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I'm baaaack! Thanks again to ZoBo for very kindly stepping in to run this last month when I couldn't.

Welcome all to the 25th round of the Unofficial Painting Challenge here on Dakka. 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 'Primal'. As such, your entry should be a model or models that have a savage, animal, primitive or fierce vibe to them, for example a savage orc, a feral Wulfem, any sort of nature themed mini like a beastman or some Sylvaneth. As always, the theme is open to interpretation, so do go wild (pun unashamedly intended!) with your entries and be as creative with it as you like!


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 of April and will end at midnight GMT on the 30th of April. After this, I shall compile the finished entries into a new thread, and voting will run for 5 days.

List of Entrants:

Bottle:


Whittlesey40k: FINISHED


u971: FINSHED


Chris56: FINISHED


ChaosDad:


ZoBo: FINISHED


DanceofSlaneesh: FINISHED


Moolet: FINISHED


CREEEEEEEED: FINISHED


GiraffeX: FINISHED


TheDraconicLord: FINISHED


methebest: FINISHED


albinoork:


mrhappyface:


ZergSmasher


Guildenstern: FINISHED


Nevelon: FINISHED


Vejut: FINISHED


keezus: FINISHED


NinjaPirate: FINISHED


ssisal:


SymbioticKaos:


Shuma-Gorath: FINISHED


PossumCraft: FINISHED


El-Torminator: FINISHED


ChaoticMind: FINISHED


Modock: FINISHED


Perkustin:


Gundor2: FINISHED


Xjax1


Midget Gems: FINISHED


EmberLordofFire8: FINISHED


Verviedi:


GulGog TufToof: FINISHED


n1ceguypaul: FINISHED


SmallChanges: FINISHED


Elbows: FINISHED


Justareinatthewall


Melcavuk:


Ynneadwraith:


feltmonkey: FINISHED


Paradigm: FINISHED


Dukeofbeer: FINISHED



nathanD29: FINISHED

First!

To celebrate Khorne's new release I am doing two Gorechosen characters:

SLAUGHTERPRIEST and EXALTED DEATHBRINGER! woop woop

After the fun I had with my HeroQuest player characters last year, I'll be entering a triumvirate of HeroQuest greenskins. An Ork, a Goblin and a Fimir.

Previously painted and looking pretty awful, they've already been stripped and are ready to go!

Hmm, Orks, Blood bowl Orcs or SLAUGHTERPRIEST WITH HACKBLADE??

Decisions, decisions...


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Or more of my Genestealers would fit too, I suppose?

Would Like to Enter a Spore Mine Cluster,They Work on Primal instincts and all that,unsure how many will paint likely the x4 exploding mines.

there was a particular model I wanted to paint for this, but I don't have it, and wouldn't you know it, GW's out of sodding stock here at the moment...so now I'm trying to decide between 3-4 other possible options I've got...hmm...decisions decisions...think I'll take a bit more time to think about this one...or I may just post a proof with all of them in it, and enter finals of whichever one I like best at the end of the month...we'll see

I’ve got some old chaos marauders I’ll try to get done this month. Need to get a pic, but I’m in.

Love that exalted deathbringer model, looking forward to seeing it done.

I think I'm gonna go with the carnosaur, the beginning of a new army I've been meaning to work on for a while...

I'd like to enter this month, with the Avatar of Ynnead, the Yncarne...

It's the avatar of a god of death, how much primal can you get?

I had a bit of a think about my few potential entries, and decided the other couple didn't fit the theme quite as well as I'd like, so I'll save those to fit into future months themes ...decided to do a nice little fun mini diorama this month - I bought "The Chase" set from GW several months ago (oh wow...glad I did! - I just checked and I can't find it anymore! )...it's a little squig, being chased by a night goblin, being chased by a bigger squig ...I'd had my eye on it for a couple of years, and randomly added it on to an order I made a while back because I just wanted to paint it someday...and now seems like a good time!...it seems like a pretty good interpretation of "primal" to me, with the whole survival of the fittest/food chain thing

here's my proof:

Going to try to paint in the old school way with this one!

 DanceOfSlaanesh wrote:
Going to try to paint in the old school way with this one!

Awesome! Looking forward to this. I love seeing old school with new school paint.


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 Whittlesey40k wrote:
After the fun I had with my HeroQuest player characters last year, I'll be entering a triumvirate of HeroQuest greenskins. An Ork, a Goblin and a Fimir.

Previously painted and looking pretty awful, they've already been stripped and are ready to go!

Spoiler:

Looking forward to this one too!

I'll be in here too. I've got plenty of Dryads lying around for some conversion work.

This is a project I've been wanting to do for a while now. To make some meganobz from orruk brutes.. they may look a little under-armoured but the brutes are great models.



unboxing




then a little conversion work

Raptor hunting pack.
I know, I know. But I'm using the models I've got.

I've not been here in a while and actually have something relevant!

Elspeth on Carmine Dragon from Forgeworld, I've had a few release agent issues hence the half primed pic but its good to go now

 GiraffeX wrote:
I've not been here in a while and actually have something relevant!

Elspeth on Carmine Dragon from Forgeworld, I've had a few release agent issues hence the half primed pic but its good to go now

good gravy!...now that's an entry! ...can't wait to see that painted!

Aight, I haven't been able to join in one of these ever since the first. Let's do this, 5 Brutes primed and ready to roll!

Day one WIP update. Most of the basecoats down.

Goling to paint Dynatos a bronze bull construct
proof

Hum, will have to think about this one for a bit I think...

Is a primal urge to snort cocaine acceptable as an entree? If so I have an idea of what I'd enter.

(If not then I guess I could go for a more traditional entree)

Hi all,

Next up to be represented from the Villains of Buzz Lightyear of Star Command is Wirewolf. It doesn't get much more primal than a Space Ranger who is turned to a werewolf.

Inspiration


Proof (with some of his squad members)


Thanks and take care

 albinoork wrote:
Hi all,

Next up to be represented from the Villains of Buzz Lightyear of Star Command is Wirewolf. It doesn't get much more primal than a Space Ranger who is turned to a werewolf.

Inspiration

Your idea cries out for this head:

So... I've got this Conan 70mm sculpt just gathering dust...

Gonna do some primal Slaaneshy urges with a DOOMRIDER! conversion, proof:


^This is Guilliman + a Skull throne

(The conversion itself is gonna take alot of work so I'd be grateful for any thoughts you have: https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/30/716791.page#9285668)

I'm in with my SLAUGHTERPRIEST WITH HACKBLADE!!! Here's the proof:

He'll be painted in a somewhat unusual manner, as I'll be using him as a Herald in my Khorne Daemonkin army.

Here's a WIP on Elspeth so far!

Well, I really need to get this done, and it fits the theme, so I'll go ahead and put this as proof:



the terrorgheist, not the bike

 keezus wrote:

Your idea cries out for this head:

Oh, my! Nice Find.
That would be as close to perfect as possible. Alas, I don't have that bit ...