I did actually acknowledge the fact that you may need, want or get some help with it at a later stage.
Alex Kolodotschko 753396 9895708
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At the end of the day it's your project FOR THE MOMENT.....
As much as you talk about it not being your project, it is your project. Start small and grow it. No one will steal your idea and it won't lose any hard hitting impact without a big launch. The Internet really doesn't work that way.
Just start it and prove that it's a thing that people want.
The amount of effort that has gone into this thread would already have been enough for you to start the thread and a few similar ones on other forums and see what the uptake is.
Once you are running a few of these mini competitions then combine them and host them wherever you like? Perhaps you'll eventually get enough traffic to warrant your own website or server but I doubt it.
The 'Dakka (Unofficial) Painting Challenge' has been running for 3 years and has been on the top page of the P+M forum for all of this time giving it almost all of the exposure that Dakka can provide. On a miniatures-centric forum it now has about 30+ entrants per month. This includes all genres and manufacturers. It's a hell of a lot of work for all those involved but everyone enjoys it, has links to it in their sigs, links to it from other sub forums, forums, social media etc
LoER gets a few less but is also a fun thing to do with 10-15 entrants.
https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/751255.page
I can't see anything like that sort of uptake for
40K art as it's a niche within a niche and i'll guarantee that there are far fewer 2D artists using this site than model painters/builders but it'd be great to be proven wrong.
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Also
FYI in my nearly 10 years on this site I can remember just a handful of times that DakkaDakka has really promoted anything officially.
These include....
The
DCM scheme.
Various large forum changes.
Dakka Dice, Shirts and Merch.
I have a hazy recollection of a few official Dakka painting competitions? Citation needed but I think this was just a thread started by a mod.
A few Dakka meet ups.
Maelstrom's Edge. Their own game.
There may be a few more, help me out guys.