Nevelon wrote:

 Mothsniper wrote:
I Voted (Other)
2 month challenges on top of monthly challenges will be hard. For me 1 or 2 longer bonus challenges in a year will be more than enough. Another words, the longer the better.

A Proposition!
As a League Of Extraordinary Riveteer I saw a decline and the death of the bi-monthly LOER challenge.
Very Sad indeed.
I purpose to include (terrain/diorama) as allowable entry type from the original LOER guides into the Longer-Than-Normal-Painting-Challenge. To combine the LOER into LTNPC. So the Terrain challenge can, in a way, live on, but in a different form.

What say yee?

It looks like the 3 month option is way ahead at this point, so it looks like you will get the extra time.

I think I entered 3 LoER comps, and even finished one. I always followed them and tried to vote. Shame to see them not being done anymore.

With the painting comp, we have always welcomed terrain as part of the things you could enter. As long as you can wrap the topic around it, it’s all good. Even got one on the podium last month. I’d say we average a little over one a month. A few times we have a couple, but sometimes none at all.

While I’ve tossed my had into the Riveter’s ring a few times, I do not feel comfortable taking up their mantle and trappings to use in the painting comp I’m running. I’m also very not going to run anything requiring people to paint terrain. We’ve danced close a few times with topics, but always left a lot of ways out and options. Many people don’t play at their own table, so have zero desire to engage. And the primary thought when I’m picking topics is to cast as wide a net as I can to gather participants, while keeping a tight enough theme to encourage focus and people gently pushing their comfort zone.

The formal topic is going to be “Centerpiece” but I can include in the long description that terrain pieces are also encouraged. Anything bigger than normal you need more time on is the idea. And frankly, if people need time for small stuff, that’s fine as well. You need 3 months to paint the sistine chapel on an epic scale land raider? You got it!.

If you want to encourage the LoER ethos of rivets, sprue, found objects/upcycling and scratch builds, go for it. If you want to encourage people to follow those ideals in a friendly sub-competition, that’s also A-OK. Give out extra badges to people who complete painting comps to riveter standards.

But mandating them I think would push too many people out of the comp, and that’s not something I can encourage.

All that said, we see regularly that people can do terrain in a month. When I cast the question out asking for topics, toss back some loaded answers. Things at encourage, but do not require terrain. "Homefield Advantage”, “Home Base”, or “Headquarters” could either be the kind of troops that hang out back at camp, or the camp itself. “Strongpoint” could be a fortified bastion, or a squad of Ogres or Aggressors. And once we get a terrain friendly topic, you can whip up people’s enthusiasm to slap some rivets on things.

I don’t know if the summer blockbuster will be a yearly thing. We can see how well it worked after the fact. If it’s popular, we can always do it again. The thought for it really came from “what rules can we break” and the month time limit was one. I had a thought to go the other way as well. Do a 24 hour speed paint. Post your proof with a timestamp, and final work stamped 24 hours or less from that. Do that sometime in the month, and we’ll put the vote up at the end as normal with everyone’s work. But I figure we’ve played fast and loose enough with the rules this year, so maybe save that idea for the next cycle.