Brittany Open painting competition

[Naoned]

Hi everybody,

last week-end our painting club organised our 4th edition painting contest \"Open de Bretagne de la Figurine\", near Nantes in France.
There are 512 miniatures (fantaisy, historical) in competition in 6 categories:
Juniors (-16 years)
Beguinners
Confimed painting
Confirmed creation/transformation
Masters painting
Masters creation/transformation

About 850 others miniatures were exposed.
The invite honnor was Allan Carrasco.

Here a pictures gallery of the competition hall:
http://picasaweb.google.fr/Chevaliers.du.Centaure/Ambiance

Here the differents gallerys from the competition:


JUNIORS:
http://picasaweb.google.fr/Chevaliers.du.Centaure/Juniors

BEGUINNERS:
http://picasaweb.google.fr/Chevaliers.du.Centaure/NOVICES

CONFIRMED PAINTING:
http://picasaweb.google.fr/Chevaliers.du.Centaure/CONFIRMESPeinture

CONFIRMED TRANSFO:
http://picasaweb.google.fr/Chevaliers.du.Centaure/CONFIRMESTransfo

MASTERS PAINTING:
http://picasaweb.google.fr/Chevaliers.du.Centaure/MASTERSPeinture

MASTERS TRANSFO:
http://picasaweb.google.fr/Chevaliers.du.Centaure/MASTERSTransfo


The results:
http://picasaweb.google.fr/Chevaliers.du.Centaure/Palmares


Others good pictures on the AFM Monrouge painting club:
http://www.afm-montrouge.com/27-reportage-Couëron%202007.htm?PHPSESSID=5dc8c16863431dc0b73796721dbe4ee7


Best of show :beer: : painted by Daniel Ipperti ( http://perso.orange.fr/maquette-et-figurine/index.htm )

 

[Roger Bunting]

Congratulations to everyone involved. There are some superb figures there. Bravo!

 

[Naoned]

others pictures, here:

http://haekel.free.fr/article.php3?id_article=99

Jérôme OTREMBA ( http://jeromeotremba.over-blog.com/ ) wins the Hell Dorado ( http://www.helldorado.fr/index.php ) Trophy, a miniature painted by Thomas David.

Jérôme\'s miniature:

He wins this mini:

 

[AinuLainour]

Very cool, thanks for those links.

 

[Naoned]

others pictures at the Nice painting club web site:

http://www.chevaliers-baie-des-anges.com/index-2007-Coueron.php

 

[Naoned]

and the video is available at the Figurines-TV web site:

http://www.figurines-tv.com/kws/index.php?mod=articles&ac=commentaires&id=51

Enjoy! :drunk:

 

[Naoned]

Others pictures at the Lugdunum painting club web site.

Miniatures gallery:
http://www.lugdunum-figurines.com/reportages/2007/Open%20de%20Bretagne%202007/Galerie/index.html

and the atmosphere of this convention:
http://www.lugdunum-figurines.com/reportages/2007/Open%20de%20Bretagne%202007/Ambiance/index.html

 

[squidders]

Can\'t believe I missed this entirely!

My parents live in Mellionnec which is only about 2 hours away... definately going to next years!

 

[Orb]

I missed this thread.....

I was speaking today to an English guy who had travelled to France and attended this show....

He couldn\'t speak more highly of a great weekend and superb hospitality and so many figures.....both fantasy and historical!!

Well the French sure know how to do a good show!

great minis, great looking show

 

[Naoned]

Message original : Orb
I missed this thread.....

I was speaking today to an English guy who had travelled to France and attended this show....

He couldn\'t speak more highly of a great weekend and superb hospitality and so many figures.....both fantasy and historical!!

Yes 2 people from England have taken part to this contest. They came from Lowestoft (Suffolk). One of them won a bronze medal in the confirmed painting category. :beer:

 

[Orb]

Hey Yes! That\'s Mark from Lowestoft.....I\'m from there originally......moved since, but I heard it was a superb weekend