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Welcome to the 48th 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. With this being the final month of the 2018/19 rotation, it's your last chance to pick up some points and maybe gain some ranks in the league!

This month, the theme is 'Into The Breach'. Your entry should consist of models who can always be found at the very front of the fighting, charging into the thickest pockets of resistance and clearing the way for their fellows. From a vanguard of heavy cavalry to an enormous monster to an elite unit of Terminators, these troops are always the first in.


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 February and will end at midnight UK time on the 28th of February. After this, I shall compile the finished entries into a new thread, and voting will run for 5 days.


List Of Entrants:

queen_annes_revenge: FINISHED


SmallChanges: FINISHED


Midget Gems: FINISHED


Nevelon: FINISHED


Flinty: FINISHED


ZoBo: FINISHED


CREEEEEEEED: FINISHED


SirOllox:


Hawky: FINISHED


ChaosDad:


DrGiggles: FINISHED


Big Mac:FINISHED


ZergSmasher: FINISHED


Rybrook: FINISHED


Jjohnso11: FINISHED


Oppl:


Lipsdapips: FINISHED


JustALittleOrkish: FINISHED


Elnibbus:


Maharg: FINISHED


Tyranid Horde:


Captain Brown: FINISHED


AUGManiac: FINISHED


Argive:


Suzuteo: FINISHED


Straken619:


Ezki: FINISHED


Paradigm: FINISHED


dukeofbeer: FINISHED


Possumcraft: FINISHED


Jadenim:


Garrior:


Power Elephant:


feltmonkey: FINISHED


WishWarGaming:


Modock: FINISHED


Chris56: FINISHED


Pneumo: FINISHED


vejut: FINISHED

Morty. I think hes suitable for this theme

So while my request to do an Imperial Guard squad of 10 models has been declined, I guess I will do the smaller Imperial Guard command squad for a breaching unit

"If you have a problem, if no one else can help, and if you can find them....maybe you can hire The A-Team."

Proof pictures to follow.

Cheers,

CB

I reckon this old soldier would definitely be at the forefront of any fight he's in:

Good Luck everyone

I gonna ask about my proposed entry before I spend all the effort going down that route.

Para

Is a slightly different interpretation ok with you "into the Breach" meaning a breach in reality e.g. the Warp ?

Reason/Entry

As always, if you can think of a reason for it to fit then it fits. That certainly does!

Also I just really want to see that conversion...

I got some aberrants and genestealers just in time for the day of ascension that fit the theme. I will probably go with the aberrants (since they are 5) but paint them all together anyway since they has the same colors. I will edit a proof pic later.

Cheers Para, was hoping as much but wanted to check just to be sure

Heres what I've got so far as proof for my Ork Shokkjump Delorean

Time to get these guys off the bench.

Back in 6th? 7th? I put together a squad of LotD counts-as. 3++ from storm shields, bolters, and special/heavy weapons that could benefit from S&P and ignore cover. Then at some point they changed the rules to limit options. So the rest of the squad never got done being painted. I did get two guys done, but these 3 languished on the back of the bench.

My counts as fluff was a specialized boarding team with personal teleporters (ala interceptors) and shields to secure a landing zone for other troops to follow in. Very much first into the breach.

Wouldn't it be a Shokkjump DeLorkean? I'm really looking forward to how it turns out, MG!

My proof pic will come up shortly. I'll probably be entering the Spindle Drones from Blackstone Fortress. They would probably be the first things to react to the Fortress being "breached" by the explorers.

I'm in. My Van Saar gang has a set of dynamic entry specialists who are always at the forefront of infiltration and face smashing enemy strongholds. Also they might be getting a game soon so best get painted soon.

First off, MG, you glorious madman...that's bloody brilliant!

Secondly, I'm in! - what's more "into the breach", than a pair of massive, angry, living wrecking balls being vaguely guided in the right direction by a few crazy, shroom-eating gobbos?

proof pic (I'm just doing the mangler squigs in the middle as my entry, I didn't think to take a pic of it unpainted by itself, and I've already started painting it now)

Ugh, not sure what to do.....
Witch King on his FellBeast?
Mordor Troll?
Riders of Rohan with Gamling?
Roman Legionnaires?
Too many options, give me a few days and I'll drop the proof pic

Midget Gems, just shut up and take my votes!

Delorkean. That's brilliant.

I swear, this time I'm actually gonna finish

Midget Gems - that already looks bloody amazing!

Zobo - the march of the squigs, he he. Excellent.

CREEEEEEEEED - I'm taking your word for it...let's see if you deliver...

It seems like the last challenge will be full of greatness!

I've entered at the beginning of the month so there's a chance. Also whilst stumbling around in the dark last night I accidentally stepped on the cardboard box containing my dreads. It's fixable but not nice to see on an OOP FW model.

Hey there.....

My entry this month will be the storm raven gunship.

It breaches the enemy frontline to deploy troops while laying devastation on its enemys.

I bought it some years ago, when it got released within the formation set with two stormtalons and I never finished it, didnˋt even completly built it up.

Everyone's like: Severina Raine, so realistically looking, so non-feminine...
While I'm like: Ummm... Yeah...

Take it as my proof.

Here are my five dudes, hopefully my arm will get better fast enough for me to get them done...



They will join my 2nd Horus Heresy army, and will thus pledge allegiance to the Word and Lorgar...

@ Creeeeeed, oh no! Techpriest, stat!

I'll either do a Reiver or a Chaos Raptor for this month.

 ZergSmasher wrote:
Wouldn't it be a Shokkjump DeLorkean? I'm really looking forward to how it turns out, MG!

Thank you Zerg, I do rely on you guys to name my creations Good luck with the Spindle Drones. WHQ was one of my favourite games when growing up and Blackstone Fortress is on my list to get in the future, will be watching them with interest.

LOL Zobo, Felt, Modock and Para, thanks for the encouragement.

I could use some advice on the painting side of it as well if anyone wants to impart some wisdom. I asked a question on it Here

Those Squigs look amazing already Zobo, really nice sculpts. I've been very impressed and temped by the new AOS stuff that's been coming out (trying to be good atm and not spend on anything till Bday in May)

Good Luck Creeed, just gives you and excuse to re-pose it

I usually don't work on the same time frame of these competitions or conflicting subject matters, however my current project fits with the theme and time frame, plus I think its just too cool of a project not to document WIP. Its a platoon of IG Armageddon Ork Hunters, I'll pick top 5 of the platoon as my submission. They were mostly prepped a couple months back, were primed a couple days ago, did the basing yesterday, and did the camo pants today. After seeing the finale of 'Helsreach' fan film, I was inspired to make couple of objective markers.

Bits used are mostly Catachan, but shoulders pads are from Necromunda Goliath gangs, heads are from various human kits.

Link to all the WIP images and submission finishing photos.
https://imgur.com/a/T3wui7o

Finished!

And, as promised, here's my proof pic:

 ChaosDad wrote:
Here are my five dudes, hopefully my arm will get better fast enough for me to get them done...



They will join my 2nd Horus Heresy army, and will thus pledge allegiance to the Word and Lorgar...

Those wings make fantastic shields

I will join in

Here is the first half of my updated death coy

I just got this old metal Troggoth in and I think he fits the description for this month.

PossumCraft wrote:

Those wings make fantastic shields

They do!

I like the idea of them having been ripped off from some blood angels goodie two-shoes and put to good use for the primordial truth...

For the Word!

I'd like to enter a squad of Waffen-SS from Bolt Action, I figure they fit the bill. They'll be part of the 9th SS Hohenstaufen who opposed the Airborne forces in Market Garden as I need some OpFor for my Red Devils. I'll choose the 5 ones I'm most happy with at the end to comply with the limit but here's the whole lot.