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A huge thank you to everyone who took part, whether they managed to reach the end or not. September has been a very eventful month for all involved, and I hope you enjoyed your painting time.

You may vote for as many or as few entrants as you wish!

The theme this month was "Never tell me the odds!"

Please consider picking entries based on how well you think they matched the theme, as well as your favourite paintjobs!

In alphabetical order, our entrants:

aldo: "The Maid of Orléans"


Buttery Commissar: "Dakka Monthly Painting Challenge"



Farseer Anath'lan: 30k Dark Angels Praetor vs Eldar Wraiths


GiraffeX:

Without being a pain, I'm not in the poll.

Sorry!

I'll echo the thanks and congratulations to everyone who took part, and furthermore for Buttery Commissar, without whom there would have been no Challenge in September!

Now, votes... lots of good stuff to choose from this time.

Most improved: Matthew! Brilliant to see you experimenting with new techniques like the OSL and building the diorama itself, the latter of which is waay beyond anything I could do! Keep it up!

Best painted: Winterhound! I'd love some close-ups of those minis if you get the chance, they look great! The terrain too is awesome!

Most fitting to the theme: GirrafeX! Brilliant work, excellent composition, and the potential practical use of the diorama all add up to make this one of my favourites!

And a couple of extras: BC, as mentioned in the last thread that mini-painting-a-mini is brilliant, from concept to execution!

SirDonald: Awesome weathering, and I love it when people base their minis on fluff like that! Super stuff!

Keezus: Great array of minis, excellent painting, and that first shot on the terrain is awesome!

Honourable mentions: Everyone else! Can't think of a single entry this month that I don't like!

 Farseer Anath'lan wrote:
Without being a pain, I'm not in the poll.

Sorry!

Fixed. I was doing so well. Count yourself +1 for the votes.

Okay, I limited myself to 5 votes this time, to avoid voting for everyone. I think this month has been the best one yet!

Buttery Commissar: Absolutely brilliant. Too bad you had to do a quick job at the end, but it's definitely a vote on you.

Midget Gems: An obvious vote, nice paintjobs, awesome concept and it gave me a good laugh.

Paradigm: It looks amazing. The colours are dull but still full of life, and it really portrays a loss of hope.

sockwithaticker: Nice, crisp, clean, what else can I say?

WinterHound: Nice job, the pipes look worn, the walkway looks great, and the minis! Nice!

Overall a pretty fun month!

i did four votes buttery is in the lead ^_^

Well done to everyone that finished (and to those that didn't was still good you started)

echoing Paras comments, a big thank you to BC for running the competition this month and yeah at Winterhound some close-ups of the guys would be great their weapons and bases look very interesting.

GiraffeX, keezus, Kustomer D, Matthew, SirDonlad, VorpalBunny74, WinterHound congratz to you all on getting a finished diorama/background its really added to your entry.

Thanks to anyone that votes for me

So many great mini's!!!
I ended up voting double what i should because of the overall quality of all entries - it was really hard to not vote for everyone..

I almost did exactly that!

Special kudos goes to 'buttery commissar' for, not only a brilliant concept and painting skills far in excess of my own, but also for running this challenge. I have enjoyed taking part immensely!
Nice one dude!!

Great work again this month peeps!
Butterys just edges it for me but loved trobs too - captured the essence of the theme really well!

Cast my votes, and yet again I found it difficult to not vote for everyone.

Well done to all that made the voting stage!

Matthew - thanks, buddy. Your diorama is very evocative and certainly what this particular challenge was ideally all about.

That kind of goes for any of you who made the effort for full dioramas/multiple models. Keezus, Winter Hound and GiraffeX the other particular standouts for me in this department.

Buttery Commissar - magnificent concept and cracking execution.

LordRahl - Gambit is an inspired choice for this challenge and the conversion is novel.

 Inspector #264 wrote:
Cast my votes, and yet again I found it difficult to not vote for everyone.

Having seen the work behind the submissions and following the thread and bugging people for WIPs, I admit I did actually vote for everyone but myself.
I'm possibly overly soft but I couldn't fault anyone this month. Usually I stick with half a dozen.

Honestly it's hard to pick a fave, but I think it's between Matthew's grand scale dio, LordRahl's Gambit, and aldo's tiny lady. I'm verging on falling asleep so I won't try and give concise feedback this evening.

...I'm really happy that people liked my strange idea. And embarrassed. I don't take compliments well.
I just hope that it isn't too much of a "gimmick" piece because I really tried to get the painting done well. The commissars and cat were the long job (for me). I'll admit the furniture let me down a bit because I just... I dunno, what can you do with a filing cabinet? It doesn't get interesting battle damage like a tank. I'll probably go back and neaten up the dio part at some point.

voted! Buttery...what an amazing piece...

Well done everyone on great entries this month. Votes cast, and they went to:
Buttery Comissar - the interpretation of the theme was creative and relevant. I often feel the painting of minis is a challenge and success is often against all odds. Detail is brilliant. You have got to stop being so critical of yourself. That is a perfect entry.
LordRahl - Loved the conversion. A lot of thought and effort went in to that.
Matthew - Please look back at your earlier entries and see how incredibly you are growing as a hobbyist. I can't say that I am developing at the same rate. This entry is superb and you should be so very proud of yourself no matter how many votes you get. Bravo!
Midget Gems - From the outset, this excited me. They did take down the sith against all odds after all. Your GS work is brilliant.
Paradigm - Consistently great entries. Love the quality of work and that when you paint a CD grey it looks way better than when I do!

To all other entrants. Great jobs. Keep up the great work

I did my 5 votes, really needed 7 at least though.

Brilliant job guys

Voted - well done everyone

A good month, even if I did not participate. My five votes for this month went to:
Buttery Commissar: Such win, and such a clever interpetation on the theme!
GiraffeX: Captured the theme pretty well, and a pretty nice paint job on everything to boot!
keezus: Those minis are painted superbly, and the dio as a whole is awesome! I'm not sure what game it is even, but its still great! (Warmachine or Malifaux, I think?)
Matthew: What a cool diorama, with so much going on around the whole thing. Those flame effects are what really pop to me. Awesome work!
Paradigm: Captured the theme nicely (the odds were pretty long on Isildur cutting Sauron's ring finger off!), and a great paint job too!
Everyone did pretty good, its a shame some of the usual suspects (i.e. Januine, TP^DC) didn't finish, but the reasons are understandable. We all have lives after all. Looking forward to next month! Special props to Buttery Commissar for putting on this show while Paradigm was busy, and still managing to do an awesome mini!

Thanks again for the compliments as I wasn't sure I was going to get the models done. I'd blocked off some spare time to try and get them finished up only to find out that my Netflix account was hacked and then got an after hours call work call.

 Paradigm wrote:

Winterhound! I'd love some close-ups of those minis if you get the chance, they look great! The terrain too is awesome!

Hopefully I'll get some better close up pics done soon. I was scrambling to get the pictures I took and the lighting on the close ups was worse than normal.

Lovely stuff there folks - some reallygreat work and i really love the amount of storytelling that went on this month. Pretty much every entry had a definite scene/story happening behind it. Really enjoyed that - excellent stuff. Gutted I missed the deadline but trip to hospital and RL kinda fubar'd me getting finished. This month is gonna be a slow month for painting too for me I think. Anyways - well done all and great job to BC for a cracking entry and for organising it all

+1 Buttery - Great concept, awesome in execution

+1 MidgetGems - Orkses don't care about dem Oddz... Dem maffs is humie nonsense.

+1 Winterhound - Eye catching paintwork, very atmospheric...

Thanks to everyone who sent a vote my way.

Its nice in these challenegs that everyone seems to get a vote or two, even when the standard of some is obviously higher than others.
#muchlove

 Ratius wrote:
Its nice in these challenges that everyone seems to get a vote or two, even when the standard of some is obviously higher than others.
#muchlove

I tend to split my votes between those who I think have painted the best and those who have interpreted the theme best or come up with ideas I really like. So to me its not always about the skill levels. I've really enjoyed every one I have done so far, starting to get quite the collection of challenge models in my cabinet

Very true MG!
But I love the way some "lesser" painters always seem to get a vote or two!
If it was a "one vote only" poll, a lot of the work put in would not perhaps get acknowledged.

Love the monthly threads basically

Usually I go down the threat and open the pictures and vote for each one that stands out to me for those reasons. Sometimes 5 votes, sometimes half the entrants.
This time like I said, I couldn't honestly say anyone didn't deserve a vote having read the posts and followed the progress.

Good job everyone!

Aldo: Maid of New Orleans 3% [ 9 ]
Buttery Commissar: "Dakka Monthly Painting Challenge 7" 16% [ 54 ]
GiraffeX: Have-a-try Skinks 6% [ 19 ]
Inspector #264: Colonel Tigh Vs Carnifex 2% [ 8 ]
keezus: Gang attack 8% [ 27 ]
Kustomer D: Almost out of dakka 4% [ 13 ]
LordRahl: Gambit 2% [ 6 ]
Matthew: "Bravery of the Guard" Diorama 7% [ 25 ]
Midget Gems: Han Solork and Chewborka 9% [ 30 ]
Nevelon: "The Captain’s final charge" 2% [ 6 ]
Paradigm: The Fall of Sauron 7% [ 22 ]
SirDonlad: "The Furthest Group of Thallax" 4% [ 15 ]
sockwithaticket: Deathwatch marine 4% [ 15 ]
Talys: Mephiston, Lord of Death 9% [ 30 ]
trob52: Stand-off 4% [ 12 ]
VorpalBunny74: "Brown Pants" 3% [ 9 ]
WinterHound: Bridge over troubled fuel tanks 9% [ 30 ]
Farseer Anath'lan: 30k Dark Angels Praetor vs Eldar Wraiths 2% [ 8 ]
Total Votes : 338
(I checked the thread and noticed I could still vote so not sure if there is something up with the poll. so copied and pasted for info if the poll has messed up and overrun like some of the other months)

Wow thats impressive, a really close race for 2nd place with me, Talys and Winterhound all on 30 votes (thanks for the votes I really appreciate it). BC your entry has really caught peoples eye congratz

Quite a spread of votes which just shows that there where lots of good entries this month, great work everyone.

I'm fething mortified. Really not sure what's happened, but I'll be glad when it's over...

But yes, beautiful work all round and I think a pretty high voting turn out. Thanks to everyone who's taken the time to stop by.

I think voting is 5 days, so tomorrow lunchtime? Anyone want to help me with that head-maths?

yeah man, i'm kinda stunned i'm level pegging with 'sockwithaticket'!

Man, 5th place? I'm not that good! Thanks for the votes!

Don't be daft, your diorama is epic, especially the effects.