Spring Painting Contest

[DarkElf27]

Spring Painting Contest

This last Thursday, the guild cracked 150,000 cumulative posts! So to celebrate, I'm hosting a Spring Painting contest, with 150,000 gold for first place!

How to Enter

Entries must all be works in progress! Take it as a motivator to get another unit done for your army! wink Entries may be entered in any condition, as long as it is not the completed project.

To enter, post in this thread with the text "I want to enter!" and a photo of your starter including your written username, see conditions above. This entry can be any unit from any miniature wargame: Warmachine, 40k, WHFB, Bolt Action, etc. This is your entry.

Your final submission should consist of between one and five photos of the final completed unit. Try to get an overall photo of all models in the unit, and then take photos featuring particular details which you think are the best like a cool conversion and painted fine-details.

Both entries and submissions are accepted anytime from now until 1 May. Submit by posting in this thread. From 2 May until 15 May, I will accept judging sheets (to be released at a later date).

There are two categories: Single Model Unit and Multi Model Unit; these categories will be judged separately. You may make as many entries submissions as you would like, but you are only eligible for one prize.

Prizes

Single Model Unit
First Place: 150,000 gold
Runner up: 50,000 gold

Multi Model Unit
First Place: 150,000 gold
Runner Up: 50,000 gold

Entries

Single Model Unit
BrookM: Imperial Guard Sentinel
BrookM: Imperial Knight
Ociluce: The Deceiver

Multi Model Unit

merydell: Conscripts


Submissions

Single Model Unit
BrookM: Imperial Guard Sentinel

Multi Model Unit

merrydell: Conscripts  

[merydell]

Sounds interesting, will need to get some new paint and dust of my mediocre painting skills ninja  

[Ociluce]

Hm... Stormtalon gunship, custom C'tan Shard, or Razorwing Jetfighter...?  

[DarkElf27]

merydell

Sounds interesting, will need to get some new paint and dust of my mediocre painting skills ninja

Go for it!

Ociluce

Hm... Stormtalon gunship, custom C'tan Shard, or Razorwing Jetfighter...?

You could enter all three if you want. wink No limit on entries.  

[Hoxtalicious]

It would appear that I have been volunteered for this.  

[DarkElf27]

Always a pleasure, any idea what you'll try to enter?  

[Hoxtalicious]

DarkElf27

Always a pleasure, any idea what you'll try to enter?

Chances are, an Imperial Knight, though I do not know when it will commence.  

[Hoxtalicious]

Seeing as there are no limits and the Knights are still one to two weeks out, I'll start off with something smaller:



Sentinel with custom pilot, bought today, box is still in shrink wrap and whatnot. Starting tomorrow.

edit.

Spent some of the morning building the model and splitting it into a few sub-assemblies:



Cockpit, base, legs and pilot.  

[DarkElf27]

Awesome, looking forward to the result!

I still want to see one of those with a Wookie sticking out the top one of these days...  

[Ociluce]

I don't want to get disqualified due to a technicality, so... I want to enter!

I know that it's a big galaxy, but does anyone know the Guardsmen in my model? If so, please send my condolences to their families.





I'm probably going to go back and touch up the green stuff. I did what I could to get the height up to roughly the Deceiver, but I still fell short and it looks all kinds of messy. Urgh... I really need to up my game with the green stuff if I'm going to have a shot at this.

~Oci out.  

[Lady Blodwynn]

The greenstuff is perhaps a bit too chunky to represent the guts of the poor man, but I like your conversion a lot! emotion_yatta  

[Ociluce]

Thanks! That's not supposed to be guts there; when I paint it up, it's supposed to look ectoplasmy...ish...esque... as the C'tan passes through him. However, it is indeed too chunky for anything. I'm going to need to get out the files and craft knives and shapedthat sucker into something that looks like something other than tumors.  

[DarkElf27]

Ociluce

Thanks! That's not supposed to be guts there; when I paint it up, it's supposed to look ectoplasmy...ish...esque... as the C'tan passes through him. However, it is indeed too chunky for anything. I'm going to need to get out the files and craft knives and shapedthat sucker into something that looks like something other than tumors.

I got a set of these ages ago to mold greenstuff and they work wonders. Dirt cheap at $10 for the whole pack, case included.  

[Death Sharpie]

Units you say?

I may finally pick up that Calvary unit I have been eyeing for Warmachine for this.  

[DarkElf27]

Death Sharpie

Units you say?

I may finally pick up that Calvary unit I have been eyeing for Warmachine for this.

Go for it! smile