Iron Painter 2012 - Entry done

I did manage to finish my entry in time, the little goblin looks quite nice on the base I finally managed to get done, I was more than a little concerned with not having enough time to actually finish the piece, but a final effort this evening got the last few licks of paint on there and photos taken and composed into one entry.





And here for your viewing pleasure is the finished work;

The Iron Painter 2012 WIP

I was asked to provide some WIP pictures of my work for this competition, and well.. I’m a bit slow here but yesterday I got the camera out and snapped a few quick pictures.

The miniature is from Rackham and one of the last Confrontation miniatures the released before going over to prepaints and mostly just taking a huge nosedive. I bought it many years ago, right as the Confrontation scene died here in Sweden.

But aside from that it’s a really cool miniature and I’m glad that the competition got me going in completing at least one of them.

But enough of that, here is some pictures:

The Iron Painter 2012 - Round 1

Ok, the first round in Iron Painter has just started, apparently 132 people signed up, and among all of them there is a little me.

The theme has also been announced, and it's "Start your engine", and I have so far not a clue what I'm going to do... I think I'll have to go home and go though my lead/plastic mountain and see if I have something that could go under that description.

I'm a bit nervous about this whole thing, I'll have to duel with two other painters, and not one as I first thought, and I have to have it all done by March 5th.

So the order of they will be to find a miniature to paint, and before the end of the week have it assembled and hopefully some base paints on it at least.

Wyrd Miniatures Iron Painter 2012

Last night I got a newsletter from Wyrd about a new installment of their Iron Painter competition.
I've seen a bit from it earlier but not had any real thought about joining in.

It works in broad terms like this;
Each round has a theme, this theme could be something like "Purple", "Scary" or something similar and each  contestant is paired up with another in a duel.
You then have only two weeks to get hold of something to paint, paint it, and post pictures of it on the website. So you can't just sit around and think about it for long...
After the two weeks is up a panel of judges gives points to each entry, based on the skill and appearance of the miniature but most importantly the following of the theme. After this the person in a duel with the most points advances to the next round and the other is knocked out.

This time around I decided to join in, right now you can join up as well, and you have about a week to do it, then it's game on, just check in this address for the sign-up
http://www.wyrd-games.net/showthread.php?28847-IRON-PAINTER-2012-Sign-up-thread

and if you want to check the rules out, go here:
http://www.wyrd-games.net/forum/showthread.php?t=3224

I'll be there to get my ass kicked, will you?