No idea how you paint with everything based up - each to their own though!
Commissar is looking lovely, the silky highlights on the coat work really well....looking forward to seeing this come together.
As a note, (and you are way more experience in competitions than me, so take with a pinch of salt) my duel at the Vigilus GD crashed and burned because it was effectively just two minis pointing guns at each other....the feedback from judges was that irrespective of painting skill, there needed to be visible contact or the effect of visible contact (recoil, blast etc) occuring somewhere for it to have stood more chance of placing.