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Welcome all to the 34th 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!

As is traditional for December, this round is an Open one with no theme, partly because I know most of you will be busy over the holidays and partly so you have absolutely no excuse not to paint up the new shiny stuff you get for Christmas! You really can enter anything this month, from a grot to a titan, from a scenery piece to a diorama, from themed Christmasy entry to Just Another Solider for your army. All the usual rules apply, but in terms of what you choose to paint, go nuts! This is a chance to really show off how far your skills have come over the last year, so pick any model that sparks your imagination and get to work!



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 6 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 5 images and one separate image would count as your 6 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 December and will end at midnight GMT on the 31st of December. After this, I shall compile the finished entries into a new thread, and voting will run for 5 days.

List of Entrants:

Nevelon: FINISHED


u971: FINISHED


TheDraconicLord: FINISHED


NathanD298:


ZergSmasher: FINISHED


Appolinaire: FINISHED


Whitllsey40k: FINISHED


CREEEEEEEED: FINISHED


Straken619: FINISHED


Drummernathan: FINISHED


NinjaPirate: FINISHED


GulGog Tuftoof: FINISHED


Moolet: FINISHED


HungryTaz:


Power Elephant: FINISHED


AUGmaniac: FINISHED


Januine:


Modock: FINISHED


feltmonkey: FINISHED


ChaosDad: FINISHED


Jetpack_Octopus: FINISHED


Guildenstern: FINISHED


zedmeister:


n1ceguypaul: FINISHED


Guildenstern:


ZoBo: FINISHED


Elbows: FINISHED


Midget Gems: FINISHED


Chris56: FINISHED


PossumCraft: FINISHED


Vejut: FINISHED


Paradigm: FINISHED


keezus: FINISHED

Rolling along on the primaris train, I’ll try to use this month to get a squad of hellblasters done.

Since This months a busy one going to enter something easy.
Daemonscape General Purpose Buildings.(epic scale buildings)

Here's what I hope December will be about. The Shadespire dude will be for a friend so I'll mostly paint in Starfinder sessions, Megaboss to finally finish my current army, and to represent my character in Starfinder, a "Not-Motoko Kusanagi" from Ghost in the Shell (Hasslefree Miniatures)

Due to failing to complete most of my entries in the last few months, I'm going to tone it down this round - especially given the amount of work mounting up for the Christmas period at Uni!

This time, it'll be one little Primaris Marine... all be it a space magic imbued Marine, but either way - one model!!



Good luck this month everyone - look forward to seeing all the Christmas themed entries that will no doubt crop up!

I'll be entering some of my alpha legionnaires, very likely, but I have a lot of bits that will be coming in the mail in the next weeks to make them, so I'll post the proof picture when the pile of bits is here...

December is really me trying to finish the tail end of all my painting so I dunno what "new" stuff I'll be working on atm. I'll have to give it a look see!

I'm feeling either brave or lucky to try to enter this for December:

Last month I did some Death Guard grunts; this month I'll try to paint their Primarch! I need to get this guy painted anyway, so now is as good a time as any, right?

I'm probbably end up entering a 75 mm horse that will be a present for my dad, which will represent his childhood horse dragan. I'm not sure when the model will arrive though, so I'll paint other stuff until he arrives and possibly enter that as a backup plan.

Here we go then... My Inquisitor of the Ordo Hereticus with his priest and servitor (the Inquisitor's head is still in the post!!)

Proof:

Game on. Not sure what yet. lol

I've got some metal Tankbustas brewing in Isopropyl for this round. Proof will be up soon!

I just put down the first base coat on the skin of my Orc cheerleader about 10 mins before seeing this was an open round!

No idea if I'll get her finished, but I might as well chuck my hat in the ring. Photos later...

Welcome back Whittlesey. I hope family life is going well

TheDraconicLord, quite a mix of models, I'm looking forward to seeing them painted up.

Good luck Zerg, will be fun to watch you working your way through that entry.

Apollinaire, seems like you have a lot of character in those conversions, well done so far

I'll be doing some sort of Xmas scene, probably with Orks, just got to work out what it will be.....

Well, can't complain about progress. Had my first Starfinder session this month yeserday, and the dude is already base coated and shaded, ready for fome layering:

Thanks @MidgetGems. Not sure how much chance I'll get to keep up with this thread, or with painting, but I'll get it a try!

I've got proofs for my cheerleader and my apothecary. Both getting completed seems unlikely, but might as well post both!

I'm torn. I really need to paint my venerable Dread, and build and paint my Predator. But I'm also about to buy a painted Tau army that I'll have to strip and re-paint something more my speed. I'll have a proof pic by next weekend either way, and I'll be sure to actually finish this month

I'm gonna try and complete as much of the 7th company's c command as possible. 1 captain, 1 ancient and 2 lieutenants.

Hope I can get this ready in time. (I remembered about the proof pic halfway through the basecoat)

 straken619 wrote:
Hope I can get this ready in time. (I remembered about the proof pic halfway through the basecoat)

Black Sun! Niiice.

I'm making progress on my entry:

So far so good, but I haven't gotten to the hard parts yet.

I'm re-painting my unit of initiates and acolytes for an upcoming escalating campaign at my local store including a small inquisitorial force and will post some proof pics tomorrow.
I did start laying some paint down on a few so hopefully it's still a valid entry

Daemonscape General Purpose Buildings (Finished)
Added Battletech Scamm Heavy Trucks in the main picture,to give a better idea of the scale of the little buildings,Definately worth a zoom in.

Hopefully this is valid as a proof as I didn’t really get a chance to snap any pics before I started painting a layer on these guys as I just painted over previous paint jobs and didn’t even prime them though I will Be priming my two snipers before I start painting them.

Proof:

WIP


2/5 done. Well, mostly done, I’ll do the bases all together at the end. Got the first blue coat down on the other 3.

Okay let's try it. Got some motivation back!

I would have loved to enter again, but with Christmas on the way and everyone buying up onions like they're going out of fashion, my hands are pretty full trying to run the factory floor at the moment and the last thing I want to do is paint

The entries so far are looking great as usual, look forward to voting!

Maybe next month I'll enter again

I'm in, all these freebooter gitz need a nob to keep 'em in line, so... proof:

The open round has caught me out again. It makes me realise that each month i'm not having trouble finding something to fit the theme but instead I'm just quite indecisive...
This month its was a decision to do 5 intercessors or convert up/kitbash a banner nob. I went with latter as I'm not sure on how I'll be fixed time wise.

My December entry is "A Yuletide Hearth" from Steamforged games for Guild Ball.