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I liked 'Loyalist Vs. Traitor', 'I Have the High Ground' and 'Superman'. And only two of those look like fight scenes where the figures work together but all are painted well.

I have to say my issue with a number of these is that they are not particularly dynamic, the scene is rather static particularly when two figures are just standard based miniatures placed near each other. 'Showdown on Kronus' is interesting, it might be good, but it's too dark to comment on the quality of painting.

To be honest, the "duel" category of Golden Demon is my least favourite anyway.

Many of the pictures were very hard to make out. I voted for the ones that I could see best.

I really love all these, i dont wanna vote as i feel i would be cheating the other entries if i didnt vote for every single one, sooo much awesome here, i am however here, so i gonna take my time and make a desicion and vote for only 1 :(

fantastic work on all

Voting is over and the entries now have names to go along with them.

Great job everyone.

So we can post our entries here on Dakka now without being disqualified?

Congratulations everyone! Especially to heartserenade - Dakka's obviously most popular choice - and also to Decaius for the nail biting battle for second...

Now for the final judging...

My entry wasnt very impressive apparently.....

Well, I blame it on poor photography, so all is fine

I thouhgt we arnt supposed to see entry's names? Something about impartial vote?

inquisitorlewis wrote:Voting is over and the entries now have names to go along with them.

Great job everyone.

This?

LunaHound wrote:I thouhgt we arnt supposed to see entry's names? Something about impartial vote?

inquisitorlewis wrote:Voting is over and the entries now have names to go along with them.

Great job everyone.

LunaHound wrote:I thouhgt we arnt supposed to see entry's names? Something about impartial vote?

Voting closed last night at a little after 1 am EST.

MrMerlin wrote:

My entry wasnt very impressive apparently.....

Well, I blame it on poor photography, so all is fine

I *thought* that might have been yours When everyone's impressive, no one is? I think most of us have a thing or two to learn about photography and presentation though... first comp's always the hardest I guess

inquisitorlewis wrote:

LunaHound wrote:I thouhgt we arnt supposed to see entry's names? Something about impartial vote?

Voting closed last night at a little after 1 am EST.

Ohhh cuz on my screen it still says I can vote...

*tries to vote

Hmmm... yes - my tally still seems to be going up too...

I just want to take a minute to congratulate everyone who entered the contest. Obviously we had entrants of all different skill levels. I have a lot of admiration for anyone who enters any kind of contest that is to be critiqued on the internet. The net can be an unforgiving place sometimes.

I am hoping to get the thumbs up to run some more of these in the future. I would like to see a few contests a year. I am hopeful that all our entrants will give it another go.


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Arakasi wrote:Hmmm... yes - my tally still seems to be going up too...

I'm not sure why the poll hasnt ended. I grabbed a screen shot of the results just in case.

Just because the system is still allowing you to vote doesn't mean you should.

Hmm, 6th, fairly pleased with that for my first attempt!

I definitely need to learn how to take photos properly. Note to self: purchase lightbox, purchase daylight lamps, purchase a good camera!

Congrats to the winners, well deserved!

Well done to all!

Voted #4 myself, thought it captured Warhammer/40k really well considering its the 25th anniversary etc.

My thanks goes to everyone who voted for me. In truth I really don't have that much confidence in my entry, this being my first painting/diorama competition and all plus you get wonderful entries submitted by Arakasi, Decaius and SlaveToDorkness. They have submitted wonderful pieces and I felt honored to be pitted against such work.

For those who asked: it's supposedly a story of betrayal. I guess I should've put that somewhere on the title, but starsdawn is correct: it's a reference to the Skywalker-Kenobi duel. Maybe it should've been "You cannot win, Brother Alphonse! I Have the High Ground!"

Anyway for those interested I'm typing up a P&M blog as we speak! I'm just a bit distracted today because I got my tooth extracted and I'm in a haze of pain and I'm waiting for the painkillers to kick in.

Again, thank you everyone!

Looking forward to your P&M blog! I'll probably wait until the final judging before putting mine up - but there is only so much you can convey in a title - the rest lies on the minis themselves...

Funnily enough, mine was supposed to be a reference to the Sith-Young Kenobi duel

Good luck! I don't think anyone will be surprised if you win the final judging!

OK, mine is up on my blog now (with better pics , see link in my signature)

I think I'm not up to making a P&M blog anyway, seeing that my brain is going "PAINPAINPAINPAINPAINPAIN", repeating like telephone left unattended. Might as well wait for the final judging, too.

MrMerlin, I KNEW that was yours! I viewed your gallery and figured your Orks are very much similar to the ones in your entry.

And the statue on mine is a factory defect Harry Potter piece. If you look closely you can see the defects, and it lights up at random... and I'm sure it's not supposed to do that since it had a switch at the bottom. I had to wait for it to run out of battery before taking photos because the electric blue light ruins everything! I got it from a street vendor for like 20 PHP (half a US dollar), not knowing it was from Harry Potter until I saw my sister watching the first movie, and it connected.

Special thanks to my long-time friend Jin for helping me take photos. Check out Jin's work if you're interested in cosplay, anime, manga, photography or just art in general!

heartserenade wrote:Hope I win for the final judging! v (^____^) v

My thanks goes to everyone who voted for me. In truth I really don't have that much confidence in my entry, this being my first painting/diorama competition and all plus you get wonderful entries submitted by Arakasi, Decaius and SlaveToDorkness. They have submitted wonderful pieces and I felt honored to be pitted against such work.

For those who asked: it's supposedly a story of betrayal. I guess I should've put that somewhere on the title, but starsdawn is correct: it's a reference to the Skywalker-Kenobi duel. Maybe it should've been "You cannot win, Brother Alphonse! I Have the High Ground!"

Anyway for those interested I'm typing up a P&M blog as we speak! I'm just a bit distracted today because I got my tooth extracted and I'm in a haze of pain and I'm waiting for the painkillers to kick in.

Again, thank you everyone! Here's to hoping I win this!

Thanks for the mention, Hearts. Glad to see someone appreciated it. lol

I blame Crappy pics and a lack of montage-fu!!!

Although if I'm going to blame crap pics I find it hard to explain the Kronos one getting almost twice the votes as mine. lol I guess it's the atmosphere and to hell with any thought of painting. lol I'd love to see that one with straight photography, Ouze.

I voted for the Grot vs. Grot one. Loved it!

Maybe next time have a single vote to maybe lessen the gap between high and low?

Would it be cool to post our additional pics in this thread?

Well ever since the beginning of this contest I have marked you as a potential rival after viewing your gallery. And your work is indeed well-painted, although I do agree that the photography needs work since I can't discern what's happening to the marine. If this contest was not about duels and about single miniatures that flying man of yours would've beaten me in votes, no questions asked.

I'd have loved to have done better, but I really enjoyed the challenge of trying something different and Kudos to the winners, some very impressive painting and photography skills on display

My wife loved yours (and insisted I vote for it ) - it was definitely one of the more characterful theme/implementation-wise IMHO.

I'd like to briefly talk about my entry "Showdown on Kronus", since at least 2 people asked about it.

I wasn't sure what I was going to for this contest, but I knew I wanted to enter it. Age of Egos had let me add some stuff onto one of his FW orders, and it came much sooner then I expected it to come - in time for the contest. See, in addition to being an average-at-best painter, I'm also a very slow one, and this was my biggest project yet - essentially 4 models in less than a month.

The dreadnought was totally straightfoward. I built it as an Ironclad base, but with generic options since I have extra weapons to field it as a vanilla dread. As with my previous mechs, I added a LED inside for a glowing eye. Hilariously, I forgot to turn the switch off when I was done taking the pictures, and so inadvertently learned how long the battery would last - at least 15 hours, since it was still on the next day (and indeed, still works now).

The Warboss I did as a Goff, but with a Evil Suns warbike, since in my mob I imagine he would simply take the fastest (reddest) one. The bike was an easy build, and I did what I could with the Boss. I did no real conversion work to this.

The base was a bit of foamcore, with a obelisk I built out of sheet styrene. I built up the bottom layers with plaster of paris and zierterdes, which is I suspect just plaster of paris and vermiculite. I used some chinese resin skulls at the bottom of a crater made from wire mesh and plaster strips. After I primed and painted it, I did the obelisk in a high gloss to emphasize it's otherworldliness. I also drilled a hole in the bottom of the pit, and added a SMD LED to it and a battery. After that, I filled the pit halfway with clear resin tinted green.



This all was done more or less about 3 days before the deadline. I had a bunch of things to do over the next few days, so I was pretty pressed for time. I don't consider myself a very strong painter but have done well with "gimmicky" things like LED lighting. I've used it in the past successfully to do some shots that got fairly good ratings. This is where I miscalculated quite badly. In my fully lighted shot, it was very difficult to see the LED lighting, so I decided to turn down the room lights and add an artificial light to each side (just a green LED soldered onto a battery holder, a ghetto flashlight kinda).

This is why I submitted an extremely dark image to a painting contest - because I misunderstood why my previous entries in this vein had done well. My other lighted entries used fancy LED lighting, but the image was nowhere near as dark as my contest entry. Additionally, and critically, people had context for those images; as part of a larger gallery they could clearly see what they were looking at. There was absolutely no such context here, I submitted a dark, hard to see image.

Here is my entry with "normal" lighting:


If I could do my entry over again, I would do things differently. I was aware that you could submit more than one image and have the organizer pick the best, but after attaching both my entry and the image above, I would up removing the above image and sending it. I don't have a good reason why, it just was a snap decision.

Now, if you would not mind me indulging just a little bit more, I'd like to post some pictures of my Warboss from my entry. I bet you couldn't even tell what the unit was because it was so dark, and I worked so hard on this model I sort of feel like leaving what I showed you already is an injustice to a proud Ork.


I really enjoyed participating in this contest, and look forward to taking part in future contests as well. This is the first one I've ever entered of any kind. Some of the work was really terrific, and I was really blown away by the Superman vs Doomsday image - by my book, it was the best entry in here and did a terrific job of matching the theme. Thanks to everyone for posting, and to Inquistor Lewis and Yak for organizing it.

Wow thats some awesome painting ouze! You should def have submitted the lit one

Even with extremely poor lighting you still made it into the top 5! Though now that we can see your entry more clearly, you may have given heartserenade a run for top spot with proper (or even just better) lighting...

It was certainly an ambitious entry just on size of models entered. (I deliberately went with something smaller because I am also a slow painter - though I did end up finishing a week early...)

I have a suspicion Superman vs Doomsday may have suffered a little from not being 40K (even though there was no requirement for that) - for those who actually voted on the images in the Dakka Gallery, it did a *lot* better.

Honestly, I kinda liked the Superman diorama when it came to painting, and the poses really do look like they're fighting (sorry fellas but most works look like two models just placed beside each other, which Howard a Treesong already pointed out). It is telling a story, just like what a diorama should do.

What I didn't like was the sculpt, particularly Superman's face. So there.

May as well show the rest of my pics, spoilered for you convenience.

Heres the pic i prob should have used as the main one though