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This Dakka Challenge is a bit different than ones we've run before. Instead of challenging you all to convert or paint a specific model based on a theme, we're looking to promote this relatively new Dakka forum: The Painting and Modeling Tutorials forum.


THE GOAL:
We want you to create and post the very best modeling, painting or hobby tutorial you can come up with anytime during the month of May into the Dakka Painting and Modeling Tutorials forum (this one). That way, not only does everyone gain new and interesting hobby insights and techniques from each other, but we also help to get even more people interested in posting and reading this (relatively) new Dakka forum. And of course there's a pretty sizeable prize up for grabs as well!

In other words, get your teach on and win a prize for doing it!





THE RULES:

1) Your Tutorial thread must be posted in the Dakka Painting and Modeling Tutorials forum (this one) during the month of May.

2) All of the tutorial content (text, images, videos, etc) must have been created by you and may not have already been displayed as a tutorial elsewhere on Dakka or any other website. Tutorials found to have been posted elsewhere or that contain someone else's work will be disqualified.

3) The tutorial must actually be a tutorial about something pertaining to the wargaming hobby. It must include pictures and text explaining the different steps, and it must have different steps; just posting a beginning and ending picture of a model won't cut it!

4) All photos used for the tutorial MUST be hosted by Dakka (we don't want 'em disappearing a few months down the road). This can be most easily accomplished by uploading your photos to the Dakka Gallery. If you need any assistance uploading your pictures to Dakka (or how to link to your photos once you've uploaded them), feel free to post your questions in the Nuts & Bolts forum.

5) The day (or so) after the deadline, a thread will be created listing all of the qualifying tutorial threads along with a public poll for the community at large to pick their favorite tutorial from the bunch.

6) Public voting will last for 4 Days. At the end of which, the top five tutorials with the most votes in the poll are the finalists.

7) From the five finalists, a winner will be selected by a panel of judges. Judges will be selected by the site's administrator (me).

8) Any (and all!) tutorials posted in May will be eligible, so feel free to post as many tutorials as you want. However, in order to ensure that all five finalist positions don't get filled by a single talented individual, only one tutorial per user will be admitted into the 'final five' for consideration by the judges. If you enter multiple tutorials that all get enough public votes to be in the top 5, only your top vote-getting tutorial will be included in the finals.

9) Admin and Mod participants can't become finalists or win the prize, but don't let that keep you from voting for them! Defeating one another is more than enough of a reward for us...

THE DEADLINE:
In order to qualify, all tutorial threads posted must follow the rules above and must be posted anytime during the month of MAY 2009.


THE PRIZE:
The prize for this challenge is our biggest yet! It is £130 (GBP) in-store credit plus free world-wide shipping with one of Dakka's fantastic partners, WaylandGames.co.uk. That's nearly $190 in US currency worth of product!!!

A tremendously huge THANK YOU has to go out to Dakka user the sponsors for this challenge, both WaylandGames.co.uk and Dakka user LBursley, who not only came up with the idea for this contest (just because he wants to see what amazing tutorials people can create) but also put up a tremendous amount of his own money as part of the prize!




If you have any questions regarding this contest, feel free to send an email to mekboychallenge@dakkadakka.com or just post the question in this thread.

Good luck with your tutorials!!!

We <3 Waylandgames!

LunaHound wrote:

We <3 Waylandgames!

agreed.

I am going to try and get one up in the not too distant future (finals are over on Monday, so that frees up a lot of time).

Yakface, What if you posted a completed model, but did not do a picture by picture tutorial would that be ok?

Chaplain Pallantide wrote:Yakface, What if you posted a completed model, but did not do a picture by picture tutorial would that be ok?

That would be acceptable as long as you already haven't done any kind of tutorial for it already.

Count me in.

Wonderful! I was already planning to do some modeling tutorials to help get the new forum flowing, this contest is icing on the cake!

Also, Yakface:

Are we limited to one, or can we enter multiple tutorial threads?

Being that I'm about to start painting another unit, now might be a good time to make a tutorial.

nice i could use some painting tutorials the 1 hour tutorial at out hobby-store was too short thanks yakface for coming up with this and thanks to the sponsors.

Man, now all I have to do is figure out if anything I can do is worth making a tutorial about.

Elnicko5 wrote:Man, now all I have to do is figure out if anything I can do is worth making a tutorial about.

Ask poeple what they have the most trouble with with a poll or something.

Enter as often as you like or just one entry per person?

Noooo! i have so many tutorials ready to post, just waiting for the photographs.
why camera? WHY WONT YOU TURN ON

Wait what I have to help people this is unreasonable,well not really but I have nothing to make a tutorial on.

Good Luck everyone! I hope we can fill that tutorials section.

I have never done a tutorial before but I am really going to try for this contest. I am also making a request for a tutorial. Since it seems to me that many Eldar builds are including seer councils on jetbikes I would like to see a detailed tutorial on creating a seer council on jetbikes. I know it has been done but a tutorial on this subject for this contest is sure to be very detailed and well done. I could really use one like that!

Teek wrote:Also, Yakface:

Are we limited to one, or can we enter multiple tutorial threads?

realgenius wrote:Enter as often as you like or just one entry per person?

The contest applies to any (and all) tutorials posted in the month of May so if you post multiple entries they'll all be voted upon.

However, as we don't really want the five finalist positions to be completely dominated by one (very talented) person I guess I'll go ahead and say that only your top public vote getting tutorial will be eligible for the final five places to be voted on by the judges (I'll add this to the rules).


So yes, you can have multiple entries but of those only your top public vote getter will be eligible for the final 5.

Awesome, thanks boss!

So many options... so little time (hah!). This is an outstanding idea. There's some extremely talented and imaginative folks on this forum and I can't wait to see what springs up!

corpsesarefun wrote:Noooo! i have so many tutorials ready to post, just waiting for the photographs.
why camera? WHY WONT YOU TURN ON

Try dinner and a movie first.

This sounds pretty cool. And I already have an idea what to make a tutorial about

Dammit, I posted mine just a couple of days early.

crap.... i just posted a tutorial on how to build a display base in the modeling and painting section... i posted it on may 1st (might have been the 2nd... it was around midnight)...



maybe you lets me enter it

I'll come up with something

Are we allowed to 'group' tutorials? As in, I have two conversions for weapons, but instead of posting 2 seperate tutorials, can I post it under one thread 'Lasgun Conversions'?

Edit: nevermind, I've already done it.

lalabox wrote:Dammit, I posted mine just a couple of days early.

Sorry! We have to start somewhere.

Envy89 wrote:crap.... i just posted a tutorial on how to build a display base in the modeling and painting section... i posted it on may 1st (might have been the 2nd... it was around midnight)...

Yep, if it's the display base tutorial it shows up as being posted on May 1st, so it looks good to go.

lalabox wrote:Are we allowed to 'group' tutorials? As in, I have two conversions for weapons, but instead of posting 2 seperate tutorials, can I post it under one thread 'Lasgun Conversions'?

Edit: nevermind, I've already done it.

Sure!

This sounds like a cool contest. Not only a thanks to waylandgames but an even bigger thanks to LBursley for coughing up your own cash. Thats dedication to a hobby

Cool, thanks.

No problem!As a painter I believe knowledge is power. I'm always in search of tutorials on pretty much anything so when something comes up, from basing to stripping models I'll know what works best. I want dakka to be a 'one stop shop' so to speak. Personally I have 40+ bookmarks to different tutorials, on different sites and forums and it's would be nice to reduce that number.

I think this is a great time for seasoned painters to showcase beginner friendly advance techniques. TELL US YOUR SECRETS! lol