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1 & 2 - I think the Citadel miniatures requirement is the same as with their tournaments. The base figure must be 60%+GW parts (including Citadel, Marauder & Forgeworld) and Scratchbuilds are generally okay. Remeber the point is to promote "The Games Workshop Hobby" so big expensive Forgeworld things and scratchbuilds with lots of diferent GWE bitz play into that.

as to

3- I'd say no, as it's supposed to be an army display and not a diorama. But I have no proof of that.

plastictrees wrote:The "contest" literally requires you to buy nothing if you already own GW models and can cut a 2'x2' piece of drywall from an inconspicuous part of your house. Shockingly they "cynically" used their own product as examples.

They often appear to push their product ahead of common sense because the company line is to show off their products at every opportunity. So instead of making a 2'x2' board at home you use a panel of the ROB. This approach was taken to extremes on that occasion someone cut up a heap of movement trays merely to get some plastic card for a conversion. That's the worst hobby advice ever, just go out and get plastic card for a pound a sheet or whatever it costs not buy a heap of their movement trays, they cost too much to hack about for the sake of that and any parts you want are limited to the fairly small size of the tray. No one in their right mind would follow that advice unless they had no clue about the existence of hobby supplies outside a GW. A cynic would say that GW prefer it that way, they don't want people going to elsewhere for hobby supplies even though GW clearly don't offer the required materials themselves, ie. actual sheets of plastic card.

From my perspective, I think it's just they way they are now, especially now they make so much terrain instead of telling you to make it yourself. Must be very constricting people people writing articles to only use GW products even when sourcing something as mundane plastic card.

Chibi Bodge-Battle wrote:

Armies on Parade is your chance to plan, collect, model and paint an amazing new army, display it on a two foot by two foot board

Note the phrase new army.
Not any GW models already in the collection.
They expect us followers to buy a load of extra models to stick on a board of a certain type of plastic, nudge nudge wink wink

Hey kids, it's a great way to start a new army!

Kanluwen wrote:Sorry, where does it say that you can't use any GW models in your collection?

Nowhere?

Huh. Interesting. Here I was thinking you had a reason to be clogging my thread up with more of this conspiracy crap.

I guess it means Squats aren't welcome.

Jon Garrett wrote:1 - What do they mean by Citadel Minatures? It mentions the guy kitbashing Orks, but the army I'm thinking of using is a Ad Mech Army, complete with a kitbashed Warhound Titan. The titan is almost entirely made from Games Workshop products, and the only extra is plasticard, but it's hardly what I'd call a Citadel Minature anymore...

2 - Can you use Forgeworld models and parts? Again, the mention of Citadel Minatures has thrown me.

I'm going to assume they mean that you cannot use models produced by another company such as Scibor, Privateer, etc. Conversions and scratchbuilt should be fine but you may want to send email to GW and ask.

Jon Garrett wrote:3 - Can you use more than one army, such as Marines routing some Orks out of a building?

Again, I'm assuming this contest is meant to showcase single armies (such as is done at tournaments) instead of trying to create diaramas of some large battle.

yakface wrote:But again, the awesome thing about this promotion is no matter what level you choose to participate in it (even not at all) you're still going to get some cool benefits from it.
So perhaps flip the frowns upside down and just ENJOY the dang thing!

Kudos GW. Great idea!

Exactly. This event costs you nothing. If you need an excuse to paint a new army, it gives you one. If you want to show off the army you've played with for 20 years, it's a chance for that as well. It lets you take part in an event at your local hobby center.

This was a great event at Baltimore last year, and got noticed by the UK, who wanted to expand it worldwide.

-If you win, and are going to GD, you get to enter the army again.

-If you don't win, or don't have a hobby center nearby, and if you are going to GD, you can still join in. There will be a separte event at Games Day. You can show off your army, and if you win that round, you get included along with the winners from the Hobby Center event.
(Confirmed this with Ed a couple of minutes ago.)

No strings attatched, don't have to buy anything. The only caveat is that you must take your own army to GD. GW won't be packing and shipping armies from the hobby centers, nor would most players want them too.

Clay Williams wrote:Really GW ... "Buy an army, win a throphy"

Lol, I really like this slogan.
My brand new BA DoA army could eventually participate:

This would be really cool and something I'd love to do if I didn't have to drive four hours to get to the nearest hobby center.

Aduro wrote:This would be really cool and something I'd love to do if I didn't have to drive four hours to get to the nearest hobby center.

Chances are if you aren't going to your hobby center 4 hours away, you weren't going to the GD anyways, so the prize doesn't really appeal to you. That means that more than likely the hobby part appealed to you. If so, Good News!, you can still make a cool display for your army on a 2x2 board and show it off locally and on the internet!

Actually, I don't have a diorama. Any ideas for an army of jump packers.?

mikhaila wrote:

yakface wrote:But again, the awesome thing about this promotion is no matter what level you choose to participate in it (even not at all) you're still going to get some cool benefits from it.
So perhaps flip the frowns upside down and just ENJOY the dang thing!

Kudos GW. Great idea!

Exactly. This event costs you nothing. If you need an excuse to paint a new army, it gives you one. If you want to show off the army you've played with for 20 years, it's a chance for that as well. It lets you take part in an event at your local hobby center.

This was a great event at Baltimore last year, and got noticed by the UK, who wanted to expand it worldwide.

-If you win, and are going to GD, you get to enter the army again.

-If you don't win, or don't have a hobby center nearby, and if you are going to GD, you can still join in. There will be a seperate event at Games Day. You can show off your army, and if you win that round, you get included along with the winners from the Hobby Center event.
(Confirmed this with Ed a couple of minutes ago.)

No strings attached, don't have to buy anything. The only caveat is that you must take your own army to GD. GW won't be packing and shipping armies from the hobby centers, nor would most players want them too.

I just wanted to quote this, and bold the important part.

That's some good news, Mikhaila!

wuestenfux wrote:Actually, I don't have a diorama. Any ideas for an army of jump packers.?

Multi-level structure with jump packers arriving from reserve and securing positions?

Hard to do 'action' like that, but could be cool.

Oh man, I have got to get Guardsman Park together for this.

(Imperial greenspace with a 54mm Guardsman on a plinth in the center, crudely despoil'd by the Ork and his barbarous passtimes since the late fall of Prime Hive to the Warboss Gerimderp Skullfether.)

pretre wrote:

wuestenfux wrote:Actually, I don't have a diorama. Any ideas for an army of jump packers.?

Multi-level structure with jump packers arriving from reserve and securing positions?

Hard to do 'action' like that, but could be cool.

Thanks. Sounds cool. I'll think about it.

wuestenfux wrote:Actually, I don't have a diorama. Any ideas for an army of jump packers.?

Great looking force there!

The red with blue accents would look great on an ice-world base. Do the multi-level thing, but have it look like the fractured edge of an iceberg, with maybe a few melted craters etc. in it. It would also go well with IA 11 stuff when that comes out...

I'm tempted to show up with my Juan Diaz daemonette army, just cause.

I kind of like this. Although I wanted to mix my SM and Guard on one table, but I guess I could just base them the same and see which one looks better separate.

Happygrunt wrote:I kind of like this. Although I wanted to mix my SM and Guard on one table, but I guess I could just base them the same and see which one looks better separate.

You can mix SM and Guard. The rules say it doesn't have to be a legal army, just have a general and two units. I think guard interacting with SM could portray a very compelling story.

pretre wrote:

Happygrunt wrote:I kind of like this. Although I wanted to mix my SM and Guard on one table, but I guess I could just base them the same and see which one looks better separate.

You can mix SM and Guard. The rules say it doesn't have to be a legal army, just have a general and two units. I think guard interacting with SM could portray a very compelling story.

Good, now all I need is some imperial defense lines, that hill with the road from the RoM board and a basalisk and I am golden!

I spoke to the great bearded leader of my local GW today and he said he had not been told any dates for when deadlines would be, but he thought it would possibly be towards the end of March and probably be on a Saturday or Sunday. He said that his store would allow people to drop off entries before the date, but they could not guarantee safety of anything left in the store.

However, he said he was going to a meeting in the next few days at GW HQ and expected he would be given more information there.

Making a cool board for your minis sure is fun when you have the studio's trove of bitz to choose from. Otherwise you'd be killing good model kits left right and center to get something that looks wicked on a 2x2.

Slackermagee wrote:Making a cool board for your minis sure is fun when you have the studio's trove of bitz to choose from. Otherwise you'd be killing good model kits left right and center to get something that looks wicked on a 2x2.

Well, I'm going to make an effort to use as little GW stuff as possible in my entry.

Red Beard Wrote:

I'm tempted to show up with my Juan Diaz daemonette army, just cause.

MySlaanesh Daemon (all metal) Army will not fit in a 2x2 board for my goal before the chaos gods take me is to have all possible force org combinations with it.

That means I have 120 daemonettes 60 seekers and so on. I'm 80% or so completed but only 50% painted. Scratch build chariots, and soulgrinders, then after that it will be converting another 60 or so deamonettes and slaanesh models to other factions, such as Khorne and nurgle so I can play a poly themed army. It will be over 300 models when I am done, most of them are Juan Diaz types.

There is simply no rest for the wicked

My 1750 army of BA wont fit either. I am only using a fraction.

Which is fine guys, as already noted, the armies on the boards don't have to be 'legal' and there is no 'points level' either!

By my calculation, it would require 576 Orks to completely fill a 2'x2' table...

Now THAT would be a good look...

Fifty wrote:By my calculation, it would require 576 Orks to completely fill a 2'x2' table...

Now THAT would be a good look...

I doubt that flooding the board with minis would produce a cool display... Folks going for this comp should remember that you should have a focal point on the board and not just a mass of miniatures... just like one 28mm man has the face as a focus the board should have one area with some focus on some minis.

If the store at the mall about 45 minutes away from me counts for the contest, I want to make a board with all the marines I received from the Great Marine swap.

This sounds like fun and i have some idea's forming already, i like how it does not have to be a legal army, just an hq and 2 squad/unit choices. There will be some stiff competition i think. I'll have to get to b&q for some wood and poly sheet.

NAVARRO wrote:

Fifty wrote:By my calculation, it would require 576 Orks to completely fill a 2'x2' table...

Now THAT would be a good look...

I doubt that flooding the board with minis would produce a cool display... Folks going for this comp should remember that you should have a focal point on the board and not just a mass of miniatures... just like one 28mm man has the face as a focus the board should have one area with some focus on some minis.

Yeah. 576 Orks is absurdly going over the top here

Halve that, and pose them appropriately and it's perfect!

I sent an e-mail to our almighty overlords tp answer my questions, and got this reply.

Hi Jon

Thanks for the email, nice to hear of someone else who is looking forward to this too, Forgeworld are counted as part of Citadel range so yes they are fine, Green Stuff and Plastic card are also fine.

You can use Orks as long as they are part of the scenery and not another army on the same board.

So - Scratch Built Titan is Go. Heh.

Iim rather exited about this although i think i might be entering next year not this year. My problem is ihave a couple of ideas thusf ar:
1. Mumak line with a load of riders around them and a nazgul flying over
2. 4-5 DKOK Gorgons packed with infantry crossing a craterd ground.
3. Titan legion (okay this ones a bit extreme)