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**Camkierhi**

One of the most amazing models I have ever seen. Truly beautiful piece of art. DrH. Simply brilliant.

**inmygravenimage**

Once again, the standard is seriously impressive!

**Camkierhi**

My entry Finished.

I present to you "The Watchtower".

This project was made from a CD for the base and the box and left over sprue, from one box Catachan Jungle Fighters. The idea being If you are a new gamer this may be all the scrap you have. And with your first box of troops, you can build a piece of scenery also. There are some tutorials on my blog as to how I did this.

I leave you with my humble efforts.

Spoiler:

Thank you for the competition and good luck to everyone.

**Ramos Asura**

Wow that looks awesome. Good work.
And H- GodDAMN thats an amazing piece!
So many incredible entries... competition is gonna be fierce!!

Whats due date on this? like a week or somethin?

**Briancj**

Hard stop due date: August 18th.

And, yes, entries submitted after midnight will be DQ'd. I'm a stickler.

Don't wait until 11:59:59 to push that submit button!

I will announce the winners on the 23rd of August, to give me time to recuperate from Gencon.

**Theophony**

Just for clarity, midnight what time zone?

**dsteingass**

EST..you know..American time

**Theophony**

dsteingass wrote:
EST..you know..American time

It's not true American time if its not central time zone though

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**Camkierhi**

Ah not true time then................GMT.

**Solar_lion**

Impressive work one and all!

**MauS**

Briancj wrote:
I saw it, Casey, thank you.

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Okay, a touch of semi-bad news here. After consulting with my guest judges, and spending a few days thinking about it, I have made a decision:

Contests are supposed to be fun for the people who enter AND the person running the contest. I realized that I am not happy with people using the same entry in my contest and the other contest. So, my choice is to either require unique entries, or assess a score penalty on people who are submitting to more than one contest.

I have come down on the side of requesting that people submit unique entries.

As such, I will be pushing the contest deadline back to August 18th, which should give folks who want to make an entry for both contests plenty of time.

I apologize if this seems harsh, but I have to do what my gut, heart (and a smidgen of my ego, yes tells me to.

--B.

Okies... back to the drawingboard...

**Casey's Law**

Great job, Cam!

I'm on route to getting this in on time, lots of progress cued up for today. Covering the building frame and begin detailing tonight, detailing and begin painting tomorrow. Back on track! Thanks again Brian, the theme is really getting my juices flowing, I'm really feeling the moral to this story. I put a little update on my blog yesterday, another one later today which I'll repost here.

**MauS**

I regretfully withdraw from the contest Brian. I will not be able to do another piece for this contest, and with the new rule i'll just concentrate on one contest, so as to at least have a little bit of a chance...

Nice work so far here though, keep it up guys

**Briancj**

No problem, MauS.

**Dr H**

Sad to see someone drop out (even if it does increase our odds of winning something).

As a further for my entry, I've posted the first part of my tutorial of how to build a wooden hut from (mostly) sprue.
http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/545398.page#5935106

It will get updated over the coming days, not least with the painting instructions.

**dsteingass**

Is this is Brian?

**Briancj**

Today, I bought a pallet jack. A real one.

**Solar_lion**

not something that one would normally purchase?

Moving?

**Insane Smile**

I wish I joined this competition, cause those prizes sound awesome!

**Briancj**

You have five days left. Totally enough time.

**Casey's Law**

Briancj wrote:
You have five days left. Totally enough time.

I'm only stopping to wipe the sweat from my brow.

Nah I'm sure I'm going to make it although I did intend to finish much earlier.

**Solar_lion**

Brian.. the 18th at midnight - correct?

**Fango**

Hmm, just found out about this contest...too late to enter?

**Insane Smile**

Briancj wrote:
You have five days left. Totally enough time.

But between school and my awful painting skills, unfortunately it most likely won't happen.

**Camkierhi**

Did mine in 16 hours. Spread over 3 days, come on guys show us what your made of.

**Ramos Asura**

So while I hunt for someone around me that carries VMA paints, I'm left with time to mess with my entry.

It works out rather well, as I am a bit of a pack rat, ahd I have an entire drawer filled with junk!

In particular, I was inspired by an old gooseneck lamp and the can of mountain Dew i was drinking at the time.

Cut to a few hours of hacksawing later, and the junk drawer has produced the beginnings of an odd little refinery or something

Thus far, I have used 100% recycled bits and pieces.
The wood base was a botched cut for a flyer base, then theres a paint pot, the gooseneck lamp, some wierd plastic pieces from who knows where, and a spray paint lid!

**Solar_lion**

GO GO Gadget Ramos!

**Dr H**

Nice use of parts Ramos.

Definitely going to keep my eye out for disused lamp stands like that, ideal for something I plan to make in the future...

**Ruglud**

Excellent use of old tat Ramos - as Bob the Builder says: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

**Ramos Asura**

And we have a finished build!

Rather pleased with the result, as I've not only managed this very quickly, but also avoided any usage of my normal hobby supplies, ie plasticard.

The railing is part of a salvaged WW2 boat model I had built almost 10 years ago- It was in bad repair, and I had dismantled it for parts months ago. From there it was to the Drawer of the Damned, where junk can find no escape!

Additions to the list of recycled bits are parts of a metal cookie tin, some red plastic tube from an old kite, junk scraps of expanded aluminum mesh, 2 pens, a bottle cap, a half-dried tube of squadron green putty, staples, an ancient pen-sized digital camera, an in-store display ad from Walmart (almost plasticard, but RECYCLED!), and finally a good healthy dose of sand from our backyard sandbox!