This year's Painting Competition had a huge 195 entries altogether, and the standard throughout was the highest we've seen so far. As always, we'd like to thank every single person who took the time and effort to put an entry in, seeing the entries coming in each day was great fun, and showed just how much can be achieved in this scale.
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The Judges have had a fair old task on their hands as well this time around, with so many quality entries on show. There were several categories where it was very tough to call, and a Top 5 or even Top 10 could have been compiled.
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 so, without further ado, the winners are:
Foot - Pre-20th C. (32 entries)
This category had 3 entries fighting it out for the top spots. One of the highlights for the judges was the exceptional detail on some of the detail, the tartans and striped trousers in particular. Clean work, crisp details and going the extra mile all picked up points. One member in particular entered several top notch bases, which split the judges decision and kept all of them outside the top 2!
1st place: AWI British, by kev1964 - wins £20 Pendraken credit, and 2 sets of rules from Realistic Modelling / Realtime Wargaming!
(http://www.michaelscott.name/10mm/images/pencomp12.jpg)
2nd place: AWI Highlanders, by BH62 - wins £10 Pendraken credit!
(http://i1124.photobucket.com/albums/l575/PendrakenMiniatures/2013%20Painting%20Competition/BH62AWIFoot_1_zps3d825a27.jpg)
Foot - 20th C. (12 entries)
This category had the lowest number of entries, and it had 3 clear favourites picking up nearly every point from the judges. As with the Pre-20th category above, the detailing and camo patterns on show really won over the judges.
1st place: WWII Germans, by whitejamest - wins £20 Pendraken credit, and £20 Credit from Too Fat Lardies!
(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-kuhkKjgBnxA/US5pMB_VFrI/AAAAAAAAA-I/FT0oXjhSKeE/s1600/DSC_4035.jpg)
2nd place: WWII Canadian infantry, by BH62 - wins £10 Pendraken credit!
(http://i1124.photobucket.com/albums/l575/PendrakenMiniatures/2013%20Painting%20Competition/BH62WWIICanadianinfantry_2_zps7d5c0fa0.jpg)
Mounted (16 entries)
Despite the lower number of entries, this one split the judges, with several entries all gaining points. There were two clear favourites though, with some clean painting, nice conversion work, and including a pic of your inspiration swayed the judges!
1st place: Seleucid elephants, by Hetairoi - wins £20 Pendraken credit, and a subscription to 'Wargames, Soldiers & Strategy'!
(https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-BVoYFxeN2TA/US6jijXkCZI/AAAAAAAAEEs/SgKzJ63ONiY/s777/elefantes.png)
2nd place: Austrian Hussars, by J.S. - wins £10 Pendraken credit!
(http://www.bilder-upload.eu/upload/9ddff3-1359041775.png)
Vehicle (29 entries)
The vehicle category had some cracking work on display, and was a difficult one to judge. Clean brushwork went up against realistic weathering, and the judges were split with their decisions. One judge said he could have picked another Top 3 entirely, and still had justifiable winners, so close was the contest. In the end, clean and effective work won out.
1st place: Flakpanzer, by BH62 - wins £20 Pendraken credit, and a copy of 'Battlefield' and 'Havoc' rules, courtesy of Bombshell Games!
(http://i1124.photobucket.com/albums/l575/PendrakenMiniatures/2013%20Painting%20Competition/BH62WWIIgermanvehicle_1_zps2d9899e7.jpg)
2nd place: M12, by marshall1945 - wins £10 Pendraken credit, and their choice of an electronic edition/PDF of either HAVOC, The Battlefield, or Brent's new game!
(http://i1124.photobucket.com/albums/l575/PendrakenMiniatures/2013%20Painting%20Competition/M12_2_zps3c2dcebe.jpg)
Fantasy & Sci-Fi (30 entries)
This was a tricky one, as there was some real imagination on show here. The judges were split over several entries, but all by 3 members, with the winning entry being a very an example of 'beautiful simplicity' as one judge put it. The second place went to a great use of an interesting technique...
1st place: Manticore, by Annatar - wins £20 Pendraken credit, and a copy of 'Battlefield' and 'Havoc' rules, courtesy of Bombshell Games!
(http://i1124.photobucket.com/albums/l575/PendrakenMiniatures/2013%20Painting%20Competition/Annatar1_zpsbfa0ad82.jpg)(http://i1124.photobucket.com/albums/l575/PendrakenMiniatures/2013%20Painting%20Competition/Annatar2_zpsfdc1d36f.jpg)
2nd place: Ethereal Host, by Hetairoi - wins £10 Pendraken credit, and their choice of an electronic edition/PDF of either HAVOC, The Battlefield, or Brent's new game!
(https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-gOs5f5AOQ8M/USwLjtOdLVI/AAAAAAAAECw/MqqDL6v5U3k/s655/huestePEN01.JPG)
Open - Single Base (36 entries)
The Open category's were the hardest to judge in the entire competition, and had the greatest number of entries picking up points from the Judges. The various artillery entries really stood out, and it was hard to decide which was better than the next. By the time the points had been added up, only 4 points separated the top 5 entries. The winner was decided by solid clean painting with nice little touches added to the base as well.
1st place: Falschirmjager 8.8cm, by BH62 - wins £20 Pendraken credit, and a Skirmish Carry Case from Figures in Comfort!
(http://i1124.photobucket.com/albums/l575/PendrakenMiniatures/2013%20Painting%20Competition/BH62WWII88mm_2_zps5e4426b2.jpg)
2nd place: Seleucid Scythed Chariot, by Hetairoi - wins £10 Pendraken credit!
(https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-FQu8g5FdqgA/US6eBNPaFgI/AAAAAAAAEEU/iLvuPV47AJw/s652/falcado1.png)
Open - Anything Goes! (40 entries)
As with the Open - Single Base category, it was so hard to pick out the best three from this lot, or even the best five. There was exceptional painting, nice basing, good imagination, and it took a lot of time to reach a decision here. A lot of entries picked up points from the judges, but by the end there were two clear favourites. Solid, coherent basing working with the fantastic figures was the order of the day!
1st place: Falkland's, by Dougie - wins £20 Pendraken credit, and £30 voucher from TimeCast!
(http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t190/DOUGIELSSAH/DSC02521_zps67789b3b.jpg)
2nd place: German Para's, by BH62 - wins £10 Pendraken credit!
(http://i1124.photobucket.com/albums/l575/PendrakenMiniatures/2013%20Painting%20Competition/BH62WWIIGermanparaarmy_1_zps3ec302dc.jpg)
And there they are! A huge congratulations to all of our winners, we'll be contacting you each individually to get your prizes sorted out. There was such a high standard of work this year that it was very difficult to pick out the winners, so thanks to our judges for their time, I certainly don't envy them their task!
Also, thanks to everyone who has taken part, I hope you enjoyed it and that it at least helped motivate you to get some painting done!
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 voting will run for 5 days, and at the end of that, the winner will receive a voucher for loads of Minibits goodies! Please make sure to place your votes in this!
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Luvvly Jubbly and well done to all of the winners - very much deserved =D> =D> =D>
The bar just keeps getting higher and higher which speaks volumes in relation to the quality of the new ranges and new moulds. 90% of the entries this year would stand up in a 28's competition which is no mean feat.
Thanks to Team PD for hosting again and to those that donated prizes ;)
Congratulations to all. Really stunning winners.
Maybe for the fifth anniversary we should have a champion of champions with all the winners over the years been put up against one another?
Well chosen winners! Well done everyone. :D :D :D :D :D
Can someone now find the judges some headache pills!
The paint jobs on all of them are incredible - well done
Congratulations for all the winners, and a big thank you for all who participated! There were a lot of marvellous entries to be seen this year! 8)
Congrats!
I am willing to give an extra prize to BH62!
I want to give you the honour of painting my '44 german army!!! :D :D :D
Off course you will pay for shipping as the honour is prize enough ;D
Well done to all who entered, some brilliant work , and great fun to take part in. Big thanks to leon and all his team for doing this, great sculpts and great friendly forum for a 10 mil newby . I,m celebrating now with a nice bottle of red, not that i need much of an excuse ;D
cheers
kev
Well done everyone. Some exceptionally high quality this year so the competition was a tough one.
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A big Congratulations to the winners =D>, I had several sleepless nights over the judging :'(.
A big well done to all who entered :-bd
Lemmy I've found the headache pills but found a glass of single malt worked better.
Andy Mac
Well done to all the winners!! Some great stuff in there and deserving of the win!!
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congrats to all winners =D>
fantastic level of competition
As I feared, the level of competition this year was too strong :(
Congratulations to all the winners, some superb work on display - and well done to everyone who entered for making it such a good comp.
Well done everyone. Especially Hetairoi who seems to have come away with 'Best in Show' there!
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Congratulations really AMAZING
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Well done to all the winners. Some really stunning work on display 8).
Spot on all! Can't believe the quality. Outstanding.
Quote from: andymac on 06 March 2013, 07:56:03 PM
A big Congratulations to the winners =D>, I had several sleepless nights over the judging :'(.
A big well done to all who entered :-bd
Lemmy I've found the headache pills but found a glass of single malt worked better.
Andy Mac
Likewise Andy - and I'm with you on the headache cure :D
Some superb entries again this year - and I really enjoy the difficulty of judging all these (if that makes sense!) - great stuff 8)
Personally i'd be very interested in hearing from you judges about why you chose the winners you did.
As a full time modelmaker and designer I've found that my 'winners' often differ markedly from the judges.. It would be really interesting to hear what criteria (if any) where used, what did they like about the entry etc. to make them select them as winners.
Congratulations to all the winners. Great work!
Bryan
Quote from: Steve J on 06 March 2013, 10:38:45 PM
As a full time modelmaker and designer I've found that my 'winners' often differ markedly from the judges.. It would be really interesting to hear what criteria (if any) where used, what did they like about the entry etc. to make them select them as winners.
Same here, there is stuff in there that i would never choose myself. Not saying it isn't good of course, but just not my style. I like painting more of a gritty stye, so naturally bright colours don't fancy me. One of the reasons i always delay the nap project ;D ;D
at the end of the day it is art so is very subjective, a certain style will be liked by one person and not another.
as a competitor it would be interesting to see what points each entry received (not necessary which judge scored what points)
another factor will always be the differing standard of photography but i'm not sure how that can be got around (he says wishing he'd traded in his 10 year old camera :()
Quote from: Matt of Munslow on 06 March 2013, 10:51:30 PM
at the end of the day it is art so is very subjective, a certain style will be liked by one person and not another.
Yeah it's what i mean, didn't came out like that though :)
It's another story of 'to each its own'
and to the jury the malt :D :D :D
No seriously, all deserved to win without doubt!
For those who are interested, I've popped up the summary of the points allocated to each of the entries, along with some of the comments given by the Judges:
http://www.pendrakenforum.co.uk/index.php/topic,7097.0.html (http://www.pendrakenforum.co.uk/index.php/topic,7097.0.html)
I think Peter & Matt have hit the nail on the head regarding style.
One man's meat is another man's poison (If I can put it like that)
Certainly no poison in all these brilliant entries.....(You know what I mean ! ;) :))
We all have our own (let's use the word again) subjective ideas of what 'stands out'.
It WAS headache pills time ! ;) ;D
Cheers - Phil.
Yes, there are several entries that I would have picked as my winners. That said, I can understand why the eventual winners were picked and they are certainly worthy of the titles.
Perhaps the judges should be allowed to do what the Model Engineer judges used to do and allocate "Commended" and "Highly Commended" to deserving cases.
Great work,and well done to the winners, and all the other entrants who took part. I know that just picking up a paintbrush and taking part is good enough for me,though i must work on the photo side of things. Any hints? Anyhow the hobby keeps me sane and allows me to dodge Tv "zombievacation" by the likes of big brother and j-kyle,which she who shall be obeyed must watch.
Congratulations to all the winners!
It was an honor to participate in the competition for the first time, and I am very happy with my results, considering the high level that we have seen in the entries (BH62, you are my new idol...) =P~
Cheers!
Great work! The prices are very well deserved, congratulations! :)
Congratulations everyone! Great entries this year!
Well done everyone
As for the results some of the ones I thought would win did and some didnt , but its all very subjective and all the entries were excellent
I was surprised by the low number of entries for 20th Century foot..expect lots of WW1 entries next year
Of course, naturally, the highest commendations and congratulations to all those who,
who, who - sniff - CURSES!!! AND I HAD SUCH A GOOD ACCEPTANCE SPEECH LINED UP!
Thank you! Thank you! Unaccustomed as I am to winning anything, etc., etc
Never mind, no really, it's only for fun isn't it! Boo Hoo! Sob. Wail & Gnash.
Can't paint. Can't take decent photos.
Carn't tipe eyether;
bust washers,
Richard
Old: i.e. over 45. All right, 55. Chilly: Cool. Alternatively thin blooded. Arch: Playfully mischievous. Or bent double.
(*)(*)(*)(*)(*) Everyone!
Sulk over! ;)
Next year... It shall be... erm... Not mine again! ;D ;D ;D
Fantastic contest and entries! It was a great event to sponsor.
Congrats to all that participated!! :-bd
Hi everyone
I would just like to congratulate everyone who took part in a painting competition, there was some absolutely fantastic entries and well done to all the winners.
Take care
Andy
Wow, I really didn't expect being among the winners this year. main reason:
Quote- J.S.'s Austrian Hussars - I liked these and the idea of including the image that inspired them, they may have scored higher had the image been clearer and brighter.
I'm also not happy with the pictures of the miniatures, but since I could no longer build on the skills and top-notch camera of my (now ex-)girlfriend, I had to content with my cellphone camera which was kinda frustrating :-X
Anyways, congratulations to everyone involved, looking forward to next year 8)
Congratulation to all winners!!
A great achievement to win against such strong competition! Congratulations to all! =D> =D> =D> =D> =D> <:-P
Mollinary
Excellent stuff all round and the Honved hussars were especially inspiring for me.
Quote from: mad lemmey on 07 March 2013, 02:41:43 PM
(*)(*)(*)(*)(*) Everyone!
Spot the teacher...!
Gold star for everyone ;)
Fantastic painting and very high standard.
I like to think that I'm quite a good painter-but when you see these entries! Well, I might as well give up while I'm still ahead!
Interesting how many AWI entries turned up trumps. A credit not only to the fantastic painting, but also to the beautiful little sculpts
Well done everyone DaveL
Congratulation to all the winners.
I was particularly happy to participate in this competition for the first time. I am naturally satisfied with my result, but the work of the judges was to be very difficult. Such a competition is a source of inspiration for all the enthusiasts. She has to allow exchanges on the painting techniques and decoration of bases. I was very impressed by the personal style of certain participants, specially by hetairoi with its splndides colors.
For Leon : I think that it would be desirable to archive the images of the 2013 entries. Are there archives of the previous competitions?
Cheers.
BH62
Quote from: BH62 on 12 March 2013, 12:31:09 PM
For Leon : I think that it would be desirable to archive the images of the 2013 entries. Are there archives of the previous competitions?
The previous competitions can be seen here:
- 2011 - http://www.pendrakenforum.co.uk/index.php/board,40.0.html (http://www.pendrakenforum.co.uk/index.php/board,40.0.html)
- 2012 - http://www.pendrakenforum.co.uk/index.php/board,61.0.html (http://www.pendrakenforum.co.uk/index.php/board,61.0.html)
The pictures should hopefully stay up as long as people don't change the hosting of them. I might actually go through and add them all to our own Photobucket, so they don't go walkabout!
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All of our winners have had their profiles upgraded with their shiny new winners badges! (Previous winners have had their badge swopped for a note in their signature instead.) Let me know if I've missed anyone!
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Well done everyone!
Some great and inspiring painting there!
Great stuff! Congrats to all the winners.
Wow, some great stuff on display here, congratulations to all the winners :) !
Cheers