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Welcome all to the 27th round of the Unofficial Painting Challenge here on Dakka. For anyone who's unfamiliar with the format, this is a simple community challenge open to anyone on Dakka, the aim of the game being to paint a model or set of models relating to the month's theme and win points for doing so!

This month's theme is 'Boom'. Pretty straightforward, anything that can make things explode in a spectacular fashion is eligible for entry, be it a Grot with a stick of dynamite to a Knight with its Inferno Cannon, from a Dwarf cannon to a Mage hurling fireballs.


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 4 images and two separate image would count as your 6 picture allowance.
Rules Change this month, the picture limit has been upped to 6 so folks entering 5 models can do individual and group shots of their entire entry.
All other rules still apply


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 May and will end at midnight GMT on the 31st of May. After this, I shall compile the finished entries into a new thread, and voting will run for 5 days.

List of Entrants:

u971:


Nevelon


GiraffeX: FINISHED


ZoBo FINISHED


ChaoticMind: FINISHED


Reavsie:


CREEEEEEEED:


Modock: FINISHED


n1ceguypaul: FINISHED


Yorkright: FINISHED


Chris56: FINISHED


Zergsmasher: FINISHED


Melcavuk:


ChaosDad: FINISHED


Manalishi: FINISHED


STG:


TotalitarianTiramisu:


PossumCraft: FINISHED


Drummernathan: FINISHED


Midget Gems: FINISHED


Guildenstern


Jadenim: FINISHED


SmallChanges: FINISHED


Reavsie:


Whittlesey40k: FINISHED


Moolet: FINISHED


Bottle: FINISHED


Vejut: FINISHED


NathanD298


Elbows: FINISHED


GulGog Tuftoof: FINISHED


Verviedi: FINISHED


EmberlordofFire8: FINISHED


Paradigm: FINISHED


keezus: FINISHED


feltmonkey: FINISHED

Like to enter these,Kromlech Ork Operator and 3 Goliath Mines (Mini-tank Bombs)

RTB01 MLs. For use as either a retro dev squad, or part of a 30k legion heavy support squad.

@Nevelon - love those oldhammer missile launchers. Got a few myself

I think the best I can do for Boom! is a few meltagun wielding bikers. Sound okay?

I painted my entry this morning

Super early for once!

Screaming Skull Catapult

Before paint -



After paint -




Really fun model to paint

 GiraffeX wrote:
I painted my entry this morning

Super early for once!

Screaming Skull Catapult

Spoiler:

Before paint -



After paint -

Really fun model to paint

In a morning. People like you make me sad

And worse, it looks great!

Erm, shouldn't the subject line say May, not April?

Anyways, I may go for a nice, simple entry, like an Ork Boy with a rokkit launcha or something to that effect.

 KommissarKiln wrote:
Erm, shouldn't the subject line say May, not April?

You saw nothing....

hmm...guys, help me out...I'm trying to figure out a way to shoehorn this guy into "BOOM!"...any ideas? can it fit?


...I admit, I'm struggling to rationalise it...so if it just doesn't quite work, no problem, I'm still gonna paint it anyway (I've got a project blog going for it )...and I'll probably just wack out a couple of tankbustas or rokkit launcha deffkoptas or something towards the end of the month instead...easy come, easy go!

 ZoBo wrote:
hmm...guys, help me out...I'm trying to figure out a way to shoehorn this guy into "BOOM!"...any ideas? can it fit?


...I admit, I'm struggling to rationalise it...so if it just doesn't quite work, no problem, I'm still gonna paint it anyway (I've got a project blog going for it )...and I'll probably just wack out a couple of tankbustas or rokkit launcha deffkoptas or something towards the end of the month instead...easy come, easy go!

Just say he can blow up is nurgle after all they are walking biobombs that when shot explode in pus fountains.

Do his footsteps go "boom" as he walks?

Edit - why does this post show my location as the USA?

BOOM! HEADSHOT! That's my logic for doing a sniper.


Depending on how things go I may add the 2 shot-gunners, Gatling gunner, and/or mage that go with her.

 ChaoticMind wrote:
BOOM! HEADSHOT! That's my logic for doing a sniper.


Depending on how things go I may add the 2 shot-gunners, Gatling gunner, and/or mage that go with her.

What is this from?

Did someone say BOOM!



Haven't managed to motivate myself to paint anything in ten months. If I can finish this I will call it a win.

So I'm looking around for things that go boom, and all I have are guardsmen and scout/assault marines.
Hold on, what's this? Is that an almost untouched Battle for Zycanthus box? Why yes it is. Expect some Tempest Elites soon.

 keezus wrote:

 ChaoticMind wrote:
BOOM! HEADSHOT! That's my logic for doing a sniper.


Depending on how things go I may add the 2 shot-gunners, Gatling gunner, and/or mage that go with her.

What is this from?

Its Angel Eyes from the Malifaux starter

 GiraffeX wrote:

 keezus wrote:

 ChaoticMind wrote:
BOOM! HEADSHOT! That's my logic for doing a sniper.

Spoiler:

Depending on how things go I may add the 2 shot-gunners, Gatling gunner, and/or mage that go with her.

What is this from?

Its Angel Eyes from the Malifaux starter

GiraffeX is 99% correct, I did some light conversion work to turn her heels onto flat boots.

These are the closest to boom theme I have and I need them painted.

Infinity vanilla Nomads

well, righto, if there's no objections(?), then I'm going to enter this big boy...a Great Unclean One of Nurgle, converted from a Glottkin to have proper hands, holding a cleaver and a staff/standard, instead of the stock "big tentacle arm", and "mouth/cannon arm"

the fit to the theme is tenuous at best, but I guess, take your pick of the following
- "he's huge, so his footsteps probably make a bit of a boom"
- "this monster can deepstrike onto the battlefield, which would have to make some kind of boom"
- "he will probably be run as a level 3 psyker in 40k, and I imagine him slamming his staff into the ground, gandalf-style, when he casts a psychic power, making a booming shockwave of daemonic energy"

I've just primed him too, so here's my proof pic

Heres my proof pic. Gonna be joining his primarch Vulkan. Gots to get ready for 8th edition. Really want at least my first 1000 pts painted for it.

Here is my entry, Eversor assassin. When he dies he goes boom.

Oh, come on!
I log on to upload a proof pic only to find that GiraffeX is finished!?

All I can say is 'well done', I guess....

Anyhow, decided to do something a bit smaller this month...BOOM!

Mmmm... All the Infinity entries... Can't wait.

Wow, just one day in and not only are there some cool entries starting up, but someone has already FINISHED?! This should be a pretty fun month then.

I'm going to try to paint this Tau Hammerhead, complete with a tank ace who looks a little bit like Longstrike, but totally isn't him (Longstrike is with T'au sept, my Tau forces are from Ke'lshan sept). Here's my proof pic:

I'm probably going to use the lessons I learned while painting my Piranha a few months ago. The color scheme will be similar, anyways. I figure a Railgun should make a nice BOOM! when it is fired (and when the round hits an unfortunate Leman Russ downrange...).

I'll throw my hat in this month too, its rare I have a pending project that ties up with the themes but here's the Witch Queen (Formerly Phoenix Queen) for my Aelves midway through immolation.

I have a quandry on this one, too. I was thinking to enter a converted Eldar Vyper because the gun on the back goes Boom!

Problem is I realised I have all the parts I need except the... ah... gun on the back that goes Boom!

I might end up being the noob who enters a simple trooper holding a grenade

It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog...
A simple grenadier could still make an awesome model!

Did someone say boom?

 ZoBo wrote:
hmm...guys, help me out...I'm trying to figure out a way to shoehorn this guy into "BOOM!"...any ideas? can it fit?

You can steal the idea I was going to use to rationalize and entry... put a half covered landmine (from ork boyz sprue) just where his left foot will land when he takes a step.

Well, I'm in for this month, hopefully I'll be doing my Knight (Which you can see bits of in the background), but I need some things for it before I can really get stuck in. So, in the meantime I'll be entering these deathwatch heavies.

Proof: