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2012/03/09 06:12:10
Subject: Dakka Painting Challenge: 'Welcome to Thunderdome' Voting Poll - Winners announced on pg4!
Welcome to Thunderdome. We have 14 awesome entries this time around. Now it's crunch time. Time for you to decide our winner.
If you want to refresh yourself about what the theme of the Painting Challenge was, you can re-read all about it here.
Public Voting lasts for 5 days. You can vote for all your favorite entries. Vote for as many or as few entries as you like!
The winner will then be announced a few days later, chosen from amongst the top 5 entries by a hand-picked panel of Dakka Painting Challenge judges.
All submissions are presented anonymously, so that no favorites can be played (so please do not post which image is yours, or you will be disqualified).
Remember that you can click on any of these images to get a better view of them (and zoom) in the dakka gallery.
You can vote for all your favorite entries. Vote for as many or as few entries as you like!
#7 is sort of a bummer, in that the display looks pretty cool, but because the photo is so dark, it is very difficult to make out the details.
I don't know if LEDs were used in the construction of the scene - that's what it looks like - but in my opinion they, or the lighting used, don't actually add anything to the diorama, and the entire thing would be better off with normal lighting and the absence of the LEDs / green hue. An otherwise really cool looking entry has been hindered by a poor light source.
2012/03/09 09:32:43
Subject: Dakka Painting Challenge: 'Welcome to Thunderdome' Public Voting Poll.
Flu wrote:#7 is sort of a bummer, in that the display looks pretty cool, but because the photo is so dark, it is very difficult to make out the details.
I don't know if LEDs were used in the construction of the scene - that's what it looks like - but in my opinion they, or the lighting used, don't actually add anything to the diorama, and the entire thing would be better off with normal lighting and the absence of the LEDs / green hue. An otherwise really cool looking entry has been hindered by a poor light source.
I think you're talking about #6? Number 7 is the one with the thunderhammers.
Violence is not the answer, but it's always a good guess.
2012/03/09 10:26:00
Subject: Dakka Painting Challenge: 'Welcome to Thunderdome' Public Voting Poll.
Some really good entries ruined by some really poor photography
Veteran Sergeant wrote:Oh wait. His fluff, at this point, has him coming to blows with Lionel, Angryon, Magnus, and The Emprah. One can only assume he went into the Eye of Terror because he still hadn't had a chance to punch enough Primarchs yet.
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Marshal2Crusaders wrote:Good thing it wasn't attacked by the EC, or it would be the assault on Magnir's Crack.
2012/03/09 17:21:32
Subject: Dakka Painting Challenge: 'Welcome to Thunderdome' Public Voting Poll.
I'm having trouble wrappIng my head around the resolution limitation of the submissions. What was the point of limiting the images to 1000x800 if the preview pics are all framed the same size and then we're given the option to click the image to zoom in for a more detailed view? I would have preferred submitting a much higher resolution image so the zoom in preview showed more detail, especially since so much detail is lost when creating the montage images. Just curious as to the reasoning.
2012/03/10 01:41:08
Subject: Re:Dakka Painting Challenge: 'Welcome to Thunderdome' Public Voting Poll.
heavybolter wrote:I'm having trouble wrappIng my head around the resolution limitation of the submissions. What was the point of limiting the images to 1000x800 if the preview pics are all framed the same size and then we're given the option to click the image to zoom in for a more detailed view? I would have preferred submitting a much higher resolution image so the zoom in preview showed more detail, especially since so much detail is lost when creating the montage images. Just curious as to the reasoning.
I think it's because of the programming of the Dakka Gallery page viewer thingamajig (let's call it DGPVT). Notice that you can't zoom in on the ones arranged vertically (7 and 13) but the ones arranged horizontally when displayed on the page are just slightly smaller than their actual size (800 x 640 as opposed to 1000x 800) so the DGPVT interprets it as something you can zoom into, but it makes it also possible to zoom into it much more closer although they're not meant to be viewed that upclose since, well, resolution and pixels and all.
That's my theory.
2012/03/10 12:16:44
Subject: Dakka Painting Challenge: 'Welcome to Thunderdome' Public Voting Poll.
Some of these might be potentially good but, alas, can't see how good they are due to not-so stellar photography and montage. Entry 11 looks good but with the montage and photography, I'm not sure what is happening. I also don't think it's necessary to put the top view of the models/diorama.
3 and 5 are painted well, I'd say. 6 might be well-painted too, but you can't see it because of the LED lighting effects. Sure it looks extremely cool, but it defeats the purpose of a painting competition if you don't see the paint job.
SlaveToDorkness wrote:
I'm curious why #7 is Templar on Templar though.
Might be betrayal... title might be a Star Wars reference of Obi-Wan versus Anakin so it implies two supposed allies duking it out because the one betrayed the other.
It can also be ritualistic combat, with the queen statue as judge. Or practice, maybe?
My money is on that the one who made this just opened a box of assault termies and he/she doesn't have fresh new models to use aside from those
Violence is not the answer, but it's always a good guess.
2012/03/10 19:01:53
Subject: Dakka Painting Challenge: 'Welcome to Thunderdome' Public Voting Poll.
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2012/03/10 23:39:05
Subject: Re:Dakka Painting Challenge: 'Welcome to Thunderdome' Public Voting Poll.
Initially I was going to abstain fromvoting (I caught myself analysing and deconstructing the combats, and felt that many of these were poorly thought out)
Then I saw superman. Obviously my vote went to that, and it encouraged me to vote on a few others.
i guess it might bear worth mentioning that i assessed my vote on novelty, execution, and feel.
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2012/03/11 14:05:49
Subject: Dakka Painting Challenge: 'Welcome to Thunderdome' Public Voting Poll.
hm, I am a bit dissapointed with how the votes are headed... ah well, to each their own.
15 successful trades as a buyer;
16 successful trades as a seller;
To glimpse the future, you must look to the past and understand it. Names may change, but human behavior repeats itself. Prophetic insight is nothing more than profound hindsight.
It doesn't matter how bloody far the apple falls from the tree. If the apple fell off of a Granny Smith, that apple is going to grow into a Granny bloody Smith. The only difference is whether that apple grows in the shade of the tree it fell from.
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One can only assume he went into the Eye of Terror because he still hadn't had a chance to punch enough Primarchs yet. 
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