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Welcome all to the 35th 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!

The theme this month is A Few Good Men: Your entry must be at least 3 models that form a tight-knit group of individuals. From a underhive gang to a squad of hard-bitten veterans to a party of adventurers raiding a lost city.



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 January and will end at midnight GMT on the 31st of January. After this, I shall compile the finished entries into a new thread, and voting will run for 5 days.

List of Entrants:

u971: FINISHED


TheDraconicLord: FINISHED


Nevelon: FINISHED


Inquisitor Lord Bane:


ZergSmasher: FINISHED


ChaosDad: FINISHED


Guildenstern: FINISHED


EmberlordofFire8


Power Elephant: FINISHED


KernelTerror: FINISHED


Apollinaire: FINISHED


dukeofbeer: FINISHED


Garrior:


SirOllox: FINISHED


CREEEEEED:


vejut: FINISHED


Ratius: FINISHED


Cryocat:FINISHED


Moolet: FINISHED


Jadenim:


Modock: FINISHED


n1ceguypaul: FINISHED


Keezus: FINISHED


Paradigm: FINISHED


AUGmaniac:


Midget Gems: FINISHED


womprat49: FINISHED


feltmonkey: FINISHED


ZoBo: FINISHED


Tim121RVC: FINISHED


Sqauwky: FINISHED


Chris56: FINISHED

Would like to enter,The Lord of the Rings,Heros,Gandalf The Gray,Aragorn,Frodo Baggins.
Will be painting them as they are in battle games in middle earth so they look the same as in the movies.

Haha, finally! I have been itching to start, gotta make good use of my final day before heading back to work

Here's my entry, the Ironjawz party from Shadespire:

Hey look, more Space Marines from Nev. But wait, these are not my normal Ultramarines! Built these to join The Boy’s growing Salamander army as a sternguard squad. Going to try to get at least 5 done this month. Although at the pace I work this might be my proof pic for the next 3 months. Overall goal is to have the squad done at the end of March for The Boy’s birthday. But I’m sure he’d be happy to have them sooner then that.

Aww, perfect for this month but wont see paint til summer.

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Nevelon: you joke, but avoid starting that sergeant with the power fist until last and you probably could use him for "big stick..."

Probably going to try to get my fireforge senior druzhina done for my Saga princes Rus', with pictures later today, but as babies first resin, its kinda disheartening to work-lotta smooth and fill work, and all their scabbarded swords need new pommels

I will be putting my Goliath hive gang as my entry. I’ll put up a pic of the sprue later.


EDIT: Here we go.

Something odd is going on in this thread, the Forum is showing more replies than are actually here. If you posted between Nev and Vejut, please repost your proof so I can add it!

 Paradigm wrote:
Something odd is going on in this thread, the Forum is showing more replies than are actually here. If you posted between Nev and Vejut, please repost your proof so I can add it!

ooh weird...I'm getting that too...it says 11 replies, but there's only 8...maybe sly marbo and snikrot are having a forum argument?

I'm in with a squad of Chaos Cultists:

As usual when I do a squad like this, I'll paint all of them and then pick 5 as my entry. I'll include the champion and heavy gunner as well as the three best regular mooks.

My entry for the month: a squad of Alpha Legion Headhunters...

I'm in with, surprise! More Orks:



now I just need to figure out where I put their heads....

Kairics for me. Amazing minis...

Hopefully I'll actually finish this month.

I have a question regarding eligibility: Since this month is a minimum 3 dudes month:

I'm thinking about upgrading the paint work on some of my old CSMs. Right now they are just base-coat bolt-gun metal + gold + devlan mud... and it shows. I want to re-layer / shade / highlight all the metals to TMM and hazard stripe them. Let me know if you guys think this is too advanced a starting position.

How about 5 eldar rangers kitbashed from guardians? I'll post my pictures tonight after I begin assembling them.

@keezus: I'm afraid those are probably too far along. If you were going to strip and repaint them it'd be a different matter, but while I appreciate you'll probably put a lot of work in sprucing them up, models that are already fully painted (even to a basic standard) and based is probably where I have to draw a line. Sorry.

@Para: NP. I will find some unpainted ones.

Finished,Lord of the Rings Heros.
Think this is the first time i have entered something with a sword not a gun,plus last time i painted leather or skin was a decade ago,
so whatever votes i get at the end of the month,its all good as i have re-learned some skills,characters always seem more popular in these challenges anyway,so characters it is.

Gandalf The Gray.(Fellowship)
Armed with a staff of power & glamdring,this is the version where he faces the balrog in moria you know the now iconic "you shall not pass" scene,that's this gandalf.



Aragorn.(Two Towers)
Armed and armored with a dagger,chain mail from the armory at helms deep,and a two handed sword.



Frodo Baggins.(Fellowship)
Armed and armored with a mythril shirt & stinger [sword] from rivendell,and the one ring.

Here is my entry.

wip... they brought friends...

For once, I have assembled unpainted models near the beginning of the month, not the last days... Anyway, here is my proof picture for a few evil men, three dark mech chosen.

Got my copy of Necromunda today, so I'll be painting up a few bad women this month...

Proof:

Which seems like it would be more fun to see.
A. Engineers for Guild Ball
B. Deathwatch Kill Team
Well? I have them built now and will prime them in the morning.

I'd like to enter this month, sounds fun!
I have some old school GW and Reaper minis (I think they're Reaper, anywho) that I've wanted to paint up as DnD or Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay characters. This closely knit team will go dungeon crawling for treasure and glory.

Proof pics:

I asked over on my blog, but thought I’d check in here for more opinions.

What color for the dragonscales?


The armor is going to get another coat of that green, then a green wash to hopefully bring it closer to emerald and less camo. I’m leaning towards a deep red, but am open to suggestions.

Red or purple always works well with Salamanders green. A nice deep colour would be best.

Red is a great spot color for green. Since it's just the scales, it won't get the "Christmas" look.


Everyone, I require an opinion considering a model's eligibility for next month's, the "big stick": Since today I visited a friend who owns an airbrush, we did some basecoating for the model I wanted to use. If I leave it like it is now, do you think it would be ok for Februrary's challenge?