September Painting Competition Results
October 5, 2011 by elromanozo
We'd like to thank personally each and every one of the six entrants of the september painting competition... September is a tough month for most people to find time for hobbying, and your entries all show amazing dedication!
We feel that even though all entries did not deserve the prize, all of them deserve to be noted...
The judges recognized the dry-brushing skills shown by Wolf21's Cohen the Barbarian, which show that you can still do fine highlighting and detail work with basic techniques...
Mat94 did nice work on his dwarf doomseeker... The rocky and snowy base, the non metallic metal of the axes, the tattoos, the pants... A detailed model to be sure.
Dantihero1 impressed the judges very much by his HeroQuest barbarian conversion... While there's still room for improvement, his lava effects are excellent. You're on the right track!
Tinracer's take on the recent Games Workshop plastic kits was original and well painted. The ominous theme extends to a (slightly crowded) but sinister base...
Our winning entry is of course Frozenpyro's stunning dinosaur huntress... An amazing composition on a scratch-built base (this man actually sculpted the dead prey himself !), well served by a simple yet effective, desaturated, atmospheric colour scheme. It was an ambitious makeover you gave this Reaper Pathfinder girl, but Fortune favors the bold... You won the prize!
However, the judges were extremely impressed by Manpug's excellent Wolfen Nomad from Confrontation. Cool model, quite a bit bigger than the others... Yet Manpug, through cunning techniques and well mastered effects, has managed to produce the best paint-job this month (better than our winner, even). It's also a tremendous improvement on Manpug's last month entry.
For all this, we really had to give Manpug the honourable mention, and the backstage pass that goes with it !
This was a VERY tough choice, between Manpug's and Frozenpyro's entries, and they both had extremely inspiring WIP pictures... It was QUITE close. Down to very few points!
Congratulations to our winners, but also to every contestant, who have obviously applied themselves very hard, as shown in the amazing WIP pictures we saw this month!
Congrats on the win Frozenpyro, stunning job on the base and the painting is top draw too.
Well done guys, that must have been a difficult one to call!
That base was a true masterpiece. I’m going to have to up my game even more if I’m to be the winner!
On a personal note, I want to thank all those that gave me thumbs up and said nice things about my wolfen. Also for the judges that work hard for the monthly competitions, it’s a lot of work to keep them fresh and relivent.
I’d like to congratulate you personally for your progress… I have seldom seen such improvement in just a month’s time !
BoW Romain
Really! Thanks, it was a lot of work and time to make it look like my vision. I wanted to make it look unique and relivent at the same time.
Two well deserving winners 🙂
I would like to personally like to thank all who entered the comp, some damn fine miniatures on display here!
@manpug you have painted one hell of a stunning figure. I was sure that you would have won clinched this months comp. As the judges said, the techiques you use are truly mastered and the rate of progress from last month is staggering, cant wait to see your future works.
A well deserved Honerable Mention
@elromanozo I would love to get some critique from you to help me further my painting.
You’ll get no critique from me, @Frozenpyro…
You dared a conversion, you dared a subdued palette… Dare to work on your textures, your skin, your metals as well. Daring pays, and progress only comes with practice !
In short, you’re on the right track, just keep doing what you’re doing !
BoW Romain
Congrats to all.
Not kidding about a hard time for hobbies, my eden mini is still sat in primer forlornly waiting for some colour, and I bought it especially for this competition!
Now, the question is, will I get something done for the next one, I have one of the old school gazkull minis still in its blister somewhere , thats a candidate for greenskins certainly.
You can still paint it green, wink, wink 😉
Great job to all those who entered. Its hard to judge such awesome talent. I hope to see the same amount of quality and commitment for Oct.
It is you we have to thank, as always, @wildchevy, for you’re the man behind it all…
Congratualtions to the winners and well done to all the guys that took part.
🙁 I was ment to be judging. Said I was up for it and never got told what to do.
Either way conrgats to the winners, and extra credit to manpug.
Actually, @beerogre sent you a PM and you never responded… We wanted to invite you to the judging group thingie we have set up, but we had to do without you. Sorry about that !
All volunteer judges (or the ones we need, if more than necessary volunteer) are contacted about a week before the end of the contest, so that they can change their mind if they want to, and then told what to do and how to judge the competition.
BoW Romain
Ok Romain.
I think I know what happened, I replied but I probably forgot to send the reply, or when I tried it didn’t work.
Sorry bout that.
Though I think the choices you and the rest of the judges made were pretty much spot on, on who won. 🙂
Anyway, can’t wait to see the next competition, never know may be able to get a mini to paint in time for next comp 😉
I’d be more than happy to see your work, @detonator !
BoW Romain