GOLDEN TOM 2014 ANNOUNCED!

So this has been online since Sunday and I only notice it now?

I should have less of a real life! That's 4 days of wasted time!

Oh boy, time to put my thinking cap on.
This entirely messes up my "I won't paint anything else up until my entire Relic Knights kickstarter pledge has been painted" promise I made to myself by the way...

Aaaaar good news, i will paint something for sure, im only in a terrible indecision.... who paint?

Good news, time to get the thinking takle working on idea's for submission.

Are you allowed to enter more than one entry?

Hendrid wrote:

Are you allowed to enter more than one entry?

Nope. See rules

Rules wrote:

• One single model entry per contestant

Interesting!
Probably I will consider to submit too

This is exciting. I'm sad I've been unable to follow the forum lately but I may just have to sneak time to enter this.

My five year old daughter Countess Philomena also wishes to participate. Is it cool if I post her entry under my username, and my entry as well? She is massively excited, just like me.

Count Lucius wrote:

My five year old daughter Countess Philomena also wishes to participate.  Is it cool if I post her entry under my username, and my entry as well?  She is massively excited, just like me.

Well we can't pass up on a chance to have THE Countess Philomena enter our contest. When you submit the entry, your real first & last name identifies the mini. If for some strange I.T. reason, it doesn't accept her entry, she can have an account of her very own; I bet she'd think that was cool...or not.  

Well I guess this is going to be another few weeks of wracking my brains to figure out what to paint. I may add more to my beastman warband!

Count Lucius wrote:

My five year old daughter Countess Philomena also wishes to participate.  Is it cool if I post her entry under my username, and my entry as well?  She is massively excited, just like me.

Of course she may enter like this! It would be an honour to have the Countess herself grace this competition with her illustrious entry.

floedebolle wrote:

Let me guess warboss, its gonna ba an orc of some kind...?
To the brushes then!

Maybe...

I have decided on a little project for this and I'm really excited about it. It's a shame it has to be done in secret!

Floedebolle and I talked about this contest a lot during the last weeks and months.

His skill to create this master piece of a bronze art figure is something, which amazes me each and every time when he does something like that.

When he is comitted to something he can create wonders and does not care about costs.

The result this time are these invaluable bronze art sculptures.

Their worth may not be estimated nearly correctly by many people here (me included in the past).

Although my support was for me significant, it is insignificant with regard to the whole project.

My deepest respect and admiration for a true artist and friend.

SerialMoM wrote:

Floedebolle and I talked about this contest a lot during the last weeks and months.

His skill to create this master piece of a bronze art figure is something, which amazes me each and every time when he does something like that.

When he is comitted to something he can create wonders and does not care about costs.

The result this time are these invaluable bronze art sculptures.

Their worth may not be estimated nearly correctly by many people here (me included in the past).

Although my support was for me significant, it is insignificant with regard to the whole project.

My deepest respect and admiration for a true artist and friend.

Without you & Ben there wouldn't be a Golden Tom Two. The WONDROUS statue that Ben created brings the whole enterprise to another level. WELL DONE, SerialMoM & floedebolle!  

Not been on this forum for far too long. Thanks to Tom for the email about the competition. Totally going to dust off my paints and brushes and see what I can do. I know just the model to enter too, he's been waiting on some paint after I built him ages ago. Very excited.

Oh for Grungni, looks like it's time come come back bother you with my presence. DeafNala first of all. XD

May i consider myself as "miniature manifacturer" and sculp a mini for the contest? Obviously I'll paint it too :-P

No idea why everybody has so many problems deciding on what to paint. I knew what it's going to be right from the start But it' really a shame it's got to be done in secret...

Admin Tom wrote:

Count Lucius wrote:

My five year old daughter Countess Philomena also wishes to participate.  Is it cool if I post her entry under my username, and my entry as well?  She is massively excited, just like me.

Of course she may enter like this! It would be an honour to have the Countess herself grace this competition with her illustrious entry.

Thanks Admin Tom and DeafNala! She has been busy drawing many diagrams for her models paint scheme and is quite stoked. I might post those with the painting as they are rather hilarious. Again, thanks for letting me include my little Mordheimer!

drakkol wrote:

May i consider myself as "miniature manifacturer" and sculp a mini for the contest? Obviously I'll paint it too :-P

Please do; original pieces & conversion especially done with a sense of humor & a feel for the absurd gain extra favor with the Judges...especially this Judge.  

Count Lucius wrote:

Thanks Admin Tom and DeafNala!  She has been busy drawing many diagrams for her models paint scheme and is quite stoked.  I might post those with the painting as they are rather hilarious.  Again, thanks for letting me include my little Mordheimer!

It really will be a delight having The Countess contribute to the contest. Thank you for joining in the fun!  

drakkol wrote:

May i consider myself as "miniature manifacturer" and sculp a mini for the contest? Obviously I'll paint it too :-P

Please do; original pieces & conversion especially done with a sense of humor & a feel for the absurd gain extra favor with the Judges...especially this Judge.  

Haha, well, count me! And concerning drakkols sculptingskills and sence of humor, what else can we expect but a true piece of hensonian art!?
Looking forward to your entry drakkol!

@mommy: Thanks my friend! Goes down like beer! By the way, its  ashame i havent showed you the trophies yet, time to change this![/quote]

Cor! Now I just have to learn to paint!

Count Lucius wrote:

She has been busy drawing many diagrams for her models paint scheme and is quite stoked.  I might post those with the painting as they are rather hilarious.  

Please do! That would be great. Seriously!

Okay, the fig has been decided (and found in the sixth 'I am sure it must be in this one' box)

Assembled and primed years ago, never started to paint.
Lost one small bit, replaced by another after a wee bit of a search in ye ole bitzboxes.
I also removed the fig from it's base to give him a brand new shiny base.

New base pondered upon, decided upon, materials collected (some of them from my very own garden) and the contruction has started (including lots of swearing)

I'm very excited for this little contest indeed

Quase wrote:

Okay, the fig has been decided (and found in the sixth 'I am sure it must be in this one' box)

Consider yourself happy, the mini I could swear I owned didn't turn up in any of my boxes :-( Will have to look in the marketplace of my home forum to get the mini (again?).

I have now collected most of the bits needed for my submission and I've started putting them together. There has been a bit of trial-and-error involved so far but it's coming together nicely. I still need to find a couple of things that I'm sure I have somewhere but I need to dig around for them.

Once I have them it will be on to the greenstuff phase.

I'm enjoying this a lot!

Great to hear you guys have your creative juices flowing!

I must say I am at least as excited to see what everyone will come up with.

Which reminds me: please do not hesitate to spread the news of this contest to as many (relevant) online places as you can! The more entries we get the better! Tell your friends!

It's really about the artistic side of the hobby, about making great minis and about enjoying ourselves above all. Don't forget that EVEN if you do not win, you may very well make it into the honorable mentions and be featured alongside the winners in the hall of fame for eternal glory.

... and who knows, maybe there will be little profile icons for the honorable mention winners IF we get enough together