Dakka (unofficial) Monthly Painting Challenge 3: May 2015: Fast and Furious (Ends Midnight BST 31st)

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**SlaveToDorkness**

How about "My Hero"?

**lliu**

Or Hero and His council.. Thinking Papa Smurf and Meatshield co.

**Paradigm**

Think I'll stick with these 4 for this month, but I will file your suggestions for future reference!

**Januine**

Sounds good Para. I'm soooo far behind at the mo. 3 days till wedding, things are......manic here at the mo lol

**ZergSmasher**

Well, I was at my FLGS playing a friendly game of 40k, my first using the Daemonkin codex, having fun, and then this happened:

Ok, this was taken after I got home, but long story short: some stupid old man walked past my bag and knocked it over, spilling my miniatures all over the place. Worse, he didn't even seem to notice anything had happened and just walked out of the store (without even apologizing). I had a good mind to go yell in his face and force him to apologize (or even punch him), but the Christian side of me won out and I mercifully let him go. Anyway, as you might notice, the only casualties were the Raptors I've been working on for the monthly challenge (they had already died in the game and so were in the bag). That, I suppose, is the final nail in the coffin of getting them done in time

. I will be doing some Flesh Hounds of Khorne instead, so I will post a proof pic sometime tomorrow (local time). I think I can work faster on the Hounds, not as many small details!

**mad_eddy_13**

And I finally had a nice day to take a couple of photos, so with out further ado, here it is!

That was a fun build and I will be building a couple more later on and I love these competitions.

**Paradigm**

That it really cool! Don't suppose you have templates for it anywhere? I'd like to take a shot at it myself!

**ZergSmasher**

Ok, here is the proof pic of my Khorne Flesh Hounds, as promised:

These are the old metal ones, I got them on eBay about a month ago. I wish I had just started with them for the competition instead of trying to do the Raptors. 11 days to fully paint them, wish me luck! If it looks like I'm not gonna make it, I may just end up putting a couple of them in my final entry pics. I hope that's okay.

**Inspector #264**

I am finished, and the final photos have now been taken:

I would like to say thank you to Paradigm for running the challenge as well as accepting my entry, and as a result motivating me to get one of these guys finished after over a year sitting on the shelf.

I will definitely be back to take up next months challenge, whatever that ends up being.

**KaptinBadrukk**

Paradigm, what are the voting options for next month's challenge?

**TP^DC Deputy Manager**

Well done inspector. Great job.

When is the voting thread going up?

**Paradigm**

You can see the options on the last page. The subject poll will probably go up over the weekend.

**Inspector #264**

TP^DC Deputy Manager wrote:
Well done inspector. Great job.

Many thanks.

Paradigm wrote:

So we have

Monster
Slow and Purposeful
Icon
Three Colour Maximum

Sound good?

Seems like some interesting options indeed.

**KaptinBadrukk**

Inspector #264 wrote:
TP^DC Deputy Manager wrote:
Well done inspector. Great job.

Many thanks.

Paradigm wrote:

So we have

Monster
Slow and Purposeful
Icon
Three Colour Maximum

Sound good?

Seems like some interesting options indeed.

Yep. They sound good on my end.

**angelofvengeance**

Here's my entry- doesn't get much more furious than an Eversor assassin! (Painted up as one Johann Schmidt...)

Spoiler tags due to pic size..

Spoiler:

**Kustomer D**

Hey, since my pics are still not in the right position, I´ll try to upload them again - I hope it works now.

All participants good luck!!!

Let´s see what´s next month!!!

K D

**Januine**

Wedding may be two days away but still managing to get a sneaky but of painting done in the mornings

lol

**TP^DC Deputy Manager**

Well done Jan, your fiancé clearly is more understanding than mine was at the time! She's a keeper. I should probably point out at this juncture that the reason my wife was stressed pre-wedding is that I got dumped with 4 night shifts finishing 24 hours prior to our wedding day - any time I had sore was for sleep and wedding prep. (Eating was a low priority

)

**Januine**

ouch TP!!! Yeah my fi is pretty sweet about it. She lets me to it and knows I need a bit of me time to clear myhead. Def a keeper!!!!

**Ustrello**

No pictures but I got the basecoat down on the rhino and the wash is drying as we speak. I should have him done soonish

**mad_eddy_13**

Paradigm wrote:
That it really cool! Don't suppose you have templates for it anywhere? I'd like to take a shot at it myself!

I'll make you a little tutorial this evening, I want to make a couple more anyway so it would be no trouble

**NidLifeCrisis**

Despite having a rip roaring start to the month, my work rate came to a grinding halt and I've barely got anything done this week. All my Nobz + the Painboy are base coated, washed and have had their skin done. I usually have trouble motivating myself from here on in so we'll see...

To give you all an idea I where I'm at:

Good luck getting all your finishing touches done, everyone!

**Paradigm**

Coming along really nicely! I'm always envious of those who can really capture that orky feel in their conversion and paintwork, and you certainly can!

**angelofvengeance**

Update time

Hail Hydra!

**Schlyne**

Looking good so far guys!

I've been pretty busy this month, so I don't know if I'll get my ork battlewagon in for proofs and finish work or just paint up some hormgaunts. We'll see how it goes.

**ZergSmasher**

angelofvengeance wrote:
Update time

Hail Hydra!

Have an exalt, dude! When I first saw the Eversor assassin in WD, I thought it was my least favorite one of the four. I thought the skull face thing was just silly, but what you've done with it is pure genius! Now you just need to make a Space Marine Captain America, complete with a familiar looking counts-as storm shield...

Anyway, WIP time! I've made quite a bit of headway on the flesh hounds, here's a couple of pics:

Spoiler:

As you can see, I've painted the skin, fur, and claws (man, that's a lot more spikes than I thought before I started painting. I still have to do the metal collars and some small details, then it'll be time for some shading, Duncan Rhodes style! I love everybody's entries that I've seen so far, in particular the Buzz Lightyear space marine and the aforementioned Red Skull assassin. Should be a pretty good competition this month when all's said and done!

**angelofvengeance**

I might do that. Not many round Storm Shields about (thought about SW TWC shield but it's a bit too much messing about there)

**ckig**

Love the diverse entries here.

Hope I'm not too late to join!

Here's what I'm hoping to put up:

Yojimbo:

Ok, well he's just a bike at the moment but soon!

**Midget Gems**

Very quick update from me before the weekend

**lliu**

I'll be finished soon... Didn't have time during the week...