Wristaction

Welcome to the 2007 Charcon/Custom Hobby Painting Competition! Yes ladies & gentlemen we are back. After a successful first year, we are opening things up a little bit for this one. This competition is looking to showcase the best examples of creativity & skill from our Hobby. The judges will be looking for models that are well painted and well presented. Each entrant must complete all of the work (i.e., modeling, converting, painting, basing, and the like) on any model he or she enters into the competition. Entrants may have as many submissions as they would like to enter. The entries do not have to be kept secret and can be items that have been posted on the internet before. The only restriction is that items that have placed in previous competitions are not eligible for consideration in this event. This year we will actually have two competitions that will run simultaneously. One will be an online competition where the entrants must email me clear pictures of their entries on or before October 17th, 2007. These entries will be printed out and displayed at Charcon for the attendees of the convention to vote on, and also displayed on the Custom Hobby Forum where the votes from the online public will also be added into the tally. The second portion of the competition will be the live judging that will take place at the convention for entries that are submitted in person. The judging will be done by Custom Hobby, the Charcon Executive Committee, & select special guests. With this we will also hold a poll for live entries that will be at the Custom Hobby Forum for one day; this tally will count as one vote toward the selection of the live challenge winners. As mentioned above all online entries must be received no later then October 17th, 2007 . Pictures must be sent to paintingcontest@customhobby.com. All entries for the live challenge must be submitted at the convention no later than 1pm Saturday October 20th, 2007. The contest is open to all that would like to participate. There will be two categories: Live & Online. There will be three winners for the each portion of the competition; Gold, Silver, & Bronze. Each winner will receive a Charcon Exclusive trophy miniature sculpted by none other than the renowned Kevin James White of Hasslefree Miniatures. The miniature will be a limited edition version of Custom Hobby’s mascot Kyrie. The miniature will only be available as the prize for placing in the competition each year. Each figure is a metallic powder coated resin cast of the figure that will correspond to the place in the competition. The www.CustomHobby.com special edition miniature/trophy will be sent to the winners after the convention once they have been notified. Aside from that each winner will also receive a gift certificate from Custom Hobby good toward any of the services we provide (custom painting & terrain, and the soon to be released miniature, resin terrain lines & clothing). The certificates will be worth $200, $100, and $50 to correspond with the Gold, Silver, and Bronze winners. Also every winner will receive a package of items from a number of Charcon’s other sponsors. The Judges and organizers of Charcon reserve the right to disqualify entries if we find that the rules have been violated or if models entered are potentially offensive or in bad taste (don’t worry we have a sense of humor). Entry into the competition gives Custom Hobby the right to photograph and publish details of the models as we see fit. Finally, remember that the purpose of this painting competition is to showcase the efforts of all those who paint miniatures in our hobby and to have fun. For more about the convention visit www.Charcon.org Gold Silver Bronze

It had two nicks in it and I added a few more as it didn't look damaged enough to me. I also did the damage on the shield as it's a plastic GW one. Good pictures now.

I started this topic to help me get my finger out and get it done. That's just a pic to show the figure I'm using and I will be getting new pic's taken today.

Started this Skeleton Pirate and I can use him to show how i did my rust on his blade. I start by painting it as if it's a new blade, then i add the decay. Just started painting the blade as new and the pic's were quick taken, that's why the top is a bit out of focus.

Know someone who ended up binning the figure as the mould lines were so bad and in bad places too. If i spot it while painting i try to hide it with paint myself and if for a comp I search twice as hard to spot them and then again.

6 months once but that was with a big break as all the skin on the bugger was doing my head in and it was hard to start again and finish him off. The Orc i did for TT3 took 14 hour's in total over two days.

Have more of these guys to do so i will get a tutorial done on it with pictures. Basicly i did the metals up to normal new look, added some liquid rust (thin like ink but full of pigment) and drybrushed a tiny bit of silver on the flat surfaces, edges and raised parts. MIG rust pigments should work also if mixed with something to make them liquid.

Just less than 7 hours to paint, base, varnish and take plus upload the picture's, so he was rushed a lot. Going to sort out a few bit's on him that need it and add to the base but not too much as i'm doing it as a gaming base, incase i ever get a game.

Bigger better pic's of Boromir, who i didn't paint the eye's on but works OK.

This one was a last second rush to do, started him just after 9pm on the last saturday and didn't stop till before 4am in the morning, when i uploaded the pictures. Did some stuff different to my normal with him and the rush does show but i'm happy enough with him. He the plastic GW LOTR Boromir from the Mines of Moria set. C-mon link http://www.coolminiornot.com/164504 And Cheddar link so you can vote there too. http://www.cheddarmongers.org/prod/pic/Wristaction/Wyrd+comp+2+multy+02.JPG.html?g2_0=gallery&g2_fromNavId=x664bf2cb And here's my old GW plastic Black Orc, have to get a tute done for how i did the metals. C-mon link. http://www.coolminiornot.com/164503 And Cheddar link so you can vote there too. :icon_wink: http://www.cheddarmongers.org/prod/pic/Wristaction/Wyrd+comp+multy+04.JPG.html?g2_0=gallery&g2_fromNavId=x8d38ca28 And a bigger pic too, warts and all.

Well done and have an even happyer birthday if you can.

These pictures do make a differance, cracking work.

I liked and voted for this one as well, the bigger picture improved it.

Black Scorpion Churchill (Winston Churchill). Did this guy for the BS contest, i like the figure and wanted to paint him, so used the contest to jump him in the painting que. Don't play so had to think what way to do the base as i painted him attached to the base, which i don't normaly do. Went for a waxworks look to the base, tryed for a marble effect to it and a mounted plaque. Didn't win anything but i didn't exepect to as i just entered it for fun, so what do you think and how do i improve. Picture is about twice the size of the figure.

I was exepcting Cowboys after reading "Deadwood"....:doh: