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Welcome all to the 24th round of the Unofficial Painting Challenge here on Dakka. This month marks the final round in the 2016/17 rotation, the last chance to nab some points before the scores are counted! 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's theme is Technology, so the entries we're looking for are models with particularly advanced gear or expertise in the context of their setting. This could range from a Dwarven engineer atop a mechanical monstrosity to a Tau Commander toting the latest experimental weaponry As ever, the theme is totally open to interpretation, so if you think it's a suitable entry, it probably is!


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 5 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 4 images and one separate image would count as your 5 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 February and will end at midnight GMT on the 28th February. After this, I shall compile the finished entries into a new thread, and voting will run for 5 days.

List of Entrants:

Moolet:


NathanD298: FINISHED


Whittlesey40k: FINISHED


Nevelon: FINISHED


ZergSmasher:


Guildenstern: FINISHED


Vejut: FINISHED

I've been waiting to do something with this, still unsure what though.

After my old Farsight model wasn't particularly salvageable for last month's "Rogues and Scoundrels" I decided I would make a new Farsight from the standard commander set! So here he is, somewhat bigger than his finecast iteration! Can't wait to see what everyone enters this month

Here's my entry -



Unusual enough to say others wouldn't have this tech?

@Moolet: Love the battlewagon. Looking forward to see what you do with it!

Pair of 30k consuls. Might just be the Master if Signal, but the Apothecary might show up as well.

Nuke them from orbit, it’s the only way to be sure.
--and/or--
We can rebuild him. Stronger, faster, better then he was before.

I'll do some Secutarii Peltasts. Would those fit?

I'm in with a Tau Riptide Battlesuit:

It's pretty advanced technology, even for the Tau. I just hope I can knock it out in a month without RL smacking me down again.

Not sure I have anything suitable...I'll take a look around.

Last month was a ton of fun so hey why not do it again? I'll snag a proof pic when I get a chance.

I'm in with... something. I dunno.

Could I do my WIP battlewagon? Trying to get some impetus to complete it ...

pic if it works:



Has been sitting at that not really put together stage all year sigh. Last year.

Lemme know if it doesn't work, will look for something else.

My Lychguard, their warscythes have been imbued with tesla technology, allowing them to cleave through more than one opponent at a time.

So, think I want to finally get around to painting some Brushfire stuff, so for this month: two gopher engineers, with the latest in body armor and high explosive technology. Good for use on moose and squirrel!



(Edits: you saw nothing! These are not the typos you are looking for!)

Loving this regular challenge to focus my scattered concentration!
Not sure this month - I've built both of these as a possibility...
...Tau battlesuit has longer legs and torso, narrower jump-pack and experimental weaponry, whilst the daemonette has found some extra armour, sword, splinter-pistol...and opposable thumbs!

Klowny, this isn't a show-case but a plastic-to-painted monthly project thread.

Are you going to strip and re-paint the figures you posted?

My apologies friend, I was not aware this was the procedure. First time looking at these threads and seems I've done goofed.

Gonna see if I can't fabricate and paint a rhino in less then a month.
Old Terran Rhino-cause the techno-barbarians have the technology.

Klowny wrote:
My apologies friend, I was not aware this was the procedure. First time looking at these threads and seems I've done goofed.

(stays the executioner's blade) No worries. Paradigm has the rules up top of the thread. It's just a motivational feature/challenge to get people painting more models.

My Entry Space Marine Ultramarine Dreadnought.

We have technology... acquired technology.... hidden technology...

For the Four-Armed Emperor!



Right. Time to pull out all the stops and try and knock Jan off his lofty perch. I'm painting my first ever vehicle since being back into the hobby*

(*Disclaimer: Not including Steam Tanks)

Edit: Para, is there any way we can see the scores going in to the final round? I remember being around 3rd, and not too far away from Jan. ;-)

Nice! Look forward to seeing your work with the Goliath truck, Bottle

How about the technology of the mind

I think Shadowseers have some pretty advanced technology...

And done!



When in doubt, call in an orbital strike!

This month looks to be a chaotic mess, so I wanted to make sure I got my entry done ASAP.

@Farseer: Gotta respect an entry when the proof pic is a stack of plasticard. Looking forward to seeing what you create!

Hey all.

This is my intro image into this competition.

Really really excited to get this guy painted, although this is one of the first HQ's I will be painting without any conversions, which is interesting

I can't wait to see what everyone else enters in!

oh allright then...s'pose I'd better enter something (I had something vaguely planned for every possible category aside from this one! grr!)...just remembered I had some Infinity stuff sitting around primed for nearly a year now - I know/remember very little about infinity now so I actually had to check what these things are called ...it's a "Lunokhod Sputnik" and two "Crazy Koalas"...they're remote-controlled robot drone thingies, from the Nomads faction...seems fitting for "We have the technology" yeah?

man there's so much tiiiny detail on these Infinity models...they're bloody gorgeous though, I'm just terrified of painting them - that's why they've been sitting around for nearly a year



...hmm, come to think of it, there's actually a couple more models I could do that would kinda go with those three...meh, I'll just try to get those three done for now, and if I have time, I'll add the other two later

@Vejut - omg those are adorable!! haha I love anthropomorphic stuffs

@Bottle - squeee! can't wait to see how it comes out - I love that model. Even if you're not orkifying it

@Nevelon - dude! Slow down man lmao

@ZoBo - I have been so tempted by Infinity, cuz it just looks so freakin cool! Can't wait to see these that's some awesome models there

 ZoBo wrote:
oh allright then...s'pose I'd better enter something (I had something vaguely planned for every possible category aside from this one! grr!)...just remembered I had some Infinity stuff sitting around primed for nearly a year now - I know/remember very little about infinity now so I actually had to check what these things are called ...it's a "Lunokhod Sputnik" and two "Crazy Koalas"...they're remote-controlled robot drone thingies, from the Nomads faction...seems fitting for "We have the technology" yeah?

man there's so much tiiiny detail on these Infinity models...they're bloody gorgeous though, I'm just terrified of painting them - that's why they've been sitting around for nearly a year



...hmm, come to think of it, there's actually a couple more models I could do that would kinda go with those three...meh, I'll just try to get those three done for now, and if I have time, I'll add the other two later

I gonna dive into Infinity very soon. I can't wait to see how you will takle those remotes.

Alright, I'm going to enter this as since getting back into the hobby nearly half a year ago I haven't painted anything. I've going to en my converted Big Mek with Shokk Attack Gun, hoping to finish some little conversion touchups tomorrow and start painting next week.

He does, indeed, have the technology, but is also very environmentally conscious.Not only does his Wind-Spinna generate the copious amounts of energy to power his renewable vegan friendly Shokk Attack Gun but it can also be recycled to be used as a Spinna-Choppa so all the limbs of stoopid humies can be used to create compost for his own potent supply of squigijuana.

If I can I'll try to enter with my renegade shadowsword but that'll depend on whether I can sort out some personal problems first.

Had lots of fun in the last round (my first time) and was really impressed by the quality of everyones work, hope I can enter again in the future!