We're pleased to announce
the second of our irregular painting competitions. The first Arcane
Challenge generated over 50 entries and some truly luscious work,
but we're looking to improve on both this time around, so - it's
time to get painting!
The closing date for this Challenge is Friday 15th August - judging
will take place over the week following this date, with the winners
announced on the 22nd August.
The Prizes:
1st Prize: £150.00 worth of vouchers to spend on the Arcane
Miniatures website, plus a Vallejo Game Color Presentation set!
Vallejo paints are synonymous with the best in quality, and this
pack of 72 paints is a worthy prize for any competition winner!
2nd Prize: £50.00 worth of vouchers to spend on the Arcane
Miniatures website, plus a copy of Rackham's Confrontation AoR
Initiation set - the latest version of their popular fantasy gaming
system.
3rd Prize: £25.00 worth of vouchers to spend on the Arcane
Miniatures website, plus 2 sprays from the Army Painter range
- a White Primer and their new Matt Varnish.
Vouchers are redeemable at any time against purchase made on this
website. No cash equivalents / alternative prizes are available
The Rules:
1: The competition is for a single figure, fully painted with
a finished base. The base can be as scenic as you like, but it's
the miniature itself being judged so stay focused! No 'weight'
will be given to the size of the chosen miniature - human sized,
monster sized, gigantic sized... they're all the same as far as
this is concerned.
2: The submitted entry MUST be a figure drawn from a range that
is available for sale from this site.
3: The submitted entry MUST be a NEW paintjob that HAS NOT been
seen online before and HAS NOT previously been entered into any
other competition. Please pay attention here - we had to disqualify
several very well painted entries due to this rule not being followed
last time around.
4: Entries should be submitted via email to: enquiries@arcaneminiatures.co.uk.
Images should be supplied as RGB .jpg files UNDER 500k in size
and MUST show both FRONT and BACK views of your miniature. You
can use montage / detail shots in your submitted image, but bear
in mind that sometimes less is more!
5: An entrant can submit multiple figures for inclusion in the
competition, but no individual figure may be entered more than
once.
6: This should go without saying, but the entry MUST be the work
of the submitter - no 'borrowing' allowed!
7: Your finished image must be received no later than 11.59pm
on the 15th August 2008. Please note that your entry is considered
FINAL once submitted - no 'revised' images will be accepted, so
make sure your photography counts!
8: NO PHOTOSHOP ANTICS! You may use editing software to crop your
pictures, make montages and to address contrast / brightness and
that's fine but - no embellishing!
9: No conversions - we'd like these just as nature made them ;-)
If any entry is found to break one or more of the rules above,
that entry will be disqualified immediately.
The Judges:
As per last time, we'll be bribing asking for the assistance
of some well known names from the gaming world to assist in the
judging process - more to follow.
The Judging:
Once the competition end date has passed, the judging process
will begin. All submitted entries will be made available on a
set of gallery pages through this website. There is no overall
'marking' system in place but you will want to consider your colour
combinations, suitability of your paintjob to its subject, tidiness
of finishing etc when producing your entry as all will be considered
when judging takes place.
The decision of the judges is final and the results will be posted
on this website on the 22nd August 2008. Winners will be contacted
on that day via email.
