“Feed the Machine… Burn it to the Ground”
Warcolours and The Brazen Broadcast Presents: The 42nd Golden Hat competition on Chaos Dwarfs Online!
The Golden Hat Winner will receive this set of mm90 miniatures courtesy of @LaketideMiniatures and @MichaelX
This contest has been sponsored by Warcolours !
The silver winner will receive a €20 store coupon at Warcolours
The bronze winner will receive an assortment of nautical vessels in relatively Man-o-war scale courtesy of @Reaver and @MichaelX
One lucky random participant will receive a €10 store coupon at Warcolours courtesy of @warcolours
Subject Matter: Daemonic Machinery
This theme is wide open for interpretation. For this painting contest we want you to enter with anything involving Chaos Dwarf daemon engines, daemonic factories, daemonsmithing equipment, daemon imbued warmachines, bound daemonic creations, or artillery in general!
Do you have any old daemon engine models or piss printer proxy prints searing a hole in the middle of your dusty shelf? Are you sick of infantry slogging being the clear meta of the BATG? Dig out your neglected artillery that craves paint! In the words of loresmith @chitzkoi … Daemons are spicy batteries. Let’s put them to use!
The Warmachines and Artillery section is the most popular of our image galleries for a reason. Daemon imbued artillery is our bread and butter, our noodles and red sauce, our… Yorkshire Pudding? Every self respecting and elf loathing Chaos Dwarf general aches with a mighty need to cackle at the Old World (and its embiggened base sizes) and burn it to the ground with a salvo of arsetillery. Not in the mood for ranged warfare, melee skullcrackin is certainly permitted.
Maybe you’d prefer to create a diorama of your daemonsmith’s workshop. In the process securing the final rivet in his latest Thomas the Tank Daemon Engine. This painting contest is open to single entities or an entire gun battery or an entire train of machines pulled by an iron daemon. Trains, boats, airships, bulldozers, cranes, Zike Zhulligan and his Steam Shovel, mecha-shiva, or any other miscellaneous inspirations.
Are you a Hobgoblin enjoyer? No doubt the crook nosed taskmasters encourage the underling crews forced to operate the most dangerous daemonic equipment. Tasks that no Chaos Dwarf would permit to sully their boots.
Worried your idea is too large? You are incorrect and will be summarily and kindly ridiculed. This contest embraces the centerpiece enthusiast. What better way to strike fear into your opponent than grabbing his attention with a massive oozing bum barrel. Worried your idea is too small? Also nonsense, every respectable daemonsmith has a panoply of living failures scuttling around the workshop. Why not force those minor bound creations into servitude to nibble at the shins of your scale creeping foe.
Let’s get that artillery backlog painted and shake the earth with our creations. Keep it as simple or as complicated as you like. Let your imagination run wild! Maniacal unhinged laughing strongly encouraged.
If you are unsure if your entry will fit the subject matter, please contact @Reaver and he’ll sort it out with the rest of the Staff.
Basing is unrestricted and up to your discretion. You may include plinths and display bases if you want. You may include fancy backgrounds. We want to encourage the creation of beautiful models and scenes, not hamper it.
Specifics
Subject: Daemonic Machinery
Bases: Up to your discretion.
The Due Date: 11:59 PM March the 2nd 2024 EST (Eastern Time Zone)
Please read the full rules that apply to the Golden Hat competition before submitting your entry.
Submission
All entries must be sent to the @GoldenHat account no later than the due date. (Entrants have approximately 10 weeks to complete entries). If for some reason you are having trouble with your submission, contact @Reaver since the @GoldenHat account has limited monitoring. In order to avoid problems, entrants should not wait until the last minute to submit their entries.
How to Enter
Submissions should include up to 4 pictures of your miniature creation. Upload and send your entry images with this forum’s direct upload function (preferred) in a PM to @GoldenHat (a special user that all Staff have access to). Any images uploaded to the Internet, e.g. with Imgur will need to be inserted in image form into the PM anyway (see below).
If you win:
- Walk across the backs of the cowed masses you have scorned and pushed aside, in order to take your place at the top in the vaunted Golden Hat Gallery .
- Receive the Golden Hat medal for your online persona.
- Win paints and miniatures! See above for details.
Go forth daemonsmiths of the Dark Lands and bind the dark souls of the damned to your infernal creations!
Once all entries are received a thread will be created for voting and determining the winners!
If there are any questions it is best to post them here so that everyone can benefit from any details or clarifications that may arise.
Should you wish to donate a prize to the contest, please PM @Reaver and he will sort it out with you and the Staff.
Good luck everyone!
The Staff
Let’s see if I can come up with something suitable. 
