Judges Announced!

[Leon]

We are proud to announce the 5 judges who will be deciding the winners of the 2013 Painting Competition! 

This years judges are:
Nik Harwood!
Clibinarium!
Andy Mac!
Dave!
Techno!

Each of the judges will be given 3 / 2 / 1 points to award in each category (3 points to the best entry, 2 points to the second best, 1 point to the third).  The points will be tallied up and the winners will be announced shortly after the closing date of 28th Feb.

So, who are these folk?!

Nik Harwood!
Nik has been painting figures since the age of about 5 when he started trying to colour in the weapons on his older brother's Airfix plastic Afrika Korps; he made a decent amount of pocket money in junior school by painting early Citadel figures for fellow classmates playing D&D; his first 'proper' wargames armies were Colonial British and Zulus - done for a school project aged 12. He's not looked back since - apart from a brief hiatus when he was distracted by totty...his main interests are...multiple [& still include totty, 10mm or otherwise] :-)

Pics of Nik's work: http://nikharwood.pbworks.com/ and all over the Forum!

Clibinarium!
The name Clibinarium will be instantly recognisable to most people as the man behind our fantastic Late Roman, AWI and LoA ranges, along with ranges for other companies in 15mm and 28mm.  He is 34 and a professional sculptor.

Pics of Clibinarium's work: http://www.pendrakenforum.co.uk/index.php?topic=213.0, http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/clibinariumsgroup/, http://anothersuchvictory.blogspot.com/.

Andy Mac!
Andy is a hobby painter who enjoys both the researching of the units and the painting of the figures.  He started about 10 years ago painting 28mm ACW figures, and his work was seen by Dave Marks who wrote "In the Name of Glory" Napoleonic rules and he asked me if he could use Andy's figures in his ACW rule set " Honor & Glory".

A few years later, Andy started doing 10mm work for Magister and really enjoyed the scale.  One of his customers asked if he would like to do both some ACW and AWI in 10mm for him.  The ACW being a mix of manufacturers and the AWI being Pendraken's.  He took up the offer and has not looked back since.  Andy's view has always been if the artist can put that amount of work into producing the figure then it's only fair he try to do the same when painting it.   

Pics of Andy's work: http://www.displacedminiatures.com/andymac/ and http://s347.photobucket.com/home/Andymacs.

Dave!
Dave started wargaming in the early 70's, painting Minifigs ECW figures.  Royalists were red, and the roundheads had yellow and red hooped sleeves!  My painting hasn't got much better!
I started Pendraken Miniatures in 1992, to fund my own hobby really, and 20 years later we're still going strong!  I don't get much time to game anymore, but try to get in at least 1 game a year if I can!

Techno!
Phil refuses to tell us how old he is and will only admit to being slightly older than Dave.
He's worked in the industry full time since 1987 when he joined Games Workshop as their photographer, though he'd had numerous of his painted figures in White Dwarf and various Citadel Journals before this.  From there he went on to run the figure painting unit in the studio, writing many of the 'Eavy Metal articles and helping out with the figure painting for White Dwarf and numerous rule books and games produced at the time.

After that, he was ( Hah !!....His word) 'put in charge' of the figure designers to help coordinate miniatures production.  After leaving Workshop in '91 he started working for various firms as a freelancer, designing figures, which he's been doing ever since.

He thinks it was '89 when he was informed that "You're chief judge for Golden Demon this year."..An experience he remembers with a slight shudder...(Though he was laughing when he said that.)  "Stroll on....You trying looking at hundreds and hundreds of entries all within a few hours......Eeeek" 

He knows that helping judge the Pendraken Painting competition this year will be a lot less stressful.....and a lot more fun!  He says he's actually really looking forward to helping out, and says he's rather chuffed to have been asked.



Good luck to everyone who enters!

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Great news.
And the traditional bribes are...

[nikharwood]

Great news.
And the traditional bribes are...

...in the post already? 

[hetairoi]

Great! It will be a honor to be judged by such illustrious figures! 

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Don't you mean 'have your illustrious figures judged' if your amazing painting so far this year is anything to go by!!! 

[sebigboss79]

I think it was a bottle of German Mead (honeywine)...

[Techno]

Time to start consulting my little black book then ! 

Seriously....Looking forward to it enormously.

Cheers - Phil

[Hertsblue]

Speaking as someone whose efforts rarely rise above the mediocre, I really don't envy the judges their job. Some of the items are really too close to call.

Good luck to everyone participating (and that includes the judges).

[hetairoi]

Time to start consulting my little black book then !     

I think Vote me! I will Vote me! try something Vote me! different Vote me! this year... 

[freddy326]

oh, I had someone different in mind to be a judge!!

[Techno]

Freddy.
Have you been taking some of fsn's pills ? 
Cheers - Phil.

[fsn]

Well, she could bang my gavel any time.

[Womble67]

Well I would just like to wish everyone good luck and happy painting

take care

andy

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Judges...
Dread, Fear, Death, Mortis...
Whose Anderson?

[andymac]

really looking forward to seeing the entries for this year, there has been a steady rise in the quality of the painting since this comp started.  The only draw back is it makes it much harder for us to judge

Good luck to all, and mines a decent single malt