Once again it's time to kick things off with another Wyrd Painting Contest. As with last year,
we've decided to return to a popular theme; Total Testosterone - 2007!
Overwhelming muscles, the need for a big weapon and the underlying instinct to show off for
the fairer sex? If the answer is yes, then your miniature is more than qualified for the Total
Testosterone painting contest!
The contest will run from June 1st through July 15th and during that time competition entries can
be submitted. At the close of the contest, voting will commence for one week where you will be
allowed to vote anonymously through the Wyrd forum software as well as leave comments and critique
which we have found our previous entrants have greatly enjoyed. After the voting, announcements will
be made and prizes sent to the winners, along with the random prizes that we give away with every
contest.
Due to the theme, your miniature must be male, and to be more specific, a human or humanoid type.
Examples are: Humans, elves, dwarves, halflings, centaurs, male vampires, ogre bulls, WWII
cyber-zombies ... etc. The list is rather long and and open, but if you should question it, please
contact me and I will give you a final decision upon it.
The specific rules for the contest can be found on the Wyrd Miniatures website on the forums under
'Wyrd Painting Contest: Rules and Information'. I would really like to stress folks to read the
rules, as folks tend to miss them for some reason and they end up misunderstanding the contest, the
theme or disqualify themselves. The main thing to keep in mind is that all entries are supposed to
be anonymous!
The categories for the contest are:
ALTERNATIVE: The men that just don't seem to fit anywhere else in the categories. Cowboys,
naval officers or chainsaw wielding postal workers (okay, that last one wasn't funny - really!)
DEADLY DUEL: A diorama with two or more combatants locked in combat or something equally
disturbing. Atleast one miniature must be male.
FANTASY: Sword wielding barbarians, magic casting magicians, deadly muscled assassins ready to
draw you blood. If the miniature is pure fantasy, this is his category.
SCI-FI: Gun blazing street samurai of the deadly future or weapon wielding aliens dancing a
song of death or perhaps a steampunked necromancer plying his disgusting trade. A wide range of
miniatures will fit nicely into this category.
MONSTER'S BALL: Due to demand and the fact that we just can't seem to get away from folks want
to enter male monsters, we've returned with this category. If its a male, and a monster of any
sort (this will include everything from centaurs to wanged demons), then here he goes.
As these contests continue to get bigger and bigger, we've made the decision here at Wyrd to
shoulder the responsibility of prize packages solely, with miniatures and gift certificates awarded.
This will in no way affect the size or frequency of prizes, only the variety being offered. With the
size and frequency of the contests we thought it only fair to take on the burden of goodies.
I am once again looking forward to a great contest as they seem to be getting bigger and better
with each passing due to your participation and enthusiastic entries. Thank you! If you have any
questions or concerns, please feel free to ask.
Regards,
Nathan Caroland
Wyrd Miniatures
www.wyrd-games.net
Have to make a start on my BS one today and pick one for the Wyrd... :icon_scratch:
All of these competitions and so little time (and less motivation of late) :icon_eek:
Got an entry in for this one. Woot!
Good luck Matt
Thanks! I spent approx 10 hours on it. Don't expect to win but it's an improvement over previous entries.
Finsh for a week hol's on friday so i will get mine done then. :dragon:
Interesting to see who the top two were in the fantasy section..... well done lads
Our winners for the Total Testosterone III, listed from 1st to 3rd, are:
ALTERNATIVE:
Alternative Entry 03: Morf
Alternative Entry 04: pete-h
Alternative Entry 01: matty1001
DEADLY DUEL:
Deadly Duel Entry 03: Art-de-Vivre
Deadly Duel Entry 02: lauth81
Deadly Duel Entry 04: Lizcam
FANTASY:
Fantasy Entry 05: Wristaction
Fantasy Entry 18: gi6ers
Fantasy Entry 10: Malebolgia
MONSTERS BALL:
Monsters Ball Entry 11: Wiccanpony
Monsters Ball Entry 05: Ringsnake
Monsters Ball Entry 08: Coneman
SCI-FI:
Sci-Fi Entry 03: Redfink
Sci-Fi Entry 01: Callumrice
Sci-Fi Entry 05: Orkydave
BEST BASE OR DIORAMA:
Fantasy Entry 14: Wiccanpony
BEST OF SHOW:
Sci-Fi Entry 03: Redfink
Random Schmucks:
Vytis, Wingz, EldinTux, Sculpta the Squig
Voting Schmucks:
Jabberwockey, Dan, Ebonbuddha, Highbulp Billy
Completely Wyrd Schmucks:
Wren, LavronYor
:icon_beer:
Quote from: gi6ers on July 01, 2007, 08:34:33 AM
Thanks! I spent approx 10 hours on it. Don't expect to win but it's an improvement over previous entries.
I spent 14 hours on mine. :icon_wink:
Well done to everyone and thanks to all who voted for me. :occasion14:
:occasion14: :clap2: Great job guys :icon_beer: :occasion14: :clap2: :bludrgn2:
:yeahthat:
Congrats!
Nice one Wristy and Gi6ers. :clap2: One day I will be goiod enough to enter too and then we can have all 3 places :icon_w00t:
Some of my early entery's and thanks to entering them i got told what to work on to improve, so don't wory about your skill level, just enter anyway as i do just for the fun of it. :icon_wink:
I was told that i needed to work on my metals on my early entery's and i have worked at them since then.
Need to sort out a better picture of Walkurie Hauptsturmfuhrer.
Quote from: Perv on July 28, 2007, 06:05:09 AM
Nice one Wristy and Gi6ers. :clap2: One day I will be goiod enough to enter too and then we can have all 3 places :icon_w00t:
This was my first entry a couple of years ago...so don't worry about whther you are good enough, just enter and get some good solid feedback:
http://wyrd-games.net/photopost/showphoto.php?photo=54 (http://wyrd-games.net/photopost/showphoto.php?photo=54)
The next one will be halloween based.
You only worry how good you are if your only entering to win 1st prize, me i use it as an excuse to paint something, try to improve my painting, get helpfull feedback and enjoy myself. :icon_wink:
If i didn't enjoy it i wouldn't enter and sod the winning, it's the fun that matters. :occasion14:
:yeahthat:
Couldn't agree more, you get some of the best feedback on the Wyrd contests.
I've only based 1 figure so far, I am pretty happy with the result and it only took me 12 minutes to do it after the initial ink on primer had dried. I was dreading it but it all went really easy and just came together without any effort. Cant show a pic of it as its my 54mm Orc for that Group Contest but will do soon
I agree its the taking part that counts but in the same breath I dont want to submit something thats just gonna get laughed at. I am almost at that stage where I am comfortable doing all parts of the figs and it shows as I am entering the 54mm contest and never entered a painting contest b4 so confidence is creeping up. I'll be there soon I think but not just yet :icon_wink:
Quote from: Perv on July 30, 2007, 05:10:38 AM
I agree its the taking part that counts but in the same breath I dont want to submit something thats just gonna get laughed at.
That never happens on Wyrd and your painting is beyond a lot of the entrants. Have a peruse of some of the contest galleries.
From seeing pics I've posted and other people have I've learnt that small mistakes arent spotted too much and are more noticeable by the painter than anyone. I've not noticed parts of the fig the painter hasnt been happy with until hes pointed them out to me. Being the painter you are always gonna know where each bit you arent happy with is....
I'll have to have a looksie at the entrants and hopefully it will give me some confidence but looking at Wristys entry I wont stand a chance of winning !!! Didnt see what you entered Gi6ers. If the average quality is anything like that then I will enter the under 10 year old section I think :icon_w00t: I'll do my best to get an entry in for Halloween if I think I can match the average. In the last year my paining has improved more than it did in the previous 20 so 3 months time may be time enough mate
Here's some of the other stuff entered and you can see the feedback too.
http://wyrd-games.net/photopost/showphoto.php?photo=1625
http://wyrd-games.net/photopost/showphoto.php?photo=1656
http://wyrd-games.net/photopost/showphoto.php?photo=1623
http://wyrd-games.net/photopost/showphoto.php?photo=1651
http://wyrd-games.net/photopost/showphoto.php?photo=1618
http://wyrd-games.net/photopost/showphoto.php?photo=1624
http://wyrd-games.net/photopost/showphoto.php?photo=1626
I'm better than some but not as good as others so yeah midtable is good enough for me :perv:
Once this tower and 54mm fig done I will look into the halloween contest. Cheers for links Wristy :icon_w00t: