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Welcome to the 45th 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.

This month, the theme as selected by the community is 'Chain of Command'. Your entry should be based around models that have some manner of military or political rank (or equivalent for the faction/games where these things aren't present), whether that's a freshly promoted squad leader to the master of an entire army.


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 November and will end at midnight UK time on the 30th of November. After this, I shall compile the finished entries into a new thread, and voting will run for 5 days.


List Of Entrants:

Nevelon: FINISHED


lipsdapips: FINISHED


Tyranid Horde: FINISHED


Rybrook: FINISHED


Total: FINISHED


Suzuteo: FINISHED


queen_annes_revenge: FINISHED


Elbows: FINISHED


ZoBo: FINISHED


Midget Gems: FINISHED


Mahrarg: FINISHED


DrGiggles: FINISHED


Captain Brown: FINISHED


Deadshot: FINISHED


ZergSmasher: FINISHED


SirOllox: FINISHED


Jadenim: FINISHED


Modock:


Chris56: FINISHED


phillv85: FINISHED


Hits_The_Spot: FINISHED


DV8: FINISHED


Oppl: FINISHED


feltmonkey: FINISHED


Tikay Fortooun:FINISHED


Vejut: FINISHED


CREEEEED:


Power Elephant: FINISHED


SmallChanges:


WishWarGaming: FINISHED


Paradigm: FINISHED

Going to do some captains, 3 ways. Salamander Gravis, Ultramarine Primaris, and Deathwatch Artemis.

This'll be my last entry for the year I may as well go hard or go home! I'm being stupidly ambitious: leaving on the 13th and having 2 exams between now and then, I shall be attempting to paint this T'au Sept Coldstar Battlesuit Commander! Best of luck for this month everyone.

LDP

EDIT gotta love that ol' faithful sideways pic

I don't think I've ever entered this before so I'll give it a go! Givws me a chance to improve my painting while I'm at it. Here's my DE Archon kitbash:



I do have a trophy rack for her, do I need to include all the pieces I'm using on it or just a basic proof?

Good luck to all!

-TH

I will be ambitious with this one commissar yarrick 2e and a generic captain for my BA showcase, May as well start it or it’ll never start

I'll be picking up my entry on saturday...this challenge calls for a boss, so it seems like a good excuse to pick which of the new ork models I work on first - the new warboss on deffkilla wartrike!

I enjoyed painting something for last month, so I'm actually quite excited to enter this month too! Gives me a goal to paint towards.
I'll be entering an Iron Warriors Chaos Lord - one that just made me buy a whole 'nother can of primer just for his head...

Sweet. just waiting for my Kharn to arrive.

I'll 100% be painting this month. Pics to follow, waitng on the missus recovering from her hangover so I can get proof pics. Any Dawn of War fans on here? Should be an interesting one for you folks.

Hot damn, Tyranid Horde!
I have never thought of using poker chips for steps like that...fantastic! I am so gonna steal that idea!

I'll throw in a Tank Commander in a Leman Russ Battle Tank.

He's in the mail currently so pics will be edited in later.

Jayne Cobb: "You know what the chain of command is? It's the chain I go get and beat you with 'til you understand who's in ruttin' command here”

Anyone who has a model beating their underlings with a length of chain will get my votes.

Stripped my red Cawl. Now painting blue Cawl!

Oh wow, Mad Dok JeKill and Mr. Hide might be perfect for this month's theme... guess I'd better get to convertin'!

Im gonna get down on this, waiting on some FW Tau to come in, got some nice remoras n stuff

 Nevelon wrote:
Jayne Cobb: "You know what the chain of command is? It's the chain I go get and beat you with 'til you understand who's in ruttin' command here”

Anyone who has a model beating their underlings with a length of chain will get my votes.

Hmmmm *looks at Ork biker chain* Runtherd?

 Jadenim wrote:

 Nevelon wrote:
Jayne Cobb: "You know what the chain of command is? It's the chain I go get and beat you with 'til you understand who's in ruttin' command here”

Anyone who has a model beating their underlings with a length of chain will get my votes.

Hmmmm *looks at Ork biker chain* Runtherd?

haha yeah I immediately thought of that biker arm with the chain when I read that too ...and yeah, that could definitely work on a runtherd, even better if it's a little diorama thing with a few grots

What about the grots getting revenge on the runtherd

ZoBo wrote:
haha yeah I immediately thought of that biker arm with the chain when I read that too ...and yeah, that could definitely work on a runtherd, even better if it's a little diorama thing with a few grots

Rybrook wrote:What about the grots getting revenge on the runtherd

Sounds like dueling dioramas. A little before and after pic of the runtherd attempting to enforce the chain of command.

nah, no diorama from me this month, I was just brainstorming with Jadenim

I'm gonna be painting the new ork wartrike warboss...picking it up tomorrow, so should have a proof pic up sometime over the weekend

Rybrook wrote:What about the grots getting revenge on the runtherd

See, now here's an idea I can get behind. My boyz and Nobz are in shackles and chains... not sure that would count though

Kharn. Also apt as he has chains wrapped around his arm.

 Chris56 wrote:
Hot damn, Tyranid Horde!
I have never thought of using poker chips for steps like that...fantastic! I am so gonna steal that idea!

Steal away, just watch your fingers, they're very annoying to chop up with any degree of accuracy!

 queen_annes_revenge wrote:
Kharn. Also apt as he has chains wrapped around his arm.

Damn, I was thinking of painting that guy too! Gotta think of something else then...

 DV8 wrote:

 queen_annes_revenge wrote:
Kharn. Also apt as he has chains wrapped around his arm.

Damn, I was thinking of painting that guy too! Gotta think of something else then...

Nah do it too. No reason to change your idea cos its a duplicate. Plus I had to give mine zhufor axe head so technically he's different ha.

Well, the first one I can genuinely partake in...in months it seems. Good timing.

This is the figure I'll be doing (note: this is the BEFORE picture)

Welcome Tyranid Horde, thats a very well posed model, looking forward to seeing it painted

For my entry I think I might end up having a trike off with Zobo but Nev's idea of chain beatings is very tempting lol

Just need to check if I can afford to do this (really only need a couple more models to bring it up to 5) definitely would love to get back to trying one of these challenges!

So thrilled that this is still going on Para! <3 <3 <3

 queen_annes_revenge wrote:
Nah do it too. No reason to change your idea cos its a duplicate. Plus I had to give mine zhufor axe head so technically he's different ha.

Challenge accepted!

messhallcook wrote:
Just need to check if I can afford to do this (really only need a couple more models to bring it up to 5) definitely would love to get back to trying one of these challenges!

So thrilled that this is still going on Para! <3 <3 <3

You don't have to enter 5 models, that's just the upper limit. So if you've got a single mini or a smaller group that you want to enter, go for it!