Originally posted by Elly3438
What category did Dylan win with? I hope there\'s some piccies tomorrow
after five hours driving I am not quite sane, but if memory serves me right (I am sure it doesn\'t)
Dylan got the sword for the Fantasy regiment, he also won (don\'t remember colors) Fantasy monster (I think silver), 40k large (bronze?), Fantasy single (Silver?) and LOTR (that being gold)
Bennett took open silver.
Jessica Rich took fantasy single (bronze) and 40k large (silver).
Aaron Lovejoy got I believe 3 demons (Fantasy, single, 40k large and bronze in LOTR) and FW best of show for his gorgeous avatar (also gold in 40K large)
I took 40k vehicle for that old green wave serpent that now had base and apparently conformed
. http://www.coolminiornot.com/161852
BTW, I just realize that this is a WIP photo with all gems still unpainted
My personal thanks for this to Aaron who, about 2 days before the event convinced me to enter this model.
David Taylor, I believe took 3 demons, one being 40k vehicle, and, I think 40k squad.
Andrew Cromwell took gold for Fantasy monster
Youngblood was taken by our own Carmelo
who, in my opinion, was far ahead of the rest of the pack.
Another New Yorker, Ensel Elgort ,who got youngblood bronze last year, took Gold in Large category with his FW spacewolf bust.
He also got HM for his LOTR miniature
Couple of generals things. 1) A lot of entries, many very high quality entries. Competition was very serious
2) Light was as bad as usually
3) Judging was shall I say interesting.... with a very strong bias toward dark brooding miniatures. In my very personal opinion this time specific taste and preferences of these judges weighted in a lot, possibly more then on average.
4) Organization of judging was somewhat chaotic with sudden category shifts after preliminary placements and things like this. If people affected want to elaborate I leave it up to them.
5) Very few HMs, some categories I don\'t think had any (fantasy single for example)
Finally, my personal favorites didn\'t get anything at all.
Those will be:
a) Jessica\'s fully sculpted orkish girl (HM in open). Very funny piece
b) Bretonian regiment in Fantasy regiment. I don\'t understand what was the deal with this entry. It looked very good from my perspective, but again judges were very much incline to award very dark miniatures. These bretonians very apparently too bright for their taste.
c) Striking scorpion Wraith lord and some rather interesting looking scaven. I suspect I know who is the authors of both of these models since they had very distinct style but I am not sure, so don\'t want to miss-attribute them. Both very either fully sculpted or very extensively converted and both, I am afraid, were too bright.
I have nothing to compare with but I think Demon Lounge was pretty successful. Lots of hanging out and all participants were showing his past miniature. I found several rather surprising things. For example Todd\'s miniatures are not nearly as bright as on WD photographs.
Ok on this note I think I will crawl and try to sleep
