Painting Competition voting thread - July/August

[jivetyrant]

Here's your chance to vote for the July/August painting competition!

THE MOST IMPORTANT RULE: You are NOT allowed to vote for yourself!

Here are the entries, in a random order (literally picked out of a hat)...



vespa










Sinny!














Evan Quinn














Bigpig














Maskedtyranid














atrocity








Good luck everybody!

[Sinny!]

Man this is a hard one! There is heaps of entries and they are all pretty epic! hmmm.... decisions, decisions....
I love Vespas Marines and Daemon Prince and Warboss.
Evan Quinns and Maskedtyranids Tyrands are awesome.
Evans single models are very well done too, wish I did some one off models like that as it allows you more time to get down and dirty with all the nice details.. no way you could do that quality on a whole army unless you are on steroids
Not sure If I am keen on bigpigs Necron lord but all his other stuff is just amazing! Makes me want to start a necron army right now!
Atrocitys stuff is pretty sweet too. im sure the photos dont do them any justice, I'd love to see these irl.

[Helonion]

Good thing I pulled from this comp XD

So, I say EVERYONE WINS! Seriously.......except astrocity. Nothing personal just I dislike dipped models in competition because I view it as who painted the best they could/the best overall and dipping just is a cheap fast easy way to get your army done and I don't see how its fair for painting comps. Plus you don't get the pride in your work as you would compared to normal painting.

vespa: Your nids are beautiful! The yellow is done well and it balance it self well with the brown and they compliment each other. Your marines are nicely blue and nicely detailed. Your demon looks amazing, your Warboss looks badass! And the basing seems personalized well.

@sinny!: Your orks are hell-a-war torn and you pulled off yellow. Dear god you pulled off a yellow army! I now want a banana....

@evan: Your sea of gaunts is like staring at hypnotoad. I love when you do different minis like the Reaper ones because no army scheme, much more random compared to everything else, always a surprise and they just look god damn awesome!

bigpig: Your rust effects...look ugly, in that they look rusted! It looks like rust! What really brings it together is the glow from the guns and the blade. Ungodly amazing skill! I'm starting to think you Photoshopped them on!

@masked: Your nids look great with purple and red, i'm loving the retro looking handle for the lashwips. Also refreshing to see the bushes on there. Most of the time I see them as a lazy job on minis for (please do not swear) basing. You managed to use them and make it look convincing.

atrocity...........I'm no saying you suck at painting or anything, just that I think you can personally do better than your dipping method. I think you put time into it yo can paint better than dipping. You can base well. So why not see what you can do on your own! With out the varnish! Yes devlan mud is usable, actually a skill just applying enough of it to look dark and griddy or anime like.

[Sinny!]

I cant decide... I may hove to roll a dice lol

[vespa]

Sept 3, 2012 0:20:53 GMT Sinny! said:

I love Jivetyrants Marines and Daemon Prince and Warboss.

I think you mean Vespa?? I hope

It's going to hard to pick who to vote for this month!

[orkblasta]

you're all jerks :-P

trust me, that's a compliment.

seriously, you guys have put together the best and closest competition yet. I honestly think this months painting competition is the best we've had. In the end I picked winner for a number of reasons, uniqueness, technical skill, ambition, personalization on the bases, and number of completed models. In the end I picked Vespa, your nids were very well done, I loved the bright yellow but it didn't over power the rest of the model. Yes it caught my attention but it didn't hold my attention if you know what I mean. Also your basing on the nids was very good I've always been a fan of that style of base. Next are your assault on black reach marines. The blue is clean and the highlights really make the models pop. The bases are also very complimentary. All in all the marines were very well done, I'd love to see a whole army done to this standard. Then we have your daemon prince, The purple is just awesome, the armour is superb, and the claws and talons are insane, but I think you dropped the ball on his base, the lava effect could be better. And lastly we have your ork warboss, I've always loved this model, it just looks sooooooo epic, but that's just me. You did a superb job on this mini as a whole, the skin, the cloth, the battle damage, the base, it's all excellent. I especially love how you've incorporated a number of different colours into this model, you didn't stick with a small palette you branched out and used a wide range which in my opinion makes for a much more dynamic and purely epic character. Well done to you sir.

second place I have to say was extremely difficult, but I have to give it to Evan Quinn. First off wow, I can't believe you painted all those gaunts, that in and of itself is truly impressive, props to you. But in a more critically analysis your models are quite good and you've held that standard throughout the entire army which again is impressive. Your colour scheme is bold and very well applied, your colours are clean and crisp, but what lost you first place was your basing, it's boring and uninteresting. Your bases are simple and easy to do, which is probably why you did them in the first place. But I think you quick and easy route to get a finished model and so it makes the army look . . . cheap. The models are really good but you skimped out on the bases and that's a no no. As for the other minis honestly I only play 40k so I don't know their origin my guess would be fantasy but as I said thats just a guess. Anyways these models are . . . wow, very well done. the colours in the robes are clean and the really makes the cloth flow. the highlights are excellent and the magic is superb. Your bases are a lot better than the nids, the top characters base I'm assuming comes with model but never the less you've painted it up very very well and it really adds character to the model. The bottom model you've however gone back to the same basing technique as the nids but your saving grace with this model is his face, it's freaking incredible, I'm super impressed with this magicians face, the skin tones are good and the highlights are even and clean.

Third place was also a difficult position to choose, In the end I chose Sinny!. Your army is, in a word, FANTASTIC. Yellow is an extremely difficult colour scheme to pull off and do well. You sir have pulled it off and have done quite well. Though honestly not the best yellow army I've seen this one was very good. Your models look great on that table and you've managed such a unique army as well. Over all I really really like your army, you've painted up an above average army that's large, imposing and dynamic. The yellow really makes them stand out on the field. As for your basing, I really like your effect, it's simple and yet effective (my favourite) your basing quite effectively unify your army. Oh also I"ll comment on your battle damage and weathering. Your skill here is good but not great, I can personally say this is one area I've always struggled with, so don't take it personally. I like the look and effect but not amazing work. you've done a very good job though.

Fourth was easier to choose, I give this position to Bigpig. I do love a good rust effect and yours is spot on. I also really like your light effects, the green glowsticks are over used when people do custom colours and paint their glowsticks I'm impressed. you have some talent with fading colours. You've done a brilliant job with this blue light it's positively magical. Unfortunately there were two things that brought you to fourth, one your lord. Why? I can understand changing things up or make the lord unique and stand out but the colours you chose. The chest plate and the green on the staff is what threw me, I just don't think it works, props for trying something different but I just don't think it works. The second thing is your bases, unique? yes, effective? No. I'm sorry but the bases just look . . . odd to me, they look unfinished. Again props for trying something different but I just don't think it works.

Fifth I give to Maskedtyranid. Your colour scheme is good but not great. What I really like is your warrior lash whips/bone swords they look really great and the way you've painted them is really quite good. you did an excellent job but I didn't find your models interesting enough.

sixth is atrocity. Sorry eh but someone has to take last place. As for your models I honestly can't tell, the top pic makes them look two tone, shiny and flat, but the bottom pic brings more depth to them. If I had to guess I'd say they were two different armies. So the reason why you're taking sixth isn't based on your painting skill it's based on your pictures, I encourage you to next time take the time to take good pics in good lighting.

anyways those are my thoughts and my analysis of these months entries, well done to all and congrats to whoever takes first :-D

cheers

[Sinny!]

Sept 3, 2012 6:10:01 GMT vespa said:

Sept 3, 2012 0:20:53 GMT Sinny! said:

I love Jivetyrants Marines and Daemon Prince and Warboss.

I think you mean Vespa?? I hope

It's going to hard to pick who to vote for this month!

Hahaha yeah sorry about that

[jivetyrant]

Sept 3, 2012 9:06:42 GMT Sinny! said:

Sept 3, 2012 6:10:01 GMT vespa said:

I think you mean Vespa?? I hope

It's going to hard to pick who to vote for this month!

Hahaha yeah sorry about that

If only I had time to continue entering these competitions!

[l0rdf1end]

It was a hard choice but there was one stand out winner in my eyes.
Good luck to you all.

[ravengoescaw]

Thank you for all of you doing so well. A very good standard you have all set. The down side I will not be entering any of these compitions because I maybe a good painter one of the best at my GS. But you are all masters.

[Sinny!]

My brother made a video of my Deffwing for me
www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_quvYHglAg&feature=plcp
didnt really wanna start a new thread just for this so i put it here. also you guys can see some other pics of them.

[jivetyrant]

Sept 4, 2012 13:18:01 GMT Sinny! said:

My brother made a video of my Deffwing for me
www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_quvYHglAg&feature=plcp
didnt really wanna start a new thread just for this so i put it here. also you guys can see some other pics of them.

In future, don't post extra pictures or videos in the voting thread, it's not fair on the other entrants. Thanks.

Nobody will mind if you make a new thread for it.

[Sinny!]

yeah true, my bad! didnt wanna start a whole thread just to share a lame video i didnt even make i see your point though.

[jivetyrant]

Sept 4, 2012 21:50:03 GMT Sinny! said:

yeah true, my bad! didnt wanna start a whole thread just to share a lame video i didnt even make i see your point though.

No problem, I know you didn't mean anything bad by it.

Threads have been started for much lamer videos than that!

[cowbell]

Bigpig's Necron Immortals look truly rusted. Awesome!

2nd choice: vespa's Ork dude is painted like in the catalogues and even based well, with some cool barbed wire.