Pendraken Painting Competition 2024!

[Steve J]

I started painting some stuff to enter this year, then covid hit me, so the painting has stopped for the present .

[Maraviglia]

We're barely started and I'm already feeling that nothing I paint compares to the current entries.

Yep. Same here. I'm still gonna enter because you never know but... yep.

[John Cook]

I started painting some stuff to enter this year, then covid hit me, so the painting has stopped for the present .

Don't waste time posting stuff here, then.  Get on with the painting

[Maraviglia]

I have a question about rule 4 (the can't have been entered in an online competition before one). In previous years I have entered a couple of units which are now part of a much larger army. I would just leave them out but I can't actually tell which specific ones they are so would this disqualify the whole army?
(I'm ok on rule 5 I think because all of it had additional work in the last 12 months on painting and basing).

The more I think about it I don't think I'll put them in as it's all a bit murky but I'd just like to know the official ruling.

[Leon]

I have a question about rule 4 (the can't have been entered in an online competition before one). In previous years I have entered a couple of units which are now part of a much larger army. I would just leave them out but I can't actually tell which specific ones they are so would this disqualify the whole army?

I think that's OK, if you've entered them as individual units last year but they're now part of a whole army entry with lots more stuff, then I think that counts as a 'new' entry.

[Maraviglia]

I think that's OK, if you've entered them as individual units last year but they're now part of a whole army entry with lots more stuff, then I think that counts as a 'new' entry.

In that case I may do...
Either way though it's good to know for if some of the units I complete this year make it into a completed army next year!
Ta.

[fred.]

I have a question about rule 4 (the can't have been entered in an online competition before one). In previous years I have entered a couple of units which are now part of a much larger army. I would just leave them out but I can't actually tell which specific ones they are so would this disqualify the whole army?
(I'm ok on rule 5 I think because all of it had additional work in the last 12 months on painting and basing).

The more I think about it I don't think I'll put them in as it's all a bit murky but I'd just like to know the official ruling.

I know Leon has now answered on this officials. But if you can't tell in person which units are which, I don't think there is much chance of it being spotted in the competition judging!


At least I'm not the only one who struggles to remember what I painted when

I do like the staging of your entries - good to see it in this comp, sets the minis off very nicely. 

[paulr]

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At least I'm not the only one who struggles to remember what I painted when

I do like the staging of your entries - good to see it in this comp, sets the minis off very nicely.

I have to refer to my painting diaries on here to know what I painted when

Seconded on the staging

[Maraviglia]

I have to refer to my painting diaries on here to know what I painted when

Seconded on the staging

I usually post pictures of things I've completed on Instagram so I just scroll back to January and check that way because otherwise I'd have no idea!
Mostly I just don't want to take the mickey over repeated entries or things that I did outside the year time frame (especially as I picked up about 6 new armies over the last year with birthday/Xmas presents)!

And thanks for the compliments on the framing everyone. I like to make the models look at home but not distract from them as they're the point!
So now by the end of the month I need to finish my Scots greys, winter German platoon, Alien army and farmyard animal "army". Easy, right?

[paulr]

[Macsen Wledig]

I havent got a hope in hell of winning as my painting is poor compared to previous winners so good luck to those better painters out there.

[DHautpol]

" farmyard animal "army" "

George Orwell's Animal Farm looks to have come a long way since I read it at school.

[Corso]

I think it would take me more than a year to paint an army so don't think I could ever enter one

[streetgang]

Well, I managed to snap up some photos for the competition. I posted some of the background behind the selections and why its such a random bunch of entries over on my blog if anyone is interested: blog

Hoping to snap some pictures of my Yom Kippur War Egyptians and toss them into the competition as well. Good luck to everyone, there is some really lovely eye candy on display!

[Corso]

Are there any rules re adjusting an entry? I think I entered one of mine in haste and could now re-enter it as part of a whole unit