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Time to officially declare the 2008 GothiComms Battlefleet Gothic Painting Competition, open!
This is the fourth annual GothiComp, and will be run in a very similar way to last years event. (If it is not broken, dont try to fix it!)
The Goal
The general aim of this competition is simply to encourage players to get painting and show off what they can do. I encourage people to enter no matter how good or bad their painting and converting skills are.
The Deadline
This competition will open may 1, 2008, and the deadline for submissions is Thursday 31st July 2008, 4pm (UK time).
The Categories
Generally, there is only a single category and all submissions are entered into this. This will be voted on by the Battlefleet Gothic players. However, in addition, there will be a 'conversion prize'. This will be a token prize for one entry based on the skill and style of any conversion work which has gone into the vessel, in an effort to encourage creativity in modelling as well as painting. This will be judged by a select panel. All entries are automatically submitted into both competitions simultaneously. The judges for the conversion prize are myself, Warmaster Nice and Cybershadow.
The Prizes
There are two available prizes for this competition, one for the painting winner and one for the conversion winner.
The painting prize
The prize for the winner of the painting competition has been donated by Napalm and Reaver, for which we thank them.
Any escort blister up to the prize of 8?/12?/15$ The order will be placed with Games Workshop and the prize will be delivered directly to the winner.
Plus 8 resin Voss-prows for IN cruisers.
We are still open for prize donations for the painting competition to make the reward more ?beefier?. You can contact me or Cybershadow if you want to donate a prize.
The conversion prize
The conversion prize is a Battleship of the winners choice, or equivalent, up to the value of eighteen pounds in the UK (including postage). The order will be placed with Games Workshop and the prize will be delivered directly to the winner, from Vanvlak, who we thank very much for his donation.
The Vessels
Each separate entry should consist of a single miniature to be used for Battlefleet Gothic (however, note that conversions, scratch builds and even vessels from outside manufacturers are welcome). The only exception to this is:
- If the vessel is a light cruiser or equivalent, one or two vessels may be submitted as a single entry in the same photograph.
- If the vessel is an escort or equivalent, then the submission must consist of between two and four vessels in a single picture.
Aside from this stipulation, the entry is largely down to the participant.
The Pictures
You should submit a single picture per entry, no more. Each photograph should be no more than 640 x 480 pixels large, and should remain under 75Kb. This limit is set by the size of the post on these boards, and is the total size of the post, including pictures and text. Pictures which do not conform to these criteria may be resized or otherwise altered, or disqualified from the event. If you wish, you may submit a single picture which consists of your ship from a number of different angles, in effect a composite picture. However, the normal rules apply to this in terms of size and dimension.
With the submissions being made via the thread on these board, I must request that all pictures which are submitted are actually uploaded to these boards, rather than being linked and hosted off-board. The reasons for this are that the board then sets the size limit of the pictures, and so it keeps all entries equal, and the entries become unchangable when the thread is locked.
The Submission
To submit a picture of your vessel to this competition, you simply post it in the submissions thread on this board. Note that you must be a member of the GothiComp boards to enter this competition.
We will compile a gallery of the entrants which will be available online. This gallery will remain as a permanent fixture to the site, and so you will be able to browse the pictures in the future. Please note, I am sure that there will be a rush in the last 24 hours before the end of this competition, therefore please don't wait until the last few hours if you can avoid it.
The Voting
Voting will take place here on these boards. Entries will be split into heats of up to nine entries each. The winner of each heat will go through to the next round until a winner is determined. Please note that entries will be placed into heats in the order in which they are submitted here. Therefore, if you are intending to submit more than one vessel to this competition, it may be in your interest to spread out your submissions, to ensure that you do not have all of your entries in the same category and are therefore competing against yourself (since only a single entry from each heat goes through to following rounds, having entries in multiple heats increases your chances).
Additional Rules
All decisions are final, any prizes are non-negotiable and the competition organizers reserve the right to remove competition entries or request that they are resubmitted or altered. We will hopefully never need this stuff, but just in case...
That is it. Feel free to email me with any questions that you may have. Now, what are you doing still reading this? Get painting!
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Light at the Horizon.
Warp Rift
Project Distant Darkness
Eldar MMS
GothiComp Hall of Fame
http://www.tacticalwargames.net/taccmd/viewtopic.php?f=38&t=19176
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