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So the finals judging for this Dakka Painting Challenge has been completed and winners have been selected from amongst the five finalists chosen by the public voting.

A great big thanks to everyone who took the time and effort to participate...this was definitely one of the more challenging challenges we've done and it was fantastic to still get a great number of entries.

Although we originally announced that only 3 people would be getting a prize, our sponsor for the challenge miniwargaming.com was so blown away by all the amazing entries that we have been able to give away prizes to ALL the five finalists plus a best 'runner-up' category as well. Not to mention the prizes are considerably larger than originally announced!

So a huge thanks goes out again to miniwargaming.com for their tremendous generosity towards the Dakka community. Make sure you check out their site the next time you're interested in buying anything miniature game related.



But without further adieu, let's get onto announcing the winners shall we!

As always, you can click on the images below to see larger versions of them in the Dakka gallery. Winners will be notified via PM as to how to claim their prize.


1st place ($150 gift certificate) - I Have the High Ground by heartserenade



2nd place ($80 gift certificate) - Grot Wars, Oiler vs. Orderly by Arakasi



3rd place ($60 gift certificate) - Loyalist vs. Traitor, an IG Diorama by Decaius



4th place ($50 gift certificate) - Showdown on Kronus by Ouze



5th place ($40 gift certificate) - Fear Denies Faith by Kavika0311



Best Runner-up ($20 gift certificate) - Superman vs. Doomsday by heavybolter



Congrats to all the winners and thanks also to Dakkanaut inquisitorlewis who did all the legwork of collecting and posting the images for the challenge.

See you all again at the next Dakka Painting Challenge!

Nice to see that original sculpt not go unrewarded! Congrats, Heavybolter!

Congrats all! See you next time!

Also, I just want to mention that I did cross-post an announcement for this into the News and Rumors forum here:

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/437220.page

150$ Awesome!

Congrats to everyone who won something, you really deserve it!

I should have put more effort in mine.....

Congrats to all finalists and heartserenade in particular!!!
Also thanks to dakka, yakface and inquisitorlewis for a fun challenge!

Congrats to the winners! I really enjoyed competing and look forward to the next chance to

Aweeeesome. This was a really fun contest. Thanks everyone.

Congrats guys, and thanks to the organisers and sponsors!

Well, anyone interested in seeing my full WIP can visit my blog: Da Dark Angelz: "Welcome To Thunderdome" Edition

Some choice pics - WIP:


Complete:


Back:


Side:


Big thanks to DakkaDakka, yakface, inquisitorlewis, miniwargaming.com, heartserenade, Decaius, Ouze, Kavika0311, heavybolter, Vitruvian XVII, SlaveToDorkness, Shado.Raith, MrMerlin, RIChYc, Haranos, Ecstasy in Service and AegisFate - this wouldn't have been possible without you!

Roll on the next DakkaDakka Painting Competition I say! Hope to see more Dakkanauts there!

This puts a smile on my face, despite my toothache.

Oh boy, still can't believe I won! Thank you for all the people who voted for me, and congratulations to the others. It's good to see that heavybolter also got something: in my opinion he should also be on one of the finalists! And wow, thank you miniwargaming.com for increasing the prize!

I'll post a P&M Blog as soon as I'm not busy. Thank you again! I don't exactly know what to do with $150 worth of GC, actually... Maybe I can use it to buy something for the next challenge!

This was a really fun challenge. It was my first challenge on dakkadakka and actually one of the reasons I became a registered member. The dakkadakka community is one of the best I've been able to find on the internet. It's large and chock full of talented members who are more than willing to share their experience. Thank you to everyone who voted for me, and thanks to inquisitorlewis and yakface for organizing this, I'll definitely be sticking around here and working on upping my game.

Wow! thank you all for the recognition and especially to Miniwargaming.com and the judges for expanding on the prizes. I was greatly surprised to see the pm in my mailbox saying I won something. I also appreciate all the positive feedback I've received on my work.Thanks again to all.

Congratulations everyone.

For those still interested I made a P&M Blog on my diorama. Hope you like it!

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/0/437710.page#4051697