Bassman:
Hello,
I would like to give my two cents to improve/discuss my favourite web competition ever: Golden Hat.
I love this competition but being a great competition does not mean it could not be improved.
I wish this thread could help to make it even better.
There are a couple of things I dislike.
First: pictures.
Sometimes pictures are really bad. Moderators can’t do anything about original pictures, of course, but improving with Photoshops and similar programs. The real problem is that sometimes pictures are really bad in the competition I cannot judge properly the entry but, when they are posted in their original format on army blogs… they are awesome! I do not know why.
Maybe it’s the size. I know pictures shall be formatted to the proper size, other wise they would be too heavy, but I have a “normal” broadband and I do not feel they are too large in the army blogs threads.
Has any other person had the same problems with pics?
Is it possible to improve this aspect, being so important to judge a miniature?
Second: Work in Progress and unpainted miniatures.
I already said I do not like to see Wips in army blogs of Golden hat entries. I think this gives an unfair advantage. But, well, I do not take things so seriously to discuss it further.
I just find a little disturbing to see unpainted miniatures in the “official” Golden Hat pictures.
I always believe this is a competition for “complete” miniatures. An unpainted mini, it doesn’t matter if “green” or casted, is not a complete miniature. It could be compared to a miniature without basing…
Some people discussed about the importance of conversion/scratch builds and painting to properly judge a miniature. I am not talking about this, I’m just pointing out it’s a non-sense to post an unpainted miniature in such a contest.
I think sometimes this could distract people from properly judging a mini, thanks to the “WOW factor” to see a complete scratchbuild miniature.
I wish M3lvin does not take it wrong if I point his miniature (well, you got my vote, this means my speculations does not interfere with my judgements ), but I found weirdo to see a cast of his mini as an “official” picture of a painting competition. I was tempted to not give him my vote because he posted a miniature with manifest defects in its painting… lol
What’s the point?
I think if we had only painted pictures would be better to an over all judgement of the miniature. It would also naturally balance the importance of painting and converting/scratchbuilding.
We can even better judge conversions.
I do not think people have problem to recognize complete scratchbuilt miniatures, even if completely painted.
Said this I love conversions, all my entries are heavily converted, but I found a non sense to post my greens.
There will be place in my blog for that!
What do you think?