After a month of entries and seven days of voting, it's time to announce the winners of the 2023 Pendraken Painting Competition!  We've had some excellent entries this year and some of the closest voting that we've seen in a while too.

As usual the voting was done by our friendly Forum members who each had 5 votes to cast per category, so without further ado...

The Winners of the 2023 Pendraken Painting Competition are:


Foot - Pre-20th C. (35 entries)

Once again this category had the highest number of entries and we had two entries fighting it out for that first place slot...


1st place: shrimproll9's SYW Prussians - wins £50 Pendraken voucher!



2nd place: streetgang's Revolutionary French grenadiers - wins £25 Pendraken voucher!




Foot - 20th C. (14 entries)

This category always has a lower number of entries but at a high standard, so there was some fierce competition here.  Three entries pulled ahead at the start of the voting with the winner pulling ahead in the final couple of days...


1st place: Forez42's Soviet infantry - wins £50 Pendraken voucher!



2nd place: Maraviglia's Defenders of France - wins £25 Pendraken voucher!




Mounted (21 entries)

This category had a good mix of votes across several entries but we had two clear leaders right up until this afternoon!  In the end there was only one vote in it...


1st place: shrimproll9's SYW Prussian hussars - wins £50 Pendraken voucher!



2nd place: DHautpol's 1695 Mousquetaires de la Garde - wins £25 Pendraken voucher!




Vehicle (33 entries)

We had a lot more entries in this category this year, but I think this is one of those occasions where some people made too many entries and split their own vote, causing them to lose out on a potential 1st place!


1st place: Maraviglia's Napoleonic limbers - wins £50 Pendraken voucher!



2nd place: Federico's Matador trucks - wins £25 Pendraken voucher!




Fantasy & Sci-Fi (22 entries)

We had a lot more entries in this category this year and it was great to see some interesting conversions on our figures too.  However it was completely dominated by two entries that were at level pegging for almost the full 7 days of voting.  This morning they were equal but by 6pm we had a winner...


1st place: Draconian's Xenos - wins £50 Pendraken voucher!



2nd place: Forez42's Bloodbowl team - wins £25 Pendraken voucher!




Open - Single Base (29 entries)

There was a good mix of entries here from right across history and our ranges, so it was really nice to see.  Quite a few entries were in the running during the week but by the end we had a clear winner and a very close 2nd place!


1st place: Sotaisho's Republican Romans - wins £50 Pendraken voucher!



2nd place: paulr's ECW standard - wins £25 Pendraken voucher!




Open - Army! (20 entries)

We had another close one here with six entries fighting it out for the winner slots over the week.  By the end there was only one vote between 2nd and 3rd...


1st place: streetgang's Revolutionary French army - wins £50 Pendraken voucher!



2nd place: KCW's AWI Patriots army - wins £25 Pendraken voucher!




Congratulations to all of our winners!  We'll be announcing the winners on social media and you'll receive an email in the next few days with your prize voucher.  We'll also get your Winner's tags added to your profiles, which is of course the most important thing!

Thank you to everyone who entered for taking the time to take part this year.  The Painting Competition is always one of the highlights of our year and the standard gets higher every time.  We hope you enjoyed it too and your entries will no doubt have inspired others to pick up a brush and get something painted or try and new technique.

Congrats to all the winners.  An incredibly high standard this year and I am happy to have got two thirds

Congrats to all the winners, brilliant work, very well done! Just off to the study with a glass of malt and the mess Webley! I may be some time. 😥😥😥

A huge congratulations to everyone who entered, and an even bigger congratulations to those who won. The standard this year was truly exceptional and I can't wait to see what people enter next year.
A round of applause to this year's (well deserved) winners!!!        

Congrats too all the winners and for the other entrants too, with soooo many superb entries!

Congrats to all! So much eye candy to motivate more for future projects!

Congrats and good job everyone! Thanks for all the votes. See you all on the "battlefield" next year

Cheers to all the voters, I'd buy a round to you all.
A close call in some categories, maybe next year less entries... it was the enthusiasm of the first time. 
Many compliments to all the winners, very well deserved. Some really great works and a lot of motivation for my next projects.
Hooray!

Quote from: mollinary on 08 March 2023, 06:09:24 PMCongrats to all the winners, brilliant work, very well done! Just off to the study with a glass of malt and the mess Webley! I may be some time. 😥😥😥

After you...

Superb winners
Picked a few. Lost a few. Enjoyed them all

Congratulations to all winners! Great works 

Very nice job from all

Congratulations to everyone who entered and congrats to the winners! 

Congratulations, to all !    

Well done to all the winners! Excellent work all round. 

QuoteA close call in some categories, maybe next year less entries... it was the enthusiasm of the first time. 

I think this is an astute observation Federico - if you enter multiple items in a category you are likely to split the vote - I think this can be seen in the vehicle category where you had 3 of your entries score highly, which if those votes had all gone to a single entry you would have easily won! It can be hard, but if you can't pick between two entries, it is likely that the voters will have the same problem resulting in a spread of votes.