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Welcome to the 41st round of the Unofficial Painting Challenge! For the unfamiliar, this painting challenge is a friendly affair open to any Dakka members, whether you're winning Golden Demons or just painting Demons gold! The more you enter, the more points you accrue based on a public vote, and these are tracked in a League Table over the course of the year.

This month, the theme is Might Makes Right. In other words, time to bring out the biggest, toughest and meanest models from your to-do pile, the ones for whom sheer brute force and martial prowess is the only authority that matters. From a mighty Chaos Lord to an Orc Chief, from a Baneblade tank to a Bloodthirster, you want something that exudes threat and strength and can dominate any battlefield it's placed on.



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


List Of Entrants:

Nevelon: FINISHED


Rybrook: FINISHED


Vejut: FINISHED


Rouven: FINISHED


Kustomer D: FINISHED


Bantha_Beast:


CREEEEEEEEEEEED:


Porphyrius: FINISHED


ZoBo: FINISHED


Paradigm: FINISHED


DrGiggles: FINISHED


LordMcAllister:


Chaosdad:


Straken619: FINISHED


Midget Gems: FINISHED


jb1981: FINISHED


Power Elephant: FINISHED


ZergSmasher:


SirOllox: FINISHED


Inquisitor Lord Bane:


LordRahl:


lipsdapips: FINSHED


SKR.HH;


SlavetoDorkness:


Jadenim:


SmallChanges: FINISHED


Modock: FINISHED


Suzuteo:FINISHED


ssisal: FINISHED


Dwro1234:


KernelTerror: FINISHED


Craggy: FINISHED


mitchelldixon1588:


Tim 121RVC: FINISHED


Feltmonkey: FINISHED


J.creeper


Chris56: FINISHED

Depending on how time goes this month, I might add a bonesinger little buddy, a/o a gravis captain to square off against in a mini diorama. As I’m on vacation for a week of this month, it’s unlikely to happen though. I’ll slap pics of them up if I do.

Hmm, not sure what to paint for this challenge. I have quite a few suitable minis but I'm not in the mood to do those. I guess I'll have
to make an extra effort.

I thought the new base was resin, its plaster lol but looks right

 Modock wrote:
Hmm, not sure what to paint for this challenge. I have quite a few suitable minis but I'm not in the mood to do those. I guess I'll have
to make an extra effort.

Many of my entries for these challenges are an excuse to get things off the back of my workbench and onto the finished shelf. One of the many things I enjoy about participating.

(not this month, really looking forward to painting my WL)

Yeah, you're right. This is why these challenges are so awesome. Helps to motivate and give a nice painting push.

What a cool model is that wraithlord. I look forward to see it when it's done. Eldar and Tau are my favourite WH40k armies.
I so wanted cutting edge to win so I could paint my Tau commander. I don't think he fits might well.

So, a bit unsure about this one--its definitely a mighty weapon they're crewing, but might be stretching things a bit far. I do have other options if it doesn't fit.

I was actually considering some kind of artillery too; I’d say that fits the theme just fine.

Ok, this is exactly what I wanted to hear.
I was looking for a good reason to start painting my Plagueburst Crawler.

I'll enter a classic villain who does fit the theme, as I think, pretty well: Knight Models Black Adam

I've had this so long its been written out of the game! So its about time it got some paint on it!



With a bit of luck it Might get finished this month!

Proof

Nice, I have 2 dreads that need paint too but I'm still deciding the second dreads main weapon

Gonna be painting up my Tartaros termies this month

allrighty then...I think I'm gonna have a shot at getting these two deffrolla battlewagons done...deffrollas are pretty mighty if you ask me

they're both jobbers I picked up on ebay...quite a while ago now actually...uh, that blue one, that'll be getting a full repaint, so don't worry about that...looks like the previous owner didn't even prime it

proof:

Oh, my... These two baby buggies will keep you busy, me guess. Good luck Zobo.

A fairly speedy entry from me this month as I've been holding off on this model for a week already, waiting for the challenge to begin. Finished him up this afternoon, and I'm fairly happy with the result.

Proof:


Final:


As I say, fairly pleased with it, though if anyone has any suggestions, I'm all ears as there's plenty of time to edit him a bit. I swapped the head out from the original as without the hair/beard, it got lost in the red armour. The SW head allowed me to have the bright area around the face to draw attention to it and the glowing eyes help there as well.

Believe it or not, this is also the first time in a good few years I've used a gold paint rather than just working with silver and washes! It certainly does make a difference, even if it's a bit of a pain to do (for some reason, Vallejo's silver is much more smooth than their gold?)

Would an Idoneth Deepkin Akhelian Allopex from AoS be okay? It might not be the biggest and toughest model, though it's a friggin flying shark, ready to grab an enormous bite (or two) out of it's enemies! But I won't argue of course, if people don't find it appropiate to this months theme, as it might be a bit far fetched.

As always, the theme is open to however you interpret it, so if you think it's appropriate then it's appropriate! Go for it!

This will be some good motivation to get some painting done before my group gets together in August. I'm going to try and finish my Forgefiend for this one.

Proof:

@Paradigm: Great!

Here is my proof:

Far out! Are you kidding, Para!?

I haven't even figured out what to paint yet and you're finished!?
I envy your speed...even more so because of the quality at the end of it!

I look forward to seeing that, Lord McAllister - I haven't painted or even seen that model yet, so I'm pretty excited...
CREEEED! Are you taking on multiple dreads? And Zobo multiple battlewagons? Looking forward to those as well.

Here is my entry, the Raging Heroes Avatar of Shaah, which I'll use as a keeper of secrets...

Spoilered for black primed nipples...



So, how should I go about this, considering the nudity involved? Should I censor the images, or keeping is within spoiler tags enough? I don't want to have the whole thread labeled "NSFW" on behalf of my entry alone...

Some very nice entries this month.

I'm gonna paint the half orc Razgor the Warbringer!

proof

Wow, awesome model, ChaosDad!

I started painting and am progressing nicely!

Wow some good stuff already

Is this a record for you Para? Lovely work as always.

Good on you for the Ebay re-homing Zobo, you are helping make the world a better place for neglected models.

I don't mind the nudity Chaosdad but whatever you feel comfortable posting up. (demon boobs are notoriously alluring)

I feel I have been holding back the last few months so want to push myself. I'm going to do a conversion for this entry and loot a Nemesis Dreadknight.
No idea if I'll finish but have to try. This is also an ebay rescue with crazy amounts of glue and missing bits, e.g. no hands, left arm, right foot.

WIP

Wooooh, Midget Gems conversions are back! Not that your regular entries aren't excellent, but your conversion work always takes it above and beyond.

I don't think it is a record actually, I'm fairly certain that one time I had an entry up and finished by about 2PM on the first afternoon of the month! Doesn't mean it was any good though!

To be fair, with this one the mini had been waiting on my desk for a few days so I already had the scheme/techniques I wanted mapped out and was fairly familiar with the model, that saved a bit of time in the planning stage. All in all, I think it was just over 2 hours from primed to done, not including the head or base which I did a bit later. There's really only 4 colours on there (red, gold, silver and the cloak) so it wasn't too involved.

I'll add my guy to the mix;

Got the new big knight from my GF as a gift and that got me painting again, this guy was sitting in a box abandoned.

.

@Midget Gems - ooh yes, that pile'o'gubbinz has my inner dethskullz bigmek drooling ...and yeah, I've always been a big fan of ebay rescue jobs...I owe a large percentage of my collection to ebay, and honestly, I've always felt it to be a very thematically orky way to build an army...lootin' assorted vehicles and hoards of gubbinz, and absorbing numerous smaller warbands from across the galaxy into your ever-growing Waaagh! ...my crew of big meks and spannaboyz, and painboyz always have plenty of work

Mine is primed, got no idea on the floor though