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Welcome to the 14th Unofficial Painting Challenge here on Dakka! This month is the second in the 2016/17 round, so a perfect opportunity to join in and start racking up points early on!

The theme for this month's challenge is The Relic, which covers pretty much anything old and/or holy, from a war priest of Sigmar to a Space Marine Captain carrying one of his Chapter's ancient weapons, from a Malifaux Gremlin who's just stumblekd across some old and priceless loot to a crusading band of holy knights (of the historical, Bretonnian or Panoceanian variety, or any other version of the age-old theme)


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 5 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 4 images and one separate image would count as your 5 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 April and will end at midnight GMT on the 30th April. After this, I shall compile the finished entries into a new thread, and voting will run for 5 days.


List of Entrants

Iechine: FINSHED


Januine: FINSHED


SirOllox: FINISHED


ChaosDad: FINISHED


ssisal: FINISHED


Ustrello: FINISHED


Deadshot:


TP^DC Deputy Manager: FINISHED


Reavsie: FINSIHED


KINGPIN54: FINISHED


piratepizzadog: FINISHED


Kaptin Badrukk


Loricatus Auroura: FINISHED


sockwithaticket: FINISHED


Zergsmasher: FINISHED


vejut: FINISHED


Paradigm: FINISHED


Wilson: FINISHED


Chief


optometris: FINISHED


Guildenstern: FINISHED


trob52: FINISHED


Midget Gems:FINISHED


Moolet: FINISHED


Nevelon: FINISHED


Nordicus: FINISHED


Falienia:


Brennonjw:


GulGog TufToof: FINISHED


methebest: FINISHED


jah-joshua: :FINISHED


Keezus: FINISHED


reizingsun


Zambro:FINSHED


Littletower:


Pneumo: FINISHED


Jadenim: FINISHED


Buttery Commissar


King Pariah: FINISHED


Farseer Anath'lan: FINISHED


final





JBschroeds: FINISHED

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Camkierhi: FINISHED


spuj: FINISHED


Kustomer D: FINISHED


Sevren: FINISHED


kb_lock: FINISHED

I look forward to this one, I have a model Ive wanted to do for a while now. Good luck, all.

My proof of whats to come:

Yes!

Game on. I'm provisionally throwing in with Big Brother here but may substitute later as this guy is going to take a fair while to do. For now anyways - here the big fella's proof. I've spray primed him with chaos and leadbelcher sprays. Hope that's ok

My entry is a relic himself, an old priest with the true, unbreakable believe in the emperor.
He fights the enemys of the imperium with great anger and righteous fury to spread the light of the god emperor.

Slaughterpriest. Hes holy to khorne fanatics right?

I will find something to do.

Possibly my Alpha Legion Contemptor. That has to be relic-y.

Proof and finished model on the first day? Damn but that's some speedy painting!!!

he may've been started last month but shh.

Here are the starting pictures of my Cypher conversion, built with the Dark Vengeance angels...

cool ^ dont forget to drill those barrels though! and I personally feel that cypher should always be hooded, but hey ho

To follow Cypher im glad that I'm ready to present the ravenwings first interrogator chaplain, I forgot to take a picture of the before I started cutting and painting him. All his bits cept an arm got here past couple days. Painted and put him together and touched him up tonight.


So I don't forget and do it again. I am including my proofs for april now.
Company 5 dreadnought 1
Company 5 master balthasar
Company 1 deathwing terminator squad 10
Company 10 neophyte 1/117 progression of a dwarf into a dark angel.

The first minature I bought back in 1991(6th grade when thought had to beat 1st edition dnd to play ad&d) he's always been the dungeon msdter, least once a week since then)

 queen_annes_revenge wrote:
he may've been started last month but shh.

I'm afraid I can't allow you to enter that mini then. It's great, and I recall being very impressed with it when you posted it a while back, but the challenges are for minis painted entirely within the month. Sorry, and please feel free to enter another model!

My jump pack 30k chaplain will be my entry. Hopefully he is relicy enough

Decisions decisions. Part of me wants to paint up some capheract terminator armor from 30k, as such a ancient and venerable suit is a relic in it’s own right. The other part of me wants to drag out an actual relic; some old chunk of RT-era lead.

I guess I’ll just poke around the basement and see what grabs me.

I'm in. Photos later

I´m in.
My project this month is - as I said in the poll - a Warbos in MegaArmour. It´s coming along quite well and only needs the left leg to be done. To fit the theme, I´ll ad some gifts from Mork and Gork - they are something like holy to Orks so... it fits god damn it!!!

Proof will follow as soon as I finished the leg and rivets...

K D

Count me in again, will srnd mockup proofs later, will be a sm chaplain.

I'm in. Thinking of doing a contemptor dreadnought... We'll see

 Paradigm wrote:

 queen_annes_revenge wrote:
he may've been started last month but shh.

I'm afraid I can't allow you to enter that mini then. It's great, and I recall being very impressed with it when you posted it a while back, but the challenges are for minis painted entirely within the month. Sorry, and please feel free to enter another model!

im out then. got nothing for this theme.

Would Zoanthropes count? Since they're one of the controlling Hive Mind Monsters?

If not, I'm going to have to finish assembling my Lonely Tree.

 Koreg wrote:
Would Zoanthropes count? Since they're one of the controlling Hive Mind Monsters?

If not, I'm going to have to finish assembling my Lonely Tree.

Probably a bit wide of the mark, but I appreciate Nids are limited here so I'm not going to be too picky.

Old One Eye would count, surely?

The model is in itself a relic, managed to get this metal version from ebay

Here's my entry. If there is time I might chuck in some Necron Warriors too, depends on how much time I have

...I wonder what it could be..?

Proof pics to come when it shows up.

Haven't painted anything in around 2 years so will go with a single figure:



Not sure I can do this one justice, but I might just get him finished in a month...

As i sayd before, all i have is hand me down bitz from other people and a while bunch of snapfit tac marines, well here is my proof of my wip shot of my tacmarine convertion to chaplain, still alot of work to be done. But thats the challenge is it not.

IN, spacehulk dude in chair + cup

Oh, and if we are doing POSSIBLE substitutions, I may go for my storm eagle instead

Proof

I have tons of old models but this is the only one that i have some photo of him unpainted

This is my relic model with the mighty relic "da dead shiny shoota"!