Pendraken Painting Competition 2025!

[Leon]

It's that time of year again!  Get yourselves ready for the Pendraken Painting Competition 2025!

Our annual Painting Competition will once again be running throughout the month of February, so get those entries finished, grab your camera and get them posted!  The Competition will open to entries on February 1st and will run all the way through until the end of the month.  You can enter anything that's been painted over the past 12 months and we can't wait to see the entries.

Closing date for the competition will be midnight on Friday 28th February and we'll then open up the voting threads for everyone to decide our winners.

The categories will be the same as usual:

Categories:

Foot - Pre-20th C. - Max: 40 figures, on either a single base, multiple bases, or in a movement tray.
Foot - 20th C. - Max: 40 figures, on either a single base, multiple bases, or in a movement tray.
Mounted - Max: 20 figures, on either a single base, multiple bases, or in a movement tray.
Vehicle - Max: 3 vehicles on or off bases, including wagons and chariots.
Fantasy & Sci-Fi - Max: 40 figures, on either a single base, multiple bases, or in a movement tray.
Open - Single Base - Anything which doesn't fit into the other categories, with a max base size of 100x100mm.  This could be a command base, a single figure, artillery base, etc.
Open - Army - Anything which is larger than the maximums in the other categories, so multiple units or a whole army.

If you're unsure which category to put your entry in, let us know what it is, and we'll point you in the right direction!

Rules  - Please Read!

- Firstly, all figures must be Pendraken products, including the TB Line ranges.  Conversions are allowed, but only on our figures.

1. You must be a Forum member to enter, but other than that, everyone is welcome!

2. You may enter as many times as you like but each entry is only allowed 2 images (except for the 'Army!' category, see below).  We do not allow montage images anymore, just to keep a level playing field.  You can however edit your two images into a single file for the sake of uploading/hosting them.  The best way to add your images is through a separate photo hosting site, or a blog, but if you have any difficulty posting pics then let us know and we'll help you out.

3. The 'Open - Army!' category may have 5 photo's, as it's difficult to cover a whole army with just a single photo!

4. All entries must be your own work, and have not been entered into any online competitions before.

5. Entries should have been completed in the last 12 months, so we hope you've all been busy!

6. You can post WIP (work-in-progress) photos if you wish, but please create a new thread for these.  You can also post extra photos of your work elsewhere on the Forum.  These will not count towards your competition entry.

7. The winners will be decided by the Forum members, so once the closing deadline has passed, we'll put up a poll thread for each category where our members can vote on who they want to win.  The polls will close 7 days later and the winners will be announced.

8. Competition threads will be created on the opening date, purely for your entries.

9. Pendraken may use your pics in future promo/marketing, catalogue covers or web pics.  Entering gives your permission for your pics to be used.


And now the good bit, we've got over £500 of prizes available for you!  The winners and runners-up in each category will receive the following:

- The Winner of each category will receive a £50 Pendraken voucher!
- The Runner-Up of each category will receive a £25 Pendraken voucher!

Vouchers will be sent out to you by email once the winners have been announced.  You can then use it on any of the 10,000+ products on our website.


So:

Competition opens - February 1st!
Closing deadline - Midnight, February 28th!


As always, if there's any questions just let us know!

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Oh no! I haven't made any plans for this year at all!! 😱

Time to get deep into the catalogue and go random picks.

[O Dinas Powys]

Oh no! I haven't made any plans for this year at all!! 😱

Time to get deep into the catalogue and go random picks.

 

[Maraviglia]

I have a couple of questions. Would the 17th c. pirates painted for a made up setting fit better in the pre 20th c. category or fantasy?

Also about the 1 year time limit, I have an army entry that I've been doing for a while (about 2 years actually) and some of it was even entered in previous years competitions. However since about March last year I've repainted about 50% of each existing model and rebased it all to fit my new ideals and style for it and have also doubled the size of each unit (which has largely contributed to why I don't have many entries in other categories this year... yet)! So is it as a whole still eligible or should I just enter the stuff solely started and finished in the last year?
Ta!

[streetgang]

February and the painting competition always sneaks up on me...looking forward to submitting a few entries!

[mollinary]

I have a couple of questions. Would the 17th c. pirates painted for a made up setting fit better in the pre 20th c. category or fantasy?

Also about the 1 year time limit, I have an army entry that I've been doing for a while (about 2 years actually) and some of it was even entered in previous years competitions. However since about March last year I've repainted about 50% of each existing model and rebased it all to fit my new ideals and style for it and have also doubled the size of each unit (which has largely contributed to why I don't have many entries in other categories this year... yet)! So is it as a whole still eligible or should I just enter the stuff solely started and finished in the last year?
Ta!

My only concern would be allowing any entries which contain figures which have been entered in previous years competitions. It has the potential to open the floodgates to resubmissions, and puts Leon in a very difficult situation by having to judge what is and is not allowable. I would prefer an absolute prohibition on any entry which contains figures previously entered into an earlier competition. I think exactly when you painted a particular figure is a much less important question.

[fred.]

I have a couple of questions. Would the 17th c. pirates painted for a made up setting fit better in the pre 20th c. category or fantasy?

Also about the 1 year time limit, I have an army entry that I've been doing for a while (about 2 years actually) and some of it was even entered in previous years competitions. However since about March last year I've repainted about 50% of each existing model and rebased it all to fit my new ideals and style for it and have also doubled the size of each unit (which has largely contributed to why I don't have many entries in other categories this year... yet)! So is it as a whole still eligible or should I just enter the stuff solely started and finished in the last year?
Ta!

Pirates - up to you - have a look at prior years to see whether yours are more fantastical than historic


Army - given the amount of rework on these, I'd say they are fine. Frankly if you hadn't mentioned it, would anyone of known?

I have enough trouble working out what I have painted in the last year, to know what I could enter, let alone policing someone else's entry. The only real exceptions would be winners from prior years, which may be more widely recognisable. 

[Maraviglia]

Army - given the amount of rework on these, I'd say they are fine. Frankly if you hadn't mentioned it, would anyone of known?

I doubt anyone would know but I want to enter in the right spirit. Plus with each battalion doubling from 20 to 40 models I'm not 100% sure I can identify the previously entered parts myself! Anything that I can identify will be at the back/off to the sides of a single group picture whereas the new stuff will be my actual focus (alongside the fact I've made historically accurate brigades with the correct colours and facings).

[rct75001]

My first time to (possibly) enter the painting competition - dependent on my question.

I am currently painting in the annual Analogue Hobbies Painting Challenge.  It is called a Challenge as there are no prizes and we set our own 'target' in terms of points painted and then work towards meeting or exceeding our personal target - with displays of work painted along the way. 

I am painting Pendraken figures in the Challenge and wanted to check if this disqualifies me from entering this work.  Perhaps splitting hairs - but as it is not a 'competition' and has no prize I wanted to check.

Thanks
Richard

[Leon]

I have a couple of questions. Would the 17th c. pirates painted for a made up setting fit better in the pre 20th c. category or fantasy?

Depends on size/basing I think?  If they're a full unit then in the pre-20th Foot category, if they're a small stand of figures I'd go with the Open - Single Base category.

So is it as a whole still eligible or should I just enter the stuff solely started and finished in the last year?

Anything painted in the last 12 months, so if you've repainted those units then they'd be eligible.

[Leon]

I am painting Pendraken figures in the Challenge and wanted to check if this disqualifies me from entering this work.  Perhaps splitting hairs - but as it is not a 'competition' and has no prize I wanted to check.

Those will be fine, no problem at all, I don't think that qualifies as a competition.

[Corso]

I've no time this year

Goodluck everyone

[rct75001]

Those will be fine, no problem at all, I don't think that qualifies as a competition.

Thanks Leon

[ale]

hi Leon, how mutch is the photo size?
thank you
ale

[Leon]

hi Leon, how mutch is the photo size?
thank you
ale

I think the limit is 500kb per entry?  I can double check though.