Jon Q's Un-official LO Painting Contest.

[Jon Quixote]

Tanks are fine. You can enter a tank.


Many tanks....thanks.


Oh and regarding the theme, the winner gets to choose the next theme, if this contest works out.

[Chaos877]

Originally Posted by Helbrecht

Nonsense! -T is going down! Whos with me? theres cookies! (as provided by Jon)

*Teams up with Helbrecht* Tonight... we paint... in HELL! *ques dramatic music*

On a side note: this is pretty cool, 4 pages of signups and questions before the serious banter and such starts, nice to see this king of exitement ina contest (though I can't really say as I've not been here long).

[Jon Quixote]

Well it looks like I've done it again.

I was really happy with the painting until I snapped a pic of it and saw it really 'up-close'.

So now I'm thinking, 'Do I post it here and leave it as my entry? Or do I post it here and get to painting another mini I have in the pipeline with the option to replace this one when it is done?'


Either way, you get to see my entry.

Ta da.




Gah, I think I'll start painting my Gyro-copter and see how that goes.


PS. Are you saying that there is such a thins as serious banter? *Crosses fingers and closes eyes in anticipation.*


PPS. Can you tell that I have not a lot of patience? Only a couple of days into the competition and I'm 'done'. Crikey, I might aswell make a daily competition for myself, then I'll always be the winner (& loser).

[warhammer madman]

im going on holliday tomorrow so i wont be able to do much of anything (other than eat, sleep, body boad and play mordiem!) so heres my entry i had some spare bitz from my mordiem bands so heres a pirate on the way to lustria (look out for his gold tooth...)

im fairlyhappy with him as a one of mini but i may do a empire army in the future (lustria theamed) so he may command a unit of handgunners or part of the pirate crew of the black heart (militia with a captain commanding them...).

im not going to win but i want to take part...


P.S:like the dwarf nice non metalic styl (why cant i paint like that...)

[minus_t]

Jon, I love that mini.
Really nice, understated use of NMM, and really nicely achieved.
The axe, and the gold on the helmet are my favorite bits by far.

However, it just doesn't say 'contest mini' to me.
In my opinion, choosing (or converting, or sculpting) a mini is one of the most critical parts of entering a contest.
The model really has to be something special, or something that could become special with a well concieved paint scheme (ie: a fairly normal mini might become amazing when given a lighting effect, or something similar)...

Some of the metal dwarf hero minis are stunning, IMO, and if you were to paint one of them to the same standard as that little fella, you would be onto a winner, I reckon.

-t.

PS. @warhammer madman, if it's possible for you to host pics on photobucket (or something similar), it really makes sorting out the contest at the deadline much easier for Jon, as it is impossible to 'order' attached images etc etc...
Just a quick little thought for you.

[Zveroboy]

Hmm. Interesting. I was thinking this might spur mt to finish my T34/76, but I started that a year ago so that's not really fair.

I am however, very bored at the moment so I think I shall nip down to ym local GW and model shops for a look-see. Zveroboy glorius return to the Painting forum!

[Jon Quixote]

@ Madman: No need to host them on Photobucket, I can get those links easy enough, but if you could resize the pics down a bit (or just crop them) that'll save me some time. Thanks.



@ Minus t: Thanks for the compliments. I shall try again and see what I can find/do.


PS the use of semi-NMM was really only due to me finding out late in the day that half of my metallics had dried up beyond rescue. And I'm too lazy to walk the 1 km to my nearest GW / Model shop to get some new ones. Ha, belly has got me good and trained.

[Izzinatah]

Hey, is it too late to enter? I could use some motivation

[Jon Quixote]

Not too late. You don't 'have' to say that you are going enter (there's not a sign-up list), just as long as you post your entry here before the deadline.

Have fun and good luck.

[Chaos877]

Heh, I cant wait to see all of these entries come together. As for my own progess, I'm going pretty fast, i've got a lot done, but still a long way to go. There will be no hints, or teasers as to what mine is, though.