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Welcome to the 47th round of the Unofficial Painting Challenge! For the unfamiliar, the challenge is a friendly competition open to any Dakka members, whether you're painting your first model or your 1001st! The more rounds 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 Bonds of Fellowship: Your entry should consist of two or more models who share some close bond, from a hero and their faithful sidekick to a squad of footsoldiers sent out to face the world's horrors together.


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 UK time 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:

Nevelon: FINISHED


ZoBo:


monkeytroll:


GulGog Tuftoof: FINISHED


ChaosDad:


Tyranid Horde:


Inquisitor Lord Bane:


Midget Gems: FINISHED


Modock: FINISHED


Captain Brown: FINISHED


Zergsmasher: FINISHED


Power Elephant: FINISHED


Munn:


WishWarGaming: FINISHED


AUGmaniac: FINISHED


Scythern:


5up35: FINISHED


Maharg: FINISHED


dukeofbeer: FINISHED


SirOllox: FINISHED


Suzuteo: FINISHED


Flinty: FINISHED


feltmonkey: FINISHED


vejut: FINISHED


CREEEEEEED:


Peregrine: FINISHED


lipsdapips: FINISHED


Ezki: FINISHED


Jadenim: FINISHED


JustALittleOrkish: FINISHED


Possumcraft: FINISHED


Chris56:FINISHED


Paradigm: FINISHED

Kill team Zephyr. Loyalty forged under fire, brotherhood that transcends chapter. The Emperor’s wrath made manifest against the horrors of the Xenos.

I'm in, gonna be painting some Flash Gitz...not sure which 5 I'm actually entering though, the "official" ones, or the ones I kitbashed...so I'll just post proofs of both and see what happens by the end of the month

I figure they fit the theme nicely, as they're a motley bunch, all kicked out of their old clans for various reasons, coming together under the bonds of fellowship, and promises of loadsa teef, and flashy gubbinz!

2 heldrakes

Ok, let's see if I can push myself to actually complete something by way of the challenge this year

I may change this if I can create a partner for my stilt-walker tomorrow, but I think it'll be Inguisitor Isabella Dominique and her tracking servitor...

Imperial Guard Mortar Squad for my entry. Primed and unprimed bits to follow.

Cheers,

CB

I'm in, these challenges always provide the motivation I need to paint things in a timely fashion. I'm trying to build up my AdMech Kill Team, and have a couple of rangers further along in the process which I will be working on in parallel (but not entering), but my focus will be on these two.

Proof, ranger sniper (w/ arc rifle) and spotter (w/ omnispex):

Held together by the bonds of ROCK!



The classic Goodwin shredder, and the new incarnation, also held together by 25 years of hobby...

Hoping to to these guys justice, and that it will inspire me to finish the rest of the noise patrol and their party bus...

Question: the mighty lord of Khorne is technically a single model that has a single base, but is the lord with his faithful flesh hound companion. Does this fit the bill?

I might throw in a goblin tribe.

Not sure what's happened here but its not letting me post my photos properly.

Well I didn't think I would have anything for this but I found some DKOK gunners that fit. Can take a break from morty to crank these out with into a simple diorama.

Didn't think I had anything for this theme but I found some DKOK gunners that should do nicely. Can take a break from morty and work them into a little diorama.

Didn't think I had anything for this theme but I found some DKOK gunners that should do nicely. Can take a break from morty and work them into a little diorama.

Didn't think I had anything for this theme but I found some DKOK gunners that should do nicely. Can take a break from morty and work them into a little diorama.


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Not sure what happened there.

Let's try those photos again.

I think you broke something!

I'll try to think of something for this. Trying to avoid buying new models, so I'll have to dig deep into my bitz bin to see what random stuff I have lying around.

LOL Queen Anne

I can't fault your persistence

I'm Glad both you and DV8 are trying to enter something even if it doesn't fit directly into what you wanted to do. I've enjoyed both your entries over the last few months

I think I'll go for some Tanith for this one but will decide tonight.

Think I'll be digging out some Anvil Industry models for this one, photos to come soon.

I have no idea wtf happened there. Might have to try again later. It's supposed to be a photo of a DKOK heavy stubber team.


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 DV8 wrote:
I think you broke something!

I'll try to think of something for this. Trying to avoid buying new models, so I'll have to dig deep into my bitz bin to see what random stuff I have lying around.

Me too. I'm buying 0 miniatures this year. 2 days in and it's already difficult. Treated myself to daemon magnus just before NYE so I should be held over for the whole year.

Spent the evening cleaning and assembling these fellas so I could show them off with a decent proof picture. Whether I use them all is another story but they'll be painted together. I reckon I'll be whipping up a small diorama with it to add some flavour to them.

 Inquisitor Lord Bane wrote:
Question: the mighty lord of Khorne is technically a single model that has a single base, but is the lord with his faithful flesh hound companion. Does this fit the bill?

Spoiler:

Absolutely appropriate!

Sweet. Here's my proof pic then:

 queen_annes_revenge wrote:
I have no idea wtf happened there. Might have to try again later. It's supposed to be a photo of a DKOK heavy stubber team.

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 DV8 wrote:
I think you broke something!

I'll try to think of something for this. Trying to avoid buying new models, so I'll have to dig deep into my bitz bin to see what random stuff I have lying around.

Me too. I'm buying 0 miniatures this year. 2 days in and it's already difficult. Treated myself to daemon magnus just before NYE so I should be held over for the whole year.

Yeah I have a horde of unpainted models and bits but the promise of shiny new ones always gets me in the end. I've started doing a reward if I do a goal e.g. paint 10 models I'm allowed 1 new character model or something like that. Hard to go cold Turkey.

I had a thought last night and what thought shows the "Bonds of Friendship" more than an Goblin and his Squig, especially when the Squig is Gobbla , it also shows how far my collection goes back since it got this around when it was first released

Proof pic of Skarsnik and Gobbla

I got the perfect minis for the job.

Strelok and his most trusted little friend, the K9 Antipode.

Proof picture of the six troopers that will be sharing three bases.



Cheers,

CB

 Midget Gems wrote:

 queen_annes_revenge wrote:
I have no idea wtf happened there. Might have to try again later. It's supposed to be a photo of a DKOK heavy stubber team.

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 DV8 wrote:
I think you broke something!

I'll try to think of something for this. Trying to avoid buying new models, so I'll have to dig deep into my bitz bin to see what random stuff I have lying around.

Me too. I'm buying 0 miniatures this year. 2 days in and it's already difficult. Treated myself to daemon magnus just before NYE so I should be held over for the whole year.

Yeah I have a horde of unpainted models and bits but the promise of shiny new ones always gets me in the end. I've started doing a reward if I do a goal e.g. paint 10 models I'm allowed 1 new character model or something like that. Hard to go cold Turkey.

Cold turkey is the only thing that works for me. Last year I vowed to buy no new clothes, succeeded. I tried reducing my Facebook usage, deleted loads of people and groups etc.. Failed. Deleted it entirely. Never been back. Its all or nothing with me.

I'm in with two of the heroes from Blackstone Fortress. Here's my proof:

Taddeus the Purifier and Pious Vorne are very much bound together. It was either them, or the two Ratlings, and I'd rather paint these two as they interest me more and so should hold my focus better.

Proof pic and first member painted.

WIP for the first 2/5