pts (Evil) vs 0 pts (Good) || Space Hulk - 1/35 || Deathwatch Overkill - 0/50
~2800 points 
~1200 | Imperial Knights: 
~2300 | Leagues of Votann: 
~1300 | Tyranids: 
~5000 | Kruleboyz: 
~3500 | Lumineth Realm-Lords: 
~700
Dark Angels, 30K
Legion: Dark Angels 
Ultramarines, 3rd Co. and friends, 16k+ 
4k