Hello, and welcome to the 31st installment of the League of Extraordinary Riveters Terrain Competition!
This is a terrain competition, hopefully that’s self-evident from the title.
The League’s aim is to encourage fellow gamers, hobbyists and model-makers to up their game through building terrain for their tabletop, be it for wargames, board games, dioramas, whatever! Everyone participating is encouraged to use this thread to trade ideas, inspire eachother, and give feedback and encouragement.
Everyone is a winner in a League competition, because in the end, you have a brand-spankin’-new piece of terrain!
However, the first place winner wins another prize: They will be named a member of the League of Extraordinary Riveters, a group of dedicated artists and modellers who put a great amount of effort in having their work be extremely detailed (like, for example, causing a self-inflicted mental breakdown by gluing on thousands of rivets). Additionally, a small prize of terrain building supplies is up for grabs should the winner request it.
The first place winner will also pick the theme for the next round and become judge for that round. The winner of each round hosts the next round, and the cycle continues.
Each round has a “theme”, specific or vague, that must be applied in some way to your terrain project.
The competition is open to everyone registered on Dakka Dakka, and all are welcome regardless of skill, experience, ability, age, or any other attribute that may be used to divide hobbyists into clades.
The theme, limitations, rules, judging and prizes are the responsibility of the host, although he/she may get help from others if required.
For those returning to the competition, welcome back! For those competing for the first time, welcome!
If you haven’t taken part before, take a gander at the previous rounds below. There are a lot of very interesting projects contained in those threads, and are a wellspring of inspiration regardless of whether you’re competing or just checking out the thread. As noted above, the judge of each round was the winner of the previous with the exception of the first, set by one of the League’s founders dsteinglass.
Contest #1
"Lids" (dsteingass)
Contest #2
"Cookie Package” (Viktor Von Doom)
Contest #3
"Fightin' Pit!" (MrMerlin)
Contest #4
"For the title of Master Shrubber" (Meade)
Contest #5
"Vehicles!" (Bruticus)
Contest #6
"We're Not Worthy!" (Meade)
Contest #7
"Fire at Will" (hk1x1)
Contest #8
"Accomodation" (Camkierhi)
Contest #9
“Elementary" (Littletower)
Contest #10
"The Throne" (Camkierhi)
Contest #11
"On The Road" (Red Harvest)
Contest #12
"Wall me up, fence me in" (MonkeyTroll)
Contest #13
"What Went Wrong!" (OneManNoodles)
Contest #14
"Making something extraordinary from the ordinary" (Dr H)
Contest #15
"The Trapdoor" (inmygravenimage)
Contest #16
"Got Wood?" (Viktor Von Doom)
Contest #17
"The (re)cycle of Life" (Guildenstern)
Contest #18
"The Portal" (inmygravenimage)
Contest #19
"Let it Flow!" (Camkierhi)
Contest #20
"Noise Polution" (Tek Thornison)
Contest # 21
"CARD-inal Sins" (Camkierhi)
Contest # 22
"A Series of Tubes" (Cleatus)
Contest # 23
"Child's Play" (Z-Ray)
Contest #24
"Pimpin' Aint Easy" (Fango)
Contest # 25
"For the war effort" (Syro)
Contest # 26
"Hold the Line!" (Camkierhi)
Contest # 27
"Sweet like chocolate" (monkeytroll)
Contest # 28
"Name of the game" (Maniac_nmt)
Contest # 29
"Food for Thought !" (Camkierhi)
Contest # 30
“Double Entendre” (Thumpingbear)
So with that out of the way, on to this rounds theme!
Contest # 31: “A Drink to the New Decade”
To mark our new beginnings in a new decade and to keep in line with the common celebration of getting wasted on New Years, the theme of Round 31 is
to make a terrain piece using any container that once held a beverage. The theme, setting, size, etc. of the piece are all up to the builder’s discretion, as long as a beverage container is a major part of the construction. This includes using the container as a base to build things onto, cutting up a container to use its constituent parts, really anything as long as you use a beverage container somehow.
If you’d like clarification on the theme, please don’t hesitate to ask!
Please post your key starting material and Work-In-Progress (
WIP) pictures in this thread. This is a community contest, so share your creativity with the community! Your work can help inspire others, start discussions, or teach new techniques. Plus, I think we all enjoy watching the creative journey that we undertake as modellers!
All scales and all game systems are welcome. The size of your piece doesn’t matter, all will be judged equally. The League’s aim is for you to push yourself artistically and creatively.
As stated previously,
WIP pictures are important, so post lots in this thread. This lets everyone view and enjoy the process of your creation. Members of the LoER, contest participants, and the Dakka community as a whole love to help each other and give advice. A huge part of these competitions is to improve as a modeller and artist. Let people enjoy your
WIPs and give suggestions to help you make your piece even more amazing. Constant updates from all of us will also keep this contest easier to find in the forums, which will allow more people to come and enjoy everyones work, and get more people excited about joining in. Plus, if more people join, you’ll be even more proud if you win against 20 competitors rather than 2!
When your piece is finished, please DO NOT post your final pictures in this thread. Please
PM your final pictures to me for judging (the easiest way is simply a link to your gallery with the images in it). Feel free to post your final pictures in your own P&M blog if you have one though. Additionally, you can send a brief description of your piece if desired.
Try to take good pictures, because if no one can see how good your piece is, how will we know? Don’t do yourself a disservice by putting lots of effort into your terrain and having subpar pictures that don’t translate your effort. Use this as a good excuse to improve your picture taking – my photos for the last round were the first I’ve ever taken of miniature photography, it was a bit of a nightmare but I learned a lot from it.
If in doubt, ask for help! There are guides and articles here on Dakka, the wider wargaming community, and people here are generally willing to give advice – if we help others take better pictures, we can better see what they’re producing! Lighting, focus, and cropping are the 3 major things to think on.
Guidelines:
1. Talk about the competition. Make as many people know as you can. If you have a P&M blog, it's great to mention it there. I think it's a good idea to post you
WIPs in your P&M blog as well as here, it gets your post count up faster, and will encourage the visitors of your blog to check out this competition. The more the merrier, and the flow of ideas, critiques and general banter increases exponentially as the number of entrants increases.
One of the best things you can do, is put the League terrain competition banner in your signature:
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change all the "{" to "["
It should look and work like this one:
2. Deadline for the contest will be March 31st 2020 at 23:59pm GMT. If more time is needed (within reason), please ask for an extension.
3. Scratch-builds, heavy conversions and their like are the order of the day
4. Your model should be a piece of terrain, or a diorama that includes a piece of terrain, suitable for gaming. It should not be a playable model in itself (a crashed tank must stay crashed), but removable models (people) are fine.
5. Any scale, any setting, any game system or board game is welcome. Likewise, it could be for a non-existent game, just so long as rule 4 is accounted for. Also any size for the actual piece you're making is great as long as you can photograph it clearly.
6. Final Entry: Six or more photos of your final entry, showing top, front, both sides, back and all the important parts - not to be posted in this thread.
PM me with links to your galleries, albums, P&M blogs, or just the straight up pictures, etc. As said above, please take the time to take the best photos that you can.
7. AMBITION: Push yourself. Try something new! Always wanted to use LEDs? Go for it! Fancied weathering powders? Here's your chance! I'll be looking at your galleries for previous work, entries etc. I want everyone to feel that their best has a fair shot at this. The spirit of these competitions has always been about learning, expanding, discovering.
8. Not so much a rule, but it wouldn't be the League of Extraordinary Riveters if there are no rivets. This also means similar small details are highly valued (rivets are the best example of this level of detailing).
9. THE RULE OF COOL trumps all.
Judgement Criteria: No specific criteria – as long as a beverage container is used creatively.
The Prize:
Membership to the League of Extraordinary Riveters is the top prize. You’ll be allowed to fly the League’s banner and be recognized as a modeller devoted to impressive detail!
You’ll get those sweet, sweet bragging rights and that warm fuzzy feeling that your peers love and are impressed with your work.
Also, as per League tradition, I can mail you a small modelling/war game based prize as well if desired, which will consist of various things that you’ll hopefully find use for in your modelling future.
Additionally, the winner of the popular vote if different from the winner I select can receive a similar prize if desired.
Now, onwards people! Let’s make some terrain!