This year's Painting Competition had 214 entries altogether and once more raised the bar for what can be achieved in this scale. We'd like to thank all of the entrants for taking the time and effort to join in.
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The Judges never seem to have an easy job on their hands, and this year was no different. There were several close categories, and we've got a few tied 2nd places this year as well!
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. (31 entries)
This category was one of the hardest to judge, with so many entries deserving credit. In the end we had one clear winner picking up maximum points, and then two more tied for 2nd place.
1st place: AWI Continental Firing Line, by Matt of Munslow - wins £20 Pendraken credit, and 2 sets of rules from Warlord Games!
(http://i1096.photobucket.com/albums/g340/MattofMunslow/awicomp1_zpsed2d2ac4.png)
Joint 2nd place: French Listenois Dragoons, by kev1964 - wins £10 Pendraken credit!
(http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/20/1b67.jpg)
Joint 2nd place: Gardes Françaises command stand, by BH62 - wins £10 Pendraken credit!
(http://i1124.photobucket.com/albums/l575/PendrakenMiniatures/2014%20Painting%20Competition/P1050939_zps8d72bae8.jpg)
Foot - 20th C. (14 entries)
This category had the lowest number of entries, with 5 of them picking up some points from the judges. The points were more spread out in this category, with the winners only just inching past the competition.
1st place: British Para's, by BH62 - wins £20 Pendraken credit, and and a goodie bag from Warbases!
(http://i1124.photobucket.com/albums/l575/PendrakenMiniatures/2014%20Painting%20Competition/P1050964_zpsd244fa0d.jpg)
2nd place: Colonial British Infantry, by Ace of Spades - wins £10 Pendraken credit and a copy of Bolt Action from Warlord Games!
(http://i1124.photobucket.com/albums/l575/PendrakenMiniatures/2014%20Painting%20Competition/PPCFoot20thCent1_zpse0389778.jpg)
Mounted (29 entries)
This year the Mounted category saw a lot more interest, with almost double the entries this time around. The points were split among seven of the entries, with a very even split among them, and another tie for 2nd place. In fact, only 3 points separated 1st place from 5th! There was some very tidy painting in this one, making for some outstanding entries.
1st place: AWI Dragoons, by Goat Major - wins £20 Pendraken credit, and a £25 voucher from Colonel Bill's!
(http://i615.photobucket.com/albums/tt239/goatmajor/Fotor0226223534_zpsaf2e48dc.jpg)
Joint 2nd place: Bavarian Dragoons, by steam flunky - wins £10 Pendraken credit!
(http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2807/12486491985_da309a386d_c.jpg)
Joint 2nd place: Mongols, by Matt of Munslow - wins £10 Pendraken credit!
(http://i1096.photobucket.com/albums/g340/MattofMunslow/mongolscomp1_zpsfc4d248b.png)
Vehicle (46 entries)
The Vehicle category had the highest number of entries this year, with some excellent work on show. There were a couple which stood out, including the winner who gained a clean sweep of 15 points from the Judges!
1st place: Zombie Centurion, by Matt of Munslow - wins £20 Pendraken credit, and a subscription to 'Miniature Wargames with Battlegames!
(http://i1096.photobucket.com/albums/g340/MattofMunslow/100bcf59-0616-444a-8e43-032e270d1a44_zps04f88270.png)
2nd place: Stug III, by BH62 - wins £10 Pendraken credit!
(http://i1124.photobucket.com/albums/l575/PendrakenMiniatures/2014%20Painting%20Competition/P1050910_zpsa1c9bd65.jpg)
Fantasy & Sci-Fi (19 entries)
A few less entries this year for the Fantasy category, but certainly no reduction in quality! This one was very tightly contested, and in the end we had a single winner and then 3 entries tied for 2nd place! Luckily for us, 2 of them were by the same person, but unluckily for him, he might have won the category if he'd only entered once!
1st place: Zombies, by Matt of Munslow - wins £20 Pendraken credit, and a £20 voucher from Wargames Emporium!
(http://i1096.photobucket.com/albums/g340/MattofMunslow/78e095fb-7d6f-4590-95bf-370e4935d7fb_zps6d760c93.png)
Joint 2nd place: Spread Out, by Dr Falkenhayn - wins £10 Pendraken credit!
(http://i940.photobucket.com/albums/ad244/Falkenhayn/Comissions/10mmSci-fi003.jpg)
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Joint 2nd place: Patrol, by Dr Falkenhayn
(http://i940.photobucket.com/albums/ad244/Falkenhayn/PendrakenSci-fi002.jpg)
Joint 2nd place: Easterling Unit, by Hetairoi - wins £10 Pendraken credit!
(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/--Ils97pCCMA/Uvgi9vPhe5I/AAAAAAAAFHs/sz827eUzFic/s1600/DSC03913.JPG)
Open - Single Base (45 entries)
As with last year, this category was the hardest to judge, with so many entries deserving something for their effort. There were 8 entries who picked up some points, more than any other category, and in the end we had only a single point between the top 3, including a tie for 1st place. We'll have to chat with the two winners here and see what we can do to split the prize.
Joint 1st place: Austrian High Command, by steam flunky - wins £20 Pendraken credit, and a split of a 4Ground £30 voucher!
(http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3721/12486612953_cba64ba858_c.jpg)
Joint 1st place: LoA fire base, by kev1964 - wins £20 Pendraken credit, and a split of a 4Ground £30 voucher!
(http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/31/jwjc.jpg)
2nd place: Medieval Command, by Bishop Lord - wins £10 Pendraken credit!
(http://i1124.photobucket.com/albums/l575/PendrakenMiniatures/2014%20Painting%20Competition/Bishop_zps6af36eb1.jpg)
Open - Army! (30 entries)
As above, this one was a very difficult cateogry to judge, with several entries all competing for the top spot. There were some excellent examples of making the bases work in an army, which certainly caught the eye. There was one clear winner in the end, picking up another maximum 15 points from the judges.
1st place: LoA Army, by kev1964 - wins £20 Pendraken credit, and a Hamlet and Town set from Total Battle Miniatures!
(http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/542/0f62.jpg)
2nd place: Hungarians, by Wee Wars - wins £10 Pendraken credit, and a Village Set from Total Battle Miniatures!
(http://www.michaelscott.name/10mm/pencomp14/Hungarians02.png)
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 as well!
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 soon 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 until Monday night (because I'll be away getting married after that!), and the winner will receive a voucher for loads of Minibits goodies! Please make sure to place your votes in this!
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Congratulations to all! Well done indeed chaps, superb work. :)
Congratulations to the winners and the level of entries this year was awesome. Some of the winners work is just so inspiring and hard to believe they are 10mm figures. Once again well done!
well chuffed :D
although you seems to have given my pre - 20th cent foot entry to Kev :-\
Congratulations to the winners! The standard was really high - some excellent pieces.
It was getting a bit like a crowd of children up against the sweetie shop window, waiting for the results
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I would like to offer my congratulations to the winners some fantastic entries this year. I can only guess how hard the judges must have found it. Anyway an excellent competition this year it was great fun.
take care
andy
Many, many congratulations! An amazing standard this year, demonstrated by the fact that Hetairoi, whose painting is beautiful, did not make it across the winning line. Once again, an inspiring competition.
Mollinary
Congrats to the winners, some inspiring entries again this year. Must try not to get tempted into another period ;)
Congrats to all the winners! Specially to Matt, who has nailed it! =D> =D> =D>
QuoteAn amazing standard this year, demonstrated by the fact that Hetairoi, whose painting is beautiful, did not make it across the winning line.
I barely get to scratch a second place! ;D
As said, the quality of Matt, Kev and BH62 is out of this world. So I´ll stop chatting now and start painting for next year competition! :D
All very well deserved! Don't envy the judges their decisions. Well done to those who won but also well done to all those who entered, some superb stuff in the also rans!!
Incredible standard :o.....Congrats to each and every one of you that entered.....I've still got a headache ! ;)
Cheers - Phil
Quote from: Matt of Munslow on 05 March 2014, 09:31:27 PM
although you seems to have given my pre - 20th cent foot entry to Kev :-\
Fixed now, apologies for that, I'd copied and pasted last years announcement to save time and forgot to change the name!
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Some amazing painting there. Congrats to the winners =D>
Well done guys. Kudos to all who entered
Congratulations to all the winner.
Bravo! =D> =D> Congrats to all Winners :) Many thanks to Team Pendraken for the 10£ Credit,much appreciated :D
Stunning Entries from everyone,i just got bitten by the 10mm Bug heavily-WW1 and Sci-fi is on my to do list 8)
Who the f*** is this Matt of Munslow Guy?Very talented Git eh? 8) ;D Hats off to you Sir! m/
regards
Daniel
Congratulations to all =D> =D> =D> =D>
Top notch stuff from all, very very good!
Mmm, I thought Kev was a clear winner. But salutes to all who have been selected.
Fabulous, great stuff.......
Some amazing work there, and a good reminder of why I never bother to enter this competition. :D
High standards as always - well done winners.
Interesting to note that almost every winning/runner up/third place etc was from new ranges, particularly LOA/AWI/NAPS
Thank you for these awards. It was a very difficult year with many, many entries and a high level. Congratulation to all the winners but also to all those who participated. It allows to see the beautiful figurines of Pendraken and it gives ideas of painting) and decoration of the base.
BH62
Quote from: BH62 on 06 March 2014, 07:51:37 AM
Thank you for these awards. It was a very difficult year with many, many entries and a high level. Congratulation to all the winners but also to all those who participated. It allows to see the beautiful figurines of Pendraken and it gives ideas of painting) and decoration of the base.
BH62
Congratulations BH62, beautiful painting and simple effective basing =D>
A bit more light or a longer exposure would really improve the photographs, they all seem to be about half a stop under-exposed.
Congrats to everyone - well deserved winners, excellent painting and an inspiration to all!
Scolty
Congratulations to all our winners. It's difficult to quarrel with the judges' decisions, but it must have been close - as witness the equal firsts and seconds.
Well done to everyone that entered,what a great competition, this really does show 10mm at it's best. The standard this year was exceptionally high, so a very difficult job for the judges.
A big thanks to Leon and the team (and all the judges ) for making this a great fun event. Some very talented painters on here so i'm sure next years competition will be even better.
kev
All heartbreakingly good-
well done all those chaps!
Have burnt my brushes.
And my camera...
Great competition, excellent standard really shows what can be achieved with these wee tiny guys. Well done to all who entered. The volume of entries makes the competition what it is and shows off the full diversity of the Pendraken ranges. Thanks to Dave and Leon for hosting a great event.
I'm off to think about next year as Hetairoi is going to want his medals back :)
Matt
(P.S special thanks to FSN for my tank inspiration :))
Congrats to all the winners, they are well deserved. The quality of 10mm painting on show by all the entrants was excellent and I'm just glad they didn't ask me to judge. :)
So hats off and Big Ups -I think that's the phrase the younglings use nowadays- to all the entrants and judges. Well done!
I nearly didn't enter, seeing how good the entries already were - but I figured, it's all about the figures and the game, and a wide spread of stuff & talent is going to showcase the figures and techniques nicely. If all I saw were the winning entries I'd have hung up me paint brushes and given up ;D
I like to think I paint to a reasonable table top standard, at reasonable speed, but the winning entries are breath taking - a sign of quality is that so many *really* good figures *didn't* make it into first/second place :o
Congrats to all of the winners. Some very nice painting on show.
Farles
Congratulations to those who won a prize and a big well done to all those who entered.
From a judges point of view this year has been the hardest so far regarding points. There were several entries that had the immediate "WoW" factor.
After those came a real strong group of entries that where so alike in the standard of painting and presentation that it made it near impossible to decide who to award the points to. I guess that was the reason for so many shared places.
Since the competition started the quality of work has steadily increased and it is always a pleasure (though defiantly a task) to be ask to judge.
Once again well done to all who entered and to those that won, you deserved it.
Andy Mac
QuoteI like to think I paint to a reasonable table top standard, at reasonable speed, but the winning entries are breath taking
I echo your sentiments Toxic!
QuoteI'm off to think about next year as Hetairoi is going to want his medals back Smiley
My shiny medals... :'(
Taking into consideration the quality of most of the entries this year, I´m more than happy with my second place ;D ;D
Thanks again Leon, Dave, Nik, Clibinarium, Andy and Techno! You did a great (and hard) work running this event!
I think a special applaud should go to Matt for his enigmatic, innovative and highly original entry.
Seriously, they're all very, very, very good. I'm caught between inspiration and despair.
I've added all of the medals to the winners profiles as well now!
Very worthy winners yet again. Congratulations to all of us - even if we did not win. I am sure it was fun.
Congratulations!!!!! :) :) :)to all the winners, and to repeat other posts the standard of all the entries was really really high ( I wouldn't have liked to judge), As more and more entries where added I just saw mine going further down the list so to get a prize I'm very happy with, but I think mine is via default :-[ as first placed was tied, lucky for me or it would have been third.
A big thanks to Leon and Dave for putting on the contest and thanks must go to all the judges who IMHO had an imposable task this year.
Jason.
Congratulations one and all. Some really awesome entries this year.
I must say I'm surprised that I actually won something! I felt the competition was terrific and honestly didn't count on anything after seeing all the entries.
Even so, thanks for all the congratulations and of course mine to all my fellow competitors whether you've won something or not. You have all surely and truly inspired me to make an even better effort next year!
Of course I also want to thank the sponsors; I certainly appreciate it!
Cheers,
Rob
Congratulations to all that entered and kudos to those that came out winners - a very high standard this year, and some truly inspiring vignettes and armies.
Magnificent stuff and a great advert for Pendraken and the art of miniatures
Thanks to everyone for the praise.
After seeing all the wonderful entries my expectations were quite low. I was quite speechless that i won anything.
My congratulations to all the winners. Wonderfull minis! I watched really skillfull painters. Bravi!!
As ever, an absolute pleasure to be a judge in this competition: never an easy task and I find myself having to refrain from commenting on the entries as they come in! I'm delighted that we had such a great range of entries - and that we had a good variety of products and painting standards: I'm keen that everyone feels that the competition is another opportunity to showcase the work that you've done - regardless of whether you think you'll win or not.
Watching the entries come in is great - and it's with huge anticipation that I look forward to the submission deadline, seeing what will come in at the death! And then I enjoy the problem of judging the entries; I always try to take my time - and, once I've shortlisted in each category, I tend to save the pics into folders so that I can flick through them and think about the points...this is always, without exception, done at leisure: no interruptions and a decent single malt in-hand.
Really difficult this year to make the choices - but another superb range of entries that demonstrate the absolute best of Pendraken 10mm. Bravo.
Oh - and I think it would be great if the winners would consider sharing some notes on their techniques - always really useful to see, and of massive value to newcomers to painting / 10mm 8)
I'd also acknowledge the efforts & contribution of Team Pendraken / Minibits - in running the competition, offering prizes from their own profit margins, and in securing a great range of prizes from other companies. Top-notch :-bd
Excellent and inspiring work. Well done to all, including the organisers.
congratulations to everyone who won and for all those who entered too. m/ m/ m/
Congratulations to all the winners, made life hard for the judges, very high standard again this year, and indeed to all that entered and made the competition so tough =D> =D> :-bd :-bd
all the best
Sean
Well done, one and all! Awesome work! =D> :-bd
Absolutely amazing I did not realise in my ingorance how much detail can be given to 10mm. Well done to everyone who took part. :D :D
Congratulations to all the winners! Very fine entries to the competition every one of them. Good work!
Regards
Conny