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Welcome all to the 31st 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!

- Armour Up: The best defence is a large amount of metal between you and the thing that wants to kill you. Whether that's a plate armour on a knight or armour plating on battle tank, if it can take a hit or three then it's perfect for this 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 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 September and will end at midnight BST on the 30th of September. After this, I shall compile the finished entries into a new thread, and voting will run for 5 days.

List of Entrants:

Nevleon: FINSHED


u971: FINISHED


STG: FINISHED


ZoBo;


doktor_g: FINISHED


Guildenstern: FINISHED


Zergsmasher:


beradical:


Chris56: FINISHED


Farseer Anath'lan:


Elnibbus: FINISHED


Power Elephant: FINISHED


CREEEEEEEED:


Genesaika:


SQRT(-2) FINISHED


kavika0311: FINISHED


Straken619: FINISHED


Bottle


Oppl: FINISHED


Vejut: FINISHED


Jadenim:


aldo:


ZenBadger: FINISHED


Midget Gems: FINISHED


n1ceguypaul: FINISHED


Martinof: FINISHED


ChaoticMind: FINISHED


Drummernathan:


alleus: FINISHED


SirDonald: FINISHED


Verviedi:


feltmonkey: FINISHED


TheDraconicLord: FINISHED


NathanD298: FINISHED


Modock: FINISHED


retrogamer0001: FINISHED


ApaceKittens: FINISHED


Arclaw:


GulGog Tuftoof: FINISHED


Moolet: FINISHED


Insaniak:


Paradigm: FINISHED


Kustomer D: FINISHED


Metal_Man: FINISHED


EmberlordofFire8: FINISHED


Manalishi: FINISHED


Keezus: FINISHED

Going to use this as motivation to get my Land Raider painted.

Will edit in a proof pic when I'm not posting from my phone.



Build pic, it was primed a bit ago, but has been sitting in the pile. I have 3 sets of sponsons built for it, doubt I’ll get them all done, but the primary build will be a LRR or LRC; haven’t decided yet.

Would like to enter More Battletech,Couple of Tanks this time.

Rommel Heavy.


Mymidon Medium.

Here's my entry



A soon to be Hellhound 6x6.
Good theme this month

righto...this theme feels like a good excuse to finally get another one of my battlewagons done!

I'd gradually bought 5 of the sodding things second hand, a good year or so ago, so I could run the 5-battlewagon formation in 7th ed....and until now, I have only got one painted, so yeah, I never got to run that formation...and erm...now I just have 5 battlewagons...oh well - good thing I love battlewagons!

...the one I've already painted was full-on badmoonz colour scheme, and seeing as I'm doing my ork army as just a huge fluffy collection, a proppa Waaagh! - not just an army list build or something, I'm including a bunch of stuff from all the clans in there...so I figured I'd do each of my battlewagons in a different clan scheme (aside from snakebites - they get a squiggoth )...anyway, I think I'll be doing this one Evil Sunz style

I needed the motivation for this monster. Not sure where to start, but it looks like I will have to.

 doktor_g wrote:
I needed the motivation for this monster. Not sure where to start, but it looks like I will have to.

ohhhh so jealous!!! *grabby hands* good luck man, I'll be pretty impressed if you get that big lug done in a month!

I started working on this a few days ago. Is it still ok for me to enter the competition?
In any case here is a picture of it in the state it was when I started working on it and a picture of it now. Hopefuly I will be able to cover it in medieval art by the end of the month.

da Proof:

Two Kromlech Juggernauts (MANz) ignore gorkanaut bits in pic


Took a day ago, but has only now primer

This is already shaping up to be a proppa comp, good luck all!

Okay, I'm in with this Razorback for my Dark Angels:

It's primed in Caliban Green; hope that's okay as far as the challenge goes. It should be a nice easy vehicle to paint (knock on wood...).

 ZergSmasher wrote:
Okay, I'm in with this Razorback for my Dark Angels:

It's primed in Caliban Green; hope that's okay as far as the challenge goes. It should be a nice easy vehicle to paint (knock on wood...).

Good choice, and yes, they're easy to get through - these four only took about twelve hours total.

While I've got the time I'm going to push myself this month.

Here are my proof pictures of a Redemptor Dreadnought, 3 other Death Company Dreadnoughts (assuming box lets me build 3 death company ones), and a Baal Predator:

Redemptor:


3 Dreadnoughts:


Baal Pred:



Hopefully all Red and Black real soon.

Good Luck all.

Best of luck getting all THAT done, beradical! I'm sure they'll look great in BA colors.

Would a DE raider count for this? If I can come up with a few of the details I might enter this.

Does living metal count?

Well, Genesaika, I hope a DE Raider counts, because that and an Eldar Falcon are my entry for this month.
They are part of an Ulthwe themed Aeldari army that I am starting, so I hope that the stiff cardboard that they build Raiders out of counts as 'Armour'!
Good luck, all!

wow...people are bringin' it this month!...lots of big, chunky, ambitious entries...I like it!

Ohh man, people took armour up very seriously. Everybody is gearing up with their best armor. What's that enormous warbeast...looks like
it's covering half a table?!?

Too bad my september is going to be very busy at work.... so my time will be very limited. I'm gonna paint something smaller, way smaller
than everybody else.

I dunno Modock, those battletech models are pretty tiny--then again, I'd love to see some micro armor done up to your usual quality...

I'm in-scratchbuilding again. Sicaran, I think, this time.

 Modock wrote:
Ohh man, people took armour up very seriously. Everybody is gearing up with their best armor. What's that enormous warbeast...looks like
it's covering half a table?!?

Too bad my september is going to be very busy at work.... so my time will be very limited. I'm gonna paint something smaller, way smaller
than everybody else.

Ayup I hear that, I only have 12 days at home so had to pick something small as well - although they're big for their size!

And that enormous warbeast is the FW Gargantun Squiggoth <3 <3 <3

I'm in again with my Deimos Baal Predator, proof:

I bought a thing.

WIP Dreadnought 1:

Vejut wrote:I dunno Modock, those battletech models are pretty tiny--then again, I'd love to see some micro armor done up to your usual quality...

Yea, those little mechs are quite cute.

Guildenstern wrote:

 Modock wrote:
Ohh man, people took armour up very seriously. Everybody is gearing up with their best armor. What's that enormous warbeast...looks like it's covering half a table?!?
Too bad my september is going to be very busy at work.... so my time will be very limited. I'm gonna paint something smaller, way smaller
than everybody else.

Ayup I hear that, I only have 12 days at home so had to pick something small as well - although they're big for their size!

And that enormous warbeast is the FW Gargantun Squiggoth <3 <3 <3

Gargantun Squiggoth is huge good luck to Doktor_g finish it in one month.

Those Kromlech juggernauts are really great models, perfect for the theme. Two armor plates are better than one
mentality.
I read only good things about Kromlech products.

This is tempting me to make my kitbash super-heavy tank for my Chaos Space Marines...but I don't know if I can dump the money need for it. If I find the money I may enter this month.

wow this is shaping up to be a hell of a month already. Hope you guys make good progress on your beasts and tanks.

Like Modock I know my September is going to be very busy at work and doing DIY on the house so time will be very limited. I'd love to join in with a cool orky conversion but sadly think I will have to go for probably a single small figure, just got to work out which 1 now.

Ok then, here is my proof pic. I have a bit of work ahead of me because I still haven't decided on a symbol for my kabal yet. No time like the present to enter a contest and force me to get creative haha! I'm also waiting on some bits to spice it up a bit more, as if dark eldar needed it.

Forge world (or someone with a LOT of FW stuff) was at Gencon so I bought a QUESTORIS KNIGHT MAGAERA because I thought it looked cool, and I have converted it to be a just cool looking normal knight with all the options save the AA gun. I plan to paint it up to go with my Admech Army.

Here is is primed and ready to be painted: