We are proud to announce the 5 judges who will be deciding the winners of the 2015 Painting Competition!
From previous years we welcome back:
- Nik Harwood!
- Clibinarium!
- Andy Mac!
- Techno!
And after his fantastic work in last year's competition, this year we have a new Judge on the panel:
- Kev1964!
Each of the judges will be given 3 / 2 / 1 points to award in each category (3 points to the best entry, 2 points to the second best, 1 point to the third). The points will be tallied up and the winners will be announced shortly after the closing date of 28th Feb.
So, who are these folk?!
Kev1964!
Kev is a former construction manager who moved to Hungary in 2009 for a complete change of lifestyle. He had intended to be (reasonably) self sufficient but as he ended up with pets instead of food, it quickly became apparent that he needed an income!
Like many middle aged chaps on the Forum, Kev started painting Airfix figures in the '70s, so he thought he'd give figure painting a go. Luckily it has kept the wolf from the door for four years now and he's still enjoying it.
He still has not played a game, though he is slowly building up his own 10mm LoA army in between commissions, so maybe one day! :D
Pics of Kev's work: https://imageshack.us/user/kev1964 (https://imageshack.us/user/kev1964)
Nik Harwood!
Nik has been painting figures since the age of about 5 when he started trying to colour in the weapons on his older brother's Airfix plastic Afrika Korps; he made a decent amount of pocket money in junior school by painting early Citadel figures for fellow classmates playing D&D; his first 'proper' wargames armies were Colonial British and Zulus - done for a school project aged 12. He's not looked back since - apart from a brief hiatus when he was distracted by totty...his main interests are...multiple [& still include totty, 10mm or otherwise] :-)
He spends his time these days training hamsters to run really, really fast to keep his interwebs working properly...
Pics of Nik's work: http://nikharwood.pbworks.com/ (http://nikharwood.pbworks.com/) and all over the Forum!
Clibinarium!
The name Clibinarium will be instantly recognisable to most people as the sculptor behind our fantastic Late Roman, AWI and LoA ranges, along with ranges for other companies in 15mm and 28mm. Before sculpting took over his every waking second he was a pretty good painter as well!
Pics of Clibinarium's work: http://www.pendrakenforum.co.uk/index.php?topic=213.0 (http://www.pendrakenforum.co.uk/index.php?topic=213.0)
Andy Mac!
Andy is a hobby painter who enjoys both the researching of the units and the painting of the figures. He started many years ago painting 28mm ACW figures, and his work was seen by Dave Marks who wrote "In the Name of Glory" Napoleonic rules and he asked if he could use Andy's figures in his ACW rule set "Honor & Glory".
A few years later, Andy started doing some 10mm work and really enjoyed the scale. One of his customers asked if he would like to do both some ACW and AWI in 10mm for him. The ACW being a mix of manufacturers and the AWI being Pendraken's. He took up the offer and has not looked back since. Andy's view has always been if the artist can put that amount of work into producing the figure then it's only fair he try to do the same when painting it.
Pics of Andy's work: http://www.displacedminiatures.com/andymac/ (http://www.displacedminiatures.com/andymac/)
Techno!
Phil refuses to tell us how old he is and will only admit to being slightly older than Dave.
He's worked in the industry full time since 1987 when he joined Games Workshop as their photographer, though he'd had numerous of his painted figures in White Dwarf and various Citadel Journals before this. From there he went on to run the figure painting unit in the studio, writing many of the 'Eavy Metal articles and helping out with the figure painting for White Dwarf and numerous rule books and games produced at the time.
After that, he was (Hah!....His word) 'put in charge' of the figure designers to help coordinate miniatures production. After leaving Workshop in '91 he started working for various firms as a freelancer, designing figures, which he's been doing ever since.
He thinks it was '89 when he was informed that "You're chief judge for Golden Demon this year."..An experience he remembers with a slight shudder...(Though he was laughing when he said that.) "Stroll on....You trying looking at hundreds and hundreds of entries all within a few hours......Eeeek"
He originally thought that helping judge the Pendraken Painting Competition would be a lot less stressful and a lot more fun, but has been regretting it ever since... ;) He's always rather chuffed to take part though!
Good luck to everyone who enters!
8)
Damn,
Anyone know Kev's bribe level?
Excellent looking forward to the competition
Take care
Andy
Quote from: Womble67 on 18 January 2015, 11:25:48 PM
Excellent looking forward to the competition
Me too !
(Apart from the headaches from staring too closely at the screen, and arguing with myself. ;) ;D ;D)
Cheers - Phil.
Will give it a first go this year.
Can I enter :D :D :D the painting completion??????
Very low Lemmey, a bottle of red or a couple of real ales does me ;D ;D, really looking forward to seeing the entries come in.
It's a great, fun competition ,best of luck to everyone who takes part.
kev
It'll be poorer for you not taking part Kev.
(does flattery work :))
Quote from: mad lemmey on 18 January 2015, 11:09:14 PM
Damn,
Anyone know Kev's bribe level?
Nope but I have heard that anyone that tries gets sent straight to the Goulash
I know where my own coat is thanks
You can only have it back when Nobby's finished chewing it, Steve. ;)
Cheers - Phil
Same old judges, same old bribes....
IanS
Quote from: mart678 on 19 January 2015, 10:47:58 AM
Can I enter :D :D :D the painting completion??????
If you want to?! :D
Apart from not having spell check on yipppeeeee :D :D
Phil - was it 2 or 3 Lab pups this year.....
IanS
Having entered last year "to make up the numbers", I was astounded when one of my entries actually got two votes in the open competition. That really made my day. And I didn't need to bribe anyone. :)
Quote from: ianrs54 on 20 January 2015, 08:38:48 AM
Phil - was it 2 or 3 Lab pups this year.....
IanS
What ?.....As a bribe ?
No....I can't cope with any more ! ;D ;D ;D
Two of the b*ggers were within a gnat's whisker of flattening me on the drive, this morning......They were having a very energetic game of knocking each other over.... I think they thought I might like to join in !
Cheers - Phil.
An 'orse then, to give another excuse not to work ?
IanS
Anyone tries that, will get 'nil points' from me in this competition...and any other ones I'm involved in, in the future. :P ;)
Cheers - Phil
Quote from: ianrs54 on 19 January 2015, 12:40:51 PM
Same old judges, same old bribes....
IanS
Too right. I drink single malt. None of that blended $h1t
:D
Someone has been excavating in the South West - and resurrected Nic.... :'( :'(
Quote from: ianrs54 on 23 January 2015, 09:20:57 AM
Someone has been excavating in the South West - and resurrected Nic.... :'( :'(
Yep. I blame that Tony Robinson fella & his Time Team. Sorry 'bout that ;)
Not sure I'd want to be scraped by Phil Harding's trowel. :o :o :o
Ooh aarr! ;D ;D ;D
Look at this, Tony ! :D
Cheers - Phil
Quote from: Techno on 20 January 2015, 01:50:08 PM
Anyone tries that, will get 'nil points' from me in this competition...and any other ones I'm involved in, in the future. :P ;)
Cheers - Phil
If you want maximum points from Techno, i belive cleaning out the stables for a month is a nice start. after that standing by his desk and rolling tiny balls of putty for 2 weeks while he sculpts give you extra points.
You've bugged his workshop, haven't you? ;) ;) ;)
I'll swear this monitor hasn't got a built in webcam ! ;)
Cheers - Phil.
It does. We've hacked it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KKEjF6aejA (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KKEjF6aejA)
I've said it before....I'll say it again.....You are going to get SUCH a smack, Nobby ! ;D ;D ;D ;D
Cheers - Phil
Can I pass you the chair ?
IanS
That's the balsa one we were going to break over Ithorial's head in scene 3!
To paraphrase the Young Ones?
Nah - the cast iron one - Phil is so old he'd NEVER lift it.
IanS :D
Quote from: ianrs54 on 25 January 2015, 04:07:22 PM
Nah - the cast iron one - Phil is so old he'd NEVER lift it.
Sad....But true ! :-[
Cheers - Phil
Mind you - neither can I...
IanS
;D ;D ;D
Cheers - Phil.
Err... I've just left the barfight (forcibly!) and suddenly I'm back in it again. Have I skipped a dimension or something? X_X X_X X_X