Frustrated Father
New member
I have been wanting to do a \'fun\' painting contest for some time now and with the opening of the Wyrd Games website, there is no better time than now.
Since this is \'my\' contest I\'m going to go ahead and make it a bit of interest to me and hopefully to rest of you as well. I will pick one miniature that I like and that hasn\'t been done to death with paint and conversions on all the major forums and miniature voting sites and it will then be up to you to acquire, paint, base and convert as you so desire, as long as the majority of the miniature remains recognizable in one form or another.
So lets get to the meat and bones of this.
The contest will run six weeks, from March 25th to May 6th. This time frame should allow all participants time to pick up their miniature, work their magic and submit it. Conversions are allowed and encouraged! There of course will be prizes and should this prove to be successful, additional contests will be planned throughout the year.
The miniature for the first contest will be the \'02890 WERESHARK from the Dark Heaven Legends Line of REAPER Miniatures\'. This is a fairly new release from Reaper Miniatures and one that has quite a bit of potential when given the treatment with the right brushes.
You can enter as many times as you wish, and all entries will be displayed upon the Wyrd Games website anonymously while the contest and the voting are in progress, after which identities will be revealed.
Your entries CANNOT have previously been showcased in any forum, miniature voting community or website and there will be no individual advertising of miniatures so that you can get a leg up on the competition. If you are found to have violated these rules, your entry will be pulled from the competition. After the contest is completed and the winner is announced, you will be free to showcase you work as is your proper due!
Voting will be by the public, not just myself, and will consist of an e-mail sent directly to me with your votes and comments. The person that receives the most votes wins in their category.
What do you win you may ask? Miniatures and swag of course!
Reaper Miniatures (the top U.S. miniature manufacturing company) is graciously providing the prizes for this contest which I will divide up and post to the winners. Free SWAG, you\'ve gotta love that!
The categories for voting and prizes will be:
BEST OF SHOW
BEST BASE/DIORAMA
SOME RANDOM SCHMUCK GETS A PRIZE!
I of course will be joining the painting contest quietly and anonymously as well for the fun of it, but if for some reason I actually manage to win (not likely with the paint gods out there) the prizes will be given to the next runner up.
If you have any questions or comments, feel free to drop me an e-mail or leave a note on one of the many forums I frequent and I will do my utmost to reply in a timely manner. You can find all the details of the contest at WWW.WYRD-GAMES.NET or follow the link in the banner signature below.
As a side note for CMON\'ers in particular, if you are interested in ordering your miniature online, particularly if you are overseas and have a hard time finding Reaper Miniatures, Tracy (TAB Studios) of the Hedge Wizards online store has offered to help as she has to put in an order for her own shark. Act quick so she can get it in one go!
Now get painting!
Since this is \'my\' contest I\'m going to go ahead and make it a bit of interest to me and hopefully to rest of you as well. I will pick one miniature that I like and that hasn\'t been done to death with paint and conversions on all the major forums and miniature voting sites and it will then be up to you to acquire, paint, base and convert as you so desire, as long as the majority of the miniature remains recognizable in one form or another.
So lets get to the meat and bones of this.
The contest will run six weeks, from March 25th to May 6th. This time frame should allow all participants time to pick up their miniature, work their magic and submit it. Conversions are allowed and encouraged! There of course will be prizes and should this prove to be successful, additional contests will be planned throughout the year.
The miniature for the first contest will be the \'02890 WERESHARK from the Dark Heaven Legends Line of REAPER Miniatures\'. This is a fairly new release from Reaper Miniatures and one that has quite a bit of potential when given the treatment with the right brushes.
You can enter as many times as you wish, and all entries will be displayed upon the Wyrd Games website anonymously while the contest and the voting are in progress, after which identities will be revealed.
Your entries CANNOT have previously been showcased in any forum, miniature voting community or website and there will be no individual advertising of miniatures so that you can get a leg up on the competition. If you are found to have violated these rules, your entry will be pulled from the competition. After the contest is completed and the winner is announced, you will be free to showcase you work as is your proper due!
Voting will be by the public, not just myself, and will consist of an e-mail sent directly to me with your votes and comments. The person that receives the most votes wins in their category.
What do you win you may ask? Miniatures and swag of course!
Reaper Miniatures (the top U.S. miniature manufacturing company) is graciously providing the prizes for this contest which I will divide up and post to the winners. Free SWAG, you\'ve gotta love that!
The categories for voting and prizes will be:
BEST OF SHOW
BEST BASE/DIORAMA
SOME RANDOM SCHMUCK GETS A PRIZE!
I of course will be joining the painting contest quietly and anonymously as well for the fun of it, but if for some reason I actually manage to win (not likely with the paint gods out there) the prizes will be given to the next runner up.
If you have any questions or comments, feel free to drop me an e-mail or leave a note on one of the many forums I frequent and I will do my utmost to reply in a timely manner. You can find all the details of the contest at WWW.WYRD-GAMES.NET or follow the link in the banner signature below.
As a side note for CMON\'ers in particular, if you are interested in ordering your miniature online, particularly if you are overseas and have a hard time finding Reaper Miniatures, Tracy (TAB Studios) of the Hedge Wizards online store has offered to help as she has to put in an order for her own shark. Act quick so she can get it in one go!
Now get painting!
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