Ever Warhammer site seems to have a such - but we dont ?? Shouldn’t we do something about that?
Anyone up for running a bi-monthly painting challenge?
Yes, we do have the Golden Hat - but why not also have a painting challenge. Just for fun - but also to give you something to aim for - and helps keep pushing on. Might also help you to improve yur skills, so why not?
We can’t paint dwarfs all the time - so why not have a painting challenge open for everything.
The challenge will have at theme - but a very broad/open one like: ‘Lets see your NMM’, ‘Give me blood’, 'back to the ‘80s’ or something complete different.
It’s then up to the participants to interpret the theme. Each participant then paint a miniature and post it (in a dedicated thread) before a given deadline (I’ll say 4-6 weeks after the challenge is given). You might even give us a few words, why you entry is cool and how you see it fits the theme (if needed)
Anything could be allowed but lets keep it small at a start. So it can be Dark future, Victorian Sci-fi, fantasy, horror, history etc. - and all scales are allowed - it just have to fit the theme.
After that we run a 5 days poll. All member here can vote. Votes should be given to the best painted entry that interpret the theme best. After voting a´has ended it’s on with the next challenge.
So no shiny medals or other big prizes - but we could let the winner put down the next challenge.
Think we should aim for a 4-6 weeks painting period. Show painted stuff once a week is probably pushing it a bit to far.
And for unit size, well it’s open so do what you feel is right within the theme. This is not ‘do a chaos dwarf general standing on a max of 20x20mm base etc. type of thing’ (we’ll leave that to GH) - it’s simply just motivation to do some painting
So if theme was ‘Show me blood’ you could do a pool of blood, 12 Hormagaunts with blood on their claws, a blood Prince, a nurse taking a blood sample - or a billion other things - it’s totally up to you - and what you make out of it.
Only conditions will be -
1) It has to be a miniature - no given scale, range, genre etc.
2) Everything has to be painted by you - and painted in the time period where the challenge was given (or at least not shown here before)
3) Well photographed - or as good as you can
4) Posted in a dedicated painting challenge thread before deadline
Simple as that.
So no restrictions what so ever - and it’s up to member to judge - how well you interpreted the challenge.
And give me some suggestion what our first theme should be - and I’ll set up a poll for this - our first CDOPC #1.
Back to the 80 could be anything - not just an old miniature - like paint a Heresy Predator mini, do a Rambo conversion, painting pastel colours - all up to each participant to interpret.
But yes, painting some old s*** is cool - but finding something older than me ??? :rolleyes: - well theme might be changed to 'Summer of ‘69’ then.
I’d be up for giving it a try, but I have limited time for the hobby, so it would have to fit into my current projects. In other words, I can’t commit to this 100%.
Hey I’m all for painting and such… I just wouldn’t sign up to do anything more official than my army blog
If there was no deadline and it was just a “let’s see who can get the most converting and/or painting done in the month of November” and then the same thing in December, etc that would be fine.
Think the hobbyside of CDO needs a kick start. Everybody seems to be busy with everything else but CDs. So the challenge is only ment to give you current project(s) a little twist - and gain an insight into what your a currently working on.
I don’t ask for a 100% binding agreement here - just wahted to here if you think its a good or a bad idea - that’s it!
Of course I’ll hat to see if I was the only participant in the frist round - but also aware that such things needs a few rounds to set.
No one with any suggestions about theme. If not, then we’ll kick this on of with the “back to the '80s”-theme.
