| Painting Competition: September-October 2013; ENTRY Thread - Deadline Extended! | |
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| Olorin the Ancient | 6th September 2013 - 01:05 AM Post #1 |
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September-October 2013 Painting Competition Entry Thread Category: Mind the Gap CATEGORY INFORMATION Fill in one of the gaps in Games Workshop's Skaven product line by converting a model or models to meet WYSIWYG requirements. For instance, you could convert a Warlock Engineer to be wielding a Doomrocket or a Death Globe (both of which are considered magical weapons, and should therefore be depicted), or make a unit of the ever-popular (but not commercially available) Gutter Runners with Poisoned Slings. The initial image or image montage must show your converted model or unit fully painted and based; if possible, please submit a second image or montage of your model or models in their unpainted and unprimed state, to show your conversion work. ENTRY RULES - Each entry shall consist of a photo or photo montage of models built and painted specifically for this painting competition. There must be no images of an entry on this site or anywhere on the web, so that the competition may remain anonymous. (We all wish to be judged by our work, rather than by who we are. Asking voters to select their favorite models without knowing who created them is a step towards achieving that goal.) - If you have already painted a unit or models that fit this category, which are therefore ineligible, you may post photos instead to the OUTSIDE THE COMPETITION Thread. You are free to do this even if you then enter newly-painted and unposted models in the competition. - The image or photo montage for each entry is to be hosted on either a Photobucket or Flickr account. Please use one of these two free services: they both work. - We will only post one image of the completed model or models per entry, but that image can be a photo montage rather than a single photograph. You can do a search for "create photo montage free" to learn how to make a photo montage of your images. - We may post a second image file or photo montage of your model in its original unprimed state. Simple kit-bashes of grey plastic parts don't really show up well, but where different materials are involved (plasticard, metal rods, green stuff, etc.), those photos can be invaluable to let people know what part of the model was created by Games Workshop, and what part was created by you. - Here is a thread on the Warseer website with tips from other hobbyists on how to take good photos of your miniatures. - Please keep the images to a maximum width of 890. Plan on a height of no more than 600 if you want your image to fit on screen at a resolution of 1268 x 780 without people having to scroll down. Scrolling down is not as bad as scrolling sideways, particularly for a photo montage, but a single entry should not take up more than two screens. Therefore, the maximum allowable height for an image is 1200. So consider 900 x 1200 to be the largest image you can submit for this competition. We may resize images that do not comply. Giant Scrolling Pictures of Doom are no fun! - Don't be too small, either. People don't vote for models that they can't see. If your entire image or photo montage is less than 600 wide or 300 high, you should probably enlarge it. Compose your images carefully, and crop them appropriately, so that there is nothing cut off, but also no extraneous white space. We should be able to see your entire unit in one single shot, with additional shots, if used, showing us other angles or individual models. - People are not judging your models, they are judging your photographs of your models. Therefore, it would be helpful for you to know something about photography. Get a tripod, use the macro setting on your digital camera and use a slow shutter speed if possible. Look at the critiques of photos made in the voting threads for earlier competitions. Blurry entries always lose, regardless of the skill of the painter. Having more megapixels on your camera isn't the solution when it comes to images on screen. A cheap but decent digital camera will take better pictures of miniatures than the most advanced phone. Remember, nobody here can see your model: we can only see the images you send us. It makes no difference how good your painting skills are, unless the quality shows up on the computer screen. - Please don't put your name on the image, as entries are supposed to be anonymous! The image won't be used if it has your name on it. - Every entry needs a title. Please include a caption in your PM so we can label your entry properly when the voting thread goes up. - To enter, please send your image fitting the category via PM to both Olorin the Ancient and Skrits. If you only send it to one of us, your image may not appear in the competition if the one person you sent it to goes on vacation. If we haven't acknowledged your submission after several days, we probably haven't received it; send it again. - There is a maximum of 15 entries per month, as that's how many options we are allowed to include in a poll. The first fifteen entries which meet all the requirements will make it into the competition; first come, first served. If you are the sixteenth person to send in a valid entry, you won't get in. However, if your entry is completed and you see that the competition appears to be full, you might as well make your submission anyway, since it's always possible that one of the earlier entrants will be disqualified and a slot will open up. - You may send in your entries up until October 31, 2013. - In the early morning of November 1, 2013, entry will close, and we will open a poll with all the images received so voting can begin. Please note that anyone with Slave status (less than 25 posts) will not be able to vote in the poll. See here for details. - The voting may begin earlier if we receive all fifteen entries before the 24th, or later if we don't get enough entries in time. - Voting will end on November 8, 2013. - It goes without saying that the models whose photos you submit must be entirely your own work, though you may get others to take and edit the photographs, if you wish. Submitting other people's work as you own will get you banned. - See here for a list of all the painting competitions for the year. --- Number of Entries received so far - 3/15 We will try to update this tally as entries are received, so that you will know how many places are still available. This is also the thread for competition discussion. Good luck! --- PRIZE The top three entries gain a place in the Painting Competition Gallery of Fame, which showcases the first, second and third place-winning models for all of our competitions. Entering the competition will earn you a point towards your painting rank system (P.R.S.) total, whether you place in the top three or not! The first three places will also earn additional P.R.S. points as follows: 1st Place - 5 points 2nd Place - 3 points 3rd place - 2 points --- LAST COMPETITION Category: The Elite and the Standard Winner: Rageaholic, Stormvermin with Razor Standard Edited by Olorin the Ancient, 28th October 2013 - 10:08 AM.
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| Nurglitch IX | 6th September 2013 - 10:24 PM Post #2 |
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So just to clarify, this competition is "ANY MODEL FOR WHICH AN OFFICIAL MODEL HAS NEVER BEEN RELEASED." Which includes WYSIWYG Magical Item Heroes and Lords. So -- in or out? Warlord with Fell Blade Priest on Pox Rat Battle Standard Bearer (there used to be one, but it's OOP) Poisoned Wind Bombardier with Death Globe Poisoned Wind Globadiers, inc. Bombardier with Death Globe |
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| Olorin the Ancient | 7th September 2013 - 07:54 AM Post #3 |
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We didn't say "never been released": it's enough that the model isn't available now. However, we are looking for true conversions, not just "counts as". So if you were to dig up the Plaguelord Nurglitch on Pox Rat model from the Lustria campaign (recently deleted from the GW catalog, but still available on eBay), paint him up, and call him a Plague Priest on Pox Rat, that wouldn't be right for this competition, even though it's probably the best and simplest way to get a Plague Priest on Pox Rat. Similarly, for the purposes of this contest, a Poisoned Wind Bombardier with Death Globe can't just be a normal Globadier that's stuck on a rock and has a different arm position: you would need to model the Death Globe to make it look different than a normal Poisoned Wind Globe. We're not saying that this has to be a huge conversion--for instance, we mentioned Gutter Runners with Poisoned Slings as a possibility, and those are not hard to make--but we do want some conversion to make a game-legal model that isn't currently available. If you have questions about whether something will be legal, you can always ask about it privately. |
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| Olorin the Ancient | 24th October 2013 - 10:13 PM Post #4 |
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So far, we only have two entries. Therefore, we've decided to extend the deadline by one week, until October 31. The voting will therefore begin on November 1, and continue until November 8. If there's a conversion that you wanted to do that would fit this category, now is the time to do it! |
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| Olorin the Ancient | 28th October 2013 - 10:10 AM Post #5 |
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We now have our third entry, so the voting will definitely begin this Friday, November 1. If you want to submit an entry, you only have a few days left. |
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| Host Tar | 31st October 2013 - 06:20 PM Post #6 |
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damn shame i posted those gutter runners for the weeklong painting thread ;( |
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