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Painting Contest?

Discussion in 'Painting and Converting' started by Qupakoco, Feb 5, 2014.

  1. Qupakoco
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    Qupakoco Keeper of the Dice Staff Member

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    I pinged a few people about this already, but I'm looking for forum-wide feedback now.

    Anyone interested? I've been researching basic rules and such and I think I can set up a pretty good one. Maybe even make it a yearly thing like the dice order.

    Scalenex pointed me towards the Golden Bat competition on the Vampire Counts forum. I think they have lots of good ideas in there and we could model a Lustria themed competition off of theirs. Not copy it of course, but using the basic rubric of tiers and scoring and such as well as some fine-tuning to make it Lustria-Online friendly.

    What does everyone think? I'll start scrounging for prizes/sponsorship's to see if we can get some good prize support if there is enough interest.
     
  2. Pinktaco
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    Pinktaco Vessel of the Old Ones Staff Member

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    sounds interesting so sure :)
     
  3. Hojdar
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    It sounds like a great idea! I'd participate if we would have a contest just for fun
     
  4. spawning of Bob
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    Qupakoco, have you run out of things to do again?

    I have a few thoughts:

    1. Gear it so we can fill some holes in the Itza gallery of fine arts
    2. Have a wettest of wet skinks category to draw in some more lurkers
    3. Have a "can you do a mod to look like your n810 avatar / friends of Bob?" component to the comp. (I hope Caprasauridae enters)

    Regardless, I'll keep posted. Might need to drop the pencils and pull out the hobby tools again.

    Tail slap, nose rub.
     
  5. VampTeddy
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    I'm in! what a sensible way to force me to put up a plog!
     
  6. n810
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    Sure why not, it would get me off my but and painting again.... :D

    (I think the remians of our last painting comp are in the forum somewhere)
     
  7. neveroddoreven
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    I love painting competitions. I don't care if it's prize or no prize, golden demon or local GW, I don't even care about winning, I just like the spirit of them. This forum needs one too, Lizardmen are the perfect pallet for variety.
     
  8. n810
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    oh and for our last contest I made the winners a banner that they could put in their signature, as a prize.
     
  9. NexS1
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    Two words...



    Love it.
     
  10. Axolotyl
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    I spent most of the morning reading golden bat rules, it makes sense, I like how its pitched at pros and news, and that the spirit of the models may win awards as opposed to just skill! If you wanted judges I would be happy, if not expect the competitions to be swamped in chameleon skinks!

    If you want me to help etc just ask, it will give me something to do other than complain about painting skinks :p
     
  11. Qupakoco
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    Yeah.... :oops:


    Great feedback from everyone! In talking with The Red Devil a little bit, I think it would be a good idea to have the competition start later this year after we get our shiny new website. That should give plenty of time for us to find sponsors and smooth out the rules to make them Lustria-specific. I'll be recruiting some of you as judges as well.

    So how about this. Let's do a tri-monthly mini competition until we can get the actual big competition all figured out. No prizes or anything, just bragging rights or maybe something neat that n810 can whip up for your sig. This will serve as a couple dry-runs for the real deal and help to figure out any kinks that I haven't thought of. Then when August/September rolls around, BOOM! Big tourny. Sound good? Axolotyl, I'm gonna recruit you since you so kindly offered your help.


    We also need a sweet name for our competition!!! Golden Daemon/Golden Bat-esque. I'm thinking something like the Obsidian Snake or some barely pronounceable High-Saurian name.

    How on that?

    OH! I almost forgot that Scalenex mentioned a Lizardmen Fluff competition... Might go hand in hand with the new site/painting comp :meh:
     
  12. Axolotyl
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    The skinkathalon springs to mind
     
  13. Qupakoco
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    Ha! Skinkapalooza. Skink Stock.
     
  14. NexS1
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    As I am a musician, I am aligned to skinkapalooza
    Hahaha
     
  15. Prof
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    Sounds cool, I'm up for it! Love the idea of themes to focus on
     
  16. VampTeddy
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    I wouldn't mind judging either, participating would be fun too, but i guess i spend so much time here, i'm bound to notice all of the miniatures, and i might as well do something constructive with my time here!
     
  17. Axolotyl
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    I don't think it would be fair for judges to have a submission, for bias reason, but if the judges were to submit one model each open forum no theme and the rest of the forum votes via poll we could get our fix, and still judge the rest fairly
     
  18. Qupakoco
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    Ok guys, so here's the plan. This month, maybe in a couple weeks, we'll start up the Skinkathalon. The first of our mini comps. Geared towards learning the curve and deciding what features we'd like to incorporate into a larger full-scale contest.

    Later in the year we'll kick off Skinkapalooza, maybe sometime early this summer. This one will still be a mini-comp, but we'll have it be a hopefully more mature version of the Skinkathalon.

    And when the new site rolls in, hopefully August/September, we'll have a full-on contest with prizes and sponsors and maybe even a whole bunch of new members and features for the site.

    Sound good?


    Aaaannnnddd..... BREAK!
     
  19. NexS1
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    you1.jpg

    rock06.jpg
     
  20. Rikard
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    I'm in (assuming I'm allowed to use sculpts/conversions).
     

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