First off, thanks to everyone who entered the 2016 Pendraken Painting Competition, once again we saw such a high standard of entries which pushed the envelope in what can be achieved in this scale. I hope you all enjoyed entering, certainly more than the Judges enjoyed trying to pick the winners!
So just for info, each judge had 6 points in total to award. 3 points went to their 1st place choice, 2 points to their 2nd place, and 1 point to their 3rd choice. The points from all 5 judges were added together to give us our winners and runners-up.
And now, the Winners of the 2016 Pendraken Painting Competition are...
Foot - Pre-20th C. (24 entries)
This category always brings in some colourful entries and this year was no different. The judges gave honourable mentions to many of the entries on show, but in the end there was a clear winner, picking up maximum points from all of the judges. Second place was a bit of a scrap, with one just edging out the other.
1st place: "Lombardia", by bradpitre - wins £20 Pendraken credit, and a £20 voucher from Leven Miniatures!
(http://sm2.photorapide.com/membres/156/photos/ltw4jm.jpg)
"A nice mix of using black lining and shading..." "Just great, fallen man in front rank a nice touch." "Superbly done, beautifully executed."
2nd place: James II Foot Guards, by redstef - wins £10 Pendraken credit!
(http://i1299.photobucket.com/albums/ag74/Redstaf/LoAJFG2_zpsb40y9ay2.jpg)
"Overall a nice paint job, always love to see hand painted flags, well done." "Really nicely done, superb flags."
Foot - 20th C. (11 entries)
We often see a smaller number of high quality entries in this category and this year was no different. Five of the eleven picked up points but we had two clear winners in the end, with first place picking up a maximum 15 points.
1st place: SCW Regular Army, by MIG - wins £20 Pendraken credit, and a £20 voucher from Ironclad Miniatures!
(http://i1104.photobucket.com/albums/h337/Mimoke79/SCW%20MIniatures/SCW%201_zpsg9odcsjx.jpg)
"Really nice eye for detail, well painted, cleanly based and a great photo." "Clean and well-presented; nice palette."
2nd place: WWI Engineers, by Tiny Tin Troops - wins £10 Pendraken credit!
(http://www.tinytintroops.co.uk/painting/2016_c_upload/GE02.jpg)
"Well thought out and put together. A nice paint job and great table dressing." "Nicely presented, lots of interest to the eye; simple, limited palette draws everything together."
Mounted (18 entries)
A couple of the categories each year have multiple entries from the same member, which can sometimes split the judges and result in that member missing out on a prize. Always something to be a careful of! This year it was a tight run race between three entries, with one chap just missing out on a place.
1st place: 7th French Hussars, by MIG - wins £20 Pendraken credit, and a copy of the new 'Paints' magazine from Wargames Illustrated!
(http://i1104.photobucket.com/albums/h337/Mimoke79/10mm%20Pendraken%20Miniatures/d0140caf-f41a-40f4-a086-e84b6f762237_zpsxpbppmxq.jpg)
"Super paint job aided by a really clear and well lit photo." "Very crisp and clean. Shading almost too subtle for this scale." "Simple and understated, really subtle."
2nd place: James II Life Guard, by Redstef - wins £10 Pendraken credit!
(http://i1299.photobucket.com/albums/ag74/Redstaf/LoAJLG1_zpsxyph0riz.jpg)
"Lovely crisp painting with nice shading." "Beautifully executed."
Vehicle (19 entries)
We had a lower number of entries in the category this year, with one clear winner picking up maximum points, and then several entries vying for that second place.
1st place: Sherman, by BH62 - wins £20 Pendraken credit, and a copy of the new Blitzkrieg Commander ruleset!
(http://i1124.photobucket.com/albums/l575/PendrakenMiniatures/2016%20Painting%20Competition/BH62-2_zpsg3cteyih.jpg)
"Crisp, clean painting, great highlighting." "Cracking job here, lovely use of shading and highlighting edges." "Very crisp, really good edge highlighting. Very clear winner." "Really nice, simple but effective use of highlighting to make this one 'pop'.
2nd place: AVBCW Char St Chamond, by Vanvlak - wins £10 Pendraken credit!
(http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j108/vanvlak/VBCW/Vanvlak%20Pendraken%202016_zpsmtjyihnb.jpg)
"Nice job here, I like the whole display idea." "Subtle and clean job."
Fantasy & Sci-Fi (14 entries)
This category was an interesting one, with four different entries placing 1st amongst the judges, showing both the high standard of painting and how difficult it is to separate them at times! Finally, two entries pulled ahead that little bit and grabbed the prizes.
1st place: Squogglers and Night Goblins, by Hetairoi - wins £20 Pendraken credit, and a copy of 'Warband'!
(https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-CfvOi3BSd-k/VtFN6zaVRRI/AAAAAAAAHeU/23b6R3AXiK8/s1600/IMG_20160227_010712.JPG)
"The faces on the squigs are great." "Good painting and appropriately dark photography." "Very nicely done, great looking unit, love the flame-effect hoods."
2nd place: Skeletons, by Mostyn - wins £10 Pendraken credit!
(http://i242.photobucket.com/albums/ff96/Benitogordito/Oli/20160228_191323-1-1.jpg)
"Nice tidy painting, great shading." "White's not an easy colour to pull off especially at this scale, well done." "Nice crisp style and shading."
Warband (5 entries)
This was the debut year for the Warband entries and we only picked up a few entries. Hopefully we'll see more next year! There were two clear favourites in this one, with only a single point separating them in the end!
1st place: Goblin Riders, by Andy T - wins £20 Pendraken credit, and a Warband Army Pack!
(http://i306.photobucket.com/albums/nn277/SV_Pilot/10mm%20Fantasy/Hoppers1_zpsbqjo4ykz.jpg)
"Really nice job, made me smile." "Fun unit, execution of painting ok." "Innovative and nicely done."
2nd place: Dwarf Gyrocopters, by fred. - wins £10 Pendraken credit!
(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-C5s1oUZKvzU/VtL-9KRUoVI/AAAAAAAAFzs/yJNVnkagRQs/s1024-Ic42/Gyrocopters%252520011.jpg)
"Nice detail and highlighting." "Light, clean. "Decent painting, lovely basing." "Basing is nice, lifts the unit (no pun intended!)"
Open - Single Base (26 entries)
This category always sees some outstanding pieces of both imagination and painting ability and it's one we always look forward to. This year the judges had one clear winner picking up a maximum 15 points and then a couple of others scrapping for second place.
1st place: 30YW Artillery, by bradpitre - wins £20 Pendraken credit, and a Scourge Army from Hawk Wargames!
(http://sm2.photorapide.com/membres/156/photos/n0k1lm.jpg)
"Excellent attention to detail, a great artwork." "Really enjoyed these figures, great paint job, basing and photos. I love to see well painted figures with great basing, the full package." "Just gorgeous." "Superbly done, beautiful vignette."
2nd place: Russian Winter, by Tonton Flingueur - wins £10 Pendraken credit!
(http://www.pendrakenforum.co.uk/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=13566.0;attach=5288;image)
"Love the whole winter feel to this piece, again an entry that ticks all the boxes." "Nice storytelling, gets points despite uncertain photography." "I always love a well done winter base - and this is nicely done, simple but highly effective."
Open - Army! (27 entries)
The Army category always brings in some fantastic entries and this year certainly didn't disappoint. There were so many that picked up points and this was easily the closest category to be judged, with over half the entries getting an honourable mention from our judges. In the end, it was the 'complete' armies that got it, the ones that came together into one impressive piece of work. We did have a tie for second place, again showing how close this one was.
1st place: 30YW French, by bradpitre - wins £20 Pendraken credit, and a copy of the new 'Paints' magazine from Wargames Illustrated!
(http://sm2.photorapide.com/membres/156/photos/tvm7g9.jpg)
(http://sm2.photorapide.com/membres/156/photos/sol7ii.jpg)
"A simple paint job that works well close up and on the table, cracking basing. These are more like individual vignettes, well done." "Superbly done - simple but really effective."
Joint 2nd place: James II in Ireland, by Redstef - wins £10 Pendraken credit!
(http://i1299.photobucket.com/albums/ag74/Redstaf/J2a_zpswp69uqmj.jpg)
(http://i1299.photobucket.com/albums/ag74/Redstaf/J2b_zpsxkhf4n34.jpg)
"A lovely looking army in the group shots, could have scored higher if the close ups of units had been clear."
"Love the painting, and the size of the units; those really are battalions." "Superb - effective and eye-catching."
Joint 2nd place: ECW, by DHautpol - wins £10 Pendraken credit!
(http://i1124.photobucket.com/albums/l575/PendrakenMiniatures/2016%20Painting%20Competition/Centre_zpscqejqzjv.jpg)
(http://i1124.photobucket.com/albums/l575/PendrakenMiniatures/2016%20Painting%20Competition/Left%20Wing_zps8soylbsv.jpg)
"Top-notch, really coherent force." "Very clean, tidy painting, these really stood out." "Very tidy, again a coherent force."
Congratulations to all of our winners! We'll be contacting you in the next few days to get your prizes sorted out. We'll also get your Winner's medals added to your profiles!
Also, a huge thank you to everyone who entered from all of us here at Pendraken HQ. We always look forward to the Competition each year, watching every day as these wonderful entries come in. The time and effort that goes into achieving such a high standard is appreciated by all of us here and we hope you've enjoyed it as much as we have.
We'd like to thank our Judges as well, for accepting the difficult task of going through all of the entries to pick our winners.
Coming up next will be the People's Choice Award, where all the entries who achieved at least a point (plus a few of my own favourites!) will go into a public poll to decide a winner. The thread for this can be found here: http://www.pendrakenforum.co.uk/index.php/topic,13815.0.html (http://www.pendrakenforum.co.uk/index.php/topic,13815.0.html) and voting will run for a little over one week, closing at 6pm on Tuesday 15th March. The winner of this category will receive a £25 voucher for loads of Minibits goodies, so please make sure to place your votes once the thread is up.
And finally, as a special bonus for everyone who entered, we've got one more prize to give out! This participation prize will be given out to one randomly selected person who has entered this years competition. The Winners and Runners-Up will be taken out of the pot first, and then we'll draw a name from the hat to find our winner! The lucky person will receive £10 worth of Pendraken goodies. We'll announce this at the same time as the People's Choice winner, so stay tuned!
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Some beautiful work and some very well deserved winners.
Congratulations all :D
Excellent work, congratulations all!
Cheers,
Aksu
Excellent choices judges, well done all. :)
Brilliant and well deserved all :)
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Curses. Foiled again!
Well done to all the winners. Fantastic painting all round
Congratulations to the deserved winners, some excellent entries this year, the bar just keeps getting higher.
Congratulations to all the winners - so many great entries!
And I get to break a 4 year duck!
Please introduce another obscure category next year, Leon!
Congratulations to all, winners, competitors, judges. I cannot argue with any of those decisions, and the standard is absolutely superb! :-bd =D> =D> =D> =D> And an extra congrat to all the sculptors, whose work inspires people to devote the time and effort to,producing masterpieces like these! WOW!
A humbled Mollinary
Well done chaps!
Hard job to judge, so thank you to the judges as well.
Congratulations to all the winners and well done all for a great job all-round. Wow but those James II Foot Guards are rather spiffy!
Well done to all concerned. Some wonderful entries once again.
Great stuff, very inspirational
Cheers
Ian
Well done to the judges and congratulations to all winners, what a fantastic standard of painting.
Excellent stuff all of it - well done
Alan
Eeeeep! :o
(a little later)
Gosh.
BH62 - brilliant show, your Sherman is just grand 8) 8) 8) 8)
Congrats to all the other winners too.
Quote from: mollinary on 07 March 2016, 06:46:00 PM
... And an extra congrat to all the sculptors, whose work inspires people ...
Absolutely. Couldn't agree more :D
Now I just need to pull my finger out and get an entry ready for next year's competition.
Well done to all the winners and all who entered, some really outstanding painting. It's hard to believe the amount of detail that can be achieved with 10mm figures and vehicles, only brilliant sculpting across all ranges makes this possible. The peoples choice award is going to be a tough one ;D.
kev
Inspiring work all around! I am impressed by the gent who took two categories with my favorite period, TYW. :)
Well done to the winners, excellent standard!
Good evening everyone!!
I am very happy tonight, and very surprised for my first time at your competition !!
a huge thank you to Leon, sculptors for their superb work that inspires us but also to the judges for whom it has not been easy to make choices .......
and above all, my congratulations to all the participants in all categories, which each year increases the difficulties and pushes the limits of what is possible with these small things we love !!!
Champagne !!!
eric
Well done everyone =D> =D>
Quote from: bradpitre on 07 March 2016, 07:54:15 PM
Good evening everyone!!
I am very happy tonight, and very surprised for my first time at your competition !!
a huge thank you to Leon, sculptors for their superb work that inspires us but also to the judges for whom it has not been easy to make choices .......
and above all, my congratulations to all the participants in all categories, which each year increases the difficulties and pushes the limits of what is possible with these small things we love !!!
Champagne !!!
eric
Well said that man =D> =D> =D>
Congratulations to all the winners and everyone else involved =D> =D> =D>
Well done to all the entrants and thanks to Pendraken for such a great competition and producing the wonderful figures that made it all possible.
I'm delighted to have snuck a runner's up prize. I think there's going to have to be a an exceedingly niche category introduced next year for me to have any chance of repeat success.
Hi all - logged in to see that I have been awarded 1st prize in both the categories I entered. Can't believe it - over the moon and chuffed to pieces! Just want to say I thought there were loads of amazing entries and well done to everyone. Thanks to the Pendraken and their amazing miniatures.
MIG
Congratulations MIG - two great entries. Really nice painting, and well presented, very deserving of the win.
Its great to see new painters posting their work too.
Well done MIG
Congratulations to all the winners and runners up some fantastic entries as always :-bd
All the best
Sean
My congratulations to the prize winners, also. Well done, guys! Superb stuff! =D>
Commiserations to the other contestants and appreciation for making it such a tough competition. Better luck next year!
Congrats to all the winners and thanks to the judges for their discernment among so many entries. Next year I hope bunches more people will enter -I like looking at ALL the pictures and the often creative presentations (not to mention the ridiculous level of skill displayed by so many!)
I would just like to offer my congratulations to the winners. And without doubt some absolutely brilliant entries this year. And also a massive thank you for pendraken for arranging this competition and of course a massive thank to the judges, there jobs never an easy one
Take care
Andy
Congrats to all the winners!! And thanks to Leon and the judges for running this nice competition!
This year I´ve not been very productive with this lovely scale... but next year will be different!
...and this picture is to blame:
(http://sm2.photorapide.com/membres/156/photos/tvm7g9.jpg)
=P~
The People's Choice Award is now open, so head over and add your votes!
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Congratulations to the winners! The pre-19th century winners are truly inspiring!
Quote from: Leon026 on 08 March 2016, 02:15:50 AM
Congratulations to the winners! The pre-19th century winners are truly inspiring!
That is high praise given the quality of your entries, and very true :)
Congratulations to all.....Especially the winners.
Cheers - Phil
Congratulations !
Phil - what were you bribed with ?
IanS
People offering to muck out the horses ! ;)
Cheers - Phil
Quote from: Techno on 08 March 2016, 09:39:47 AM
People offering to muck out the horses ! ;)
If I could then sell off the muck to gardeners, I'd do it :D
Congratulations to all entrants, they deserve credit for such outstanding painting =D> =D> =D> :-bd
Congratulations to the winners and to all the participants. I am very happy of my second place and it's true that my photo was not terrible.
Everyone should now have their Winner and Runner-Up badges, give me a shout if I've missed you! I've contacted all of the winners as well to sort out their prizes.
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Quote from: Leon on 09 March 2016, 11:02:12 PM
Everyone should now have their Winner and Runner-Up badges, give me a shout if I've missed you! I've contacted all of the winners as well to sort out their prizes.
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And very spiffy they look, congratulations again to all the winners :)
And all this while getting the van ready for the next show :!! ;)
Quote from: Leon on 09 March 2016, 11:02:12 PM
Everyone should now have their Winner and Runner-Up badges, give me a shout if I've missed you! I've contacted all of the winners as well to sort out their prizes.
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Leon, many thanks, I will look to sort out an order for next month's SALUTE. Further thanks for the organisation involved in running the competition and congratulations to all the winners and runners-up, there was some very fine work on display.
I was particularly taken with Bradpitre's 30YW French, especially the gun position which I shall attempt to imitate for my ECW. Redstef's Williamite Wars figures were also very nice, I really liked the large 60 man battalions which looked very effective.
Quote from: DHautpol on 10 March 2016, 12:31:40 PM
Leon, many thanks, I will look to sort out an order for next month's SALUTE.
No worries! 8)
Well done everyone. As usual some absolutely outstanding entries. Just hope the winners have somewhere to keep their badgers.
Congrats to all the winners. They deserve it for sure. Great work !!! =D>
Congratulations to the winners. Truly some very beautiful pieces!
Well done to all the winner and to everyone who had a go. I find these things really inspirational as I dabble!
Hello Léon, I believe that you forgot me :)
Quote from: TONTON FLINGUEUR on 12 March 2016, 10:19:05 AM
Hello Léon, I believe that you forgot me :)
Hi, I sent an email to you but it came back as 'Undelivered' so I sent you a PM instead. If you check up the top of the Forum page, you should have a new message showing.
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Hello Léon, I received nothing because when I joined on the forum, I made a mistake by putting my e-mail address. I corrected it. Sorry :-[
Some really amazing work this year! I have to keep reminding myself these are 10mm (and not 28s)!
Quote from: TONTON FLINGUEUR on 13 March 2016, 08:47:09 AM
Hello Léon, I received nothing because when I joined on the forum, I made a mistake by putting my e-mail address. I corrected it. Sorry :-[
Thanks for the reply, I have sent you an email now.
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Well Done to all those chaps who have SO much more patience than I have! :)
Some fantastic and inspirational painting and basing. Well done all round!
There are some (or all) very nice entries in there. Congratulations to the winners.
This makes me want to finish my own 10mm army, bought years ago.
Some inspiring painting here wow !! really quiet amazing everyone ...and a big eye opener. Sensational.
Congratulations to all and some very inspirational work.