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Welcome all to the 50th(!) round of the Unofficial Painting challenge. For those who haven't seen the challenge before, it is a community-focused friendly competition open to anyone on the site, regardless of your skill level or experience. Every round contributes towards a League table, which ultimately means nothing but is a lot of fun to keep an eye on and jockey for position with Dakka's other painters.

This month, the theme is The Art of War. Your entry should feature individuals famed for their tactical or strategic acumen. We're looking for leaders of armies, masterminds of grand campaigns, architects of victory. As always, this is open to interpretation, so if you have another approach to the theme then feel free to use that instead!



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 April and will end at midnight UK time 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:

Nevelon: FINISHED


Rybrook: FINISHED


CREEEEEEED:


Deadshot: FINISHED


Flinty: FINISHED


DrGiggles: FINISHED


Zergsmasher: FINISHED


queen_annes_revenge: FINISHED


Skonis:


vejut: FINISHED


Captain Brown: FINISHED


JamesY: FINISHED


Hawky:


DV8:FINISHED


Tikay Fortooun: FINISHED


lipsdapips: FINISHED


Tyranid Horde:FINISHED


GulGog Tuftoof: FINISHED


Jadenim: FINISHED


Delirious:


Maharg: FINISHED


Jjohnso11:


AUGmaniac: FINISHED


Modock: FINISHED


ShadowsAndDust: FINISHED


DanceofSlaanesh: FINISHED


Midget Gems: FINISHED


Feltmonkey: FINISHED


mitchelldixon1588:


SmallChanges: FINISHED


Big Mac:


Ezki: FINISHED


Bellerophron: FINISHED


ChaosDad:


Stormatious: FINISHED


dukeofbeer: FINISHED


Chris56: FINISHED


Paradigm: FINISHED


Peregrine: FINISHED

Depending on if I can break out the rattlecan to prime, I’ll either do Calgar and HG or a RT captain and vets.

Pic to follow.

Edit:


There is something like 3 decades between these two groups of marines. I’d like to do Calgar, as I think he fits the theme better. But the weather is going to be crappy for the next two weeks. If there is a good day in the next few, he’ll get his shot. If not, retro-goodness.

I’m in, this could be Cato in his unheralded days?

Count me in on this on, model (s?) to follow.

I'm in! I'll post some grey (and a bit of green) as soon as I can get some decent pics. I'll be painting Lord Actis, Commander of the Children of the Ossuary.

I will participate. Either Guard or Eldar. Have to figure out a figure to paint for this one.

Cheers,

CB

Who better to have mastered the art of war than a veteran of 10,000 years?

Signing in. Not sure what to paint yet. Thinking about drukhari or harlequins.

hmmm...I honestly haven't a clue what I could do for this one...I'll have to have a real thorough think, but, I'm pretty sure I've painted pretty much all my leader type models already, and squigs, which are my current personal project, aren't exactly known for their tactics and strategy

I'll be popping this one in. Bit of a departure from my normal Blood Ravens, but there'll be at least one in there

Title: Heroes of the Imperium





See if you can guess each model. Hint: every one is a special character.

(Middle-left will be a Blood Raven)

 Deadshot wrote:
I'll be popping this one in. Bit of a departure from my normal Blood Ravens, but there'll be at least one in there

Title: Heroes of the Imperium





See if you can guess each model. Hint: every one is a special character.

(Middle-left will be a Blood Raven)

Left to right: Brother-Captain Stern, Marneus Calgar (you're going to make him a Blood Raven?), Commander Dante, Ragnar Blackmane). Am I close at least?

I'm in with some more BSF models. Leaders of armies, in the form of heretic sergeants, don't get much more masterminds than psykers, and the obvious and undeniable architect of ultimate victory, Lord Blackie himself. Hopefully got time to get through all 5 this month with some judicious airbrushing!

Proof pic.

I'm going to be painting a Herald of Khorne this month.

I'll be entering something a bit bigger this time around:

Who better to exemplify the art of war than a Daemon Prince of Khorne? Nobody, that's who!

Especially if that art relates to painting big red splattery pictures

Horus the warmaster. Got this for Christmas but think it's recast, hence the storm bolter and altered claws.

 ZergSmasher wrote:

 Deadshot wrote:
I'll be popping this one in. Bit of a departure from my normal Blood Ravens, but there'll be at least one in there

Title: Heroes of the Imperium





See if you can guess each model. Hint: every one is a special character.

(Middle-left will be a Blood Raven)

Left to right: Brother-Captain Stern, Marneus Calgar (you're going to make him a Blood Raven?), Commander Dante, Ragnar Blackmane). Am I close at least?

Yer spot on bai, did you guess or click the image with all the names in the tags?


Automatically Appended Next Post:

 queen_annes_revenge wrote:
Horus the warmaster. Got this for Christmas but think it's recast, hence the storm bolter and altered claws.

Recast or no Recast, stoked to see how this turns out QAR!

Ok, so this little guy is going to be my entry. Currently unpainted but still has some bit of primer on the pieces I ripped off other things
He's the Renegade Commander for my budding R&H army, the Children of the Ossuary. Lord Actis was formerly an Admiral in the Imperial Fleet, until he was turned to the worship of Chaos on the Rogue Planet Morax.



I'll be posting WIP pictures as he progresses.

 queen_annes_revenge wrote:
Horus the warmaster. Got this for Christmas but think it's recast, hence the storm bolter and altered claws.

Recast or no Recast, stoked to see how this turns out QAR!

So gonna put one of these two in, depending on what gets traction with me: either a avatar of the war god Horus...


Or a wargaming crocodile

 skonis wrote:
Ok, so this little guy is going to be my entry. Currently unpainted but still has some bit of primer on the pieces I ripped off other things
He's the Renegade Commander for my budding R&H army, the Children of the Ossuary. Lord Actis was formerly an Admiral in the Imperial Fleet, until he was turned to the worship of Chaos on the Rogue Planet Morax.

Spoiler:

I'll be posting WIP pictures as he progresses.

Nothing like a good set of civilian power armour. Something we don't see enough of.

 CREEEEEEEEED wrote:

 skonis wrote:
Ok, so this little guy is going to be my entry. Currently unpainted but still has some bit of primer on the pieces I ripped off other things
He's the Renegade Commander for my budding R&H army, the Children of the Ossuary. Lord Actis was formerly an Admiral in the Imperial Fleet, until he was turned to the worship of Chaos on the Rogue Planet Morax.

Spoiler:

I'll be posting WIP pictures as he progresses.

Nothing like a good set of civilian power armour. Something we don't see enough of.

When I got him glued down I tried putting him between a Cultist and an Intercessor to get a sense of scale, and he does look like a regular humie in some power armor. Of course, the Renegade Commander only has a 5+ save (and a 5++), but as Not Online!!! said: "Who is capable of saying that R&H can be 'modelled for advantage'?"

My entry will be some more metal Rogue Trader era models.



The Exarch of a Dark Reaper Shrine and three Dark Reapers.

When an Aeldari following the path of the warrior becomes too focused and unable to leave that path, they become an Exarch. The Exarch only leaves the Shrine for war as in the meantime they perfect their knowledge and skills in the art of war.

The long painting war continues...

CB

I'll go for my annual attempt, proof;

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Crom the Conqueror, Herald of Archaon, once upon a time anyway...

Break in the weather today, Calgar gets the nod to go forward for the month.

One of these days those old RT guys will get some love.

What does the Fox say?

I'm back! Following the post Adepticon high, I still need to complete my army for the Age of Sigmar Warmaster team tournament in June.

Step 1: Nagash

Leader of armies? well, it looks like I'm making a habit of entering Avatars of Khaine. I've been building an Aeldari army with the help of eBay and for some reason people keep dropping these guys into job lots. I've ended up with 4 of them, none of which I am putting together as standard (I hate the pose). The First Avatar I entered in November's competition, but never managed to finish the base.
The second one has ended up dead on a base for a kit bashed Necron Cryptek (I might still enter the Cryptek instead if progress is slow on my actual entry).
The third is going to be seated in a shrine as scenery for an Eldar Craftworld (thanks to Fifty for letting me steal that idea).

So to number 4. I'm still not sure of the colour scheme I'm going to use for this guy, but I'm pretty happy so far with the rebuild. I was hoping to get some prebuilt antlers to replace the silly horns, but I can't find anything. Scratch building from paperclips is time consuming and fiddly, but if I can keep my patience, I think it will look OK.

Wow... Nagash is... big. Lucky guy has come a.long way from that first totally.goofy.sculpt

My entry for this month is Alavaan, Chapter Master of the Sons of Orar. I've been eyeing up the Sons of Orar for some time now, so am keen to see how painting them goes. I will add a command/sternguard squad to my entry later in the month if I have the time/the will. Good luck for Round 50 everybody! Looking forward to seeing what gets cooked up for such a mighty theme