Pendraken Painting Competition 2025!

[ale]

Last day, good luck to everyone

[Leon]

Just a quick update, as we're away at the Hammerhead show today and tomorrow, I won't be able to close the entry threads until we get back from the show.  So you've all got a little extra time to get your last entries sorted out!

[Last Hussar]

Just to check - we have to upload pics for the forum to a dedicated picture place (like Flickr) then link to here?

[19th_century_octopus]

Just to check - we have to upload pics for the forum to a dedicated picture place (like Flickr) then link to here?

Yep, you can press the 'picture' icon on the 5th panel at the top of the message box (the one with the Youtube, Picture, link and postcard icons) and then paste the link to the picture in the box provided. You can then provide a size (in pixels, it's all just html, if you know how to use it) it should look something like this;
[img.]http://YourImageHere.jpeg[/img.]
(The full stops after img should not be there, it's just so you can all see the actual command, otherwise html hides it)
Or you can manually type it in. A common mistake is to link the website and not the image, you want to right click in the image to get the image link. Make sure it has a file extension attached (.jpeg, .png, etc.) Otherwise it will not work. I would also suggest linking the page it's on (the image hosting website) so that if the images don't work, people can still find them. I hope this helps out anyone who needs it.

[Steve J]

As always some wonderful entries on show and good luck to one and all ! Maybe one year i'll get my act together to actually finish stuff I'd planned and take some decent photos too .

[mollinary]

Good luck to everyone. I had planned to paint some of my new Vikings for the competition, but, sadly, the real world got in the way! 

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Hope all is okay Mollinary.

[mollinary]

Hope all is okay Mollinary.

Yes, sorry if my post implied something sinister! Just my personal incompetence, I am afraid!

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

My favourite type, at least it's not...
(Delete as appropriate) medicinal, financial, political, agrarian, feline, canine, equine, other.

[Leon]

And that's all folks!  Entry is closed for the 2025 competition and the voting threads will be open from 6pm on Sunday night!

[Leon]

The voting threads are open so make sure to place your votes!  The winners will be announced at 6pm next Sunday!

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

My votes are in, some great entries this year. Good luck all.

[sultanbev]

First time I've ever voted in a painting competition, that was harder than I thought! Some impressive work out there.

[lmtiii]

Definitely took some time to review all the entries and select the top 5 in each category.  Good luck to all who entered!

[Martin1914]

Good luck everyone.

[FierceKitty]

My entry (single base) is not a duel;; I don't know where the label came from. It's some poor malefactor running the gauntlet (being beaten by all the officers).

[Krook]

Amazing entries by everyone! Voting was harder than I thought..

[DecemDave]

Can I have as many votes as entries next time please?  This was HARD and I had to keep reminding myself to vote on the painting not on "do I want this".  Amazing work by all but the AWI entries in particular would not be bad painting if we were looking at 28mm scale.

[DHautpol]

Amazing entries by everyone! Voting was harder than I thought..

Thankfully each of our votes are of equal weight.  If I'd had to rank my votes in order, I think I'd still be trying to make up my mind.

[fred.]

Voting was hard, some really good entries. 

Can't decide if picking 5 is easier or harder than picking 3. 3 would mean more decision making, 5 means trying to remember which names you like vs ones further down the list, when you come back to vote 

Leon, one suggestion for future years I think that the number of votes available to be cast, should be no more than half the entries in that category- eg if there are just 7 entries then give people 3 votes in that category not 5.