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Dave is right.

So, I'm not in last place. Great.

I actually quite like the Chapter that is in last place. The idea is really, really good. I just think it got a tiny bit too 1337.

As a side note, can we get an official time/date when the voting ends?

21st of august, 6pm I'd guess.

Yep, it's set to end exactly 7 days after it started, which should be roughly as Ediin said...

Keep spreading the word though guys, almost at 100 votes!

NOOOOOOOO why, I wanted hornets to win.

Hello,
Go Hornets!!!!!
Mongrels for the win, Alex

How do I vote? Don't see any buttons or links.

I guess that means that the poll has closed. In which case:

Congratulations To Jimsolo and His Chapter, The Tomb Sentinels, on Winning The Dakka Create A Chapter Kompetition!

I can now reveal that the contestants were:

1st - Jimsolo - Tomb Sentinels
2nd - ZoomDakkaDakka - Imperial Hornets
3rd - Fifty - Hive Rats
4th - Ediin - Dark Avengers
5th - Wolf - Praetorians of Mars
6th - Not_U - Igneus Ultionis
7th - SilverMK2 - Censeo Biologis

Congratulations to Jimsolo, I will be in contact with SSminiatures about your prize, as you can do also if you wish; his account is Hits_the_spot.

Commiserations to those who took part and those who wanted to.

It's been enjoyable and should I get the time, I'll run a similar competition in the (not-so-near) future. Well done to everyone though, you were all very cooperative (coincidentally Jim was also the quickest with his responses - Karma?!) and I was VERY IMPRESSED with the quality of the Chapters.

Congratulations guys, thank you for the support and enjoyment, feel free to keep commenting/discuss or whatnot.

Regards, Dave.

Woo! Wooden spoon!

Good fluff all round.

I was really surprised you came last man! I thought yours was cool. Commiserations buddy, you were a pleasure to work with however.

I have to admit, the Praetorians had my favourite colour scheme whilst the Tomb Sentinels were also my favourite...

Ah well, you live and learn - plenty of good colourschemes and fluff in the contest.

I think 5th is a respectable place, well done to the winner ! Now go get your awesome prize you so'n'so !

Thanks to everyone who voted for me, and thanks to my fellow competitors for running a clean, honest competition.

This may be the first thing I have ever won. How awesome.

You'll be glad to know jimsolo I actually voted for you ! Yes that is right I didn't even vote for myself Well done though mate well deserved.

Congratulations Jimsolo! I actually though your fluff was the most interesting. Although Necrons still suck so bad you need no skills to fight them

When I wrote the fluff for the Dark Avengers, I wanted to make sure it was not something along the lines of: My chapter is 1337 HURR!!,
which is why I created the Erasmael Incident (Mae Laser, hahaha) where the Dark Avengers actually lost. I thought this would make them more realistic.
Sadly, not everyone thought so.

In the beginning, the Dark Avengers were at last place. However, in the last few days, they jumped to 4th place! Yaaay!

Whoo 2nd last

Congrats Jim
For a while there I thought the Hornets were going to win, but it turned around.

Yeah I thought ZoomDakkaDakka had my balls in a juicer there for a little bit.

I had to go to the US for a few days, so it was a pleasant surprise when I came back, that I had lost (no computer access where I was).

Jim, hits_the_spot has said to me that the trophy will likely be true-scale if that's OK with you?

And awwww, poor Zoom, coming a measly 2nd! Diddums!

this was very cool! do another one soon

Do another PLZ PLZ

Don't feel bad Censeo Biologis creator guy. I thought they were cool!

I'm sorry guys, doing another is off the cards for a few months or so, it will be a very busy time for me.

If someone else wants to take over the reigns then I will give them the general guidelines and help them through it...

Thanks and Sorry Guys...

KamikazeCanuck wrote:Don't feel bad Censeo Biologis creator guy. I thought they were cool!

Thank you

Censeo Biologis actually had my favorite fluff, and my second favorite color scheme (after Tomb Sentinels).

My only beef with them is their insignia. I see that it's supposed to be a metal cog and a biological single-cell organism flowing into one another, but it just looks... wonky. I dunno. Too busy to be a good insignia, I guess. Simpler is better.

Anyway, Tomb Sentinels got my vote, but CB was a very close second for me.

SaintHazard wrote:Censeo Biologis actually had my favorite fluff, and my second favorite color scheme (after Tomb Sentinels).

My only beef with them is their insignia. I see that it's supposed to be a metal cog and a biological single-cell organism flowing into one another, but it just looks... wonky. I dunno. Too busy to be a good insignia, I guess. Simpler is better.

The logo was actually the logo I made for my university's society (Biomedical Engineering Society) with the name/lettering changed. The reason it looks wonky and rubbish was because I had to edit and resize it in paint, which as everyone knows is the worlds worst image editor

But I am glad that people liked them.

Actually, it's not so much the fact that the lines are blurred, but the actual design of the thing.

Logos are meant to be easy to understand, eye-catching, and memorable. Speaking as a former graphics designer.

It took me a few minutes to understand exactly what it was, and that's because there's simply too much going on in there.

I like to call it "Cow Tools." If you've ever read Gary Larson's Far Side comics, you're familiar with the term. There are a lot of little things in there that don't mean anything in the context they're in, but they make you start wondering what they mean, and it gets confusing. That arrow, for example, and some of the biological bits. What do they mean? In the context of CB, nothing, but people will wonder what they mean simply because they're there and they look important, and it confuses the issue.

A better way to do that logo would be to make, say, left side very clearly a metal cog (or something clearly mechanical), right side something clearly biological, and just leave it at that. No extra little fiddly bits, no letters (not really necessary, people know they're Censeo Biologis, so the CB isn't needed). Perhaps a skull with half of its face replaced with cybernetic parts (not TOO many cybernetic parts, or they'll be confused with Inquisitorial servo-skulls)?

Simple, clear, and memorable.

Yeah, I understand what you mean. Originally the logo was remaining quite large, so it was clearer what everything was. However, I was asked to resize it so that it was smaller, which was not so good for a complex logo

Again, if my PC with photoshop and illustrator was working I would either have redesigned it or done a new one, but as it was I only had paint

I think you should have said something like "their armour can survive the Life-Eater virus". Then it it would have clicked that that's what they're for: Super Bio-Hazard troops.